Border Patrol

People always wonder about Aaron's job so this might answer some questions. for ya'll.

Gotta love it!

Well, I must say even though I'm still missing family and friends in Utah I most definitely don't miss the cold. True Christmas didn't quite feel like Christmas without the snow and I actually thought for a minute that I missed the cold and snow. Then comes January when in Utah I tend to feel a bit depressed because I'm inside way too much. This January I'm loving the weather, it has been in the 70-80's the past 2 weeks, so we continue to swim, have picknicks, go on bike rides, and play at the park. No complaints here, although I still get homesick for everyone. Maybe ya'll should come down here, just look what you could be enjoying..........

Our neighbor who is a photographer took these great pictures, I love 'em.





I love this picture because Maile's little bum cheeks are always hanging out, usually worse than this, but when you're a kid you don't care. That's about the only time in your life when it actually looks cute.






This is how you can usually find Emmy after 1/2 hour of swimming - wrapped up in her towel with her thumb in.

It's officially another girl!!

I already spread the word to most of you that we're probably having another girl because I had an ultrasound at week 14, but it still didn't seem a for sure thing cause it was so early. We just had another ultrasound this past week and the result is still the same............GIRL!!! We are totally excited! true we would love a boy eventually, but I can't help but just picture our 3 little girls dressing up and having tea parties. Just look how much fun 3 little girls can have.


Girls just wanna have fun!!!
Maile and Emmy love getting together with the neighbor girls like Nia.

Christmas

So, I think we figured out the problem with our pictures, so now I will try to be better with posting. Be prepared this is a long one!!! Mostly it's long cause we got a new camera for Christmas and have gone wild with it. So these pictures are some of the first I've played with and I feel clueless, but still think it's fun to mess with. The holiday season has been so fun, it just gets better and better each year. It was all so magical for Maile this year. Her new favorite pretend game is frosty the snowman.

Aaron's parents drove all the way out from Ohio to spend a week with us, so hopefully they felt like their 35 hour drive was worth it, I know we sure did. The girls had so much fun with them and once again it made me homesick to live close to family. Aaron's sister Rachel and her family came down from Flagstaff along with his brother Spencer from Phoenix. So, we had a full little house, but it all worked out and we had a great time. As always with Aarons family we play a lot of games - catch phrase, ping pong, settlers, and dodge ball, had a lot of yummy food, good laughs, and great memories.





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The girls had so much fun with "Grandma and Grandpa Kerr" and their little dog Penny. Maile loved playing games and reading books with Grandma Kerr.



One nice thing about a small town is that the Santa at the mall never had kids there so we'd walk right up and Maile could talk to him forever if we let her. We went a couple of times and she always had so many questions for him, like where's Rudolph? Did you come on your sleigh? Where is Mrs. Claus? she could go on and on. This Santa was at our ward party and she didn't get quite the one on one attention she was used to at the mall but of course she still loved another chance to see Santa.







We made a trip out to Bisbee which is about 30 min away, it is a unique little old mining town. It's fun to walk around and see all the cute little shops and restaurants.






We played dodge ball in the club house which was pretty small, but lots of fun, even if Spencer did win both rounds and was annoyingly cocky about it. At least Settlers was a different story.



The weather was pretty nice for a few days so we took advantage and went swimming a lot and to the park.





Maile played Mary, Spemcer was a Shepard when we acted out the nativity. It was a bit of a challenge with all the kids being under 3, but it was so cute.









The girls got a lot of dress up clothes and other pretend things, cause that is what they love to do all day - pretend.


Although our Christmas present was supposed to be the camera Aaron pulled a sneakdawg and of course went all out like he always does and got me an elipticle. I on the other hand just did what he told me and didn't get him a dang thing. He loves to out due me every year. But I guess I can't complain I love the elipticle! and will put it to good use now that I'm too big to run. So, as for me and the girls we can say it was a very merry Christmas, Aaron may have been a bit disappointed, but he got the camera right?

