THE BAGLEY FAMILY

Easter!

2010-05-04T21:55:00.005-05:00

Easter was a lot of fun this year. It was actually nice outside, which made it even better! Aubree is old enough to understand a little more what was going on. And of course she had Kylee to help show her what to do!

Our cute Aubree

Here's Kylee and Aubree posing in their Easter dresses. (which were also the dresses they wore to my brother's wedding, it's nice to get a few uses out of them!)

Pretty Kylee

They were excited to see that the Easter Bunny came to visit!

Kylee showing off her eggs she found

Aubree's checking out what the Easter Bunny left for her

They loved their bouncy balls the best!

Cheese!

The girls loved dying their Easter eggs. Kylee was such a pro this year!

Here they are all dyed

Aubree's getting ready to decorate the eggs

Kylee made silly faces on her eggs with some crazy hair

Happy Valentine's Day!!

2010-02-16T21:43:00.002-06:00

Our Cute Valentine Girls!! Here are Kylee and Aubree wearing their matching skirts that I made for them. With the help of my friend, of course! My friend is so great at sewing, she made some skirts like these for her daugthers, and was nice enough to help me make some for my girls. She also sewed their initials on their shirts, and make the cute flower corsages. I definitely think they make some cute Valentine's!

Our Cutie, Aubree, she loves saying cheese for pictures!!

Our Sweetie, Kylee. She loves having her initial on her shirt!

Go Yankees!! Kylee and Aubree love watching the Yankees play with their dad! Kylee thought they needed a picture wearing dad's hats.

Aubree loves when Brian puts her way high in the air like this. She thinks it is so fun! And wants to do it over and over again.

We celebrated Valentine's with Pat & Wendy and their kids!

Here are Kylee and cousin Brayli

The girls are getting ready to start our favorite "licorice" game!

Aubree doesn't want to be left out, she didn't quite understand the game, but she sure loved the licorice!

Now it's time for the boys to go. I think Trent was the Champ this year!

Christmas Eve & Christmas!

2010-01-04T15:05:00.006-06:00

We had such a great Christmas Eve and Christmas this year! Brian's family came over for dinner on Christmas Eve. We were only missing one brother, and his wife. And one sister and her husband. So we had a full house! After dinner we had a little program, and then the kids did a talent show. It was fun having everyone over to our house this year. I was mostly excited to be able to use my Christmas plates, and dishes!

Here is Aubree giving cousin Felicity kisses. They are so cute!!

Brian's family has a fun tradition that we were still able to do. Brian's dad makes everyone a cup of pudding, and in one of the cups he hides a nickel, or a quarter. And who ever gets the nickel gets to open up one present. Everyone loves digging in their pudding trying to find the nickel! This year Kylee was the lucky winner, this was the first time she had gotten the nickel!
Grandma Bagley brought the present over for the winner, a huge bag of m&m's! She was so excited!

Kylee holding Felicity

After everyone left we left the girls each open a present from us. They each got some new jammies and slippers.

Here is Aubree trying to open her present.

Our cute girls in their new jammies and slippers!

Aubree on Christmas morning going through her stocking.

Kylee is pretty excited at what she is finding!

Showing off some new earrings and a necklace.

This is an ornament that Kylee made for me and Brian at her preschool.

Aubree loves dogs and purses. She's showing off her dog in a purse, and her other for real puppy.

And the girls favorite present! Their barbie jeep. This was the one thing Kylee wanted most of all. Santa hid it downstairs for the girls to find. They were both pretty excited. Too bad they aren't able to use it outside yet. Too much snow!

We finally made it to Brian's parents house. We didn't think we were going to make it with all the snow. We couldn't drive through their neighborhood. So we had to park our car at a gas station and Pat & Wendy had to take us to their house in their SUV. I'm glad we were able to make it, we sure had a fun time with everyone there!

Here is Aubree trying to help hand out some presents.

Aubree is opening some more jammies from Grandma & Grandpa

Here is Kylee showing off her new jammies too!

All the Bagley grandkids, plus one that is due this May!

Our fun and busy December

2010-01-03T21:10:00.007-06:00

December was a very busy, and very fun month for our family! After we came home from Gillette for Thanksgiving we decided to put our tree up. Kylee was a big help this year, and really did a good job!Me and my girls
Brian's helping Kylee put the star on top

This year we even got to see some of Santa's reindeer!! Here is Kylee petting Dancer, and the other one is Prancer. Kylee thought this was pretty neat to get to pet Santa's actual reindeer!

Brayli, Kylee, Briegan and Aubree, sitting in a sleigh just like Santa's.

Aubree was still a little too scared to pet them by her self, so Daddy tried to help her out.

Santa Claus wasn't there, but we did get to meet Mrs. Claus, the girls had a ton of questions to ask her!!

The night before Christmas Eve we meet Brian's family at the mall and the kids were able to sit on Santa's lap. Here are all the Bagley grandkids.

Kylee definitely wasn't scared of Santa this year. She even drew him a cute picture to take home with him!

Aubree wasn't scared of Santa either this year! She just walked right up to him and sat on him lap! But she still wasn't too sure about him. She wouldn't even smile!!

Kylee and Aubree also were able to see another one of Santa's helpers at Kylee's preschool. Here is Kylee telling him everything that she wants.

Again Aubree wasn't scared, just didn't quite know what to think. She just gave him a look like he was crazy!

And of course playing in the snow! We have already gotten so much snow this year!! And I'm pretty sure it's going to stick around until May, which doesn't make me very happy! But at least the girls enjoy playing in it!

Aubree just loved being outside and playing in the snow! She was so mad when we finally made her come inside to warm up.

Kylee was trying to make a snow angel.

Kylee and Aubree is front of our huge snow drift!

