Category Archives: Kaylee

Memorial day

Jon stayed home to work, and I took the children to the Day family Memorial Day BBQ. I LOVE family. Blood, not blood. Family is family. I love that the Day family feels the same, and we get to do so many fun family things together.

IMG_8893Jan (For those who don’t know, Jan is the cousins Grandma.) comforting Regan after I dunked him in the pool. He was NOT happy with me for a bit.

IMG_8894Kaylee seems to be over her water phobia. I am so happy for her. She actually had FUN in the pool this time!

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IMG_8904Shannon is the baby swimming whisperer. She had Kaylee swimming all over and jumping in like a pro in no time.

IMG_8909Shannon telling Kaylee that she is doing great!

IMG_8915Regan had a love hate relationship with the pool today.

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IMG_8955And then he LOVED.

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IMG_8967Uncle Dwayne swam him all over the pool.

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IMG_8975I love how fearless Cassie is.

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IMG_8989Hoping everyone else had a lovely Memorial Day.

Reganism: Just call him Evil Kenevil

We took the children to the park for family home evening. Regan decided to put on his dare devil pants, crazy pants, and stubborn pants. All.at.the.same.time!

IMG_8765Let’s start with the cute and work our way to the CaRaZy. I love when Kaylee picks out her own clothes. You can just see her little (BIG) personality show. She is most definitely zebra strips and pink plaid.

IMG_8772I got Regan an actual bike, but it’s two inches too big. So tonight he road the motorcycle push toy. We LOVE that thing!

IMG_8775Such lovely weather we are having right now. I will miss evenings like this all too soon. The dreaded heat is fast approaching.

IMG_8779So Jon and I are sitting on a bench chatting and watching the children play. I see Regan eying his ride on, and then the “mountain”. Just looking back and forth stroking his chin. He pretends to have a beard when doing serious thinking.

And I KNEW what he way contemplating. And so I am shaking my head and telling him no. And Jon’s all why are you saying no?

So Jon asks Mister Man what he is thinking. And Regan asks for help to get his ride on up the mountain so he can ride it down the slide. Jon says no. I said I told you so.

IMG_8780But he had his stubborn pants on, and wasn’t going to take no for answer. So I pulled out the camera, and Jon walked over to stand by to catching a falling child. We really didn’t think he’d get very far.

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IMG_8783But when that kid gets a thought in his head he has to see it through. It may or may not have something to do with his redhead/latin blood……. 😉 Stubborn pants.

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IMG_8786At this point he is just thrilled with himself, Kaylee and I are mumbling about crazy pants, and Jon is calling him a dare devil.

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IMG_8791Jon wisely let him fall just enough to get scared off from trying this stunt again. Or so we thought…..

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IMG_8796Poor little Bug was so upset that his visions of awesomeness failed.

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IMG_8799It was so sad. He was all, “It didn’t work. I SO sad!”

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IMG_8818And then he decided that he just needed to try a smaller slide. REALLY! This kid is going to give me all my grey hairs! Stubborn, dare devil, crazy pants!

IMG_8820Kaylee decided at this point she needed a fountain break. So I told Regan he HAD to wait for Dad to come back before trying to go down.

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IMG_8823So he sat like this and waited for Jon.  And delighted me with all manner of revving noises.

Jon: Do you think this is going to end well?

Regan: Um. Probably not.

IMG_8824So he may have been wearing his crazy, stubborn, dare devil pants, but he wasn’t wearing idiot pants. He turned his bike around, and shoved it down the steps.

IMG_8826He even made sure to yell at everyone to watch out.

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IMG_8829He decided it was best to just use his tukkis for slides, and had fun playing the safe way after his experiments where done.

This boy of ours is delightful in every way! We love our little Evil Kenevil.

Mother’s Day 2013

I had a lovely Mother’s Day. Kaylee has been “So exsikic!” for weeks about it. She was cracking us with her poor attempt at keeping things secret and misdirection. i.e.: When Jon and Kaylee were going to the grocery store for dinner/dessert supplies she told me they were going to the man store (Home Depot) to buy tools. Sneeky, sneeky.

IMG_8754The children got up in sacrament meeting with the rest of the primary and sang all the Mom’s some songs. Good grief it was adorable!

IMG_8757Jon and the kids made me sit and soak my feet after church and then shipped me off for a nap while they made dessert. LOVELY.

IMG_8758Kaylee even decorated for me. Because she’s cute and awesome like that.

My new family photo enlargements are on their way and will be hung in my living room soon! Eeeeee! So excited.

I have been so blessed to have some amazing women in my life who, have mother-like qualities that can only be found in women. With or without children!

Thank you all you lovely women out there who mother me. I love you all!

And so I say Happy Mother’s Day to us all!