A beautiful Sunday afternoon!

I think the thing I love most about Vegas is the weather. Growing up in Utah, I dreaded the long winters because they last 6 or 7 months, and then finally a few weeks of nice weather before a hot summer. Yes, Vegas summers are VERY hot, but I would trade 3 months of hot weather and 9 months of pretty nice weather for Utah weather any day. Well the weather here this last week has been beautiful! Sunday afternoon we were invited over to our friends, Josh and Trish's parent's house for a BBQ. The kids had a great time playing croquet, jumping on the tramp, and running around. It was a great Sunday afternoon!

Happy Easter!

The Easter bunny sure was good to the kids this year! Instead of bringing lots of candy he brought new bikes. Much to our delight! So after church we headed out to enjoy the nice weather and teach the kids how to ride their bikes. Yes, I know, Kylie is 8 and we have never taught her how to ride a bike without training wheels. She has just always wanted to ride her scooter, so it was about time to get out of her comfort zone and learn to ride a two-wheeler. It is going to take a little more practice.

Mission potty training complete!

Well.... Pretty much. Dawson has been peeing on the potty for a couple months now with no accidents, but he doesn't like to poop on the potty. He waits until he has his bed time diaper on. He even knows how to put a diaper on himself if he needs to go. Even so, I can't complain about one diaper a day. We're getting there. I love this picture of Dawson when he first started potty training. He looks so proud!

DONT TAKE MY COOKIE!!!!!

Kale is 6 months old!

I cannot believe Kale is 6 months old already! I think time goes faster with each child. He is such a sweet addition to our family and brings us so much joy! These are the latest pics of Kale.

Utah!

The day after Christmas the kids and I headed up to Utah for a week. We had a really nice (and very cold) week. Angie and Donovan stayed at my parents house with us the whole week. Dawson and Donovan had so much fun playing (and fighting over toys). Kylie had fun seeing her BFF, Jaidyn. Jaidyn lived up the street from us when we lived there and they were even in the same first grade class, so Kylie loves to get together with her when we visit Grandma and Grandpa. They had a blast going ice skating and playing together. I got together with two of my best friends from high school, Ash and Kass. Our kids had a great time playing together at an indoor trampoline gym. We had such a good time visiting with my family and seeing old friends!

Merry Christmas 2008

We had a really great Christmas. It was fun for Dawson since he could really grasp the concept of Santa this year. We spent the night at Billy's parents house on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning the kids woke up at 8 am, but couldn't come downstairs until 9:00 when everyone was there. It was an hour of torture for them. They finally came down and opened all of their Santa gifts, then it was time to open gifts from Billy's parents. Billy's mom is a genius when it comes to gift wrapping. She doesn't put name tags on any gifts. She uses a different ribbon for each person's gifts, and she doesn't tell you what ribbon is yours until Christmas morning. That way the kids don't peek or try to guess what is in their boxes. I am for sure going to do that in the future! Billy's family has a tradition of opening gifts one at a time and in birth order. After 2 hours and only making it through 2 rounds of gifts, they decided that everyone could just open all of their gifts. We all got incredibly spoiled. Bill and Roselle are always extremely generous. After gifts, we had a nice breakfast and just hung out during the day. One of the best parts of the day was getting to talk to Shelby and Shane on the phone. They are both on missions and it was so good to hear their voices.