It's Great to be 8!

Kyler was baptized on Dec. 5th. What an awesome day! He was able to share this experience with one of his best-friends Riley. How cool is that? They are only one day apart. When I think back to my baptism I remember being baptized on the same day as my cousin Carrie and we are only a day apart also! After we were baptized we went to dinner with our families and Carrie and I got a free piece of pie. Anyways... My brother Josh baptized Kyler. He was also the one who baptized Gage. He has always been there for me and my boys! He has been an amazing example and the boys really look up to him. Thank you Skwosh! And thank you everyone who came and shared this day with us! I love you all!

To Grandmothers house we go!

This year we went to California with my parents for Thanksgiving! We stayed with my Grandparents and I got to see family that I haven't seen for 8 years! It was so wonderful to spend time with them. I am so grateful that I was able to take my boys out there. I only wish we were able to stay longer.

Here are the men watching the BYU and U game.

The house we stayed at was right next to the river! The boys had fun trying to skip rocks.

Our Ocean Experience

While we were in California my Dad took us to the Monteray Bay Aquarium! This was so exciting since it was the first time my boys saw the Ocean! Kyler has had a passion for sharks ever since he saw the movie Jaws and so he was in his very own little Heaven. I was so proud of both of them for touching things in the water since they refused to touch anything when we went to the aquarium in Sandy a few years ago. After seeing everything at the aquarium we went to the beach. My Dad took pictures of us at the beach with his camera and so I will post pictures of that experience as soon as I can. What a wonderful experience this trip was! I am just so sad that Drew couldn't be with us.

Me in the kitchen?

Yay me...I canned for my very first time and I did the first batch all by myself! My parents have an apple tree and this year I canned apple pie filling. It was so much easier than I thought it would be.

The Queen, The Thing, and a Zombie!

Mitsi was a Queen for her first Halloween with us. You can't see it in this picture but her little robe has THE QUEEN written in gold on the back. She went trick-or-treating with us and loved it! She loved wearing the costume too. I was really suprised that she didn't try to take it off!

Gage was pretty difficult this year. We originally got THE THING costume for Kyler but Gage couldn't agree on ANYTHING! Gage liked THE THING costume and when Breanna asked Gage about being a ZOMBIE Kyler decided that HE wanted to be a ZOMBIE so they traded....Thank goodness....I was getting ready to freak out!

So Kyler was a Zombie this year. Aunt Breanna did his make-up for him! She actually did his make-up 4 times since he needed it for school, ward party, and trick-or-treating...and once for practice. Thank you so much Breanna for all your patience and hard work!

Happy Halloween

One day, back in May, Kyler came home from school with a little Styrofoam cup. In this cup was some dirt with a seed in it. Since this seed was a pumpkin seed we had to borrow some (a lot) garden space from Grandpa (since I only have a flower bed). Now look what Kyler has grown! And this isn't all the pumpkins either. He has managed to put pumpkins on several porches this year! He has been almost as proud as I am. Thank you Grandpa!

This has been a very exciting month for Kyler!! We all remember when his front teeth were knocked out... and 3 and a 1/2 years later he finally has front teeth again! YAY!