Christmas time at Rock Creek

As a yearly tradition we as a family go look at the Christmas light display at Rock Creek Canyon (near Twin Falls, Idaho). The kids have been so excited to see the "pretties" especially Kaerli who is just getting into the beauty of Christmas lights. Last year she could care less.



Kaerli was so excited by the lights and Santa who was there to hand out candycanes. They even had a guy dressed up as a reindeer and one as an elf. She was just amazed! She was less excited to feed the camel when we finally got up to it.


Mikaeli has always loved the lights. This year was no exception. Every little thing she pointed out to us and just got really excited about it all.


Kaleb was really excited to go, and then fell asleep somewhere during the 45 minute drive up to Rock Creek. Nothing could wake him up. He was completely out for the count. Although he did wake up once we got back to the car, therefore we drove through the second time and let him get out and feed the camel.


As I stated before, before we got to the camel Kaerli was so excited to see it... and then she saw how BIG it was. After about 15 minutes she was ok to feed the camel a carrot... unfortunately, the camel surpassed the carrot in her hand and decided to give her a kiss instead. This picture was right before the camel gave her a kiss. BOY WAS IT SLOPPY!

Mikaeli's Dance Recital!

Mikaeli's Christmas Recital was on December 15th. She did AWESOME!!! She was the best one out there... No prejiduce at all... haha..
She really did a great job. I am very proud of her.


This Christmas Mikaeli did Tap and Ballet. She loves to dance. In January she will start with Jazz again.

The first couple pictures are at her first floor show at Highland Estates.

Every Spring and Winter recital each of the dancing groups dance at the different Assisted Living Centers around the community.

Isn't she SOOOOO CUTE!!!

Halloween!

Today was so much fun. Mikaeli got to go to school dressed up in her Halloween costume. They had a parade of the Kindergarteners, where all of the morning Kindergarten classes were able to parade around the gym showing the parents. Mikaeli dressed up as Catwitch. Catwitch by Una Woodruff, is her favorite book, she loves it because I gave it to her. It was my favorite book when I was her age. She was going to be a rain cloud for Halloween but I didn't want to make that costume more than once given we had to use balloons. Also she wouldn't have been able to sit down in the car, let alone in class. So she was going to be a rain cloud to Trick-or-Treat and be Catwitch for school, but we (THANKFULLY) simplified things.
Kaleb was a Wild West Sheriff with his trusty horse "Fluffy" (he named it himself). For the 2 weeks leading to Halloween he wouldn't take the horse off... when we got to the church to go Trunk-or-Treating he didn't want to wear it anymore... so I made up a story that he couldn't get any candy if he didn't wear his costume.... He put it on. haha
Kaerli was a teddy bear. She loves it. She still begs me to put it on her! After Trick or treating was over she didn't want to take it off. She fell asleep with it on, where we then took it off. She was so sweet.
I was a Tornado. It was an interesting costume, but I had fun doing it. I got lots of comments on it. It was fun.
Dan unfortunately wasn't able to come with us, he had class... so for Halloween he was a nursing student!
After Trick-or-Treating Mikaeli wanted to go to a Haunted House. Yeah I know what you are thinking, she doesn't know what she was getting herself into. We went to one West of Burley. We told Mikaeli that if she gets scared, or if people try to scare her to turn it around and say "BOO" to them. It worked the first 2 times... but then she really got scared and started crying andwouldn't move. Thankfully one of Dan's previous co-workers (was one of the workers at the Haunted House) saw us and yelled "Code Pink" (which means that basically you walk through without anyone doing anything). Some of the workers listened... Others didn't they went all out and scared her even more. When we got downstairs she was screaming and crying so bad that one of the workers grabbed a flashlight and took us the rest of the way. Not that that worked either, people still tried to scare her. I ended up having to carry her out of the Haunted House because she was so terrified she couldn't walk. Needless to say that when we got out... I had a few, not very nice things to yell at the people.
She is ok... on the way home we sang children's songs, and she got to talk to daddy and he made things all better... I think it helped watching mommy chew out the workers. I know that is what they are there for, but come on! When someone yells Code Pink because a child is scared to death, you gotta honor it!
All in all, Halloween was really fun.

Mikaeli's Birthday Party

I can't believe that my baby is 6!! I know she isn't a baby but... SHE'S MY BABY!


For her birthday Mikaeli wanted to go BOWLING! She got to invite friends and she had a blast! This was her first birthday party where she was allowed to invite friends. She was so excited. The little girl (other than Kaerli) in the picture is her friend Jenna Blacker.


She did so well in her bowling game. She actually bowled 300!!! I have proof... true she had bumpers, but that is beside the point. Even with bumpers I have never bowled better than a 118!


Mikaeli had such a blast. In her words she won the Jackpot! Haha. She got to have a party at school, and she got to have a party with the family. Boy was she excited.


It is so hard to believe that Mikaeli is 6 years old. She has begun to tell people when asked her age, "I am almost 7" AAAHHHH and so the age lying begins... Hahaha.

The flood before- New kitchen after

We were kind of forced into this. We got to remodel/redo our kitchen floor. The pipes behind the sink and dish washer decided that they wanted blow and the floor right in front of the sink decided it wanted to cave in. YEAH FOR US!!!

Burley Alumni Baseball Team 2007

Dan played in the second annual Burley Alumni Baseball game held this past June. He had so much fun. The game ended (well it didn't end the umpires just got tired) 4-4.

Kaerli's Stitches

Kaerli is my accident prone child. She had the longest delivery out of all three of my kids (27 hours) and she is the one with the most problems. She had to be under the bili-blanket for almost 2 weeks because her bilireuben was up to level 19 (that is bad) she looked like a pumpkin. Well she is also the only one of my kids who has had to get stitches. She got her pinky finger stuck in a swinging door. (poor baby!) She had to get 4 stitches.