Happy Birthday, Kaley!

Four years ago today, our sweet Kaley came into our life!  She weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 19 inches long!  

I love this picture!  

Our first Christmas card and Kaley's baby announcement!  December 2004

What we got for Christmas in 2004!

Happy Kaley smiles! February 2005

I love this picture of Kaley's first swimsuit!  She LOVES the water still! Summer 2005 

4th of July 2005

In Moab, October 2005

Look at those cute little teeth!  Winter 2005

Christmas Card 2005

She's always ready with a smile!  What a clown!  Summer 2006

Car rides!  September 2006

What a pretty girl!  Winter 2006

Starting Preschool this year!  We love our Kaley Lynn!  She is such a good helper to Mommy!  She is a loving, caring big sister to Thomas and Bella.  She loves to help fold laundry, read books, do puzzles, color, play outside, play dress up, and be with friends!   Some of my favorite things that Kaley says, "Got-For" - instead of "forgot."  I can't bring myself to correct this one!  She calls Christmas Eve, "Christmas Even."  She is always looking for "K" on any sign.  She is getting good at writing her name by herself.  She loves Preschool and her Princess Playgroup!

We love you Kaley!  Happy Birthday!

Bella - 10 months old

You can see how much the kids love our Bella Rose! With all the chaos of leaving for Thanksgiving, I didn't have the time to blog about Bella! I can't believe how fast she can get around now! She has also learned how to pull herself up on furniture! She is such a happy baby! We just love having her in our home! I am also pleased to announce that Bella has gained weight! A whole 3 pounds! We had to take the whole lot of us in to the Dr last week for sinus infections, and Bella weighed 19 lbs! I love how her little giggles fill our home! We can't believe that this is Bella's first Christmas! We are excited to see the joy in our kids' eyes this Season! We bought our Christmas tree last night and put the lights on it. The kids just loved it!

Thanksgiving 2008 - Idaho

Kaley and McCall

Adam and Harrison

The teenager table

The kid table

Around the big table

Papa and Ben carving the turkey

Thomas loved to follow Katie around. When Thomas heard her play "Called to Serve" on the piano, she became her favorite!

Apparently, we gave this shirt to Dad.... Danielle and I were making fun of it. Good thing my Dad can pull it off!

Kaley and Call-ee were such good friends! They played non-stop!

Can you say black mail?

Huddle up! This is one big flag football game!

Katie's ready!

This is my awesome Uncle Jeff! He can do it all!

Clarissa and Alex poundin' it up.

Dad and Adam

My Hubby

The whole crew! I hear it was a pretty intense game!

Lyss and Kaley

Mommy and Kaley

My favorite sister picture!!!! Clarissa, Me and Danielle

Aunt Anneli and Uncle Blair have the coolest yard! They had a huge open grass space for football, AND a swingset! What could be better?!

Papa and Grandma - 50 years of wedded bliss! We had a celebration for them while we were all gathered together. My Mom and her siblings had a program and everything! We had the dinner catered at a hotel. We went swimming afterward!

Mikesell, McCall and Kaley

This is how antzy my kids were by the end of the program for Papa and Grandma.

Singing "You Are My Sunshine"

Danielle and Thomas

Thomas loved reading stories with Grandma Del.

Aunt Audra, Grandma and My Mom

We took family pictures with everyone there. Here is one of my kids.

This is one that my Uncle Ben took. It is a little fuzzy. I had to turn off the flash so that it wouldn't interfere with the real photographer, and that sometimes makes it fuzzy. You get the idea.

We were so glad to be with family for this Thanksgiving! It was just like one from when we were younger! I loved how many kids there were! It was chaos all the time, but so much fun! I loved catching up with my Aunts and Uncles. My cousins are growing up so fast! It was fun to see how much they have changed. Thanks to Papa and Grandma for letting us stay at your wonderful house! We love you!

Thomas' new quilt!!!

Well, I did it! I finished Thomas' quilt! I took it up to Josh's Mom the day before Thanksgiving, and she quilted it over the weekend! I LOVE how it turned out! It was an awful lot of work! Thomas loves it! He walked around it telling me what all the balls were and "T" for Thomas. He loves it! Thanks to Momma Cox for all the help!