Inner Peace

Recently we watched Kung-Fu Panda 2- I have to admit I am not a huge Jack Black fan, okay, I'm not a fan at all, so even watching an animated movie where plays the voice of the main character was less than appealing to me. That being said as we watched the movie I found some very profound truths in there. In the beginning Master Shifou is telling Po that the final lesson of Kung Fu is finding inner peace. Each person finds it in a different way, but once it is mastered your potential is increased. Throughout the movie Po is dealing with flashbacks from his childhood and discovers along the way a lot about his past, who he really is, and who he is meant to become. A couple of things that I pondered on were 1) When the world sends the waves of life rocking our boat, how do we react to that, how can we learn to deal with the rocking boat and continue on our journey, and 2) We all have that discovery process of self in this life and we have a lot of people who help us on the way. We all are children of God who have a divine purpose here on earth and we have things that we all need to accomplish on this earth, each very unique and differen,t as we strive to become more like our Savior, Jesus Christ in hopes to one day return to him.
When I was on my mission my sweet little sister sent me a letter and a note card that contained this quote by Bishop H. Burke Peterson, "One of the greatest challenges is to overcome the feeling that we are unimportant, that we are not special and unique. Do you think for a moment that Heavenly Father would have sent one of His children to this earth by accident, without the possibility of a significant work to perform?...
My dear friends, you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to the earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just a few of you, but all of you. There are things for each of you to do that no one else can do as well as you. If you do not prepare to do them, they will not be done. Your mission is unique and distinctive for you. Please don’t make another have to take your place. He or she can’t do it as well as you can. If you will let Him, I testify that our Father in Heaven will walk with you through the journey of life and inspire you to know your special purpose here." (New Era, May 1979, pp. 4-5) I kept that note card and nearly 6 years later I still reflect on it often. I know each of us has a divine purpose here on earth, we truly are a royal generation, I know this is true.
As I've contemplated on "Inner Peace" or being at peace lately I've really tried to understand what it means to acquire peace and to let it flourish in my life. It hasn't been easy and I'm only just beginning. I often imagine myself standing on a boat staring off into the distance enjoying the sunshine, turning around for just a moment only to see a storm looming overhead, wondering what I'm going to do- metaphorically speaking, of course. Life can be hard, the waters rocky and toss us to and fro. Amidst adversity how can we still remain at peace? Marvin J Ashton said,
"Certainly peace is the opposite of fear. Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts. No man can be at peace who is untrue to his better self. No man can have lasting peace who is living a lie. Peace can never come to the transgressor of the law. Commitment to God’s laws is the basis for peace. Peace is something we earn. It is not a gift. Rather, it is a possession earned by those who love God and work to achieve the blessings of peace. It is not a written document. It is something that must come from within." (Oct 1985 Conference address)
I know I have a long way to go, but I enjoy those peaceful moments when everything in the world seems just right. The worries and stress aren't gone forever, but they seem to melt away, and I am left feeling sunshine on my face and the feeling that through God all things are possible.

Such a cutie!

As I mentioned earlier I missed a lot of key events due lack of blogging this summer. One important event that I want to make sure I write about is my cute new niece Lilly! Ryan and Jennie had their second girl in August, and boy is she a cutie!! We were super lucky and happened to be in Utah when she was born, so we got to see her when she was barely over a day old. Such a sweetie, I LOVE her cheeks!

Emma is an adorable older sister, always making sure that her little sis is okay.

Emma just turned 2, Happy Birthday Emma!!

(all pics stolen from Ryan and Jennie's blog :))

We are so grateful for wonderful family, Gabi and Madi just love their cousins!

Santa Clause is coming to Town!

