Wedding

My little brother got married on Friday!! Kevin and Amber are both in the percussion ensemble at BYU-I. They had a little drum set on the top of their cake.

 The happy new couple! They were married in the Logan Temple. The wedding was beautiful and the reception was fun. It is great to see all my friends and family.

We didn't get a picture at the reception with my camera. I love the dresses my mom got for the girls. The lovely photographer (my cousin) took a family picture of us. I'll post it when we get the pictures

Family Pictures

My friend Susan took some family pictures of us this past weekend. Other places you get pictures taken in wheat fields. In west Texas you get your picture taken in cotton fields. The Lubbock area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world. 

We thought the cotton would be a good memory of Lubbock. There are cotton fields everywhere.

Susan did a great job despite the fact that my girls were totally uncooperative.

Kaylee HATES getting her pictures taken. We had to catch her by surprise. You can check out more of Susan's work at..  http://susanmoorephotography.wordpress.com/

Pumpkins

 We painted our pumpkins for Family Home Evening

 Kaylee loves to paint!

 We also carved one. Kaylee and Jake took care of the guts. I hate that part. The girls decided on a Hello Kitty pumpkin. I drew one on the pumpkin but it was a little hard to cut out. We don't have the fancy pumpkin carving tools.

Here it is... Hello Kitty.... I guess we could just always pass it off as a Halloween cat.

Palo Duro Canyon

 Friday we headed out to Palo Duro Canyon (sorry for the bad picture.The camera was on the dashboard of our van so it is through the windshield)

 This is the second biggest canyon in the U.S. (right after the Grand Canyon). It was pretty but probably not as impressive to us, since we have been to southern Utah many times, as it would be to someone from west Texas area (it is very FLAT here so a big hole in the ground is really cool.)

 We had a picnic at the playground, and of course the girls had to swing. Brooke could stay in a swing all day long and be completely happy.

 This was the highlight of the day... we found a creek off the side of the road and played in the water.

 The Texas Longhorn cow. There used to be ranches in the canyon.

It was a good day trip. It was nice to get out of Lubbock and spend the day as a family.

2 & 4 year old Stats

We took Kaylee and Brooke for their 2 and 4 year check-ups  on Monday.

Brooke is... 21.8 lbs
                31 1/4 inches


Kaylee is.... 26 lbs
                    37 1/2  inches

It's rough getting both their check-ups done at once. Kaylee HATES going to the doctor and was very uncooperative. Brooke followed her example. They both got shots (Brooke got 3 and Kaylee got 5). There was a lot of screaming in our exam room and of course Jake made me be the one that held them down for the shots and he comforted them after :)   Despite the fact that we tried to keep them both moving and playing Kaylee's legs got really sore, so sore she couldn't walk by the end of the day. It was really sad. It brought back memories from when my legs got sore and stiff when I got my 5 year old shots..... They are both mostly recovered from the traumatic doctor experience. I'm so glad we only have to go once a year at this point!

Happy 4th Birthday Kaylee

We had a birthday party for Kaylee Saturday morning before Conference (it starts at 11:00 here so the party wasn't too early)

 The party was an "ice-cream" theme and we played great games like pin the cherry on the ice-cream cone, and an ice-cream scooping relay (using pom poms for the ice-cream). I think the kids had more fun just playing in Kaylee's room though. I made cup cakes in ice-cream cones to eat instead of a slice of cake.

 I did make Kaylee a cake for just our family. She requested a Hello Kitty cake so here was my 2nd attempt at decorating a cake...

 It's not perfect, but it turned out pretty good. I'm a little birthday caked out right now. We've had cake almost everyday for a week.

 Kaylee got a lot of princess presents. Brooke really likes them too. We are all girl in this household.

Here is one of their favorite new toys. I have a hard time getting them out of the bath tub now.

It was a good day! We had a short party (only 1 hour) and then the girls had new toys to keep them entertained during Conference.  Kaylee is a smart, fun-loving girl.  She LOVES preschool and playing with all her friends. Kaylee is a great big sister, and is always looking out for Brooke. They play really well together (most of the time.)  I can't belive Kaylee is 4!