Kevin, Mary, Lily, & Sam Blog

AND.......WE'RE BACK!!!!!

2011-04-09T01:33:00.000-07:00

I have finally updated my blog. Please don’t have a heart attack. I know it has been almost a year and one-half since the last posting so I am going to try to tell everyone what has been happening. It may be in a few different postings so look at the next few. I am going to go through the months and try to document our lives. My goal this year is to try to be better at keeping this updated because I do care about letting everyone know how we are doing and the adventures that our family has had the past 18 months. I will try to remember something from each month to tell you.

Mar 2011

Samuel and Lily play together. Lily loves showing Sam things. Sam loves watching Lily. I am finally feeling like I can take care of two kids. Sam discovered his tongue and some days it seems to be sticking out all day!

Feb 2011

Mary’s parents and brother came out for Samuel’s baby blessing. Lily has more fun with Samuel and finds that he is pretty fun to have around.

Jan 2011

We had another Christmas celebration with the Isaacson’s. Kevin started his last semester of law school. We found out that Samuel’s heart had improved and that they would just do one more check when he was 6 months old to make sure everything was good. Our prayers were answered. Kevin and Mary get new callings. Kevin is called to be the ward executive secretary and I was called to be the ward family history chairperson. I don’t really know how to do family history but I will find out. Sam started to show his contagious smile!

Lily Loves her trike and playing with friends.

Lily also loves cooking with mom, especially making rolls. Don't ask why she likes eating bread dough....not very tasty. But then again, she is the girl that loves to eat lotion.

Dec 2010

Went to Utah for Christmas. It was so much fun to see everyone there and to show off Samuel. Lily played in lots of snow. And my California cuties (Kevin included) had a lot of fun.

Lily got a new tricycle for Christmas! FUN FUN!

Nov 2010

Samuel came home. We found out that he is the most easy-going cheerful guy. We took him to many appointments to the pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist. The cardiologist did not know why his heart was doing that but concluded that he might grow out of it. We all fasted and prayed.

Oct 2010

October 31st around 1:30am I started going into Labor. We got to the hospital about 3:50 am and Samuel Walter Isaacson was born at 4:16am. That was supper fast and super intense!! Everyone asked us if he was a C-section because his head was so round and he looked so good. We found out that he had a weird heart problem. When he would sleep his heart rate would drop to around 100 beats/min. His oxygen stayed just fine but the doctors were a little worried about watching him.

I found Lily’s Halloween costume. It was the same costume that Kevin wore when he was two. It was the cutest little pumpkin costume that Kevin’s mom made. We went to the ward trunk-o-treat party on October 29th.

Sep 2010

Last year of Law school starts. Mary starts getting obsessed with making sure that Lily has a Halloween costume because the baby is due November 3rd. I just wanted to make sure that Lily had the opportunity to do the Halloween thing. Mary’s dad, Jay, came out for a visit. We went to Happy Hollow when I was very pregnant. I took a ride on the merry-go-round and I think that people thought I was crazy getting on one of those animals.

Aug 2010

Kevin found out that he was ranked #3 in his class.

July 2010

Mary’s birthday. Lily’s 2nd birthday. She loved the balloon the most. We went to Happy Hollow for the first time.

June 2010

We find out that the baby is a boy. We also got to have some fun on those hot days (head in bowl of water):

May 2010

Kevin’s Birthday. Summer started with a fun trip up to Lake Tahoe. Kevin started an internship as the managing intern at a local law firm. Mary’s mom came out form Memorial Day.

Apr 2010

Mary's parents came out to visit us during General Conference. We had a nice (cloudy) trip to the beach. Lily also surprised us often by waking up without any clothes on! (NOT ALWAYS FUN!)

Mar 2010

On the first day of Kevin's spring beak, we went for a little hike. Mary was really tired the whole day. Later we found out why: we were pregnant with baby #2. Mary started feeling sick soon after........

Feb 2010

Lily had a lot of fun playing with Aunt Heidi before she left on her mission to Boston.

Jan 2010

Kevin’s new semester of school with lots of night classes. Adjusted to being in a new ward. We were called as primary teachers teaching the 10 year-olds.

