Category Archives: Kate

Christmas in a nutshell

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Jeana| 1 Comment

Early in December, we got a surprise visit from Santa Clause.

While we were visiting with him, Kate whispered to me, “I’ve never met the REAL Santa before.”

We visited Temple Square with Grandma Jean and Grandpa Gramps.

It was pretty cold, but so beautiful.

Kate was determined not to let go of Grandma and Grandpa’s hands – even when people got in the way.

We had our annual Christmas program

complete with Joseph, Mary, the donkey,

the angel,

and Baby Jesus.  Mary was nice enough to give up her spot on the donkey when Joseph got tired.

Christmas morning led to some fun surprises!

Simon spent all morning playing at that kitchen while the rest of us opened presents.

He broke away long enough to line up some new cars.

Scott and I (mostly Scott) made this awesome car town.  Scott added some Texas flare by putting a Rudy’s and an HEB on it.

After Christmas, we headed up to Brad and Chanda’s to have some fun on the wii, eat tons of good food (Brad is the best cook ever!), and get super addicted to American Ninja Warrior.  So awesome!

Then, we headed to Jodi’s to celebrate Grandma Baldwin’s birthday.

Everyone had fun with the cousins.

Audrey and Lily had some fun getting pulled on a sled behind the snowmobile.

Okay, by “nutshell”  I meant lots of things combined in one really long post.

The end.

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Winter Cabin Fun

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Jeana| 2 Comments

In December, the Birds invited the Peteez and our family up to their cabin in Idaho.  It was a BLAST!

We played in the snow!

I mean really!  What says sheer happiness more than smiling so big you can’t contain the spit from spilling out onto your lip!


Ready for some snow shoeing!

Unfortunately only three of us truly got to enjoy the snowshoeing.

For some reason we got on this crazy jumping kick and took TONS of pictures jumping but these three are some of my favorites.

The guys all went snowmobiling and got some awesome pictures of them jumping, but they’re all on Scott’s phone, so he’ll have to add them later.

We went on a hay ride,

singing Christmas carols,

got stuck, unloaded the kids, pushed until we were unstuck, ambushed the husbands – tackling them in the snow, but just like we knew we would, the wives all got the worst of it… except for maybe Jeff… I think he ended up the worst of all.

We warmed up with some hot chocolate and took a nice, big family picture.

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Posted in Adventure, Audrey, Friends, Idaho, Jeana, Kate, Scott, Simon

Kate’s 5th Birthday

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Jeana| 3 Comments

Three days after we got here, Kate had her fifth birthday!  When she first woke up, she got to open some roller skates for Hello Kitty.  You can see Simon was a bit upset to see Kate playing with her own toy instead of handing it over to him… so after some bawling, she did hand it over to him.


Kate, Simon and I went to the awesome dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point.  We invited Audrey to come with us and put off her first day of school, but she was just ready to jump right into things here.  Who does that?  Go to school, when your mom is giving you a very valid excuse not to go?

Kate kept those gloves on the whole time.  I don’t know she was cold or if it was part of the protective clothing for excavating.

This museum was so fun.  It had tons of hands on stuff and since it cost as much as college tuition, we decided to go through it twice to get a full education from it.

Kate kind of got jipped on the whole birthday cake thing.  Since we had just moved and didn’t have any of our stuff yet, we had nothing to make a cake with, so I bought sugar cookies instead.  I did throw some of our birthday decorations into a bag before we left, so I put a candle in the cookie, but we had no match to light it, so she just pretended to blow it out.

In our defense, she did have a rockin’ party before we left Texas with lots of our friends.  It was outside at a park with the most beautiful weather possible.

This isn’t Kate hitting the piñata; it’s her friend Summer.  Sadly I didn’t get a picture of Kate hitting it, but she did hit it.  Audrey, however was a different story.  This was the second piñata within about a month, that she didn’t get the chance to hit.  Maybe I’ll get her her own some day… like on her birthday.

Happy very late birthday, Kate!  Love you girlie!

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The big move

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Jeana| 6 Comments

At the end of November, we moved from our lovely home of Austin, Texas.

If I talk too much about goodbyes, it’ll make me sad… so, I’ll keep it short and sweet. Here’s Kate with her preschool teacher and Audrey with her second grade teacher.

Goodbye warm weather.  Goodbye Mockingbirds.

Goodbye to some of the best friends EVER! …and my favorite house we’ve ever had.

On the way, we saw a bunch of cotton fields, so we stopped to check it out.  It was freezing (at least what we thought was freezing then), but Audrey was a good sport and hopped out of the car with me.

We also saw this awesome shack that Audrey, again, indulged me in exploring.

We saw tons of oil drills and I thought it was a little odd to see the cotton all around it.  We also saw a few trains which Simon LOVED!

Goodbye Texas!  We’ll miss you.

Hello freezing Utah!

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Performances

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Jeana| 1 Comment

The second graders performed at Audrey’s school right before the move and it was very entertaining to watch.  They were told to dress up like cowgirls and cowboys or Native Americans. Thanks to Sandra’s costume box, we were set.

This is a few of them dancing to Turkey in the Straw.  They also sang some songs including a sassied  up version of Five Little Monkeys, where they danced like robots in the middle, among a few other fun moves.

Later in the week, Kate got to perform with her preschool for their Thanksgiving party. They sang a few Thanksgiving songs that were followed by a big Thanksgiving dinner.  Then, we all went into the gym to see what the kids could do.  It was a lot of fun.

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