The Naming Game and Halloween

Kyla bought a little stick horse at the dollar store with her birthday money. When we got it home, she played with it for the longest time, she just LOVED it. I asked her, "Ky, what is your horsey's name?" and she said, "horsey." I tried again. I said "What is your name?"
-"Kyla Dee Allen"
-"Good, what is my name?"
-"Mommy."
-"Right. Now what is your horsey's name going to be?"
She thought for a few seconds and then said with a huge smile, "Horsey Dee Allen!"
I love this girl and her sense of humor. She always cracks me up.

For Halloween Kyla was a lion and Mimi was a Tiger. We love our cute little felines! Kyla LOVED Halloween...she is still talking about it and asking for more trick-or-treating. We went to just a couple of houses on Halloween, and she loved it. We had a fun time seeing Adam's familia and we had a little birthday party for him before our Halloween festivities. Dan and Nicole's costumes were AWESOME! I wish that I had a picture to post, but I forgot to bring my camera that night. They were off of Xmen, and Nicole looked GREAT with red hair! :-) Maybe I will get someone to email a picture to me sometime soon!

We went to Deb and Matt's house and got to see Matt and Maddie, and then we went over to the Beckett's and got to see them too! It was such a fun night...even though Nate's white face terrified Kyla, and she thought that Seth was Nate because of his Harry Potter hair! :-) Here are a few pictures of the girls before we left. Hope that you all had a fun Halloween!

CATCH UP TIME!!

Well it has been a LONG time since I have blogged...and so much has happened! I keep waiting until I get good pictures of everything...but that just may not happen so I will blog and just put whatever pictures I can on here!

Adam had ankle surgery and is finally healing up, he had to be on crutches for almost 2 months and a boot for another month...
Mimi has a helmet that she has to wear night and day to help her little noggin grow more correctly...we hope that she is almost done with it...we will find out next week.

Kyla is talking like crazy, and sings so cutely! I wish that I knew how to put videos on here...I would put one of her singing the "pempol" song (I love to see the Temple)

I am going back to school online! It feels so good to be studying and learning. I am studying Nutrition, and I am loving it! Adam is so sweet to make it possible for me to do that.

Kyla is turning TWO tomorrow, and we really just can't believe how quickly time is flying by...

Kyla and Mimi funnies...

We are in Winnemucca visitting the family for the weekend. Uncle Jacob loves to tease Kyla, and one thing that he does is count down "three, two, one" and then pounce on her and kiss or tickle her. She pretends that she doesn't like it, but she LOVES it. Now if there is a quiet moment, Kyla looks demurely at Jakie and says in a sing song flirty voice, "Twooo..." and then giggles like crazy, waiting for him to GET her!

Earlier today I was making Kyla a sandwhich, and Naomi was in her walker. Kyla was holding the closed loaf of bread for me, and Naomi ran up and grabbed it from her because she was hungry. They started a tug of war until I took it away. Then I handed Kyla her sandwhich, and Naomi saw it...I have never seen a two year old run away from a 7 month old so quickly! Naomi chased her around trying to grab that sandwhich, and Kyla kept yelling, "NO, MI MI! Mine whitch!!" It was adorable!

The other night I sang a song to Kyla for bedtime and she sang with me for all 4 verses, and then as soon as it was over, she said, "bye bye Mommy!" and blew me a kiss. So I went and laid Naomi down in her crib (they share a room). She started to cry and I left and closed the door. But I stayed and listened to see what they would do. Kyla started singing to Naomi and she stopped crying! Ky Ky sang her to sleep! It was such a tender moment...I wanted to run in and give them both smooches, but figured that would probably ruin the moment a bit.

Kyla is funny

Adam was helping Kyla pray last night....

Adam: say, "please help us,"

Kyla: "hep us"

Adam: "To brush our teeth"

Kyla: "Teeff"

Adam: "Nicely"

Kyla: "...mean" giggle giggle giggle

She is such a silly little thing...we love her sense of humor...except then she really DID brush her teeth mean....tried to bite me the whole time!

