She is TWO!!!!!

Good morning birthday girl. What a great way to start off her special day.........heart shaped pancakes.

Her beautiful cake was made by a friend of ours in our last neighborhood. She makes gorgeous cakes, I have her info if anyone would like to order one from her. I like to celebrate Alexis' birthday with hearts and pinks and reds, since it is so close to Valentine's day. The flowers and the number two were even sparkly.She is all ready for the day. I don't think she can get any cuter. She is just perfect!

We celebrated her birthday in McCall. She slept on the way up. I have no idea how she can sleep like this. It looks painful.

Every year in McCall they have a winter carnival with lots of ice sculptures. As soon as we came into town, we were greeted by Thomas the train. It looked like he was coming out of the mountain. The back car even had a place for kids to climb in for a picture.

Presents!!!!I love this picture!!taking a little break in her new chairpretty as a princess in camo. ha.ha. I am sure it is obvious that my dad picked out that hat for her.

My parents gave her this cute birthday doll. Way cute. She also got a little vacuum, a baby (from Kylie), a tent (from Carson), new swim suit, clothes, a Dora chair....and a few more. She had a good day needless to say=0)Good thing we had enough cake to share. This big guy was an unexpected guest. He was very large and healthy. Where is Billy the exterminator when you need him. ha.ha The kids threw some crackers and he was a happy camper.
The next day we went out to check out some more ice sculptures. Here is Kyle studying my R.S lesson book, while doing his business! ha.ha. This sculpture won second place. Very creative.

The trains were Carson's favorite of course. Trains must have been the theme this year, because there were at least three or four of them. This one was amazing. It won a prize for the best maintained.

The birthday girl swimming! This was her first time wearing floaties, and she did awesome. She is pretty brave in the water, which is kind of scary.The birthday girl getting her beauty rest

On our way home we stopped to see the grand prize winner. It had a walkway leading up to it with bears and fish. Impressive!

And here is our two year old in her brand new big girl bed! Now we just need to get her to sleep in it all night.ha.ha

We had the best time in McCall! Lexis' birthday fell on Super bowl Sunday. My parents came with us on our mini vacation. We watched the Packers win the game!!! Woohoo!! My dad has been a big fan of them for about 16 years. I also am a fan of them, since I grew up watching them and cheering them on with my dad. I don't think Lexi's birthday could have been any better!

Some fun info. about Alexis:
She is in the 95% for height, 65% for weight ( she is pretty healthy. ha.ha.), when I ask her how old she is, she says " four-half" because that is what she hears her siblings say about their age, she likes pizza, loves pickles, loves to play with her brother and sister, she likes to snuggle, did not like her two year check up at all, Not a fan of doctors, she is still attached to her pacifier and calls it her "nummy", she is also enjoying drawing on the couch and walls recently, and just broke her front tooth. Terrible two's are officially here, and I wouldn't trade them for anything=0)

Kylie/Carson's night out

Kyle and I love to take the kids out alone every now and then. I think they really need and enjoy that special time alone with us. Most recently we took Carson out to a basketball game at BSU. We all had a great time together. Me and my buddy getting in some snuggles before the game=0)

We took him out to dinner before at this cool place that we thought he would love. The waitresses deliver the food on roller skates (super talented). They go really fast and he did like to watch them. Kyle and I have seen them take some big and very messy spills in the past. Thankfully that night, we didn't have to witness any.
Carson loved the decorations...........

and he especially loved his strawberry milkshake. That kept him really busy!

We had to run to the store after to pick up a few things. While we were pushing him around in the cart he told us thank you for a fun night. I wanted to cry, because it was just so sweet and sincere. Normally I have to request some gratitude, so it is super special when they do it all by themselves! Thanks Carson and Kyle for a great night out with my boys!!

Kylie got to go out with us on a night out to see the Cinderella play. It was for her cousin's birthday. It was so much fun. Kyle and I were surprised at how well she paid attention to the play and she loved every minute of it.

There were no pictures allowed in the theater, but she was so excited that she was able to meet Cinderella and the rest of the cast after.

The three of us at dinner

Kylie was pretty spoiled the entire evening.........blanket and all=)
We love having that quality time with our little munchkins. Lexi is not left out by any means. She has had a lot of alone time with us.......including every night in our bed. ha.ha We look forward to taking them out on a lot more dates in the future=)
Last week was a little rough for us. We had some bad flu plus a sinus infection, strep throat, and pink eye on top of it all. I laugh at it now.......I can't believe all the things we had at one time. Anyway, we are all feeling better.........on antibiotics, and looking forward to celebrating Lexi's birthday this weekend!!

