It's been 2 months maybe it's time for an update!

I'll start from the first of April.

It was finally warm enough to take the kids riding so here's Kinlee on Ponytail


And here's Hayes' first horse ride, he loved it.


SIMPSON SPRINGS
For Easter weekend we went camping at Simpson Springs, we had a great time. There were about 15 trailers in our group parked in a big circle with these little 4-wheeler hills close by, the kids lived on those hills from the time they woke up until it was time for dinner. Kenzee took Kinlee on a ride and they had a little crash in some sage brush but luckily they didn't get hurt. One day we rode out to the geobeds and broke them open, then another day we went on a long ride to some old abandoned mines. We came home Saturday night so we'd be home for Easter. Here's some pictures of the trip...

Digging at the geobeds


And here's what we found


Kinlee flying a kite


Old mine


And here's what we brought home (the kids caught a bunch of lizzards while we were down there and these 2 were Kinlee's, she kept wanting to bring them home and we were hoping she'd forget about them, well we left -without the lizzards so we thought- but the next morning Trever was cleaning out the truck and found the lizzards in their little container under the front seat, Grandpa Talbot thought we needed 2 more pets so he hid them there. So now Sunshine and Izzybo are part of the family. The joke was on him though when he told Kenzee she could bring hers home, thinking she had 2 and finding out there was really 4 in her container when they got home!!! How funny is that!)


EASTER DAY!

Hayes and Kinlee finding their Easter baskets


Coloring easter eggs


Hayes lookin so cute


TURKEY HUNTING
Trever had a turkey tag in Beaver so he took Kinlee turkey hunting with him and his dad. She was so excited to go and had so much fun but the day before they came home she got sick, poor girl, good thing her Daddy took such good care of her.


DADDY DAUGHTER SLEEPOVER
Trever has been waiting since Kinlee was born to sleep out back in a tent, and they FINALLY got to. I was at bunco that night and they couldn't wait for me to get home so they could go camping (so Hayes wasn't inside by himself) so anyways here they are on their little campout. I'm sure when Hayes is a little older all 4 of us are gonna be having campouts.

Here they are going to bed


The next morning, still sleeping!


KINLEE'S DANCE RECITAL

Then a couple weekends ago was Kinlee's dance recital. She did awesome! I think it's just a big accomplishment for the little girls to even get up on stage in front of all those people, then to try to dance on top of that, I thought she did great! They danced to the kung foo fighting song. She decided next year she wants to try the cheerleading class, she's pretty excited about that. Hopefully she likes it.



Kenzee and Kinlee


Almost done...
SNOWVILLE CAMP TRIP

For Memorial weekend we went camping in Snowville with Trever's family and friends. It was fun to get out and ride the ranger and play with the kids. It rained a little bit, but other than that the weather was nice and we had a good time.

Our camping rig (I know you're all jealous of our trailer, haha, but hey it has beds, a heater, a bathroom, and running water, much better than a tent)


Kinlee and Macie in the ranger.


Trev teaching Kinlee how to shoot a gun, she loved it and kept wanting to shoot more.


Sittin by the fire


Right before we left Hayes found the mud and he was just having too much fun to make him stop playing in it.


K, well I think that's all for now. I say it everytime, but I'll try to get better about posting more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAYES!

I can't believe how fast time flies, it's crazy to think Kinlee is going to be 4 and Hayes is 1. We had a party for Hayes last night, he got so many cute things! He's taking a few steps on his own, so hopefully he'll be walking soon

Here's his birthday cake (obviously)!

Lucky he has such a good BIG sister to help him eat his cake!

As you can see Hayes REALLY enjoyed his cake, we finally took it away so he wouldn't get sick.
Well besides Hayes turning one, here's a little update on what's been going on. Kinlee has loved the warmer weather, well except for this week :( since it's been FREEZING... She loves being outside playing with all her friends, we are so lucky to have so many around where we live. Chet is the friend she plays with the most, and with his older brothers and Aunt Kenzee, they tease them that they're boyfriend, girlfriend. So one day Kinlee goes "Chet has a girlfriend (in a cute teasing voice), so I go "Oh, really who's that?" Kinlee- "Me!" So she thinks that's pretty funny. So then one day we were listening to the radio and Kinlee says she doesn't like the song that's on, so the next song that came on was Sweet Thing by Keith Urban, so I say "Kinlee do you know what this song is called?" she says "No" so I say "It's called Sweet Thing" then she responds "I'm Chet's sweet thing!" I about died laughing, where do they come up with these things!

