Kaylee's 1st Birthday

What an amazing day Kaylee is officially one years old and still a peanut. At one years old Kaylee is only 13lbs, but compared to 1lb 12oz she is huge. She had a fun day at the park with all her friends and family and playing in the park. Grandma Verla (Kaylee's great grandma) was able to make it out and was so exciting. Kaylee loved the frosting on her cupcake but didn't care much for the cake part. She also loved opening all her fun gifts. We love you Kaylee.

Mexico Trip 2-more pictures

The sunsets were beautiful and the beach was so pretty and warm this time of year. Also at night they had a theater night for the kids where they could dance and perform then the staff would but on a good show that the kids really liked watching. They were so excited every night to go to this show.

So two days we went on a bike ride to this other resort where they have tigers. First off we got really bad directions and ended up going way past the resort but luckily Sean was a good sport and just kept riding until we found the tigers. The tigers were so cute, esp the baby tiger. The best part was I was trying to get close to the baby and take a picture and the mommy tiger charged at me and growled and I totally jumped back because I was not expecting that at all. After the mommy tiger charged at me she grabbed the baby tiger by his neck and it looked like she drug him off to time out in the corner and told him not to play with humans anymore. The kids thought that was so funny.

Mexico Trip-First almost whole family vacation

The kids swam everyday, almost all day and they became little fishes. It was so fun to watch the kids diving in the water and then having diving races to see who could dive the deepest. Sean pretty much won everytime. He can offically dive to the bottom of 5 feet pool without any trouble and pick up a toy. Bri can get almost to the bottom she's just a little off. At the end of the day they were so worn and and sunburnt. Sean was so cute because he reminded me of me when I was little and we would swim all day in the pool or lake on our family reunions to bear lake. He had the same red ring around his eyes and nose even with sunblock always being put on and blood shot eyes from keeping his eyes open underwater. I would get the same thing. The more I think about Im really tempted to put a pool in when we buy our house because my kids are little fishes and even Kaylee loves the water too. Oh ya and my kids made fun of me because I still plug my nose and Sean told me that he could teach me how to swim the right way.

The second day this family we met told us about a really neat place down the beach where you can go help release baby sea turtles back into the ocean. So we got to go and help the baby sea turtles find their way home. It was so neat because they are so little, the littlest wave would just push them back to where they started, so we would pick them up and try and walk them out pass the break as much as we could. We learned that sea turtles follow the smell of the salt in the ocean, the warmth of the sun, and the sound of the waves to make it back to the water. Bri and Sean thought this was the neatest thing ever.

So we finally did it we decided to take our first offical family vacation. Normally we call our vacations going out to see my parents in Idaho but I thought the kids were old enough to go somewhere new and really fun. Except Kaylee we played it safe and left her home with some friends and she had a blast and loved all the attention she got. So we went to Mexico, yes Mexico, Puerto Vallarta. At the resort it was beautiful and so much fun. Out side the resort area not so nice looking. In the daytime all the kids wanted to do was swim and of course have virigin fruit drinks all day long. All the pools had swim up bars, but they had a good selection of kid drinks which was fruit and ice blended together. The kids thought they were so neat because they could swim and drink. We stayed right on the beach and it was warm and all inculsive food, so we didnt have to worry about finding food. Another thing the kids loved. They had a great kids pool with some really fun slides too.

Christmas 2011

I must apologize for not blogging lately it has been really busy and by the time the kids go to bed I just want to sit and watch TV.

Christmas was so much fun this year. Right after thanksgiving the kids were talking about Christmas and when it was going to come. The kids really learned alot about Christ and how this is the celebration of his birth. So on Christmas day after opening all their gifts Sean was like mom we cant forget it is Jesus birthday. I was like your right we need to always remember that. Man our kids keep us focused on what is right.We spent Christmas up at Greg's parents house and the kids loved sharing it with their cousin Hailey and they were all so cute together. Kaylee was trying to figure out how to roll all over or army crawl to eat all the paper, she loves paper. We got to watch Greg play a game and have a really hard time finding his clues but finally finished the game to find out his parents got him a huge tool shelves. Greg's dad put on a look and find game where his dad read a book and it gave pictures of where to go look of treasure. It was so cute to watch, Brianna did very well this year and found almost half of them. The next day for my birthday all the kids, Greg, and his parents took me bowling and out to sushi it was so great. Sean is an excellent bowler and bri is cute cause she's so little but really wants to be good like her brother. Kaylee was happy just watching.

Sorry I cant figure out how to move pictures tonight but the pictures on the top are of Brianna and Sean's school performances. They are so cute and did so well. Bri was Mary in the story of baby Jesus being born. She quietly walked out with a baby under her dress holding it very nicely and then brought the baby out at the right moment. It was so cute and she was so proud. Also the boy Caden that was Joseph Bri says is her boyfriend and that she loves him. Young love so cute. Sean was Satan clause and he say three different Christmas songs. His favorite was jingle bell rocks and he was so cute practicing it everyday. He did so well and say really loud. Kaylee was bouncing around so excited at both performances.

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