Our Christmas

Our Christmas was pretty interesting.  My two kids were sick.  A few days before Christmas I took Tannen to the Doctor because his little cold was no longer a little cold.  It turned into a bad cough with 101 degree temperature. It turned out that he had RSV and we had to (and still are) doing breathing (Nebuliser) treatments to him every 4 hours.  Pour little guy was quite the trooper and stayed calm throughout the treatments.  Since then he is slowly getting better and sleeps whenever and wherever.  Example: the picture below, when he fell asleep while watching football with Brian, holding the remote (which is his favorite thing to play with, so it was pretty surprising. 

 Then on Christmas Eve, Rylee started getting that same bad cough and she too had a temperature of 102 degrees.  She had a very hard time sleeping that night, and Brian and I had a hard time keeping her out of the living room (because Santa had already came :) That morning she had mixed feelings.  She was so excited that it was Christmas and that Santa had come and brought her presents, but she was so fevered and phsyically tired, but not tired enough to open her's, Tannen's, Brian's, and my presents.  After opening her presents she wanted to play "Dora Saves the Chrystal Kingdom" (a game she got from Santa) on the Wii.  About 10 minutes or so Brian and I came in to watch her play.  She was swinging her arm like she was suppose to only she was so tired.  We asked her if she wanted to stop and play again later when she felt a little better.  She said yes and sat down on the couch to watch Brian play the Wii and fell asleep minutes later.  Poor girl.  After her nap and a little medicine she was feeling a lot better.  But all sickness aside, we had a great Christmas.  We had some friends come over later on that day for Christmas dinner.  We had such a great time! 

Present Time!

Just a few cute pictures of the kids.

Rylee got a few princess outfits to wear and she sure is putting them to good use.

Kids Pictures

We finally had our kids pictures taken.  We really needed to because we only had pictures of Rylee up in the house and it didn't look as if Tannen were part of the family.  Thanks to Sarah Lassen who took their pictures even in the cold weather.  She did a great job  

Tarr Fort weekend

This last weekend we were invited to stay at the Hamilton cabin in Tarr Fort, KY with some friends and their families.  Tarr Fort is in eastern Kentucky, (in the back woods).  We had an awesome time, but probably ended up more tired than rested at the end of the trip, with all the talking and playing cards until about 3 in the morning.  The kids played well together.  Tannen was a good boy and didn't cry the entire time we were there.  We played alot of cards and corn hole.  It rained the first day we were there, but that didn't matter to the kids.  They went outside and played anyway.  Thank you Jay and Brooke for inviting us.  We had a great time.

All the kids right before bedtime

Rylee, Tannen, Sara, Ava, Chloe, Ali, Asha, and LuLu

Rylee's turns 3!!!

On September 30th Rylee turned 3 years old.  I can't believe I have a 3 year old.  I am really getting old.  Weeks before her birthday, we asked her what she wanted.  She said, "a princess bike, a princess cake, and lots of friends."  Talk about being spoiled, she got it all, the bike, the cake, and the friends.  She had such a great time.  

Tannen's first haircut

Tannen has always had quite a bit of hair.  He is now 5 months old and it was growing over his ears. Some might say that that is not long at all, but I'm a girl who likes a clean cut on boys all the time.  So on Saturday we decided it was time for Tannen to get his first haircut.  We sat him in his Bumbo chair and took the clippers to his hair.  It was the quickest haircut I have ever given.  It was a whole three minutes long.  The first two minutes he was as happy as could be.  I last minute, not so much.  I told Brian to get the camera and take some pictures.  The first two minutes he took pictures with his phone.  Then started taking pictures with my camera the last minute while he was crying and sceaming his little head off.

