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Dragons fall Soccer 2012

2012-01-07T11:12:00.000-08:00

Mary had a great soccer season with the Dragons! They took 2nd place out of 14 teams! She LOVES Soccer, and is so lucky to be on such a great team with a great coach!

Go Dragons!

Halloween!

2012-01-07T10:43:00.000-08:00

It took Mary forever to decide what to be, but she finally choose a BYU football player!

Brynn was a darling "can can" dancer!

Lucy was a "scary" witch!

And Kelsey...along with Irene...was a perfect Strawberry Shortcake! She loved telling everyone that she didn't even need a wig.

Lucy went trick or treating with her zombie friend Emma, and Brynn with her friend Abby.
For the first time, Mary went trick or treating with her friends, without any adult supervision!

Fun Stuff in October

2012-01-07T10:34:00.000-08:00

We had a fun filled October, with one of the main events being a trip to St. George to see the Little Mermaid. We went with Aunt Katie and Peyton, and Lindsey and Lexie Downey. It was a really fun (even though it was quick) GIRLS trip! Shopping, dinner, the play, and then a sleep over at Aunt Jessica's. It was a fun weekend, and the Little Mermaid was AWESOME!

The Girls also did Reflections this year. The Theme was "Diversity Is..." They both did a photography collage, and did great. Mary even won a Honorable Mention certificate.

And of course, a favorite around here...CRAZY HAIR DAY!!!

Kelsey's First Day of Pre-School

2012-01-07T10:30:00.000-08:00

Kelsey is going to Mrs. Amber's Pre-School this year, and she LOVES it!

jandkellison

2011-11-09T21:15:00.001-08:00

Hello, welcome fellow friends from around the world.

The First Day of School - August 22, 2011

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Lucy - 1st Grade

Brynn - 3rd Grade

Mary - 5th Grade

Heading off to start another great school year!

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In August we took a fun trip to California to visit Grandma Linda and Papa Jon. We were there for a week, and did lot's of fun stuff. We went to Santa Cruz, and Tilden Park, but hands down we spent most of our time in the pool. In fact the day before we left, Mary and Brynn spent 9 hours in it! Corey, Jess, Colin and Mason came halfway through our week, and it is always fun to spend time with them. Robert also came home from Israel the day before we left. I wasn't very good at taking pictures, but here are a few.

Santa Cruz!The Ocean was COLD, but the girls still had fun!

Rides at the Boardwalk. Mary loved the Giant Dipper roller coaster.
It is the sixth oldest in the US.

This is how hard we played...Kelsey fell asleep on the exercise ball
while playing legos.

Tilden Park

The 100 year old Merry Go Round!The cute little Steam Train.

The 24th of July 2011

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Rides at the carnival.

Lucy teaching everyone "its good to party everyday" at the Street Dance.

Cute kids at the Parade!

Kacy and Mary Hike the Y - July

2011-09-18T13:51:00.000-07:00

Lucy turns 6!

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Lucy's special cake at her family birthday party, with cousins Blake and Peyton.

Lucy got a "poofy dress" too!

Opening presents at her friend party.

Mary helped Lucy plan a great party, where they made purses, got fake money, went to a "restaurant", and the "movie theater".

Here they are buying tickets for the movie.

And treats at the "concession" stand.

All set for the movie....except then they decided...They needed to dress up!!!

Look at these awesome girls! It was a great party, that went much later than we planned!

Lucy waking up to presents on her real birthday!

Kelsey turns 3!

2011-09-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

I can't believe our baby Kelsey is 3 years old! This was two of her favorite presents, her "poofy dress" from Aunt Flur and her super hero cape from Aunt Katie.

We had a family birthday party to celebrate Kelsey turning 3, Eddie turning 1, and Lucy turning 6. They each had their own little cake, and enjoyed that individual attention.

Kelsey and her little buddy Trey!

Of course Kelsey was spoiled by the family.

Lucy and Kelsey opening presents on the morning of Kelsey's real birthday.

She loved all of her presents, but especially her pillow pet!

