Please hurry summer!!!

We are just soooooo ready for the summer! We have had some really nice days lately and it has felt grate to get outside and enjoy the sunshine! It has been fun to go out and ride on the little cars, play on the ice covering Utah Lake and even go swimming! (Inside of course, but cant wait until it is outside too!)

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I have a THREE year old!
Wow, how times flies when your having fun right?
Kal had a great birthday this year! We had a little party (a mickey mouse clubhouse party!) and had family over, sang the birthday song (the long Hatch/Kimball version) and opened gifts! Kaleigh was sooooooo excited about turning three and having a party for herself!
Love this girl too much!

New Years!

Our family has a tradition of doing our stockings on New Years rather than on Christmas! All growing up our extended family would get together at my grandparents and party all night long, eventually fall asleep and then wake up to stockings full of goodies to eat and a whole day to play with cousins! I got the girls new stockings this year that they loved looking through New Years Morning!

We spent New Years with Trevs family this year! We had fun eating and hanging out in the evening. We then went home to sleep, woke up to do stockings and then took off to meet my family at our cabin in the most beautiful city of Midway!

We had a great time at our cabin! I was especially excited this year because we had some of our cousins, the Hunters, come up with us! It was so fun to spend time with them doing crafts and eating pine nuts! (Have you ever tried chest nuts? Well, my cousin Jen brought some up for us to try and by the time I got to it there was just one left and it turned out to be bad. However, I hear they are really good and plan to try them soon!)
My really cool Mom spent time planning some fun things for us to do! She cut out these boots, and we each got to decorate one! It was so fun! I find it totally unfair that my Mom is so amazing at arts and crafts, and I got NONE of her skills. Maybe I will gain some through more practice!

Christmas!

As usual, we had a great Christmas this year! It was fun to spend time with both of our families, and especially fun to watch Kaleigh open her presents while Emma played in her wrapping paper!

Christmas beginings!

Helping Grandma make the frosting!

Emmy's face was like this all evening long! So funny!

Loving Grandad!

Final product!!!

Merry Christmas!!! We have started off our Christmas celebrations with making our traditional gingerbread houses! This has become one of our favorite traditions! It was extra fun for us because we have missed out on it the last two years and finally got to be here this time!

Random pics!

Loves cooking for Mickey and Minnie and Baby!

Enjoying the first Snowfall!

Helping PaPa blow all the leaves in a pile!

It's been a while since I posted. Just thought I would post a few random pictures! We have been enjoying all of our different kind of weather lately! Tying to get out a lot before it is way too cold and miserable going outside.

Halloween!

A Butterfly and a Frog!

We had two cute little bugs for Halloween! I do have to say... (at least for me!) It is much more fun to go trick-or-treating with my children than it was going as a child myself! I loved watching Kaleigh having so much fun going to a ward party and then going door to door to get candy! She loved it, and has asked to go everyday since!

CARVING PUMPKINS!

Carving pumpkins with Kaleigh was really fun this year! Every time we go home she wants us to all look at her pumpkin on the front porch! Very proud of her project! She had a lot of fun carving with Daddy and then cooking the seeds and eating them with Grandma Necie!!!

GARDNER VILLAGE!

Witch doing the Cannon Ball!
Emma hanging out with Uncle Matt and Elise!

My family took a little ride up to Gardner Village to see all the cute little shops and go on the witch hunt!It was so much fun! I do have to say that out of all the witch's there, our little Kaleigh was BY FAR the cutest one there!!! (Along with her cute cousin Jaydenn!)
I have always heard about Gardner Village, but never been there until now! I guess it is about time considering I am a Gardner myself!