KANGAROO ZOO

I'm a little behind on my posting. I've had these pictures I've been wanting to post on our visit to the Kangaroo Zoo when Jared, Tonya and Logan came down for a visit. It was the first time we've been there and Kinzi and Logan LOVED it. They couldn't get enough of all the slides. Kinzi was a pro at climbing up the ladder. I wonder where she gets all the practice at climbing from???


Our Little Money, she didn't waste any time getting up.


She had to wave about 3 or 4 times before she headed down.

Here she is practicing on the "small" slide. Once she realized how fun the "big" slides were she didn't want anything do to with this one anymore.

Logan and Kinzi

It was lots of fun. I just have to try not to think about how dirty these places are. There were tons of kids there and I can only image all the germs that were floating around...Kinzi came home smelling not so great. I was pretty grossed out. But she had fun and I'm sure we'll be taking her back for another visit.

Thanks for coming and visiting us. We hope to see you soon.

Kinzi's Play Room

Today I feel like I got Kinzi's play room somewhat complete. Which 90% of the time looks like a tornado hit it, sometimes I wonder why I even bother to make it look cute and fun. But on Saturday I was able to buy the last item needed (yes it was seriously needed....okay wanted really badly) from Costco. I've been wanting the matching bookshelf to match her table and chairs that Santa (aka my mother-in-law) bought her for Christmas. I've been telling myself for 2 months that she'd (or myself) would just have to go without. But Costco came through for me and had the matching bookshelf $90 off the original price. (I had NO clue Costco had sales, but luckily for me the do) Now I still need to do an accent wall of some sort and add some pictures or something....the walls are a little boring, but all in due time. I'll take any volunteers who'd like to come and help paint.....any takers????

On a side note.....I finally got a bedroom set. YEA!!! I've been waiting our whole marriage for one. I'm so excited. I have a ways to go in our room too....painting, pictures and all but at least I have the most expensive thing out of the way. THANK YOU Todd for finally caving in and letting me get it. He was wanting a bigger flat screen for the living room but I told him that having bedroom furniture was more important. I'm not sure if he got my logic, I think he was just sick of listening to me complain how much I HATED our bedroom and how ugly it looked.

I'm hoping to get some more pictures posted soon. Hopefully it won't take me months to get those up.

Does It Ever End!!!

I can't take my eye off this girl. This is how I found her this afternoon. I guess she was hungry. (she could have just asked)

What mom??? I'm just getting something to eat.

She has become our little monkey. She likes to climb up but when it comes to getting down she's terrified. She'll start to get down and then she'll start shaking and screaming bloody murder. Usually she's only 2 inches from the ground. She's obsessed with climbing onto the island in the kitchen and the table. Or she'll push the chair around to all the light switches and turn them on and off 100 hundred times. She really likes the light switch at the top of the stairs and will pull one of her chairs from her play room right to the edge of the stairs just so she can reach those light switches. I can just see her now....tumbling down the stairs with the chair following.

No sort of discipline seems to work with this child....and nothing seems to bug her so you can't take anything away, you can't get mad at her, can't give her "the look" or send her to time out. She just gives you one of those big cheesy smiles and heads straight for the chair again....

I'm hoping when she turns 3 in March this will all just magically end. (well at least I can hope for it right!!!)

Christmas in Boise

Todd and I were lucky to be able to take the week before Christmas off and head to Boise to be with family. We left the Thursday before Christmas, hurrying to miss the big storm that was to come through on Friday. (Not sure if it ever came through but who cares, I got to leave work a day early)

We spent the week getting last minute items and spending time with family. Luckily I had finished most of my shopping before we got to Boise, but NOT Todd. He hadn't even started so on Saturday he and his Dad spent the day shopping and then on Monday his sister was nice enough to go with him. (I'm not a big fan of shopping with Todd) He enjoys getting everyone a "UNIQUE" gift, not something they want or would expect. Me on the other hand likes to get everyone what they want and not what they don't want. But he always ends up getting good gifts. I've never been disappointed. Except this year, don't know what he was thinking with the 2 turtle neck sweaters he got me....???? Thank goodness for exchanges. (I still love you though babe, there is always next year to redeem yourself) But I did LOVE everything else you got me!!!! THANK YOU

My mother-in-law had decided to surprise Kinzi and Logan (my sister-in-law Tonya's son) with a play kitchen. So Clancey (my father-in-law) spent around 3 hours putting it together and kept in hidden in their basement for the big surprise on Christmas morning. Well.....it didn't quite work out that way. Kinzi and Logan love to play on the stairs and one afternoon the door to the basement was left open and they of coarse spotted that and headed straight for the basement. Sally had been watching the kids and thought they were playing nicely in the bedroom with all the other toys. I had just finished shopping with my mom and came home and the kids were no where to be found. We looked everywhere. The only possible place for them to have gone was the basement. (But when we looked downstairs the door was closed and neither of them can open doors yet) We decided to take a look anyways, and there they were playing with the kitchen. So we decided to bring it up and let them play with it...

