Lebron???

Travis and Allias are coaching a boys 10U basketball team this year. I was gone one night and Kailyn had to go to practice with them. The 10U girls team was practicing at the same time and she ended up practicing with them for fun. They ended up inviting her to be on the team.....
She had never really played basketball and is scared of flying objects so I was pretty surprised that she wanted to play.
Her coaches have been great, taking her aside and working one on one with her and giving her lots of encouragement. They really enjoy her quirky personality and call her their super star. She has been trying really hard and having a lot of fun. She actually plays pretty aggressive defense and has had at least two or three steals per game. She is also really good comic relief for her little team.
The other night during a time out she told her team they just needed to go out and play like Lebron James. As she walked out onto the court she threw her arms in the air and yelled "The king is in the building!" Then as they were playing she did a few leaping skips across the court. I am pretty sure that if she had seen someone eating fries she would have taken a couple. (if you saw clips from the Cavaliers vs Bulls game you will understand). The coaches and all the parents were cracking up.
Allias and Tyler have been super supportive. Allias even makes signs and brings them to the game. One sign said "#34 The Queen".
It has been a lot of fun watching her. Tyler and Allias are both playing on a church league basketball team but I haven't been able to watch a game yet. Hopefully I will be at the next one!

Memories

Kailyn told me she wanted to make a scrapbook with pictures of her childhood
memories. I told her that was a great idea and let her borrow my camera.
Here is one of the pictures she took!

Not quite sure why she wants to remember this- actually I am not quite sure how anyone will forget it. This is how her room always looks.

Brrrrrr Baseball

New Year's Day we took the kids to the park and played a little ball. It was FREEZING but we had a blast. Travis, Kailyn and I were against Tyler, Allias and a neighbor girl (also a Tyler). The teenagers were no match for us. Especially my AWESOME pitching.

First post of 2010?

Mom if you are reading this I am sorry I have taken soooo long to update.
I guess I will start with Christmas and just go from there.
Kailyn's favorite part of decorating for Christmas is setting up the Nativities.
We got this tree at Lowes for FIVE bucks a week before Christmas!
Travis and Kailyn did most of the decorating.
Christmas Eve- Opening our traditional Christmas Jammies. Kailyn was with me when I bought them and picked hers out but the boys didn't know. When she opened hers she said, "these aren't the ones I wanted but I'll deal with it." She stole that from a video we saw on America's funniest home videos.
Isn't he getting so handsome?
It has been great having Tyler home!!!
Travis liked his or something.
Dorks!
The boys
Girls!
ummmm seriously I can't even think of a caption for this picture......
awwwww
Kailyn and Allias wanted pictures in front of the tree with their dogs. Here are Kailyn and Molly.
Allias and Maisy.
Reading the story of Jesus' birth from the scriptures
Christmas morning- Santa decided to individually wrap each item in their stockings to make the morning last a little longer.
Love her cute little face.
Tyler sporting his new flannel
MORE webkinz!!!!
Allias with his new game. My mom and step-dad got us a Wii and some games but I only have videos (taken on our new video camera that they got us) of the kids opening it. We love it though!!
Travis was adorably sneaky and bought a few things I didn't know about so the kids and I each got a new pair of jeans and I got the Dave Ramsey book and some work out clothes!

We went to our friends the Jensen's for Christmas dinner. We had a lot of fun and some amazing food. Here is the some of the gang playing a little rock band.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!!!! I promise a more recent update very soon!