our summer so far....

Just a few pics of our Memorial day, days in the sun, and wonderful Lake Powell, where we met my family for my birthday a couple weeks ago! so fun and relaxing, although way too short! (click on picture to start and make full screen or pics will be really small, which is ok with me since im in them:)! (when screen appears, you have to click on the little arrow to turn pages!)

Happy Fathers Day....

I just need to take a minute and express my love to two people today, first my honey of 7 years, and also my dad!
First, Nick is the best Father! always so patient, loving, fun, just adores his kids and a great dad. He will change a diaper before i even realize its a bad one! This spring he has taught Kaden how to golf, and KAden is obsessed! they have so much fun together and Kaden has a whole new bond with Daddy! it is so cute! they are buddies. Nick and Kylee have always had a special bond and Nick is so protective of her. Not only is he a good father, but a wonderful husband, the most trustworthy, loyal, loving, honest, unselfish man in the world! I am lucky to have found such a wonderful guy to spend forever with! I could go on and on but he probably wouldnt like it:) We love you Happy Fathers day!!

And then there is my DAD.....

what a guy! he can do it all, and to top it off, he is the perfect Dad and Grandpa too! the man is good at everything he tries. My kids adore him, i do, he is just so much fun! The kids love to play with Grandpa, especially Kaden because Grandpa takes him lots of fun places. My dad will bring the four wheeler down, just so he can take Kaden on a ride. He is a cute Grandpa, and a wonderful supportive, loving Father! thanks dad for teaching me all that you have. He taught me how to work hard, get my hands dirty, manage money, be responsible and so on and on! he is a amazing person! thanks DAD and Happy FAthers Day! We love you:)

Guess what were having?.......

YES, It is a GIRL! no suprise i have been way too sick. thats what girls i guess do to me, but it is worth it!

We decided to do what my Sis in Law does to make it fun, and had the nurse not tell us what it was in the ultrasound. I had her write it down on a paper and tape it up. then i took it to the bakery and had them decorate a "pink or blue" cake and box it up so i could not see it.

My family came into town that night on their way to Lake Powell, took us to dinner, and after we all opened the box together to reveal our big suprise! It was fun, even Kaden says he wants another sister. he is so cute with Kylee! hopefully with them being two years apart, there wont be too much 'drama" in high school together! jk
I have always wanted a sister, so at least Kylee will get a close forever friend!

Kadens a grad!! now what??...play!

Kaden is actually sad to be done with preschool. He loves it, and is mr. social. i will have to keep him very busy this summer.... here is some pics of his graduation. They all had a lot of fun this year, and he is proud of his "hat" :)

When my fam was here we took the kids to the main street park, which has waterfalls, fountains and flowers, all of Kylees favorites, and let them splash around. My brother, the amazing photographer, took some of the most adorable, memorable, amazing pictures! here is just a few out of hundreds! Enjoy! you can click on picture to enlarge!







Thanks Cody, you are amazing!

Springtime....

Spring pictures so far, well spring is almost over here. It is hitting 100 degrees here this weekend, which is now summer in my book, and Kaden graduates preschool next week once again, and will again next year, missing the deadline and doing preschool over again. he is going to be one smart and ready kid!

You can count on my mom to be here about every three weeks or so cause she misses the kids so bad, this time Grandpa came! brought his four wheeler just for Kaden and we also hit Sand Hollow lake! so fun! Uncle Cody also came which makes it even funner, the more the merrier! We also like to go to home depot and do the kid classes, and we lucked out having them here to help this time!! Leave it to Grandpa to put something together in seconds!! fun times!

I never posted Easter pics for the fam, so here is some of Our easter egg hunt (which it rained hard, and you can see it didnt affect the kids one bit) they had a blast! Kylee thought this was the best holiday ever! Candy eveywhere!