Last night was our ward Christmas party. We recently combined wards- I'll update on that later- so there were a lot of new faces there. I wish I had taken more pictures, it was set up beautifully. The program was wonderful too. They retold the Christmas story and had live Nativity along with singing. The youth played the parts and did a fantastic job! The baby Jesus was an actual baby, our friends little guy who is SO CUTE and was so good. The spirit was so strong. I love moments like those where we are able to take some time and think about the real meaning of the season.
Of course afterwards Santa came, and I'll be honest folks, I think he's the real deal. Check out the pictures and decide for yourself. I have to say that I was a little apprehensive about Gabi meeting Santa for the first time, we've never done the Santa thing before for whatever reason. So I tried to prepare her all day yesterday by telling her that she was going to get to see Santa that night. All she was interested in meeting, however, were Santa's reindeer. So as we were waiting in line to meet him I was getting really stressed out. I turned to talk to Isaac and then someone told me that Gabi was sitting on Santa's lap. Apparently she totally cut in front of like 5 kids (she didn't know :)) walked right up to Santa and sat on his lap!! What happened to my shy little girl?! She sat and chatted with him for a bit and loved every minute of it. As you can see from the pictures, Madi wasn't quite as taken with the jolly old man. He was super nice and all of the kids loved him!!

Sometimes it's Okay to Cry Over Spilt Milk

You know those days when you've gotten a great nights sleep, you wake up to sunshine and happy kids and you think to yourself, "Life is great." Life is great, but today was not one of those days. The sun was shining and I was optimistic about the day until my one-year old woke up early, my three year old thought potty training is sitting on the potty after you pee your pants, and right after getting dressed spilling a glass full of milk all over myself and then realizing that I have no other clean clothes because today I was going to do laundry. I have to admit, I did cry over spilt milk today. My sweet little 3 year old was very concerned for her seriously hysterical mama. I decided today that sometimes it's okay to cry over spilt milk. Because you have a good cry, clean up the milk and  life goes on. After that spat life got a lot better, and yes the sun was still shining.

"I have little doubt that many of us are troubled with fears concerning ourselves. We are in a period of stress across the world. There are occasionally hard days for each of us. Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds. Opportunities will eventually open to you. Do not let the prophets of gloom endanger your possibilities (President Gordon B. Hinckley from Ensign, Apr. 1986, 4–5)."

The Perfect Day- at least it was supposed to be

We have been looking forward to today all week long! This morning we had a Glanbia Christmas Celebration for the family- they rent out the theatre and we get to go as family and enjoy a family appropriate movie (This year was Puss in Boots) complete with popcorn and a drink compliments of Glanbia. After the movie Santa comes and the kids can sit on his lap if they want and take pictures and then each child gets a gift. Later we planned to go out to lunch and enjoy family time, come home and finish putting up decorations and then go with our friends to see some awesome lights.
We were soooo excited!! Unfortunately, as it usually seems to happen, none of that happened. We made it to the movie theatre and were about 15 minutes into the movie (mind you this is about 9:15am) and Madi starts losing her breakfast all over me, Isaac, and the seat in front of us. Interestingly enough my purse caught most of it...inside. I guess I know what I want for Christmas- ew! So we rushed out, and got Madi all cleaned up, poor thing!  :( She wasn't looking so great, so much to our chagrin we left the theatre in search of a new outfit for little Madi since where we were was 30min from home and we felt like that would be undue punishment to ride home stinky. So we zipped over to Fredmeyer's and grabbed a new outfit for Madi and a new shirt for Daddy. We had a few errands we needed to run, so after Madi had a few crackers and a sip of water, she was out and we tagged teamed getting our errands done. Not quite the afternoon we had planned.
When we got home not a one of us were in the decorating mood, so we all took a nap. We were hoping that Madi would be feeling better so that we could at least go see the lights. But alas, after a 2 1/2hr nap, she woke up really pale and had a fever. So, sadly, we had to forgo the lights and seeing our friends, our last hope of reviving our wonderfully planned Saturday.
Instead we went for a short car ride to see some of the lights around the neighborhood and came home and let the girls open one of their Christmas presents early- Rio (sorry Brit!)
So I guess no matter how well we plan, sometimes it just doesn't work out and you just have to roll with the punches. Even thought not a single thing went as planned, we were able to spend the entire day together as a family, and that was wonderful.

