Kylie Is Currently Obsessed With...

This is a glimpse of a day in the life of Kylie and her parents.

Kylie is currently obsessed with:

The temperature. She is constantly telling me it's hot or it's cold. Every time we get in the car she has to blow in her car seat to cool it down before she can sit in it. Last night a little while after we put Kylie to bed she came back in our room and said "It's hot in there. It's hot in there" She will not eat anything that is remotely warm. It has to be room temperature or she blows on it until she turns blue.

Coloring. She is always asking me to color. The only problem is I am the one doing the coloring while she tells me "color Mom" She might scribble a little on the page, but for the most part she just supervised and approves the colors I use. One night Jeremy and I each colored a page while she sat and handed the crayons to us. We couldn't leave until the pages were finished.

Kylie hates to be dirty. She is constantly looking at her feet making sure they are clean and if they aren't she has to have them washed. She won't wear her shoes if they are dirty and if she spills anything on her clothes they must be changed. She says "It's dirty mom. It's dirty" She is also constantly picking in between her fingers.

She is very independent. I constantly hear. "I do it, Mom. I do it" She loves to do everything all by herself. She also says "Help me" meaning I want to help you. She says that when I do her laundry or making the bed. This is her "helping" her dad get the clothes out of the dryer. She said she wanted to do it, but ended up getting in.

She LOVES to ask questions. My day is filled with answering her questions. Her favorites to ask are "What's that?", "What are you doing?" and "What happened?" and she doesn't take "Nothing" for an answer. I must explain everything. She also gets a sly little look on her face and she will say "I be right back mom" as she has her finger up like, just a minute. She is also constantly saying "Look at me, Mom"or "Look at this"

I must say all those questions must be paying off because she is pretty smart. The other night we were running some errands and a big yellow jeep drove past us and Kylie asked "Adam's truck?" My brother has a big black jeep that he got lifted just before our last family reunion. It looked just like this jeep that passed us except for the color, but I never would have guessed she paid any attention to it. She never rode in it. She never really got close to it, but for some reason remembered it and she was able to make the connection between his and the one that drove past. We were pretty impressed!

She is constantly amazing us and growing up way faster than we thought possible.

Sold

It's official, our townhouse in Cedar is no longer ours. We finally signed the papers yesterday. It's was actually a pretty productive day. We got to Cedar about 2:00 p.m. and managed to see Jeremy's parents, Jeremy met with a guy to discuss a door frame at SUU, we dropped Kylie off at my grandma's, went and signed papers for our house, went back to my grandma's visited with her for awhile, drove out to our storage unit, took my grandma to dinner, took a birthday present to Kylie's cousin Madi and visited with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law Ang and Doug and we were back in St. George by 8:00p.m. Pretty good if you ask me. It's a relief to know that the house is finally done and we don't have to worry about it any longer.

Doing What We Do Best

All we did this week was play outside in the water. It has been the hottest so far and we may just melt before the summer is over. Thank goodness St. George knows it's hot and has plenty to do in the water.

On Wednesday our friends Shandie, Lincoln and Austin came to play. We met them at a fun splash park by the Tabernacle that also has a shallow river to play in. Kylie loved it. She woke up that morning and I told her we were going to go swimming. She immediately got her swimming suit and wanted it on and then she asked if the balloon could go swimming or if the bathroom door could go swimming. Too bad they can't enjoy the summer like we can!

They had fun water falls to play in

Kylie in her sunglasses

The river was her favorite part

I told Kylie this was a "swim-jacket"--I think she thought she was putting on a piece of heaven. Two of her most favorite things put together in one!

Kylie and Lincoln

When the day was over this is what she looked like. Good thing this isn't a sunburn. We went to a ward party that night and this is just how red a face can get after playing at the park at 7:00 at night.

On Friday we went down to Mesquite to play with Logan, Alayna and Kurt at the rec center. Their pool is awesome. It put our pool to major shame. (well any pool with clean water in it does that) There were fun slides and tubes that shot water. I think Kylie was little bit overwhelmed at first but she got into and really liked it. I forgot my camera and at first I was really disappointed, but I am realizing that my life is being ran by taking pictures. It was nice not to have to worry about it and we could just play. Hopefully there will be a next time and I will be sure to remember the camera then!

