Siblings

Tom took both of these pictures recently of the kids. Thanks love, they look great! Conor and Kya love their baby brother tons, they smother him with kisses and hugs. Kya feeds him his rice cereal all by herself and tells Tom how to do it when he feeds him. Having a real baby is like a dream come true for her. Crew loves the attention, he giggles and screams with excitement.

Conors Bass

Conor caught this 2 lb. Bass out of Coors Lake here in Bagdad, Az. Tom has been to this lake almost everyday for a few weeks now. He's caught several bass, crappie and blue gill. One day he brought Kya fishing in the morning and then Conor in the afternoon. Tom was laid off from the mine out here in December and after applying for over 200 jobs in his field that he's completely qualifed for and recieving no call backs and denials on his follow-ups, he has decided to become a full time fisherman. I told him I'm fine with it as long as he goes to plenty of tournaments and brings home prize money. You laugh, but he really is that good. I dream of being the wife who gets the call from her husband, who is standing on the stage of the Bass Master Classic, to tell her he won a million dollars. Actually I'd rather be in the audience cheering him on but usually the winner really does call his wife while on stage. I figure she's not there because she's on the verge of leaving him cause he's never around. So I guess I'm the reason Tom will never be on stage at BMC. Sorry. I'm extremely proud of Conor though. They didn't have the camera with them so they left it on a stringer in the lake and came home to get the rest of us to go see and get a pic. Nothing makes Tom prouder than pics of his kids lipin' a bass. Yeah we have several.

Utah Trip

We drove up to Utah for my cousin Jordan's wedding. Since Tom is not working right now, we took our time so it was nice and enjoyable, except for the puking part. So here's a bunch of pictures, mostly for my three sisters because they each called while I was up there because they wanted to be there so bad and I promised I'd post pictures for them. We got to see some of both sides of the family so it was a very productive trip. I can't believe how much we did in just one week!

Don't forget the baby!

I found these cheap little dry erase boards for a dollar at Wal-Mart(love Wal-Mart) so I bought them for Conor and Kya for the trip. Conor drew this picture and told me that it was me and him. I had to take a picture because it was so sweet and my hair looked so cute in it.

Conor also drew this picture of he and Daddy in a boat in the waves of the ocean with lots of creatures in the water. He always tells us that he wants to be an oceanographer when he grows up. He is very intrigued with the ocean and sea life and is always telling us interesting facts that he learns about it from the discovery channel or the books that he has about ocean stuff. Conor is a brilliant kid. His school teachers are amazed as are we. We're so proud of him and love him tons.


We stopped at Hoover Dam to nurse the baby and take a break. It was impressive(the dam).

Another stop in Las Vegas. How could we pass up the M&M store with kids in tow.

We told Conor this was part of his Birthday celebration since Tom's rule is that it's not just your birth day, it's your birth week.

Posing with M&M guy and souveniers. The big kids got m&m cups and Crew got an m&m sippy cup.

We had cake for Conor's 7th Birthday at Aunt Mel's house the day before the wedding. So Conor was lucky enough to have cousins around. Fun! The figures on his cake are Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. The bakery at the grocery store just happened to have them. Score. We are hugely into Star Wars right now. Well some of us.

Jord and Carter's Luncheon after their sealing was in Bountiful where Tom's Grandma and Grandpa Kennard live. Again, Score! So we got to go hang out with then for a few hours before the reception that night. It was a nice relaxing break. This is Crew's first time to meet his great g-ma & g-pa Kennard. He loved them. Grandma Kennard is so amazing at 84 she runs her household and finds time to excercise. She has a sweet and strong testimony. We're happy to have her as our kids Great Grandma. What an awesome example.

Tom, Crew and G-pa looking at their cruise scrapbook.

Thanks for the visit and the snacks Grandma and Grandpa, we enjoyed it.

My mom snuggling cuz Rosemary's baby, Penelope at the luncheon. There's also dad and Dan and Awnaleise in the background.

My cuz Conlee. She's 10 and loves babies.

Crew's Great Aunt Jen thought he was hot stuff.

Great Aunt Suzy soakin' up the love. Crew was obviously popular with the ladies of the family. The day before we left Aunt Mel held Crew and got tons of kisses from him, he even started sucking on her chin. He just couldn't get enough of her. It was hilarious. He loves attention, so he had a great time.

This our cousin Daniel's sweet wife Awnaleise (sorry if I'm spelling it wrong) and their new baby girl Caprilee Rose. Love them tons!

