Kyler's FAMILY Party

On Sunday we had the family come over for dinner and dessert for Kyler. He had a blast with everyone there. Grandpa Porter gave him money...Grandma & Grandpa Nelson gave him a fun Thomas the Train set (which he has had so much fun with)...the cousins gave him a new skateboard (just his size..he told me today that Rayce was trying to teach him some tricks on it but they were just too hard! Rayce is awesome on the skateboard!) and Grandma Martin took him shopping on Saturday so that he could get "gator golf" which he really wanted. Thanks everyone for coming and helping us celebrate Kyler's 4th birthday! Kyler is awesome...we wouldn't know what to do without him...he does like to get into everyone's stuff and he can sniff out candy like nobody's business, you can hide nothing from him and he has a mind of his own and will do exactly what he wants (he is a red head!)...but we LOVE him!!!

KYLER'S First Birthday Party....PIRATES!!!

With Abby and Kyler being just a week apart I wasn't going to give Kyler a friend party this year because I thought I should get Abby and him on different years with their parties...but while we were planning Abby's party all Kyler could talk about was his PIRATE party and who he was going to have come and what we were going to do. So one week after Abby's party we had Kyler's!!! It was a lot of fun. I bought some foam swords at the dollars store...which turned out to be a great purchase because they spent most of the time outside have a sword fight. Kyler wanted Mia to come so she was our "pirate princess" but she held her own during the fights! Kyler had a blast with all of his friends here. Thanks Rachel for making the trip down and bringing Josh...you are a great sport!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY....BIG 10

Well Abby is double digits!!! She is a big 10 years old!!! We had a fun party for her. Since her birthday is in October it is pretty fun to bring in a Halloween theme and play some Halloween games. Abby and I planned her whole party in September and ordered some craft projects, games and party stuff from Current Kids. They said that it would take 10-14 business days to get the stuff...I wasn't worried because I had ordered it in September. Well needless to say I hadn't gotten the stuff so two days before her birthday I has calling them and they informed me that they were having "trouble" with their computers and they hadn't sent the stuff yet. So after telling Current what I thought about that!!!...we planned a new party! But it sure turned out fun and all the girls had a great time.





Abby is my biggest helper. She is so awesome and so willing to do all (well most) of what I ask of her. I love to have her babysit for me because I come home to a clean house and happy kids. She is our peacemaker in the family and she is always making sure that we are doing what is right. We LOVE you Abby.

Park City and UEA Weekend

Amy and I bought a weekend in Park City last December...with the promise that we would "listen" to the spill about a time share. So we scheduled our weekend (along with 198 other families!) and went up to Westgate in Park City. It was a mad house when we got there...but after our hour presentation they put us up in a totally different hotel since they had overbooked their's, gave us $50 cash and sent us on our way! The fun began after that. We had a great dinner on Friday night and spent Saturday shopping, playing at the park and swimming at the hotel. It turned out to be a really fun weekend...thanks Amy, Dave, Jared, Katie and Sophie for spending UEA weekend with us and helping us celebrate Abby's birthday...we all had a BLAST!

Dr. SUESS day .... here I come !!!

Zeth got this wig at one of the BYU games that he went to...and yes he wears it everytime he goes to a game. But Kyler was having a lot of fun with it the other day and it just reminded me of Thing One and Thing Two in the Cat and the Hat!!! I just posted it for a little laugh.

SMILE....everyday!

Our Stake President made a few challenges for our youth and one of them was to SMILE everyday...not just any old smile, but really find happiness every day.
Being the Stake Young Men's President, Russ felt like he should take the challenge along with the youth and do just that...smile every day.
....so everyday we take a picture of Russ smiling and then he is going to surprise the Stake President with all the pictures. It has been fun for us as a family....because it reminds us to smile too. So I am challenging you to find happiness and smile at least once every day! (You don't have to take a picture unless you want to!)

Just Having some FUN!

We went to the school carnival and they were painting people's hair. Zeth got his done...not really by choice...but as soon as Kyler saw how "cool" his big brother looked his wanted his done. Kyler didn't want to wash his hair, he wanted to keep it as long as possible. Mom wasn't so sure about going to bed with all that color so it didn't last too long after pictures!

KYLER'S First Day of Preschool

Yes, my baby is in preschool now. Tara and I signed both him and Mia up with Miss Viki...they are both in heaven thinking about how big they are and having a backpack and heading to school. Tara and I trade days with each other. So on Mondays I have Mia all day...usually from 9:00 to around 6:00 and then she takes Kyler on Wednesdays from about 8:00 to 5:00. I LOVE it!!! It gives me a complete day to myself where I can plan to do all those things that are hard with kids. But then on Mondays Kyler has a friend to play with. They are becoming the best of buds!


Here are some pictures of Mia and Kyler playing dress up....Batman and the Princess!