Dec 2009

After Kevin’s finals we went to Utah to have an early Christmas with the Burraston’s.

We moved out of Kevin’s parent’s house into our own apartment. We adjusted to living on our own and being parent without the help of our parents. We spent Christmas with Isaacson’s. Jon, Julie, Matthew, and Seth came out to California. It was so much fun to see how big everyone had gotten.

It was so fun for us because Lily actually had fun with her presents. She got this big pink kitchen. She fell Christmas morning and had a huge ugly scrape on her nose.

Nov 2009

Thanksgiving with the Isaacson’s

Lily's Happy Halloween!!

2009-10-31T22:00:00.000-07:00

Kevin and I carved these awesome pumpkins! Don't worry we have not quit going to school to take up professional pumpkin carving. We wanted to be good parents and give Lily all the wonderful Halloween experiences. It turned out that as Kevin and I carved outside, Lily ran around pushing a broom and playing in the mud and trying to eat dirt. She was not even interested. She is usually very curious and she likes pumpkins. So we thought that she would like to play in the pumpkin guts but she did not care at all. Oh well maybe next year.

She may not have loved pumpkin carving. But Lily loves candy. She is at such a fun age. Here she is running around the family room. Lily was a flower for Halloween. I didn't realize how cheesy that was when I bought the costume. I went shopping with Lily and when she saw this on the hanger she got really excited and pulled it off and then went running down the isle of the store. That made me decide that this was the costume for her.

Lily usually hates wearing hats. But she loves clothes. When she saw herself in the mirror she smiled so big and laughed. She loves this costume. Lily also loves candy but she is not really to keen on trick-or-treating. In the pic below she is getting some candy from her Great-Aunt Laura (that she sees very often) here and you would think that she is trying to give Lily medicine. Lily is leaning so far back. Laura finally gave up Lily would not even take it from me.

Even though Lily did not like Trick-or-Treating she loves candy. Here she is with a sort of crazy candy high look on her face. She has red skittle drool running down her chin. It is lovely isn't it? Anyway I think that Halloween was all in all a fun experience. (Don't worry Mom we didn't let her have a about three of pieces of candy. )

I hope everyone had a very nice Halloween. Hopefully Lily will sleep well tonight!

Crazy Garden, On campus Interviews, and Climbing Baby

2009-09-08T20:27:00.000-07:00

We have been busy busy busy lately. Kevin has been adjusting to going back to school. He has been working very hard and having lots of interviews with law firms for summer internships for next year. He is also very busy trying to keep up with his garden. The garden is over grown and requires a lot of care. We have been at war with the many neighborhood squirrels that have been eating everything that they can get their hands on. They almost ate all of our sunflower seeds.

Lily is getting really adventurous. She just learned how to climb up onto the table. Now we have to make sure all of the chairs are pushed into the table. She also pushes everything that she can to use as a stepping stool to get to where she wants. She had started throwing tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants. She is however usually easy to distract but it is a little hilarious to see her throw herself on the ground. ( We are proud of ourselves for not laughing out loud.) She talking more and also becoming more involved with other children.

I have been busy trying to keep up with Lily and trying to keep her from killing herself. That takes a lot of my time. I have also been trying to take her outside more. It is so nice to live by the school and have a play ground so close. I have been also busy with trying to keep up on the laundry for Kevin and helping him in anyway that I can. We also had the opportunity to go to Utah at the end of July and it was a lot of fun.

Happy Birthday Lily

2009-09-08T19:35:00.000-07:00

Lily turned 1 on July 13th. She then had a wonderful time destroying the little cake that Kevin and I made for her.

We can't believe she is 1. Wow. She weighed 19lbs 8oz. Her height is 28.5 inches. So she is a little thing but she is running all over the place. Kevin and I really enjoy her.

Here she is with her cake and candle. We made cupcakes for everyone else. We frosted them with pink and yellow frosting and arranged them like flowers.

We had her favorite things to eat for dinner which include: sliced olives, sauteed mushrooms, raw green beans, barbecue chicken, and mac & cheese.
She loved it! I think it was a little weird for everyone else.

