We're baaaaaaaack!

...i hope for real this time! :)

So here's, the deal-- i have the family history bug! As I've been getting more into it (it is so cool by the way!) I can't shake this feeling I keep having.. Which is this: It is SO amazing to do family history for my ancestors that lived years and years ago, but what about now? What about my my parents and grandparents with amazing stories that have not been written down? Am I wasting opportunities everyday to preserve those? What about MY family history? What am I leaving for my kids? If you know me at all, you know I LOVE pictures! My phone and computer are always maxed from the thousands of pictures I have on there.  Its nice that they are on there, but they shouldn't just be on there! They should be organized in books and journals and in my family history!! So this is my new years resolution... for November ;) i'm going to start with weekly posts!  I'm trying to be realistic, so i'm sure some posts wont razzle and dazzle, but they will preserve a memory, a moment in my life that i want to remember :0)


"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of these meaningful, significant things. Some of them may be funny. Some may be of significance only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experience."

~President Gordon B. Hinckley


Boy, do i love that man.... Here's to family history!! :o)

whats new with us this fall?

this year, two big things started for us when September began....


First: Ty started preschool!! yes he goes to kindergarten next year, so he'll only being doing one year of preschool, but he sure loves it and feel extra cool going to school :o)

silly boy...

ty's sweet backpack he picked out all by himself... a walmart special of course :)

kaylee was a little sad big bro was leaving to school without her...

they are best buds!





the second big thing: Miss kaylee started dance with madi!






and it is ADORABLE!! :o)

you may be wondering...

whats with the eye patch?

well, ty has something called accommodative esotropia. if you're not familiar with this, you can click here for a quick definition. basically, ty is super farsighted which causes his eye to cross when he is focusing on certain things. we did the glasses thing which fixed the crossing of the eyes when the glasses were on but didn't strengthen the eye at all in any other way. So now we 're trying the patch! we cover the strong one to strengthen the weak eye... we call it exercising his eye :o) i tried the sticky patch and that was rough so now we use a pirate patch because its way cooler and stuff ;)

now that is one cute pirate! :o)

baseball, sun glasses and some cotton candy

We has a BLAST last night at the Texas Rangers baseball game!





The night consisted of LOTS of fun new firsts for everyone!!!

First Pro Baseball game ever for miss kaylee....




First time at a rangers game with dede and todd :)




First bite of cotton candy... ever!!! and he love it..... kaylee too :o)

**disclaimer: i know, i know, how can he be 4 and never tasted cotton candy??? i figured he's going to get so much junk for the rest of his life, why not just wait as long as i can to introduce it to him.... :o)


First time setting a Gennius World Record at a Pro Baseball game "most people wearing sunglasses in the dark" ...true story!! if your interested in the details click here and here :o)


oh, ps- to add to that story.... Former President George W. was participating with us!!!! don't believe me?? click here! :) or just look at the picture i borrowed off the internet :)

He was sitting right there, behind the batter!! ;)


First time staying until the ninth inning!!!! 9 innings of lots of fun, food and hanging with our friends...






Before we left, I wanted my family picture... so here it is, my hot, sweaty and exhausted kiddos and close awkward angle of me, hahah!!!!

yay for a wonderful night of baseball!!

k.a.y.l.e.e

kaylee, kaylee yessirry! :) ... for those of you that have no idea what that meant, thats how we taught kaylee to spell her name!)

I just had to do a quick post on my adorable 2 year old! She is my sweetheart and my cuddler! Her laugh is contagious and her smiles melts your heart! She loves to hang with mom and the big kids, but she IDOLIZES her big brother! She wants to be just like him, does everything- good and bad- that ty does :o) she tries to be as crazy and daring and it usually ends with tears, its making her tough-er ;) She is perfecting her colors right now and loves to explain all the colors she sees.... the conversation always ends with, "You know, that's my favorite color?" hehe :) She is ALLLLLL girl, she loves shoes, make-up, and doing things by herself! She loves to wear her sunglasses upside down and tonight informed me that she wants earrings! Oh, and her babies, how could i forgot her babies. She got 2 babies for Christmas- she named them baby and flower baby (baby #2 has a flower on her shirt, hence the flower;) She is quite the little mother, puts them down for naps, reads them books, rocks them and sings to them... it really is adorable :o) she has perfected the "pleeease daddy" and already has wrapped daddy around her little finger! she plays hard to get... with everyone (but mom ;) and we know she is going to be a little heart breaker!

funny kaylee stories for the week...

-the other night ty had a rough night! i'm talking rough ;-P so we were saying nighttime prayers with kaylee and she said, "Please bless that ty will stop crying and can make good choices." ha!

-our friends came and took her and tyty swimming. They had been there for a while and she turned to brad and said, "Ummm, I'm hungry and kinda cold!" haha, seriously, is she just 2?!

-tonight at dinner, she had her feet all over me. So I said, you need put your feet down, sweetie. And she goes, mom you just need to say please." i about fell out of my seat!! haha!

-my all time favorite for the week, "mom, you're my best mom!" :o)

I love my kaylee girl!!!!


a day at the park..

Disneyland day 2...

(warning: i was a little obsessed with picnik collages today, ha!)

Our second day was blue skies... and freezing!! but that didn't stop us!



We got to Toon Town before the gates opened and when the clock struck 9:00 watched Mickey and the gang skip down to the gates and open them up... it was so cute!!!!





uncle scott took Tyty on his first roller coaster!




The line was so short, daddy took him again! :o)






and i took kaylee to see minnie!



We had lots of fun at Mickey's house....

(kisses for mickey... :)




Minnie's House

side note: ty took the picture with minnie and then he was OUT of her girly house, haha!!


just playing around in Toon Town!


so long Toon Town!!



Princess time!!! w/ grammy!



learning how to be a princess...


my delicate flower, haha!!


dancing with Cinderella...



cutest snow white ever!




My happy little princess!!


And my other happy little niece princess!


we loved princess land!!

While kaylee was a princess, tyty went with dad and the boys- aka papa and uncles denny and scott to do this...


a little of this...


and finally this :)
Thats right folks, Ty went on Splash mountian!! he stood as tall as he could and had to wear his mickey mouse ears to pass the height test but he made it!!! he was a little cold afterward but absolutely loved it!!


as day 2 drew to an close, we did a little tea cups... well, pictures only, haha!!




Sword in the stone... ty started crying because he couldn't get the sword out.., poor kid pulled a stomach muscle he was trying so hard!!



And it's a small world!! We totally lucked out and were in line for small world right as the Christmas Parade was coming by... my kids were thrilled!!





and of course we ended the night with a churro!
kaylee literally fell asleep mid chew- haha!! too cute!!
and that was it!!


That was a lot of pics and it doesn't nearly show how much fun we had!!! it seriously was the greatest Christmas present ever, thanks mom and dad!!!! Ty still asks everyday if we can go back to Disneyland... it really is the happiest place on earth!!!!!!!!