Poor Kenzie

These pictures don't do Kenzie any justice. He face looks so terrible right now, I know people want to call child protective services on me.
Okay you can't see in the picture but she has a left black eye this was a result in a fall on the stairs. She hit her eye on the corner of our stairs that are hardwood. I guess I should be grateful it didn't split her eye open.
Okay next the chin scrap was a fall at Aunt Holly's house (my sisiter) Holly watches Kenzie on the days that I work and on Wenesday I called to check on her at about 2:00and when Holly answered the phone I was greeted with children screaming. She proceded to tell me that Kenzie had fallen out of the battery operated truck and hit her chin on the cement. Kenzie got on the phone and in tears asked me to come get her.
When I got to Hollys house Holly was holding her and singing to her. She had a band-aid on he chin and her mouth wide open. Drooling everywhere!! I told her she could close her mouth that it was her chin that was hurt not her mouth. The whole ride home she held her mouth open not making a sound.
I came home and tried to get her to take a nap but, she would not drink from her sippy cup. She said that her mouth hurt. I opened her mouth and saw blood on her tongue. I looked on the roof of her mouth and behind her two front teeth there was a huge scrap. Then I realized that her two front teeth were pushed back. OH CRAP!!!
I called her dentist and he wanted to see her right away. It ended up that when she feel she must of have hit her front teeth. The dentist was baffled at the injury. He had to reposition her front teeth and he did this without and numbing. Yes there was screaming and Yes there was blood but, her teeth are looking good and so far no permant damage done.
She is unable to bit into anything hard for the next couple of days and he said they would be sore for awhile. Poor Kenzie.
I hope there is no permant scaring on her face from all her slip and falls.

More Raspberries PLEASE

Okay my daughter has a huge love for Raspberries. Ben mom has a garden and planted some Raspberries, everytime Kenzie was visting Grandma she would go and pick the Raspberry plants clean.
We made a trip to Brigham and stoppped at the fruit stands to get some fresh fruit. Of course Kenzie had to have some Raspberries. We bought to 2 cartons of Raspberries we thought this would last her awhile.
By the time Ben and I got back into the car from loading the other fruit, Kenzie had already finshed off a carton of raspberries, an entire carton. I thought for sure she would have a serious tummy ache later.
Then on Monday morning I was getting Kason ready for school and walked upstairs to find her eating the other entire carton of raspberries. OH MY HECK!! The love she has for these things are unreal. By the way she never complained of a tummy ache.

Hill Air Force Base

Last weekend we took a trip to Roy to visit Hill Air Force Base. We are a little late on the summer trips but, this is the time when it slows down a bit at the shop and Ben is able to take some time off.
We thought this would be really intresting for Kason and peek his intrest in Airplanes. Oh how we were wrong! For a few minutes he thought it was neat but, he kept asking "When can we go home and go to the Aquatic Center?" I mean really, we take the time to try and take him somewhere neat and that he had never been to and Kenzie is more intrested in the planes than Kason is.
It was fun for us all to be together and go somewhere fun.

First Grade

Oh my heck!! Summer is over and Kason is now a first grader. I think this year was harder for me then when he started Kindergarten. The night before his first day Kason was really nervous and he thought he had forgotten where his classroom was. I asked him if he wanted me to walk in with him and make sure he got to the right class. That night he was okay with that but, the next day I parked the car and started to get out and Kason went crazy on me. "You don't need to follow me in, I am fine!" WHAT? All of a sudden my little man was very independent. I walked him to the door for my final picture and watched him walk away.
I hate this seperation thing. Why is it so hard? Kason loved his first day and everything went really well. His teacher (Mrs.Buttars) is really great! The only complaint Kason had was SCHOOL LUNCH! "It wasen't all that great" he said. He now wants to try taking his own lunch. (GREAT)
Sorry about the neighbors car in the background.

You of course have to have the new back pack. Last year for Kindergarten my mom bought Kason a Spiderman backpack. Apparently Spiderman was cool for Kindergarten but, not for First grade!!

This was the hardest part of the whole day. Watching my baby walk into school all by himself. WOW! Will it ever get any easier?

