Kaylee's many poses!

Kaylee's dance recital

Mary had a Little Lamb

Kaylee was so cute at her recital! I got the cutest video of her, but it is too big to post. She was a star!

Our family camping trip at Bass Lake with the Farnsworths and Taylors!!

Guess who's Potty trained!!

FINALLY!!

Alex Graduates Preschool and Baseball season ends

This week The boys played their last baseball games. It's bitter sweet! Alex graduated Preschool and is so excited for Kindergarten!

Sam's Surprise Party

I totally got Sam this year! We celebrated his 30th birthday a week early but it was a total surprise!! We had an awesome time with our friends.

May

May has already been a very busy month!
We were fortunate to have David and Jan with us. Jan came down early with Sam, after one of his many business trips this month. David joined us later on Friday. They came down to see the boys play baseball. Jan got her fill with 4 games, David saw 2. We had a wonderful time with them. After their visit, everyone left. Sam went to Houston for a week. He was looking forward to coming home, but he was able to mix some pleasure in with work.
The week he was gone was pretty jam packed with birthday parties, Kyle's Open House, Mother's Tea with Kyle, Dance class, preshool etc.
At Mother's Tea Kyle gave me a lovely flower and a book he wrote about me. He served me cookies and water. We had a fabulous time together. The open house was fun as well. Kaylee and Alex just didn't last too long. Kyle made some wonderful things.
Alex also made me a lovely gift for Mother's Day, but true to his mischeivious nature he broke it shortly after getting home. It was a cute paper flower in a pink pop bottle vase.
We were also able to hang out with friends this week, which is always nice!

Kyle's Birthday

Kyle turns 7

April started with bang! We celebrated Kyle's birthday at pump it up. He had a wonderful day

Another fun thing we did was the pinewood derby. It was so much fun!

Kyle at Bat

What goes on when the DAD'S are in charge!!

Easter Slideshow

Spring Break!

We had a fun/busy spring break! We spent most of the week in San Diego. On Friday Sam's brother Shawn and his family came down for Easter. We had a great time with them. Kyle cried when they left. He loves his cousins.
In San Diego we went to Sea World and Lego Land(twice). We also visited the temple. I had always wanted to go to San Diego, see the temple and go to Sea
World!! On Monday it was back to the grind stone, so I thought. I woke Kyle up and sent him to school just to find out he had another day off! We wasted a day of sleeping in. BOO! This week it is back to busy busy. Between school, church meetings for both of us and all the games and practices the week has gone by really fast. The best part is my sister Andrea is coming tomorrow. We are very excited to see her! Now for some pictures!!

This week!

What a busy couple of weeks. We just finished getting our house painted. Right now we are working on putting rocks in. It actually turned out to be a fun family home evening. We were all out there working. The kids had their little buckets. Pretty cute.
Baseball has started, so between both boys our nights are full. They both are loving it. Especially Alex, since it is his first year.
The kids are having their easter parties this week. I am currently up to my elbows in flour. I am making sugar cookies for their parties!

February 2008

Alex at the zoo! He had a blast! He enjoyed seeing the Giraffes with Grandma Jan.

Kyle lost his first two teeth during Christmas Break!!

Kaylee started Dance in January. She does so well in there. I think she loves is at much as I do!!

Her recital is June 11th.

It has been quite some time since I have been able to update our blog. Our computer crashed!! We are up and running now though.

Our news this month is that, Sam was called to be cub master, and I was called to be the 1st counselor in the primary. I am so excited. I was ready for a change after being Nursery Leader for almost a year.

We all of course are pretty busy. The day just fly by! Everyone is doing great, other than some colds.

We went to the LA zoo 2 weeks ago. We had a lot of fun, David and Jan went with us.

Sam is conducting the Blue and Gold banquet tomorrow. So this week has been pretty hectic getting everything ready for that.

For Spring break we are going down to San Diego. An official vacation. Sam has been really busy at work, so this is coming at just the right time!

Other than that thing are pretty much just the same. We have enjoyed going out on the weekends with out friends. The kids are watched by their oldest daughter. while we go out to the Seven Oaks country club! We have a lot of fun doing that. It is a really nice break.