Then that afternoon, several of our neighborhood friends came over for a slip n' slide/sprinkler party. The kids all seemed to have a lot of fun.

Pink cupcakes!

Kelsey with Kyla and Julia her little 3 year old neighbor friends.

Willow Flat - June 2011

2011-09-05T09:42:00.000-07:00

Every year we go camping at a beautiful spot in southern Idaho, called Willow Flat. And every year it is an adventure. Usually (and this year proved to be the same) the adventure comes on day two, so we have one day of peaceful fun.

This is why it is called Willow Flat. The river has all this little tributaries running through the flat meadow part. Mary took this picture, and I love it.

We always do a couple little hikes around the area. Here are Peyton and Lucy down by the river. All the cute little girl cousins walking around the camp ground.

There were several campgrounds around us that were flooded by the overflowing river...luckily not ours. As water started pouring down the road, Kacy worked very long and hard on a "levy" to keep water away from the motor home.

Kris and Katie brought the game "father's day" and the kids and adults had a lot of fun
playing it.

And then it began...a fast but furious hail storm on our second evening. It was little crazy. Most of us ran into the motor home, but Kacy got in our car. Here he is in the craziness.

Here is some of the hail...pretty big I'd say.

Thank goodness for the motor home, although with all of us in it during the storm, it was a cramped.

Here is what it looked like around our tent. And because it was such big hail, and our tent is just a Wal-Mart special, our tent leaked in some places and got a couple sleeping bags wet....so we slept in the car!Here is Kelsey in our car bed. Lucy slept in the motor home, but Brynn, Kacy, Kera, Kelsey slept in the back of the car (with the seats out) and Mary slept in the passenger seat with it reclined. What a night!
Here is Kelsey, a vision of the dirtiness and tiredness that we all felt, but it was another fun year at Willow Flat!!!

Dead Horse Point State Park

2011-08-25T11:38:00.000-07:00

On the way home from Arches we stopped at Dead Horse Point State Park. It is like a little Grand Canyon in Utah. It was AWESOME!!!

Arches National Park

2011-08-25T11:10:00.000-07:00

The first week of June we took a great three day trip to Arches National Park. It was the first time any of us had been there, and we LOVED it. We also took the motor home on it's maiden voyage! Below is a jumble of pictures, of our really fun trip!

Playing in the sand at Sand Dune Arch - they couldn't get enough of it!

Dinner outside the motor home.

Chill'in in the motor home!

More sand.

Of course swimming at the campground was a hit.

Cute bubs modeling "park avenue" look out.

Grandma and Papa and beautiful delicate arch.

Brynn loved the motor home!

The whole fam at park avenue.

Mary under Sand Dune Arch

Hiking to Landscape Arch

Mom and Mary at Landscape Arch - longer than a football field!

Cute kids who all made the hike up to Delicate.

Mary's End of the 4th Grade!

2011-08-25T11:04:00.000-07:00

This is what 4th grade did for water day - a GIANT slip and slide - those lucky kids.

Mary ended one of her best years yet!

Alex, Chrissy, and Punk'in come to Visit!

2011-08-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

We were so lucky to have my high school friend Chrissy and her husband Alex, and new baby Sol come visit us in May.

Alex was so good with kids. He played with the whole neighborhood!

Kelsey loved "punk'in" as he is affectionately known as.

We got some good smiles out of him!

It was so fun to have this darling family come play for a couple days!!

Our Funny Bubs!

2011-08-25T10:49:00.000-07:00

Spring provided us with several funny pictures of our bubbles....like this one! She insisted that the right way to wear glasses is upside down.

Getting ready for the Zoo with cousin "Trey - Trey"

Being silly with her neighbor friend Julia.

I found her in the pantry like this...sneaking snacks and reading a book. Actually sounds kind of nice!

Isn't she sweet...and beautiful? She is our little spit fire and we love it!!!

Lucy Graduates from Kindergarten!

2011-08-25T10:12:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my little Lucy is already done with Kindergarten. I love kindergarten. I love that they are in school learning and growing, but I love that I still get them part of the day. Because of all that, and that the fact your child is growing up is being thrown in your face, Kindergarten Graduation is always emotional. Lucy however thoroughly enjoyed the fan fare of the day!

