Kylee makes me Smile!

Kylee got up this morning and closed her door...five or so minutes later I went in to see what she was doing. I caught her making her bed. She had wanted to surprise me! Then she said, "Now you can't say your kids are... that word you said we were because we didn't make our beds!!!" I put my arm around her and asked her, "what word did I say you were?" She said, "I can't remember." I can't remember either, but I think I walked past Tanner and Tyler's room last week and said they were slobs! Oh...how the words we say affect little ones! :)

This is a post that I wrote on facebook on May 2, 2012 that I thought I would share.  Also a few pictures of Kylee from Easter and her 1st Grade Program at Westridge.

Kylee on Easter Sunday,  April 8, 2012

All of us enjoying Cosmo's 1st Annual Easter Egg Hunt at BYU.  There was tons of fun stuff for the children to find.  We had a lot of fun and Katelin even got her own signed picture of Bronco Mendenhall!  :)

Kylee did a great job at her 1st Grade Singing Program at Westridge.

Also, we were so excited last week when Kylee came home and announced to us that she had received the "Westridge Wow Award" for last month for "working very hard at school and at home to improve her reading skills and for having 100% homework completion for this school year!"  Congrats to Kylee on her hard work.  WAY TO GO!

It has been awhile...

...by awhile I mean a WHOLE year.  I know, it is terrible, but it has been an extremely busy year. So...I'm not going to try to catch up, that is to overwhelming for me!!!  I did want to let everyone know that we have a new addition to the family...and by new, I mean a six month old addition.  :)

Our daughter Katelin and her husband Nick welcomed a new baby girl into their family.  Mila Nicole Austin was born on November 9, 2011.  She weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. and was 19 inches long.  And she came to us with a FULL head of beautiful black hair.  Curly hair at that!!!  She was and still is a beauty.  Her big sister Kinley just loves her tons.  Mila's sweet disposition and loving personality has added so much to their little family and brought a lot of love into ours.

Enjoy a few pictures!!!

Another big item of interest this year:  Kynsie is "Goin on a Mission"!!!  She has always wanted to serve a mission.  I remember when she was little, she would always say,  "I'm going to go on a mission."  She received her mission call on April 18, 2012.  It was a busy and exciting day for all of us. She has been called to serve in the Texas Houston Spanish Speaking Mission and will report to the Provo MTC on August 1, 2012.

This is a picture her cousin Jess took from Idaho while watching her open her call.


These of just two of the exciting things happening at our home the past year.  However, if I were to try to remember everything that had happened I would get too overwhelmed and most likely QUIT and give up.  So...I will start from here and try to add a few of my memories as we get going on this blog of ours again!!!