Christmas did come!

Christmas really did come to our home, I know I am a couple weeks past, but I still needed to post!

I walked into the room and found the girls sitting like this. Jons mom gives all of her grandkids a Christmas Bear for the year they were born. Except Kaylee had Kenzies and Kenzie had Kaylees. I had to snag a picture it was so cute seeing the three of them together like that.

Santa did come!

The girls were excited. Kenzie was still a little tired, can you tell?

Kaylee got Squenkies, which were put away two days later, I will give them to her when her sister quits putting everthing in her mouth. We didn't realize how small they were til Kenzie tried getting to them. We went and let her pick out a toy to replace them. She was okay with that. She got a Baby All Gone.

Abbie loves Little People things! She got this garage as well as the Little People plane. I was glad she was okay with the Little People one and not the Barbie one!

Kenzie really just enjoyed the wrapping paper. That was her favorite part!

Our family Christmas picture. Can you tell there were two people taking pictures? We didn't get one where we were all looking at the same camera. That's ok. I still think we are an adorable family!

My mom got Abbie and Faye matching outfits. Nick and Stacey came to church with us the day after Christmas and so we just had to get a picture of the two of them.

Kaylee was eating a piece of chocolate cheesecake, but didn't want it anymore so she set it on the floor. Kenzie took full advantage of that and was shoving it in her mouth as quickly as possible. Even when we took it away from her she was shoving her hand in her mouth trying to savor every last bit.



You can't have snow and not have a snowman, right? Jon and Kaylee built this.

Our Good Luck Charm

Our family has discovered that we have a little good luck charm. If you guys have been reading my blog, then you would know that back in March, while I was pregnant with Kenzie I entered a drawing at Fresh Market and won a shopping spree. We stocked up on diapers and wipes and got $430 worth of free stuff. Then, I hadn't had been planning on having Kenzie, so I lended our crib to my sister Emily. After I loaned it I found out that I was pregnant, so Jons school friend gave us his crib since they were done having kids. After he gave it to us, we discovered that it had been recalled and took it to Target and got a brand new really nice crib at a minimal fee. Well, after I had Kenzie, I opened her a bank account at Mountain America Credit Union. I didn't know that at the time I opened it that they were running a promotion and all children's accounts that were opened were entered into a drawing. Well, today, I got a call from Mountain America saying that Kenzie's name had been drawn and she won a bike. It cracked us up!! A little 5 month old won a bike!!! We thought it would just be a small children's bike, so we go to pick it up and it was a Mongoose full BMX bike. Jon was so excited! He played on it when we got home and Kaylee rode it around as well. We let Kenzie be the first to try it out though, after all, it is her bike!

Funny Stuff Part 2

The other day we were sitting in our front room and I was looking at our tree and I said, "Jon, do you think OUR TREE is boring?"
Jon:  "Why would you ask me that?"
Me: "Well, I don't know it just seems like OUR TREE is a little boring!" 
Jon: "Well I have never done it, how would I know?" 
Me: "Well, I just think maybe it's too plain and boring. Why do you not think so?"
Jon: "Well, I don't know. I don't know if it's boring or not. How boring do you think it would be? You get a bow and an arrow and you shoot stuff."
Me: "What the heck are you talking about?"
Jon: "You asked me if ARCHERY was boring. I don't know. I have never done it."
Me: "Not ARCHERY, OUR TREE!!!???"
Jon: "Oh, I think it looks very good."

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Kaylee comes running in to me the other day and says, "Mom! I know what I want for Christmas!!!!" So I said, "What do you want?" And she gets really excited and says, "I want my very own laptop!!!"
YEA RIGHT!
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On a side note. Our little Kenzie is growing up so much! She is sitting up and has started scooting. She always has something important to say, and when she decides she wants to say something she is going to say it. Even if it is 2:00 in the morning. I love my girls! I am so happy that Kenzie is such an angelic baby!!

Funny children

Kids can just crack a person up sometimes! I thought I would share some of the recent conversations I have had with my kids!


A few weeks ago, I made a roast for Sunday dinner after church. Jon didn't have any homework that day, which hasn't happened for a long time. So we set the table and all sat down to eat, then Kaylee suddenly said, "OH, this is the BEST day EVER!!!" We said, "Why is this the best day ever?" And she responded, "Because we are eating dinner together as a family at the table!!"
*Doesn't that show what GREAT parents we have been lately? LOL!

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Last week after one of the snow storms, I had to shovel the driveway because Jon hadn't showed me how to use the snow blower. Our driveway is massively huge, so it took a really long time. Kaylee was at school, and Kenzie was asleep so Abbie got into her snow clothes and came outside with me. She played in the snow while I shoveled. All of the sudden she comes running up to me and says, "Mom-- I am having such a bad day!" I asked, "Why are you having a bad day?" And she said, "Because of all this snow!"

