Visit with Santa

Santa came and visited P's preschool today, the parents were able to come and take pictures and let their other "non preschool" kids come too.

P explaining to Santa what he wants for Christmas

(this morning he said he would only sit next to Santa, I guess he changed his mind)

L was fine with Santa until she noticed they were calling all the kids one by one to sit with him. As soon as she realized that she turned around and starred at the floor the rest of the time.

new post

so I started a post last week and finished it today.....it posted it below my holiday fun post, so if you want to take a look.

holiday fun

L and her "gingerbread" house

P putting gum-drops on his house

we painted ornaments

(dropped paint inside and swirled them around)

and we made christmas tree hand prints on kitchen hand towels for the grandparents.

(don't even ask how hard it is to get a one year old to co-operate

with handprints using fabric paint).

Christmas skirts

After seeing this skirt over at dana-made-it.com I loved it!

so my wonderful mother took on the task of making the girls Christmas skirts like this.

Kaitlynn in her skirt

(and one of her cheesy grins)

close-up

Lilly loves hers and twirls around

close-up

and one of all 3 kids for fun

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

long time no post

It's been a month since my last post! I have no reasons for not posting other than we haven't been up to much. Although for Thanksgiving we decided to go down to Arizona and spend the week with Patrick's sister. It was nice to get a break from cold weather and the kids loved playing with their cousins and running around outside. While down there we went to see the Mesa Temple lights, and it's the only time I remembered to take out my camera. So here's the one picture worth putting up.

Hopefully I'll be better this month about posting things.

9 weeks and counting

For those that don't know already

We are expecting another baby

it should be here around the first week of June.

I know it's a little earlier than when I normally tell people,

but i've already met with the Dr. and I didn't think I could

keep it to ourselves for much longer.

October happenings

Whew what a month, it just flew by. First off we have Lilly's birthday, then Kaitlynn's, followed by Halloween.

Lilly was sick on her birthday so she wasn't into it that much, and I didn't get much on my camera, mostly on the video camera.

(this for Kevin) Lilly's Tinker Bell Pj's yes they are a "little" big but she insisted on wearing them

my little cheese-er Kaitlynn.
if she sees a camera she will ham it up.

Birthday girl

and walking everywhere

opening her presents

mmm cake

getting a good trick-or-treating shot proved

to be difficult

we went to our parents trunk-or-treat

Lilly loved handing out candy to everyone.

Lilly kept us laughing while out trick-or-treating....

she would say "trick or treating" when the people would answer the door.

At first she wouldn't say trick-or-treat and when people asked her to say it she would look at them give them a dirty look turn and walk away!

If the people at the door let her have a choice of candy she would take forever looking at what she already had and then looking at what they were offering.

there were a quite a few houses that had four or five steps up to the door so when we got to one that had one step up she excitedly told the lady at the door "you only have one step!"

country farm fest

Last night we went with some friends to a farm festival. The kids had a bast.

and my camera decided to have a low battery all of the sudden.

P and L
K, P, and L

climbing the pumpkins

baby K holding the bunny

L, P, and C chasing the goats

L feeding the cows

C, P, and L still feeding the cow

there was a mini corn maze and the kids had fun running around.

(and the dads had fun hiding and scaring the kids)

that was until P and C ran right into each other head first.

L, C, and P on the hay ride

lessons to be learned by Kaitlynn

If you leave your food out I will get to it and eat it.

(even if I'm not supposed to eat it)

don't even think about putting a long sleeved shirt on me, i will find a way to take it off!

I can make a mess in one second regardless of baby proof doors


my favorite thing to chew on are flip-flops
I don't care if it makes you cringe in disgust.

the couch is the best place to play

oh ya, I will only walk when I feel like it or if you offer me your car keys.

Welcome home Kevin!

Saturday Evening we were able to head up to Ft. Douglas and welcome Patrick's brother Kevin home from Iraq. While we waited we enjoyed a BBQ, cake, and the kids had fun in a bouncy house. (also I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos..... a little boy got a hold of my camera and changed settings)

Payten waiting in line to play

P and L waiting for the buses to arrive.

inside the "gym" waiting for Kev.

here he is.....he came out waiving,

Payten was happy to him, he went up and gave him a big hug!

hug with mom

All night other marines that had served with Kevin would take one look at Patrick and immediately ask... "you waiting for Reilly"

Afterwards we all went to dinner, we had a great time and the kids were definitely worn out by the time we got home.

Labor day weekend

Our Labor Day weekend was full of fun. We went on carnival rides, watched fireworks, and sat out for a parade.

getting ready to go on rides

on the ferris wheel

mini-rollercoaster, we talked Lilly into going on it with Payten.

sweet baby K

Kaitlynn's view of
the carnival.

glow stick fun!

We woke up Monday morning to hot air balloons right out our front door.

L waiving at people in the parade

P enjoying one of the many otter-pops that were given out.