BIG Birthday BASH!!!

Casey and I had our birthday on Jan. 31. We were born on the exact same day, isn't that great!

We had many fun festivities this year. We went out with my family a few weeks earlier to celebrate our birthday, Joey's (nephew) and my grandmas. We all have birthdays in January! First we started out by bowling, and let me tell you that was a BLAST! My dad brought his own ball and everything! We call him "THE HAMMER" he is hilarious. I am the WORST at bowling, I think maybe I broke 50, YIKES! But, it was so much fun. After we went to my most favorite place ever Tepanyaki. It was so fun, Kyle was loving putting this menu on his head. Then we came back to our house for presents and this incredible cake that my sister made, it was a circus train, she is so talented, thanks Melis!

On Friday Jan. 30 we went out to Texas Roadhouse with Casey's family. It was great fun. Funny story, the waitress brought out our food, and I wasn't really paying attention to Kyle, and I look around at him after a while, and there his is putting his hand on the steak that is still on the tray that the waitress had brought out for someone else, WHOOPSIE! I grabbed his hand and wiped it off before the waitress could see, luckily the steak went to someone at our table, I guess I will have to watch Kyle more carefully!!

Saturday Jan. 31, I planned a surprise DAY for Casey. We woke up and had some yummy breakfast, then we took Kyle to my mom and dad's and they were so sweet and watched him while we went to a movie (thanks mom and dad), we love you. We went to "Bride Wars" it was hilarious! Then we picked Kyle up and we went to Famous Daves where our friends came and we had a great time, then they came to our house after for some catching up, it was so fun!

Thanks so much everyone for the great birthday and fun times, we love you all!!

Sledding

We took Kyle sledding for the first time on Saturday. He loved it. He looked like Randy in "A Christmas Story" movie. We also took some of our nieces and nephews with us, it was great times!

Here are just some fun pictures if Kyle!

Christmas 2008!

We had a wonderful Christmas season. We started the Christmas season by going to see the lights at temple square, our fav, (it was beautiful and cold!)

One of our traditions it to have an advent calendar and open a door each day and get a prize! Kyle loved the advent calendar. The whole month of December he would crawl over to the calendar and open the doors and take the prizes out, I guess we will have to put it up high next year!

On Christmas morning we had Christmas with our little family, and then we went to Casey's parents for breakfast, and then my parents for lunch, it was a great day, but Kyle was sick (sinus infections are never fun!) -As you can see from the pictures he looks a little forlorne.-

Mischief Maker!!!!!!!

Our little son is a MISCHIEF MAKER!! I think the second he turned 1, he decided he wasn't making enough mischief, and so these are the things he's been up to since his birthday!

Biting his crib, YIKES!

Crawling into the cupboards!

Taking pots and pans out, and sucking on funnels!

PS. Even though he's a stinker, we wouldn't trade him for the world!!

Happy Birthday Kyle (The BIG 1!)

Saturday was Kyle's first birthday party. I can't believe that he is already 1, time really flies by. It seems like yesterday we brought him home from the hospital! We love him now more than ever, and we are so grateful that he is ours.

On saturday we had a party with my family. The theme of the party was "cars", because Kyle loves all types of cars. We opened presents, had cake and ice cream, and enjoyed many laughs. Kyle has a sweet tooth, he loved eating his cake!

Toot-toot from Grandma and Papa

Grandma and Kyle

Daddy and cousin Katie helping Kyle open his presents

Mommy and Kyle

Daddy and Kyle

On sunday we had a party with Casey's family. The kids were really cute with Kyle, it was fun. We wanted to thank both families for the fun time, and the gifts that you gave Kyle, he loves them all! Thanks again for sharing this happy time with us!

Kyle and his cousin Ashlyn (he loves to pull her hair, whoops)

Kyle and his two great-grandmas

Kyle and his cousins

Annual Butterfield Christmas Party

For the past five years, we have had a Christmas party with our friends the Butterfields. It is so fun to get together with good company and laugh! We start out the evening with a feast prepared by Stephanie. This year it was prime rib, mashed potatoes, carrotts, shrimp, rolls, and chocolate cheese cake! DELICIOUS! Then we retire downstairs and listen to Casey read us a Christmas story that the Butterfields pick out. We then play some games, this year it was Bingo. We had a delightful time, thanks again Butterfields, we love you guys!!

Casey reading us some of the Christmas story! (Sorry it's sideways)