Belly Comparison

So here's how different I am carrying this little boy.  On the left, I was pregnant with Kyla and the right is the current one.  I am a little farther out but lower it seems this time around. These pics are both taken at around 33 weeks.  What do you think...can anyone but me see the difference?  What differences do you see?

Will it EVER end?!

I'd like to go to bed but there's one small problem....

Will the laundry EVER end?!

Coloring Book

So this is the coolest kids site ever!  You can download and print coloring book pages from every disney movie you could think of for free!  They have thousands of pages so the amount is endless. CLICK HERE to visit the site!

Surprise Visit!

My grandma and grandpa live in Canada so we don't get to see them as often as we like.  We got a phone call from them Tues night and said they were in town!  We were so excited and surprised to see them.  Kyla absolutely loved them and showed off for them like it was nothing.  She sang songs, danced, showed them her cool toys, gave lots of hugs and kisses and even showed them how she knew all of her letters of the alphabet!  She definitely had a lot of energy that night so it was cute.

On Wednesday, we went out to lunch with them and they came over later in the evening to spend some more time before they headed back home.  They spoiled us with hugs, clothes for Kyla and Tayven, lots of love and so much more!  It was so wonderful to see them!  We definitely have missed seeing their smiling faces and hope it won't be so long before we see them again!

Color Collection Learning Time

Recently Kyla and I have been having a time everyday to sit down and learn something new or learn something fun.  We call it "Learning Time".  One day we focused on the letters H and U and thought of everything we could think of with those letters, drew them on a piece of paper and hung them up in her room.  Another day we did what's called a Color Collection (which is on one of her Barney Movies) and collected some of her toys of the same color and put them in a pile next to each other and talked about the different shades.  On other days, we learn numbers, lower case letters, play a fun learning game, or spell words together, etc.  It is so much fun and I think she has been benefiting a lot from it.

In other news, we built a tent or a fort for fun this week and she played in it for awhile.  She had fun and it gave me some extra time to make lunch without little hands wanting to be picked up and held while cooking.  :)

You know you're getting old when...

....you get really excited to buy a deep freezer to broaden your food storage supply!

So this is what we used some of our tax return money on.  haha...you can laugh all you want, we know it's nothing too exciting but at least we feel prepared!  And we really are excited about it!  I know we're getting to be old married folks now which is why this is so funny (and the reason why I made this pic black and white).  Who spends their tax return money on something like a deep freeze besides your grandmother? Shouldn't we be spending it on something like a new flatscreen TV, laptop or car?  It seems like that's what a lot of the young people our age are doing.  :)   Well luckily, we got a REALLY good deal on this and we can save a little for a couple small fun things and put the rest away in savings.  It sounds great to me...although Hyrum thinks all I'm going to fill it with is frozen pizzas and ice cream.  He might be right.....maybe a little.....:)

Daddy Daughter Date

 

Haha!  Kyla's such a goof!

 

 Playing on the toys

Hyrum and Kyla went on a daddy daughter date Thursday night while I was out visiting teaching.  They had so much fun!  First, they went to Arctic Circle and got free ice cream baby cones and french fries.  Then Kyla played on the toys there for awhile.  Afterwards, they went to DI (Kyla's favorite store ever!) and Kyla showed Daddy everything that she wanted to look at...books, toys, movies, etc.  Then he bought her a little toy that she wanted.  She loved spending so much time with her "best friend".  She is such a daddy's girl.  In fact, she's so much of a daddy's girl that since we've put her in her toddler bed, he's the only one that can get her to stay IN her bed.  No matter what I do or how hard I try, she just doesn't like me doing it but once Daddy gets in there she stays asleep...even though he does the same things I do!!  That girl.....Sigh...I'm definitely glad she loves her Dad so much though!