My KaeLynn

KaeLynn got a tutu for Christmas from Nana and Papa. She was wearing the tutu around the house and dancing. This girl loves to dance! I am so glad because I love to dance too! Daily she ask for the "music on" so we can boogie together. She really has great rhythm. I hope she will want to dance in the future in ballet or whatever she chooses. She also got this really adorable Adidas outfit from my dad. We went out to lunch today and she was standing by the window posing for us. I swear she could have been a model for Adidas in this outfit! She was so CUTE! KaeLynn is so much happier now that she is feeling better. It is fantastic! I know I am gloating about my daughter, but I can't help it. Every parent will say this, but I have the cutest kid in the world!! What do you think? Do we have a young star on our hands?

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas! This year we spent Christmas at the coast again with my family. Santa brought all of KaeLynn's gifts to my dads house so she got to open a lot! KaeLynn had so much fun opening presents this year. She was so excited and eager to open each one. She got a few baby dolls with a lot of accessories. She ADORES them! She also got a little baby crib to put them in. She is such a good little mommy! She also got a bumble bee pillow pet. Instantly she was in love. Every morning now she asks for it. This is in addition to her two blankies. So she comes out of her room with her hands full! Her exact words are "Pillow pet please". It is very sweet. We then drove to Gresham to be with Cavan's side of the family. A lot more presents were there and KaeLynn's cousins to run crazy around the house. We had a lot of fun eating, watching movies, and playing games. It was a very good Christmas. No one sick this time. Well, Cavan had a slight soar throat, but no sinus infections or ear infections! Yipee!!!

My Sweet Angel Girl

My poor baby has been through a lot this last two weeks. She first started with a cold. Then she told me that her ears hurt. This was horrible timing because we are in the process to adding her to our health insurance. The application process has taken weeks and she is still in "Admission". So I was treating her ear infection at home. She seem to get back to her happy self real quick. But then on our anniversary she woke up and puked. She has never puked before and handled it very well. The poor thing puked 7 times that day so our reservation for the Melting Pot had to go. After the flu passed she woke up with pink eye! So I was treating that at home as well. But then she starting becoming a Real monster. I mean way more than a toddler does and she was not sleeping or eating well. So we decided that we will have to just pay for this doctors visit out of pocket. Turns out that she still has an ear infection, an irritated throat and her eye is still not completely better. I felt HORRIBLE! I am so happy to have some antibiotics for her now, and look forward to sleeping again.

Three Birthdays In One Night

Happy Birthday to Cathy, Eddi, Adam and ME! December is a huge Birthday month for our family. We decided to celebrate all of our Birthdays tonight, since the rest of the month is very busy for all of us. There are Relief Society dinners, Ward Christmas dinners, The Dover Family Christmas party, and our anniversary just to name a few. Man I was born in a crazy month! Michelle made this awesome cake for us that I found on a blog that my sister in law Brooke told me about. Adam lives in Utah so he was not here for the celebration, but he was definitely in our hearts! We had a yummy baked potato bar and played Uno while the kids ran around and destroyed the house. Wow I will be 24 this year! I am grateful for everyday that I have and look forward to so many more!

Holiday Feast

This year my sister Kea and I decided to do a Holiday feast between Thanksgiving and Christmas to celebrate both holidays. This way we could be with the other side of our family on the actually Holiday. We had an amazing meal and did a gift exchange between us. We had a really good time. They have a really sweet dog that KaeLynn adores, and Hailey and KaeLynn also get along really well. I hope this can be a new tradition that we will do every year!

Holiday Fun Run

Last Night Roy'l and I did our first 5K Fun Run! We have been running since mid summer and finally reached our goal of being able to run 3 miles in 30 minutes. When we heared of this run and that it was free, we were really eager to run with a group of people. We had such an adventure trying to arrive on time. The run was in the Pearl Disctict and if you really know Roy'l and me you know that we do not have a good sense of direction. We are also not comfortable driving in downtown Portland. We decided to drive to the Loyd Center, hop onto the max, walk about 5 blocks, hop on to the trolley, walk another 5 blocks and then we were there! We made it at exactly 6:00 when the race started. It was so neat to run in the city like that. I am so thankful to have a runing buddy! It makes it so much fun to share this with someone! I am excited to do another one again soon!

U-Cut Farm

This was the first year we actually went to a tree farm and cut our own tree. We went to a place in Sandy. It was a nice winter day, chilly with a little bit of sunshine. KaeLynn really enjoyed walking around in the rows of all the trees. She got bored really fast though and was asking to go home. When we got home we decorated the tree. The missionaries also came over and helped Cavan put up lights around our property. The residents really like what we have done. I finally feel ready for the Christmas season, Now if only I had all my Christmas shopping done...

