June 2008 Mykenze is missing.

Mykenze is missing, have you seen her?

It is usually an exciting time when Grandma and Papa come to visit! This time was a little different. It was a lot of fun while they were here, we went shopping and did lots of fun things but at the end of this particular trip they took our daughter away.... back to Minnesota! Mykenze has been talking about this for weeks, she even started packing the day she found out that they were coming to get her. I hope that she is having the time of her life! I can't think of a better trip for a 10 year old! We will be going out to get her in 2 weeks if we can hold out that long! We almost got in the car last night to go get her but Grandma and Papa may not appreciate that very much!

May 9, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY!!!

Ashley is now 9! We are one year away from having 2 kids in double digits! OUCH! Her favorite gift was a gift card. I think she still has $.75 left on it and is trying to find a way to spend that!

You go girl!

May 2, 2008 12 years of marriage!!

The Tooele Transcript bulliten asked Jamie to do a monthly article. Jamie decided that this would be a great way to keep up on his writing skills.

Check out this link to his article: (it mentions our anniversary which is why I am putting it here) HOW SWEET! That's why I love him!

http://tle.php.mediaspanonline.com/archive_detail.php?archiveFile=./pubfiles/tle/archive/2008/May/08/Hometown/772797.xml&start=0&numPer=20&keyword=&sectionSearch=&begindate=1%2F1%2F1997&enddate=6%2F16%2F2008&authorSearch=Jamie+Gross&IncludeStories=1&pubsection=&page=&IncludePages=1&IncludeImages=1&mode=allwords&archive_pubname=Tooele+Transcript+Bulletin%0A%09%09%09

April 2008 KyLee's dream come true!

Guess who I finally saw in concert?

Hint: I have wanted to go to one of his concerts since I was 10 years old....

YEP! You guessed it RICK SPRINGFIELD!!!

It was awesome! We took the kids to Wendover and stayed in a hotel and I went to the concert.... alone...

It's ok because I got a great seat, right by the stage, it was the only one left. He came so close to me I could have touched him but it caught me so off guard that all I could do was just take pictures! Ha Ha! He spent a lot of time out in the audience. I am ready to go again!

March 2008 POTTY TRAINED!!

Check out this way cool kid! After numerous bribery attempts to take him to McDonalds to play if he would just go poopy in the potty he took us up on the deal! He did it, he just went in the bathroom one day and sat on the BIG potty and went! He came out naked and yelling "I went poopy in the potty let's go to McDonalds!" We checked and sure enough, he did it! It did not end there however, for the next few days he would go potty and ask to go to McDonalds! Of course we were so proud of him we took him! (he just wanted to play not eat) We soon got tired of going to McDonalds and let him know that we couldn't go there every time he went potty! No more dipers! Phew what a relief!!!!

March 2008 Happy Birthday Caydon!

Happy Birthday Caydon! 3yrs old, can that be right? He is growing into such a cute, big kid! He got some train things, cars and a big basketball hoop for his birthday. He can now shoot baskets better than any of his sisters!

March 2008 Easter

Madyson came home from pre-school dressed as a bunny, she even showed me how they hop! Happy Easter everyone!

March 2008 Little Campers

I heard the kids moving rocks around in the back yard and this is what I saw when I went outside! They had built a little fire pit and had marshmallows on sticks and were pretending to roast them! They asked if I would like them to roast one for me. How could I resist?

February 2008 SNOW and a lot of it!

Mykenze wanted to show us how deep the snow was from the last storm. We had huge drifts in the back yard from all of the wind.

February 2008 Jungle children

Madyson and Caydon have been going through a Tarzan phase lately. This day they were running around the house yelling the Tarzan yell dressed like jungle children. It was so cute I had to take a picture! They watched Tarzan at least twice every day for a week!

December 2007 Christmas!

It was a Merry Cristmas for all! Mykenze got music, camera and shopping cards! Ashley got a camera and lots of fun little gadgets! Madyson got a guitar and a polly pocket racetrack! Caydon got all kinds of train stuff and a racetrack too! We had little race cars everywhere for a week... Actually I am still finding them in the strangest places... under the couches, under the fridge and even in shoes!

November 2007 How great are wood floors?

We had wood floor installed in our main floor sitting and living rooms and it was beautiful! A couple days after it was installed I was working on the computer upstairs and heard Caydon and Madyson talking about making a raceway for their cars... I really thought that it was cute until I heard them say "draw it this way.." I ran downstairs as fast as I could and saw this! The ENTIRE wood floor in the sitting AND living rooms was covered with blue crayon! This picture is a small sample. Needless to say we spent the remainder of the afternoon cleaning the floor. I can now say that our wood floor was worth every penny we spent because every little bit of blue crayon came off!!!

HALLOWEEN OOOOOOOOOOOO!!