We have waited almost 2 years for this!! Mike and Kylie came home tonight. The day started out with Hailey running out of the bedroom shouting "MIKE AND KYLIE COME HOME TODAY!!" Then Hannah came up and together they jumped around. I have to admit I wanted to jump around too, but I knew we had a long day ahead of us! When I got home from work the girls and Kevin helped me make a welcome home sign. Hannah and Hailey loved making the sign and the anticipation built up even more(if that was possible). These pictures are a little out of order sorry.

Hannah running to give Mike a big hug!

The girls decided they wanted to hide behind the corner so they could jump out and surprise them.
Hailey was a little unsure about the whole thing when it came right down to it. When they opened the door she hide behind me! Don't worry it didn't take long for her to warm up!

The girls getting on the necklaces that Mike and Kylie gave them.

Hannah did not quit smiling she was very excited to have them back. Everyone was fighting back the tears when Hannah ran to Mike and gave him a great big hug... it was PRICELESS!! Mike and Kylie we are so glad to have you home! You were greatly missed and have made this Christmas Season a special one already! We love you!

I thought I would try and get a picture of the girls by the tree. Hannah was not a fan of the idea she had other thing to do! We are down to only 4 days until Mike and Kylie come home, and my girls are excited! They have not seen them for almost 2 years. Hannah had just turned 3 when they moved and Hailey was almost 2. They grew very close to them when they lived with my parents for a few months before they left for Australia. We had many nights that Hannah would cry to us because she missed them so much. We are very excited to have them home for Christmas!! We are not looking forward to saying goodbye again!!

Last night Kevin and I went to the Jazz game. Even though they lost in the last second of the game it was fun! A night away without kids is always needed thanks mom and dad for taking the girls so we could go!

The dang thing would not hold still sorry that it is blurry

Williams and Korver taking the night off! What is up with that!

We had a CRAZY but FUN Saturday! It started by us going to my brothers house to meet them so we could go to Disney on Ice! We had a while before it started so we decided to go to the Gateway to do a little shopping. After we froze at the Gateway it was time to head to the show. This is the gang waiting for the show to start.(Kevin is not high, just looks like it)


The girls always have so much fun with my brother and his family. Thanks guys for going with us! As always it was a great time! Here are just a few pictures of the show. I will not bore you with all of them!


After the Ice show we headed to Kevin's sisters house in Layton. It is our nephew Alex's birthday on the 18th we celebrated a little early but I am sure he doesn't mind!

The girls were having so much fun playing with cousins!

We also attended a Musical Review of A Night Of Broadway put on by the Layton West Stake. Kevin's nieces were in this and it was great! Emily and Natalie were in Annie. I think they are the cutest orphans I have ever seen! Hannah and Hailey were so excited to see them perform.
So that was our Saturday! The girls were very excited to see everyone and spend a little time with cousins. It was a crazy day but as you can see well worth it!

For all of you who know my husband Kevin don't tell him about this picture because he would KILL me!! I was in on the computer doing some primary stuff tonight and I think I took a little to long... what do you think? I guess the good thing is everyone was asleep before 9:30!(and now I have a quiet house!)

Sorry for making an other post about Halloween! Hannah and Haiely went to my moms ward carnival tonight and had a blast. As you can see Hannah is now Dorthy and Hailey is bat women.(remind me again why I buy costumes every year?) The girls love Halloween, they love to dress up and love candy what better holiday for a 3 and 4 year old.

I love this picture! Hailey was a little nervous about throwing darts. But as you can see her big sister was taking good care of her!
Hailey waiting to get her face painted. Hailey told the girl she wanted a pumpkin painted on her face and the girl asked her what color she wanted. Hailey looked at her with a confused face and said "pumpkins are orange duh" Well people she tells it how it is! I wonder where she gets that from?
Hannah throwing darts. I must say I was a little uneasy about giving my 4 year old a dart to throw in the church at some balloons. Hannah did great they had three darts and I am proud to say that little bugger got all three balloons! Her dad would have been proud!

Hailey was asking me to hold her up so she could reach better.

Hannah enjoyed this game and was able to eat it without using her hands!

We are going to the ward carnival tonight and it is a good thing cuz that is all they have talked about all day! Hannah is going as Super Women. Look at that face wouldn't you want to be saved by her? Hailey is Dorthy and she just had to have the basket and the dog. I am not mom of the year(once again) I couldn't find the red shoes and she has let me know that Dorthy does not have white shoes. Sorry I tried! I spray painted some of her old white ones but when she put them on they were to small.(No, I did not try them on first that would have saved me time)

Gotta love the the pig tails! I must say she makes a very cute Dorthy!

