Beating Up on Daddy

For some reason, Spencer gets a kick out of hitting Kyle and watching his reaction. Probably because Kyle really gets into it with him. We almost always get good belly laughs out of Spencer when he does it. Anyway, I just told Kylene we have our own blog and after she looked at it she said, "Why don't we have any videos on it?" So much for appreciating that we even have one! Anyway, this is the best I could come up with as far as recent videos go. So, this is for Kylene!

Vegas, baby!

Christmas day we left our kids with Maile & Parvin (thank you!) and headed to Vegas for my youngest brother's wedding. They were sealed in the Las Vegas Temple on December 26th and were appropriately smitten and happy! We had fun having a little getaway without our kids and enjoying some of the sights around Las Vegas: the strip and Hoover Dam were all we really had time for with all the wedding stuff, but it was lots of fun. The neatest part was being in the temple with all my siblings and their spouses and my parents. Kyle enjoyed our free upgrade to a convertible Mustang and of course we had to take the obligatory pictures with the top down despite it being so cold! We took it down when we wanted to see a great view of Hoover Dam, too, but otherwise we just enjoyed imagining we were driving in a convertible:). I was at least glad there was NO snow in Vegas and that it was pretty well all gone by the time we got home.

Christmas Morning

Due to the bad weather and roads, we ended up staying Christmas Eve night at my parent's house. Since they were flying out of Seattle on Christmas day (for Nate's wedding) and didn't know how the roads would be, they ended up leaving the day before, so we got to take care of their house for them:). We wished they were there, though.

The first picture shows you how excited Spencer was to cooperate for pictures that morning. He didn't really even want to open presents, so Kylene got to open almost everything; she didn't mind, though! The poor kids opened their presents then we boxed them up, put them in the garage, and left to Maile and Parvin's house so Kyle and I could head to the airport for our flight to Las Vegas for Nate and Cami's wedding. We did let them take a couple of their small things, but they pretty much had to wait until the next Sunday night to really enjoy their Christmas gifts. (And since I had forgotten some of Santa's presents at home (oops!), he "left" them under the tree at our house, so they got to open more when we got home from our trip. Thank goodness kids are so willing to believe what you tell them (or at least what Santa tells them in a note)!

Ho, Ho, Ho

Despite the stormy weather, we made it to Santa's "house" to pay him a visit this year. Spencer didn't really like the idea (hence me holding him in the picture), but Kylene was excited. I had already finished all the shopping for Santa, but after Kylene told Santa all she wanted were stickers (where did that come from?), I decided I better make an extra trip to the dollar store to fulfill her request. Thank goodness they have lots of stickers!