Little Mommy

Haylie is a very girly girl. This is strange for me, I've always been more of the tomboy type. It has been so funny to watch her lately. She is just getting old enough to have a funny little imagination. Her latest thing is her dolls. They are very much her little babies. She always wants to change their diapers. So all of her dolls have her diapers on. She is such a good little mommy!!

It's Itty Bitty Ball Time Again

We have been loving having Tate participate in itty ball every couple of months. This time around it incorporates 5 sports instead of just 1. The first day was baseball. He hasn't played baseball before, but he did really good.

The next day was basketball. Tate didn't like basketball much when he did it before so I was nervous he wouldn't do it. But, he got right in and remembered some of the things they had done and played well. This is Tate and his buddy Tanner trying to play defense.
The next day was football. This was Tate's favorite itty bitty sport so far. So he was really excited to do it again. They rotate through stations practicing and learning, then they scrimage at the end. The best part was the scrimage. My friend Laura's little boy was soooo funny. They were scrimaging, they took turns getting the ball and had to run to the goal line and try not to have their flags taken off by the other team. So it was Logan's turn to run with the ball, instantly this kid swarms him trying to get his flag. Well bless Logan's heart he was not going to let this kid take his flag so he stops and just starts hitting him. It was so funny!!! So for those of you who know Laura you'll have to watch her blog because she was videoing the whole thing and I'm sure she'll post it soon.



The next classes are soccer, volleyball, and a game day so I'm sure I'll have more pictures later.

A moment to vent...

I am so tired of everything breaking down all the time!!! I swear everytime we turn around someting else needs to be fixed. Whether it be our entire HVAC in our house, our car, our suv (that we keep trying to fix but haven't actually won the battle), our water heater, our TV, etc., etc., etc. I swear everytime I think we are finally on top of things something else breaks down. I keep wondering where all our money goes and then I remember all the stuff we have to keep fixing. I'm starting to feel like we need our own Macgyver on staff to be at our beckon call. Anyway, I wish venting actually solved problems, but oh well.

Will we ever not be sick??

I think this is only like the first or second time I've ever done a post without pictures. However, we haven't done anything exciting to take pictures of in a very long time. Like everyone else, I feel like we have been horribly sick since November. Over the last two weeks we have been to the Dr. so many times we should get some kind of frequent flyer discount. Tate ended up with bronchitis. Haylie got that crazy fever that's been going around. She had a fever of 104 off and on for almost a week, then ended up with a horrific ear infection. Kalun also got a horrible cold. Amazingly, with very little sleep for a week and a half while tending to all the sickies, I seem to have made it through with only a little sore throat that only lasted a couple days and extreme exhaustion. Hopefully, we are all on the mend for awhile. I usually love winter, I love snow. But, I think this is the first winter I remember that I have wanted to end!! Hope all the rest of you are surviving!

Kalun is a Big 3-0!

Kalun is now a big 3-0!! Of course for all of you that know the joke we are not sure if he turned 30 on the 1st or 2nd but nonetheless he is 30. So I thought I'd take a moment and brag about how awesome Kalun is. I am so grateful that Kalun is my husband. He takes such good care of me. He is also such an amazing dad. He loves being with his kids. Both kids have a laugh I refer to as the "dad laugh" because no one can make them laugh like their daddy. He is such a hard worker. He is very dedicated to his job and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. He has a strong testimony. He is also one of the most service oriented people I have ever met. He will never say no when someone needs help. He is a good friend to everyone. I don't think I know anyone who has more friends than Kalun. We cannot go anywhere without running into someone he knows. Kalun, thanks for being the person you are and for always striving to be even better. I love you, Happy Birthday!!





Okay, I'm not usually a mushy person, so moving on...We had a busy couple days around his birthday(s). Sunday the 1st (which is probably his real b-day, but not the one he grew up celebrating) he got to watch the super bowl at his friends house. That is pretty much a win win for a birthday for Kalun since he loves football and good food. On the 2nd, he worked all day but we squoze in a movie. We went to the dollar theater and saw Madagascar 2. On the 3rd we had a big party at classic skating. Not many people know that Kalun is a roller blader. He has loved skating for years. He used to skate around the neighborhood with his dog pulling him. So, he's actually really good. I on the other hand went old school and skated. I volunteered to push Haylie in the stroller most of the time because at the beginning I let Kalun take her and I fell really hard on my butt, so I opted for the stroller to hold on to. Tate had fun on his scooter with all the kids. We had a blast at the party. Kalun's mom even skated. We got to see a lot of people that we haven't seen for a long time. It was so fun to see everyone's kids having fun. Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated with us!!

Draper Temple

Thursday night we took our kids and went to the LDS Draper Temple open house. The temple was so beautiful!! It was fun to take the kids. Even though they are so young it was a great teaching moment. We were able to go into a Sealing room and I was able to talk with Tate about Kalun and I being married there, he thought it was cool. Tate also loved all the beautiful pictures of Jesus throughout the temple. I encourage all of you to take the chance to go. There is more info on www.lds.org. The open house continues until March.

Quick Cabin Trip

Our friends parents have a cabin. We have been saying we were going to go up to it since we went last time 3 1/2 years ago, and have never made it back up there. Finally we just decided to go. It ended up being a very short trip, because none of the hubbies could take time off. So we left friday night after work and came home late Saturday. We all felt like we had to be back for church, especially since the friends are in our ward and she's in the RS presidency, he's in the YM's, Kalun's in the Elder's quorom presidency, and I'm in the YW's presidency. Anyway, it was short but we still had a lot of fun. They invited a few other friends. We played lots of games and went four wheeling in the snow. It's funny that it's so hard sometimes to fit in a little get away, but every time we do we swear we need to do it more often.

Christmas Break

Wow, it's been really busy. We had a great break. We had a lot of fun spending a lot of family time. Kyli was able to visit for a while. So I thought I'd go back to the beginning starting with Christmas Eve. We went sledding. My mom has this perfect hill in her front yard for my kids. The kids love the snow. We then went home and got ready for the day. We then headed back to my parents for a big dinner. On the way though we had a horrible experience. We came across an accident on the freeway seconds after it happened. (I know a lot of you got stuck in the traffic) Needless to say, no police or paramedics had arrived yet. We slowed down and yelled to see if anyone needed help. They said someone needed CPR, so I jumped out and ran to help. I won't go into many more details because the scene was not pretty. But, I stayed on the scene and tried to help (I didn't have any kind of medical supplies with me) I stayed until the paramedics arrived and then worked with them for a bit, until I was no longer needed. Then we went on to my mom's. What a sobering experience to have on Christmas Eve.




Christmas Day
We had an awesome christmas. I surprised Kalun with a Wii. The kids are at such a fun age. We had a great time watching them all morning.



The Day after Christmas Kyli flew in. We went straight from the airport to Temple Square. It was so pretty, and also very cold. But we had a blast.



The next day we went swimming


We then had a big Christmas dinner with Kalun's Family where we did the nativity..

Monday Night we went to Jump-on-it



Next was the Dinosaur Museum


Then we went Ice skating. Tate loved it. Kyli took a while to warm up to it, but by the end of her trip she kept saying that was her favorite part.





The last couple days of Kyli's visit we went to my grandparents cabin. We played in the snow a lot, played games, and played wii. It was so much fun. We went with some of our friends who have kids that are the same age as Tate and Haylie, and have girls that have always been really good friends of Kyli's.





Sorry this is the longest post I've ever seen. I took like a hundred more pictures, I tried to narrow it down to only a few. I hope everyone else had a great Holiday Season!!