217 day, 31 weeks Update

Here we are now in November!!! YAYA!! The time started to slow down around September as the dates got closer to October. Adam left Afghanistan and arrived in Fort Bragg October 25th!! Now we are waiting to hear when he can come home. People keep asking me if we have a date yet, but this is how the Army is.. haha .. They never give us dates before hand because it can compromise safety and security of the troops. So as soon as he is on the plane is usually when I know. It's hard to plan anything around it. We are just hoping he is home in time for Thanksgiving. Adam is wanting to surprise me and the kids also so it will be very likely that I will have no idea when he will arriving anyways. And for those that will know don't tell me anything!! ;) We are just so excited to get him home we can hardly stand ourselves! Kyly is certain he is still in Afghanistan, which is fine its hard to understand at her age. Until daddy is home he will be there. Its just such a relief knowing he is safe again. This Friday is his Birthday he will be turning the big 30! I wish he were home to celebrate with but we will for sure be making up for it when he gets home... 

Halloween was good fun this year. The kids were so shocked that I wasn't in my typical holiday spirits.. ok so was everyone.. But I did manage to get some decorations up and an awesome front porch scare for Halloween night! Keplar was a ninja and Kyly was a Fairy princess and I was a futuristic goth. We went trick-or-treating with our good friends and neighbors the Anhder's as always! :)  The kids had their fall parties at school the following day and I was able to attend those. Kyly's was cute and fun she had a really good time. Keplar's was amazing! We have some amazing parents at our school who step up and really do an outstanding job! They did a Harry Potter party and even had a magician!! I got a video of it I will post later for you all to watch. As for me I have been staying busy with my Photography and my It Works business. I'm pretty well consumed with being a Mother, photographer, church callings, and everything else! :) I'm starting to be able to breath again after Fall family pictures are over. They all have turned out beautiful too!! I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween too and are looking forward to the upcoming holidays as well! :) 

8/18/11 Birthday Girl turns 4!

This is terrible late, but better late then never!! KYLY turned 4 years old! She chose to have a cowgirl party instead of a princess party.. Glad to see I wear off on her a litte :0)

It was alot of fun with 18 kids running around playing. Sense I was incharge and flying solo on this I didn't get to take pictures of the games and opening presents. But she had a blast and so did her friends! I made a goodie bag for each kid that had a bandana, sherrif badge, cowboy/cowgirl stickers, and smarties in it. It was perfect they were able to go through their bags while everyone was arriving. After that we took our group photo (all the kids were little angels). Did stick horse races, and a pony round up with all of Kyly's toy horses!! It was perfect timing to opening up presents and eat some cake!! :) It was so much fun! This was the first time that I have done a friend birthday party and kyly's biggest one too. I'm glad that it turned out without any major breakdowns!

I had fun making all the cowgirl prints and birthday banner!

 

Back row: Sean Casto, Peter Frisby, Keplar Bagley, Kylie Mc Cracken, Conner McCracken, Lilly Mendenhall, Baily, Jeppsen

Middle row: Earaligh Larson, Kylee Cannon, Kyly Bagley, Caleb Jensen, Lilly Meeks, Daxton Jensen, Kelsey Jensen, Tess Jensen

Front row: Jonathan Frisby, Rachel Neimer, Saxon Krouge

Birthday party round 2: We had another party for Kyly in Idaho with all the family at Grandma and Poppy's house. (Stoddard) Mom made her homemade pizza for 38 people!! She is such an amazing grandma :) of course I helped too!! It turned out to be alot of fun. It was great to get to visit with everyone on both sides of my family.(naming everyone would take up more then half the post) hehe
 I hate that my babies are growing up so fast. Sense I can't stop it I decided I will just enjoy it the best that I can!! Thank you everyone for all the cute birthday gifts and making Kyly's birthday so special!
Love you all!

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Great Grandma and Grandpa Stoddard gave Kyly this beautiful dress that she loves! Doesn't she look so grown up now?! :(

Kyly's Birthday 8/18/2010

Added September 7, 2010
Great Grandpa and Grandma Stoddard sent these birthday presents to her for her birthday. She loves them especially the horse rain coat. She wore it around for the rest of the day and I couldn't get her to take it off. :) Thanks Great G&G Stoddard for the presents Kyly loves them!!!

Kyly turned 3 years old on Aug. 18th!!! Grandma and Poppy Stoddard surprised her and came all the way down to Logan just for her birthday! She loved it and was excited to see them. They took us out to birthday lunch, her choice of place was McDonalds. We took it over to Willow Park and ate it. Then we went to the Zoo. We had a great time together celebrating Kyly's birthday. Kyly loved all of her presents that she got. She was so excited for her Barbie stuff and her back pack!