Adam's Homecoming

My little brother Adam came home on October 12th. He flew right in to the Cedar City Airport so it was tons of fun to be able to see his plane come there and have all the kids there cheering and holding signs. This picture is of him with all 21 nieces and nephews. I think he was pretty overwhelmed at first because of how many of us were there and how loud and excited we were:) He served his mission in Tijuana Mexico so he came home with a super tan face until you get to his neck where his colared shirt starts, it is a pretty funny farmers tan! Anyways he looked great, and it was so fun to see him after two years. He had never met Kaysha before, but she will go right to him and lay on his shoulder, it is pretty cute. Then I swear Revin remembers him from before because he didn't skip a beat, just acted like Adam was his best friend. While we were all together on Sunday for Adam's homecoming we got this huge family picture. I turned out a lot better than expected because I was trying to make Kaysha keep her headband on and Revin was pouting, but you would never know it :)

FALL IS HERE

I am so excited fall is here! It puts me in a mood that I want to clean my house and make cookies :) Anyways, I love this time of year. We are getting really excited for Adam coming home in less than two weeks! It will be so good to have him back. We are keeping busy with Dan's job and hunting and with me teaching dance two days a week instead of one. We are loving it though! Revin just started pre-school. He goes to Skill Builders Pre-K. A lady just teaches it out of her basement in Fiddler's Canyon, but she has anything and everything you can think of. It looks like a mini- kindergarten room. He absolutely loves it! He is still the funniest guy ever and is always cracking us up. We have to be careful about what we say around him, because he tells everyone EVERYTHING. He will tell you words his dad uses and all... but we are trying to work on that with him (and with Dan). Kaysha just turned one. The year went by too quick it was crazy! She just crawls around like a mad lady or does the stink-bug crawl when she is outside. She still thinks Revin is the greatest, most entertaining person ever, so as long as he is around to play with she is good! She can be quite the drama queen, but most the time she is pretty sweet. We love having a girl in the house, it is so fun!

Our back yard is now finished which is so nice to be able to let the kids go out and play. Dan worked super hard on it and it looks really nice. Anyways, that is pretty much what we have been up to lately :) Here are some pictures Heather took of Kaysha and a few of her 1st Birthday Party:

Summer

We celebrated Dan's birthday on July 24th. It is kind of hard to know just how to celebrate because it is also Mark and Greg's birthdays, so we usually do a little get together. This year Dan had to drive our ward's float down the parade. We let Revin ride in the back with a squirt gun and he thought it was the greatest thing ever :) Afterwards we went with Dan's family to Pizza Factory to celebrate. It was kind of sad because Dan was the only one who showed up. Greg did finally come about a half hour late and Mark never came. But we celebrated anyways :) I forgot my camera though, so I only have pictures of the parade.

I also had to share this picture because Revin loved this girl. I have been taking Revin to Gold's Gym Child Care when I go work-out since he was three months old. He loves it there! He cries when I make him leave. Since he has been there for over three years he has grown really attatched to the girls that work there, and they love my kids too. Well this girl who Revin thinks her name is actually "Teacher" has been there since we starting going and she told us she was moving to Richfield. She is Revin's favorite, so on her last day Revin took her a rose and a picture he colored. He was so cute because he said "I love you teacher, and I will miss you" It was kind of sad though! Anyways, just thought I would share.

Bryce Canyon

We took a fun little family trip a couple of days ago to Bryce Canyon National Park. Dan had a geology assignment that he had to visit a National Park and write a paper on it, so we decided to go there. It really is such a pretty place. We should go more often since it is only about one hour and 15 minutes away. Plus, I used to work at Ruby's Inn for a little moment of my life, so I have a few fond memories. Anyways, the kids loved it. Revin thought the canyon was tons of little castles. We went on a little family hike which is much harder lugging around a 10 month old, but we had a great time together!

Panguitch Lake and Kidney Stones

It has been a little bit of a rough one this week at our house. Dan's co-worker called me on Tuesday and told me to go to the E.R. because he had just taken Dan there because he was throwing up and almost to pass out because a pain in his back was so bad. I got back in the E.R. and Dan (who is a tan guy) was white as a ghost and looked near death. He had never experienced anything so painful in his life. A scan showed that it was a kidney stone and they gave him pain medicine and sent him home telling him it would pass on its own. Well pain medicine makes Dan sicker than a dog, so as you can see our week was filled with pain and puking. So not fun! By Friday he was doing a little better and so we still decided to go camping with his family like we had planned. It started hurting major again once we got up there, but it finally did pass, so he was able to survive :) Anyways, we spent Friday night and all day Saturday at Panguitch Lake. For those of you who know me well know that I am not the best camper, but I was a trooper and went. The kids had tons of fun, and Dan of course went fishing.