To Sum Things Up

We had a fun December! We went to a couple of hockey games. We spent the Holidays in the Bay Area. Quite eventful! On the 27th we drove up and were at 501 just two hours before Kaylee got hurt. Her foot got stuck in the elliptical machine. Kyle pulled it out before I got there. Just as a precaution, we left in the rain at 7 and took her to Urgent Care. Sam dropped me off and took the boys to Shawn's house (where we were staying). The hospital took a couple of hours with x-rays and things but ended pretty well. No obvious fractures!! She left with two feet bandaged up! While I was there and Sam was driving, Kyle got his second bloody nose. So while driving Sam took off his shirt and gave it to Kyle. Blood was everywhere! Sam dropped off the boys and drove back to get me. We got back around 11, and were glad to put that day to bed! Despite many injuries this trip, we had a great time being with family and playing. The kids favorite thing to do when we are up there is go to Uncle Shawn's church building and play indoor sports. They had sooooo much fun!
On the 17th of January we celebrated Alex's 5th Birthday! He had a great party. He told me it was the best day of his life. We actually all had a ton of fun! We went to pump it up! We had 22 kids there and the parents. The kids got to bounce around and play for about 2 hours. Sam and I raced on an obstacle course (I won despite his cheating attempts)! He and one of his friends also had a boxing match which was really funny! I didn't really see the kids the whole time, even Kaylee. She is so independent!
Kyle got his report card, all great marks!! He is doing really well. His favorite thing to do at school is play football!
Alex loves going to school, he is definitely ready from Kindergarten! He loves being a super star he got a special crown on his birthday and wore it all day.
Kaylee just started he dance class. It is so cute. She has tap for 20 mins, ballet for 20 mins, and tumbling for 20 mins. On the first day she was so adorable. She heard the teacher say it was time to start class and she followed the group like she knew what she was doing, with her dance bag on her shoulder. All grown up. I was able to watch the whole class on tv, while they are in the studio. She did so well, not a hint of insecurity. Then she toddled out like she was HOT STUFF! It made me so happy to see her enjoy something, that was just for her! Alex was with me, he wasn't too happy! He is just going to have to get used to it. It is only 1 hour once a week!

Pictures will hopefully follow this posting! Our computer blew up this week. It is awful. I am just praying we can get our photos off. I made a mistake by not backing up my pictures! Best Buy is working on it now. Hopefully we find out soon if they were able to get all of our memories off the hard drive. I have the worst luck! I was prompted to down load this service pack 2 (thinking I wouldn't be promted unless I needed it). So, I did and it crashed! All of this was brought on because I was trying to load music on my Father in law's classic ipod for him. It seems to be a pattern, when I am trying to do something nice, it blows up in my face! On the bright side I am looking forward to getting a new computer! We're trying to decide right now. Fortunately Sam can bring his laptop home for me until we get our new one.

I almost forgot!! Kaylee has gone two weeks now without her Bubbi (pacifier). We are so proud of her! This was a big deal. We are working on the potty training. The poor thing has also had 3 ear infections in the last month and a half. Right now she is feeling good. I just hope it lasts.

November

Halloween night


pumpkin carving

November started with a bang! We had a wonderful Halloween. The kids had a wonderful time trick or treating with some of our friends! Kyle also participated in a jogathon, we all went to cheer him on.Following Halloween, on the 2nd we celebrated Kaylee's 2nd birthday!! It was a wonderful day. She really enjoyed all the attention! She wanted a Dora party so that is what she got. Sam's parents came down to celebrate with us, which was nice.

Kaylee got some make up and jewlery for her Birthday. She loves being a girl!

The next week we had two soccer parties, which the boys loved. Alex was really excited to get his very first trophy! After both of the boys last games this season, we went to High School Musical 2 on Ice. It was our very first Ice Show. The kids had a great time. Kaylee really got into the music! After the show we went out to one of our favorite restaurants (BJ's) with some friends.

The following week Sam was in Houston. He got back Thursday night. Friday we all went to a Condors Hockey game. It was quite an exciting game. In the first couple minutes two guys went at it. They threw their gloves off and started pounding on each other. That pretty much set the tone for the evening. It was really fun to watch!

Kyle started his Club soccer team a couple of weeks ago. He really loves it. His coach just seems like a really nice guy and a great teacher. Kyle's best friend was also recruited on the team which makes things even more fun for Kyle.

Both the boys had their Thanksgiving parties. It was Alex's first one, so he was pretty excited about it. Both boys came home with pilgrim and Indian crafts they made!

We spent Thanksgiving in Danville with his parents. We were able to enjoy some really nice wood fires. The kids love them. Alex is obsessed with making fires, which he was constantly told to stay away from!