Grand Entrance

If there is one thing I hate it's being late for church, I think it is so embarrassing to walk in and have everyone watch you as you try to find a seat. Well, yesterday we were late. As we were walking in the church doors we hear the Bishop say "We have some new members we would like to welcome, the Felix family" I thought 'oh no, this just made it 10 times worse.' So Jeremy hurries to the chapel doors, opens them and waves to everyone in the room. I just stood there I think with a smile on my face pretending this was funny or something. Now if someone would have possibly missed us they weren't going to now. The Bishop then said "Oh and there they are, everyone look back and see them" So every head in the whole chapel shifts back to look at us and everyone laugh. We have to come in and find our seats while our names are being read and they are welcoming us to the ward. I swear half the ward come up to us and said "Now we all know who you are." Maybe that's not too bad, but I would have rather get acquainted with people without full attention placed on us as we walk in late to ward conference.

By the way, Kylie did a really good job singing the Hymns as loud as she possibly could and of course to the best of my abilities. She also learned she shouldn't yell "The end" ofter the organ stops and the room is silent for the prayer!

Happy Father's Day

Dear Daddy,

Happy Father's Day! I just wanted to write you a little note and let you know how much I love you. Thank you so much for all the things you do for mom and me. You work very hard so mom can stay home and take care of me and I really appreciate that. I also love it when you play with me and spend special time with just the two of us. I know sometimes I act like I don't really like you, and lately I have been telling you to go away most of the time, but deep down inside I really do love you and I love being with you. I hope you had a really great father's day even though no one at church gave you anything, hopefully my gifts made up for it. Thanks again for all you do and all the love you show to me and to mom. I LOVE YOU!!

Love,

Kylie

P.S. I also love my grandpas very much too. They are so nice and so fun and I get really excited anytime I get to see them. Thanks for your example. You are the best!!

What's for Lunch??

I will tell you what's for lunch a Macaroni & Cheese Sandwich! Kylie decided that would be really tasty and considering how much she ate I guess it was. It took a few minutes to figure out what she wanted. I gave Kylie a few options for lunch and she kept saying she wanted a sandwich. I asked her what kind of sandwich she wanted and she said cheese. So I get out the bread and cheese and she gets really frustrated saying she didn't want the cheese, but she kept saying she wanted cheese. I couldn't figure out what she was talking about so I finally let her out of her seat and she came over and pointed to the Macaroni & Cheese leftovers in the fridge and said she wanted that. So I asked her a couple times if she wanted Mac & Cheese (I have to ask a few times because there have been many occasions where I warm something up for her and she doesn't want it) and she would say yes, then say sandwich. I shouldn't have been so dumb, but it took me a few minutes to finally get it. I still wasn't quite sure and so I warmed up and Mac & Cheese and then put it and the bread right in front of her and processed to make she sandwich making sure that was exactly what she wanted, and of course it was. Anyways, that was a long story dedicated to a dumb sandwich, but really this is how meal times go at our house most of the time.

Yummy!

I think she is pretty glad she thought of this

A Common Theme

Nothing is more logical in 100 million degree weather then to go swimming with loads of sunscreen, and it certainly wasn't any different when Kylie's cousin came to play for a few days. Like I have mentioned before Kylie can not get enough of other kids. She LOVES to play with them. I made the mistake of telling her way ahead of time that they were coming and it was non-stop asking about when they were getting here from then on.

She, of course insisted on a sleepover and made sure there were plenty of room for herself. (Logan, Alayna and Kurt were lucky she didn't sleep in there all night)

The next day we tried out our pool for the first time. I think they had a pretty good time. I know Kylie couldn't get enough.

