Grandma and Grandpa F always give us a present to open Dec. 1st. This year it was a gingerbread house kit. It doesn't have much candy left on it now.

This is one of my favorite pictures because it reminds me of a very fun vacation.
During this vacation we went to the Imax with the Dorius family to watch Kung Fu Panda. The kids are holding posters of the movie. They had a box full of posters to take when we left the movie. We didn't make it home with any of them. As you can see Tyler was ripping his already. During the movie Tyler walked up and down the isle sampling everyones popcorn. When the movie was over his shirt was full of it. At some point during the movie he must've gotten full because he started putting it down his shirt. We were just happy he wasn't crying.

Tagged

We've been tagged by lots of people and of course we never respond. So Rach and Bri this is because I love you guys.

Kimberly's......

5 joys
My family
Music
Soft chocolate chip cookies
waterskiing
camping


5 Fears
Someone in my house
Being robbed (I lock the doors all the time)
The car running out of gas
Someone stealing one of my kids
Dying


5 obsessions
Running
24
House picked-up
Laundry washed (I'm not to fast at putting it away, just as long as it doesn't stink or stains don't set in)
Reading


Surprising Facts
-I love to can. Yes I said love. Nothing makes me feel better than putting all the food in the pantry and bragging about it. Plus, it just tastes way better than store bought stuff.
-I hate the sky coaster at Lagoon. It's the ride that goes from one end to the other above the trees. If you want to lose a few years on your life take your little kids on it. They don't have seat belts and your little kids can slip under the bar. I'm getting freaked out just thinking of it.
-I think Christmas is so much more fun now as a parent, and I LOVED Christmas as a kid.
-I dream in color and I can remember most of my dreams.
-My shoulders and elbows are double jointed

Halloween

Halloween was fun. Sadie was a witch, Olivia a puppy, and Tyler a giraffe. I helped with Sadie's class party, 1st graders are so cute. They laughed at most anything. I told them a story called spoky Luke that has body parts we pass around. Jello was his guts, chalk his teeth, noodles his hair etc. Our family carved pumpkins a few days before, went to a ward trunker-treat, and got a few tummy aches.

Pinata

Saturday we had a Halloween party with Kimberly's cousins. The kids loved the pinata. Sadie broke one of it's legs off. Olivia wouldn't hit it and Tyler thought it was great.

Great Memories

No Tyler didn't turn three a month after his 2nd birthday, his mom turned 33. 10 years ago Shane asked me to marry him on my birthday. For my birthday he took me to the same restaurant that he asked me to marry him at. He also bought me this book called Remembering Kirtland. It has photos of Kirtland and other church historical sites in Ohio. I LOVE IT! It was written by a man who served a mission there and his brother. I haven't read the whole thing yet but some of the wording so far is the tour that we gave in Kirtland. It brought back a lot of memories from when I gave tours there during my mission. I haven't seen Kirtland since they restored a lot of the sites. I would love to go back someday and see it. When I first got to Cleveland Ohio I was surprised at all of things that happened there. For example over half of the D&C was received in that mission. It was a great birthday and a night of remembering.

Kelly's

Does anyone know what this bug is? We have been told it is a potato bug. We went for a ride up by Kelly's canyon a few weekends ago with Cal Watson, Yancy Whipple, the Wanlass family, and our family. This bug was a couple inches long, and creepy looking. The weather was beautiful that day and the fall leaves were so gorgeous. This was one of our favorite rides. The fall air smelled so good, and we couldn't have asked for better weather.

Book Fair

I worked at the book fair at Sadie's school a few days a few weeks ago. The kids were super good They loved to look at the books, run around in circles when nobody was around, and visit with the kids. Tyler is holding a rock from the display. Whenever we walked in the school he always had to pick up a rock. The theme was a jungle safari.

Spirit Week

Sadie had crazy hair day last week at school. We made it look like her hair was the liquid coming out of the cup.

Snow

This was Saturday Afternoon. The snow started to fall and my kids were so excited to play in it. We didn't have enough snow to play in until Sunday morning.














After church on Sunday my kids ran in the house, changed, and headed right outside. Call us the Sabbath Breakers. We made a little snowman and had a snow ball fight.

More of our 2 year old

Tyler being crazy and silly this summer.

Tyler and his fun summer last year.

Tyler age 1

Tyler's blessing day. He was about 6 weeks old.

Olivia 16 months old and Tyler5 days old.

Sadie 4 1/2 Tyler 4 days old

I wanted to put pictures of Tyler in a slide show, when he had his birthday, but I was having technical difficulties. I decided that I'd just put some pictures up showing how much he's grown.

Happy 2nd Tyler!

Tyler turned 2 a few weeks ago. After he opened his presents if anyone touched them he said MINE. I guess someone is 2 now. Today Olivia and him were holding hands. These are the moments I enjoy that they are close in age. Tyler loves to sit on my lap when I play the piano. The girls do too but that means I don't get to play they are. But he loves to just sit and listen and watch. He is sitting on my lap right now just watching. He is easy to put to bed, calm for a boy, happiest when he has fruit snacks and his sisters to play with. He always says rock-a-bye when he wants me to rock him and read a book. When Tyler is scared he says oooaaaa (his monkey sound). He got scared once at the zoo by a monkey and since that day he tells me he's scared by making the monkey sound. He loves his grandparents and is a bit nervous around strangers. For his birthday he got some blocks that stack just a little taller then he is. He LOVES to kick them over. We sure do love Tyler and his fun personality.

Sand Dunes

We went to the sand dunes earlier in September. We planned to camp at our normal spot and it was blocked off. We headed to the campsite and they informed us that the owner of the land was trying to sale it so they blocked it off. We always thought it was BLM land. We never camp with hook-ups so it was kinda fun to not worry about using up all the batteries . We used the lights more this one night then we have all summer in the camper. The picture above was taken while we were riding around. Shane's brother Ron is on the left, Derk his son is on the motorcyle and his girlfriend Emily is sitting in the back of the rhino with our kids. Kimberly is standing in the back with the purple shirt. This was Kimberly's first time driving at the Sand Dunes. Emily was brave to ride in the back with a first time driver. The campsite had a play area the kids loved. Tyler had fun putting leaves in Olivia's hair. We can't wait to do this again next year.

September

This was a super fun weekend we had up near Spencer Idaho. We camped with Troy, Mariann, and Tysen Walker. All of us piled into the rhino and went for a ride. We saw some deer and managed to stay warm. September has been an amazingly beautiful month. The wind hasn't blown much and the weather is perfect. This camping trip was a little cool though. It didn't stop us from having fun.
We no longer have a bus in our neighborhood so I have been riding my bike with Sadie to school. Tyler and Olivia love riding behind me in the trailer.

Shane has been busy this summer. He started out working on the fence, sprinkler system, and sod at the rentals. Then he finished some projects in our yard. He built a shed and a pergola. Here's some pictures of the beginning stages and then the finished product. I was wondering why we only camped once this year during June through July. These projects may have something to do with that. It sure is nice having them finished. Maybe next year we can focus our energy on growing a better garden and greener grass. Our garden looks okay but so far hasn't produced much. There may still be some hope for it.