Trever took Kinlee on a ride last weekend on the Ranger, they had way too much fun. She's such a dare devil, she just wanted to go faster and faster, and kept making Trever go through the mud and would love it when the mud would get on her. She wouldn't let Trev wash the mud off, she had to leave it on so she could come home and show me. Here they are having a snack.

Well that's all for now, I'll try to post more often!

Happy 50th Dad!

It was my Dad's 50th birthday on Wed. We took him to dinner then had his work call and say there was an emergency and that he needed to come in, since it happens quite often. So everyone was already there and SURPRISE! We had a great time, thanks everyone for coming and making it such a fun night...



IT'S FINALLY DONE (well at least the bedspread) now I just need to do the bed skirt and pillows. Then I'm going to paint the bottom half of Kinlee's walls a light brown.


Last Friday Kinlee and Kenzee did a half time dance/cheer thing at Roy high, they had so much fun! Kinlee is such a little cheerleader.

Our Superbowl Luck...

Last year Kinlee got sick a couple days before the Superbowl, but about an hour before kickoff she started having trouble breathing, so we took her up to the ER where she had to have 2 breathing treatments and some meds (she ended up having Croup) It was kind of funny because we got there like right at kickoff and were leaving right as the game ended. (2008)

So anyways Hayes woke up with a fever Saturday morning so I gave him medicine, but it just wouldn't help bring it down very well so I called the doc and they said since he only had a fever not to worry and that if it reached 104 to bring him in. So it just kind of went up and down Saturday and Sunday, UNTIL THE GAME STARTED! It was time for his Motrin and after that it just started climbing, by the 4th quarter it was 103.9 so we decided the doc better see him, so off to the ER we went! They tested him for RSV, Influenza and Neumonia (Sp?) and everything was ok, so they said it was just a virus and do the usual. His fever has been doing better now, but he's still not feeling the best. So if anything happens next Superbowl Sunday the Superbowl is banned from our house!!! lol. I hate seeing the kids sick, but I love how snuggly they are! By the way, I hope it doesn't sound like I'm one of those people that go to the emergency room for any little thing, I don't think I've been there since I broke my arm in like 3rd grade.


My sewing machine that I got for Christmas came in a couple weeks ago, so I've started my first sewing project. I'm making Kinlee a new bedspread, I wanted to do her room in brown and pink, but I wasn't able to find the right bedspread (well I finally found one but it only comes in crib size) so I found this material at Ben Franklin's and it was just what I was looking for. I'm making it like a big rag quilt. Hopefully it will be done this week!


K, just one more thing, every night when Trever goes out to feed the dogs Kinlee rushes over to the door and locks him out! She just sits and laughs and thinks its the funniest thing ever! I think it's really cute, but I'm glad it's not me locked out in the cold...

The 5 Lessons

I just had to tell everyone what a GREAT book this is! I bought the original one about 5 years ago and read it about 3 times, then last week I went to hear Richard Paul Evans speak about his new book The 5 Lessons a Millionaire Taught me For Woman, and bought it, well last night I read almost half of it. It's so simple and easy to understand and I swear everytime I do what it teaches we are so much better off financially, then for some dumb reason I start slacking, then read the book again and do much better. So anyways I highly recommend that every single woman go buy this book and buy your husband the original (Trev has read that one too) then you are both on the same page. The women's one is so cool because so many parts are directed right to us! He grew up extremely poor and went hear a guy speak at church one Saturday when he was 12 about these 5 lessons, anyways he did what the guy said and is now passing on the information. He said he wanted to make a book to help others, not to make him rich, so he decided the only way to truly do that was to give all profits to charity, so he started The Christmas Box House, which helps abused kids. This book has helped me so much, so hopefully it will help everyone else... Let me know what ya think!

Giving Credit

If anyone is interested I made my blog from a free kit at rusticharmcreations.blogspot.com called Lovely Day. The glitter overlay is from this way cute blog train kit called Birthday Bash. You can find it here at thescrappingtree.blogspot.com then she has a list of the other links from there. I found tons of blogs that offer free stuff the other day and added them to my Digiscrap links list, so if you're obsessed with the whole digital scrapbooking stuff like me you might want to check them out. Who doesn't like FREE...

A little behind on blogging, OUR DECEMBER...

Poor Hayes in Pink!

Trev makes our house so cute for Christmas. I LOVE LIGHTS!

We make gingerbread houses at my moms every year. It was fun, Kinlee really got into it this year, I did the frosting and she did the candy.

About a week before Christmas we took the kids to see Santa, which actually went really smooth. Kinlee told him she wanted a saddle, reins and paints (she got the paints, I really wish she could've got the saddle too, maybe next year). Santa looks real happy to be there huh! Maybe next year Newgate should look for a Santa that's not such a scrooge...