Fund Raiser for Easten

I wanted to take a minute on a personal note and tell you about a fund raiser my cousin Sherydon is having for my nephew Easten. This is my personl plee for all my friends and anyone who knows the Karren family to help raise money for Eastens Liver transplant.
For those of you who don't know Easten he is now almost 15 months old. At Easten's two month check up he was diagnoised with a rare liver disease called Biliary Atresia. Bascially Easten was born without a Gallbladder and I know you are all thinking that you can live without a gallbladder at least this is what I thought when I first heard. It turns out that the gallbladder is very importent in infants. Easten did not have any bile ducts to his liver, which caused the liver to form scerosis.
Easten had a six hour procedure on Aug.20 of 2007. This procedure they went in and formed new bile ducts from the liver to the small intestine to allow the bile to flow freely. This procedure unfortunately is just a band-aid. The only cure for this disease is a liver transplant.
Easten had been in and out of Primary Childrens Hospital his whole life. He is doing very well right now weighting in at 17 pounds. Easten is a energetic 1 year old little boy who is now just starting to crawl.
There are certain signs of liver failure and Easten is starting to show those signs. Holly and Rusty are not sure when the transplant will be needed but, depending on Eastens age and weight he may be able to have a partial liver from a live donor. This would be our hope because he wouldn't have to wait on a donor list.
The money we are raising is for the testing of the live donor. Holly & Rustys insurance will only pay so much for the process of finding a donor. There are so many expenses that will occur while Easten will be recovering in the hospital after the transplant.
Rusty may need to take time off of work and he will be traveling alot from work to home to the hospital. There is the expense of food and gas as well.
We have scheduled the fund raiser for Sept. 6 from 7:00 pm to 9:00pm at the Lions Lodge in Smithfield. There will be dinner served and the cost is $10.00 a plate. There will be a live band and a silent auction.
Please come and help raise money for this special little boy. Your support will be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions please feel free to call me any time.

Family Reunion

This past weekend we had our Bennett family reunion. Every year we go to Mink Creek (I hope I spelled that right) it is in Idaho. There is a really nice camp ground that is all grass and big pavillion to sit and eat under. This year my Aunt Jane and Grandma bought a waterslide for the kids to play on. We went up Friday afternoon and Kenzie went right to slide and played on that slide until we shut it down at dark. She didn't even get up the road on the way home and she was sound asleep.
When we got back up there on Saturday morning at 8:30am Kenzie wanted back on the slide. She played again on the slide until it was time to go float the river. This year was really fun at the reunion, my kids and Ben & I had a great time.

And Kason played bad mitten until he couldn't see the birdie in the dark. Kason is in the black shirt!

Holly & Kenzie getting ready to float the river.

On Saturday we floated down the Oneida narrows. I wasen't going to go at first but, when Ben was insistent of Kenzie going I thought I better go to keep her alive. Kason rode down on his own little black tube, He was to big to ride with mom & dad.

We had the best tube by far. As you can see I just sat back and relaxed all the way down.

Joe, My sister Tiffany and my nephew Hayden

I love this picture of me. I dig my awesome farmers tan.

Poor Ben Half way down the river, everyone wants to stop and rearrange on the tubes. If any of you have done this it is not so easy to stop a bunch of tubes when going against the current. Ben & Joe were the only men from our family that floated the river, so it was up to them to take care of all us women. It was a big job!

I finally did IT!!

I finally did it!! I pierced Kenzies ears. Now before all you mothers start thinking of how terrible I am, in my defence I didn't want her ears pierced at FIRST! My cousin pierced his little girls ears and Kenzie went crazy over them. All she could talk about was getting her ears pierced. I waited a week or so and when the talk of earrings didn't die down I asked Ben what he thought of the idea. Saturday afternoon we took her down to Claire's to check things out. Honestly I didn't think we could even get her to sit in the chair. She picked out her own earrings and sat down with me on the chair. The girl cleaned her ears and marked them.... not a sound from Kenzie. The only problem was there was only one girl working so she had to pierce them one at a time. The following pictures tell the rest of the story.

Cleaning, Marking, all is still good!

This was the point where I was begining to get a little nervous.

Kason knew what he was doing when he stood outside of the store and plugged his ears.

One down, One to GO!!

A little scoop of ice cream and all was good again.