Better Late Than Never!!!

And may the funness and chaos of ThanksChristmas begin!!!

Such a big present for such a little dude!!

Millie doesn't look too thrilled about ThanksChristmas! She

better not join the HURL group later on in life!

I would take Miss Colby as a present...for a night!! :)

Little House on the Prairie girls!!!

Emma taking her time opening up a present..wonder what it was!!!!

Anna opening up the books I got her. I don't know if she really enjoys

reading so much, but it's good for her! And everybody loves

the Berenstain Bears books!

Ella and her super cool and super cute new hat!

And that's my boyfriend sleeping at his first Rankin get-together.

Notice, he's the only guy wearing the ThanksChristmas t-shirt. He was a bit in the

doghouse.

Looks like Chris will be drinking the hard stuff at the next luau!! Goodbye

Jell O shots and hello Gentleman whatever it is (sorry don't remember)!

Caught red-handed trying to steal my present! Colby, you better learn this lesson now:

I love Christmas and presents and will probably not share. Sorry :)

Good thing team HURL was there on clean-up duty!!

TALENT SHOW PORTION

Ella saying the Pledge of Allegience!

She did an amazing job at remembering it all!

I think these two are already planning their own talents for the next show!!

Anna Banana telling her jokes! She did such a great job

at making everyone laugh!!!

Emma showing her AWESOME talent!

Good job!

Jake was hiding in the back being the music mistro for the James!

Lil' Rapper Annie

Merry Thanks-Christmas Everybody!!!

Everybody at work gets SO sick of my Christmas singing..I usually start getting excited

about July!!! :)

"(Thanks) Christmas Don't Be Late!!"



Sorry it's taken me so long AGAIN to get a post up! I really have no excuse except it's been Christmas and New Years and have had guests upon guests at my place and traveling through! Which means, I will eventually have a ton more pictures up from my Christmas break! YAY!!! :) Hope everybody had a great Christmas!!

Love,

Kendall

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Pre Thanks-Christmas!!

Sorry this is so late! Just a few picture from my travels pre- ThanksChristmas! There would be more, however, I forgot my camera at Kori's so nobody else got pictures..sorry! Stay tuned..pretty soon here I will have pictures up of ThanksChristmas!

Love you and Happy Holidays!

Kendall

Pumpkin Rolls! Yummy!

Caleb's Birthday Cake!

Awww...cute!!!

Millie and me! Not such a cute picture but oh well! She was helping to bake with

her little measuring spoon!

Super cute picture!

Haha! Kori dancing to some song!

I think it's a stare down over the sippy cup!

Love her!

Self-Portrait..she was supposed to be taking a picture of Kori and me!

Cute picture!!

(Doesn't everybody LOVE Kim's hair straight?!?!)

I gotta go...Back to Schooool (Grease 2 song..or Grease 1..don't remember!)

This is my oh so cute desk prior to classes starting! Kori had bought me all sorts of fun things to put on it and then her and Kim came over to help me decorate! I had HUGE plans of staying organized and keeping things all nice and neat!

And here is my desk in Week 6 of my classes! So much for the keeping things cleaned and organized! I will say so, although I know it looks messy, I do know where everything that I need is...or about where it is. I pretty much live in my spare bedroom now because I am always online checking the websites to make sure I am not missing anything!

As many of you guys know already, I have gone back to school! I am going for elementary education and have liked it so far. I'm only taking two classes this semester (Educational Psychology and Foundations of American Education) but they are keeping me busy! I feel like I work and do homework, work and do homework, and work and do homework!! Although I do manage to keep a little bit of a social life just so I don't go in sain!

