my baby is smileing away!!!!

Toby James

For those of you that are know us well you know that are dogs mean alot to us and are a memeber of are family. So i'm just hopeing that if I write about it maybe it will make me feel a little better. Yesturday I lost one of my best friends when we were out running. I watched my puppy have what we think was a heart attack. I watched him try to get up and come running but fail and colapse. I made it back to him for just a couple seconds left of his life. But I didn't care with tears running down my face I picked his limp body up and put him in the truck and rushed to the vet, to hear what I already knew, that Toby was gone. After Lane and I shed more tears for him, Lane took him up on the hill where we run to get burried.

I know some of you probably think I'm crazy but those dogs mean alot to me. Lane has been gone alot due to jobs through out our marraige and without the company of my dogs I don't know what I would have done. they are so friendly and so fun.They go EVERYWHERE with us, they sleep with us, they travel with us, and they eat are food ;). You can do anything to a dog, you can do or say mean things, you can neglect a dog, but when they see you they come running at you full speed with so much love in there heart. They are so loyal and loving.Toby I can't stop thinking about you and picturing you yesterday, my heart feels a little empty and sad today. I miss you and hope your in dog heaven :)

I'm going to miss;

-having to put a guard around myself when you come running in the door, because you are sooo excited to see us!

- hearing you moan after Lanes alarm clock goes off at 6am, and hearing you moan everytime we move in bed!

-watching you fit under all our suitcases in the back seat of the truck floor because you are scared of driving.

-I'm going to miss how excited you got when we would say the words "walk" or "go"

-how chaotic you made everything

-I'm going to miss you following me around in the middle of the night while I take care of Kenadie, then sleeping on my feet in the relcliner

-I'm going to miss how excited you are when we walk into the door, and the continous greeting we get for the next 5 min!

-I'm going to miss having my arm yanked our when I'm walking you becasue all you want to do is go faster and faster!

-the puppy dog eyes you give us when were not sharing out food as often as you think we should :)

-I'm going to miss you being a friend with Tig, he already misses you.

-watching you run around the house and sliding into everyway becasue you are going SOO fast!

-watch you throw a fit when we make you sleep in your own bed!

-you telling us off with a peticular bark, because we won't play with you!!

-I'm gonna miss seeing how excited you get over everything and watching your entire body shake with excitment!

-I'm even gonna miss picking up the inside of the toys that you tear to shreds!

-But most of all I miss your loving loyal heart, and i miss how cuddly you are. I hope you love dog heaven Toby ;) We love and miss you!!

One Month Pics

Holy cow, my baby is aleady a month old! Time is already flying by so fast! I'm trying to enjoy everything for as long as I can! I just love her so much and can't imagine life without now! Everything has changed so much! Kenadie is growing like crazy! She is already 10 lbs, 4 oz and 21 in long. She is starting to get lots of rolls, and I can't get enough of them ;) She is so much more awake and aware of whats going on around her already. She follows us with her big blue eyes, and smiles at us lots. She is such a happy baby :) I wanted to get pics professionally done, but at the time I just can't afford it so I decided to do them. I had so much fun, Kenadie had fun for most the time :) Remember there not perfect so try to ingnore some of the stuff, but I did my best! Theres lots of them so Enjoy!

Her dad always complains cause I never use the camo blanket, well here you go Daddy, heres the proof!

Of course Toby had to have a little attention himself!

Shes almost 2 weeks already!

Our little Kenadie is already 12 days old, holy cow its already going by so fast!! It has been quite the experience and I'm loving every minute of it :) Lots of family came by to see her, andit was so good to see everyone. My sisters haven't seen her yet and they can hardly wait. I have to email pics just about every day, but hopefully they will see her real soon! My mom came and stayed for just about a week right after she was born, and it helped so much! I already miss her tonz! It was quite emotional when she left. Kenadie is already back to her birth weight and is doing really good! She has a little jaundice but nothing serious and she had a little eye infection for a couple days, but even that has cleared up now. She hasn't quite mastered night and day yet, but hopefully she will get there real soon ;) Everyday she is awake a little bit more and is making more and more facial expresions already! The dogs are doing really good with her. There still a little hyper and a bit curious. They are protective of her already. When she cries, they are alert and follow us around while we carry her, and when shes laying down somewhere they like to be right there next to her. Oh i just love her sooo much! Here is just a couple of pictures of what we have been up to the last little bit!


She hated her first bath, and her 2nd, and her third!!!

She has perfected the bottle without hands, she is a hard sucker, trust me ;)

She looks a chunky in pics, but shes really not chunky at all yet!

Finally a pic with her eyes open!!

Shes ready to eat right now :)

She's Here

Kenadie Kay Allen

Kenadie Kay Allen arrived Monday night, Feb. 8th at 10:21! She is 8lbs 1.7 oz and 20 1/4 inches long. She has beautiful dark skin and light brown hair. She is so pretty and we are so excited to have her here! I cannot belive how much we love her and how much she changes our life for the better!

Sunday night we went to the hospital, worried about high blood pressure. They monitored the baby and I for about 4-5 hours. My blood pressure went down then shot back up so they decided we would probably have to deliver in the morning because of the pre-eclampsia I kept being tested for, for the last 3 weeks. So at 8 am the next morning we took off to the hospital and was monitored for about 20 minutes when they decided they needed to induce me asap. After they were able to rupture my water, the plan was to put me on patosin to start the contractions but within 10 min of my water rupturing the contractions came on full just a minute apart. At about 6pm I was ready for my epidural. Within an hour I have dialated another 3 cm, and within about another hour-hour and a half I was fully dialted and ready to have this baby! Everything went great, still a little sore and defintetly tired but doing good! Thanks to everyone that called or wrote, or even thought about us! I'm sure I will be keeping the blog updated alot more now that I have something to write about :)