Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Christmas was wonderful. Being surrounded by family is the best gift anyone could ask for. Kayslee got a Kitchen that she loves and Maddee got a baby. Taylor got a plane ticket and a nice heavy coat to fly to Utah to visit her cousin, Tyler got a Letterman jacket but spent Christmas day this year at his mothers house, and as a family we got to go to Legoland and the San Diego Zoo. We left Christmas Day and spent two day s there in San Diego. Legoland was so much fun that we will be going back in March. Cant wait!

Tradition is to go to Opportunity Village the Monday before Christmas. We had a ton a fun minus the crowd.

Here are our Christmas pictures. This is always a stressful time even though the pictures don't look like it.
Our youngest Maddee!

Then Kayslee (Personality)

Our two Teenagers Taylor and Tyler

Then the family.

Day After Christmas was the San Diego Zoo

Afterwords we has hummy Mexican food, raod a train and hung out by the pier. We even road the 105 year old carousel

Next was Lego land. WOW that's all I have to say. Yes here is New York City all made out of legos.


Then it was a Happy New Year! We spent it up at my moms and dads house and played cards and man did we laugh. Good times this year. Love you all!!!

Kayslee

We are so proud of Kayslee as she is officially potty trained. She has been potty trained for about two months but now she has no accidents during the day or at night. We are very proud of her. Now since she is pottie trained though she is in love with toilet paper and has to make sure she has enough to wipe with and sometimes it a little much. She was pretty much very easy to pottie train. I say over all we had about 5 - 10 accidents. I'm now looking forwayd to Maddee's day when it comes. I hope she is as good as Kayslee.

Kayslee's favorite treat right now is Oreos and milk. Every night she has to have a glass of milk and a package of oreos. Papa loves to enoy them with her.

Thanksgiving at the LVMS Track

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This is our fourth year spending our Thanksgiving out at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Drag Strip. I look forward to this trip as it is a place to escape the normal life to a fun active life. We pack up our toy hauler and kids and head out to spend the whole weekend at the track. The head Chef of NY casino is our weekend Chef as well as his wife Teressa. The weekend if full of Kerokee, bomb fires, laugh, drama and o ya and racing. This year we had a specail treat with my cousin Shyanne coming down and spending the weekend with us.

New York

So last month my mother and I had a wonderful girls trip to up state New York. Yes I left the kids home and thanks dad for watching them and surviving. It was a last minute deal for me to go, but I'm sure glad I went. My brother Jimmy and his wife who live in DC met us there and we had a awesome time. We first started at Niagara falls. Wow so pretty, we even brought our passports and went on the Canadian side man can I say beautiful! We then did the sacred grove and all the historical church sites. We stayed near the Palmyra Temple were my brother and sister-in-law and I managed to get a session in. In this little town there wasn't to much to eat but we managed to find hole in the walls (the only two in the town) to eat at while we were there. It was such a fun trip to just spend with my mom and my brother Jimmy and his family. We even got to see were my grandpa (mom's dad) was rasied and got to see the house he was raised in. The lady who just bought the house was home and she took us for a tour in her home. It was a little awekward but in the long run a great expreiance. We also saw the beautiful campus he went to medical school at and still provides someone every year with a scholorship there. Thanks fam for the memories. I love you!

Sacred Grove

Happy Halloween!

Were do I start? Halloween was SOOOO much fun this year. Kayslee was a cow and Maddee was a chicken. Kayslee made Richards and I's Halloween. We started the night off at the church doing trunk or treat and riding on the golf cart ride then we took off to do the real trick or treating. Kayslee was so cute going up to doors and saying, "trick or treat." Then she would tell them thank you. Even if the house was scary she didn't get scared and would march right up to the front door step to ring their doorbell. Her bucket was getting to heavy so we gave her Maddee's bucket (that had no candy in it.) This was a good stragegy on our part now not knowing it but when she would go up to the doors with no candy in her bucket and they would feel sorry for her and give her lots and then when she got back to the stroller she had to empty it into her bucket afraid Maddee would be able to keep it if it was in her bucket. So every house she was getting not just one piece of candy but a handfull. It was so cute. Then when we got back to grandmas and Grandpas to pick up Maddee, Kayslee would tell her grandparents about the scary houses and how she told the monsters, " no monters don't get me" and she would put the hands up to protect her face. She was SOOOOO cute. This is such a fun age. Maddee was getting tired and really didn't understand what was going on so thank you Grandma and Grandpa who stayed home like lumps on the log. And I must add their lights were off by 8:00pm. What a fun night this was!!!! Happy Halloween everyone!

8 boxes of cereal, 6 cinnamon rolls, 6 packages of pizza rolls, 6 boxes of Go Gurts, 8 brownies, 6 cookie mixes, 3 tooth paste, 2 boxes of Kleenex ALL FOR $42.00

The Babtism

At the beginning of this month my family had a special blessing take part in our lives. On October 2nd my husband got baptized to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was such an amazing event that I will cherish forever. He has been taking the discussions for well over a year and has also been going to church for well over a year. Everyone in our ward, and me especially, didn't understand why he wasn't a member when he was more active than most members in our ward but the lord and him will only know why. I never pushed the issue as I knew it would happen eventually. Well the week before his baptism, the missionaries were over (but that's nothing new because they are here twice or three times a week for dinner, bathrooms, a drink, whatever they need) Well My husband looked at Elder Ferrero and told him, "I'm ready!." We all then looked at each other waiting for the "just joking" to come out but then we looked at Richard again and his eyes were filling up with water. Richard and his best friends daughter Rheann made a pack that when they were ready, they would get baptized together. So it happened. What a remarkable long journey this has been for my family. Now comes the countdown to be sealed to my wonderful family. Thanks everyone for all your support and love you showed and show to my family.

The two best missionaries!! Elder Ferrero and Elder Thedale

My dad baptized both Rheann and Richard