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 On Thanksgiving morning, Abbie came in and climbed into bed with Jon and me. She has been waking up fairly early lately, anyway, I said, "Abbie, do you know what today is?" And she said, "No, what?" I said, "Thanksgiving!" and she asked, "what's that?" I said, "It's where we eat lots of food." And she responded, "No mom. It's because the Pirates got on BIG BOATS and came here!"
*I think she mixed up a few stories somewhere! Still, very cute!

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My parents went to Texas for Thanksgiving to spend it with my sister and her family. Yesterday I had to go pick them up from the airport. Kaylee was at school, so Abbie and Kenzie were with me. We got my parents and Annie picked up and started driving home, and my mom said, "Abbie, did you have a nice Thanksgiving?" And she said, "No, I didn't. But KK did!" (She calls Kaylee KK). Everyone started laughing then my mom said, "Did you miss me?" And she said, "No. But KK did."
Well there ya go....
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Abbie has been a thumb sucker, Jon wanted her to stop, so it wouldn't screw up her teeth. He told her if she quit sucking her thumb she could have anything she wanted. Well, she said she wanted a Barbie Plane and a Barbie Kitchen. Jon said okay--- she quit sucking her thumb the next day. I told her if she kept not sucking her thumb then we would ask Santa to bring those. Well, the Barbie Plane is $90--- thought you would like to know that---- luckily I found a Little People Plane on sale at Shopko for $14.99---she wont know the difference will she???


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Speaking of Christmas, we have been asking the girls what they want for Christmas. Kaylee didn't really answer the question at first. But immediately Abbie said, "I want candy...... AND a lollipop!! That's all" I guess that is easy enough, right? We asked her again a week later and she said, "I want my own pillow pet..........AND my own eggnog!! That's all!" (Kaylee got two pillow pets for her birthday, and she gave Abbie one of them, but Abbie thinks it's still Kaylee's I guess.) She also keeps saying she wants a Barbie Plane. I guess I could make Barbie vinyl and put it on the Little People Plane, right? Anyway, so Kaylee hasn't really said a lot when we have asked her. So today I asked her, and she said, "I want some Squinkies..... AND my own Ipod!" Hmmmm, let's see---- she is 6!! And she is already asking for an Ipod..... it's gonna be some fun times with that little girl!

 Anyway, my girls have been cracking me up lately. They come up with the funniest stuff. It makes life such a joy!

What do you do??

What do you do when you have a very large one of these:

(YARD)

And a whole lot of these:

(FALLEN LEAVES)

And one of these that wont start to mulch the fallen leaves:



And a husband working on a broken one of these:

(BOILER---which heats the house and water)



You grab one of these and do this:



And you fill up two of these: 

And make a huge one of these:

And you do some of this:

And do some of this:

And some of this: 

And this:



It's totally worth the hard work in the end, right??

Much Fun!

I know, I am never on the ball when it comes to blogging. But I always eventually get around to it. Last month Abbie went on a Field Trip to Black Island Farms.

I couldn't go to the beginning, so my Mom took her, she said that Abbie went straight to the Pumpkin she wanted and sat down next to it so nobody else would take it.

This was Abbie with a few of my cousins kids. They all go to the same Preshool. It is fun to still get to see family so often.

Me and my girls!

They always have so much fun together. They are really best friends.

I know I did a Halloween post already, but I couldn't help but post this adorable picture of my nephew Noah.

And my brother Jay and his wife Bethany AKA Mario and Peach!

My little Kaylee turned 6 on November 12th. She had her first Birthday Party with her friends. It was a lot of fun. Except, even though I planned everything, there was half an hour left and I didn't have anything left to do. Half the kids wanted to do something, and the other half didn't and vice versa, but I think it all turned out okay. 

I made those cute ice cream cone cupcakes. They were so easy and the kids loved them. They were also way less messy than regular cupcakes.

Kaylee's cute Kindergarten picture. We were able to order a disk with the pictures on it, which was very nice. Especially for digital scrapbooking!

Our nephew Noah celebrated his first Birthday the same day as Kaylee's birthday. So, Emily and Danny had a Birthday Party for him. He is so adorable and it was lots of fun.

This was Jon and Kenzie at the Birthday Party. They really know how to party as you can see. I think this picture is just precious.

EXCITING!! Annie got her mission call.......

Sister Love-- called to serve in the Arcadia California mission Spanish Speaking. She will enter the MTC on Feb 23rd.

Nick and Stacey were there for the call.....

Annie also turned 22 last week, so we celebrated her birthday.