Tannen with Brian's phone (the first two minutes)

Tannen with my camera (the last minute)

Our Trip to Utah

We had so much fun on our trip back to Utah.  Although we missed Brian.  He stayed in Kentucky to study for his boards for dental school, which by the way, he passed!!!  The flight there was a little crazy.  We flew out of Cincinatti, which is an hour and a half drive from where we live.  We did this so I wouldn't have to have any layovers with my two kids.  I was really greatful for that.  Brian took me as far as the security checking.  When we left him, Rylee started crying because she wanted him to come and Tannen was just screaming the whole time until the plane took off.  Thankfully he slept the whole way there.  Rylee was good because I had presents for her.  If she was good, every half hour or so I would let her open a present.  Then she would play with it for the next half hour.  This worked great! 

The night before the 4th of July my parents had a BBQ in there back yard.  I was able to see my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.  It was great to see them all.  Rylee had a blast with them all as well.

My brother Chad putting up a tent with all the kids trying to help.

Tannen with my Grandpa and Grandma Kochevar.

On the 4th of July we got up for the Fireman's breakfast, and like always, it was great food and fun times.  Then we went to the parade.  Rylee remember from last year, picking up candy off the road, so she was really looking forward to it.

Hallie, Tylee and Rylee at Moroni's 4th of July parade waiting for the helicopter to drop ping pong balls.

After the parade we hit the carnival.  We let Rylee do the races and she won out of all the 2 year old kids.  Luckily she inherited her dads speed.  She had a lot of fun there, but wore herself out.  The firework show that night got cancelled, due to the lightning storm, and we were all a little disappointed.  What's the 4th of July without fireworks?

Rylee swinging at the carnival.

Rylee and I met up with some of my friends and there kids and went swimming at the Manti pool.  It was a very nice pool and the kids really enjoyed it.  Rylee and Alivia got along really well there.  I just wish we lived close to them so they could play together more often.  Then later that night a bunch of my friends met at my parents house for dinner.  It was fun catching up and finally being able to see their kids.  They are all adorable!

After that fist week, we spent the next week with Brian's family.  Rylee had a great time playing with Spencer and Emily, and baking a cake with Sara.  Both my kids were spoiled with attention while they were there.  One of the days, Spencer, Emily, Rylee, and I went to 7 peaks.  It was a lot of fun.  Rylee was brave enough to go down some of the slide, with me of coarse.  Her favorite part was the wave pool, but only without a tube.  She liked to be knocked down by the waves, which scared to to death.  Tannen  stayed at home and played with grandma and I'm sure they had a great time.  We were also able to go to some Spencer's State baseball games and cheer him on.

Rylee with her aunt Emily watching her uncle Spencer play baseball.

Tannen and Grandma Romney.

Tannen and Grandpa Romney.

The last week we went back to my parents house.  Rylee had so much fun with her two cousins Tylee and Hallie.  They had about 5 water balloon fight while we were there, and jumped on the tramp with the spinckler under it quite a few times.  She had fun going on 4-wheeler rides with grandpa and also pick peas from the garden with grandpa.  We went swimming almost everyday we were there, from swimming in Palisade Lake, to the Manti pool again, and at Flo's.  Both my kids got so much attention here as well, and I got spoiled as well because I didn't have to worry about my kids for once.  The last day we were there we went to 7 peaks again.  This time Tannen went with us, along with my whole family.  Tannen even got in the water and loved it.  We were all sad to go back home to Kentucky, but happy to finally see Brian.  We can't wait to be able to go back next year.  We just hope that Brian will be able to make to trip with us then. 

Rylee and the Lamb Day parade (yes, we went to two parades while we were there.)

Swimming with Aunt Valerie and her cousins.

Rylee with Aunt Stacy.

Tannen's Blessing day

My family came out here for a visit and while they where here we decided to bless Tannen.  During his blessing Rylee started throwing a tantrum because she wanted to join in and help bless him.  I tried to keep her quite but couldn't and before i knew it the blessing was done and I hadn't heard a word of it.  Come to find out, Tannen was doing the same thing as Rylee, crying.  I was very greatful when a friend of mine handed me a slip of paper after the blessing.  It was some notes that she took for me shorthanding some of the words of the blessing.  Thanks JoAnna!

After church we had some friends over for a luncheon.  It was a lot of fun.  I was glad that we were able to have some of our family there.

My family after the blessing.