Cousin Barrett, Aunt Jen, Kya and Conor, chillin' at the reception.

Rosemary and her oldest Olivia Rose. Notice all the Roses in our family? I am one and so is my Kya Rose. We're all named after our sweet Grandma Rosemary who passed away before any of us were born. We love her lots.

Jordan and Carter, the newlywed's. They looked so happy. Tom and I got to be at their sealing in the Salt Lake Temple and it was beautiful. Thanks for having us guys.

Jord threw a bouquet of individual roses with little notes attached....

.....and Guess who caught one of them? She was so excited to be at the reception. All the wedding stuff is magical for her. She keeps talking about them getting married in the temple. She's so girly, I love it.

We held up sparklers for the Bride and Groom to run under after the reception. The kids loved it.

We stayed with Tom's brother Danny and his wife Shawnee the whole time we were there. It was fun to get to hang out with them for a few days after all the wedding stuff. Kya and Shawnee made Cinnamon Rolls. Yum!

Shawnee has the exact same camera as I do so she showed some of its cool capabilities. Here's Crew man and his awesome blue eyes.

We went to the conference center and had a tour on Sunday afternoon.

There's a bunch of original paintings there of pics that us LDS peeps are familiar with. It was very cool.

This is us on top of the conference center. Our guide took our picture for us. See the Salt Lake temple behind us.

My Bro-in law pointed this out to us. It's the high school in Salt Lake where High School Musical was filmed. So I took a pic for my Mesa cousins(they're huge fans).


So on our way home we stopped in Flagstaff for doctors appointments. Tom got his regular cortisone shot, he has osteo arthritis in his thumb. His doc says that after over a year of suffering it is now time for surgery. Crew saw his pediatric cardiologist. He took him off of his heart med and told us to watch him for a year and if he doesn't have any SVT episodes then we can assume he has outgrown his condition. He also did another echocardiogram(ultrasound of the heart) to make sure that his heart murmur was innocent(harmless) because it is pretty prominent for an innocent one and our pediatricians keep asking us about it. He did a thorough check and said he was fine. It was so cute, Crew is at the grab everything and stick it in my mouth stage and so when the doc was listening to his heart, he grabbed the stethescope and stuck it in his mouth. The doctor laughed and after that he just let Crew have the stethescope to play with during the Echo. He is such a good baby doc. What a trip huh. now you all know why it took me so long to do a post about it. Enjoy.

Treasure!

So a couple of weekends ago we were bored. So we went for a drive to follow the signs on the highway that advertised a new country store that had just opened. Well, it was so not what we expected. More like a yard sell indoors with some, who knows how old, sodas for sell. We (or at least I) had our hopes up for something completly different. It would have been kind of dissapointing to just go home after that let down. So on the way home Tom suggested we stop to check out a river that flowed under a bridge. This turned out to be the unboring part of our day. Crew napped under the shade of a tree, in the van. The rest of us waded through the river in search of gold. Barefooted, we sifted through the sand. Our search was cut short when Tom found a foreign little insecty lookin' creature in the water and we all raced for shore. We didn't find any gold but we did go home with treasure.

Amazing Crew!

Crew started sitting up about a month ago. Now he's trying to crawl. He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth and then lunges (usually face planting) forward. I don't care how many kids we have, it's still so exciting and amazing to see them first smile, laugh, roll over, sit up, etc. We love our sweet little Crew bud.

Funny Kya

Conor went to school for about an hour on Monday and then came home with a fever. I went to the store to purchase some special get well items for him. I found the cutest little individual ice cream so I got it for him. Well Kya, like her mama, loves miniature things, so she was completely jealous even though I had brought a big carton of ice cream for the rest of us. She went into her room and came out with a dollar and asked Tom to take her to the store so she could buy a little ice cream. He always has a hard time saying no to his little girl so he took her on a "date" to the store, where they purchased the coveted treat and took it to a park to enjoy. sweet story, I know. I love that man!
Later that day Kya saw the pattern for this crown in the Friend (our church magazine for children) and wanted Tom to help her make it for FHE . So again, he could not say no to her sweet little request. He helped her make it and Kya started teasing Crew with it and he got so tickled. It was so sweet. Well sweet until the next morning when Kya wasn't looking and Crew got a hold of the crown and ate/ripped it up. Kya is a good sport though and quickly forgave him.