Every year I've wanted to go to the festival of Trees with Blake but it' s always the week before finals when we are stressed and busy in Logan. This year NO SCHOOL, NO FINALS so Blake knew he had to take me to see the trees. We did find this Utah State tree that reminded us of how much we miss Logan, just not finals week!
Kyler loved all the lights but we had a hard time keeping him from playing with all the cool toys. The biggest hit was of course the Thomas the Train Tree.
The cheesy grin just makes me smile.
Of course we had to get some with his trains since everything in our house right now revolves around Thomas the Train.
She was up to 10 lbs at a month old. That probably doesn't seem like much to most but it took Kyler forever to get that big so she seems huge to us.
This was his cousin Derrek's first Thanksgiving home from his mission.
Kyler found a race track to put together and play with so he was entertained all day. The rest of us went outside and played the "stick game". I'm sure it has a name but we don't know it. We built it out of wood from Home Depot and it has been a big hit over the years.
Kyler did some posing for Aunt Brooke's camera as well. He was just walking around the back yard and luckily someone was there with a camera to catch what he was doing.
Bowling with Grandpa. We still can't drive by a bowling alley without Kyler getting crazy excited.
The wonderful Pizza Factory opened up in Syracuse a few weeks ago and we thought it was a good idea to go on opening weekend with our friends the VanOrdens. It was crazy but delicious!
Kyler helping with Zoey's first bath in the sink.
Our cheesy son holding "baby sister" (her name as far as Kyler is concerned).
Everyone sleeping with their eyes open!! At least Kyler is trying to.
Defending herself against her very helpful big brother.
First mani pedi party with mom. She really is yawning and not crying.
First bath with daddy. She seems to be a fan so far.
All clean and warm in her pretty pink princess robe.
Of course there has been sleeping but it seems to be getting less and less these days. I forgot how nice the first few days are when they sleep a lot!
Lots of quality daddy time a night.
Zoey at 2 weeks old. Already up to 7 lbs 7 oz.
So I am finally getting around to posting Zoey's first day even
though I should be doing laundry.
This baby definitely looks DONE to me. Given that Kyler was a surprise 3 weeks early I'm not used to these last few weeks of the waiting game.
The next day he was able to jump on the wet trampoline in what little snow was left. He absolutely loved it. I'm excited for more storms to watch him play in!
Cody trying to catch the shrimp. He actually was a lot closer than it looks. This shot was after it bounced of his nose. Hee Hee I think Blake was the only one to catch it. 
I thought Kyler might enjoy the show but holding chopsticks was about as animated as he got. Little did we know he would wake up at 2 am the next morning with a 103 temperature and be miserable for the next week with hand foot and mouth disease. For those of you who don't know what that is or your kids have never had it, be very very grateful!! The poor kid couldn't eat for a week because the inside of his mouth was covered in open sores. He also wouldn't take naps and never slept longer than 2 hours at a time at night, which means mom and dad didn't sleep either. I'll just say that week wasn't the best at our house. 