Thanksgiving left overs at the coast

The day after Thanksgiving we drove to visit my family and had some more Thanksgiving food with them. We had delicious food all weekend and KaeLynn was able to see her grandpa and great grandparents, along with aunts and uncles, cousins, etc. This cute picture of her in the sink is because my dad only has a shower not a bathtub and I didn't want to get in the shower with her so the kitchen sink it was! She LOVED it! She kept saying "Wash my hands" over and over again. My sister Abby later let us come over to her house to see her two horses. KaeLynn enjoyed the horses from a distance, but did not want to see them close up. KaeLynn absolutely adores Abby. Abby had went home before we left and she kept asking for her. It was a nice visit and we look forward to come back during Christmas.

Zoo Lights and Thanksgiving 2010

This year we were able to go to the Zoo lights the night before Thanksgiving. Cavan's parents have a zoo membership, and this event was only open to members, so we all got in before it was open to the public. It was very cold, but we were all bundled up nice and warm. KaeLynn enjoyed herself. She loved seeing all the lights in shapes of animals. They had this band playing mostly Christmas music and our family could not help but dance along with it. It was a good way to stay warm! We also rode the train and our family almost took up a whole cart! We had a party of 14 people total! Wow are family is getting so big! Then the next day Roy'l and and had our very own " 5K Turkey Trot". We were going to sign up for an official Thanksgiving run, but wanted to save our money. It was a good way to get our metabolism going before we ate a bunch of yummy food! Then we went to the Dover's and had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner!

All by her self

KaeLynn has become very independant lately. Her favorite new phrase is "all by myself!" Sometimes she says this with excitement that she was able to do the task by herself, and other times it is in a demanding voice that she wants no help! In that case this was this morning before church. She still hadn't let me change her from her bedtime diaper. She put the dress on with the neck of the dress through her legs. To top it off the tights were on backwards! It was so adorable! When she realized that it wasn't working she asked for help. She then found my church shoes and put them on. She then told me "come on mommy! time for church". It was quite a fun morning!

Trans Siberian Orchestra

Last Monday night Cavan took me to go watch the Trans Siberian Orchestra for an early Birthday present. We first went out to dinner to PF Changs and ate delicious Chinese food. Then it was time for the show. The TSO plays the most amazing instrumental Christmas songs. There were lights, fire, smoke and the energy in the room was crazy. The best song in my opinion is their version of Carol of the Bells. It was a great night!

I need a time out!

This year I went to Time Out for Women with the Dover girls of the family. (Cameo and Michelle I call are Dover blood with different last names). This event was amazing! We got the cutest tote bags and left feeling completely spiritually fed. It is so nice to have a conference with inspirational stories and examples that keep you going when you feel that you are not giving enough or when you doubt if what you are doing is worth it. Everything was related back to Christ. It was a testimony to me that with him ALL is possible. Who knew that being a wife, and a mother could be so hard. I wouldn't want it any other way and I really enjoyed the speakers that gave me inspiration to keep doing my best. This years theme was Hope. I laughed and cried and wouldn't have changed one thing about it.

Happy Halloween 2010

We ended our trip in Utah celebrating Halloween. We carved pumpkins, made Halloween cookies and went trick or treating. The evening first started with KaeLynn being a witch, but then changed her mind and wore Adam's old costume of a turtle. She like being the turtle much better. We went trick or treating in Brooke's sister's neighborhood and hung out with her family. We also danced to their Wii game Just Dance. It was a blast! We had so much fun in Utah and look forward to go back and see them again.

Today we did...

We started this morning with making Carmel apples. Our first batch did not turn out, but we go the hang of it and our second batch turned our nice. The kids were so nice to help me unwrap 100 caramels. We later went to the Sweets Factory in Salt Lake City. We got to wear these really "cute" hair nets and eat some really good candy. KaeLynn did really well wearing her hair net, but was not patient for the tour. At least the candy made her happy.

We walked through Temple Square and went to the visitor center. The Christus is such a beautiful statue of Christ. KaeLynn recognized him immediately and called him Jesus. We also went to the Joesph Smith Memorial Building and watched the Joesph Smith the Prophet of the Restoration movie. This movie is amazing. I cried like a baby. I highly recommend anyone to watch it. It gives a good history of his life and what the early members of the church went through to establish the church. The movie is about 90 mins long so KaeLynn of course did not want to sit through the movie. Auntie Brooke was so kind to entertain her so Cavan and I could enjoy the movie.



We finished our day eating at Brick Oven. We met up with our friend Melissa and her boyfriend and enjoyed great food! The kids did pretty well for only sleeping in the car for a short time.

Cornbelly's

Tonight we went to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving point in Lehi. We were stuck in the corn maze forever and the kids were starting to get really cranky. It was also very muddy and really dark making the walk even harder especially with kids. It was a challenge and we were so relieved to find a way out!They had this huge air pillow that we jumped on. Of course the kids love to jump. KaeLynn was more comfortable jumping when I was with her.We got to go on a hay ride and it was nice that we had the whole ride to our selves. We were able to see all these really neat carved pumkins on the ride.This is the kids corn maze that was a lot easier and Adam was much happier about this one.These two are so adorable! It is so nice that they get a long so well.They had a whole room just filled with corn. KaeLynn loved this room and did not want to leave. She loves to pick things up and organize them into piles.KaeLynn was very grumpy and cold in the end. The kids were troopers for as long as we stayed.