Kyla's Birthday Party

Kyla and Maelie before church today - Kyla is wearing her new birthday dress from Grandma & Grandpa, carrying her dinosaur from Brooke and fam, and wearing her kitty in her hair from Anna and Emma. My Mom made those crayon bags for Christmas!

Yesterday we had a family birthday party for Kyla - she wanted a dinosaur party, no surprse there! Both Maelie and Kyla really had fun helping me make the cake. It was so windy that we weren't able to light the candles, but Kyla still pretended to blow!

Pinata fun! Kyla's favorite dinosaur is a T-Rex and she wanted everything to be a red T-Rex, and what do ya know, the only dinosaur pinata at Party City was a red T-Rex! We went through all the kids - Kyla, Zac, Jaxon, Emma, Karsyn, Anna, Kailin, Maelie, Brooke, and Jakob, and then Kyla again. It was hard to break. It finall started breaking when I helped Kyla and then some more help from Jakob... and all the kids had fun getting candy. For her party Kyla wanted cake and candy, that's what she said when I would ask her what she wanted to do. So there's the candy!

And she loved all her presents. I think kids birthdays are more fun than your own. It's fun to see how excited they are! Thank you so much for coming and for the presents all! And then the kids had fun playing!

I love you Shannon and Laurice! =)

Star * 100 * Ballerinas

Kyla is the Star Student this week at Preschool. She had fun making her poster which she shared with her class yesterday. Today she brought in her favorite book and tomorrow she is so excited to bring her T-Rex in and show her class. Since I was taking pix of Kyla with her poster, Maelie wanted a pic of her with her homework, her 100 chart. Tomorrow is her 100th day of school with lots of fun activities going on. I get to go in and volunteer in her class, it's been a while, so I am excited. Yesterday the girls started a Fairy Princess Ballerinas class through the city that goes for 6 weeks. They really enjoyed it!

the good life

Maelie set the table and gave Jaxon the giant fork!!

Grandma Rogers made the kids new PJ's, adorable eh? And in case you're wondering because we aren't football fans, those balloons were free at Fry's last night :)

Jaxon's pj's are my fave, I think he looks so cute in these bright orange ones! He was sitting there, looking at all the cars with a big smile on his face :)

This is Maelie and her prince Ty. And yes, that's really what she calls him. They were playing Sleeping Beauty. :)

Maelie can read so well! I thought this was cute, Maelie reading to Kyla.

more Christmas pix

wishing my kids always acted as cute as they looked! =)

Jaxon loves brushing his teeth and we went to a Princess party yesterday for one of Kyla's friends... and hopefully we are getting a fridge today!

Happy 2010

Happy New Year! On New Year's Eve our fridge/freezer stopped working and since it was a holiday and a weekend and our fridge is on warranty so we have to go through them, we don't get it even looked at until Tuesday. So it's been a fun few days of buying ice and atleast 2 more days to go! We really take modern conveniences for granted!!!

The kids love Spike and Barry!

It was a really fun 2 week break. I feel like we had fun, relaxed, and got some stuff done around the house as well. It was sad to see the Christmas stuff go but our house sure feels bigger now. Jaxon is so funny! He got 2 toy tools sets and a toy chain saw for Christmas because he loves tools so much. Well, he really liked them on Christmas day and he still plays with them but he totally prefers the real thing which he can't have, silly guy!! He was having a blast fixing the sink with his daddy. We also painted an old dresser black for our room and put up a shelf in the girls room.

I forgot my camera for the new year's festivities but we went to my parent's on Christmas eve and ate and played and the kids had an early new year's celebration that involved snaps and way too much silly string!!! And then we had breakfast back at my parent's house.

Today was Kyla's first day as a sunbeam so I took a pic of her to remember that day and then Maelie wanted one, too, so I took one of Jaxon as well, so these pix are all of them after church today. But Kyla did awesome in primary! I was really surprised and kinda worried about it because she likes toys and snacks and also because I am Maelie's teacher this year and I didn't want her looking back and seeing Maelie sitting right by me thinking she would come back but she waved and smiled at me several times but stayed right where she was. Her teachers said she did great. And Jaxon is still in nursery for 2 more years. His teacher said he was laying down on the floor at the end, ready for nap time. And I am kind of amazed with my new class. Last year my class was so much fun but they kinda wore me out. This year the class is smaller and a a little on the calmer side I think. But I love having Maelie in my class and I think she likes it, too. Happy New Year!!