New Kitties

Our cat had kittens two weeks ago. These pictures are when they are only a couple hours old. (Sorry, there's a little bit of gruesomeness going on in their little house.) And that's their mommy. Kyler loves my paper cutter.

An Easter Picture and More of Disneyland

Bre's Birthday, Easter, Papa, Disneyland

So, lots of random things to report: Nate's sister, Bre, turned 17 years old! Had a fun family surprise party for her. Wonderful Easter with my mom and dad. Nate was working. My mom made us a yummy dinner, the kids went on an Easter egg hunt, then Nikosha taught us a lesson on the Christ's life and resurrection. Just a perfect Easter. The day after Easter Papa went into the hospital and we found out he had a perforated bowel and he wasn't a candidate for surgery. We had 3 days left to give our love to Papa in this life. (I was so glad for the opportunity to reflect on the resurrection that Sunday before and be reminded that we will all be resurrected and be together again.) What a wonderful man he was! I am so grateful he was able to come live in Idaho for the last year and a half of his life. We will miss him so much, but we also know he has gone to be with Booma and they are in a happier place. We left for Disneyland the following Saturday. Took a lot more pictures, but haven't had time to go through them all yet, so this is all you get for now. We went with Nate's brother, Roman, his wife, Roberta, and their 3 kids. We had a blast!!!

Trip to California & Random Pictures

This is the new temple in Newport Beach. It's beautiful. We didn't get to go in because it was closed the day we were there. This is us at Newport Beach. Right where Nate's mom grew up.

Toy Story 2 ride at California Adventure. It's a 4D ride and one of our favorites! We look like such goofs! Could they make the 3D glasses any more silly looking?!!

The San Diego temple. So beautiful!!! We got to go do a session and some sealings here. Quite a different feeling here than at Disneyland. Loved it!!

This is us in our hotel room the day I turned 30. It was an awesome way to celebrate getting old!

I laughed when I saw this and had to have a picture. You can't really tell what's happening, but Kenzi's playing on my iPhone and Kyler's playing on Nate's iPod. Or maybe they were both watching a movie or something. I guarantee I don't have a single picture like this of me when I was growing up. Technology these days!!

Nikosha got Kenzi and Kyler all dressed up to do a photo shoot with them. Unfortunately, they didn't really want to have much to do with it so these are the best pictures she could get.

Nikosha took a Cake Decorating class through 4H so for Valentine's day we gave her a cake decorating kit. This is her first cake she made with her kit. It's an Easter cake.

Superbowl and Katelyn's Basketball

So, I know I'm a little late posting Superbowl pictures, but still had to add them cause I thought our cupcakes turned out pretty darn cute. Nikosha went to a cake decorating class the day before and all of my kids love to watch cake decorating videos on YouTube, so we thought this would be a good time to test our skills. These are actually cupcakes. (Couldn't really tell, could ya?). For those of you who don't know, Nate's a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan, so the Superbowl ended up being kind of a sad day for us...but the cupcakes were still good. Plus I made a new Enchilada Nacho recipe that was super yummy. Nate kept saying, "The Superbowl isn't about the food, it's about the game." But the food was the best part of that game (especially since it was fast Sunday).

This was Katelyn's first year playing basketball. She was pretty timid at first but once she got more confident she did great. She even scored two baskets! Plus, she's a fast little thing and that definitely helps. And my personal opinion...pretty dang cute out on the court!! Isn't her new haircut cute? I love her face with short hair but Nate likes it long so we go back and forth. Katelyn doesn't really care. She's just happy with whatever!

Trip to Nebraska

Nikosha and I got to go to Nebraska to go visit my sister and her family. We had so much fun! Nikosha felt like a little mommy there. My sister, Jenny, has 4 kids that are 5 and younger, the youngest being 2 months. Nikosha probably spent about 90% of the time holding baby Parker and the rest of the time playing with the other 3 kids. She loved it and Jenny and I got to spend a ton of much needed time talking and hanging out together. We got to go to 2 different children's centers and go eat lunch with Remi at her school and Blake even spent his day off watching kids so that Jenny and I could go play a game of tennis. We also got to go to an indoor waterpark while we were there (I guess we never got any pictures of that, though). Nate even flew out and stayed for a day and then flew back with us. Blake just finished dental school and he is currently doing his residency for the Air Force. That's why he's wearing his cool uniform in the picture with Nikosha. We're excited to find out where they're going to be next year so we can go visit them again!