Basketball

We're over half way through the Carmel Dad's Club Basketball season and Connor has really started to come into his own.  He has a wonderful coach in Coach Joe and the other boys and parents on the team are really great. 

Connor is one of the tallest boys on the floor so his long arms are able to get rebounds!

On his birthday Connor hit a shot right at the buzzer to end the half.  He calls it his "buzzer beater" and told his coach, "That's the best thing I'll do in my whole life." :)

 

Go Connor!

Christmas Morning

Byron and I were asleep in the basement and heard the pitter-patter of little feet at 5:30.  It was fun to come upstairs and see how THRILLED Connor and Kylene were with their gifts from Santa!

Connor got a big surprise in a Nintendo DS!

Kylene got her hearts desire in her new doggy with a bone.

The new horse stable with horsies was a big hit too.

This picture sums up the joy of Christmas for us this year.

Christmas Continued...

We were all exhausted by the end of everyday after all the hustle and bustle!

I told my sister, Ashley, that the best present Connor and Kylene got this year was getting to play with and be around their cousin April.  Connor can get some great belly laughs from this girl!

Cousins!

Our last night all together we celebrated our two most recent BYU grads, Ben and Karin with a Cafe Rio feast put on by Mom!  My mouth waters just looking at the pictures...

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was so fun with our traditional Pizza Hut pizza feast, games, dancing, and Christmas carols sung around the piano.  We missed my Grandma and Grandpa McKen this year though. 

Mom and Dad got all the men, girls and grandchildren matching PJs!  It was so hot in the house though with all the activity that we were all sweating! :)

Christmas Break

Our Christmas Break was filled with people, places and things!  Our family stayed here in Indiana for Christmas and my sister, Ashley and her family came along with our brother Ben and his wife, Karin.  All of us fell head over heels in love with Ashley and Jon's baby, April.  What a doll baby!

Mom and Dad took us Duck Pin Bowling and the kids were thrilled!  I, Kristi, had a strong beginning but faded out in the end to lose to Ashley AND Ben.  Geez.

Connor spent a lot of time outside despite the cold plaing with the new remote controlled crane, dump truck and bulldozer he received from Nana and Grandpa for Christmas!

We woke up one morning to freshly fallen snow, perfect for making a snow man.  Here's out Colts snowman in preparation for the SuperBowl.  {Disclaimer:  We understand the Colts are not playing IN the SuperBowl, but that the SuperBowl is only being played HERE in Indianapolis.  We're still feeling Colts/football fever here.}

Happy Birthday 3 Year Old!

 It's hard for us to believe Kylene is 3!  She is such a joy!  We can't get enough of her smiles and giggles.  Connor can get the BEST laughs out of her. :)

 Kylene is totally enamored with dogs (doggies), cats (kitties) and horses (horsies).

I was thrilled that she was thrilled with her doggie cupcakes.  She clapped her hands and called them "Ollie" cupcakes (one of her favorite doggie friends).  Success!

 Kylene does not like to be the center of attention and wouldn't blow out her candle until we all "looked away".

 She's completely in love with all of her presents.  They're all doggies, kitties, and horsies of course.

 It's hard to ever get upset with this face!

{All decked out in new birthday duds.  She's worn the top 3 days in a row, alternates between the new pink and purple "comfy pants" and loves her new boots because that's what she needs to ride her horsey.}

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

2011 Spooktacular

A few days after we arrived in Indiana it was time to go trick-or-treating!  This was also Connor's first day of school here--it was a big day!

The weather was glorious and we spent the afternoon outside carving our pumpkins.

Trick-or-treaters starting ringing the doorbell at my parent's home at 4:30 so we had to hustle-our-bustle to get some dinner in these kids and get going for some candy!

{a beautiful princess and a fierce dinosaur}

Can't get enough of this face...

Happy Halloween!