Sorry about last post!

Here are some photos of Kennedy! Daddy calls her LOWER CASE D! We will call her D for short just for a fun nick name! hahahahahahha Anyway we love having her home and we are trying to figure out this whole NEW PARENT thing again! Loving every minute of it though

Sounda asleep in her bed and boppy
Loving being home and relaxing in the warm!

Amanda and Aidan having their playdate while mom and dad went to go get LOWER CASE D

Aidan sharing his favorite movie with his sister HULK!

Being the big brother he is! And doing his best to not get jealous

Pictures don't do this little girl justice she is SO TINY!

Getting all ready to go HOME!!!!

I wasn't liking this snow suit cause it was DROWNING her

Giggling cause we were thinking of the Christmas Story

Look at how precious our HELLO KITTY girl is!

Coming Home!

Brought our baby girl home today..................Not much more to say but here's a video of the fun!

Well guys the blogging stops when your in the hospital. But I'm out! So hopefully I won't end up back in there. Anyway I am just going to post some pics of the last couple of days and blog another day so hope you enjoy the pics. Here's the latest update. Kennedy should be coming home Friday!!! But sorry friends out here in Germany no visitors for awhile! Hope you all understand!

Our special day!

Here's a copy of pics of our special day. It was so much fun Kennedy loved grabbing his face and Aidan loved her toes and hands! I loved every minute of it and was so glad they got to meet!

Just an update!!!

So today hopefully is the BIG day that Aidan gets to meet his sister!!!!! We have a family room in the new unit we are in. So we show up and if its not being used Aidan gets to meet Kennedy! Wish us luck! I'm super excited to have the two of them meet! People are calling and asking if my incision is really not doing so well. So let me update everyone. When I had the baby I had no amniotic fluid so I had already had infection inside of me. But they did one dose of Penecillian in my iv but obviously it didn't take it all. I went to the ER and the DR said it was just irritated come back in a couple days it should be fine. Came back and there is MORE infection. Dr Vice (who delivered Kennedy. Also a cool thing about him is. HE's the number 1 surgeon in all of Germany. People pay a lot of money to have him do their surgery's so I LUCKED OUT!) told me that they should have given me antibiotics especially with the circumstances I had aidan with. But he's got me on some and I hopefully will be able to get rid of it if I TAKE IT EASY. Let me just say its INCREDIBLY hard to take it easy when your precious princess is in the hospital. I have to atleast see her 1 time a day!

Anyway hopefully things will get better by the time she gets to come home! Everyone pray pray pray cause I'm hoping she gets to come home this next week!!!!!!

My mom is here now safe and sound and we are so excited to have her for a couple months!!!!

Kennedy at Day 9

Waiting to eat her yummy milk
Daddy and Kennedy fighting the camera! Such goobers and so alike!


Daddy and Kennedy enjoying some bonding time!

Mommy talking to her little princess! Enjoying not wearing the mask over my mouth since the COLDSORE is gone! I hate being stressed cause I always get them!

I love when they dress her in outfits everyday! Can't wait til I get to dress her in what I want!


Kennedy is back up to her birth weight today! She's such a growing little princess! Gets bigger and bigger each day! Aidan is VERY anxious to meet his little sister. Hopefully he won't be poking her eyes out by the time she gets to come home cause he's so confused why mom and dad are always gone and he has a babysitter. But he still loves us! Enjoy the pics of Kennedy at day 9!!!!!

My little Aidan

Aidan and Daddy went out to go sledding one day while Mommy was SLEEPING and resting. Mom felt a little left out but she needs to heal! Its been great having daddy home at this time and its going to get even better when we go pick up NANA tonight! Anyway Ben was having fun with Aidan and the last time down the hill Aidan started to cry. But Aidan's been talking about it since! He calls it a SLEIGH! Talks about it NON STOP! Anyway I promised Aidan we were going to have a post just for him and look at this he gets it!!!!

Crying as he's going down the hill!
So ready to be pushed down the hill by daddy!

Aidan hopefully will be doing a little better once he gets to meet Kennedy and all but we'll see. We might have a cute little monster on our hands! But we'll love him anyway!

Daddys are the best and we are VERY greatful for ours! He's done a lot for our family at this hectic time. I love you Ben and Aidan. Thanks for always helping Mommy out!

My sister needs a welcome to the internet world cause I MISS HER!

My cutest sister in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD just got email and internet! OH MY GOSH MANDY JO I LOVE YOU! Miss you and can't wait to chat away with you! I bet you love living in your new state and town! I'll have to save my pennies or cross my fingers that Ben gets excepted into school cause I"M COMING TO STAY! Kennedy needs to meet you! Give the kiddos hugs for me! Love you guys!

