Christmas 2011

Christmas 2011 we spent in Utah this year. All of my siblings got together the week before Christmas before they left to the in-laws.  We always have a delicious gourmet dinner thanks to Malia as part of our Christmas Eve Celebration. We also do a devotional giving by one of the couples in the family.  Then we open presents.  It was so fun just to be able to spend quality time with everyone!! We also went roller skating as a family this year. It was a blast!! Kyle and I were trying to skate through each other's legs.  I was to short and he was too inflexible to fit through my legs :) but I made it through his a few times.

They let us push our kids around in their strollers while we skated. So nice!



Kristen was 8 months pregnant! What a trooper for skating!!

Grandkids holding their favorite presents from Grandma and Grandpa

We also went bowling with Ben, Kristen, Reese, Grandma, and our family.

Christmas morning. Santa left Kajsa a kitchen and Trey a remote control race car that has batteries that won't die :) This was trey's request. He was very particular about the batteries not dying!!

Our little candy cane. Taken with a phone so it's blurry

Grandma gave all of the kids new jammies.

Kajsa and Wesley got these toys they can pull around. Perfect for their ages!

November 2011

We went to St. George this year for Thanksgiving and we had a blast.  Steve and Lynda travelled up to Uncle Bill and Aunt Kenna's house to be with us too. Kyle's family has a tradition of making Gingerbread houses over the Thanksgiving break.  It's so much fun and everyone is so creative!!

Kajsa's just happy to eat the candy we used to decorate the houses

Trey decorating his own house. He did a great job!!

Mason is on a club soccer team and had some games over the break so we went and cheered her on. It was fun to watch her play and it made us excited for the day when we can cheer on our own kids while they play sports

October 2011

Pictures of Kyle's, Kajsa's and my costumes will be posted shortly. Trey was a BYU football player when we went Trick or Treating instead of a Kung Fu Master. For Halloween this year we went trick or treating in a neighorhood up on the benches of Provo. It is a little gated culdasac. One of our friends lives with his wifes parents there so they invited us to go.  It was so awesome. They give out King size candy bars. We did two streets and got loaded with awesome candy.  Too bad we are not big candy eaters. Most of it will probably go to waste. We will for sure eat all of the reese's peanut butter cups though.  One house gave candy for the kids and then passed out hot chocolate for all of the parents.  It was a lot of fun. Afterwards we went to Uncle Brad's and Aunt Malia's and ate In n' Out with them. It was a great Halloween. 

For Halloween Trey wanted to be a Kung Fu Master at Preschool.  Thank you Kung Fu Panda.  I made sure to remind him that he WAS NOT allowed to "kung fu" any of his preschool friends!





We had a great time playing in the leaves this year.  Kyle and I never really got to do this growing up in Orange County so we had lots of fun too :)





Trey went to Cornbelly's on a preschool field trip. It was soo much fun. Wish we could have stayed longer and brought Kyle with us. Hope we can go next year.




A little hay maze for the kids. Trey and his sunglasses always make me smile.



Miss Leanne, Chelsea and Me. It was so warm for the middle of October.



We went on a hay ride.




Kids played in an old fire truck




The whole group. We only had 4 moms and two of us had little babies as well. It was hard to keep track of everyone. We only lost one boy for a few minutes and chased others several, several times. 



September 2011

September was the start of a new chapter in our lives.  Kyle started his last year at BYU and Trey started Preschool.  Trey goes to preschool twice a week in Lehi. We live in Provo. This has worked out wonderfully for our family but has somehow made my life much busier than I thought.  I am still singing in my barbershop quartet group and we practice twice a week as well. We were preparing for Christmas so we had a lot of songs to learn. We enjoyed the warm weather and were excited for the start of a new round of intramural sports and BYU football and women's volleyball.  

Trey's first day of preschool. He was acting too shy to really smile unfortunately.



Playing with McKayla during recess

Played a fun hula hoop game on the first day of Preschool



I got a good laugh from this. Kajsa got the chair out herself and put it in front of the TV. Before this she had never shown much interest in the TV, but she was intently watching this program in her cute little chair.



They were so happy that morning :)

Kajsa tried spaghetti for the first time and loved it

I was getting ready before preschool one morning and came out to find Trey eating his breakfast with his sunglasses on. He loves those things. 

Kajsa tried her first oreo....

As you can see she loooooved it!

Enjoying the warm weather while we can

August 2011

We went to California for our summer vacation to visit Kyle's family.  We had a fun time at the beach with the kids.

 Kajsa loves putting her feet in the water.

 Trey loved to pick up the sand and throw it into the waves.

 They laid on the warm sand for a half hour. It was very cute.

 Trey really wanted to go surfing with dad, but this was the closest we got.

 For the second half of the trip we went to Big Bear to celebrate Steve's (Kyle's dad) Birthday. The whole family came up even Uncle Greg from Washington. We went to the zoo to see the buffalo's, and many other animals. We also took family picture's while we were there (see later post).

 Out on a walk by the lake.

 Grandma and Kajsa.

 Trey and Lucy hanging out with Uncle Greg. He was a real sport, he even let them put him in jail.

 Present time for Grandpa. He got a keepsake CD from family and friends.