Watching Rio, highlight of their day!

Gabi saying "cheese" and super excited to watch Rio

4th Anniversary

November 17th we celebrated our fourth anniversary being married. In some ways time has gone by super fast- it seems like we were just newly weds finishing up college, scraping to get by, and living on dreams of the future. Some of that may still hold true, but it's amazing to compare where we are now to where we were four years ago. I heard a million times when we first were married, and madly in love, that we would continually look back on when we were first married and be amazed at how much our love had grown. I felt like I was bursting at the seams with love and didn't think it quite possible for the love to grow, and yet it has. We have two beautiful little girls and another on the way and a marriage I really only dreamed would be this wonderful. Life isn't perfect, not for a single one of us, but I like to think that for Isaac and I, "it's our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another." So here is to another wonderful year, and to eternity. I love you Isaac!

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving weekend was a blast. Lots of family, food and fun. We headed over the river and through the sagebrush to Boise on Wedneday night (why didn't I think that everyone else would have the same idea???). It took us twice as long to get there as usual, but lucky for me the girls were pretty well behaved...until the last 20 minutes...thank goodness for bribes. Isaac didn't leave later since he got of work late so we actually drove seperately. How much more I appreciate my wonderful hubby when I realize how much he does....aka the 3hr car drive without him. We were greeted in Boise by a ton of family and more that arrived later on.
It was a really wonderful Thanksgiving mostly because all of my siblings and all of their kiddos were there. :) It was so fun to see all the cousins (there's five now...and counting) running around play together. It's crazy how fast those little tykes grow! I still can't believe Gabi is three!
On Thanksgiving day we all were cooking like crazy in a little kitchen at my parents. We had family pictures that morning and then we changed and got back to cooking. We had Thanksgiving dinner a little early this year since Kyle and Ashley had to hit the road early to make it back for work on Friday. (I think it's a 8hr drive for them...yuck!) We were super glad that they could come.
Thursday night a few of us geared up for....drum roll please...black friday...but on thursday!!! Walmart opened at 10pm Thursday for some of their doorbusters. All I have to say is, I think I'm done with Black Friday. At least in a college town. Again, I don't know what I was thinking... I guess I wasn't. Haha! Needless to say I got rammed with carts- intentionally- at least 5 or 6 times, people were stealing stuff out of other people's carts, pushing, shoving, yelling, and it took at least 15 min to get from the back of the store to the front, which usually takes about 2 min. Then the lines....I think we were in line to check out for about 1hr. Too long for this prego chica. Anywho, Isaac and I decided to brave it at midnight at shopko. There were about 200+ people in line. Craziness. Luckily we only wanted one thing, so we grabbed in and jumped in line. We were in and out in about 30min. I opted not to get up at 5am to check out Freddy's. In fact, ironically, the sale ended at 11am and we got there at 10am and got every single thing that we wanted. And I only waited in line for 5min. So maybe I'm not completely done with black friday, but overall the experience this year really stunk.
Friday we all mostly just hung out, which was nice to have a low-key day. A bunch of us went swimming at the hotel pool. The kids had a blast. They had a regular pool and a warm pool- the kids didn't mind the regular pool (both indoor) but the adults all eventually ended up in the warm pool.
Saturday was another hang-out kind of day and a travelling day. Most everyone headed home that day except Brit, Dom, and Gianni- who had an early flight the next morning.
On our way home we got to stop off at our friend's house, the Thomas'. They moved out of our ward last June, I believe. We've seen them a few times since, but we miss them tons. They have three boys, Tyler and Bryce are both really good friends with Gabi. They always have so much fun together and play so well. It's always nice to see friends and spend time with them.
Well, that's about it! It was a long and busy, but fun weekend. I think we are all still trying to catch up on sleep in this house.
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Things I am especially grateful for:

1. My Family
2. The Gospel
3. Madi's health is doing well
4. We have another baby on the way :)
5. We have a temple close to us

And so much more!!!