Round 3

So I'm still trying to figure out the problem with getting pictures onto the blog, this was an experiement. I wrote this poem forever ago, but I"m so sick of the same post I needed to do something. Hopefully I can get some of our christmas pictures up and give an update from the past 2 months.

I've waited long enough to post this news
20 weeks along and 20 more to cruise

Another little one is on its way
the due date is set for may


Our 2 little girls are so much fun
we are so excited to have another one


I feel great, can't complain
just wish I wasn't growing like a freight train

JP's oops! JM"s wedding

For some reason our computer hasn't been uploading pictures, well I guess it does like every 15th time or neve.r I've lost patience for it. Most of these are from April. I had some good ones, so maybe if I can figure out the problem I'll add more.
Kamaile, Emmy and Abe had a great time in the tub and I got some fun pictures, but Emmy's is the only one that uploaded. Has anyone ever had this problem before? It is so annoying, I might not post until I figure it out, cause it takes forever and it puts me in a bad mood. Anyways......

We all made the treck up to Pheonix last week and spent some time with some of Aaron's family Spencer and Rachel drove down from Flagstaff. It was really fun, we haven't seen Rachel and her family for a while, so it was fun for the cousins to have some playtime. We were able to finally go to the temple, a tennis match with great seats, super fun parks, and of course play lots of Settlers.

Wahoo! JP got hitched this past weekend and it was so fun to see her and some of the BFF girls from Hawaii again, we missed ya Britt and Emily. Aaron had to head back for work on Friday but me and the girls stuck around for Jodi's wedding on Saturday. As you can see Jodi was absolutely gorgeous!!! Maile kept calling her a princess and wouldn't leave her alone.

Good times with these girls - I sure miss ya'll!I promise they told us to look sexy and sassy (which is exactly the look I'm giving).Maile finally got her moment with the princessDances aren't quite the same with kids, but don't you worry I still was able to get a little quality dance time in.

Halloween festivities!!

Jasmine, caterpillar (trash can, pippy long stockings people called me), Baby Bop

We forgot to get a picture with Uncle Spencer which is too bad cause he had a great superhero costume on.

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

After going to the church for some trunk or treating we hit up the neighborhood and met up with some friends. John, Nya, Sammy, and Ethan

Maile doesn't know when to stop, she loves her treats!!!
Emmy wasn't willing to put forth much effort trick or treating I had to carry her around and hold her bag, but she sure was ready and willing to eat as much of that candy as fast as she could.

Holidays just keep getting more fun the older the girls get. Maile was in a daze, it was like she just couldn't believe what was happening that people would just give her handfuls of candy for saying "trick or treat". Aaron had to work that night, but his brother Spencer came down for a couple of days and was there to go trick or treating with us which made things a bit easier. So, Spencer kept trying to keep her focused on her task of getting the most candy in the fastest amount of time, but every time we would try tell her something it was like she couldn't hear us and she just had this dazed look on her face. She kept going to the wrong houses or walking in the wrong direction. She was funny to watch and of course she loved it! The girls were sugared up and had a hard time getting to sleep that night.

While we did this the kids did this........Since we don't have our nice basement set up like our old house we just moved the projector into our room, the girls think it is the best when we have a movie night with popcorn and drinks on the big screen on our bed.


Of course after last year I don't feel like Halloween is complete without getting in a good pumpkin carving thanks to Allie, Matt, Erin, and John. sure missed you guys this year. Finding a pumpkin in Sierra Vista actually was the biggest problem. We spent hours looking for a dang pumpkin! How ridiculous is that? Well part of the problem is that we

are cheap and don't like to spend much more than $5 on one, so the pumpkin patch seemed a bit too pricey, so we went to all the grcoery stores (4) including the military base one and wal mart. All they had were the tiny ones, so finally after making the rounds we ended up back at the pumpkin patch to fork out the dough. We had a pumpkin carving party, but Spencer and I ended up being the only ones who didn't free hand it. We found patterns and the contest was on. So, which one do you like the best?