Christmas (lots of pictures)

these pictures are little out of order, because my camera died on Christmas day. Something must have happened to it in the car. I only got one picture of Kylie with her grandpa. I didn't get a new camera until the next day. We did have a nice time at Kyle's parents house. We opened gifts, and spent time with the family.
The next morning we were going to Utah to see the lights at the Salt Lake temple with Kyle's brother and his family. We stopped by Kyle's grandparents house for breakfast on our way out. It was awesome to get a picture of them with all the grand kids! I just loved the funny face that Maryann was making in this one (the little girl in the middle)

Here is Grant, Kyle, and the kids

Then we went to the airplane museum when we got into Utah. Lexi was sitting watching an airplane video in such a lady like fashion! ha.ha

This one was giant. Wow! The airplanes are amazing, and there is so much history to learn about at the museum. We had a great time.

Then we went out to eat at a really cool place, where people dive off a cliff into a swimming pool. All the kids LOVED it! This is Kyle's brothers family.

And this is me and my Carson!

Here is Kylie in the tabernacle. It is such a neat building. While it was being built, the people were inspired to put a bunch of holes on the ceiling, and didn't know why. We now know that it was for lighting and sound purposes. Pretty amazing!
He we are in front of the temple........so amazing all the detail that went into it.

just gorgeous......especially with all the Christmas lights around it.

We were all exhausted at the end of the day. We were glad to get to the hotel and swim, and relax. The water was so warm too. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day.

Kylie and Carson especially loved the hot tub

Since we spent Christmas day with Kyle's family, we spent Christmas Eve with my parents at their house. My mom sets the table so pretty every time.And her house looks like the north pole. The other side of the tree looked just like this side=0)

The kids all got new bikes as their main gifts..........pretty cool!

Lex now has her very own lap top

Carson checking out his daddy's present

I got these awesome gloves. Can't wait until next year, so that I can put them to good use!And the grand finale..............................a Wii.................................yay. Man they really spoiled us. I was super excited for this one. I had no idea they were getting that for us!
Here they are in their new jammies, all ready to go home and wait for Santa to come!
When they woke up, they found Santa was pretty good to them. Carson got a train table, Kylie- a princess tent and dress up clothes, Lexi- a cool weebles tree house.
Kyle got a remote control helicopter, some clothes, a new razor, and some other great gifts. Kyle got me a vex con shirt! I love it. I love watching Billy the exterminator, and that is where he ordered my shirt from. They also got me some twilight perfume, Boise state gear, and a beautiful purse. Great work!! I love it all.
Here is Kylie with her twin dogs that she wanted so badly. These were from Nana.
Lexi really liked her new cabbage patch baby. She snuggled on her while she was still in the package.
We had a wonderful Christmas. We always remember the true meaning of the holiday and love to celebrate together.

Merry Christmas!!

Here is a little video of our Christmas morning. I love to see how excited the kids are to see what Santa brought. I still have more to post from The whole Christmas weekend. I just wanted to get the video on here first.

10 years........wow!

Kyle and I celebrated our ten year anniversary last month. We decided to stay here in Boise for the weekend. My parents watched the kids for us. We started out our weekend with a BSU graduation. We got to watch Kyle's friend, along with some of our favorite BSU players graduate. Then we went to lunch at the cheesecake factory.
He is smiling because he knows what is coming...........
banana cheesecake with hot fudge.........yummy. The food is really good too.
We did a lot of shopping, went to the movies, and to a Hockey game. We had awesome seats, just three rows from the glass. Kyle spotted my favorite BSU player sitting one section over from us, and I was out of my seat and headed over to him right away.ha.ha.
Oh yeah!! That is me and Austin Pettis..............woohoo. I don't think I could possibly have smiled any bigger. ha.ha. He has been my favorite player this year, because of this cool flip that he did during one of the first games of the season. He was going in for a touchdown, and flipped into the end zone. It was awesome. He got a celebration penalty for it, but it was worth it. Great move. I liked his attitude!! I am pretty sure he will go to the NFL this year, so I will have to cherish this picture!!
Kyle and I had a wonderful weekend together. Funny how I didn't even get a picture with him. That's o.k. He knows I love him and think he is wonderful! It was so nice to just hang out together and have fun. We missed our kids badly though, that is one of the reasons we didn't go too far! This was Lexi's first time overnight without us. Happy ten years to us......and here's to many, many more!!