Kaylee Baptism Portraits

 My good friend Melissa took these adorable pictures of Kaylee in her Baptism dress! I love how beautiful she looks in every single picture, and this is just a few of them!

 

Kaylee's Baptism

 Kaylee was baptized this past Saturday and we had a wonderful day!!  We feel so blessed that so many family and friends were able to attend.  A lot of you drove a long way in a snowstorm and some even flew home just to be here for Kaylee's special day!  It wouldn't have been the same without all of you here so thank you so much for making an effort to come!  I was great at taking pictures before the Baptism and not so good after so I know I'm missing some pictures of some of you but we still love you! After Kaylee was baptized we went into a room and showed a video that my sister-in-law made of Kaylee's growing up years, she was able to capture some pretty precious moments and I will forever be grateful to her for the many hours she put into making that for us!  My dad and mother-in-law then spoke to Kaylee a little about Baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost; they did such a great job and explained everything in a way that an 8 year old could perfectly understand.  There was such a strong spirit there that day and  I hope Kaylee can always remember the way she felt on her Special day!!! The rest of the day was spent eating yummy food (thanks to all of you) and visiting with family and friends! 

 Kaylee was lucky enough to be baptized on the same day as her best friend Maddy!! She has been such a good friend to Kaylee and was the very first friend that Kaylee made after moving here.  She is a sweetheart and they have a blast together! 

 

HALLOWEEN FUN!!!

 We decided a few years ago that it is a great family activity to PAINT instead of CARVE our pumpkins!!

 My friend and I took our kids out to this corn maze and had an absolute blast!  The kids played forever in this "corn box" and I even joined in the fun!! Can I just say that a corn box is so much better than a sand box!!

 Riding the Redneck Roller Coaster is one of the funnest things that I've done in a while!  There were 3 old vans joined together and pulled by a truck.  There was an obstacle coarse with hills, water and lots of swerving back and forth!  The kids absolutely loved it and the Moms did too!

 The kids did a Halloween parade for school and walked around the block so that the parents could see all of the kids costumes! Cute idea!

 Malia's dance class

 Kaylee's dance class

 The girls had a blast trick-or-treating and got tons of candy!  While we were out, Cambree tripped and all of her candy fell out of her bucket.  Kaylee ran over to see if she was OK and she said, "Me fine, but Princesses don't fall." 

September

This summer Cambree learned how to pedal her big girl bike! She loves riding it everywhere and trying to keep up with her sisters!
For finishing the Book of Mormon we told the girls that they could do something fun and this is what they wanted to do; a LEMONADE STAND!! They each made $4; I don't think they gave back the correct change!
For Kaylee's 8th B-Day we had a surprise all planned to go see the play Little Mermaid with 2 of her cousins that were celebrating their birthdays! It was such a great plan but we got rained out, which was a bummer. The kids still had fun playing together!



Fun with friends! This little boy in the cowboy hat loves Malia. According to his mom he never stops talking about her and always wants her to come and play. They have fun together and Malia loves to play boy things every once in a while!
Our 1st official Family Campout!! This is the first time that we have camped in a tent and I must say it was a success!! I have a lot of work to do on perfecting a good breakfast of Sausage and eggs, needless to say everything was burned a little too much.

TJ & I went hiking one day up this canyon and so we decided to take the girls up the next day and play in the stream! They had so much fun finding new little waterfalls and swimming through the deep water!

BACK TO SCHOOL!!!

I can't believe that it's already this time of year, as you can tell Cambree was so sad to have both of her sisters leave. We've made it through the first week though and they did great!!
Kaylee thinks school is the greatest thing ever, whenever somebody asks her about it she says, "School Rocks!!" She loves her teacher, friends, and everything else.

Malia is doing great and loves school when she comes home and you ask her how her day went but when night time comes she's a little hesitant about going in the morning! She has lots of friends and a great teacher and so she'll be just fine! She says at recess so many people are calling her name that she doesn't know who she should play with, I told her that was a good problem to have!