Madi ready for a nap!

 Isaac and Madi swimming in the pool- she loves the water!

 Gabi waiting to get in the water- it was super cold in there!

 Our Family Pic- I don't think Madi smiled for one picture :)

 The Grandkiddos- don't know how Lilly got cut off

 All the family

 Grandparents and Grandkids

 Parents and Siblings

 Parents, Siblings & Spouses

 Sleeping at the hotel- thank goodness for a king size bed!

(They were so cute, they had to make sure that the other was still there so the kept reaching out for the other one in their sleep. They get along so well :) )

Inspired

I have a wonderful sister-in-law, actually I have several sister-in-laws, whom are all unique and special and amazing. Lately, okay for quite awhile now, I have had trouble with the time, motivation, desire...whatever you want to call it...to blog- I know this goes without saying, but one of my sister-in-laws has been blogging a lot lately, catch-up blogging, and I think I just may have caught the blogging bug again...finally. So, I am challenging myself to a post a day until the end of the year. Sorry in advance for the "old" pictures, but I assure you I will mix in some new as well. :) Thanks to all the family and friends who are faithful bloggers, I LOVE looking at your pictures and reading your stories. I hope all are doing well.

Our little family in SLC in Aug

Love, The Knights

Remembering Riley

This last week our sweet little dog Riley passed away. It has been a hard week for all of our family- goodbyes are never easy. Any of you who know me know that I am not an animal person, but Riley was more that just the "family pet," he was a dear friend. He was there for each of us when we needed him most. He was a friend, a hunter, a comforter, a listener, a member of our family.
 I remember when I came home from my mission. He hadn't seen me in a long time, but he still remembered me. In those days and weeks that followed my return home, when everyone else was gone at work or at school, Riley and I bonded. We went on walks and runs, watched movies, and just hung out- helped ease the adjustment to being "back." He became my bud. As I eventually moved away and went back to school, later got married, and started having kids I wasn't able to see him as much due to distance, but I still thought about him and missed him. He had so much personality. He could tell if you were having a bad day and just needed someone to listen to, he always seemed to understand with his knowing eyes.
He was a hunting buddy to my dad. They always enjoyed those outings. I loved how when my dad came back, little Riley all tuckered out, he couldn't stop bragging about what a great hunting dog he was and how he out-ran all of the other dogs there. Riley was always very curious and playful. One particular hunting trip Riley had a run-in with a porcupine, poor guy! Not only was he tired but he had little red dots all over his face where the quills had been pulled out. I think he learned not to mess with those porcupines,  but that never stemmed his enthusiasm for new things.
Riley loved to run. I think his favorite place was the dog park at Marymoore park. He could run so fast! He always looked like he was smiling when he was running, we always would say that's because he loved to run so much. At that park he had the best of everything; other dogs, lots of room, and water that he always managed to jump into and get a swim.
In fact Riley sometimes would run off, we never really knew where he went, but he always came back dirty, stinky, tired, but happy. I think he just needed to get out every once in awhile.
When Riley would come back from getting all shampooed and groomed we would always think it was so funny how he seemed to strut around with his new do, all nice and clean.
There are so many memories we each have with Riley, and his passing did not come easy. I think all of us could agree that he is in a much better place, free of pain. I imagine him running as fast as he can through hills of grass chasing a squirrel or a bird or even a butterfly. Riley truly was one-of-a-kind and he will be greatly missed by all.
We love you Riley!

