"Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam"

Mason, Jayden and KyleThis picture was also taken on Kyle's first day of Sunbeams. My cousin took it and posted it on her blog and I loved it so much I wanted to post it too. Sunbeams has been quite an adjustment for Kyle. He's "the sunbeam" who seems to have "ants in his pants" each week. I always ask him "Kyle sit still...do you have ants in your pants"? And he gives me a strange look and says "No mommy I have nothing in my pants". He's getting better each week and I'm sure it will still be a while til he gets the routine down pretty good. I think it helps having his 2 cousins in class with him. They're good little buddies. And my cousin is his teacher....THANK GOODNESS!!! She's really patient and you need to have patience if you're going to teach Kyle anything:)

Our Little American Idol

Kyle loves music!! He's always singing a song or making up his own song, whether it makes sense or not:). He loves to perform for us and we sure get a kick out of him. Sometimes he'll bust out in song and we have no idea where it came from. He'll do just about anything to make us laugh...such a charachter!!

Men In Black

Goodlookin' little dude

Lookin' sharp
Spencer looking so grown up

Aren't they handsome!!!!!

I bought these suits for the boys at Christmas time. This was the first day of Senior Primary for Spencer, and Kyle's first day of Sunbeams. I can't believe they're both in Primary now! They're growing up so fast:( They love seeing eachother each Sunday and since I play piano for the primary, I get to see them in there too (this is also helpful for Kyle transitioning from the nursery).
Who ever thinks boys are not fun to dress, are seriously mistaken!!! I have a blast dressing these guys:-)

Happy New Year!!

We always start off the night with fabulous food!!

My beautiful cheese ball...so yummy too!!!

Kyle watching some fireworks

Mommy and Kyle


Marlee, Landon and Kyle with their noisemakers

Jeremy and Spencer w/ his noisemaker

Alyssa and Spencer

CHEESE!!

I was finally able to get a picture of them together:)

Jeremy, Alyssa, Spencer, Hallee and Zackary

We always have such a blast welcoming in the New Year with food, games, family and....more food. Everyone brings at least one or two things to snack on throughout the night, and we play games as we wait for midnight to roll around. The kids have so much fun together and every year I'm surprised at how they can stay up all night long with such good attitudes. This year there were 14 kiddos ages 1 year to 9 years old. It's never quiet at our family holiday gatherings:). I hope everyone had as much fun as we did!!

Christmas '08

Cookies for Santa!!
Oh how they love silly putty:)

Spencer was so happy that Santa brought him the Wii game he asked for:)

For some reason, Kyle is absolutely obsessed with playing with erasers...I don't get it! He gets Gramma and Papa's erasers out of their office every time we go over there. He got this special surprise in his stocking at their house that morning and boy was he excited...what a goof ball:)

I know this post is almost 2 months overdue but I still wanted to do it. I can't seem to get my rear in gear!!! Christmas morning is always a lot of fun. The four of us wake up at home and open presents from Santa. The boys love to see how many cookies Santa ate and how much milk he drank. After presents, we eat the yummy cinnamon rolls Tyler and I made the night before (from scratch I might add) and they are DELICIOUS!!!!!! After we are showered and ready for the day, we head to my parents' house for presents with them and my sister's and their families. Later that afternoon we gather together with the rest of our family in town for a big Christmas Dinner. It's always a house full but a lot of fun.

Uncle Trenton's Wedding

For some reason Spencer kept giving the camera the "peace" sign all night. He cracks me up.
Kyle enjoying his little plate of food

What a couple of cute little goobers...they had so much fun that night.

Kyle, Tyler and Kelsey

The boys really had a good time scoping out all the different goodies.



Spencer caught the garter!!

He was very excited about it...It might have been a little rigged by the groom;)

Spence with his buddy uncle Trenton...does anyone else think they look alike???

Spencer opened an early Christmas present from G-ma and G-pa Stutz while sitting next to one of his favorite people...Aunt Kelsey:)
Back in December Tyler's brother Trenton was married. We planned to go up to the sealing in Portland, but there was a terrible ice/snow storm between Eugene and Portland so we weren't able to make it to the temple unfortunately. We were quite bummed and really wanted to be there for Trent, but it was safer for us not to make the trip up there. We were fortunate enough to make it to the reception that night though and we all had a really good time...especially the boys. We got to spend a little time with family and exchange some Christmas gifts with them which is always fun. I know it's a little over a month late but....CONGRATULATIONS TRENTON AND KASEY!!!

Chuck E. Cheese

So my kids see commercials for Chuck E. Cheese all the time. They beg me every time, "Can we go to Chuck E Cheese's" or "I want to go there so bad". We don't have one close by and Spencer had only been once when he was 2 years old. Tyler's brother was getting married December 23rd in Portland, and they have a Chuck E. Cheese there and one in Eugene. We took them on the way to the reception to the Eugene restaurant and they had a blast. We ate pizza, played games, and they played on all the toys and the tubes. We even ran into Chuck E. the mouse!!! What a fun afternoon!! I'm so glad we got to go.:-)

Piano Recital

Front row (left to right): Alyssa Parker Hallee Berklee

Back row (left to right): Candice Brendan Broc Kassidy

Back in December I held my second Christmas piano recital at my house. These are 8 out of 9 students. They each played 2 or 3 Christmas songs they had been practicing for about 2 months(some songs were picked out only a couple weeks prior to the recital). They were all a little nervous (I can relate) but they each did a great job. I'm so proud of them!! Since then, I've picked up 2 more students so now I have 11!! I really enjoy teaching piano lessons. I have a great group of kids to teach and I love the families I work with as well. Here's to another great year!!!

"Deck the Halls"

This is Kyle singing his favorite Christmas song at Christmas time. He loves to perform! :)

Tyler's 30th Birthday

The Olive Garden servers singing to Tyler
Poor Robyn thought she was just going out to dinner to celebrate Tyler's birthday. Well her birthday was that night so she was also sung to. What a good sport.
Our dinner table


Tyler's birthday cake...obviously.



His boys love to help blow out the candles.

Tyler's birthday was December 7th. I know I'm late in posting this but...tis the season to procrastinate!! Anyway, I planned a surprise birthday dinner for Tyler at Olive Garden(our favorite restaurant). His parents and sister came down from Eugene to celebrate with us. Everyone met at our house to surprise Tyler then we all drove over to Medford to eat. There ended up being 22 of us!!! We had a full table. My mom watched our boys and everyone else came childless too(with the exeption of little Marlee). This ended up being a really fun date night!! Thanks to everyone who was able to make it. We hope we can do this again soon!!

Take a look at Tyler's first 30 years!!