December

The month of December started off with Kaylee's dance recital! Kaylee LOVES her dance class and was so excited to be able to do her dance up on the big stage!
Kaylee has been in a class with her cousins Ian and Emily. She loves seeing them every week at class and it has been so fun seeing them all dance together!
Here Kaylee is at dance class a few weeks before her show. It was costume check so they let the parents come in and watch the class. We got a copy of her dance so she could practice at home. She probably did her dance 10 times every day she was so excited. The cute thing was she did it so much for us that Makenna started to pick it up to and join in on parts. I will have to post a video of that too- it was so cute to see Makenna mimicking some of Kaylee's movements. She sure looks up to her big sis!


Shuffle step! Shuffle hop!

Kaylee was so excited for her show! She loves getting ready, putting on her costume, doing her hair and makeup, and of course spraying on all the glitter possible! She felt so beautiful and she was! She made sure we knew days in advance that we should not forget to bring her flowers:-) Daddy made sure she had a pretty bouquet of pink flowers waiting for her after the show! She did so awesome and of course was the cutest one up there:-)

The three little dancers- Ian, Emily, and Kaylee!

Kaylee with her very proud mommy and daddy!


Here is Kaylee's performance of "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"!!! (She is the second one in on the front row!)

November

November is always a special month because it is Kaylee's Birthday!! She was very excited this year to be 5 years old! It is so amazing that she is already five!!! She has grown into such a sweet little girl with quite a personality. She loves to be the center of attention- she will sing and dance for you at the drop of a hat. She loves to draw and color and Nana is teaching her to read. Her favorite books are the Dick and Jane series and she has a couple of those book she can read from cover to cover! Kaylee is very social and loves her preschool at Mrs. Bascom's. She is quite the social butterfly there and loves playing with her friends at school. She also loves to set up playdates with her school friends. Here favorite restaurant is Noodles and Company. She asks to go there all the time- I think it is the cool kids chopsticks they have there! She wanted to go there for her birthday but then realized they didn't sing "Happy Birthday" to you there so she changed her mind to Applebee's (here second favorite place-she loves to go visit daddy's UVSC running picture there!) Kaylee loves to watch her movies and to stay up as late as possible. Both our girls have turned out to be quite the night-owls. Kaylee also loves here little sister Makenna. She loves to take care of her and play with her. Kaylee is a very loving girl who enjoys surrounding herself with all the people she loves. We don't know how we were so blessed to get her as our little girl, but we are so thankful every day of these last five years that we get to share every day together with her in our family!

Here is our little birthday princess all ready to open all her presents! She had to wait all day until her party at Nana's that night, so by the time the party rolled around she was about ready to pop with excitement!!!

Kaylee wanted a Barbie party this year. But, not just any Barbie party- Barbie and the Three Muskateers party. She calls it Barbie and the three MOUSEKATEERS- so cute! She was so excited when she saw here cake with the Barbie Muskateers on it.

Kaylee and Makenna- our two little angels!

Our little family with our birthday princess.

Kaylee had quite the party with lots of guests! Nana and Papa, Aunt Nicole and Janessa, Grandma and Grandpa D, Aunt Tami, and Cousins Ian, Emily, and Zoey. Kaylee was in heaven to have so many people who love her there!



Here is Kaylee with all of her presents after the party. She got lots of Barbies and Barbie clothes! She got the Barbie Muskateers barbies she wanted along with the DVD to watch. Her favorite though was her huge Barbie dollhouse! Dan had quite the project the next morning to put together! The dollhouse is beautiful. It is made of wood so it hopefully last through Kaylee and Makenna. It has the cutest wood furniture, including a baby grand piano which I love! Kaylee an Makenna have been playing Barbies together so much since we put the dollhouse together. They absolutely love it an I hope to see many more years of Barbie playing going on with it!

Another favorite present- her own bean bag chair from Nana and Papa! She now has her own lounging spot to sit and watch movies. The only problem will be not having a matching one for Makenna!

October

For Halloween this year Kaylee decided she wanted to be a witch. Originally she told me that she wanted me to paint her all green! I eventually talked her into being a pretty witch. She wasn't quite convinced at first, but after she saw her glittery makeup she was sold! I also have to add that I am quite proud that I designed and made her costume and makeup all myself this year!



Here are our two cute girls! They are becoming such good friends!

Kenna's grumpy face. We see this a lot:-) You can't help but smile at it though!

Our two little witches all ready to go out trick-or-treating! Definitely the two cutest witches you ever did see!

I had to take a picture of our pumpkins. We did some carving from some of those patterns you buy and tape on to your pumpkin. They looked much easier on paper! Mine did not turn out too well, but Dan did an awesome job on his mummy! I found these lights to put in the pumpkins instead of candles. They were really neat as they changed colors!



Here is just a cute picture of Makenna before we put her costume on. She was just getting good at walking and just starting to say a few words (although of course she never wants to perform on cue!)

September

I know! I know! I have gotten many phone calls about how long it has been since I have updated our blog! Life gets busy and before I realized it it had been 6 months since an update. Then I was just so overwhelmed with all i would have to go up and update I just kept putting it off. So, I finally decided to simplify a little bit and so, sorry, we are going to skip over summer and skip straight to fall!

In September we went boating on Utah Lake with a friend in our ward. We have not been boating for probably three years or so so we had a great time out on the water. Kaylee thought it was so much fun and still talks about our adventure. She has also informed us since then that she would like a boat!



Makenna was not as excited about the boating or the water, but she did enjoy chillin' on her mommy and daddy's laps! Nice and safe- far away from the water!





Here are some pics of Dan doing some of his wake-boarding tricks. I was pretty impressed with his skills since we have not been in so long! He was really good at jumping the wake. I loved these classic motion shots!




Kaylee got our on the tube with Dan. She had a great time!

Even though she never got in the water Makenna was exhausted by the end of the trip:-)

Here is a quick video of Dan in action- there is also an awesome wipe out at the end!!!