My have we been busy at Chez Beadnell! McKenna is 16 months old now, and is quite certainly the most talkative, socialite in her age group. We went and got some pictures taken at JCPenneys yesterday (much to her dismay) and today went and visited her cousin Jayden who had her 12th birthday party today....so I get to have a bit of quiet time while she and Mark take their respective nap time. :)

As Mark wrote in his last blog we have been a full household the last month in a half. My dad was in a pretty serious accident and is awaiting foot amputation at our home for the next few weeks. Mark went on a work trip to Las Vegas last week and Grandma Joy (Doy as McKenna calls her) came to help out while he was gone. While she was here we went to a lovely dinner at a little cafe down the street, she made brownies and even cleaned all my handwash only pans (I was in suds free heaven). I am pretty sure I would have gone bald with stress if she had not helped, so needless to say it was a "joy" to have her around. We got a new little delight in our home two weeks ago, his official name is "Nubbins" he is a precocious 5 month old kitten who I wish I could say has the voice of an angel, but sounds more like a tsunami alarm going off. He keeps me up at night, but he is so loveable and cuddly during the day that it makes up for it. McKenna has quite a bond with Nubbins already and they often enjoy playing with the same things... which sends McKenna into a rant of "NoNo KeeKee NoNo" over and over again, but again all in good fun. And the other exciting news on the home front is we got a new used car! <- ?! We bought a 2006 Hyundai Sonata GLS for a great deal and have been sportin' it all around town like a couple of yahoos. It's alot of fun to drive and much better on gas then our 12 mile to the gallon ford f-150 so in the long run we will have saved money buying it (right) it has electronic stability control and so many airbags I think we will actually float away if we ever do get in an accident so I think it may be safer then our Hyuandai Santa Fe. Consumer reports rated it really well too so we are feeling pretty great about our purchase. I suppose that's all I have for now. Sometime in the next hour I need to try to wrangle a toddler and husband awake from slumber land so I had better prepare myself. Until next time, J