Happy Birthday Kaylee!

This week my little girl is turning EIGHT!!! I don't know how the time has flown by so fast. I can't believe how much she has grown. Since her birthday is on Christmas Eve she decided that she wanted to have her family dinner on Sunday this year. She even wrote up the menu all by herself, and made assignments for people to bring to contribute to dinner. Here is the menu she came up with: Homemade pizza, Marla potatoes (potatoes that are sliced up, cooked, and mixed with cheese and Sour Cream that Marla makes), bread sticks, homemade root beer, fruit, vegetables, and cake & ice cream. My whole family came over for dinner and we had a great dinner get together. After dinner she blew out her candles, and opened her presents. Aunt Marla gave her toe socks, a paper airplane kit, and earrings; Chris & Melissa gave her a bin of Lego's; Grandma and Papa gave her a cute dress; Wendy, Spencer, Roman, and Hudson gave her nail polish and a hair day (Wendy is a cosmetologist); Brenda & Dave gave her a Children's Christmas Cookbook (Kaylee loves to read cookbooks); Gabby gave her a Crayola color spinner;My cousin Tiffany and her boys Corbin & Carter gave her some chapter books to read; Mom and Dad (Me & Paul) gave her a new Razor scooter and a green puff vest; and my 89 year old Grandma (Kaylee's Great-Grandma) made her a blanket.

After the presents were opened I picked up her vest and my dad took it from me. That was absolutely the most entertaining moment of the evening. My dad decided to put on Kaylee's vest! Hilarious! First he tried to put it on the right way, and when that didn't work he decided to wear it backwards...the best he could. I hope you all enjoy these pictures as much as I do!

Flashback Friday

This picture is from November of 2003. Kaylee was almost one-year-old. She is sitting in a tree next to the Salt Lake City Temple. We were visiting from Washington for my little sister Brenda's wedding, and for Paul and I to be sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on our 2-year wedding anniversary.

Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday this week is from when Paul went to Florida for some Navy Recruiter Training. While he was there he went out deep-sea fishing and caught a nice fish. So, this picture is from about March of 2006 in Pensacola, Florida.

Festival of Trees

Today I took Kaylee and Gabby to the Festival of Trees with Marla, Wendy, and Wendy's boys. I have always LOVED going to the Festival of Trees and seeing all the decorated trees, gingerbread houses, and other Christmas Decor. We started out walking down the several isles of beautifully decorated Christmas Trees. There were TONS of snowmen trees this year (Some amazing...some not quite as stunning). There was such a cute teddy bear nativity and tree, a sock monkey tree, and some super cute pink little girl trees.

Next we headed over to the Gingerbread houses and checked out the amazing workmanship with candy. A few that we really liked were the Candyland board, Noah's Ark, The lighthouse, and a candyland village.

Our final stop was at the Kid Corner. There was Elf wands (streamer wands), crafts, face decorating, huge bubbles, and more!

Christmas Tree

On Friday (The day after Thanksgiving), we got out our tree, had our furniture rearranged, and set up our tree. The girls had so much fun setting up the tree, and putting decorations on. I am having a hard time finding all of my Christmas decor this year with all of our moves, and the movers packing things in random boxes but I did manage to find Christmas tree decorations. Here are a few pictures of our tree in progress. Even Falkor (our dog) is enjoying the Christmas tree)

Flashback Friday

Sorry I haven't been on here much lately. I am really trying to fix that, and you should see a lot more of me on here this month. Here's a delayed Flashback Friday from last Thanksgiving. Last year we were in Hawaii for Thanksgiving and we were invited to the Rico's house for Thanksgiving. After dinner they were so nice in letting Kaylee and Gabby help set up their Christmas tree. They had so much fun helping.

The day after Thanksgiving we were back in Utah and Kaylee and Gabby helped Grandma set up her Christmas tree.

Flashback Friday

Today's Flashback Friday is from my sister Wendy's wedding reception. They just celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary. A lot has happened in the last 10 years. We have all learned, and changed, and added quite a few members to our family. From left to right from the back row: Grandma Mildred Oveson, Janeene, Spencer, Wendy, Chris, Becky (Me); Front row: Brenda, Jim (my Dad), Marilyn (my Mom), Marla.