Yea Me!

Hard to tell in the picture, but the car is jacked up

Yea for Young Women's...because about 12 years ago I learned how to change a flat tire during a mutual activity. I knew it would come in handy one day so I actually paid attention. If only I could say the same about the class on ironing.

A big thanks to Kayden and Kyler for being so good

And another big thanks to Michael for being on birthday party duty that day

Daddy made a bad choice

Well my dreams of good December blogging kind of got shot (well you know) when the cable man cut the cable wire and then took two weeks to come fix it....but at least this time I took pictures and can back track.

Ok, so going back to a week ago when Daddy made a bad choice. Every night Kyler goes to bed around 7:30, sometimes without food. If that is the case one of us will make her a bottle before we go to bed and feed her so she does not get up in the middle of the night. Her normal routine is to eat and go immediately back to bed. Well, this particular evening I had to bring some work home so daddy was on feeding duty. I have no idea what prompted him to bring Kyler out of the room where I was working to feed her. Oh wait, yes I do...a basketball game was on. Ok, so I have no idea why he thought watching a basketball game in the same room I was working was a good place to feed Kyler.

This is what happened to my sweet sleeping baby...hum, I wonder why she is not sleeping???

She attacked my hair

Watched me work

Helped make Kaylee's bed


And smelled my new deodorant, which smells like cooking vanilla so I am afraid to see what I will smell like when I get sweaty...hopefully its fresh baked cookies, but I highly doubt that

What happened to daddy do you ask? Oh, he got to go to bed, courtesy of mom. I wanted soooo bad to teach him a lesson, but since I was up late working anyway, it made no sense for both of us to be tired. Just my luck, I rarely bring work home and the night I do, daddy pulls a stunt like this.

A loser month because I am a loser

November was a loser month for me as far as posts go, but it was an eventful month to say the least...Things have sure calmed down and I have a pretty darn good feeling smoother sailing is ahead. Thanksgiving was definitely what the doctor ordered for so many thankful reasons and who doesn't love a good trip to Utah to see the famdamly. And I am being serious here; I miss my place of birth and miss the family roots that still remain.

So sadly, with the exception of Kyler's first feeding (see below), all the picture I took for the month will fit easily into this one little post. They have no rhyme or reason and nothing to do with really anything, but they are pictures and special none-the-less...

This was a really cute scene of Kyler snuggling up to Michael...then Kayden jumped in and sort of invaded Kyler's brief moment of snugglness, but that is what families (sister's) do and we love it.

Kayden's "These boots are just cool enough to be on my feet" look

I am not really sure what look Kaylee was going for, but she really wanted me to take a picture. So I guess I will call it the "I really want my mom to take my picture without looking like I wanted her to take my picture" look.

A nice farewell gift as we parted our way's from Utah

This plus about 10 years equals HUGE trouble

No good stories here, just some pictures

So I have been meaning to get the girls pictures taken for quite some time and in the wee hours of the morning, as I was feeding Kyler, I randomly decided today would be the day.

Teigan, the shirts look so cute...I am sad Kyler's does not fit anymore, but I do like the all black.

I cannt speyll

I would like to apologize for all the misspelling you have found in my blog and will continue to find. Spell check can not save us all. I try to go back and correct them, but it is sometimes days later.

Thank you Michael for checking our blog and being my spell checker.

Kyler's First Bite...and other stuff

Ok, ok, this is the last post for today, but as you can see from the heading it is a very big time in Kyler's life. She is now eating rice and oatmeal cereal. Yum!

I don't talk specifically about Kyler much, so here are a few things going on with our little booger.

1) As of about 2 weeks ago she can now roll over from her tummy to her back.

2) Is spoiled rotten with love. You may think being the third child she is slightly attention deprived, not so, she arguably gets more attention then the rest of the people in the house combined.

3) Wants to be held all the time.

4) Is a mommas girl. Sorry Michael, but you know it is true. At least for now.

5) Loves to watch her sister's play, it's mesmerizing for her.

6) Loves to dance with mom.

7) Loves to sleep on dad.

8) Grunts ALL the time.

9) Not really interested in fun baby toys as she is still in love with her fist.

10) Is the perfect addition to our family...WE LOVE YOU KYLER!

At least it gets some use

Tricker Treater

What does a Rock Star, a Princess and a Pumpkin equal ???

A house of very girly girls on Halloween, who at the moment hate all things scary.

I was pretty proud of Kayden's costume because I made her shirt, and her little rock star tutu. When I was younger my mom would make some of our Halloween costumes, depending on what we decided to be, and I am trying to do the same for my girls. This year was my first attempt.

