Happy Easter

KALEA, KAYSON, TEEGAN, KOBE, AND BRYTON


We had a lot of fun playing with my family today. We always have a great time when we get together. This year we hung out at my brother Nathan's house. We had a great Ham dinner. If you read my tag. Mmmm.... that is my favorite. Every Easter my parents put together an egg hunt. Each kid has their own color egg that they have to find, that way it prevents punches being thrown. J/K. Some of the eggs have prize tickets in them and one of the prizes they always get is silly string. It is so much fun every year to see them get in a silly string war. They all like to tag up on kalea because she is the only girl but they are good sports about letting her get them also. We love to color eggs together. It's fun to see how creative they can get, or what they write on them they can get a little crazy with they write on them. I don't think my nephew Kayson would like me very much if I told you what he wrote on his, but they were pretty funny.





Another thing we love to do as a family is play Rock Band. If you have never played this boy are you missing out. It's Awesome. You have a lead singer, a drummer, a lead guitar and if you have another guitar they can play bass. I never thought I would like to be the singer but it's way fun. As you can see in the picture my sister is getting pretty into and rockin' out. I am not very good at it but it's still a blast. My brothers are pretty into it so if you are not very good they like to kick you out of their band, so it's a little intimidating.
I bet you are wondering whose chicken legs those are and what is this picture all about. Casey is going to kill me for posting this but I thought it was hilarious. Today Casey and Nathan were playing some intense basketball, first I saw their shirts hanging on the fence and thought oh great they are playing with their shirts off I am going to go spy on them and get a blackmail picture. So as I sneak up they still had their undershirts on so I was a little disappointed. Just then Casey turns around and has a huge tear down the back of his pants, and it continued to get worse as the intense game went on. After the game me and my nephews thought it would be funny to finish off the off, so we did and this is what he had left to deal with.

Easter

Easter Fun

Easter egg hunt
We had a very eventful Easter weekend. We spent Saturday morning hunting for eggs. We go to two hunts every year, one in Clearfield and one in Layton. Kalea has a lot of fun doing this, she gets buckets full of candy (that she never eats) and gets so excited over it. The hunt in Layton has more toys than candy so as a mom I enjoy that one more. After the hunt you can get your picture taken with the bunny, and like Santa as we sat Kobe on the bunny's lap he just turned his head and stared at him wondering what or who in the heck he was. He doesn't cry but it's hard to get his attention for the picture.

Kobe Even found a few eggs on his own.

After the hunts we went over to Albertson's where they had a little setup where you could decorate and personalize you own little egg shaped cakes. She had all sorts of frosting and decorations for her eggs, and had a lot of fun making one for her and her cousins.

Then after that we had to go home to get ready for pictures. Whew.....Were we tired by this point. I love taking my kids for pictures. Casey doesn't mind going with me he hates the deciding part after the pictures are done. It takes me forever to choose (because usually they all turn out soooo cute.) Well here are some of their fun Easter pictures.

Did you think we were done. Oh no. Me and Kalea had a G.N.O. with our friends Token and Aspen. We went to the Jazz game with them and had a blast. They were giving out full sized basketballs so we each got one of those. The kids got their faces painted, they were painted as butterflies, but Kalea wanted a players number on her cheek also so she chose Kyle Korver. For those of you that don't know who he is, he is the CUTE one as Kalea and I would say and she says he shoots the money ball. Kalea loves watching the games at home with us so she knows a lot about the players. There was a guy that was sitting behind us that commented on how cute they were and he asked who they were rooting for. Aspen said Kirilenko and Kalea said Boozer, the guys jaw dropped to the floor and started laughing, he thought they would have no clue about basketball or the Jazz. Pretty funny. But all in all we had a GREAT day!

OK HERE IT GOES

A-Z Tag

Alright, this is my first tag. So we will see how I do

A- Attached or Single? Attached
B-Best Friends? My daughter Kalea. We have so much fun together. If you ask her she would say differently. She told me the other day Kobe was her 1st best friend, then daddy, then me. Because she likes soccer and snowboarding like dad and hates shopping like me. Then she said, no you are all my best friends. (Sorry so long, but I thought it was funny)
C-Cake or Pie? Definitely Pie (Cherry or Banana Cream)
D- Day of Choice? Sunday, We get together with my family and it's a lazy day.
E- Essential Item? Cell Phone, how did we ever live without them?
F- Favorite Color? Black and Hot Pink
G- Greatest Accomplishment? My kids, they are amazing and cute if I say so myself
H- Hometown? Clearfield, Utah
I- Indulgences? Shopping, reality T.V.
J- January or July? July, I love fireworks
K- Kids? Kalea 5 1/2 and Kobe almost 1
L- Life is incomplete without? My family I love them so much
M- Marriage date? June 18, 2005
N- Number of siblings? 2 brothers and 1 sister
O- Oranges or Apples? Oranges, especially on a warm day at the pool.
P- Phobias or Fears? Breaking a front tooth
Q- Quotes? We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
R- Reason to Smile? Seeing my kids accomplish things in life.
S- Season? SUMMER! We live at the pool
T- Tag Friends- I Tag Beckey, Elisa, and Jill
U- Unknown fact about me? I am half Mexican and I hate Mexican food. Go figure
V- Very favorite store? For me-Target, Pac Sun For my kids- Gap
W- Worst habit? Impatient
X- X-ray or Ultrasound? I take X-rays all day so definitely Ultrasound, they are amazing.
Y- Your favorite food? My mom's home cookin' either ham and cheese potatoes or Roast and potatoes
Z- Zodiac? Libra

