Christmas Decorating

This is the first year in awhile I have gone all out on the Christmas decorations. The past few years we haven't been home for December so I just didn't bother. But this year after several trips to Michaels and Tia Pan and the help of my very talented mother-in-law here are the results.
Kyler helped put the tree together but that is as long as his attention span lasted.I was really excited about how it turned out. I wish I could decorate with sparkly stuff all year round.

Sea Foam Christmas Kitty

What can I say! They are no words that can do this story justice.
Blake is on the 'party planning committee' at work and as I'm sure you could guess he won "ugly holiday sweater day". Here's some background. The lovely mint great sweatshirt, size medium, was decorated by myself at age 8-9 with an iron on Santa cat and accessorized with puffy fabric paints (big in the 80s). My mom has kept it for all these years and it finally paid off.
His day at work was crazy!! No less than 15 people took photos with their cell phones. He was pulled into everyone's meetings to show off. He stopped meetings when people were laughing so hard they couldn't continue speaking after he walked by conference rooms. He was featured in the company newsletter. And the list goes on and on...
We just might have to make this a Christmas tradition!!

Festival of Trees

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.

Kyler's Photo Shoot

We finally did a 2 year photo for Kyler even though he turned 2 in June. It seemed like every time we scheduled it something would happen. Kyler got sick twice, I got sick, Kyler even got bit by a dog on his face so after 6 months of trying here are the results.
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.

Zoey is 1 month old

So obviously I doing some posting a little late since she is almost 2 months old now, but here are some photos Blake took when she turned one month. The blanket and hat were made by Blake's mom. She has been crocheting the cutest stuff for Zoey and is really talented.
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.

Thanksgiving 2008

This year my family went to St. George for Thanksgiving but I really didn't feel up to traveling with a newborn so we went with Blake's family to Ogden. All the food was wonderful. We look forward to his aunt Luann's rolls all year. And the company was great too!!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.

Just Some Catching Up

So prepare yourself for one of those lengthy haven't blogged in awhile posts. Don't worry though it will be mostly pictures.

Saturday morning cartoons with dad. This was before our furnace was fixed!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.

What has Zoey been up to?

Insight into her first few weeks of life...

Three days old and all dressed up for her cousin's baptism.
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.

Lil Princess' Arrival

So I am finally getting around to posting Zoey's first day even

though I should be doing laundry.

Good Times with big brother

Those of you that frequent this blog have heard this song loads of times. Apparently, so has Kyler.

I am still laughing. For those who want a refresher of what it is click here: Mahna Mahna.