The McKnight Family

Friday, July 10, 2009

Here we are in Heber City, Utah. We moved in Dec. 23, 2008 . We are loving this valley. It's mountains are all around us and gorgeous scenery. We now have a horse, 12 chickens, 2 guinea pigs and 1 dog.

We just had a Warthen family reunion here a couple of weeks ago and had a wonderful time. Having family around is really the best feeling in the world. Having the famiy here made us feel like being better people and remembering the most important things in life. Barbara McKnight (the best mother-in-law in the world and her sister Connie Oberly put it all together. What a wonderful job they did! I especially loved how the kids got along so well. The only downfall of the reunion was Brayden's accident, where he slipped on the motorcycle and the foot brake scraped up his leg and dug in to the bone. He received a blessing and we went to the clinic. He had 28 stitches. 16 stitches inside and 12 stitches on the outside. He is doing well and actually was able to go to scout camp. He just wasn't able to do the water sports due to his stitches. He put pictures of his injury on his facebook account. It is hardly stomachable. No mother should have to see their child injured like that. But all is well and stitches come out tomorrow.

Jason just got hired on with AFLAC and is really excited to begin training. Out of 20 people they only hired 2. It's great for the self-esteem when they start raving at how amazing you are in the interview. We have been fasting and praying for this and feel very blessed.

Chandler and Casey Pearce and their kids came and visited us. We went to Kamas water park and also watched the kids ride Tee-boss (our horse) and ride the little motorcycle the Pearces brought. It was great having them here. Awesome family!!!

We also have been visited by our best friends from Vancouver, WA. The Mikkelsons came and we finally got to meet the most recent addition to their family. Beautiful baby girl #4!!! It was so great seeing them again and realizing how much we miss our friends in Vancouver. The bad thing about moving is that you don't get to take your favorite people with you and you add on another 100 people to your Christmas card list from your ward. Oh, well...at least we have lots of people we love!

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KristinJuly 10, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Hey Candee! I'm actually a better blogger than facebooker so I'm glad to see you on here!! Miss you! http://norrisnewsandnonsense.blogspot.com/
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Erin DooleyJuly 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM
It is so good to see you on here. I too am also a better blogger so you're already added to our list. It'll be fun keeping up with you family of all boys! It'll be a change of pace for our famiy of all girls!
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SharonaJuly 10, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Me too!!! Check me out at sll-nihipali.blogspot.com

Hugs...and how dang cute are your boys!!!
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Liz, Karl, Madison, Brooklyn, Aubrey and ZacharyJuly 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Candee, we are very excited to hear you entered the blogging world. we look forward to being able to keep up a little better with your family.
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The Gathering PlaceJuly 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
We're excited you started a blog. We always love finding new blogs we like to visit.
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Random Memories

I want to make a little section where I can add in random memories that come to me from time to time. Since I've just started and have a lot of catching up to do I felt this would be a way to do that.

My first random memory is one of my favorites that my cousins will appreciate. We used to make up crazy games that made no sense just to keep us busy and enjoying each other's company. We made up a game called "Wonder Woman get in bed" . Michelle, Heidi, Rob, Andrew, Katie, Liz and Cara will remember this the most. I would hide in the stairwell in our Grandparents house and the rest of my cousins would sneak up to where I was without me seeing (like red light green light) then I would bolt from behind the wall and scream "Wonder Woman get in bed" while I spun around in circles while chasing them and trying to tag them before they were "safe" on the couch pretending to be in bed asleep. We have more fun reminising about that silly game then anything else. I love my cousins and love that saying one silly phrase like "Wonder Woman Get in Bed" can bring fun smiles to our faces...like magic.

Random Memories

In February of 2007 our family went up to a little cabin to meet Jason's parents as a surprise for the kids. We were in this one room cabin talking and playing games. That particular weekend Chad was 8 months old and decided to stop nursing completely. So, I was in a corner expressing milk into a cup for Chad and Riker came in the corner where I was and was facing me. Being the weird mom I was an not appreciating the lack of privacy Riker was giving me, I squirted him in the face with a little milk and pretended it was an accident. He quickly jerked back from the shock of a wet face and exclaimed, "Mom, keep it in the cup!"
One day Riker came up to me and out of the blue said,"I don't like aliens." I asked him why and he said, "Because they bite."
A couple years ago we were watching a commercial where there were lions talking to each other and discussing how to say "carne" with the roll of the tongue. After it was finished C.J. raised his hand and announced sincerely "Okay...who didn't know that lions could talk?"
Brayden was about a year and a half old when Jason and I decided that we had better start having organized Family Home Evening. We brought out the FHE manual and found a lesson about the Savior. It had a small picture of the Savior at the well with Mary. Brayden immediately lit up and pointed to Christ's hand and said "owie" and then he pointed to his other hand which you couldn't really see and said "owie" again. Jason and I looked at each other and got tears in our eyes. The children really are close to the veil and come with a memory of the Savoir.
When I was around 5 or 6 we had a junk yard behind our back fence. My brothers went out to explore and I followed because I always wanted to play with them but older brothers seldom want a little sister hanging around. So, Brett and Brad started running away from me and I wasn't very light on my feet and I tripped and my wrist landed on a rusty nail. I ran home and mom put a kitchen towel over it and it got soaked with blood. So, now I have a scar on my right wrist from the stitches.
When I was 3 years old I was in our back yard in Chico and in the kiddie pool there was a bee that I thought was drowning. I proceeded to save it by lifting it out of the water. Consequencly the bee stung me. As I was crying my dad came out to help me and I told him I wasn't crying because he stung me, I was crying because he didn't like me even though I was trying to help it.

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