Kaylee is learning English!

A couple of nights ago we were all coming home from shopping. Kyle was driving and was playing some rock-n-roll music, a little on the loud side. Kaylee was in the back in her car-seat and shouts in a very grown up tone, "Dad, TURN THAT DOWN!" Then Kyle turns it down a bit to appease his little girl. But that wasn't enough for Kaylee, she then shouts out, "DOWNER!" Kyle and I started laughing hysterically!!!!!!
The cute ways kids learn English makes for fun parenting!

Just had to share and record!

NEW MOON!!!

Here is our New Moon Crew!!!!!
Top Row: Becky, Sarah, Kathie, Paul, Ron, Candace
Bottom: Marie, Me

Cast Off Party!

KONNOR GOT HIS CAST OFF! What a celebration! Ha ha. He got the cast cut off and immediately after, he straightened his arm and bent it waving at the nurse! It was like he was cheering her on! The Dr. was very impressed with his mobility and strength! He is a lot happier now! So, when we got home, we ate a little dinner and then I gave him a spoon and a container of chocolate pudding and let him go to town! He hasn't had any messy foods for a whole month!

Then we GOT TO GIVE HIM A REAL BATH!!!!!!!!! As soon as he got in the tub, he started splashing like I have never seen anyone splash before! It was soooo fun! Mostly for me, but he was having fun too! Kaylee jumped in the tub with him, and they played in the bath until their skin was wrinkly and pruning! Yeah for Konnor, all healed!

The First of Many!

November 8th was our wards' Primary Program. This is a sacrament meeting where the children of the ward are the only contributors (ages 3-11)! They sing songs, speak their parts, etc... Kaylee was the first child that spoke from the pulpit! She did very good! We are learning that she is like her father- she likes to speak! She was asked this question: "Kaylee, where did you live before you came to this earth?".
Kaylee responded, "I lived in heaven with Jesus and my Heavenly Father." They sang this song... and it was sooo cute!
The Family Is Of God

1. Our Father has a family. It’s me!
It’s you, all others too: we are His children.
He sent each one of us to earth, through birth,
To live and learn here in fam’lies.

[Chorus]
God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—
This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God.

2. A father’s place is to preside, provide,
To love and teach the gospel to his children.
A father leads in fam’ly prayer to share
Their love for Father in Heaven.

3. A mother’s purpose is to care, prepare,
To nurture and to strengthen all her children.
She teaches children to obey, to pray,
To love and serve in the fam’ly.

4. I’ll love and serve my family and be
A good example to each fam’ly member.
And when I am a mom or dad, so glad,
I’ll help my fam’ly remember:

[Chorus]
God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—
This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God.

Emily's shower

This was a fun day! Emily is getting married. (Kyle's sister). So, I got to throw her a shower with her good friend Ashley. We had a lot of fun planning this! Here is Emily with her cake.
It was a triple chocolate cake with butterfinger crumbles, and a white chocolate bride.
Here is the whole crew!
Congrats to Emily and Tyler! We wish you all the best!

Halloween!

Halloween was two days long for us this year! Friday night, we went to Ken and Patrice's house for a Halloween/Pirate party! It was very fun! Here is our little family dressed up for day one: Konnor and I were Pirates, Kyle was beaten up by pirates, and Kaylee was the "Belle" of the ball.

It was VERY hard to get Konnor to hold still for a picture! As you can tell....
Kaylee smiling as we are driving to the party!Our darling kids dressed up!
Konnor as: Captain "Hook" (broken arm)
Kaylee as: Princess BelleBelow: The kids and I about to go trick-or-treating on day two!
It was fun this year. It was FREEZING outside and Kaylee would NOT put on her coat over her dress, so we compromised. I got to jog with the kids in the stroller bundled up under blankets! Kaylee would get out and run to the house.... knock and say, "Trick-or-treat, thank you, and Happy Halloween!" Then she would jump back in the stroller under the blanket with Konnor and away we would jog to the next house with lights on. The three of us had a blast for about an hour.
Meanwhile, Kyle was at the house SCARING the kids! Just like we do every year! :)
You can not get the cool affect from this pic.. But we had 2 fog machines going, 2 black lights, and a strobe light going. Kyle is sitting in the Grim Reaper costume in the swing!
Then when we got home, we put Konnor to bed, and Kaylee and I helped with the scaring and passing out candy!Kyle was the super scary one this year, and I helped a tiny bit. And princess Kaylee opened the door and handed out candy!

Another successful year of Halloween fun at the Brothersen house! We didn't go all out this year like in years past. We are in a new neighborhood and we didn't want them to know just how "cool" we are just yet! ha ha