"We need a price check on lane two..."

Amelia's latest love is the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum in downtown Salt Lake. She can play in a farmhouse with a life-sized horse or in a kid-sized house with a flower box window, climb a rock wall, splash around in the hands-on water fountain, or create chaos in the super market. Which is just what happened the last time we visited with the Moss girls.

Amanda, Caroline, and Amelia were very focused on filling their shopping baskets and running them up to the check out. Caroline was clearly shopping for an army. Amanda was making sure the shelves were full of product. And Amelia was busy pushing the button that spoke, "We need a price check on lane two" again and again. What a fun afternoon!

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks...

Summertime means baseball! And Amelia's sweet Uncle Michael and Aunt Natalie were nice enough to share their Salt Lake Bees tickets with us and Grandpa John. Of course, Amelia loved every minute of it: the hot dogs (which she doesn't eat, but talks about eating), the monstrous serving of creamy ice cream (uh... should have stopped at one scoop), the free "train" that ran behind the field, and the loudspeaker music that seemed to posses her little dancing feet. She even saw a broken bat. Ask her today what she thought of the baseball game and "Oh, broken," is sure to be her concerned reply.

Rock With You.

Say what you will about what Michael Jackson has or hasn't done in his adult life, but you cannot deny that he brought us some really fantastic music. So today I'm sad. Not only because of his death, but because I think that he lived a very sad life inside his head.

Happy Father's Day.

Happy Father's Day, David. You've been the best daddy. Overflowing with patience, love, laughter, and board games. Everything your little Amelia needs and loves. How blessed we are to have you in our lives. XOXO!

Happy Birthday, Meels! The Sequel.

And, in true Kennedy style, the birthday continues long after the actual day. Amelia got a slice of Father's day dedicated to more cake, more presents, and more attention. (She's really beginning to like this...)

Happy Birthday, Meels!

Well, it happened! Amelia turned two. (Parents officially sad that she isn't a baby anymore.) We threw a Mickey Mouse birthday party for her with family and friends in attendance. Let me tell you what - Amelia ate up every minute of it! From the attention and far too generous gifts to the wading pool ball-crawl and plastic bowling alley.

Ask her how old she is and you'll hear, "I two old." Even Amelia's "Gamma Lorla" flew out for the celebration. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to pull this party together and for all of the lavish attention that you showered upon a chatterbox toddler. She's still floating in the clouds.
Footnote: Amelia's birthday party would not be complete without our dear friend Brennan falling asleep, Purple Guy-style. (Every year he runs the Wasatch Back, an over-night relay race, right before her party. Even though he's wiped out, we're so glad that he comes!)

Worth a million words...

While in Southern California last February we took a break from the Disney adventure to stick our toes in the Pacific. An amazing photographer, Alli Easley of Easley Photography, met us there and snapped these photos for us. They so perfectly captured our life at that very moment. A moment that I never want to forget. Thanks a million, Alli.