It has been brought to my attention that it has been 3 weeks since my last post so Jackie this is for you!
I came home from work today and went downstairs to the girls toy room and it looked like a bomb had gone off! I asked the girls to clean it up while I cleaned upstairs. About 15 minutes later the girls came running to get me all excited that they were done. We went downstairs to look and to my surprise it was looking good! Hailey smiled and said "mom we did good! Just don't go to my closet!" I asked why, no response she just took off running!


Well as you can see they toy room is looking great... the closet not so great! Next time I ask them to clean up I think I need to be a little more specific! What do you think?

We teach our kids at a young age to never play in the road... right? Then why do we take our kids to a parade and throw candy in the road and let them chase after it? We went to the Homecoming parade tonight with a few friends and had a good time. Julie, Jackie and Melissa please don't be mad that I posted these pictures! Our kids had a great time playing in the road and not getting into trouble! We were at the very end of the parade and so the candy was mostly gone by the time it got to us. Until the Lee's truck came they had plenty of candy and were dumping it as fast as they could.

Hannah, Isabella, Jackie, Kenzie, Julie, Boston, Carver, and Melissa

Kenzie, Hannah and Hailey in the back of Jackie's car. They had dumped out the sack of candy and were eating as fast as they could, until they got caught! You can see that not one of them cared that we said no more candy!
Boston was so good she sat in her stroller through the whole parade and never made a peep!

The girls went to Lagoon today for the first time and loved it! We were able to get tickets for $10.00 a person and that included lunch and a drink! What a deal! Kevin and I went with the intentions of only staying a few hours. Well 9 hours later we left! The girls had a blast and were even good and Kevin said that we would stay until the kids were ready to go... Probably not the best thing to say to a 4 and 3 year old cuz they would have gone longer if we would have let them!


As we were waiting to get on the boat Hannah looked up at me and said, "Mom, I sure wish uncle Mike was here at Lagoon with us I really think he would have fun!" For all you who don't know my brother Mike is Hannah's hero and he lives in Australia.

Ok so this picture is the last one I took at Lagoon and by Kevin's face he was ready to go. The girls wanted to go on this ride just one more time. Kevin liked this ride too, and was up for going on it again. UNTIL it took 1 hour just to get on the stupid ride! Not because the line was long because the boy running the ride was not in any hurry.
We had a great time and wore Hailey out! We went to Olive Garden for dinner(not even 10 min. away) and Hailey was sound asleep. I had to take this picture of her. We had already tried to wake her up and she wouldn't wake up. Hannah said "I guess Hailey can just starve, Cuz I am going in to eat!" Good thing that Kevin and I were with them because if it would have been the two of them Hailey would have been left in the car!!

GIRLS ARE SURGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE-EXPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE TAKING A NAP!You gotta enjoy the quiet times cuz they don't last long enough!

The first day of preschool! Can you tell if Hailey liked it? Hailey loved it!! She came running out with a smile on her face and could not wait to tell Grandma and Grandpa everything! This is one of those times I hate being a working mom!!

Hannah with her cheesy smile gotta love it! Hannah was very excited to be back at school. She is so cute she too was surprised Hailey did not cry and really did not believe Hailey when she said she didn't so when she got to school she asked her teacher. Tana told her she did not cry. Hannah still not sure, not even a little? It was fun to come home and hear all about the day and between the two of them I had a play by play of the day!

Today was Hannah's day to go to the preschool open house. Hannah could not wait to go back and see Teacher Tana! I just cross my finger a pray that Hailey will go to preschool without crying. Hannah has been a great help she talks to her about it all the time a tells her how much fun it is.

Where does the time go? My baby is going to start preschool! Hailey has waited for this day for a year. Hailey was so upset last year when Hannah got to start school and she couldn't. Now she is old enough and could not be more excited!!

Look at her all big and grown up! Someone quick tell me how to freeze her at this age!

When we finished our basement a few years ago, we made one of the rooms a toy room. I ask myself why everyday! My kids would much rather play in the empty closet upstairs!! Are my kids the only weird ones, who would rather play in the closet than a toy room?
Happy Birthday Kenzee! I cannot believe that you are 12 years old! Thanks for being a great cousin to the girls we love you!

The girls are always talking about Isabella so when Melissa asked us to watch her for a couple hours they were pumped!! They had a great time playing and laughing. Watch out Melissa in a few years these girls are going to be trouble!

The girls started dancing last week at Tuellers. I was really scared that they would not like it as much as they did gymnastics, but they LOVED IT!

Do I feel old or what? Kornti(my niece) is married! It was an amazing day the weather was perfect. The girls would not leave Kortni's side so in all her pictures were my girls sorry about that Kort... at least they are cute!