Hamilton Happenings

We've had Jett for 1 whole year.  What in the world were we thinking getting a 12 week old puppy?  And it wasn't even Justin's idea!  I had been thinking about getting a dog for months.  I would tell Justin, "please remind me why it's a terrible idea to get a puppy."  And then we would discuss all the negatives to getting a dog.  And then the next day I would go back to thinking about it!  I could NOT get it out of my head.  Weird. Click HERE for a post shortly after getting Jett. I would peruse craigslist looking at all sorts of listings for dogs.  I knew I wanted a dog that didn't shed.  One night I found a listing for a springerdoodle puppy.  It was a slightly blurry picture of a very black, fluffy puppy.  I was mainly interested because it was a few hundred dollars less than other "doodle" breeds.  I started texting the breeder and set up a time to just come look at the puppy.  That was a joke.  Ain't no...

Last week I was having some bad moments with the kids.  You know how it goes.  Some days I feel like I put out fire after fire.  On one particular day it felt like Isaac's job was to pull everything out of the cabinets, climb everything in sight, and hit Mckenzie.  At one point in the day I was feeling over overwhelmed and honestly just plain pissed off.  While muttering negative things under my breath and picking something off the floor I turned around to find Isaac sitting in Jett's water bowl.  Just sitting contently in a bowl of water.  I had to changed his pants and diaper.  Oh, and Isaac was so proud and happy to be sitting in water.  I love you so much Isaac! Please stop making me crazy! Mckenzie asks me at least once a day to take a picture of her and Jett.  Jett looks like he's saying, "Yup, she's sitting on me again."  Channing = most adorable kindergartener.  Went to parent teacher conferences last week...

Channing learned how to whistle.  Now he whistles all day long.  He's still enjoying kindergarten.  His favorite things are tetherball (he calls it tuggerball), PE, recess, and going to get the milk.  Every few weeks he takes a turn with a partner to get the classes milk.  They can choose regular milk or chocolate milk, I bet you can guess what he picks, everyday for a snack.  Kindergarten is exhausting! Some quotes from Mckenzie: As she's picking her nose, "my boogers are small."  I asked her one day while watching her paint at the dinner table, "why are you so pretty?"  Her response, "Because I wash my face again and again!" We planted a hydrangea.  Unfortunately Jett ate most of it when we were inside.  There's a few leaves left.  Hopefully it'll come back. Three things Isaac loves, climbing everything, chocolate zucchini muffins, and playing in water.  He's the only baby we've ever had that'll d...

From July 28th to August 4th we went to McCall, Id for a Kenney family reunion.  The week flew by.  I don't know where the time went!  The kids loved hanging out with the cousins and second cousins.  They always had someone to play with.  The house was huge and had grass outside so the kids had lots of options for where to play.  We did boating on the Payette Lake, zip lining, white water rafting, and hanging out at the beach.  Channing loved sleeping in Cici and Papa's room.  Mckenzie loved tagging along with Grant and Jimmy and making necklaces with Emily.  And Isaac, well he wasn't so sure about all the new faces.  But occasionally he was happy, mostly when Justin and I weren't around. On August 6th, only two days after our super fun week in McCall, Channing started kindergarten!  He has afternoon kindergarten from 12:55 to 3:55 with Mrs. Leach.  Gosh I love this kid!  He's been happy to go to school everyd...