Day 8!

Ok so I can't be on the computer much but wanted to post this ADORABLE picture of my baby girl! She's our LITTLE PRINCESS!

7 days and STILL growing!

Kennedy is SO much fun! Today when we went to the dr she was being fed and they took the bottle out of her mouth cause she was drinking TOO fast and she wanted more so she just stared right at the nurse and SUCKED THE AIR cause she wanted more! I can't wait to teach her sign language! Oh I love her so much!

Here's a couple pictures!

Our baby 5 days old.

See isn't it precious
The littliest princess!!!!

This has to be my favorite right now! I love having it on my wallpaper!!!

Here are some more pictures of Kennedy! She's doing so much better! Within the next couple of days she's going to be moved into a regular bed and be in NICU for a couple days like that. Then they will move her to a regular room and Ben and I will stay with her all day everyday! I'm hoping Aidan gets to meet her then. The Germans have a weird way of thinking but I won't go into too much detail or this blog could be the longest one yet!!!! Lets just say they don't think a baby should be held too much cause its not good for their health. So Ben and I are only allowed to hold her once a day! INSANE! Makes me wanna punch them! Then another thing is they think we are awkward for visiting her too much. I will be at the hospital every chance I get to be there for my baby girl! She's eating lots now and out of a bottle. Ben said she's goign to be a chunk cause she's on breast milk guess we'll see. Anyway I will try to update you all as the week goes but I am rarely home and it kills me to sit at the computer so I'll do my best!

Hope you are all having a good new year!

I threw in the pic of Ben holding her right after she was born. He said Hey Kennedy I'm daddy and she peed ALL over him! It made me laugh!

Welcome Kennedy Jo.............

Daddy loving on his baby girl!.

Snuggling with my daddy!

Mommy loving her little girl! She's so stinking cute!

Aidan gave her this froggy so this picture was for him!

Look how tiny her hand is!

Kennedy Jo Holladay

5 lbs 4 Oz

18.8 inches long!

(good size baby for 6 weeks early right?!!!!)

December 29th, 2008

Born on her Uncle Rue's Birthday!!!!!

Okay folks so here's the story. I had an appt the morning of the 29th to have Kennedy Jo turned. When I went in they started me on monitors and Kennedy was kicking away. She did not want them on her! It was silly. Then the dr came in and I was having some contractions but I couldn't feel them. Then he did an ultra sound and was thinking of how she could be turned then he checked the amniotic fluid and I had less then half the amount I should have. So they did they test to see if I was leaking and it came back negative. So then (I know this is a LONG story but I can't miss the details.) He went to fill inside me and couldn't find the membranes so he said we are taking this baby csection today. So Ben got his work called and told them I was going in for an emergency Csection. Anyway they took me back and tired to give me the spinal anistetic but my left side jerked when they were giving it to me and they couldn't take chances or time so they made Ben step out of the room and put me completely under. They got her out and when they did I didn't have a drop of Amniotic Fluid left. So she's our miracle baby. Cause if I wouldn't have had an appt that morning I would have never known anything was wrong since she was still active. She's in the NICU unit out here an will be until I"m 37 weeks which is Jan 18th! (My Birthday convienent right?) We will be going back and forth to the hospital everyday to visit with her, hold her, feed her, etc. Poor Aidan is DYING to meet his little sister but we keep him occupied with Special Babysitters and Pictures of his little Kennedy! I want to thank everyone for the prayers, visits, gifts, and thoughts! We really loved seeing everyone that stopped by. Glad to have miss Kennedy in our family and she's such a sweet spirit. It'll be awhile before visitors will be allowed. We were told she could come home at 37 weeks but she will not be able to be visited until her full term after Feb 8. The dr's have strict orders and we will follow them to keep her as healthy as possible!!!!! Thank you again everyone! I'll attach some photos!!!!!!

INTRODUCING....................

Look at this adorable little guy! I personally think he looks just like my cute brother Rue! Congrats guys he's so cute! Can't wait to meet him!

Kolby Larsen
born on December 22, 2008 to Rue and Heidi Larsen and big brother Owen
7 lbs. 7 oz.
19 inches

(thanks Cashelle for the picture I stole off you and the STATS!)

I can't believe it, we finally are finished with it!

SUPER GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BENJAMIN PATTERSON HOLLADAY'S WARRANT OFFICER FLIGHT PACKET IS FINALLY COMPLETE! HOORAY!!!! WE ARE SENDING IT IN TO FT RUCKER BY TONIGHT! BUT THE BOARD THAT WE CAN GO BEFORE ISN'T TIL MARCH SEEMS LIKE SO LONG BUT ITS FINALLY DONE!!!! WISH US LUCK.

