Matt's Birthday!

Today is Matt's Birthday! He is now 27 Years Old!!!! So last night we had fun celebrating his birthday with him in Tremonton at Mom and Dad's house. We had yummy pizza from Pizza Plus and then Cake and Ice Cream. The Cakes were from Kent's (Matt's request) and they were REALLY good!!! Here are a few pictures from our celebration.
Hallie was being her curious self and just had to check out the dirt in Grandma Joys plant. Even though it made a mess, she was still REALLY cute! And I had to get a picture of it!
The kids picked out Uncle Matt's present and they had a fun time listening to him guess what was in it. His guesses included a monkey, oreos, chipmunk, and other funny things. We love Uncle Matt!!! It ended up being some Red Vine Licorice.

After Matt & Nat left, the boys went to check on one of our rentals and gave Grandma Joy and Kaylee some play and tickle time. Grandma Joy sure is a lot of fun! She also spent some time reading a stack of books Carson had brought with us. She is such a great teacher, you would think she does it for a living! Hehe!!

Birthdays are always a good reason to get together and have fun and eat yummy food!! Too Bad Uncle Chris will be in Brazil for his Birthday this year, but I am sure we can still celebrate for him with some fun and food!

Ski Trip!

We decided since Kaylee was now 3, it would be a good time and excuse to take the kids skiing. We decided to back to Wolf Mountain where we took Carson last year. It is a great place to teach kids to ski and they have a Monday Night special of $40 for a family of 4 to ski. When we got there, we found out the kids were free since they were under 7, and so it cost us only $24 to ski. We had borrowed some skis from a friend and so we didn't even have to rent the skis. What a lifesaver!!! We met my Brother Matt & his wife Natalie up there. They even brought Hallie to enjoy in the fun! They also had their friends Ryan, Tiffany, and their son Rosten with them. We got there right at 4 when the night skiing opened and hit the slopes. Here are a few pictures from last night.
Kaylee and Carson in all their snow gear. They had no hesitation getting on their skis! They both had no fear and did great!!! Kaylee was a natural at skiing. She had such good balance and only fell over a few times. She had to take several brakes to go warm up, but as soon as we would get in the lodge she wanted to go skiing again! After spending most of the night on the bunny hill, with either Nick or myself, all of them (excluding me) took the chair lift up and skied down the hill, twice. Carson and Kaylee did great. With the help of Aunt Natalie, Carson got the turning and the snow plow thing all figured out and Kaylee enjoyed just going straight down the hill, skiing in between dad or Natalie's skis. In fact, as we were getting ready to go Kaylee was whining that she wanted to go down the 'big hill' again! But it was already 8:30 and we really needed to get going so we could get home and get the kids in bed. But we had a great time skiing, eating (the kids loved the cookies and chips!), and hanging out!

It wasn't too hard to go skiing down the little bunny hill being 33 weeks pregnant, but I was definitely tired by the time we got home! I wish we could go skiing every week, but maybe next year we can make it skiing more often! I know the kids can't wait to go again either!

Kaylee's 3rd Birthday!

We got up Sunday morning, Kaylee's Birthday, and enjoyed some Monkey Bread and Hot Chocolate. Then we had Kaylee open up just a few gifts that she could use while we waited to go to church at 1.
She got some paint, markers, and some paper that kept both the kids entertained most of the morning. Then we got ready for church and she got to wear her new Birthday Dress.

After Church, we got ready for her Birthday Dinner and got out the balloons and even a Dora Party Decoration!!! It was bigger than Kaylee!

We had some family over to have dinner with us and celebrate Kaylee's Birthday. Here she is with Grandma Karen.

We enjoyed a speghetti and meatball dinner. It is one of Kaylee's favorite dinners and she even had two servings of it herself.

Then it was present time!!! She got spoiled and we had so much fun watching her open her presents! She got a collection of Princess Barbies, baby doll blankets, more art supplies, a new pink tutu, clothes, a Tinkerbell barbie, Dora puzzle, and princess games.

Then it was cake & ice cream time! Every time I asked her what kind of cake she wanted she would change her mind from Dora to Princess themed cakes. So she ended up getting a cute little Dora cake for her and we made Princess cup cakes for everyone else to eat! It worked great!

The cupcakes, according to Uncle Matt, were "divine"!!!

We have such great family that came to help us celebrate!! They included Matt, Nat & Hallie, Randall, Virginia, Saran, & Janelle (our adopted family we have had for years!), G&G Brower, Unlce Ryan and Grandma Karen. We love you guys!!!

We had a fun day and Kaylee had a blast!!! Before we went to bed, we had a good friend come over and fit Nick and the kids for some skiis so we could go skiing the next day. I think that made the kids super excited to go....the didn't want to take the ski boots off to go to bed!

I still can't believe my little princess is 3!!!! She is such a joy to have in our family and we love her so much. Here are a few things you should know about her:

*She loves to sing....after we read books and say prayers, I can hear her singing to herself before she goes to bed.

*She is super smart! She can sing abc's and count almost to 20. She has a great memory and is learning so much at preschool.

*She is a climber! She can climb up the cupboards and pantry and get into almost anything, but she isn't a big mess maker, just very good at getting to things!!!

*She loves dance class. She has never fussed once about going and on Friday mornings is always excited to get in her dance clothes to go to dance!

*She weighs 28 lbs 8 oz (27%) and is 36 3/4" tall (44%).

*She loves nursery, which is good since she gets to be there the rest of the year!

*She loves dolls, pink, art stuff, Dora, Princesses, and Curious George.

*She is totally potty trained, day & night! Finally!!!

*She is the most amazing three year old I know right now!

We love you Kaylee!