Kaylee's Birthday

Kaylee turned 5 years old on Sunday, August 16th. She is so excited to be 5, because that means she gets to go to Kindergarten.

We decided to let her invite one friend over for a party on Saturday. Only ONE friend, yes we are so mean! I just couldn't convince myself that I could handle more then two 5 year-old girls running around. She decided to invite Kalli Moss, she lives two blocks down the street and Kaylee has loved playing with her. We let the kids play dress-up and princesses for a while, and I forgot to take pictures. Then we decorated PINK cupcakes with PINK frosting and Skittles. They loved it! Kyler did ask if we had any blue cupcakes or frosting but he was fine with the pink after he tasted it. Kenyon really enjoyed decorating his cupcake and took forever to make sure it was just right.

We got Kaylee a bike for her birthday. I got it up north on the 1st when I was shopping and we kept it it the garage until we gave it to her. Well on the 3rd when Russell was packing to go to Zions, he opened the garage door when Kaylee was with him. She saw her bike and asked if it was for her for her birthday. He told her yes, and she covered her eyes and proceeded to chew Russell out for letting her see it and for not hiding it better. We thought for sure that she would beg for it when they got back, but she didn't say a thing about it. We had to convince her that it was OK for her to ride it on Saturday even though it wasn't really her birthday yet.

Grandma Olsen gave her a pink princess basket, a bell, and handle bar ribbons for it and she loves them. They aren't on it the following pictures but they are on it now.

She had a wonderful birthday, but it isn't over yet. We are going to have a family party for her and Evelyn on Sunday, so she will get her princess cake and more presents. We will post pictures when we can.

Evelyn is Finally Walking!

Evelyn has been taking one or two steps at a time for a few weeks now, but hasn't really made it very far until yesterday.

I love her expression and body language in this picture. You can tell she is so happy with herself!

Here is a video I got of her walking at Grandma Olsen's house. If you turn up the volume you can hear her express her excitement! (We are working on getting the video rotated. When/If we figure it out we will fix it here, until then enjoy!) (My genius husband figured it out, so here is the rotated video)

Kids

Kenyon takes after me and loves puzzles. We found him this "Handy Manny" puzzle about a week ago and he has put it together at least 50 times.

Here he is admiring his work ...

... and here he is destroying it so he can do it again!

Kaylee & Kenyon are either "best friends" or "worst enemies". I'm very glad that they aren't the same gender (especially both girls) or we would be in big trouble.

Here are some pics of one of their "best friends" moments.

Kyler's Birthday Week

Kyler turned 8 years old on August 4th! He had a really eventful week.

It started with a family party on Monday, August 3rd.

Here is his Solar System Cake. We are lucky that they demoted Pluto to a Dwarf Planet, and that Kyler didn't make me include the Dwarf Planets on the cake, so we could put a candle in each Planet. The words "Happy Birthday!" are supposed to be the asteroid belt, which was Kyler's idea. I thought it turned out pretty good.

Kyler liked it and I guess that's all that really matters!

Thanks to all the family that came and brought him wonderful gifts. He got a really nice set of scriptures from Grandma & Grandpa Slim and Grandma & Grandpa Olie; a Cub Scout shirt, with the patches already sewn on, from Grandma Olsen; some nice books about the Creation and the Earth from Grandma & Grandpa Henningson; a cool Panda Robot from Jay and his family; some coloring supplies from Braxton and his family; some glow in the dark planets and stars and a fun book about outer space from Charlotte & Bryan; and a nice bike lock from Russell & I. He really hit the jackpot this year!

Tuesday thru Thursday he went to Zion's with Russell for the Bybee Family Reunion. See the following post for pictures and info on the fun he had there.

Then Friday night we had a Friend Party for him. He wanted to have a Star and Moon Gazing Party, so we did.


His cake was the Moon, if you can't tell.

We started out by playing games like throw the Comets through the Rings of Saturn, Robot/Moon Rock Relay, and see who can land the Flying Saucer on the Planet. They had a lot of fun running around and throwing things outside!

Then we went inside for Cake & Ice Cream and to open presents.

Jacob Pipes, Kenyon, Noah Mason, Kyler, Matthew Mason, Jay Henningson, and Kaylee.

After the presents we went outside to look at the stars and the moon, but it was too cloudy, so they played with glow sticks and had lots of fun!

Saturday, we stayed home and recovered from the long and eventful week!

Family Reunion at Zions

Russell's mothers family had a reunion at Zions August 4-6th. Russell took the three oldest and left me and Evelyn home to work. I really didn't mind staying home to work, because I had a PCB layout to work on, which is pretty much a puzzle. I had a blast, but it would have been fun to go visit with family too. Evelyn got to play with Grandma Henningson and Grandma Slim all week. Thanks for watching her for us.

Tawnya Olsen Family

Russell, Kyler, Kaylee & Kenyon; Thomas, Ryan, Anna & Amy; Tawnya; Brynn, Kate, Bryan, Meg, Lex, & Moriya. Missing were Wendy & Evelyn; Dee, Tammy, Jason & Joel.

Kenyon enjoyed the food!



Brynn gave the cousins Break Dancing lessons!


Kyler is just relaxing.


Kenyon had a blast blowing bubbles!

Kenyon enjoying the food again.





The cousins had fun playing on the playground together.

Kaylee and Kenyon were worn out after a busy day of having fun!

Kyler beat Russell in a game of pool!

Kyler is getting ready to ride the Zip Line.



Here he goes!


You couldn't pay me enough money to do this, but he loved it!

Walking back for another ride!


He rode it twice and probably would have gone more if Russell would have let him!


Thanks Tawnya for a fun trip, the kids really enjoyed it!

Sunday Walk To The Manti Temple

We have really enjoyed being so close to the Manti Temple. Our kids love to go there for Sunday walks and play on the grassy hills. We are so blessed to be able to live in Manti and raise our children here!