Revin and Kaysha in the camper

Revin with his cousins Easton and Shelby
As you can see Revin really enjoyed himself :)

Dan finally feeling better and Revin

Time Flies

I haven't been very great about posting lately, so I thought that I would post a few new pictures and things that we have been up to.

Dancing is finished for the year. We finished up with our Dance Review and Dance competition the end of April. They did so awesome... superiors in every single dance we competed. It was a fun year, but it is good to have a tiny break until summer lessons start.

Kaysha is doing great. She has two new teeth that she loves to bite with! She is getting cuter everyday, and it really is so fun to have a little girl! She loves Revin more than anyone, I just hope it lasts.

Revin is 3 now. He really is so so smart! He amazes me every day with the little things that he knows and I have no idea where he knows them from. He loves showing off that he can sing his ABCs, draw a picture of anyone, count in spanish, and that he knows all of his shape... even an oval... the sad thing is that I think he might learn it all from watching Nick Jr :) He is such a good big brother and so sweet to Kaysha.

We have been trying to work on the outside of our house lately. We got the rock done around the archway, put up new shutters, got our sod in, now we are waiting on a block wall that should be done in June and a little more rock work on the front, but we are so excited that it is all coming together! Other than that Dan is just super busy which is good and bad, and I am enjoying the summer with my kids and getting ready for summer dance classes :)

Easter

This Easter we went camping at Sand Hollow. It was so much fun! Dan took his boat so he could fish, and take the kids on boat rides. I spent my time enjoying the warm weather and shopping with my mom and sisters. Revin was completely entertained just playing in the sand with all of the cousins, and Kaysha was just nice as usual. I was so glad to be able to get out of the snow here in Cedar and enjoy the outdoors. We camped with Jamie and Joey's family in my Mom and Dad's trailer. It was really nice.

Revin, Chloe and Tyson

Me, my Mom and my sisters... please excuse my camping hair

Revin's Hornytoad

Kaysha Hazel

Good Times

I thought I better post about things other than potty training, which by the way is going very well now. Last weekend we took a trip to Richfield to visit Dan's grandparents and go to a farewell party for his cousin that is in the army. We had a fun little lunch at a roller skating rink. It was super fun (mostly for Dan) Revin refused to try to skate with us and instead just ran around while people were running him over with their skates. He is such a social little bug, I didn't even hardly see him the whole time because he was too busy making friends or begging people for pop. Kaysha was loved and tended by everyone around. I only skated for a little bit, but Dan was trying moves from back in the day like skating backwards and spinning to stop. I told him if he just slapped some sequins on himself that he could be on the US figure skating team! It reminded me of the days at Cedar's roller skating rink. I have so many fun memories there, I can't believe they shut it down.

Pretty sure you are "Anal Retentive"

Let me just let you all know that though Revin has been "pee trained" for almost 5 months, he has never pooped in the potty, not even once. It is so sad because he holds it in for days at a time because he knows how in troube he is if he poops in his pants. It is SUCH a process! Anyways one night his belly was hurting so bad and I knew he needed to go so we did a suppository that he just about thought ruined his life, and then he we sat with him until he had no choice but to go... Anyways sorry for too much info, but we have always promised him that if he would poop in the potty he would get to meet Mac (the deisel from cars). He would not give the idea up. As soon as he went he said "Lets go meet Mac"! So... my dad is really close friends with Mac apparently, and so he hooked Revin up with a little ride! It made his whole life! He loved it. Mac was super stuck from setting there all winter, but Revin said Grandpa woke him up. He got to steer and even honk Mac's loud horn. We totally thought that this would be the trick that would make him change his ways... but here we are four days later and no second attempt to poop AHHHHHH! What will we do? I guess another suppository!

Our Kaysha Baby

Kaysha is 4 months old now! Time has flown by so fast! She is such a sweet little girl. She is at 15% in her weight, 12% in her height, she is small but very proportianate! She LOVES her bottle, sleeps like an allstar from 8:30 to 7:30, and loves to goo and smile. I had someone ask me the other day if she was mobile yet and I just laughed because she hasn't even rolled over yet! She is such a content baby that she just lays on her back and looks around. She has been so much fun these past four months!

Our Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. It is getting more exciting as Revin gets older and knows who Santa is. He was so excited this year which made Dan and I probably even more excited than him. Santa brought him almost every Cars movie character there ever was and a cars race track. He just kept saying "Mom I love this!" Kaysha got a doll and, of course, some new clothes. 2009 brought some trials and a lot of blessings. I am so thankful to be in our new home and to have our baby Kaysha here and that our little family is happy and healthy. I am looking forward to a new year and I hope it brings great things for everyone!

My mom got my sisters and I twiner coats for Christmas. It made for a great photo opportunity!