Two Years Old Already???

This weekend we went up to Idaho to go to Chalese's (Jacob's little sister's baptism) and while we were up there we celebrated Kaylie's second Birthday with both the Flamm's and Fluckiger's. The photo above is Kaylie's Birthday cake...it's a Ladybug, in case it wasn't obvious. (It's not perfect, but it took forever to make.)

Kaylie in here pile of presents, this is a Teddy Bear that she got from Jo-Jo, Kaylie loves Teddy Bears.

It's funny how quick kids catch on to opening presents, I actually had to hide them all from her because she found one and just started opening it all by herself.

At the Flamm's celebrating both Kaylie and Brynnlee's 2nd Birthdays. Kaylie got this chair and after opening she decided she needed a break from all the partying.

Okay, bad picture, but with a toddler and candles you don't have a lot of time. This is Kaylie (who is completely cut off) blowing out her candles. (And that's Matthew in the background.)

Dress Up Time!

Kaylie's new thing is dressing up. For Christmas she got lots of dress up with the hopes that she'd stay out of mom's clothes and its worked. The other day she grabbed her angel costume and even shoes (both on wrong feet and different pairs) and her baby and she danced and danced. She kept telling me that she was a pretty princess. P.S. She's not sick in this picture, just dizzy.

Today while I was getting ready Kaylie decided to get herself dressed, she had a hard time deciding what to wear.

You can't see in this picture, but her skirt is on backwards, but at least she matches right?

Snowed in on Christmas Day

On Christmas Day we had the craziest winter storm at my parent's house we literally got about 2-3 ft of snow. There's supposed to be a 3 step porch in this picture. After we opened presents we wanted to head up to the Flamm's and we were snowed in. We got stuck in the driveway and had to be dug out, it was insane. The next day we had to drive back to Utah and the roads were awful because of the storm, it took us about an hour and a half longer to get home than it should have.

Christmas 2008

Christmas morning and I thought that Kaylie would be super excited to open all her presents from Santa, but she spent most of the time sitting on the stairs eating Cheerios.

The Chrismas Tree on Christmas morning at Jo-Jo's house, what a load of stuff!

Kaylie and her first present (actually taken on Christmas Eve) it took the whole family's help and about 15 minutes to open.

Cousins...Kaylie and Lucy, plus they were twiners, thanks to Jo-Jo. (it was next to impossible to get a picture of them both actually looking at the camera.

First Snowman

Yesterday it finally snowed, and Kaylie was so excited to go outside and see it, so we built her first snowman, and the snow was so heavy and wet that he didn't stay together very well. In this picture is our finished product....nice I know, but you have to work fast with a two year old helping.

Like I mentioned above, the snow was a little too wet to work with, and he actually fell over while I was building him twice...Kaylie thought it was hilarious and then she got really sad about it, otherwise I would have just given it up.

Cute picture of Kaylie looking at the snow, she really didn't know what to think of it at first.

This was literally her first experience with the snow, she's seen snow in Ohio, but we never had the chance to go outside and play in it. She just stood there for a few minutes and looked confused.

Nauvoo

On our long trip home, we stopped in Nauvoo. We were way excited because neither of us had ever been there, and everyone just raves about it. Well, aparently we got there during the off season. Everything was closed and none of the tours were going. We spent the night thinking that stuff would open the next day...nope. So Nauvoo wasn't that great for us, we'll have to try to go again, during the summer. But we did get to see the Temple and it is now one of my favorites.

Jacob and Kaylie standing in front of the Nauvoo Temple. We had to take quick pictures because it was so cold.

Kaylie, pointing to the horses with Joesph and Hyrum Smith on them. She was so excited to be out of the car after 6 hours of driving. Little did she know that we still had a long way to go.

Funny story, that car in front of the Temple was from Idaho. What are the odds?

Children's Museum

Just before we left Cincinnati, we went with the Simpsons to the Children's Museum. We'd never been before and Kaylie loved it. She had a blast playing with Abby, she's really going to miss the Simpson girls.

Working, her balancing skills, she was on this spider web for a long time.

I wish I had a video camera with me. There was a large screen in the Clifford Exhibit that was playing videos of all the characters playing music. She danced forever, and she'd stop to play the drums for a little while and then dance all over again. And yes, she's wearing a life jacket....long story.

Feeding Clifford his bone. I love that they were so big compared to her.

Clifford, Emily, Abby and Kaylie all hanging out.