FIRST STEPS

Finally! Kobe finally started walking. My friends at work thought I was crazy because I told them Kobe was going to be grounded if he was not walking at 10 months. Not really I was just anxious. The reason for that was just as soon as Kalea turned 10 months she was walking and by the end of the 10 months she was practically running. Well Kobe was 10 months and all he would do is stand forever then fall and crawl as fast as he could across the room. So on Feb. 28th the day before he turned 11 months he finally started walking, so no he did not get grounded. He is so stinking cute all he does as he walks around is just giggle because he thinks he's so cool. It has been hard for me because I compare him to Kalea and want him to be doing everything she was doing at certain ages, it's hard for me to realize they are different. I remember exactly how Kalea was on her 1st birthday and one more week until Kobe is one. How time flies. :(

Wild Winter!

Wow! What a winter we have had here in Utah. every year I would catch myself saying "I wish we could have a winter like when we were kids." I remember when I was a kid I would walk out my front door after a snow storm and the snow would be up past my knees, and we would always get snowed in from school. I remember waking up in the morning and if it snowed we would sit by the radio to see if our school was closed. There is no way that would happen now. I sure enjoyed winter this year but I am now glad it has come to an end. Our favorite activity this winter was tubing. (besides snowboarding for Casey and Kalea) We have not had snow stay long enough in the valley to be able to go tubing in the neighborhood, but this year we would go tubing up behind the new Syracuse High school football stadium. It was a lot of fun. We would spend half of the afternoon building jumps to go off of. It was a lot of work pulling all that snow up the hill.
For all of you that don't know I work in a Pediatric dental office, and for the past couple years we have gone up to Snowbasin for a day out on their tubing hill. It is so much fun. All you do it hook your tube to a tow rope and it pulls you up a huge hill and when you get to the top you jump back in your tube and cruise down the hill. We have had a lot of fun with this. There are many people that go so we socialize while enjoying donuts and hot chocolate. I would recommend this place to everyone.

Snowboarding Pals

For all of you that don't know Casey really well he loves Snowboarding. He has been counting down the days since Kalea was born to take her snowboarding. She went once or twice last year but this was her first real season to learn. Her first couple of times she did pretty well, considering. But it only took her a couple of times to become pretty darn good. Casey has tried to take her up at least once a week and she loves it. One day I called him to see when he was coming home and he told me they were on the lift and were coming home after one more run. Two hours later I call him to see where he is and he was still on the slopes because there was no way she was coming home. She was having to much fun. It was hard for me to believe she was as good as he said, so after our tubing trip to Snowbasin I went over to watch her. As she came down the hill, I hate to say this but my eyes swelled. It was probably the cutest thing I have ever seen her do, and she was dang good. I am so proud of her. Casey is so glad he has a partner to go with now. He still goes every week with his friends though. I do not snowboard but I would love to learn someday. Maybe when Kobe is old enough to learn, I will learn with him.

Merry Christmas

What a fun Christmas we had this past year, Kobe was at a very fun stage. Most babies just like to play with the paper. Not this little guy, all he wanted to do was play with everything his sister got. He was only 8 months old and already knew how to get under his sisters skin. She is pretty good with him but she is very protective with her toys. As with most holidays we have our family traditions. On Christmas Eve we get together with my family for an early lunch or breakfast then decorate cookies to leave for Santa. Usually I bake cookies but I found some granny B's cookies at Roberts Crafts that looked much better than mine and thought they would be a lot more fun to decorate. Boy were they delicious. We then open a new pair of pajama's. I love pajama's so these are my favorite presents to open. Then that night we go to Grandpa Cherries (as Kalea would call him) to have dinner and open presents from him. It is a lot of fun. Here are some pictures many of you will enjoy seeing of you and your kids. The kids also get matching pj's


and they love it. Kalea does not have any girl cousins so when she gets to play with Taylee and Hallie she is in heaven and never wants to leave.












On Christmas morning we open presents, cook breakfast, then go to my parents to celebrate with my brothers and sister. Our family is growing and is now up to 15 people. We had a very eventful day.

These were Kalea's favorite gifts.

Christmas

Hannah Montana Live in Concert!

For Kalea's birthday this year I surprised her with Hannah Montana tickets. I kept telling her that they were sold out and the there was no way I would be able to get tickets. Just like every other girl she was very disappointed. The concert was not until November and her birthday was in September so it was very hard to keep it a secret. The tickets we had were nosebleed way up high, so I was not to excited to go. They then announced they were going to do another show, so I tried to get better tickets then and they were impossible to get. Then I considered selling them on E-bay for more money. I decided against that. The night before the concert they were talking on the news that they were going to release tickets that did not get used for promotions. I then go on the internet right away and to my surprise they had 2nd row seats available. I jumped right on it. So for face value we had amazing seats. I feel sorry for all the suckers (like Kim she spent 100.00 per ticket to sit all the way at the top) Crazy! But we had an amazing time. I had just as much fun as she did. All we ever listen to is High school Musical and Hannah Montana so I knew every single word. The Jo Bros opened for her and I really enjoy them to. Kalea thinks Joseph Jonas is very cute. Yes she is already boy crazy.