Just a bad day

I know I haven't blogged in forever and I feel guilty almost on a daily basis about it. To be honest the biggest reason I haven't blogged is, I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to upload my pics without "losing" them. Whenever I try to access the pictures after I blog with them, I cannot, it says "JPEG not found." So without pictures, it seems lame. Anyway I will try and figure something out.
Back to the bad day. Well for starters Isaac has been working nights the last two weeks and it has been super hard on everyone. The poor guys is tired all the time, the girls rarely see him, and I rarely see him and NEVER get a break. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE being a stay at home mom, but feeling like a single stay at home mom with two kiddos who miss their dad like crazy has been hard to say the least. Well today was just icing on that yucky cake. Madi woke up early, which she usually does, but Gabi had a hard night- she's been super scared of the dark and her room lately, not sure why but I think it has something to do with her boogey monster chaser being gone at night aka dad- so Gabi slept in. I thought I could sneak away to Twin for a few hours with before Gabi woke up since Isaac had just gone to sleep. There were some wood blinds that measured PERFECTLY for two of our bedrooms that I had seen the night before and went home to make sure they would work out. I didn't want anyone else to get them so I had to hurry- plus they were super cheap and I LOVE good deals. So I got Madi all ready jumped in the car, briefly woke Isaac up to let him know the plan and off we went. Just as we were about to leave town I realized that I had forgotten the tape measure- I wanted to make sure the measurements written on the blinds were correct since you can't return most things there. No biggie, I ran back home to a crying child- Gabi- and a hubby that was dead to the world asleep. So I got Gabi dressed, fed and into the car. Mind you I hadn't even showered yet....aka scary hair and makeup less Keitra. All went well until we arrived in Twin 20min later, entered DI and Gabi spotted the toy aisle. I don't know what got into her but she had to have every toy, at least it seemed like that. Not to mention there was a grumpy lady working there who kept giving me the stink eye. I made it over to the blinds, measured them and we were good to go. Until we passed by the toy aisle. To make a very long story short after two hours, a very grumpy mommy, a clingy Madi, a fit-throwing Gabi, and a cart full of toys we finally left. Honestly if I only had Madi with me or if I was by myself I could have been done in 10min. Urg. I decided Gabi is no longer allowed into DI and she isn't getting any of those toys until 1)her birthday, 2) Christmas, or 3)she finally is potty trained/reward. K, I know I may sound mean but I seriously hate fit-throwing especially in public. I know it happens, I just wish it wasn't my child. :) Oh well. Since we were in Twin I decided to get gas, all went well there- and then pop into Fred Meyers. Bad Idea. Horrible idea. I still was the makeup-less crazy haired Keitra trying to tame two now tired and hungry children while picking up a few essentials. To be honest I can't even remember what I bought. All I know is I spent way too much- k out of budget- and I was grumpy. So in the car we went and home bound we were. We get home and my sweet husband is still sleeping, which is fine, but I am seriously at my wits end. A large portion of my productive time of day is over and I still haven't even showered. Luckily Madi is sleeping and Gabi calms down enough to go do her own thing and play. After some general grumpiness from Gabi fast forward a few hours and Isaac and Madi are awake. I'm seriously having a meltdown- not just from today, but a build-up of the last week and a half of sleepless nights and stress. I finally get a shower at 4:30 before Isaac leaves for work. Poor guy got a little taste of what I've been dealing with...and then he's off to his 12hr shift- yuck. So I get dinner ready for the girls and head off to Shylee and Alli's Ballet recital- super cute. Would have been a lot more enjoyable if my 2yr old knew how to LISTEN! It was held at a park, and I should have know better than to go after a day like today, but against my better judgement, I did. Not only did she run off, several times, she ran in the sprinklers, which I wouldn't be surprised if it was irrigation water, rolled in the water with her cousin and threw a fit. In front of everyone. Right as the recital started. I was humiliated. The fit lasted awhile, too. Blah... the selective hearing from my dear sweet Gabi continued for the rest of the time we were at the park. So we went home. Ah, that is after Gabi getting upset about not getting a cupcake...When we got home the girls ate dinner...which is all over my floor...and somehow cheese got crumbled into several small pieces and is all over my floor as well. Have you ever tried to sweep up cheese? It is very hard. Anyway, while the girls were eating I had to run off to the bathroom. Gabi was sitting at the table and Madi was in her highchair. I shouldn't expect a minute of peace...no sooner had I shut the door when Gabi opened it. Gotta love when they learn how to open doors...a second later we hear Madi crying so Gabi runs off to see what's going on. I naturally assume that Madi was sad everyone had left her. I heard her cry again and hurried into the kitchen to find my little daughter"s legs hanging off the tray of the highchair! Somehow the tray must not have locked, she must have pushed it forward and climbed out! That's a first. I'm just glad she didn't get hurt! So now both my girls are crying because Madi was scared and Gabi was scared because Madi was. I decided it was time for a bath, hoping over hope they would go to bed super early. So I have them a bath. It went pretty well until I went to go get Gabi out. Right as I was walking into the bathroom she said, "Ew. Momma, I poop!" Second time this week. And guess who gets to clean it? Yep, dear mommy. That was it. I had it. I didn't want to pick up poopy out of the tub, I didn't want to clean the tub, or give Gabi another bath...I just wanted the day to be over. So after completing all of the tasks I so didn't want to do I put the girls in their jammies and started seeing the yawns. You better believe they went to bed early :)  Ahhh........sigh of relief. So this day may not sound too bad to a lot of you, but with everything that has been going on lately with church and work and family, it was a rough day in the Knight house.
K, so I don't like to be negative, so here are the positive things of the day:
1)I got the blinds, wahoo! They totally match the ones in our front room, they fit perfectly in the windows and they were only $5 each!
2)I actually managed to squeeze in two loads of laundry and a load of dishes...not that the clothes are folded yet or the dishwasher is unloaded :)
3)I got a shower!
4) At the ballet recital I saw the nurse who probably quite literally saved Madi's life a year ago when she was life flighted :) Come to find out her daughter has come to Activity Days several times and also to primary in our ward (I'm Activity Days leader as well as a Primary teacher, and she was in my class)
5) Icing on the yummy cake- if the guy Isaac is training (The whole reason he has been on night shift) does really well tonight and tomorrow night he will be back to days staring MONDAY!!!! Seriously happy news!!