My crazy Fam!

Well, this will be mostly random. The girls and I went on a HUGE trip with my Parents, Grandparents, and some of my siblings a few weeks ago. It was SUPER FUN, but we missed Adam like CRAZY! Here are some of the things that we did. I have random pictures, I haven't gotten all of them loaded on...but there are a ton here anyways!


Well, of course the first thing that I have to mention is that we got STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR...WITH 11 OF US ON THERE!!! I think that we were stuck for about 20 minutes, and it was just AWFUL! Poor Alma and Eliah finally just couldn't take it anymore. I am just so glad that they didn't throw up or pass out! The workers finally had to pry the doors open with a crowbar, after banging and pounding didn't work...good memories...Grandma was GREAT at staying calm. She sure helped me keep my cool!

There was a ton of driving...Dad did most of the driving...Dad and Grandpa. Kyla was an angel in the car! I think it is because Eliah worked so hard at keeping her happy!

We went to the zoo in Albequerque, and Kyla LOVED it. Her favorite part though was a playplace they had with a bunch of water spouts. She ran around and squealed every time the water hit her.

Kyla loved the Teddy Bear Factory. We got to make our own Teddy Bears at the end of the tour. Look at that HUGE Teddy bear that we are hanging out on...it was 500 pounds!

We stopped to visit Grandpa's brother, Jim. This isn't a very good picture, I haven't figured out how to load my other pictures on here yet, so we only have the ones from my phone for now. It was fun to see Grandpa with his brother. They were so happy to see each other.

Hanging out at the Hotel...

I didn't get any pictures of the Carlsbad Caverns, because they just didn't turn out, so I stopped trying. But they were BEAUTIFUL! I loved the caverns...minus the two hour wait to take the elevator out. The big elevators were shut down for the weekend, and they don't like to let people hike out because they are afraid that it is too strenuous. But they finally had to let people hike out because it was backing up so badly. Jacob and I hiked out together...and it was SO STEEP! Sweet Jakie stayed with me the whole way...what an awesome brother!

Kyla fell asleep in the backpack that Grandpa was carrying her in...and when she woke up, we were in the middle of the caves...I thought that she would be scared, but she started whispering, "Rock...rock..." (she loves rocks). She was so excited to be in the middle of a giant rock! She kept saying "wow!" It was really cute.

Then Dad took me and the girls home to see Adam because I just couldn't wait any longer to be with him! But the rest of the fam stopped at the Grand Canyons...here are a few pictures!

Thanks for the fun trip, Mom and Dad! You guys are the best! We love you and are so glad that we got to spend this time with you!

Five Generation pictures

Can you believe it? These pictures are just so special to me, filled with people that I love. The first two are all of us, and the second two are the direct line.  A couple of weeks ago my Grandparents and parents were both up for a day, so we made a trip out to visit my Great Grandparents together. What a special memory we made! I am so thankful for this wonderful family of mine. My Great Grandma and Grandpa Campbell live only a few minutes away from us and it is so neat to be able to go visit them. I hope that these pictures will be as meaningful to the girls as they grow as they are to me! 

Yeah for Dan and Nicole!!

Daniel and Nicole tied the knot last week!!! YEAH! We are so happy for them. We all adore Nicole, and are SO glad that she is a part of our family. It was so special to be able to be with them for their big day. Nicole looked absolutely beautiful, and Dan looked absolutely star-struck with her...and that is the way that it should be!

Grandma got all the little girls matching outfits for the wedding, and Dan and Nicole had a fun time trying to keep them all still long enough for a picture. Do you want triplets, Nicole?!

The guys...

The gals...

And more cute gals!

A big congratulations to both of you! Thanks for being such wonderful examples to all of us. We love you. 

PS I swiped the pics from Reni's blog...don't have any of our own yet! Thanks and sorry, Ren!