Fun weekend with Grandma & Kacie!

We are so glad that Grandma and Kacie could come down for Kyle's Disney Program!

Then the next day we went to the zoo for my birthday! We had beautiful weather, it was 75* that day! We have tons of pictures, but I just picked a few of my favorites with Grandma and Kacie! I will do another zoo post later!







Then on the Saturday, the 21st we sent the day shopping in Park City! Kacie and Mckinley got matching necklaces and flip-flops at Justice, matching shirts at Old Navy, and fingernails at Clairs to put on when we get home. Later that night we took Grandma out for her birthday and we ate at Ruby Tuesdays! They had really good steak and salad bar!
On Sunday, March 22nd it was storming outside so we stayed in and put fake fingernails on Mckinley and Kacie.

We have had a tradition of popping popcorn and playing games on Sunday as long as I can remember! We played "Whoonu" with Mike and Lori.
We ate tons of gummy worms and so we had to take a fun picture of them hanging out of our mouths!
Then on Monday the kids didn't have school so they played Mario Kart on the Wii!


Mckinley and Kacie wore their matching shirts and necklaces when we went to see "Bedtime Stories" at the movie theater! Everyone loved that movie! Thanks for coming to visit us! We had a blast with you here!

Kyle's Disney Program

Ever since Kyle was in Kindergarten he couldn't wait until he was in the 3rd grade to be in the Disney Program. Each year that the Disney Program was performed he would wonder about what character he was going to be. He is so glad that it is finally here! I hope they always have the Disney Program so all my kids can have this experience!Kyle was Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. He started the program with this speech, "To all who come to this happy place WELCOME, Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenging promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, dreams and the hard facts that have created America. Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, our 3rd grade proudly presents the DISNEY PROGRAM! And we scare because we care!"

He performed March 16th-19th! There were 7 performances total...two classes would perform while two classes sang. Then the next performance they switched . Kyle had a lot of costume changes all at the beginning of the show! Right after he gave his speech he had to run to his classroom and change into his pirate costume and be in "Yo Ho A Pirates Life For Me!" Kyle is in the front on his knees!
Arrrghh Mattie!
I was able to teach the pirate dance and it was an good/interesting experience. I have a lot more appreciation for the 3rd grade teachers who make this Disney Program happen ever year.
Then Kyle had a class dance "Supercalifragilistic-Expialidocious!" He had to run and change his hat really quick.



Right after that dance he ran on stage and said, "These Tiki-birds will never learn to fly!"
All of this happened the first 10-15 minutes of the program. He did a good job pulling it all off.

Then he ran and changed into his bee costume for the "Zippity Doo Da" dance. It was a fun upbeat version of the song. He thought it was cool he got to jam out on a guitar in this dance.

At the end of the program all the kids from all four 3rd grade classes came on stage and sang a song from High School Musical, "We're All In This Together!" The kids all did an excellent job. (Kyle is on the top in his bee costume.)
Kyle knew we were giving his teacher a candy bar card as a thank you, but what he didn't realize is that we made one for him also. He was so surprised!

Kyle really wanted his Grandparents to come and watch him. He was SO glad that Grandma and Kacie were able to come to his program!

Way to go Kyle!

Kyle's first time skiing!

Kyle went skiing for the first time and had a BLAST! EJ said, he was impressed how fast Kyle picked it up...he was going over small bumps in no time. Kyle said his favorite part was the obstacle course, bumps and when he turned around backwards. (I not sure if that was on purpose! LOL!!!) He also liked going on the ski lift and just hanging out with his Dad!
Thanks Mike for taking the photos!

Look at those smiles!

Jr. Jazz '09

Kyle (#13) has had fun playing basketball this year! He can't wait until Feb. 20th when the Jazz player comes to town! It's fun to anticipate which player it will be.

I switched my camera to video at the right time and got him making this basket! Way to go Kyle!

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Circus Fun!

Kyle was excited because the circus came the day after his birthday! We had a lot of fun and even got some cotton candy! Ever since we went to Disneyland the kids LOVE cotton candy!
The kids all the loved the motorcycles in the ball the best! They started with one motorcycle then added another one and at the end they had 3 motorcycles in that small ball! Here is a video! (The funniest part is listening to EJ and I while we were recording it...you can just turn your sound off! LOL!)

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Classic Pose

When I was little after we had family prayer, my Dad would let us all pile on his back and he would take us off to bed! (I am 4 years old and Tammy is 7 years old in this picture).

To keep the traditions going, EJ has done the same thing with our kids! One of the first digital pictures I have of this pose was Oct. 2003! Kyle was 3 years old and Mckinley was 1 1/2 years old.

I am so excited because I got a good picture tonight of all 4 kids on EJ's back and they are looking in the right direction! Yeah!!!

I hope my kids will have fun memories of this, just like I do with my Dad!

"Applause" for Mckinley!

Mckinley has been in a singing group called "Applause" and they had their Christmas music recital tonight! Her favorite songs they sang were, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" and "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," She liked singing the Hippo song, because each of the girls had their own solo!

She also liked doing the Mele Kalikimaka song, because they got to put on sunglasses! Mckinley had another fun thing happen today she was given the 'Social Skills Superstar' award at school! When she was getting ready for bed, I heard her say, "This has been a GREAT day!"

Turkey Cookies

This year for Thanksgiving we went to Oregon and had Thanksgiving dinner with my Mom and Dad and family. Vaughn and Barbara and two of their daughters, Becky and Tara, came with their families also. We had a wonderful feast and afterwards Tara had "Turkey Cookies" for the kids to make. I wanted to share these because the kids had so much fun making them.

She had the sugar cookies already made (you could even buy them). She put yellow frosting on the top of the cookie and the kids pressed the candy corns on for the feathers. Then they decorated the face and turkey feet with frosting. They were really fast and FUN to make! Thanks Tara for doing this! The kids still talk about the fun turkey cookies!


This is how Blake decorated...he pulled everything off and ate it!

1st Snowman of the Season!

We had a unexpected surprise...it snowed several inches on Tuesday, November 4th! Braxton wanted to make a snowman, so EJ helped him and it turned out to be HUGE! (Notice Braxton's nice purple gloves...he was so excited he couldn't wait for me to find his blue ones! LOL!!!)