New Pictures

I just dumped about 70 pictures from my camera. Here are some of the latest pictures of our family.

Kaylei spent the afternoon in the garden. What a dirty face!

Kaylei is enjoying a cheese cracker. Check out the cheese mustache!
Little Kaylei is working on her car with daddy's toys.


Kaylei likes to climb into our cupboards.


Look, she finally has enough hair for a ponytail!!

So Much to Do

So we are moving in less than a week and there is just so much to do. Last week our car started making a horrible noise when we went over bumps. We had to adjust the sway bar. Last weekend, our 4Runner's transmission was slipping in overdrive. We just found out that it's an electrical problem and it won't be fixed until Saturday or Monday (BTW, we are leaving Tuesday morning). And to top it all off, Kaylei has had a fever for 2 days now and the doc isn't real sure what it's from. Oh and we still have over half the house to pack, who needs sleep, right?

It's been Awhile!

Life has been going by in a flash these past few months. I received my teaching certificate from Lewis-Clark State College and accepted a teaching job in Idaho Falls. We will be moving the beginning of August and starting a new chapter in our life. This is a bitter-sweet move for us as we had just made a home in Lewiston and we are now moving on, hopefully for the better. Here are some great pictures of the family (mostly of Kaylei) from the past few months. Our little sunshine is growing up so fast! She's started walking and her vocabulary is constantly growing. My favorite word of hers has to be button. She only pronounces "but"!

Kaylei and her daddy

Here's my little climber.This is the face Kaylei gives if you ask her where her nose is or refer to the nose at any point. Let's hope she quits this before she's 16!

First Birthday, March 28,08

Kaylei made it to her first birthday with only one late night ER visit due to a stomach virus which means we didn't DROP her!!! That was one of my biggest fears or that she would roll of the bed or couch and severely hurt herself. Anyone who knew me (Alice) as a child would understand why this is such a HUGE mile marker. I had many trauma visits to the ER, let's hope she didn't take after me in that area!

Kaylei enjoyed her first birthday party and was so excited to see many of her friends there. She LOVED being the center of attention. We're thinking she may go into entertaining in the future.

Here are some pictures from her special day.

Easter

This year Easter was going to be another ordinary weekend with a special dinner at home with just the three of us. But, at the last minute we decided to travel to Boise to see Troy's family. His grandfather is ill and we wanted to take Kaylei down there. We pretty much saw all of Troy's extended family in the Boise area. Kaylei was sick the entire time but anyone who knows her, knows that it wasn't too bad as Kaylei doesn't act too differently when she's ill. Although this time she turned red and purple when she coughed and slept a lot. She had bronchiolitis and is feeling much better now! Just in time for her FIRST birthday! Here are some photos from Easter.

Hair!

Our birthday wish for Kaylei was that she would be able to have a little pony tail for her birthday. And unless her hair suddenly decides to grow, our wish will not come true this year. But she can have some real stylish hair do's in the bathtub!

Wow, Time Sure Does Fly!!!

I kept meaning to update the page and kept saying I'll do it later. We'll five months later I realized I could no longer say later! Kaylei will be turning 1 this month! She has been doing well and hitting all the milestones: crawling at 7 1/2 months. Actually it was the week before Thanksgiving because we had to call the relatives and warn them that they should baby proof before we get there.

Christmas was a big hit for Kaylei. She spent most of her time picking on her older cousins, Josef was 3 and Kristofer had just turned a year.



Kaylei loves being mobile. She gets into EVERYTHING and just as you think it's all out of her reach, she grows half an inch and can get into EVERYTHING again! She has had many memorable play dates with Eli and Myles (who moved away and we miss him and his parents).