1-8-10

Just FYI-the titles of these "catch-up" posts are just going to be the dates I took the photos on, that way I can look things up a little easier later if I want to.

Title: Coolest Kids EVER!

I have to start by saying I have the coolest kids. Really. They both LOVE music! I know, what kid doesn't? But they seriously love to rock out and kylee has the cutest daggum butt shake you've ever seen. For Tyler the louder the better. Now that we're finally in a place were we can turn our music UP, we have the funnest time dancing around like crazy in this house. Even in the car Tyler will say, "Mom turn it LOUD!" And he will do stuff like this:


or this...


or this...


And Kylee will die laughing in her car seat! She tries to mimic what he does and if she can't figure it out she just resorts to "raisin' the roof'". Hilarious! I love that my kids love to JAM with me in the car now, cause I'm pretty sure in a few years that's gonna change. Just remember kids, you have no idea how cool I am.

Earlier this day I was walking by the bathroom and saw Tyler doing this:


I ran to get my camera cause I thought it was so cute that he had pulled his stool over to the sink, and was trying to style his hair by himself in the mirror.

ha ha! love him.


While that was happening my most Mischievous child had managed to pull down the dishwasher door (I must have forgotten and left it partly open because I've never seen her do that before) and pull out as many things as her little hands could reach.

I was trying to sneak up on her


guess the flash of the camera gave me away


she only wanted this fork and bowl thing...


...and was very interested in stirring the fork around in the bowl so she wouldn't look up for me again. (look at those cheeks!)


Pretty cool kids for sure. :)

1-3-10

Title: New Car-seat!

Since Kylee turned one while we were in St. George we decided to get her a car-seat that faced forward (since they're not supposed to be forward facing until then) for the long trip home hoping the ride would be more enjoyable for all since she would be able to watch movies with Tyler, and I would be able to get to her a lot easier when she needed things.

She didn't really seem to care all that much-notice we are packed to the MAX. I think we're quickly outgrowing this car. Hmmm...maybe someday


and she fell asleep within seconds of pulling out of the driveway. (and actually this blue one is tyler's old one, the black one that tyler's in is the one we bought for kylee, but once we got it in the car I felt that the blue one had a little bit more support so would be better for kylee to ride in till she gets a little bigger. So actually Tyler got a new car seat.)


Oh well, Tyler was happy!

12-31-09

Title: Happy New Years!

It was so nice to be able to spend a week in St. George with my family (not to mention the weather was SO nice) for Kylee's birthday and New Years! We had fun doing some shopping with Christmas money :), played a lot of CLUE, ate and ate and ate, went on a double date with Alisa and Skyler to see Blindside (LOVED it!!!), went through the temple with my Brother (he leaves for his mission to Spokane,WA march 17th!!!) and rang in the new year at Alisa's house. Well I guess we technically were in bed at midnight, but started the ringing at Alisa's. :)

One of their friends brought their dog and Tyler and Kylee could not get enough of her!


Kylee is pretty much terrified of my brother Ty. He sat a little too close for comfort and Kylee would not take her eyes off of him!


Literally. Stared at him till he got up and walked away.


We missed Amanda :(


These were taken a different day, but I don't really have anywhere else to post them and I love how wonderful Alena is with our boys!


Look how big Nathan looks!


Happy New Years to all!!

12-25-09

Title: Merry Christmas!

Tyler woke up to see that Santa had taken time out of his busy night to leave him a note! He didn't think it was quite as cool as mom and dad did.




I asked Kylee what she had gotten in her stocking and she held it right up so I could see!


This was the result of every picture I took of the 2 of them in front of the tree. Oh well.


Their Great-grandpa and grandma Olson sent each of the kids a Christmas gift and I wanted them to be able to see how much they loved their books!


Kylee got a scratch-n-sniff book...


...that Tyler soon took over (i love kylee's face trying to figure out what the heck he's doing)




Tyler's was a sing-a-long book to Up on the Rooftop-thank you grandma and grandpa!


They got Cutie's in their stockings and while I wasn't looking Kylee literally stuffed half of one in her mouth.


He loved his Dinosaur and rides him everywhere


I got this idea from my friend Mindy and made these cute puppets (all the materials came in a little packet from Hobby Lobby) for Kylee's stocking. The packet was only $5 and surprisingly the puppets are still all stitched together and none of them have lost an eye-which is saying something cause Kylee's pretty rough with them.


Kylee's gift from Santa was a shopping cart and a LOT of plastic food (seriously what was Santa thinking? I'm finding potato chips and rolls all over my house!) Next year we might ask Santa to bring her a kitchen to put all that food in!


Tyler's present from Santa was a train set with Thomas and Percy engines. Santa had originally brought Tyler a different gift for Christmas, but when Tyler sat on Santa's lap at the mall on Christmas Eve he told Santa he wanted a train for Christmas and then talked all day about how Santa was going to bring him, "a train that goes round, and round and round without stopping!" I think Santa is pretty awesome for finding Tyler exactly what he wanted minutes before it was too late!


This is what I love about Christmas day:

the house in complete disarray from presents being opened, piles of new fun toys, the boys working to put things together and the wearing of pajamas all day!

12-24-09

Title: Christmas Eve

Since we weren't able to be with either of our families this year for Christmas we had our friends Ashlie, Jon and their little girl Jaylie over for Christmas eve and thoroughly enjoyed being with such good friends for such a wonderful holiday!

We had a delicious ham dinner and an incredible fondue feast (thanks to the fackrell's) for dessert!




Playing around




Kylee loved being pushed all over the house in her high chair by Jaylie.


After dinner Tyler wanted to make cookies to leave on the fireplace for Santa so we used the Christmas sprinkles my mom sent for Tyler and he was in heaven! (why is this underlining?!)




I looked away for ONE second and he managed to spill the entire jar of red sprinkles onto a cookies. I am still finding little red sprinkles on my kitchen floor!


Before bed we let Tyler open one of his Christmas presents


When he saw the box he said, "Oh wow, a beautiful box! Thank you!" He really thought that was his present and was honestly happy about it. This kid is Easy to please!


But then he realized it was pajamas


and he loved them!


We put Kylee to bed and helped Tyler get the milk and cookies ready for Santa.


He was so excited that Santa was coming to OUR house!




Then he grabbed one off the plate and took a bite before I could stop him and looked at me all innocently and said, "Santa said he would share with me."


We really missed being with family, but it's been fun to start our own traditions and enjoy the spirit of Christmas with little children!

12-12-09

Title: Tyler loves snow!

The first thing we did-even before everything had been moved in-was put up the Christmas tree and get out the snow clothes. Tyler was SO into Christmas this year and loved helping decorate the tree. After we were done putting it together him and Bobby went outside and played in the snow for a bit.

Our 'Charlie Brown' tree and Tyler in that snowsuit somewhere...




That is just too much snow!


Getting ready to build their classic snow animal-this year it was a snow dinosaur (last year it was a snow bunny)




Tyler kept putting snow down Bobby's pants and thought it was SO funny! (this is in the backyard)


Decided it was too cold outside and came in and watched Bobby build the rest of it from his bedroom window.


Unfortunately this is the last picture I took, but it's pretty close to being finished here.


He has the coolest daddy ever!