Feeding the Ducks

I couple weeks ago we were driving around St. George trying to get familiar with it and wondering what types of things were close to where we lived, when we came across a golf course and a pond with a whole bunch of ducks. Well, on Sunday after our long car ride home from Moab we were pretty restless so we decided to take Kylie to the pond to feed the ducks. She loved it!! We didn't bring nearly enough bread. It's a good thing Kylie makes friends really easy because they were willing to share their pancakes with us.

At first we had a hard time getting the ducks over to us. Apparently they weren't fans of our crusty french bread.

The fish loved it though. Kylie loved it when a whole bunch would jump out at once.

Once we got a hold of the pancakes they were more than willing to mingle with us. We even had a turtle come out and play. The new friend

Slickrock, Swimming & Sunburns

Summer is officially here with the start of family reunions. We went to Moab this weekend to spend some time with the Mills (my mom's) family. My brother Austin actually came last weekend and spent a few days with us in St. George, my mom and two of my sisters came on Tuesday to spend a couple days with us before we headed to Moab. They were so great to help me finish unpacking my house and my mom took me food storage shopping which I am very grateful for.

Thursday morning we got up early and headed to Moab. We got to Cedar and noticed the roofs on the houses had snow on them we thought that was pretty weird, but little did we know by the time we got to Beaver there would be at least a couple inches on the sides of the road. We couldn't believe it. It had snowed in June! We made a couple stops in Joseph where my grandma and grandpa Mills are buried and then to Monroe where my mom grew up and also had lunch at Pepperbelly's in Richfield. We finally made it to Moab a couple hours later. It was really fun to see all my cousins. Most of them I only see every two years when we have a reunion. Kylie was just a couple weeks old at the last one so everyone made a big fuss at how big she was.

We took advantage of the beautiful scenery around Moab the next couple of days..

Dead Horse Point

I think this is at Double Arch

We hiked the "strenuous trails" of the Delicate Arch. Here is where it was confirmed to me that I am 100% out of shape! It was a pretty tough hike!

Kylie had NO fear. She walked around up there like there wasn't a million foot drop off anywhere to be seen.

Like I said a tough hike except she didn't hike one ounce of it. We all felt like this at the end.

We spent the rest of the time swimming, playing the Wii hanging out with family and of course getting a sunburn!

After she had gone swimming and I had her dressed again, she begged me to go back to the pool where her grandpa was. She sat on the edge and splashed until she was soaked again.

Kylie is good at making friends. Here are a couple of her cousins. She held her own running with the pack. She showed them one night in a game of hide-and-go-seek.

We're HERE!!

I hope no one has decided to boycott my blog because I haven't been around for awhile, but we have had technical difficulties with our Internet. I am not sure if it is fixed yet. I just happened to get on the computer and see that is was working so hopefully it's for real.

The week has been pretty eventful. We had a lot to do. Monday we spent the day painting and caulking things that never got painted or caulked. Who knows why we never did that for ourselves, but we were more that willing to it for someone else. That's what happens when you do most of the work yourself. Tuesday and Wednesday was spend packing some more and going to work. Thursday was my last day at Evans' and then that night we loaded it all up with the help of Jeremy's brother Jon and some guys from the ward and we were off.

We made the 43 mile trek south safe and sound. While we were trying to get Kylie to bed that night she kept saying "Go for a ride" and "Get in the car" and a couple times since then she has said "I want to go home." We just continue to be really excited about her room and try to talk it up to her a much as possible. We have taken her down to show her the pool and the park hoping to talk her into it.

On Friday we actually handed over the keys. They came over to sign some papers, we told them a few things and then gave them the keys and we left them there. It was really weird. I was getting in my car and they were outside unlocking the front door and it was crazy watching someone else unlock it and go in. They seemed really excited so that helps make me feel better about it. I didn't get really sad about it until I saw Kylie's room empty. That was the hardest. I love that room and so many memories are in there.

Here is the last picture I took from my car as I was leaving. (That's pathetic I know)

Well, here we sit going from one torn up house full of boxes to another torn up house full of boxes. We are excited about what's ahead and can't wait until this feels like home. I will introduce our new house as soon as its put together and I take some pictures.