A Very Merry Christmas

Christmas was spent with Jodi & Tony's family, Jared & Jami's family and Bompa Hobbs in Twin Falls. As you can see, it was a Christmas filled with excitement, good food and memories to cherish forever. We have captured a few of the events below.


The girls - Shelby, Libby, Tylee and Kylie. Nearly every waking moment was spent playing dress up.


Again, the girls. This time at meal time. What characters!


Abbey showing off her new learning table to Libby. She loves it! Kylie thinks something is quite funny.


Santa was very kind to Abbey & Kylie. Mr. and Mrs. Claus stayed up late putting together Kylie's new kitchen.


Abbey enjoying her new stacking bowls.


Our little chef playing with her new kitchen.


Tylee, Abbey and Kylie's cousin, announced that her family would be having a new baby in July Christmas morning with this shirt. Congratulations Jami and Jared!


The 4 amigos taking a bath. Bath time was fun!


The Traveler family singing a song during the Christmas Story on Christmas Eve.


Kylie showing off her princess shoes from Aunt Laura & Uncle George. She wore them everywhere.


Christmas pajamas. Although, Kylie's were a little big. Ok, very big. We had to open another present Christmas Eve from Grammy Hansen to use another pair of Christmas pajamas.

Viva Las Vegas

We all flew down to Las Vegas this past weekend to watch BYU play UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl. As you know, BYU blocked a last second field goal attempt of UCLA to secure a 17-16 win - yeah!





We stayed at THE Hotel at Mandalay Bay. Before going to the game we got to see the Excalibur Medival Show, take in a tour of Shark's Reef (sorry no pictures, we forgot our camera in the room) and celebrate Kylie's birthday once again. She is going to think that December is her birthday, rather than just December 8th.


Bompa and Grammy pausing for a quick photo during the Medival Show.


Ryan and Abbey dancing.


Abbey trying to drink like the big kids. She wants so bad to be big!


On the way to the game, we found a street named after Stephanie! She was quite excited to be famous.


Another birthday party for Kylie Jo.


Cake - vacation style, twinkies and cupcakes.


Aunt Linz and Abbey.


Bompa and Kylie playing with one of her balloons.

Haircuts

Kylie and Stephanie both got their haircut recently. We went to Cookie Cutters, a kids haircut store. The place had cars for seats, movies to watch during the haircut and a slide. Needless to say, Kylie had a blast!

Twice As Nice

Yesterday, we celebrated Kylie Jo's 2nd birthday.  The day began with her favorite breakfast - eggs and toast, surrounded by balloons and streamers (all pink of course).  

During the day she helped her Mom decorate her ladybug cake.  In fact, when she was asked what she wanted for breakfast, lunch and dinner, she replied 'ladybug cake'.  

She also played with one of her presents from Mom & Dad, a Disney Princess Make-Up Kit. The best $10 gift ever for a little princess. Needless to say, she loves it!

She was also quite excited when she saw her new bike!  She can reach the pedals, but still has some growing to do to really enjoy it.  As Kylie says, 'almost ready' (a.k.a. almost big enough to ride it).  And if you look closer at the bike photo, she is not only 'riding' the bike, but also applying her pretend lipstick.  Hopefully, this isn't an indication of things to come.

  

That evening a few family members came to a small birthday party.      

  

Mmmm, nice and warm!

The first snow storm in the valley came last evening - the perfect time to try on a new coat, hat and gloves. As you can see, Kylie loved her new snow apparel. Thank you Grandma Hansen for the hat and gloves!

Messy, Messy, Messy

Meal and snack times are quite adventuresome with Kylie and Abbey. They can create quite the mess. However, the fun and laughs out weigh any mess that is created. They are so fun!

Help, I'm stuck!

The following photos were taken a couple of weeks ago, when Abbey rolled under the coffee table and got stuck. We heard 'bonk, bonk, bonk' and then a little whimper saying 'help, I'm stuck'. What a kid!



She is close to crawling. In fact, with help from Mom or Dad, she tries her best to move her legs in keeping up her big sister, Kylie Jo.

Sunglass Lady

One of Kylie's favorite items is her sunglasses. As you can see, she has learned to wear them in her hair just like Mom does. What a character!

Spilled out of my mouth!

This last Monday evening, we awoke unexpectedly by a scream from Kylie. We thought she had fallen out of her new 'big girl' bed. However, that was not the case. She had thrown up or as she would say 'spilled out of my mouth'. The evening included 6 separate 'spilling' episodess - with 4 directed at Dad! The evening (actually morning) also included 2 pairs of pajamas, a bath and several bedding changes. It was a long night.

She is now feeling better and has returned to her active self. It was sad to see her so scared and not knowing what was going on. Bless her heart.

New Address

It is official. We are now residents at in South Jordan, Utah. We are still busy unpacking and probably will be for some time.

A huge thank you to those that helped with our move. We couldn't have done it without each of you.

We will post more later, when we get more settled. 

Contact us for our mailing address and phone number.

Our Cuddlebug

Abbey Lynn has become quite the little cuddlebug. She loves to have her Mom play with her hair and scratch her back. Several minutes of cuddling can put her to sleep like the photo above.

The photo below was taken after she fell asleep in the baby carrier while we made pumpkin cookies as part of FHE. She must have worked too hard!

A Week Away

Our waiting is almost over. We are now only a week away from moving into our new home in Daybreak. You might ask, are you packed? Well, kind of. Most of our belongings have been in a local storage unit. We still have some items yet to pack, but they are items that can't be packed until the last moment.

We went to our new ward on Sunday. It is so big. 10-12 new families joing the ward every Sunday! The ward will be splitting sometime soon ... most likely when two new church buildings are completed in the area.

Splendid

The other evening at dinner, Kylie blurted out, 'splendid'. What? Are you kidding me? Yes, our almost 2-year old said 'splendid'. It is hard to believe that she could say such a word, yet alone comprehend it, but she does.

We think that she picked up the word while watching Super WHY, a PBS-Kids production that she loves to watch.

Kids say the cutest things. And, they seem to grow up so fast.

Construction Update

This week has brought alot of progress on our new home. The electrical work is now completed, rock installed on the fireplace, outside cement poured, exterior paint fixed, plumbing installed and granite countertops added. Whew, that even makes us tired! It is looking really good. Less than 3 weeks to our move-in date! Yeah!