With Miss Mellor, a WONDERFUL Kindergarten teacher.

With Peyton...how many cousins get to be in the same Kindergarten class? Overall I think it was a fun experience for them.

With Emma and Alex, great friends and trusty carpool buddies.

Part of Graduation is a darling program with singing and sign language. It was wonderful, my pictures however were not.

Mary's Choir Concert and Wax Museum

2011-08-25T10:00:00.000-07:00

Four cute Dragons all dressed up for their Spring Choir Conert in May.

Mary and Erika were so embarrassed that they had to walk this car all over the stage while they sang the Beach Boys "t-bird" song.

Mary also had her "Wax Museum" in May. Erika, Mary, and Sydney were the Osborn sisters from Magna, Utah.

She got pretty into the whole thing (as you can see by the red wig), and did a great job on her monologue and brochure.

Spring Soccer 2011

2011-08-25T09:54:00.000-07:00

Another fun Soccer season came to a close. Here is Lucy with her "star of soccer" award (their team was the Stars). She also enjoyed and was pretty good at playing goalie.

Peyton would have been in this picture except she was throwing up - she literally played her guts out that last game!

Kindergarten Zoo Field Trip

2011-08-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

The Zoo Field Trip is always so exciting for the kids. This was an especially fun day for Peyton and Lucy to be in the same class, because Katie and I got to take the kids to the zoo together. We got really lucky with seeing some very active animals, the gorilla was especially playful, and they got to see the elephant pee! It was a really fun day.

Brynn's Dance Recital

2011-07-22T20:15:00.000-07:00

On Saturday May 5th, Brynn had her Dance Recital. She did so well! The songs her class danced to were Justin Beiber's Somebody to Love, and then an I Love Lucy song. They were both really cute. She danced very well, and she even had a total stranger stop her afterwards and say "you just lit up that stage with your smile, you are a great little dancer". It made her day, and she was on a high for a couple days over all the attention and feelings of accomplishment.

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Easter was snowy again this year! What are the chances of two years in a row. We had a great Easter though with Grandma Linda and Papa Jon visiting, which also meant we had Uncle Bertie and Kat with us as well. We had a lot of fun dying eggs and hunting for baskets, and of course eating good food. We did our annual Egg Hunt with the Kilpatrick's (in Kris and Katie's basement because of the snow). The kids always have so much fun, and it is always good to be with family.

Coming down the stairs to begin the egg hunt!

All the cousins! Too busy looking at their candy to look at the camera. The basement looked like a volcano of eggs had erupted...lots of eggs for lots of kids!

June

2011-07-05T16:55:00.000-07:00

Where is the summer going?? It's been flying by. As for June, I am more than ok with it going far far away. I hope I never have to relive another month like it. BUT what would life be without problems and trials to help us enjoy the good times right???

As for the 4th of July weekend. I had lots of fun with lots of swimming and bbq's. My little Austin can swim all by himself now! My kids sure are growing up on me! We haven't even left the house today. It's been clean the house and relax day. Austin just woke up from a 3 HOUR nap. That NEVER happens! That just tells me how exhausted my kids are from the hours they put in in the pool this weekend.

All I can say is I am so grateful for a good group of friends and family. I TRULY don't know where I would be without them. THANK YOU to everyone who showed your love to me this month and was there for me. I needed it. Like I said- I couldn't live without my family and friends.

And what post would be complete without some pics??

Spring Break 2011 - St. George!

2011-06-30T11:06:00.000-07:00

This year on our annual Spring Break trip to St. George, we went to this darling park by the Tabernacle and played in the little "river" there. The kids had so much fun, and in all our trips to St. George, something we hadn't done before. The girls love playing with their little cousins Colin and Mason!
Trying to get Kelsey to take a nap in the car...not working!

Our annual hike around "Red Rock", this is the first year Kelsey did it on foot and she LOVED it! She talked about going back to "Red Rock" for days afterward.
We took a tour of the Tabernacle, and Colin even played the organ for us :)!