The Boys' Birthday

Happy Birthday Kurtis...


And Kaiden!!


Kaiden was born on Monday at 1:54 A.M. He was 7lbs 5 0z and 20 inches long. He has lots of dark hair and looks a lot like his big sister. Definitely a keeper.




The next ones are the same day, about 12 hours after he was born.




Meeting his big sister for the first time...


The sleep deprived parents. My sister didn't sleep at all the night he was born and was awake all day looking pretty. You would have never guessed she just had a baby and zero sleep.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Look at these cool pictures. This is probably a first. We just went out and took them in seconds. He was so good and even gave me some great smiles.

Look who's 5...






The cake...




We had a little party on Saturday. We took the kids to Kangaroo zoo. Here is one of Braiden.


I will try and get some more up soon. Love you Braiden.

Finally... More Pictures

They are finally done. Sorry it took me so long. I don't even have a good excuse. I've just been plain lazy. Ok, the last few days I have been pretty busy.

Harrison's Blessing Day

I'm not done editing pictures from this past Sunday, but I thought I would post some of the ones that I have done. Here are some of Harrison...











This next picture was taken before the one with their costumes(last post). They were a little bit better for this one except for Brooklynn who didn't really have lunch and she couldn't keep her hands out of her mouth(teething still). I was just thinking, when I was getting ready to post these pictures, that this probably wasn't the best time to try and get a picture of 7 kids (4 years of age and younger). Half of them had been through 2 Sacrament meetings and had been in their church clothes for 6 hours. Oh well, here it is...


It's not the greatest, but with that many little kids you don't have the time to adjust anything, you just snap as many pictures as you can before your time runs out. That was my first experience with that many little ones. Pretty crazy!!!

The next ones are with all of Harrison's and Hunter's cousins.

Halloween

I'm finally posting our Halloween pictures. We haven't been together with my family for a few years on Halloween, so this year was a lot of fun. We weren't planning on getting together until my mom called me on Monday and said that my brothers mission call was going to come on on Wednesday. Everyone but Kyle knew the call was coming. My dad took the call out of the mailbox while Kyle and my mom were out to lunch and when he got home he really thought his call hadn't come. Here are some pictures from our day.

I had to add this one in. Hunter didn't really want to take pictures. I had to keep telling him to show me his mean dinosaur face and then his happy dinosaur face. Obviously this is his mean face...


Here are the kids after trick or treating at the very first house. They were so excited and had to check out every one's piece of candy. We didn't get Brooklynn out of the stroller in time for the first house, but she is in the next picture. It didn't take more than a house or two for her to figure out what was going on and she thought it was pretty cool.




After taking the kids out for about an hour, we went back to the house and sang Happy Birthday to my mom. After her cake, we pulled one out for Kyle. He had no idea what was going on.


The first of the next three is Kyle wondering why he has a cake in his lap that says "Surprise Kyle". The middle picture is after my dad gave him his big white envelope. It took a few minutes for it to really sink in. The last one is him reading where he will be for the next few years. He will be serving in the England, London South Mission. He is very excited and bummed that he doesn't arrive at the MTC in England until February 29th.


The Call...


This picture of all the grand kids was actually taken this past Sunday. We all got together for Kyle's ordination and Harrison's blessing. The kids had already had their picture taken without their costumes (coming s00n) and didn't want to take anymore. Sadly this is the best one I got.

Pumpkin Carving

I know I'm a little behind on my posts and I was going to skip this one, but I wanted to use this as an opportunity to journal (for myself) Braiden's first real pumpkin carving. Grandpa and Grandma came down for our traditional pumpkin carving. Braiden was really looking forward to it and was quite funny.



This is where it all started. Here he is cleaning his pumpkin out. He did not want to stick his hands in.



He then started coloring his pumpkin and gave it some hair.



And then the carving started...



And continued...



And here it is in the end.



He wasn't too happy about it when we told him he had to throw it away, but he got over it. I told him that I would share mine with him and that he could help me and that was good enough for him. Here are the finished products.