Living Planet Aquarium Part 1

For some reason blogger keeps freezing and won't upload the rest of the pictures. So, maybe tomorrow I'll post the rest. Today Brad surprised us by taking us to the Living Planet Aquarium up on 106th in Sandy. We pulled in the parking lot and the boys started freaking out. They were so excited. We decided to stop in Calypso's Cafe before we walked through... the food was good but pretty outrageously priced. It was a ton of fun!

This is an octopus. They wouldn't let us have the flash on, so the pictures didn't turn out as well as they could have. But it was pretty cool to see.

Kyla was so happy when I finally took her out of the stroller. She loved looking at the fish.

They have a section devoted to Utah Wildlife. There was a pretty big bullfrog in there, and I'm not talking about the one the kids are sitting on.

As we were leaving we stopped in the gift shop. There was a super cute pink turtle that Brad had to buy for Kyla. Aaron picked a frog and Kaden picked a glow-in-the-dark jelly fish. We also stopped and made a couple pennies into souvenir coins. There was also a photo booth so we decided to all squish in there! It was great! Kyla kept playing with the curtain. At the very end there was a random little boy trying to join us too.

So the beginning of the aquarium will be coming as soon as I can get blogger to cooperate. Thank you Brad for the fun trip! It's nice to spend time together as a family. My favorite part was watching the kids. They would get so excited with everything.

Christmas Eve

We had a great Christmas (yes, I know it's nearly February...). The kids had a ton of fun. Brad told me I did a great job! And I got an external hard drive and Adobe Photoshop Elements 9! Yeah for getting started on digital scrapbooking. That explains the lack of posts; I've been busy trying to figure out some new technology. So, there are just a few pictures I took on Christmas Eve that I like and wanted to share.

Check out Kyla's face in this one! Her hair is long enough to put in a ponytail!!! This was the first time I did it. I am waiting until it's a little longer and thicker before I start doing it regularly. But I thought it was so cute!

These next few pictures are of the kids opening their Christmas "pajammies" (as Kaden would say).

Look at Aaron's face in this next one. He was frustrated because Kaden's was open and he couldn't figure out how to rip the paper.

And here are the kids in the "pajammies" in front of our little tree. Kaden's pjs were Star Wars, Aaron's were How to Train Your Dragon and Kyla's were some random Monkey ones.

I need to use photoshop to combine some pictures so they are all looking at the same time... maybe one of these days I'll figure out how. Then I can say, "Photoshop gave me the family nature never could!"

Fireplace

Kyla loves our fireplace for some reason. When my sister was living over in this apartment she tried cleaning the fireplace. But the cleaner or polish or whatever didn't exactly set in like it should and it won't wipe clean either. If you touch the fireplace you get black all over you. Kyla likes to stand on the side and try to eat it. It's an old school stove type fireplace so it has some small ledges that fit quite nicely in her mouth. So disgusting.

Luckily she hasn't tried it for awhile...

This is just a random cute picture of Kyla and Aaron. Her hair is getting long enough to use clips in it... but they don't stay all that great... We're getting there.

9 months

I can hardly believe the last time I posted was back in October. Wow. A lot has happened. Some day I will post some highlight pictures of the last few months... but not tonight! Kyla is 9 months now, so I thought I'd post her stats real quick. She weighs 19 lbs 2 oz (54th percentile), 27 1/4 in long (37th percentile), and her head circumference is 46.1 cm (96th percentile). And to accompany her stats here are some fairly recent pictures.

I absolutely LOVE this hat! One of Brad's co-workers made it. It is so stinkin' adorable!