Soccer & Piano Recital

Nikosha just ended her second soccer season. She was really excited that she got to be on another pink team. Nikosha had a wonderful coach! She had a nickname for each one of them. Nikosha was Koshie-Kosh. Their coach was so uplifting and positive and always had them laughing. (That was exactly what Nikosha needed.) Thanks, Coach Nawrocki! Nikosha and Katelyn had a Halloween piano recital tonight. It was Katelyn's first recital. They both did an awesome job! Nikosha dressed up as Dorothy and Katelyn was a cheerleader.

Nate's Birthday & Baby Maci

We've had an eventful last week and a half. Nate turned 31. If you can't tell he's still quite a little kid who still loves superman. He got a superman cake and a snowmobile helmet. I think he loved them both! > And then on that same day, my sister, Kristi, had her baby, Maci Renee! Kristi has four boys and is now blessed with a little girl! Austin stopped by one day with this gear on. It's not a halloween mask, it's a bandana that he wears over his face to keep it warm. (I had to have a picture of it!) Katelyn had her first kindergarten field trip that I was able to go on with her. Her class got to go to a pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin. They also had a cute little maze made out of haybales and a slide coming down off some haybales. So fun for the kids! These pictures surprisingly happened before the last pictures of the pumpkin patch. We had our first snow fall. It lasted only a couple of hours on the ground, but Katelyn and Nate hurried and made our first snowman. That's my nephew, Bennett, out there helping. Unfortunately, all we have are girl snowclothes, so he's really not a girl. (We better hurry and get some boy clothes, so Kyler's not dressed like this. Can you imagine Nate taking Kyler on his snowmobile with a pink coat and a purple hat? lol) I just had to include this picture we took tonight of Kyler wearing his grandma's glasses.

Happy Birthday Kenzi

Kenzi turned 4 years old on her birthday. We had a lot going on that day. First, she got to go on a field trip with her pre-school class. We went to a potato field where we got to see how the potatoes are picked and moved and everything. (It was very interesting and I learned a lot.) They loved climbing up into this huge tractor. The man giving us the tour took them all for a ride and even let Kenzi sit on his lap and help steer since she was the birthday girl.

This is Kenzi handing out her treats after her field trip: For her birthday these are the two things she wanted: to go swimming and have a cake with oreos and cherries. So she had a couple of neighbor kids over and her two cousins and they ran around in their swimming suits and jumped in the little wading pools every once in awhile (that classifies as swimming, right?). And this was my "creative" oreos and cherries cake.

Poor Travis has a broken leg so he didn't get to play much!

Then a couple of days later we had all of her Idaho family over for cake and ice-cream. We're starting to be a very big bunch, but I think it made Kenzi feel pretty special.

Our little Hannah Montana!

Happy Birthday, Kenzi! We love you!

Kyler's Surgery

My poor baby boy had to have surgery. My aunt put it very well...he had to have his "plumbing" fixed. The technical name for it is "hypospadius repair". They told me it was going to be an easy sugery. Well, if that was an easy surgery then I NEVER want to have a hard one. It was awful! These are pictures of my cute, happy boy that went into surgery: And this is how they brought him back to me: He cried and cried when he woke up and with his i.v. hooked up to him it was hard to hold him and very hard to take care of him. But he's all better now and here's him a couple of days later: (He's now discovered his belly button. What a fun age!!)

Kenzi's Song

I think this is so cute of Kenzi. She told me one day that she could sing "I Love to See the Temple" so I decided to record her. She did pretty good for a 3 year-old:

End of Summer & Starting School

Katelyn started kindergarten today. Maybe they teach kindergarteners how to smile for pictures. lol She wasn't sad at all that she had to leave me...when I went to go pick her up she didn't want to come with me, she wanted to ride the bus home, so at least I don't have to worry about her adjusting to school. Nikosha started 3rd grade today. They are both going to a new school this year. This will be Nikosha's 3rd school she's been at. She's handled it very well for how shy she is.

We made a quick trip down to Utah because Nate loves the parade of homes in Salt Lake. My brothers baby-sat for us so we took them out to dinner at The Mayan. This is the cool statue that was outside.

I just had to throw this picture in. We got home from swimming one day and I went inside to put some stuff away and by the time I got back outside this is what Kyler looked like. It only took him about 3 minutes to completely cover himself in dirt:

Nikosha was baptized on August 1 by her daddy. We are so proud of her!! Her cousin, Grant, was also baptized the same day by his dad.

This is all of the cousins on the Loftus side.

Grant & Nikosha

This is me with all of my brothers and sisters (from left to right: Eric, Cindy, Jenny, me, Kristi, and Tyler)

This is all of my mom and dad's posterity up to this point. It's quite a crew!