Kylee's 5th Birthday

Kylee turned 5 on Monday. I seriously cannot believe that my baby girl is 5! What the heck! It feels like it was just yesterday that I brought her home, time just goes by so quickly. We really got lucky with her. She is hands down the best little girl, probably in the whole world. She is so loving and kind, she loves to make other people laugh and feel good. She listens about 98% of the time. Seriously. She has her occasional fit but it's almost always because she didn't get enough sleep the night before. She is the best big sister. Always willing to roll around and wrestle with Brock. The sweetest is when he hurts himself and she runs over to comfort him. I couldn't ask for a better daughter. She really made easing into motherhood enjoyable and easy.

Cassie and Kevin invited us to go up to the snow with them on Monday. Kylee loved the idea of spending her birthday in the snow so we decided to go! We headed up to Payson and just kept going until we finally found snow! We thought we weren't going to find any because of how hot it has been the last week. I'm so glad we found some! The kids had so much fun. I didn't do much but sit on my butt in the snow. The joys of pregnancy!!

We got Kylee a bike for her birthday. She has been asking for a bike for a couple of years so we told her when she turned 5 we would get her one. She was so happy. After the snow we took the kids to the park and let Ky ride her bike around. For dinner she asked for a yummy salad and pizza and for dessert we had root beer shakes. I'm glad my little princess enjoyed her day!

Happy New Year

New Years Eve we had Mark's brother and his wife, Kevin and Jolean, over. I cooked mexican food and had tons of snacky food so we basically stuffed our faces all night. We set off fireworks at about 9pm, about 5 minutes after we started Brock started crying and said he wanted to go to bed. Poor kid is so afraid of loud noises. I of course had no objection to putting him to bed before midnight. We cut his afternoon nap out about a month ago and he is still getting used to being up all day. We put Kylee to bed at about 10 due to 8am church the next morning:) After all the kids were sound asleep we watched a movie until about 12:20am. I didn't even realise we had missed the "happy new year" moment until the movie was over. I think Mark was in the bathroom so I just threw my hands up and said happy new year to Jolean and Kev. Celebrating holidays sure changes a bit when you have little ones at home AND have 8am church AND are almost 9 months pregnant:) I like the change though. Kylee and Brock are at such a fun age, they just soak up everything around them. I like celebrating things with them instead of dropping them off at a sitter. Don't get me wrong, Mark and I love our date night or our mini weekend get-a-ways which don't happen that often, but I think we are at that stage where we enjoy taking the kids on vacation and doing fun things with them. Hope everyone had a fabulous night!

One year older...

I had my 27th birthday yesterday. I still can't believe how old I'm getting....I know 27 is not old, most days I have to remind myself that I am not 18 anymore. I have the same friends from high school, still eat the same kinda food, and pretty much act the same SO realizing how time is passing me by sometimes surprises me:) I look forward to aging. My kids getting older and going on missions and college, getting married and having kids of their own. Growing old with my sweetie pie. Mark hates old people, he thinks they are all crabby-patties that have nothing better to do than complain and be rude to people. I look forward to seeing what type of old man he turns into! HA

I had dinner with some of my friends at Buca last night, which was delicious by the way! I haven't been there in SO long and the food we ordered is making my mouth water right now just thinking about it. The night was full of good conversation and laughter. Next week Mark is taking me to a hotel for a night where he got me a pregnancy massage and a free night away from the kids. It will be our last little get-a-way before baby number 3 arrives. The fact that we are about to have another baby still has not hit me yet, I'm just about 35 weeks pregnant so it better hit me fast I guess.

I'm so blessed to have the life I have. I have so many amazing people in my life that I love so much. Here is to 2012, a family of 5, and the 27's:)

Christmas

Our Christmas Eve day is spent with Mark's family. We meet up at about lunch time and stuff our faces full of something fabulous, head to the park for some airplane fun, of course, and then head back over to the house for dinner and presents. It's such a nice relaxing day! I'm so grateful for Mark's parents. I really scored big time in the in-law department. They are hands down the most loving and giving individuals on the planet! We are so glad we live so close to them so we can see them when ever we want.

Christmas morning we opened up presents with the kids. Kylee was all excited that Santa ate her cookies and left her a "thank you" note for her....daddy enjoyed the cookies as well:) We had a killer breakfast, set up all the toys and found a place for them, and then headed to my parents house for dinner. It was a small crowd this year. We missed Dara and Tifani and their families so much. Hopefully next year we will all be in the same house!

We had fun explaining to the kids what Christmas is really about. I had them each say one thing they could do this year to make Jesus and Heavenly Father happy. They are so young but so full of the spirit. I just love my little munchkins. Brock is finally out of his crazy stage. He is so full of love. He'll just run over to Mark or I and give us a kiss and run away, then run back and say, "oh I forgot to give you a hug too!" He is just so sweet. Kylee is such a sweetheart! She is the best big sister and always finds time for her little brother. She is very smart, if she wants him to leave her a lone or not play with her stuff she'll find something for him to do that gets him away from her without her having to yell at him to get away. It felt like our first adult Christmas for some reason. Maybe because the kids were old enough to really be excited about everything. I'm finally started to get anxious about the delivery of our new little man. Bet's are on for the color of his hair! I'm assuming it's going to be red like the other two, maybe we'll get a surprise. I finished all 5 of my classes for school. Still have 3 months left of Friday night classes and then a externship after that BUT I am home now Mon-Thurs and am sure looking forward to it. Heavenly Father sure has blessed us this year. It feels good to set goals and to actually follow thru with them and see the end result. Hope everyone had a good year and Christmas full of love and laughter:)

My Ballerina

We signed Kylee up for a Ballet class with her little girlfriend Maggie. I think after signing her up for MANY different activities this is the one that she absolutely loves! It's so much fun to watch her get into dance mode and dance all over the place. She has the cutest teacher who she just adores. I'm looking forward to seeing how far she goes with this and if she found her niche in life:) She had a little Christmas Performance last week and did such a fabulous job. She was so excited to wear a little bit of makeup like a real ballerina! HA

Temple Lights

We went to go see the Temple lights with a few of my family members. It was f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g but we had a lot of fun together. After we went back to my sister, Dara's house, and enjoyed some hot chocolate and warm apple pie! Love my family:)