We started having the Christmas Eve party at our house every year, so here's everyone playing a present game...

Here's my Dad and Hayes (my Dad's gonna kill me, but ya know he's single, so if ya know anyone, hint hint)

I get the kids Christmas pj's every year, so here they are opening them. Maybe I'll get really ambitious next year and make us all some (I got a sewing machine for Christmas from my Mom & Steve, now I just need to learn how to use it.. lol)

Here's the kids in their pj's in front of the tree.

Here's what I made for some of our neighbors and friends, 7 sets of these babies... When I first told Trever I wanted to make them he said, I bet you start making them and realize it's too much work and don't finish them. Well you know once he told me that I HAD to finish them. (Although I had originally planned to make more, but 7 will do)

I love reading this book on Christmas Eve. It's another one of my traditions I've started...


FINALLY CHRISTMAS DAY!

Kinlee woke us up about 7:30 so we went downstairs and sure enough Santa had found us, turns out we were all on the nice list this year and there was NO coal! Kinlee was dying to open her present from Trever so she opened it first, it was her bow. When she opened it she goes "Thank you, thank you daddy, it's my favorite, I love you so much" and gave him a hug and kiss. Then we moved on to our Santa stuff where Kinlee got a pink cash register, she loves playing store. Trev and I gave Kinlee a Leapster, with Clifford and Backyardigans games, it seems like she hasn't put it down since. Hayes woke up about 8:30 and got to open his presents, we gave him this sports thing and this animal train thing, he didn't really care though- he just liked the paper. We have a busy day on Christmas (6 places including ours), so our next stop was my mom and Steve's house, where we got to see Kenz for the 1st time that day. I was so excited to get a sewing machine, I bought some material a while ago to make Kinlee a big rag quilt as a bed spread. I'll post pictures on that in a while. Next was Grandma and Grandpa Archibalds (Trever's Grandparents) where we visited and ate a little lunch. Then we were off to Grandpa Talbot's (my Dad) my wonderful dad gave me an ipod dock thing so I can listen to my ipod without the ear things, I LOVE IT! Trev got a boot and glove warmer/dryer. (We were dying to have one of these hunting last fall!) Then we stopped by my Grandma Talbot's to visit and had some pizza. Our final stop was Grandma and Grandpa Hoskins (Trev's parents). Thanks to everyone for such a wonderful day!

Did I mention Santa gave Kinlee some scissors? Well the day after Christmas I was setting up one of Kinlee's toys and hear a cutting noise and don't think much about it until she goes "Mommy look!" Ya, she cut her hair! I got a little upset at the moment but I had to say I was expecting it someday! I figure every little girl does it, it just depends how bad. Thanks heavens it wasn't too bad, actually as time went on I was glad she did it, I've been trying to grown her bangs out and get past this stage of them being in her eyes, but when she cut them I actually liked the bangs, so I scheduled her 1st hair cut to have a good trim and even everything out and now it looks really cute. Now let's just cross our fingers it was the last time...


About a week ago Hayes learned to pull himself up to stand, so now he's really getting into everything and not napping good at all. You put him down to bed and hear him on the monitor laughing. I guess he thinks it's funny to play instead of sleep these days. It's kinda cute though.

K, are you ready for a good laugh. Check out this picture. So I ran out of Cascade and thought I bet it's okay to put a little Dawn in the dish washer. Turns out it wasn't such a good idea. HA HA!!

Make your own background and header...

Hey if anyone wants to make your own background and header there is a tutorial on nicoleyoungdesigns.blogspot.com she has the cutest digital scrapbooking kits ever. Anyways I tried it out today and it's actually pretty easy with her directions, check out my new background and header, they match, I was really excited to learn how to do it so I thought I'd share the info. I used Nicoles "After Midnight" kit she's offering for free on her blog. Oh by the way, she's also offering a backgroud kit with 3 free background that are way cute if you don't want to make your own.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! We had such a great day, Kinlee had a blast, we could barely get her to bed, she just wanted to stay up and play with all her fun new things. Hayes' favorite thing was the wrapping paper, he would seriously get so excited to play with it. I'll post more later about what we all got but for now I want to go play with all my new things (Trev spoiled me and got me a new camera, the Canon Rebel, WOO HOO, and my photoshop elements that I need to install on my computer!!!) Good Night...

PAMPERED CHEF?

Hey does anyone know a pampered chef person? I think I want to order something. If anyone does leave me a comment with some sort of way to contact them please... Thank you.

Thankful November...

