Summer Vacation

Kylie and I just returned home from a two week much needed vacation with my family. We spent the first week in Park City, one of my favorite places to go every year. My parents have a time share there and so we go just about every summer. It's a good place to relax, go shopping, get out of the heat and swim.

Monday was the first of about a hundred shopping trips to the outlet mall.

Kylie trying on hats at a store. I had her try something on at Old Navy once and now she feels the need to trying something on every time we go to a clothing store.

Monday night we invited our babysitter Wendi to come up for dinner. It was so fun to see her and her family. We love her so much. She starting babysitting us when Ashley was 3 months old and continued to babysit us even after her mission. (I think I was getting pretty old by then, geez, but I would much rather have her come babysit then me have to do it!!) We were pretty mean to her sometimes, but she was always so nice and had brought fun things for us to do. Of course Kylie made instant friends with her daughter Aynsli and they had a good time playing together.

On Wednesday we took a little trip down to temple square. My sister Lexie hasn't seen a lot of what's down there so we thought that would be fun.

Reflecting pond

Kylie was very excited when she saw Jesus. Can't ya tell? (She actually really was)

We decided to see the Joseph Smith movie. When we walked in the theater and sat down Kylie immediately asked where the popcorn was. Needless to say she didn't last through the whole thing so her and I played outside on the grass for awhile.

Mimicking Angel Moroni

On Thursday our Hansen Family Reunion started. It was fun to see all my cousins and be with the family.Our favorite thing was the Alpine Coaster

Kylie had to settle for the animals and airplane rides because she just wasn't quite old enough to ride the Coaster

Kylie was introduced to her favorite combination of dipping, licking and sugar combined into one.

Of course we got in plenty of swim time

Park City was a blast and we hope to go back next year!

On to week number two... We drove down to Sandy on Sunday and went to church in our old ward. We went to dinner that night at my mom's friends house. To Kylie's dismay they had three little dogs she was not sure about. She warmed up to them a little bit and soon was introducing herself to them. She said to one of the dogs "Hi Owie (Ollie), I is Kydie" (She says her name with a d) It was pretty funny.

We spent the next couple of days in Draper at my cousin Jamie's house and doing stuff around town.

My sisters spent a day doing baptisms for the dead in the Jordan River and Salt Lake Temples.

On Wednesday I brought my sisters down to St. George and we hung out here for a few days. We tried to celebrate the 24th of July by going to a Stake Party outside, but it was just too dang hot. So we were content staying inside playing cards. On Friday we went up to Cedar and took my grandma to Mama Mia. It was fun to be with her and I think she really enjoyed spending the time with us. Saturday morning my mom and dad arrived and picked the girls up and they headed home. I was sad to see them leave. Kylie misses them and always asks where her aunts went. I love spending time with family and it was fun to get away for awhile and not have too much to worry about.

By the way, Kylie is very pleased with the new tinted windows we got on our car. Last night driving up to Cedar for Jeremy's class reunion she asked "Where did the sun go?"

Happy 2nd Birthday Kylie!!

Happy Birthday Kylie. I can't believe you are 2 years old. It's crazy to think you have been in our lives for that long, but I also can't remember what is was like not to have you with us. You're make us laugh everyday with the funny things you say and your cute facial expressions We're still not quite sure where you have learned most of what you know, but you continue to amaze us with how smart you are and how well you pick up on things going on around you. We love you so much and can't wait to see what you become in the next two years and all the years after that.

Picture Perfect

I took Kylie to get her 2 year old pictures taken and she loved every second of it! She was so excited. We had to wait for a few mintues and so she stood on a chair and watch the kids in front of her get theirs taken and every time they would get down to change the background or something she would jump off her chair and say "My turn." She smiled really well for them and did exactly what she was asked. These pictures are only the proofs. I wish I could post the pictures I came home with because they were cropped and edited and look really good. You can't ask for much with studio pictures, but I think she is dang cute.

Terrible Twos Are Well On Their Way

I must say I have been pretty lucky to have a fairly calm little girl for the past year 11 months and 3 weeks, but she is one week from being two and she is starting out the terrible twos with a bang. Here are a couple clues we are in for a crazy year.