Hope you all are doing well!!
Some posts to look forward to:
My new niece!
My sister-in-law gets married!
First Horne reunion
Knight Reunion
Updates on Madi/ Anniversary
Surprise!!

LOVE sunny days!

Today the girls and I headed off to Boise to go and see grandma and grandpa horne. Before we left we went and visited Isaac at work (no, that is not what he wears on a regular basis:) ) We then headed off to Boise. The girls did pretty good, and we all sang to the Tangled soundtrack...the entire way... We had a ton of fun in Boise, Gabi knew immediately where we were when we pulled up to my parents, she's such a smart little wipper-snapper.:) We had a ton of fun at a nearby park, poor Madi was asleep the whole time, hopefully we will get to go back tomorrow.:)

Daddy n' lil Madi

Daddy n' Gabi Gabi's first experience at a park on a very scary looking Dumbo

Playing tic tac toe...

Mom and Gabi going down the slide, wahoo!

Grandpa had some fun too, and yes, he really

did go down the slide!

She didn't love the swings quite as much...

Going down the fast slide!

The end of the slide, luckily gma was

there to catch her:)

Madi sporting my sunglasses

She likes 'em!

Watching Tangled with Gpa, yes, we love that movie!

Gabi ready for bed after a long day

Madi...not quite ready for bed yet

What can I say, she's a Knight :)

Hope you enjoyed these pictures! Have a wonderful day!

Love, The Knights

P.S. Daddy, we love you and miss you tons! Can't wait to see you tomorrow!

Green Beans are Gross!!

Well, at least they are to Madi, in fact she doesn't like peas either. We tried really hard the other day to get her to eat some. She loves carrots, sweet potatoes, and squash, but when it comes to the green veggies, she'd rather pass. She's so stinkin cute, even when she hates her veggies :)

Before we started with the GB's

First Bite... remorse over first bite...

second bite wasn't any better...

and the refusal...