Easter morning, as good as I could do picture wise seeing how they wouldnt hold still, all doped up on sugar! gotta love it!

im back!.....

yes, i am back, after a few weeks of he... well you know! i am 12 weeks tomorrow which means this sick thing is almost up! yeah! i have disappeared from life since the last time i wrote, trying to make it through every day! doing better. still having to keep my stomach full or its not good! I also had our computer hard drive crash, which i learned some great lessons. first i didnt back it up, big mistake. I was always doing one of those "ill do it tomarrow things" well, i have lost a ton of digital scrapbooking, some pictures, well a lot of important things. Dont do what i did, learn from this please. Finally after weeks, i have a computer again, only problem cant find my camera chord, so you get a pictureless post this time!! sorry!

A little about me...

ABC Tag:
A: Addiction ~ strawberries and smoothies
B: Breakfast (what you eat) ~ waffles, strawberries and cream everyday!
C: Chocolate or Chips ~ Chocolate
D: Dessert or Appetizers ~ either right now, bring on the food!
E: Essential Items ~ lipgloss, diapers and wipes
F: Favorite Color ~ Pink (thanks to my baby girl!)
G: Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms ~ neither
H: Hometown ~ Bountiful, UT
I: Indulgence ~ food, anything right now!
J: January or July ~ July! I love summer
K: Kids ~ Kaden ,4 Kylee 18 months! fun ages! baby 3 months in the making!
L: Life isn’t complete without ~ Family of course and strawberries!
M: Most exciting memory ~ marriage, having our kids
N: Number of brothers & sisters ~ 2 brothers
O: Oranges or Apples ~ apples
P: Phobias or Fears ~ spiders
Q: Quote ~ "Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured." Gordon B. Hinckley (can i borrow that sarah?) love it!
R: Reading currently ~ BOM
S: Summer or Spring ~ Summer
T: Tag 6 People ~ Jenny, Jessica, Heather, Jenna, Anne, Jamie
U: Unknown fact about me ~ i dream of dougnuts right now, really its pathetic (only dicks bakery ones)
V: Vacation I want to go on ~ A cruise sounds nice only because they would feed me constantly
W: Walking or Running ~ Walking no running for me no fun!
X: X-Ray or Ultrasound ~ dont really care, and ultrasound would be fun right now:)
Y: Your favorite Food ~ guess!! ya strawberries, or peaches!
Z: Zoo or Bowling ~ Zoo

Tag your it!!

announcing....

Yep, you all knew it was coming.... I am pregnant! really excited at first, now wondering what the heck i was thinking! totally kidding. the sickness hit me Sunday and now I know that i have a good nother 6 weeks of this nausia sick horrible feeling. wanting to stay in bed all day and never get ready or do anything feeling. cant i just fast forward 6 weeks! then i can get on with life and fun and excitement for this baby. Im just glad that Kylee is still little enough to be my baby so I can remember that it is all worth it in the end! yeah! the first time i held her, it made the last none months all forgotten! I know that will happen again!!
So, anyways, I am only about 6 weeks. Due in November. i go to the doctor tommorrow for the first time. looking forward to that... NOT!
Nick thinks its a boy, Im guessing a girl. we will see who is right, Nick has always been the last two times! Kaden is excited, wants a little brother! we will be happy with either of course!!


Kaden is really excited, although he doesnt understand how much time it takes. he remembers when my belly was big with Kylee and keeps lifting up my shirt wondering why its not fat "the way he puts it" I also told him yesterday i didnt feel good, that was a mistake because now he thinks the baby isnt very nice! Im agreeing:)

when i ask Kylee where the baby is, she runs and gets her baby doll! at least she is becoming a real girl! love it! they will have fun! We are living on a whole lot of faith right now, hoping the things Nick has going on right now will pay off real soon, but I knew it was the right time, and we are so excited to have another member of our little family:)

time for a post....

I have been totally slacking on the picture taking this month, which is really weird for me, so i dont have many new, but i thought these silly pics of Kaden that my mom took were pretty dang cute! he always has us laughing!






Still loving the little chick, except we are now on number 3. yes, that is correct, Kylee stepped on the first one, dont know how the second on didnt make it. This one we have now is going strong and actually getting big. the kids love it, my goal is to make it survive, it chases them around, and now has wings and is trying to fly! we have some entertainment here.... just picture the three of us, chasing aroung a little yellow bird in our backyard and rosco growling at it. comedy! I have to capture some pictures of that for sure....maybe tomorrow!!

