Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope everyone had a great holiday!!

We had a great day with my family!

(I think this might be our first couple picture since our wedding!)

Kenzie loves her Ella!

We tried a cousin picture...

Jeannine was a little apprehensive....Emily & I thought it was a good idea! :)

I think they turned out well....
(the second picture I had to steal from Emily....I cut my poor daughter out of my pictures! The first picture I took all you could see was her dress! I think I was in such a hurry trying to get a picture of 6 kids 6 and under!)

Ella being Ella :)

My loves! :)

My sweet grandparents

Brayden just chillin before heading home!

We have so much to be thankful for!! :)

a very random post!

It's been awhile! We're doing well over here!! I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving!!

Seriously, where did November go?!?!

I wanted to catch up on some random pictures and stories from the past month or so before the holidays!! So warning....this will be random & will have lots of pics! :)

Oh, and it's also my 300th post!! Woohoo! :) Wow....that's a lot of posts about Kenzie! :)

Here is the last month of the Soto's....

*Kenzie has fallen in love with kittys!! A stray cat has found her home at my sister's house and Kenzie is in love! She even prays for a kitty of her own! :)

*in kenzie's world every princess needs a pony...

and yes she has prayed for a pony of her own too!

*For the past couple of months Kenzie and I have been doing "school" at home! She loves it and I love that she loves it! Although I spend a lot of time with Kenzie there are days when I go to bed feeling bad that I didn't spend enough quality time with her. If I have "school" planned for us she gets my undivided attention and she learns a little bit too! :)

*Let me introduce you to "Pups"! Kenzie has had this puppy dog for awhile but in the last month or so she has been glued to it!! I think Kenzie lives through Pups (aka Emma....yes, the puppy has 2 names!) I'm not sure if Pups and Kenzie share a brain or Kenzie is living through Pups at times....for instance....the other day I was sitting down and "Pups" smacked me VERY hard in the face (for no reason!). When I asked Kenzie why she did that she calmly explained that Pups did it! Also, apparently Pups also loves princesses and barbies b/c while at Target the other day "Pups" wanted everything!!!

*Some little things that just make me smile...the other day I looked above our bed and Kenzie spiced up our wall with some monster stickers... :)

....and I don't think a day goes by where our "Family" blocks get stacked, saying anything but family! :)

*Kenzie has had more decoration parties! :)

....and she's put on some shows! :)

*The other day Kenzie woke up from her nap so I went in to get her and realized she was in a very cranky mood. I told her to call me when she was ready to be nice, then I would come back in. I went in the other room and I heard her getting up so I thought she was going to follow me. A couple minutes later I went in to see where she was and I found her dresser like this...

....she explained to me that she was mad so she opened up all her drawers! haha! Can you imagine doing that when you're mad!?!? I think the world would be a lot nicer place if people just pulled out their drawers when they got angry! :) So FYI next time you see me, if I'm pulling out drawers, just know someone really made me angry!! :)

Other random stuff going on around here....

*We got out our Christmas pjs! :)

*We looked cute going to church! *We looked cute napping with Pups!

*We spent last weekend in NJ with Jeff's family! :) I didn't take a single picture!! Kenzie had a lot of fun with cousin Drake! I love that they are getting to the age where they can play t/g! :)

*We bought a new (to us!) car! :) Our old car finally got to the point where we were putting more money in to it than what it was worth so we were forced to buy a new (to us...hehe) car!

That's about it around here...hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving week! :)

pumpkin fun!

This year we waited until the last minute to carve our pumpkin! We actually waited until the day before to buy one and by then they were all picked over and some places were asking $10!! Luckily, my sister had extras....so we went pumpkin shopping over there! :)

Kenzie was very excited to carve but wasn't sure about the "guts"....she enjoyed it a lot more once I gave her a big spoon to scoop out the seeds!

....outtakes....(I just had to include these....some days it's so hard to get a good picture!!)

last but certainly not least....hahaha!

Happy Halloween!

We had a "fairy" good Halloween this year!! Kenzie loved her costume and was sooo excited to trick-or-treat! :)

It was a pretty cold out there so we had to bundle up...I was determined not to put a coat over Kenzie's costume so I kept putting more and more layers on her....before leaving I think we might have been nearing a meltdown (b/c of the layers!) but luckily she was too excited to trick-or-treat she quickly forgot about it! :)

I was going to put a little make up on Kenzie to make her feel extra special but she informed me that she has her own make up (Daddy bought her Rapunzel make up!). She even brought lip gloss with her and reapplied it several times! :)
Not sure what this face is....but....

....it might be a Halloween thing b/c she did it last year too! :)

Patiently waiting for Daddy to come home from work!

Looking for Daddy....Can you tell she was a little excited?!?!

Posing with our beautiful fairy...

We met up with these 2 ice cream cones & cupcake....

Looking through her goodies...

I just wanted to add this so I wont forget...I wanted to buy Kennie a pair of sparkly princess shoes to go with her dress, but good thing I didn't b/c she had her mind set on her brown princess shoes (as you can see from the pictures!). I don't know what it is about those shoes-she LOVES them!! She calls them her princess shoes and would wear them all. the. time. if I let her! :) Good thing my sister just gave her the next size up so she has another pair waiting for her! :)