Each class does a chapter a week, discussions, a quiz, and sometimes extra things added into that. On Monday's I write out my schedule (on a fun sticky note that Kori got me-it has days of the week on it!) and start reading my chapter for my Foundations class. Tuesdays, depending on which shift I work at work, I try to start on my Psychology chapter. I'm about 50/50 on keeping up with that schedule. Sometimes I don't get all of one chapter read in a night, so it gets kind of spaced out. Wednesday and Thursdays is spent doing discussions online, they are considered our lecture so we are expected to read so many of them and comment on them. It is very depressing when you get online and see you have 300 unread messages! During the weekend I do any of the extra projects, take quizzes, and read discussions!

It's helped a lot that I finally have gotten internet at my place, although I hate not getting to spend so much time at the Anderson's! I told the girls at work I'll probably lose 10 pounds because I'm not eating out there every night...only like four nights out of the week!

Anyhoo..there's the lowdown on how I keep myself busy!

Love,

Kendall

PS. Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who has been helping me out with this and putting up with me venting about it all of the time!

I think I messed up...

Okay...I posted a new one but must have messed up somehow because it is currently under my last post!! So please scroll down under the post "Busy Busy Busy" and enjoy! It is not a very big one, sorry!

Love
Kendall :)

Busy Busy Busy!!

July and August brought a lot of visitors from down South. It was so nice being able to spend time with each sister and their family! When we go down to Illinos it can be a bit overwhelming because EVERYBODY is at one place and sometimes I don't get to spend enough time with each person.

The weekend of July 4th our first guest arrived: Gail came up to spend the weekend with us. I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of this, but I don't think there would have been any fun ones. We spent most of the day sitting out on Kim's deck. At night, we pretty much did the same thing. There were many games of Speed played and a lot of talking..aka...gossipping going on. Thanks for coming up Gail!

Mom, Kelly, and Colby were the next to arrive late July. They were up for a long weekend and we pretty much sat around and relaxed which was quite nice.

Then in the beginning of August the James crew "surprised" us up here. Being that I was so shocked that they were up here, I completely forgot to take pictures! Sorry! I had a blast hanging out with all of them and playing with the girls! Also, my Dad and Raylene were up at that time so they were in Clearbrook hanging out a couple nights.

The last and final group actually came in late August. Kori, Ben, and Amelia showed up very early on a Sunday morning and stayed for a week. I am sometimes overwhelmed by them staying in at my apartment (usually everybody stays out at Kim's), but I love every minute of it. I loved getting the few minutes every morning playing with Millie before I went to work.

Thank you to everybody (including all of my friends) who made the trip up here to visit!

Love,

Kendall

Millie and me! We tried to get a good picture of both of us but it just wasn't working for us, so this one will just have to do!

I really enjoyed having the Machlitt's staying at my place. It was nice being able to spend time hanging out with Kori again!

The highlight of their trip for me was when Kori told Kim that Millie didn't like cottage cheese, so of course, Kim tries to mix in a little bit of cottage cheese in with Millie's applesauce. The child actually ate the applesauce and spit out the cottage cheese, now that's talent!!

Jake with his gas mask on...silly boy!

Colby with her sly little look. I can't believe how happy yet silent she is!

Yup, that's what was going on during this visit. They were probably online talking bad about the rest of us to eachother!

Mom hanging out with Colby and Jacob while watching a movie!

GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE...I mean GONVICK!!!!

These little guys greeted me every morning when I got to work! The mom built the nest right above our side door! Although we all enjoyed seeing them every morning, it is nice to not worry about getting a little dropping on our heads!

Just wanted to say thanks to Grandma Budke for losing her camera and buying a new one and then finding the lost camera! If it wasn't for her, I would not be able to take pictures and post again! Thanks Grandma!!! Love you!!

Have a good day!!

Kendall

Turner and Chester

Turner watching some TV.

This is what sparked Turner's interest: bull riding.

Turner and Chester.

Chester and her new haircut. She was leaving hair clumps everywhere so my friend

Lexie offered to shave her. I LOVE not having hair everywhere, however, I do not think

she loves the new do!

Turner bored out of his mind while I watch the baseball game.

Now I know most of my family are not really animal people, however, I do not have any kids so this is all I've got!!!

Kendall