Reading

Kylie and Bailey love to read. They can sit for an hour just reading, especially chapter books. This year in school they've started reading big fun books. Their favorites are the Treehouse books and Junie B Jones. At the last Parent Teacher Conferences they were both reading at above 3rd grade. We are so proud of them!

Chuck E Cheese

This is from when we went to Chuck E Cheese with Keith, his girlfriend Taffa, her neice and nephew, Scott, Jenny and Paige. It was a fun filled night.

  How many cousins can you fit in a car at Chuck E Cheese?

Boy's and Hockey

 We got a Salt Lake Pass of all Passes  this year which included tickets to a couple of hockey games so while the girls were at a birthday party, we took the boys to the hockey game. Jaxon was a little anxious but it was fun.

Jaxon's escape

Jaxon is determined to be big. He now gets in and out of his crib. We are planning on getting the girls some bunk beds and once we do, well move him into their old beds (my dad's beds from when he was a kid). For now, he's doing just fine getting in and out :)

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Jaxon looses his pants

Jaxon loves to play outside. He runs all around even when he loses his pants. This is what I saw when I went outside to check on the boys: Jaxon running around with his pants around his ankles. lol. He just kept right on playing. Too funny!

Family Friday Movie Night

Every Friday night we have a movie night. Sometimes it's all of us, sometimes the kids watch their movie and Paul and I watch ours. It's become a ritual and the kids really look forward to it.

They cuddle (Kylie and Jaxon below)...

Sometimes, we will even go out to the movies (usually the $1 theater in Sugarhouse).

I love our Friday nights!

Teacher Appreciation

This year, I got to help do door decorating for Kylie and Bailey's teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week. So during the superbowl, I did these with the help of my awesome sister in law (Thanks Jenny) and sweet little girls.

I found this idea online and copied it for Bailey's teacher. I thought it was so cute! All this is done in vinyl lol.

Kylie's Teacher is very creative and this is what we came up with... My own form of creativity I guess.

 Then the gifts... what teacher doesn't need pencils?

 Then the same week, my school had a door decorating contest for the colleges we went to (mine wasn't even close to winning, there were some amazing ones). I'm pretty proud of mine :)  Go Waves! 

Newest member of our family

No we are NOT having a baby but we did get a puppy. The kids have been begging for one and Paul and I think Jaxon's old enough to handle it. We had some drama... we bought and paid for one before presidents day weekend (friday) and were supposed to pick him up tonight. Last night at 9 at night, the owner called and said she wasn't sure we could have him because she was too attached. Awesome right? So Paul and I freaked out, knowing how we were going to have some heartbroken children. They had spent all week thinking of names and getting so excited. I got on KSL and found another breeder with the same kind of dogs but those were puppies. We went and saw them this evening and fell in love.

So meet Moose (the people we got it from named him and it fit him so we kept it.)

 

 

He's almost 7 weeks old and is very cuddly and calm. I'm not a dog person and have been nervous about taking care of a dog but this one is seriously great for us. He's sweet and tiny. He's already part of our family.