Kyler's Just a Little Guy

Kyler is 1 now here are his stats: Height: 29 inches/25th percentile Weight:20.88 lbs/ 21st percentile Head Circumference: 19 inches/ 92nd percentile!!! To sum it up he is little, short, and has a pretty big head :) I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!

Summer Fun, Kitchen Decorating, and Kyler's Birthday!

We have had a lot of fun this summer, even though I haven't blogged about it. Ya know how it can get real busy, or you just forget about it... Anyway I'm finally getting around to doing it :)

Near the end of July, my sister-in-law Cyndee had her sweet baby Khloee!! Tim was able to get a few days off so we headed down to Layton to see her and her cute little family! You truly do forget how little those newborns can be. Especially when you haven't had a newborn less than 7 lbs 11 oz. Khloee is the sweetest little girl. I LOVE the newborn stage, so fun to snuggle. Also while we were in Utah we took Bowen on his first train ride!! He was sooooo excited! We hopped on the Frontrunner and went from Layton to Ogden to the train museum. I must admit, it wasn't all that exciting to me, but getting to watch Bowen and listen to his little squeals of excitement at everything he was seeing was so fun.

Bowen pulling the trains horn

Me and they boys looking out the window of the train

Daddy and Bowen

We also got to visit with some of my little cousins from Las Vegas Jordan, Amber and also Brittany and Taylor. All of them are such cute little girls, well not so little anymore, crazy how old they are now. We had a lot of fun playing outside, and eating grandma's yummy food and playing Monopoly. Here are some pics from our intense game :) Another fun thing we did was take Jordan and Amber to Shoshone Falls. It was great because Shelb and Mark and the kids, and Sarah met us there. The falls were so pretty! They had a little park there too that the little ones could play on. It was Sarah's birthday so we went to Applebees after to celebrate :)

One of my favorite people!

I Love You Too Sarah!!

All the grandkids except Carson, Jade, and Saber

Dallas and Mark (love the look on Dallas's face!)

So Pretty!

Shoshone Falls It took me two years of being in this house, but I finally got to paint and decorate my kitchen. I love the red barn stars, so I chose that as my theme. I found some really cute border in The Country House catalog, and found colors to go with it. My grandma is the queen in our family at decorating, so she was nice enough to come and help me. I don't have any before pics, but it was just plain white walls. This is the after...

Excuse the mess!

And the last thing I wanted to include in this post was that my baby boy turned 1 a couple of weeks ago. It really is strange to me that he is 1 already! It seemed like it took forever for Bowen to turn 1, and with Kyler it seems like yesterday I was in the hospital having him. Haven't taken him to his 1 yr. checkup yet so not sure where he is at with weight and height, I know he likes his food though!! He is off baby food and formula and what a relief to my grocery bill! He is so much fun and has such a cute personality! I love that he still likes to snuggle with me, because Bowen pretty much wants nothing to do with me unless he needs food :( Here are some pics from his birthday. He loved his cake.

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Make your own Countdown Clocks

We are so excited!! This will probably be the last ALONE trip we will take for a while, so we figured might as well make it a good one!!! I just hope the weather cooperates!

BEFORE

AFTER

We are so happy the house is finally done!! Looks so much better than it did before but still a work in progress. Next hopefully soon we will be able to put some stone on the front. We also bought a swing set for the boys. My grandma got Kyler a baby swing, I think he likes it.

What's Been Going On...

This is going to be long...

I have been the worst little blogger lately!! What's worse is that I just constantly wait for others to update theirs, kinda selfish. Well since last month we almost lost Bowen, have done some home improvements, went to the zoo, had a water fight, and went to Utah. We have been busy to say the least. :) I'll start with the story of almost losing Bowen. It was a nice but of course windy day, I decided I wanted to go for a walk outside instead of the treadmill. I told Tim I was leaving, and that Bowen was out of his room (because the dang kid will NOT take naps anymore) and he was watching Nemo. Well Bowen is smart and knows how to unlock and open our front windows, he saw me walking away and was yelling Mommy! I figured he would stop and just continue watching Nemo, I was wrong. He ended up kicking out the screen and hopping out the window!!!! I didn't get him dressed because we just stayed home that day, so he was in just a t-shirt and undies. Tim didn't hear him do any of this and didn't think to check on him until our dog was whining at the window. He searched the house and... no Bowen anywhere so he went outside was about to call the police when he saw our neighbor walking him back to our house. How embarrassing, she was probably thinking... geeze nice parents!! It was the worst day of Tim's life!! I say Tim because I wasn't home to go through the fear of WHERE IS MY KID? I felt so bad for him because I have not experienced that yet, hope I never do!! Bad thing is he did it again the very next day, this time of course we caught him in the act, and lets just say he was in BIG trouble!! We have since moved the living room around so the couch isn't by the window. Let's hope he just stays in the house!! Next, our home improvements. We have always wanted to get the house sided since we bought it 2 yrs ago. We finally decided to do it, and I absolutely LOVE it!! They are finishing it as I am writing this and it should be all done today so I will post pics later. We also put a metal roof on, suppose to be more energy efficient and we will get a rebate on it later :) I am also decorating my kitchen, I got the border yesterday so now I can go get the paint and bead board, I'll post pics when I'm done. My sisters came home for Memorial Day and we took the kiddos to the zoo. It was HOT but a lot of fun. The kids favorite seemed to be the lions, tigers, monkeys, and snakes. We had a picnic when we were done and the kids played on the GINORMOUS toy at Tauphus Park. We went to Utah because Tim's nephew Cade was being baptized. It was our first trip with the boys staying all together in a hotel. It was fun, but full of problems like every vacation has. We wanted to go to Park City to go shopping, but after nearly 4 hours of being in the car, the children were not having it!! So just to tell ya how bad it was, I only spent $16!! We had so much fun at the BBQ/Birthday party for Cade and Steve after. It was so hot so Cyndee had planned for water balloons and squirt guns at the party. Tim and James got me all wet, but the funny thing was Tim got a cupcake shoved in his face! Then he came and wiped it on my face. We had a blast!Kyler is still just crawling away. He is starting to pull himself up on things but no signs of walking which is totally fine with me!! Well there is my update I will try to be better!

Loves to feed himself and be Jaxon's horse

we are going to have to lower the mattress soon