Is this legal?

I seriously had to ask that when i checked out, i feel i robbed the place,figuring it was too good to be true. I love coupon shopping! That is all the stuff i just bought at the grocery store for $27.01, (yes, that is 20 progresso soups and 8 boxes of cereal 4 boxes fruit roll ups, 3 brownie mixes AND everything else!) then I got a TEN dollar coupon off my next purchase which means i really only spent $17.01 on all that. it is true!! the best part..... i had to buy a pack of gum at the end because they wouldnt give me money back obviously, so actually that cost was 1.50 so i really spent just over 15.00!!! How cool is that! thanks Andrea for making shopping exciting again and saving me a LOT of dough!!

Valentines, Monster trucks and our new addition.....

I took the kids up North last weekend for two days, my cute little bro Cody gave us a paid trip up there for Christmas for the Monster truck show! so we Celebrated Valentines with Grandma and Grandpa and the uncles, getting spoiled and watching monster trucks! Kylees highlight of the weekend was big balloons and Kaden will only wear his monster truck jammies everynight if that tells you something! Thanks for the great weekend Fam!! sooo fun!





you can see how intrigued Kaden was and we show up not knowing we had FRONT row seats! talk about awesome!! Cody your the man!





....my spontaneous husband.... Nick comes home yesterday with a baby chick. that is so not like him. his new business partner I guess owns all the IFA stores, havent been there, heard its a farmer store, ayways, they have tons of baby chicks for like two dollars. food is like another dollar, so we have a new pet. in about 6 weeks we will have a hen running around our backyard, i guess were the Mckinlay Farm now, JK Nicks Sister Shelley says we can take it up to her, they have lots of them.... so in the meanwhile, my kids are in heaven with their new little "pet!!"



Have a good week!

this email was voted number one for the year, I look at it almost everyday to remind myself. it is sad, but is a definite wake up call.







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My Mother in law Connie is such a great person. she does a lot for others. Once a year her and her husband have been going to Africa to give money and time to help help help. I wont get into details all they do, but when I think of the people there who have close to nothing, and yet are so incredibly happy, I feel guilty being a spoiled American, who takes so much for granted. We are more than incredibly blessed. I am so thankful for all I have!! ...................................................

few random thoughts...

Ok, so I have seriously had so many friends have babies in the last month, I can count at least ten on my fingers! Kaden is starting to ask when Heavenly Father will put him a little brother in mommys tummy. its so cute, i just keep telling him its up to Heavenly Father and Daddy, (whom im mostly waiting for to be ready! :) i cant say im really baby hungry when i hold others babies, it really just hits me when i have my own, then goes away when they hit about 18 months and get all crazy on me, like Kylee is doing. we had our first "tantrum" this week, and my, the attitude has hit! so crazy they can be so opinionated this early. I have been working on a digital scrapbook of her first year the last few weeks, and i just cant believe how fast that first year goes and how fast they grow up! its not fair! im not ready for a bunch of kids yet, just want a baby that stays little and lets me hold them and snuggle. I thought nursing for 14 months this time would help, but no. i just got even more attatched to it. by one it was eat fast, then jump off to play! i miss it so bad!! ANYWAYS.....
just some cute pics of when she was tiny not so long ago, yet how much she has changed how cute she has gotten, personality too! I do love this age, i could freeze her here for a while:) anyways, this is her at a month old, then pic under is a week old.






Kylee at a year...