She's so cute, she makes me laugh so hard. She was practically gagging, thus the reason we stopped. I tried telling her that it was good for her...she didn't believe me, apparently. :) I was even nice and tried to mix some yummy bananas in there...I guess it just made it worse!

Love,

The Knights

And we're back!

So, it's been awhile. It kind of goes without saying, but I'm very sorry to all of our wonderful family and friends that live far away and are wondering what in the world we are up to.

Well...we are doing pretty good. Definitely looking forward to spring and sunshine, but all is well. Madi is doing really well and hasn't had any problems related to the Chylothorax so far, so we are very optimistic that the problem has been resolved. She is the best baby EVER! She rarely cries unless she's really hungry or really tired, which doesn't happen often because she is on a pretty set schedule. She sleeps 10-12hrs a night and smiles and smiles and smiles and smiles! We love her so much!

Gabi is 2 going on 20 with an attitude to boot! She talks a mile a minute, some makes sense, and some doesn't, but usually it makes sense. The other night it was bedtime and I told her, "Gabi, it's time to go night night!." She briefly looks up at me and then continues playing with her barbie (she refers to all barbies as "friend," it's cute) and said, "No, I busy." I couldn't stop laughing. I still laugh when I think about it! She sure keeps us on our toes! Talking about toes, for those who are aware with her obsession with lint free toes, she's still at it in full force and checks her toes at least 3 times a day. I don't know why I put socks on her! She also loves to check Madi's toes out whenever she gets the chance, much to Madi's chagrin.


Isaac is doing well, and is really busy, but that's okay. We make sure we get plenty of family time with Family Home Evening and Saturdays.


All in all we're doing great. I promise I am going to try really really hard to be better about blogging.


Love ya guys!



Here's a few photos, most were taken today :)

Love,

The Knights

6 months and 2 years

Even though Gabi just turned 2, Madi is still 6 months, we just barely got them into their respective Well-Child Checks. November and December were busy!! So, both girls are doing really good.
Madi- She is in the 50th percentile for height and 75th for weight... the weight is actually off because she weighed in at 13.6lbs, but the nurse charted her at 16.6lbs. So, she's probably in the 25th percentile for weight as well, and yes, we are switching doctors. Madi is a real chatter, and LOVES to laugh and play with Gabi. She is sitting up really well on her own, has down amazingly well with her new "regular" formula (wahoo!!), and she still has the sweet happy disposition we have all fallen in love with.
Gabi FINALLY made it above the 5th percentile and is now in the 10th percentile for weight and the 25th percentile for height, what can I say, we just have small girls. (but big babies?? how does that work?) Gabi is also a chatter box, but we already knew that! She speaks in complete, understandable sentences and is a big help to her mama doing dishes, laundry, sweeping, you name it, she's my little shadow.
We love our girls and we love to see them play together. They have so much fun, and rarely get mad at each other. They laugh SO MUCH!!
We hope all of you are doing well, and that this new year brings you much happiness and joy!
Love,
The Knights

Technical Difficulties

So, for whatever reason my computer isn't letting me upload any pictures, it's saying I need to "reformat" my SD card. I've never had a problem with it before, so I don't know what's going on. If any one has any ideas, please feel free to leave a comment. Also, whenever I was able to upload pictures before, if I took it directly from my camera, which is the easiest, when I went to download the pictures it would say "image unavailable." Any ideas there?? Hopefully I will be able to get this resolved soon. Thanks!

2010, We Bid You Adieu!

Dear 2010,
You have been a year full of many things; joyous events, heart wrenching events, memories we don't want to remember, memories we don't want to forget, valuable lessons learned, tears that have been spilt, and a family that has drawn closer together.
We are very grateful for the lessons we have learned, the testimonies that have been strengthened, and the miracles that we have witnessed.
We will not miss many things, however, and we are glad for this year to come to an end. We look forward to 2011 and what it has to brings.
We have high hopes that 2011 will bring much happiness.
So, 2010, thank you for the thing we have learned, but we bid you adieu!
Sincerely,
The Knight Family