Kaylee gets her Halloween costume from her mom every year and was excited to wear what mommy Cyndi bought for her.

Kayden and Kaylee were this exact same pumpkin for their first Halloween, which is funny because Michael and I did not meet until Kayden's 3rd and Kaylee's 2nd Halloween. We thought it would be fun for Kyler to also be the pumpkin for her first Halloween, and lucky for us, Kaylee's costume was the right size.

The Kick Off

I thought the perfect way to kick off the Halloween spirit would be to carve our pumpkin's (from the pathetic pumpkin patch) the night before the big day. Too bad no one shared the joy in my pumpkin carving tradition. I thought it would be a good idea for the girls to draw the faces on their pumpkin and then Michael would cut them out...they thought it would be a good idea to just draw on there pumpkin's. Ok, I thought, that is fine...it's late and we still have to get up early for school so we can just carve Kyler's pumpkin. They were not even interested in that, they went off to play school and I sat in the kitchen thinking what the heck is wrong with my children, this is a great tradition. Lucky for me I was able to sucker Michael to come join my fun, which happened to be his FIRST pumpkin carving experience...yep, you heard me right. FIRST.

If you look close you will notice Kayden started playing a game and used her pumpkin to keep score with tally marks...at least they were good for something.

Picture Tag

I was tagged by Amber and apparently the rules are to post the 4th picture in the 4th file and tag four people. Perhaps I should not admit this, but it took me forever to figure out what the 4th picture in the 4th file meant...I kept thinking it was related to the blog and somewhere in this blog mess was a file of pictures and there I would find the 4th file and the 4th picture. Once I found the missing crayon in my box I realized what it was talking about and found, drum roll please......


Ladies and Gentlemen I present the 4th in the 4th:


This was taken Feb 08 in Disney World. We went with my mom and sisters family and pictured left to right are Kaylee, Trevi, Kayden and Tayler. (Trevi and Tayler I miss you terribly...don't bite Kaylee it's not nice, don't bite Kaylee it's not nice)

Ok, so am not quite sure 4 people read my blog so I tag Teigan and Jade, twice, you can do the 4th in the 4th and the 8th in the 8th :)

Anniversary: One

October 27, 2008 marks the day of our first anniversary and long before the anniversary arrived Michael and I decided we would celebrate each year with a weekend get away for two. The rules we set were simple, each year we will take turns planning a weekend trip, without input from the other person. Michael happily choose to be first and I believe sometime in July he started planning. I had decided from the start I wanted to be completely surprised, I did not want to know one single detail...just tell me the temperature of where we are going and Ill pack. This lasted all the way until September when during a little feud, Michael decided he would 'get me' by letting it slip where we are going for our first anniversary trip...humorous I know, I still roll my eyes at him for doing that.

Ok, so where did trip one take us???? Vail, Colorado for a spa getaway in the mountains. Thanks lovust, I had a super duper duper good time even though you ruined the surprise and all. Did I mention you ruined the surprise, cause you did and I highly doubt I will ever let you live it down.

I made friends with all the friendly animals, Michael was not brave enough to take his picture with them

Can you say YUM! For real, this pretzel goodness of caramel, chocolate and nuts was divine.



I found this strange man pondering on a rock

Do I look like I am having a good time? Cause I am, in case you cannot tell.

Puzzling he looks sad, perhaps it's because our feast of a pizza and chips is gone.


Thanks for the trip babe, yes, you deserve a thumbs up


And the best part...coming home to these crazies to uphold the tradition of eating the top layer of wedding cake. Awesome, seriously, like the best wedding cake ever when eaten 10/27/2007, not so much on 10/27/2008. We captured the first and last bites, all in one shot.

While dad's away

This is for my dearest husband who thought it would be super fun to go to Las Vegas with his friends while leaving me home with a sick baby, two crazies, middle of the night feedings and a busy job. Thanks babe.

HaHa...just kidding. Although we did miss you very much, every day is a great day with kids like ours...I LOVE my kids, they are the sweetest, most fun, crazy, kind, loving, dramatic, opinionated, independent and dependent kids in the whole world. Not sure how we got so lucky :)

Here are a few pics to see what you missed...

This one was taken in the middle of the night after I got done feeding Kyler

Pretend this is not our bed...but aren't they having so much fun!

I was laying on the floor with Kyler on my tummy and the other two laid down with me, I just happen to have the camera an arms reach away

Kayden's picture of Kaylee

Kaylee's picture of Kayden

Kayden helping Kaylee with her homework...I really wish I took video of this one, it was so cute to hear Kayden help her with her ABC's and Kaylee ask if she was doing it right. The best part is, I found them like this after changing my clothes, I didn't ask Kayden to help her.