K, here goes for my huge post since I've been a slacker and haven't added anything in like a month. We'll start from the first.



The 2nd Saturday in November Trev and I got a wild hair and decided to drive to Wendover and spend the night. I was pregnant when I turned 21 so I had never "legally" gambled so off we went. We got there about 8 and ate dinner then gambled for a bit, I hate wasting money so we played a couple slots and I sat down at a 21 table and was able to last a couple hours on my $20, that was enough of gambling, so we went back to our cheapo hotel room and went to bed, got up and came home. It was a nice little get away, but we really missed the kids.




K, I just have to tell Trev thanks for being the best Daddy in the world, Kinlee absolutely loves hunting and I actually think it's really cute. She is such a little princess girly girl, but then she can go out and get dirty hunting and camping, I love it! So this is a picture of Kinlee goose hunting with Trever, he took her out on the boat duck hunting too but I don't have a picture of that. When she got home she wanted to feed Hayes his dinner and of course I thought it was cute...



Back to Kinlee hunting, we went to Smith and Edwards one day and Kinlee found this gun that she wanted SO BAD, out of all the toys in the whole store this is what she wanted, besides wanting to be like her Dad the little boys across the street that she plays with has toy guns and I think she wanted to be like them. Especially with Christmas coming up we told her she couldn't have it, well Trev and Kinlee finally came up with the deal that if Kinlee went home and counted her money and could pay for half then he would bring her back to get it. As you can see she got it. Well they actually both like to watch hunting shows and as you can see, here is Kinlee shooting the bear that's on tv.





I don't like to go hunting when it's windy and raining or snowing like my crazy husband, so while the weather was still nice Trever took me out on Matt's duck boat to go duck hunting. We didn't have much time and only saw 1 duck but we still had fun. Here is Trev driving the boat with our dog Bodie, me freezing on the way back and the beautiful sunset.

OUR THANKSGIVING WEEK

It was a crazy and fun week. Steven (Trever's friend from North Carolina) was here with us all week to go hunting. We had a great time with him here, and I absolutely LOVED his cooking, my kids wouldn't leave him alone, especially Kinlee but he was a good sport and played with her so cute. Then Steve's kids (my moms husband) from Washington and Oregon were here, it was fun to see them and all their kids, they've grown up so much. I decided to do a slide show of the rest of the picts because I'm really indecisive and can't decide which ones to leave out, so here they all are. There's a little bit of everything from Hunting to my Christmas decorations.

Our Thanksgiving day is kinda crazy so I'll explain the pictures a little bit. We went to Trever's parents for breakfast, then my moms for dinner, then we went with my Dad to Village in where my Grandma Talbot took everyone so we went and visited with everyone since we had just ate, then we went to my cousin Dusty & Camille's house for pie.

Then how can I not talk about BLACK FRIDAY, I was after a Leapster for Kinlee & Elle so I showed up at Walmart after 2 hours of sleep at 2:45am! Pure Craziness, luckily I was the 2nd person there and got what I needed, but seriously some of the people really need to take a chill pill! At 4:45 me and the lady next to me just went for it and the Leapsters were gone at like 4:45:01. When I grabbed my Leapsters there were people on the floor, people pushing from every direction, I seriously couldn't even take a step, luckily Brooke was there and I handed them off to her and got my balance back before falling over. After I got out of all the mess the huge box fell over on everyone! Then we went to Shopko, Tai Pan & the Mall, I was COMPLETELY exhausted by the time I got home, luckily Kinlee and Hayes both took a nap at the same time so I got one too YEAH!

Saturday we got our family pictures taken with my moms family and went to Farr's afterwards for yummy ice cream.

Then of course I had to get my house ready for Christmas, it was so fun having a little helper this year, except for some reason I couldn't find some of my decorations, but come to find out a couple days later, Kinlee had stashed them in her kitchen. lol. Hayes has learned this army crawl thing and gets around everywhere now, including under my tree! It's pretty cute though and he really doesn't do much harm (yet).

My First Page

Well here is my first attempt at digital scrapbooking, I wasn't really making this page for any reason, more just learning how to do the layer thing but hey I FINALLY figured it out... Hopefully (cross my fingers) my wonderful husband will get me Photoshop Elements for Christmas since right now I only have the trial version! I'm not very creative but hopefully over time I will get the hang of it. For anyone that hasn't tried it yet, you might not want too unless you want to be totally addicted to it!

*By the way if anyone wants Photoshop Elements 7 for Christmas they have it on sale until Dec. 7 at Costco online (or at the store with a coupon, which I threw away) for $49.99! Awesome deal huh...

This is an old slide show that I'm just going to add to this post