A LITTLE UPDATE. WE ARE HEADED TO WEST POINT NY IN MARCH! WE WILL BE VISITING BRIGHAM IN MARCH IF THINGS WORK OUT AS PLANNED! AND THERE WILL BE A NEW ADDITION TO OUR FAMILY. WE USUALLY CALL HER KENNEDY BUT WE ARE DEBATING UNTIL SHE IS BORN IF THATS THE RIGHT NAME FOR HER. BUT MOST LIKELY WE WILL BLESS HER IN UTAH! SO AS OF NOW WE WILL LEAVE GERMANY THE FIRST WEEK OF MARCH (UNLESS BEN GETS STOP LOSSED HERE) BUT WE ARE THINKING POSITIVE! THE LORD KNOWS WHERE HE WANTS US TO GO!

WE JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THE HELP, PRAYERS AND ENCOURAGEMENT THROUGH THIS TIME OF GETTING BEN'S PACKET DONE. HE HAS WORKED SO HARD ON IT! IT GIVES ME CHILLS TO TELL EVERYONE ITS FINALLY COMPLETE. EVEN WHEN PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT US TO SUCCEED WITH IT WE STILL GOT IT FINISHED!

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT AGAIN!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!!

LOVE, THE HOLLADAYS'

Oh Whats In A Name?

So here's a question for you all. How many of you know of someone or have atleast done it yourself........Changed the name you were going to name your child before they were born even when so much has already been done in that name you had first decided? We most likely might be doing that but aren't sure. We've decided on a DIFFERENT name but we are going to wait to see what she looks like more when she comes out! This name keeps poping in our heads for some reason and it sticks out to me everytime I hear it. Anyway I know my family wouldn't be upset and I know that I could explain to her that she was going to be named Kennedy and that is why so many of her wishes say Kennedy. We'll just have to see how things work out.

Here's some photos!

So I figured I would post some pictures from this last week up on our blog. We went over to the tree lighting ceremony the other night and Santa arrived on a FIRE TRUCK. Believe me Aidan was STOKED. See he thinks Santa is REALLY cool until he's right next to him to get on his lap. He shakes and freaks out and doesn't want a part of it! Anyway so here is some pictures to enjoy. Some of Aidan on Santa's lap and the lighting ceremony. We went with my friend Amanda. We had so much fun!
I seriously can't believe Christmas is NEXT WEEK! Holy cow ladies and gents! YOU BETTER WATCH OUT YOU BETTER NOT CRY YOU BETTER NOT POUT I"M TELLING YOU WHY!!!! Yeah for Santa! Not too homesick this year cause I'm just focusing on getting our little Kennedy here safely and getting ready for the worlds MOST AWESOME NANA to come visit in January! Love you and Merry Christmas!!!

The Belly!

Everyone wants to see my bump so here it is. We had pictures done and I love them....Hopefully I won't get too much bigger!!!!

Just a well needed update. A little scrambled but it'll have to do.

Ok so I've been a brat lately and not wanting to post anything because everyone doesn't leave a comment. Even if I don't know your looking at my blog leave me a comment kids!!!! Anyway I am going to post some pics of random things since I haven't posted in awhile. Aidan loves his babysitter Amanda they always do silly things. Amanda put a diaper on his head one day and I had to get a picture I thought it was hilarious. I took pictures with Aidan when we were bored one day and then another picture is of him in his outfit that my BEST friend JenJen sent him. Jen's been so good to us while I've been over here in Germany. I know I can always count on her answering my phone call when I just need someone to talk to. She's always there to cheer me up. Even though we are thousands of miles away from each other she's still been a blessing in my life!!! Love you Jen thank you so much. So yes we missed the deadline again for the board THANKS TO BEN'S COMPANY! But we have orders for West Point and hopefully we will make it out of here before stop loss happens to the guys that he'll have to deploy with this mess of a company! We will try our best to make it to Utah in March to visit but it won't be a long visit. But we'll try to atleast SEE peoples faces! Hey we'll just be in NY so you'll have to come visit. We will probably wait to bless Kennedy until we get back to Utah too so we can have family there!!! Just pray that everything in the pregnancy goes well and we can get her a passport. Keep getting disappointing news all the time at the DR and I always think whats next you going to tell me she's a boy. But she's been stubborn lately and never lets us see her so we haven't gotten a good pic yet.
Well there is a little update. I'm taking Aidan to sit on Santa's lap today so there will be more pics.