Memorial Day

2009-05-30T21:13:00.001-07:00

We had a crazy week for Memorial Day. Jon, Julie, Matthew, and Seth came for a visit. Matthew gave Lily a ride in the red jeep. She had a lot of fun. I think that Matthew had fun driving her for a while.

The next day Lily and I flew to Utah for the Burraston Memorial Day Extravaganza. We went down to the farm and had a family barbecue. It was fun to see the cousins and aunts and uncles. I am the youngest grandchild so there were lots of other children to keep Lily entertained. She did so well. I was worried about her being afraid. But she did awesome with my parents. They think that she is the greatest thing since sliced cheese (and my family likes cheese!!)

It is so fun to go down to Goshen and spend time with my family there are so many good memories. My Grandma collects old cars so we
got pictures of Lily with a few of them.
Here we are in the back of a rumble seat in one of the old Ford. Lily really liked driving the old Ford pick-up truck. I the truck was made between 1910-1919...I think. Anyway it was a wonderful trip and then we flew back to have more fun and adventure with the Jon & Julie Isaacson Co.

Things had calmed down and now we are just enjoying being together and growing our garden. Kevin has an internship for the summer that he enjoys and we have some fun things planned. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Surviving Finals and Walking Baby

2009-05-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

We have had a very eventful month. May was filled with many wonderful things such as: starting with Kevin's finals, planting the garden, Kevin's birthday and Memorial day.

Kevin's finals were crazy but we made it thought and feel very proud that we made it through the first year of law school. When Kevin started school they sent a pamphlet home that was entitled "How to survive your first year of law school" It stated that if you were not married don't get married and if you were married don't think about having children. We felt like the odds were against us but we made it though and didn't even think about getting divorced which I view as a pretty good sign. :)

Finals were however very intense for the both of us as evidenced by not celebrating Mother's Day. We also totally forgot our 3rd anniversary. Kevin's mom was the only one who remembered but she didn't call us that day. We realized the next day the 13th KW and I were sitting down and I was worried about paying some bills or something and looked at the calendar and realized that we had totally missed the whole special day. I was embarrassed for a few minutes and finally worked up the courage to tell KW who was studying for a test. We laughed about it for a while. At least we both forgot! Luckily Lily remembered her Papa's birthday and gave him a tie.

Kev, Mary & "The Lil"

2009-04-01T20:52:00.001-07:00

I can't believe that the spring is here. Kevin has started one of his finals and we are so close to making it though the first year of Law School. Kevin is learning so much. He actually really enjoys the things that he is learning. I think that this is a very good thing!!!! He works so hard but still finds time to play with Lily and do a little yard work. I think that he wishes that he could do more. Kevin is the best a giving "The Lil" (Lily) her bath and she has so much fun with him during bath time. We are still not sure what type of internship Kevin will be doing for the summer or if he will be taking some classes.

Mary has a new calling as the Mia Maid teacher in the ward. We are both still ward missionaries. But we spend most of church trying to keep "The Lil" from being too much of a disruption. Lily loves choir music. She loves Music and the Spoken Word. She will sit or stand with her back perfectly straight up and wave her arms to the music. She has this look on her face of pure joy and amazement. She will do the same thing at church when the congregation is very involved in singing the hymn. She will stop whatever she is doing. and Just pay perfect attention. It is adorable. She has also started crawling. I don't think that she realizes that she can get wherever she wants by crawling because she will crawl somewhere one time and then the next she will just lay on the floor and cry. She has also found out how to pull herself up in her crib. She is getting so big.

As a family were are doing great. We have started having Family Home Evenings with "The Lil" and I don't think she understands anything but I know that she will someday. This parent thing is a lot of work. Thank so much Mom and Dad for all you have done to teach us how to be good and faithful people. Please remember to keep us in your prayers.