Kylee a month ago..


so fun... all you moms with new babies, remember how fast a year goes. cuddle cuddle cuddle.

i did something ive been wanting to do for a long time just kept chickening out. chopped my hair, well five inches is all but still. feels really different, is really healthy, wont do anything now, dont know what to do with it, its pretty much all the same length. so, i did it because it needed it, it was too high maintenance, and i felt like i was spending too much time on it when i did do it, and neglcting my kids, then i felt guitly. so i just went and did it one night without thinking. im liking that its easier and takes less time to comb out when wet, and wash. well see if i dare go shorter in the near future! feels good to know that i can let go of a lot of my hair and i dont have to be so attatched to it! anyways...

just wanted to also thank my mother in law and my family for coming to see us last week! both just decided to come for no reason which was great. thanks for the fun! come again soon!!

our silly trip to the ER....

well.. this morning kaden wakes me up at 5:00 am with a horrible fever. so, I give him medicine and snuggle him back to sleep, its useless, he cant sleep too sick. so about eight we go downstairs, to get some breakfast. then i notice his finger! I freak out, it was NOT like that the night before. actually no sign of anything. Nick freaks out and thinks its a brown recluse. so i call the doc, they say go to the ER. so we do. its not, doc knows right away. "does he bite his nails?" i say yep! duh, its a cuticle infection that is really really bad. its called something really long and difficult, but just an infection. so they tell us they have to do a little surgical removal of infection. ask if we should put him to sleep and Kaden says "ill be really brave" so... they just numb both fingers and go to town! cutting under the nail under the cuticle and remove all the yuck!! Kaden was soooo good. sat there being all tough.. he had so many nurses and docs coming in saying" i heard there is a really cute boy in the ER" he got choc milk, crayons, sticker book, coloring book! spoiled! but he deserved it and hes all good now!! HOPEFULLY he learned his lesson and will stop biting!!! heres a cute pic of his being all brave!!
so if you bite your nails... STOP!!


a few pics of Kylee... and her new favorites...
(you can click to enlarge)

COLORING...

JUMPIN JACKS...

EATING...

and...
if you didnt read my "going private" post and give me your email, please scroll down and do so, i will be switching to private really soon:)

finally going private....

Well, since the break-in, i have felt very creeped out, non private, could go on and on. They got away with my moms present, which consisted of a whole family picture CD and lots of pics of my kids, which will probably end up in the garbage somewhere(hopefully) but the feeling that i haven't kept my kids very secure on this blog thing is starting to scare me. one of these days something is going to happen and im going to wish i would have locked my blog a long time ago....ive shared too much on here. too many creeps out there, not worth it. So, please leave your email if you would like an invite:)

how the Grinch TRIED to steal Christmas....

Well,yes, the grinch TRIED to steal Christmas, but it just didnt happen, like the book says "you cant steal Christmas!"

Im feeling bad and guilty that every feels so dang bad for us. We are perfectly fine, a little on edge, but perfectly fine. We have learned a great lesson this year and it is to make sure our house is locked better, and that you cant buy Christmas!!

First off, everyone is wondering the whole story, yes we got robbed. we left to go up to Salt Lake the Sunday before Christmas and came back Christmas Eve to find that some idiot broke into our house and tried to take Christmas. we only lost presents under the tree to eachother and my family, presents hidden in the dressers, and all our jewelry gone. BIG deal, it can all be replaced, and they did NOT find all the kids presents that i had hidden REALLY good, thank goodness, cuz its all that matters!! we feel so incredibly blessed and lucky that it wasnt worse. They could have taken important stuff, and damaged and destroyed our house but they did not. No golf clubs missing, or family videos or important things:) just a creepy feeling left but we are getting over it, now that all our windows and glass doors have rods so no one can get in again! (thanks to dad who went to Home depot a day later to make us safe:) my family also jumped in the car that night drove in a blizzard until 5 in the morning to save our Christmas spirits, and they definetly did that! We had the BEST Christmas EVER!! you truly cant buy it, we have had more things dropped by our door with sweet cards, and so many gifts, that means so much to us that people care about us that much! what great friends, neighbors and family we have who have made this year the absolute best! THANK you THANKyou you know who you are:) we love you all so much!

the kids had no idea anything even happened, they were asleep before we even noticed and had the best year ever! so here are some pictures of them:) they were so excited Santa came to our house!! (and woke up to Grandma and Grandpa and Uncles sleeping here too:)



hope you all had a wonderful holiday! happy new year!!