They played with it for at least one hour straight. No fighting or anything. They play so well together. (I hope that will always be the case)
THANKS Grandma Sally for the Best present. I know they both LOVED it.

CHRISTMAS EVE:

We always spend Christmas eve at my parents house for dinner and the exchanging of gifts. There are 15 grandchildren.....need I say more!!!! They are all so excited for opening gifts and doing anything else before hand is rushed and a little crazy. But the time finally came....




All the Grand kids got Christmas ornaments from Great Grandma and Grandpa Guyer as they do every year. They are always so cute. I forgot to get a picture of Kinzi with hers. But we love to get those ornaments. THANK YOU Grandma and Grandpa Guyer. (We missed not having you there) Thank your our gift too....I might just add that to what mom and dad got us.

This year from Mom and Dad we all got gift certificates to WINCO (except Todd and I got ours to Costco) for $200.00 so we could add to our food storage. What a great gift. We all loved getting this. I really need to get my food storage going and organized. I've let it dwindle down to nothing since we were moving. (I didn't want to move it so we ate or used most all of it before we moved) So now I can get started again. THANKS!!!

CHRISTMAS MORNING:

So this Christmas morning wasn't one that ended quite like I had hoped for. Instead of waking at 3:30 in the morning for an excited child that just couldn't wait to see what Santa had brought her.....we woke to a crying little girl who I thought had a little tummy ache and was trying to pass gas. (If only that was the case) Instead we got a little girl who threw up all over the recliner and luckily Todd's gifts and not someone else's. So while Todd and I cleaned up the mess, my sister-in-law Tara and Sally gave Kinzi a bath and got her all cleaned up. Luckily she was done after that but trying to go back to sleep was a little difficult for her. So around 5:30 she finally fell back to sleep.

Needless to say our Christmas morning didn't start until around 10:00. That's when Todd, Kinzi and I decided to wake back up from the long night. Unfortunately that made everyone else wait for us. They were very patient and didn't complain. (well at least not to us they didn't)

We had a great Christmas morning. Thanks Todd for the Camcorder. We can finally get some video of Kinzi. I still can't believe we went almost 3 years without one. I know that is something I'm going to regret when she gets older.

Kinzi checking out wants inside her stocking.....

Kinzi didn't have much energy after opening 1 or 2 gifts and decided to rest on the couch with Gummie and her baby doll that Santa had brought her. She was tired. By 1:00 she was out. She sleep for around 4 hours that afternoon. The poor thing. Both her birthday and Christmas she spent sick for 2008. Hopefully 2009 will be much better for her.

I didn't get any pics of Todd with the Wii I surprised him with. (well at least I hope it was a surprise....he said he had no clue, but I'm not sure if he was just trying to make me feel good)

We had a wonderful time and we're so lucky to have a great family.

KINZI

Over Thanksgiving weekend we had Kinzi's pictures taken. They turned out so cute I thought I'd share a couple of them. (Thanks Eden, you did a fantastic job)

I'm hoping to get some pictures of the house up soon. Todd FINALLY got around to helping me hang some pictures up. If any of my sisters or sister-in-laws (or anyone for that matter) would like to come for a visit and help do some decorating you're more than welcomed. I'm not the best at it and Todd hasn't been much help (plus he's a guy and has some very weird suggestions)

Stay tuned....hope to have some up later this week.

Our New House

We are excited to say we are homeowners again. We closed on the house last Wednesday and got the keys on Thursday. I'm so excited to get in and get settled again. (Minus the moving) We thought for sure we'd be renting through the winter but we just couldn't pass up this house. We first looked at it in July but we hadn't sold our house and it was priced way too high. We got lucky with the market going down and plus the fact that this builder had at least 4 houses they were sitting on.
Once we get settled in I will post more pictures of the house. Looking at empty rooms are just not the same. My awesome in-laws and driving back to SLC on Tuesday to help us move AGAIN. They are the best. They've made the drive every time we've moved to help out. What can I say but Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!
Stay tuned for more pictures later.

COUSINS!!!

Over Halloween weekend we got to enjoy a fun visit from Travis, Miaaka and their kids. Kinzi loved having them at the house to play with. It's a rare thing to have family in town, it was nice. We always seem to do the traveling so it was nice not to have to drive 5 hours to see family.

Jacob, Sage, Kinzi and Jada

Sage and Kinzi

Kinzi, Colton and Jada

Colton was not excited about having his picture taken

Thanks for coming to visit. You are welcome anytime. Plus the next time you come you will not be stuck sharing one room....we'll be in our new home with LOTS of extra space and rooms. YEA!!! I can't wait