Our little girl turned 1 today and we can't believe it! This year has flown by. We feel so blessed to have Kylie in our family. She is such a sweet, happy baby that brings so much joy to our lives. WE LOVE YOU Kylie!! Thank you to the Hess family and to Kylie's Grandma's & Grandpa's for the great birthday gifts!
We were so happy to hear that Plano has a Balloon Festival every year. Reno has awesome Balloon Races every year that we have always loved! We went with the Hess' and arrived around 6:30am with blankets, hot chocolate and donuts! Things got started a little late so we didn't get to see the cool glow when firing up the hot air balloons in the dark, but it was still lots of fun. After watching all of the balloons take off, Devon and Tyson got to go on this cool bungee jumping ride. Even though this was really neat, we still love Reno's Balloon Races better and will have to make an effort to get back there every other year or so to go see those.
Doesn't Kylie look so cute in her new clothes! My sister Allison sent us a bunch of her girl's clothes for Kylie and we are loving them!! She also sent us lots of clothes for the boys and they are loving them too.. they argue every morning and every night who get's to wear what from Carter's old clothes. Thank you SO much Allison! We love you!!
About 1 month ago Jared was trying to learn how to do handstands. He was watching a few youtube videos on how to do it. Stephenie immediately showed me up by doing a perfect headstand on her first try. The kids decided that they wanted to learn too. We watched a couple how-to videos and they figured it out pretty quickly. Now it feels like Devon is upside down more than he is right-side-up.
Kylie is 11 months old now. She has started army crawling around, allowing for a little more exploration which she loves. She is really happy and loves her brothers.
Devon is back at it again this year. His team name is the bears and he let his first opponents (The Comets) know it multiple times by growling at them on the field and explaining that a bear could maul a comet. He is doing great this year and a good friend from the ward is on the team. Go Devon!
Devon started Kindergarten today! He goes to school from 7:45am-2:45pm. It seems like such a long day for a 5-year-old but he seemed to have a great day. We met his teacher last week and were very impressed. Tyson is going to be getting some one-on-one training from Stephenie this year instead of going to preschool. They started today as well and Tyson learned alot and worked on some fun projects. Jared starts early morning seminary again tomorrow morning and is looking forward to teaching the New Testament this year. He teaches a Sophmore/Junior class of about 25 students. Life is good and we are happy and grateful for all our blessings.
Devon & Tyson have been taking personal swimming lessons the last two weeks and we are ecstatic with the results-last year Devon had group lessons and we didn't see any progress. Now, Tyson is fearless and swimming very well and Devon is officially swimming by himself! He can jump in the pool, go wherever he wants, float when he needs a rest, etc (I guess you know what it means to be a swimmer but it is so fun as a parent to see our child get to this stage:) Way to go boys!
A special THANKS to our sister-in-law Alicia who took a lot of the pictures during our vacation and family reunions and to Stef Bellows who took our new family pictures in the right column! You guys are AWESOME! We sure had fun visiting our families this summer! We love and miss you all! I am hoping to get pictures from my sisters from the week that we spent in California with my family - Jared had to get back to school and had to take the camera with him, but hopefully I can post some of my sisters pics soon.
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