What's Been Goin On

First of all, I wanted to say how proud I am of Kyle. This is a picture of him last July. Since then, he's lost at least 55 pounds. I'm amazed at his transformation. (It actually only took him about 7 months or so to lose so much)

A lot of people have asked what he did to lose all that weight. I bought a Gazelle last year at a garage sale for only $10. He's been using it at least 3 times a week, and been playing basketball, and doing the Wii fit, and now running some. But I would say, I owe most of it to the Gazelle because ever since I bought it, the pounds have been melting off of Kyle. He also eats a ham sandwich for lunch everyday instead of fast food.

I think its amazing what he's done! Here he is with me and my friend Becki. We ran a 5k last Saturday, and it was pretty fun! Kyle did awesome of course- finishing 7 minutes faster than me! I have been running a lot lately, (3 miles 3 times a week) and I am training to do the Bone to Back relay (I'll have to run 5 miles) Now, I don't think I will EVER want to run a marathon (or even half-marathon for that matter), but I do think I'm starting to enjoy running, and the way it makes me feel.

Here's Hailee and her first black eye. She really likes to climb onto things now, and she climbed onto Dallin's stool and then fell off and hit her eye on the stool.

I just hope we can keep this girl safe! At least so far she's doing a lot better than Dallin! By this age Dallin had gotten a lot more hurt than Hailee has, (including stitches)

Here she is climbing (her new favorite thing to do) on her new princess car.

She's a little ham :) She's so cute when I get the camera out, she knows exactly what do to now. She'll smile and be all cheezy for the camera

I found this picture in my phone. I forgot how much she has changed from just six months ago! This was taken in November just after she turned one. This week she turned 18 months! Time flies!

Here's Dallin in his new little shirt that my friends Kris and Kelli bought for him. Its so funny. My little Charlie Brown.

This kid still sure does LOVE his blanky!

This is another picture I found in my phone from a Walmart trip Dallin and I took. They had this silly Easter thing sitting out for people to stick their heads in to take pictures- I think? Ha ha, well at least we did!

Last Saturday, my Mom, Grandma, Kathleen, Jill, Candice and Elsie, and I all met in Pocatello for a girls' shopping trip. It was fun to meet up with everyone and chat and laugh. Of course we ate, and then we shopped!

Here we are at lovely Cosco. ha ha People probably thought we were weird having a photo shoot right there in the middle of the store :)

Laugh til you Cry, Moms, and Unwelcome Visitor

This is a video where I laughed so hard I had tears coming out of my eyes. It was so adorable to see her trying to sit on the lunchboxes.

We had a great Mother's Day on Sunday. Here are some pictures of Dallin and Hailee with Grandma Harris and Nana

Last week we had an unwelcome visitor at our house.... a bird who decided to make her nest right on my front door. It was funny. I had heard some scratching noises on our door, but didn't even really think about it, until a little while later, I opened my door to go outside, and there was a big pile of weeds and stuff on top of my wreath. Kyle was right there, and I said. "Whoa! Did you know that was there?" Kyle said that he had seen it, but he thought it was something I was doing to decorate. Ha ha!

It was actually the nicest biggest nest I have come across. I felt really bad when I took it down, because the bird had put a lot of work into that thing!

It was such a perfect round little nest

The bird constructing it

The bird was pretty mad at us when we were messing with it, especially when we took it down. But I definitely did NOT want baby birds at my front door so I decided to take it down before she got all settled in. It was pretty sad, because after I took my wreath down, she kept coming back with twigs and weeds trying to build some more, but it wasn't there, and she would just sit there, on our front porch, and it looked like she was glaring at us through the front window. ha ha

I'd say it was a pretty good educational experience for Dallin. I don't know if I'll be able to put my wreath back for awhile, because even after several days, when I tried putting it back, only a little while later I saw another little pile of weeds on my wreath.

Some more random pictures of my cute kiddos!

My sweet little guy Dallin

You can't really tell from the picture, but Hailee's little hairs are standing up on top of her head. Dallin thought it was hilarious because he had put her blanket on her head and then took it off and it made her hair all full of static.

Easter

We couldn't have asked for a better Easter. The weather was absolutely beautiful and it was Kyle's 30th Birthday! This is the only year in his lifetime that Easter is on his Birthday.

I absolutely LOVE this picture

Here's some black and white for ya

Hailee was really loving playing in the grass

Starting the Easter Egg Hunt. Such a cutie!

Hailee was really doing great at gathering eggs.... that is until she realized there was candy inside. After that, she basically just focused on opening all the eggs that she had to eat the candy :)

Dallin did a great job finding eggs of course too!

Afterward, they had to open their eggs to find the secret clue for a little present that the Easter Bunny left for them.Here's a little video of the hunt. Also, Dallin does a great job at explaining why we really celebrate Easter. He's so amazing!

Here's what the Easter Bunny brought Dallin- a Robin superhero (to go with his batman) He was SO excited!

Hailee got a princess car. She LOVES Dallin's little car like this, so the Easter Bunny brought her one of her own. She really was happy... (you can't really tell from the picture :) I just couldn't get her to look at me long enough to smile for the camera.

Now they are always playing on their little cars. So fun!