Tasha's most recent project

I have wanted a rocking chair for a while, so Hyrum found one for me.  We didn't like the cushions, so I decided to be adventuresome and try to make my own.  Here is the finished product.  I think they turned out nice.

15 months and loving life

Shoes!

Kyler loves balls and shoes right now.  He often asks, "where da shoe go?"  He also likes to carry them around the house and just the other day he started to try to walking in my shoes. 

Helping Himself to a Snack

While Mommy was on the phone with a business one day, Kyler decided to have a snack.  He knows where the snack cupboard is, so he went over, opened it, and picked out a snack--graham crackers.  Mommy found him a few minutes later sitting in a pile of crumbs, but as happy as could be. He had dumped the open package (which was mostly crumbs) onto the floor and was eating a graham cracker. Luckily graham cracker crumbs are easy to clean up. 

Our friendly visitor

There are lots of squirrels around here.  This squirrel is playing on our patio.  Kyler loves to look for them.  We also have wild turkeys that wonder around.  Kyler will ask, "Where da tur go?" (Where did the turkeys go?).  Kyler know what sounds many animals make.  Some of them are cat, sheep, duck, alligator, owl, horse, lizard, cow, turkey, bird, snake, and monkey.

We love Three Day Weekends!

We really enjoyed this last three day weekend.  We spent part of it at home, and the other part with some of Hyrum's family.  It was so nice to relax.

 Kyler loves to pretend to talk on the phone.  Here he is using a water bottle as his phone.

 Happy kiddo

 Isn't he cute?!

Christmas Decorations

 We got another camera!  Just in time to take pictures of our Christmas decorations and then take them down.  You can see our Christmas tree in the picture below, right by Hyrum's elbow.

Christmas

We had a wonderful holiday season.  Right before it began our camera broke so sadly we don't have many pictures.  But we did get a new camera for Christmas!  That was pretty exciting!  We had so much fun visiting family and showing Kyler off.  There are some benefits with being a student.  Our vacation could be several weeks long while school was out, so that was pretty fun.  Hyrum worked at the beginning of the break, but then we were just able to play.

Some highlights of the trip were seeing family, feeding a lama, reading and watching movies, riding a "sleigh" to see about 100 elk (there was no snow, so it had tires), relaxing, and seeing family.  Another really big highlight was singing Christmas songs at an assistant living home, particularly the Alzheimer's ward.

Through it all, Kyler was the cute, happy boy that he generally is.  He loved exploring each new placed we visited.  He even found a way so sneak past everyone and play with the toilet paper.