My little "Fellas"

Tonight the kids were upstairs getting ready for bed while I cleaned up the kitchen.  When I went up to check on the progress, Kyler was playing with his toy bug collection.  As soon as I walked in he said, "I am just getting my little fellas ready for bed."  It was so cute to watch him, he was so particular about where each of them went in the jar.  After he got them all put away I put them in the closet on the toy shelf while he went in to the bathroom.  When he came out, he asked where they were.  I told him they were in the closet, he went and got them out and said, "My little fellas want to sleep by me tonight, and they want me to read them a story."  After we finished with our story and the kids were ready for bed Kyler began to read to his little fellas.  I went to get ready for bed and when I came back, Kyler was out. 

You can't see it very well, but he has his book in front of his pillow, we must have fallen asleep mid-sentence!  

Just as a side note, we have the best kids ever.  We are so grateful for them and their own little personalities.  Bryn is such a little princess and so sweet and kind.  She is always thinking of others and wants to do what is right.  And on top of all her beauty inside, she is so beautiful on the outside.  We love her so much.  Kyler is a very energetic little boy and I would not want him to be any other way.  He is so much fun, and loves to play.  He is a good boy and always wants everyone to be happy.  He is very sensitive if he thinks you are made at him, and has a very tender heart.  He definitely has a little attitude, especially when he gets into "character" but like I said we would not want him to be any other way.  They are both perfect.  Both very different, but both perfect.  

All about photography.....

In my last post I mentioned how I have been learning, or trying to learn photography. I think it is wearing off on Bryn more that I thought, tonight for dinner, she couldn't even finish her dinner because she wanted to get a picture of the sunset. She was facing the sliding door while she was eating and it was just pulling her out! She said she was done after about 3 bites, so I told her to go take the picture and then come back and eat. She got the picture and then finished everything on her plate!!! Then she went around the house while Erick and I cleaned up dinner and took pictures of EVERYTHING. She was pretending that she was in a photo contest and had to have the best picture to submit. I love it, and think it is really cute, but when she gets into something she is full speed ahead!
I started another blog to hold all my photos, I am hoping to eventually be able to make some money doing this, so I figured it would be easier to start it now and have it the way I want it to be when that time comes. The link is on my side bar, check it out and let me know what you think...

http://leslieandersonphoto.blogspot.com

Update

I don't know what my problem has been lately.  I am finding myself at the end of the day wishing there were about 4 more hours in the day.  Unfortunately, my blog seems to be what keeps getting put on the back-burner during the shortage of time ;0) 

So by way of a quick update to get back on track of blogging our lives:

Erick is spending ALL of his time at the school.  He has his mini 2 Exam coming up a week from Monday.  When he is not at the school, he is playing b-ball with the guys from school.  

Bryn is at such a fun age right now.  She just lost

 her second tooth and is getting one in place of the first one she lost.  She is in the "What if" stage.  Everything she sees or hears she will say, "What if that tree fell on the car?"  or "What if I ate all my food and then went to bed."  About 90% of her sentences start this way.  It is so fun to see her mind working and thinking about so many things around her.  She is such a great helper around the house and is always helping me with Kyler.  She is mostly happy, but has her moments when a slight attitude creeps out.  Erick and I are still debating on where she gets it from!

Kyler is also at a fun stage, he is in the "pretend" stage.  I can't even count the times in a day that I hear him say, "Pretend that I was spiderman and you said; look, it's spiderman"  or something that includes pretend.  He is really into dressing up.  Between Batman and Spiderman we always have a superhero at our house.  He loves to play any sport and is really good at all of them.  We love Kyler and his energy and personality.  He keeps us on our toes.

I just got home from a surprise visit to Utah.  I went for Trent and McKenzie's wedding.  It was so fun to show up and surprise everyone.  The weekend went way to fast, we were so busy the whole time with everything going on, but I was ready to get home and see the kids!  The wedding was beautiful.  They make a perfect couple and compliment each other very well.  We are very excited to add McKenzie to our family.  The kids keep calling her their "NEW" aunt.  The other day Kyler asked if Trent was his new aunt as well.  After I quit laughing, I explained that Trent was his uncle, and has been since he was born.  I think it is still sinking in!  

The kids and I are staying very busy and having a lot of fun.  We don't have much time left on the island and we are all really going to miss it.  We have made some great friends and wonderful memories.  However, we are also excited to be back stateside and moving forward on this adventure.  

I have a friend who is teaching me everything she knows about photography.  She is an amazing wedding photographer.  We have taken pictures of my own personal, PERFECT model, Bryn.  We also have plans to take a bunch more, so I will be posting those here as I take them.  I am very excited about it and have had so much fun doing it.  Preview below.....

So, I am now officially back to regularly blogging and keeping everyone up to date on our life!

 

"I WON!!!!"

My kids all love the "traps" at the grocery store! You all know them, they are the coin machines that give you candy or the 25 cent rings or sticky hands. Basically the toys that break before you even get home from the store. Every time we go to the store, they both say, "If we are really good today, can we have a quarter?" Well recently Kyler has discovered the tattoo machine. Actually he found it about 3 months ago. The thing is, the tattoo machine costs 50 cents instead of the 25 cents. So now they ask for 50 cents if they are good. Kyler will ALWAYS go for the tattoos and Bryn will ALWAYS go for one quarter for candy and one quarter for the toy machine. It is so funny to watch!
As we all know, they display the "BEST" tattoos in the window of the machine and then never give you the ones you can see until yesterday, we went to the store and once again, the kids ask, "If we are really good can we have 50 cents?" Of course they were great the whole time and got their 50 cents. Erick and I was paying and loading the cart and all of a sudden Kyler started screaming, "I WON, I WON!!! I got Spiderman." It was so loud and he was so excited. It litterally sounded like he had won the lottery. And I actually think in "little boy world" that was what happened yeterday! He was so happy and excited. As we left the store (after all the workers saw what he had won!) he was walking with a strut and acting like he was the king of the world. It was so funny. So we came home and put them on. After I got them on he said, "Mom, now go get a knife and thread and sew this on me so it will NEVER, EVER, EVER come off, okay?" I don't know what we are going to do when it does wear off and we never win on that machine again.