Kyla's Gymnastics

Kyla started gymnastics about a month ago, and she has had so much fun. It has been really fun to go and watch her, she's definitely not the most coordinated child out there, but she loves to go. Its been really good for her to interact with other kids and people, she's not nearly as shy as she used to be. She is such a good girl, they always stretch on their little mats, and while all the other kids go to get a drink of water, she stays and helps her coach clean up all the mats, and while all the kids are running around crazy, she sits quietly in her spot and does exactly what she's supposed to. She's such a good girl! Her favorite part is the balance beam, and she comes home and practices all the time. It's made me feel a lot better about sending her to preschool this next year, seeing how well she's done, and how much fun she's had!

We went to the Park

Yesterday we went down to Anthem, which is about an hour south of us. We stopped and played at a park, it was so warm, and the girls (and puppy) had a lot of fun playing. It was so warm, the splash park water actually came on while we were there, and kids were running through the water, I just can't believe it's December!

The Newest Member of Our Family

This is the newest member of our family........GUS!! He's an english bulldog, and we just got him yesterday, he is 6 1/2 weeks old. He is still working on getting used to us, and we are working on the whole potty training thing.....yeah! But, he is so cute, and we love him. The girls have had so much fun playing with him. We're excited to have all of them grow up together!

Enrichment Night Christmas Blocks

We have our christmas enrichment night next week, and I made these to go along with our program, I thought they turned out really cute!

Halloween and Our Trip to Utah

I am finally catching up a little with things, and decided that it was time to post again....Well, we went back to Utah over halloween and visited both of our families. We had a lot of fun, the girls had so much fun playing with all their aunts and uncles and cousins. They were very good on the drive up and back as well. It was fun to go home, neither of us have been back in almost a year. We also got together with some of our high school friends, it was fun to see their kids, and hear about all they're doing. I think the best part of the trip though was all the food... We never go out to eat here, because there aren't any good restaurants, especially mexican. We had ruby river, brick oven, los hermanos, cafe rio...and yes, we all gained 10lbs, but oh well! Halloween was really fun to, we went down to my moms and her ward had set up trick or treating around this walking path, that is out in the trees, it was fun to be outside, and easy to just let the kids walk up and down the path. They thought it was great! We had fun on the drive home to, we stopped at big rock candy mountain, then we got ice cream in kanab, and played by the waterfall, then we stopped in page at glen canyon dam, and we stopped in Tuba City and had dinner. It took us 12 hours to get home, but we actually had a lot of fun! Thanks Judy for letting us always stay with you and for taking good care of us. We love you all!!

Happy Birthday Lover

Yesterday was Jared's birthday, he turned 28...we're getting so old. He really didn't get the best birthday this year, since we just got back from our cruise two days before. But, we did get to celebrate with the McIntyres, they came over for a BBQ and cake and ice cream before he had to go to work, exciting huh! His birthday was his first day back to work after the cruise, so that just topped it off. Anyways, just wanted to say that I love you, lover, and I hope you had a good day anyways. And thanks for spending the last week with me, I had the best time of my life. I love you!!

Back to Reality

We're back!! We had the best time ever on our cruise! I would highly recommend cruising to anyone. Every day you have new stuff to see and do, you never have to decide where you're gonna eat, and how you're going to get to the things that you want to do.....we had a really great time. We had 3 days at sea and 4 days at different ports. We went to Grand Cayman first, and we snorkeled and swam with the sting rays, Jared loved it, but I wasn't too sure about the whole thing. They were huge and they would just swim all around you and come up to you, it was really creepy. Then we went to the Roatan islands, which are part of Honduras. We went to a nature park, and held monkeys and birds, it was really fun. Then, we went out on a catamaran and snorkeled over the reef, that was really neat. Then we went to Belize, and we took and hour and a half bus ride out to the jungle where they have zip lines and rapelling set up. That was really fun. After visiting roatan and belize, I would never want to send my boys on a mission to these third world countries, it made me so sad to see how they lived, and so thankful for what I have and can do. Our last stop was in Cozumel, which has become very americanized. We went on a 4 wheeler ride out into the jungle, they took us to see some mayan caves, that was cool. We were so busy the whole time that only once did we get to go to a beach, and just hang out for a few hours, but it was worth it. Thanks so much to Grandma and Cristi for coming out and tending, it would've never happened without you guys!! Kyla and Haley had so much fun playing and playing.