Keith Konnection

Fail Blog

2010-04-18T07:38:00.000-07:00

Have any of you heard of a website called "Fail Blog"? Well that is me. I can't seem to keep up with work, kids, Facebook and blogging all at the same time. But I'm going to try again. And my goal is to post once a month. Not once every two years!

A lot has changed since the last post, 2 years ago. We have lived in 3 different houses since then, Mark graduated with his PhD, Maddie was baptized, Ellie gave up the busy ball bopper and we moved from Phoenix to Texas. I'll post some of my favorite pictures over the last while, but will not be able to catch up completely on the last 2 years! They include Mark's graduation (where he shook President Obama's hand, Maddie's baptism, our most recent trip to Disneyland & San Diego, the Christmas Card pictures I took, printed, and have addressed in envelopes that never made it to the mailbox, etc.)

Busy Ball Bopper

2008-03-31T14:37:00.000-07:00

Easter Egg Hunt

2008-03-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

We had a fun Easter Egg hunt this afternoon before our traditional ham dinner. Ellie didn't miss a beat picking up her eggs and placing them carefully in her basket! The weather was absolutely perfect as well! The last picture of this set is my favorite. We were all eating dinner and suddenly I realized that I hadn't heard from Ellie in a little while. So I started walking around looking for her. I found her in Maddie's Easter Basket opening the eggs and eating the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, tin foil wrapping and all. Aw, a girl after my own heart!

Happy Easter!

2008-03-23T15:47:00.000-07:00

We have had a wonderful Easter Weekend! Yesterday Maddie & I dyed our traditional hard boiled eggs. Later on in the evening we made these wonderful sugar eggs that are pictured. They are so much fun to make, and especially for someone who is not artistic like me because even I can't ruin them! The girls were adorable in their dresses, but I haven't managed to get a good picture of that yet. Maybe tonight at dinner...

Overalls

2008-03-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

Mark loves having Ellie in overalls so he can carry her around like this. Strangely enough Ellie loves it.

Daddy's Little Girl

2008-03-21T21:37:00.000-07:00

Ellie is an absolute Daddy's Little Girl. Here are a few pictures of the two of them.

Bike Riding

2008-03-21T21:29:00.000-07:00

We are already having bike-riding weather in Phoenix! Don't worry, when it's 100 degrees next month nobody will be feeling bad for me! We bought Maddie a new bike and she rode away like a champ. The only problem was Ellie. She felt like she should have a new bike as well. As you can tell from the pictures Mark spent quite a bit of time "holding" her on Maddie's new bike.

Ellie will TRULY eat anything!

2008-03-13T20:18:00.000-07:00

Ellie got some new molars this last month. She has really been using them on a variety of foods. Her favorite is steamed broccoli and carrots. This last week she thought she would try eating a rock to see how that would taste. I had no idea that she had ingested it until I found it in her diaper. Let me tell you it was so shocking! Needless to say, Ellie gave us an excellent preview of what she is capable of. Grandpa Jeff could not be more proud of his granddaughter and her love of rocks! Here are a few pictures of that sweet little baby. Notice how enormous the rock is.

Locks of Love

2008-03-13T19:57:00.001-07:00

This week Maddie decided she wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love. She donated a total of 11 inches of her beautiful hair! We were so proud of her and think she looks so adorable with her new short haircut!

Christmas in Utah

2008-01-27T16:54:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful Christmas in Utah. We started the vacation with a trip to Las Vegas to watch the BYU Cougars defeat UCLA in a nail biter of a game! Then we ventured up to Provo for the week of Christmas. Both girls had a great Christmas. Here are a few pictures of our Christmas Vacation.

Spider Webs

2007-11-04T18:21:00.000-08:00

Poor little Maddie has been very sick the last few days with a terrible cough. As always, the worst of the sickness started on Friday night. Does that only happen to me? Kids always get sick on the weekend?!? Anyway, we took her in to the Insta Care today and she has "severe bronchitis." One of the funniest parts of her visit to the Dr. was the chest x-ray. The Dr. was trying to explain to her that he needed to take a picture of her lungs so he could see if there was a problem. Maddie started to get very nervous and said, "But what if there are spider webs in there?" We all had a good laugh about that! I am sure that sometime I will be watching Spongebob Squarepants and there will be an episode where someone had spider webs inside them... Thankfully there were no spider webs, but there was bronchitis. She is on strong antibiotics for the next 5 days along with a breathing treatment. Thank goodness for modern medicine and Dr. offices open on he weekend!

Ellie, our little climber....

2007-11-03T22:31:00.001-07:00

Ellie has a few favorite spots throughout the house. They include the dishwasher, the refrigerator, and Maddie's desk. As you can imagine, none of them are my favorite place for her to be! Ellie even knows the "click" the dishwasher makes when I open it up and she will come crawling from far far away for a chance to play in there! Grandpa Jeff Keith climbed onto the top of the refrigerator at her age, so we are counting our blessings she is not that ambitious!

This is Halloween

2007-11-03T22:05:00.000-07:00

We had an awesome Halloween! Mark dressed up as The King from the Burger King commercials. I'm telling you, it was the funniest, creepiest costume in the world! He literally spent an hour on Halloween night signing autographs and taking pictures with the Trick-Or-Treaters! Maddie was a dark witch, after changing her mind only a hundred times. We went from Princess Leah, to Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, to a Fairy. Finally settled on the dark witch and that was a lot of fun. Ellie kept up the tradition of being a pumpkin for her first Halloween. One huge benefit of living in Arizona is that we don't have to worry about getting warm costumes! In fact, it was so hot on Halloween that Mark didn't wear the tights that went with his costume!

Webkinz

2007-11-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

One of Maddie's most recent obsessions in life are these stuffed animals called Webkinz. She talks about them non-stop, asks for a new one every day, wants to take them everywhere with her, you get the picture! A few days ago we were talking about a friend of hers who has 12 Webkinz and Maddie only has 2. Of course you probably already know where that conversation was headed.... So I explained to Maddie that she has something so special that her friend doesn't have, baby Ellie! Her friend wants a baby sister so much that I told Maddie that she would likely trade all 12 of her Webkinz for baby Ellie. Maddie's eyes lit up and she said, "Can you call her mom?"

Family Pictures

2007-11-03T21:49:00.000-07:00

This was a very impromptu decision to take pictures! My brother, Jon, was in town for the weekend visiting and on a moment's notice I decided it was time to take a family picture. We really haven't had one for years. So, these are the best of the bunch!

First Post Ever!

2007-11-03T21:35:00.000-07:00

Well, I have been inspired by many friends and family that it is time to start our blog. Coming up with the name for our blog was the most challenging of all (thus far!) My favorite was Keith Klux Klan. Mark thought that could be offensive... so we settled on the slightly cheesey Keith Konnection. Nevertheless, the point of a blog is to keep in touch with firends and family you don't get to see all of the time, right?!?
After seeing many of your blogs I am now convinced that blogging is not for super geeks, so I am ready to embark on the journey. Not sure how I will come up with the time for it, but I'll tell myself it's like keeping the journal I should have been keeping all of these years!