Man this kid's a crack up :)

So tonight I told Kai he could pick out one story before bedtime because it was getting late, so he said, "Mom, I wanna read that one medical book" Me: "What? what medical book? what are you talking about?" Kai: "You know, that one medical book, that doctor book" Richard looked at me with big smiling eyes and said... "OHHHH!!! You mean the Dr. Seuss book!" Kai: "Yeah that big medical book!" Oh my gosh, kills me, just kills me :)

Air Show

After Kailer's 8 am baseball game, at which he had an absolute blast, we went to the Nellis air show. Kailer really loved watching the planes and Meili even seemed to enjoy herself more than last time we went. She wandered around our feet and pointed in the sky occasionally. They took turns waving the flag around and Kailer was sure the pilots could see him waving. The thunderbirds were awesome and super loud. Again, Meili hated having her ears covered, but I was relentless :) Kai covered his own ears this time, which was nice! It was a fun filled saturday. The only bad part was it took us about an hour to find our car in the massive speedway parking lots because we were retarted and didn't look at our parking letter :( We won't do that again. Here's a few pics from the event...

Oh and on a hillarious side note: Kai learned from the air show that all planes have a letter and a number, like c-130 etc. So he was playing with an airplane in church and gave it to one of his friends and said, "Here you can have this one, it's name is the HN11 :) Love it! Guess, we've talked about h1n1 way to much in this family!

Danger Diva, Drummer Dude, Dresses and Aunt Deanna!

Danger DivaNow likes to tempt fate by standing at the top of the slide

Drummer Dude

Dresses

Finally the finished product! I started these dresses over the summer and it has taken me this long to finish them! Anyway, they turned out really cute and here's the link if anyone wants the pattern: http://habitual.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/habitual_simplesundress.pdf

Aunt Deanna!

We enjoyed a visit from Aunt Deanna and Uncle Weston so much! We did some shopping, buffet eating, and even went to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. They got to watch Kai play baseball on Saturday and Rich's cousin Nate and his wife Sarah even came. Kailer loved it and waved at his family filled bleachers as if he was in a parade everytime he went by our side of the fence. It was so much fun for him and it shows in the last pic!

Thanks for a fun filled weekend D, we love you guys :)

HALLOWEEN!!!

New slide show pics!!! Check 'em out!It seems like we have been celebrating Halloween all month! The kids have worn their costumes about 5 times! This week we had a Halloween party with Kailer's preschool friends. Preschool was at our house this week and we had everyone dress up in their costumes. The kids loved it! We went to the temple this weekend and traded off with the kids outside the temple. It definately took some effort, but we were so grateful that we could go and enjoy the spirit there. Here's a few shots of the kids in their festive colors :)

Since I was feeling festive, I even tried my hand at orange pancakes in the shapes of pumpkins, ghosts, and spiders. I'm thankful I have a detail oriented son who appreciates my efforts! He was so excited he could hardly contain himself :) Rich didn't really want to dress up this year, but Kailer so wanted us to be the Grandma and the Hunter for little red riding hood and the BIG BAD wolf! So, we dressed up for him at home once. On Halloween night we went to 2 different malls and walked from store to store getting candy. Meili learned to say trick or treat in one evening saying, "tit tit teet!" She would hold up her basket for candy and then immediately stop, get it out, and put it in her mouth. It was hard to keep her walking! She was a sticky mess by the end of the night. Kai was so hammered after the first mall, he and Meili fell asleep in the car. We let them have a half hour nap and then on with the trick or treating at the next mall! He loved it so much, he woke up happy from his nap, which is not ever the case! We were able to get rid of all our old candy and I only ended up with a half gallon of good stuff :) Yeah baby. I'm actually sad to pack up the Halloween stuff this year because they had so much fun with it. Kailer loved being bad. Everyone would say "Ohh, you're so cute" and he'd say, "I'm not cute, I'm scary! GRRRR!" We even had 2 people stop us and ask if they could take a picture of Meili. Random right? It was super fun and can't wait for next year! I guess it's on to Christmas now, at least that's what all the tv commercials are saying!

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Refreshed

I got to spend the weekend with some friends without kiddos! We did some shopping and watched Thriller in St. George. It was so much fun and it was so refreshing. Rich got to spend the weekend with his Dad and they did a lot of fun things together with the kids. Sadly, I don't have pictures of either! We carved pumpkins together on Sunday. Kailer picked a ghost for Meili's pumpkin and a spider for his. We turned the lights off, lit the pumpkins, and they were running and screaming back and forth between Rich and I on opposite ends of the room. It was so dark that Kailer ran smack into Meili totally leveling her flat on her back two times in a row. Poor girl, at least it was on the carpet, and really it didn't phase her much at all. It was actually quite hillarious. Anyway, here's a few random pics

Reconnecting

We got a chance to travel to Florida to spend some time with my brother Dennis. It was so much fun to spend some time with him and see the kids get to know him better. Our first day there we went to the beach and let the kids get a taste of the ocean! Literally Kai kept saying it was yuck when he would get it in his mouth; not used to that! It took him about an hour to warm up to the waves. He wasn't sure about it at first, but then had a great time letting them crash into him and knock him over. Meili was a bit shell shocked, she would sit on the shore and the waves would continually crash into her. She had this look on her face like, "Enough already!" They both loved the sand and we buried Kai, which he loved!

The next day was spent just relaxing and enjoying each other. We walked to a beautiful park near their house and Kai got to feed ducks near the canal. He was a bit tentative, as they were as big as he was! We spent the rest of the day carving pumpkins, swimming in their pool, and Dennis even helped Kai bust open a coconut! They cut one off a neighbor's tree and busted it open, drank the milk, and ate some coconut. Kailer liked it, It wasn't what I expected - one drink was good enough for me, but it was the experience that counts! Their neighbor told them to bring one home and plant it in the backyard, which we did. Kai was so excited he wanted to go out later that evening and check to see if it had grown. Our last day there we got up early and spent the day at the everglades. We went on an air boat tour ride on the everglades. We saw a couple of crocodiles, one of which was really aggressive and came right up to the side of the boat. They were huge, and our guide said he was getting nervous, so we relocated. He said they could jump 1/2 of their body length! It was really crazy to see them in the wild and to see endless miles of sawgrass and swamp going into the horizon. The temperature the night before had dropped about 20 degrees and it was super windy, so we were freezing, but it was definitely worth it. Afterwards we got to see some exhibits and Kailer's favorite was definitely getting to hold a baby alligator! He was so excited that even today he was pretending to be the baby alligator and telling rich to take a picture while I hold him. He straightened his legs and arms out and didn't speak, it was definitely hilarious.

After Dennis dropped us off at the airport Kailer started crying, sobbing actually, when he realized that we couldn't see Dennis again. He said with real tears, "But I will miss my Uncle Dennis." It was so sad, but so sweet and heartfelt :( We had such a great time with Dennis and Tony and we are so grateful for their generosity in housing and feeding us for three days! We love them and can't wait to see them again.