This is the face Lily makes when Kevin tickles her.....a little "scrunch face"

A Busy Start

2009-02-02T19:54:00.000-08:00

Christmas was awesome. We had a wonderful time with my family in Utah. There was a lot of snow that Kevin had a lot of fun playing in. I think he probably shoveled the driveway 8 times one of the days we were in Salt Lake. Two weeks in the snow is just a perfect amount. On Christmas Eve it is a Burraston family tradition to get new PJ pants. We then watched Claymation Christmas (an Isaacson family tradition). Then it was back to sunny California. We came home early because Jon and Julie planned a wonderful surprise visit so that the family could be all home together. We took family pictures and it was awesome. It was wonderful to have a whole month with Kevin home. He discovered some new talents such as feeding Lily, and putting her down for a nap. He is such a wonderful daddy. He did very well his first semester of law school. I think that he is surprised how much he actually enjoys it. On January 8th, 2009. She weighed 15 lbs, 13 oz. I can't believe how much she has grown. I think that Lily's favorite part of Christmas was eating the wrapping paper.

Lots of Firsts!

2008-12-14T21:25:00.000-08:00

Well it has been a very interesting week with lots of firsts for all of us. Kevin finished his first semester of law school and lived to tell the tale. Kevin celebrated by doing yard work. This may sound crazy but Kevin loves diging in the dirt and trimming trees and bushes. He is very excited about the compost pile he started a couple of weeks ago. It makes him extreemly happy to go out there and mix it up. Yes he is a little wierd but absolutely adorable. I too had to survive Kevin's finals because he is such a good help and I missed him. I am very glad that I have him home for a whole month.

Lily had many firsts. She turned 5 months on the 13th and has started sitting unassisted (most of the time--she still has the occasional loss of balance). We have started feeding her rice cereal. She loves it although has had a little difficulty keeping it in her mouth. She is getting big so fast. We decided to try to give her a bath at night again. We gave her baths in the morning because previously when we tried at night she stayed up all night. She now finds it rather relaxing and has slept really well. On the 14th she had three firsts. She rolled over all by her self. I was so glad that Kevin was here to see that. She also started sucking on her toes. She also had her first fall. She rolled off the couch and onto the floor. She bumped her head. She is totally fine but I was really paranoid and felt like the worst mother in the whole world. She doesn't even have a bruise. I cried more than she did about it. It is amazing how much you hurt when you sweet little one is hurting. We called both of our moms right away to see if we needed to take Lily to the hosptial. They both sort of laughed at us asking the same questions. It sort of went like this:
Is crying now? no
Did she fall on carpet? yes
Is there a bump? no
Is she bleeding? no
Is she acting weird? no
I think she will be fine just watch her. I remember when (insert name)fell and bumped his head the first time. He was fine and Lily will be fine too. I know you feel like a terrible mother but she really is fine.

It really makes you feel better to her your mother tell you that you really haven't eternally damaged your child. Lily has been just fine ever since and I am "wiser for the wear." So thank you very much moms.

My baby has rolls in her armpits!!

2008-12-03T22:10:00.001-08:00

So I wanted to post a question to all of you bloggers. My baby has rolls in her armpits. I think it is kind of cute. Do you think it is weird?

We Are Back!

2008-12-03T21:46:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays everyone. We have sure been busy since we started this blog about a year ago. Kevin is attending law school at Santa Clara University in the Bay Area. He has been very stressed out but seems to be learning a lot and enjoying the things he is studying. We are getting ready to send out applications for summer internships. So pray for us okay!! Lily is now 41/2 months old. She has been learning many new sounds which include spitting, shreeking, fake coughing, and high pitch laughing. She also wants to stand up all the time (with our help) she can almost sit up without support. She can also pull herself up assisted with our two fingers. And as you can see she likes her tongue. Sometimes when you hold her over your shoulder she will lick your neck. If you hold her watch out!! We recently have been trying to figure out how to be parents. Sometimes we feel sucessful sometimes we feel like we fall short. But she is such a sweet little girl. We feel we have been blessed exceedingly. We have also been sick with a horrible cold this past week. It is very difficult to have a sick little one when you don't feel so great yourself. We are so thankful that Mark and Mary have been so great at having a baby in the house. Well I am pretty proud of myself for writing this much so hope to hear from you all soon.

Greetings from California

2007-12-22T23:08:00.000-08:00

We are in California for the Christmas season! One of our first events was to go to the Sharks game. Kevin loves the sharks and Mary likes to see the games. Here's us at the game. It wasn't a very good game for the Sharks. The team played horribly and it was frustrating. But it was fun to be around so many fans. The biggest highlight of the game was getting to see the mascot SJ Sharkie: