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Happy 1st Birthday, Kendall!

This is the birthday crown daycare made for Kendall, she even said "cat" when they showed it to her. She use to say "dat" for cat but this week she started saying cat correctly! Another big event happened today...Brett Favre became a Viking (Jeff is not a happy about this).

Kendall's First Birthday Party

Kendall with her "smash cake," she was actually pretty neat and clean with it...we were shocked!
Rachel and Richard enjoying the wonderful taste of BBQ smoke!

Great Aunt Barb and Kendall clapping to the music

Grandma Erickson helping Kendall put on as many leis as she could find.

I wonder if they are talking about politics or the Hawaiian shirts?

Kendall loves music so my father and Bob played a couple songs for the celebration and she enjoy it. Danny and my Great Uncle Jimo

Nicky first in line to have a birthday cupcake. My mother and I made these Seashore cupcakes together late Friday night and it was a fun time...thanks mom and dad for all of your help with the party.

Great Aunt Danelle and Kendall hula dancing

Jeff's family: Grandpa Richard, Rachel, Karen, Brett, and Waneta

Thank you to everyone especially those who traveled such a long way to be a part of Kendall's first birthday celebration.

Vacation at Hand Lake

All set for fun in the sun!!

Our little helper...she was going back and forth between me and Jeff.
Her favorite thing to do on vacation: play in the lake with her water toys

Kendall hanging out with Uncle Brett

Badminton: Kendall Style

Relaxing with dad and Grandpa Campbell

This year the Fischer's joined the vacation, above is Jeff's Great Aunt Helen. We had a good time listening to their stories of the "good old days" and shared many laughs! We missed the rest of the gang and hope next time everyone can be there. Da..nut...da..nut (Think JAWS theme)

These fish were crazy...they got so close to shore that one even accidently jumped out and had to be saved.

Getting on board to go on a boat ride

And later...we dumped enough sand out of her swim trunks to fill a sandbox !

Hanging out at Home

We spent the weekend home to catch up on housework and this is pretty much what Kendall did repeatedly throughout the weekend.

Visiting Hibbing

Kendall was so excited to crawl around someone else's home that she couldn't even stop for a quick picture.
Kendall giving Breann a thank you hug for the book
Kendall learning about babies from Ann.
My parents recently had this beautiful porch built and everyone gave their opinions on the shade of stain they should do. We spent a lot of time relaxing on the porch and enjoying the view.

Kendall is listening to the rules of the boat...she takes them seriously!

We watched Scott pitch in his Little League game...Hibbing lost.

We had delicious dinner on the new porch and out came a rainbow, actually a double rainbow.

Kendall gathered grass confetti to celebrate her first rainbow siting. Group hug with Jane and Kai.

Kai and Kendall starting their day by swinging.

FORGOTTEN HUGE MILESTONE!!

Kendall started with the "army" crawl at about 9 months and then a few weeks ago at about 10 1/2 months old she went onto the full crawling style. I can't believe I forgot to blog such a huge milestone...possibly too busy chasing our little baby girl?!?!

Como Zoo with Annika

I really hope Kendall likes butterflies as much as I do...we saw a monarch in this garden but she cared more about her grilled cheese sandwich Jeff made for her then the garden. I have to admit Jeff does make a mean grilled cheese. Annika taking a break from the animals...
Kendall decides to fit in some stroller yoga before nap time. And lately we can't go anywhere without her baby MP3 Player...we catch her rockin to her tunes often.

11 month Birthday

"My duck slipper has to be in here somewhere"
Eating blueberry pancakes for the first time and loving it!
Recipe: 1 cup flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
6oz container Stonyfield Farm organic yogurt-blueberry flavor
3 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 egg yolk

Couple handfuls of Blueberries
(Makes about 6 medium size pancakes)

In the future I plan to add a whole egg (when Kendall is over 1 year of age), use whole wheat flour, and add flax seed to make it even more of a healthy breakfast.

River Falls Days

Kendall clapping at the many parade floats. Hands down the best parade I have been to and River Falls did a great job with their town celebration.

"Should of had a V8"

Supporting the shades (Kendall's lasted a whole 20 seconds).
I couldn't resist snapping a picture near this beautiful garden with the black cat in the window. I never noticed the flower gardens some of the houses in River Falls had...very impressive.
Cutest thing...I think my dad will appreciate this picture. We watched the firefighters help these little ones live out their dreams of spraying water from a fireman's hose.

Kendall had some fun of her own with the crazy colored pony tail and (half way done) butterfly face painting on her cheek! She just couldn't hold still for them to finish the butterfly, maybe next time.

A very tired Kendall at the Car Show...a small show compared to ones Jeff is use to attending, but we were still able to see some real nice cars. This car deserved to be in a family photo!! This car resembled the one Jeff's Uncle Brad had in high school. What a nice looking car.