We left her alone for a little while thinking she is playing in the kitchen only to find a few minutes later that not only has she pulled the whole roll of toilet paper off the roll, but she has shredded it to a million pieces a long the way. (By the way, she insisted on putting her pants back on all by herself after going to the bathroom and they are on backwards. I don't know if you can tell , but the belt is in the back.)

Clue number two. I was coloring my sister-in-law Amy's hair today and she had just gotten done saying "She is so nice to just play." When we walk over to the other room and find this; about 8 different card games scattered across the floor. So much for being "nice." I waited until Jeremy got home so he could see what HIS daughter did. We cleaned it up and then told her in a very nice voice "Kylie never ever ever get all the cards out again" She just put her finger up to her mouth and shushed us. Anytime she doesn't like what we are saying or Jeremy is sing obnoxiously in the car she shushes us.

Clue Number Three: I currently have spaghetti spilled all over my pantry floor. Kylie has learned that f she pulls a stool over to the door, opens it, climbs up and she can reach quite a few shelves from there.

Clue Number Four: She wrote on our light colored chair with a blue pen. We asked her about it and she admitted to doing it then she promptly spit on her finger and wiped at the mark. (At least she's honest)

She has a tendance to make up for some of this stuff she does by saying funny things. For example: we were in the car (I know it seems like we are always in the car, but really we are not. Just funny things happen in the car) and we drove through a playing lot that looked like one that would be at a park and Kylie says "I want to go to the park.'' I said "We can't, there isn't a park here." and she says "Oh shoot." We then drove past a lot that was for sale and we saw the price on the sign that said it was $249,000 and Kylie says "My gosh." I am not sure those are the best things for little girls to say, but I guess they have to be better then the alternative. I think we'll keep her after all.

Weekend Festivities

We had a great 4th of July weekend. We decided to escape the 108 degree weather and head up to Cedar City. We got there in time for the parade and Kylie loved it. The loud sirens made her nervous, but she got a huge kick out of the horses peeing right in front of us.

She did a really great job of getting candy. We were in a really good spot because there weren't any other kids around and I taught her to wave and yell "hi "to the people throwing candy and she would get handfuls thrown back at her. She is getting old enough that she likes stuff like this and it's fun to watch her get excited about it.

She is smashing her candy cup so you can't really tell how much she got, but along with that we got otter-pops and a couple Frisbees.

After the parade we went to Jeremy's sister and brother-in-law's house for a BBQ. The weather was so nice. We sat in the shade and it was perfect. We went up and saw Granny Annie (my grandma) for a little while. Kylie loves to go see her. She gets so excited the second we pull up to the house. On the way back Kylie fell asleep and so we dropped her off at Grandma and Grandpa Felix's house and went to a movie. We haven't been to a movie in a really long time so it was fun go. We came back had homemade ice cream, hung out for a little while longer and then headed home. We got back in time to see the St. George's fireworks. Kylie loved the "ireworks" She cried when they were over.

On Saturday Kylie's cousins Madi, Dallin, Megan and Austin all came down and went swimming with her. Our pool isn't amazing, but I think they had a good time.

We then all went down to Mesquite for Kylie's other cousin Logan's baptism.

These are all of her cousins. Poor Kurt got his fingers smashed so he was sad for the picture.

She LOVED being with all the kids. She can keep up with them pretty well and they are so good to include her.

On Sunday we fed the ducks again. Kylie was very excited to do that. The ducks cooperated with us better this time and we feed them for awhile. We were hanging out earlier that day and Kylie comes up to us and says "I want some crazy." We asked her what crazy was and she said "making funny" We still didn't really know what she meant, but it made us laugh. We were impressed she could explain to us what she was talking about. Usually she has to point to something or she shows us something to explain what she is saying, but this time she just tried to explain it.

Go Away Sun!

Last night we were driving in the car and the sun was shining directly on Kylie's face and all down the left side of her body and she was so annoyed. She started saying "Go away sun, go away." She repeated that probably 4 or 5 times and then she started rubbing her legs saying "Get off me, get off me." Everytime the road would turn a little bit or we would drive along some trees she would say "That better." Only to be annoyed 2 seconds later when the sun was back. I eventually had to hold my arm up next to her face so the sun was atleast out of her eyes. Everytime we get in the car we always mention we really need to get the windows tinted in our car. She was pretty funny and that's how we feel right now. The sun is working way too hard down here and it's only the first of July.