Another one of Kylee standing on top of the drift.

Annie

2010-01-03T20:45:00.004-06:00

A few weeks ago me and Kylee went to see the play, "Annie". We went with two of her good friends and their moms, who are also my good friends! It was so much fun. Kylee was so excited to get all dressed up, and to let me curl her hair just like Annie. She had watched the movie a few times, and loved it. The play was a little different then the movie, but was still pretty cute. Kylee and her friends loved it!!

Here's Kylee all dressed up and ready to go!

Kylee and Aubree posing, Aubree couldn't let Kylee be the only one having her picture taken. She loves saying cheese when you take her picture.
Kylee and her friends, Alivia and Ellie

Kylee was able to meet and talk with Annie, she thought this was the best!!

They even got to meet Daddy Warbucks, and ask him some questions.

What a fun night. Hopefully we can do it again!!

Thanksgiving!

2009-12-08T11:38:00.005-06:00

This year was our turn to go to Gillette for Thanksgiving. It was so much fun to be with all my family. This was the 1st Thanksgiving in a few years that we were all together. My little brother Brodie also brought his finance for us to meet. She is so great, and we are excited to have her as part of our family!!

Kylee's preschool had a Thanksgiving feast. Here is Kylee and her friend Ellie dressed up as Indians for their feast! My sister, Amber and her son Nicholas

My brother Broc, and his wife, Amy

My sister, Summer, holding Amber's new baby, Sara. And Summer's husband, Rich and youngest daughter, Madison.

I gave my dad his Christmas present early, so I could see him open it up. He is always making fun of Snugglies, so I thought it would be funny to get one for him. And I had my friend sew BYU on it so he can wear it during games!! He thought it was pretty funny, but I don't think he will be wearing it any time soon!

His first reaction after opening it up!

My little brother, Brodie and his cute finance, Rochelle with Aubree.

My mom and Kylee holding Sara.

My parents with their 3 youngest grandkids.

All the grandkids love their grandma!

My sisters, with the youngest kids.

I guess I didn't get any pictures of me and Brian this year. I guess that's what happens when I'm the one always taking them! Hopefully for Chirstmas I can get us in some!

Fall Fun

2009-12-08T11:23:00.004-06:00

Here are some pictures that we took a few weeks ago. It was a perfect Fall day! The girls loved playing in the leaves, and could of played forever!! Cute sisters
Our beautiful Kylee

So much fun!

Look out Kylee!

Our Family

This is my favorite picture of Kylee, I love her eyes!!

Our cute little Aubree

All of us again

Trick-or-Treat

2009-11-02T14:54:00.006-06:00

Halloween was so much fun this year!! Both of the girls loved it! And had both already worn their costumes at least 4 or 5 times already, between Kylee's preschool, trick or treating at Brian's work, and our ward party, the girls definitely knew what they were doing! To make it more fun my sister, Amber her husband, and two kids were here visiting. We were able to see their cute kids in their costumes.

Here is my cute sister and my custest little niece, Sarah. This was the first time we had meet Sarah. She is such a sweet and beautiful baby!!

Here's me and Kylee with Sarah

Baby Sarah in her flower costume

Cousin Nicholas as a bear, and Aubree as a lady bug

This was the best picture I could get of all 4 kids!

Kylee and Aubree ready to go trick-or-treating. We were really lucky this year to have such great weather! The night before was freezing, but Halloween we hardly had to get bundled up.

Our beautiful "scary" witch Kylee

Dad and his girls

Our little family

Cutie Aubree-bug

Grandma Bagley and Aubree

Kylee and cousin Briegan, two cute little witches

The three custest witches ever!!

All 4 of the girls, they are ready to go!

Grandma Bagley with her granddaughters, except for Felicity, who was at home helping her parents hand out candy.

Aubree took a break to enjoy a sucker

Showing off their candy. They got way too much!! But they loved it!

Carving Pumpkins

2009-10-26T21:41:00.006-05:00

Tonight for FHE we carved our pumpkins! This year we got all our pumpkins from my friend, Brenda, who was able to get a whole bunch for free, thanks again!! Kylee was so excited all day to finally get to carve her pumpkin. Aubree still didn't know exactly what was going on, but she seemed to have fun anyways!Here's our cute girls getting ready to carve their pumpkins!

Kylee was a pro this year and dug right in
It took Aubree a little while but finally she got the hang of it!

Daddy and the girls

Me and the girls getting all messy

Kylee drew her own face on her pumpkin, and helped me carve it out.

All done! Can you tell what they are? Mine is the witch, Kylee's is the one in the middle and Brian's is some sort of monster

Aubree was in bed by the time we finished, so she had to miss the outside pictures. Hopefully we can get one of her on Halloween.

Cute litte Kylee

Vala's Pumpkin Patch

2009-10-19T14:52:00.007-05:00

On Thursday we went to Vala's Pumpkin Patch with Brian's sister, Wendy and her family, and Grandma Bagley. It was pretty cold all day, but at least it didn't rain on us like last year. We had a lot of fun. Kylee got so excited when we told her we were going, and Aubree actually was old enough this year to enjoy it!

Here is Grandma Bagley with Kylee and Aubree at the entrance to Vala's.

Briegan, Kylee and Brayli watching the pumpkin eating dragon
Our two cute girls all bundled up

Princess Kylee

Dad and Aubree

Trent, Aubree, Kylee and Briegan getting ready for the tractor ride

Me, Brian and Aubree on the tractor ride

Aubree loved all the pumpkins there!

Kylee and Briegan on the hayrack ride

Wendy, Pat and Grandma

Brayli and Aubree on the hayrack ride

Kylee and Aubree sitting on the haystacks on the ride

Kylee had fun feeding the camel

This goat was so hungry he jumped out of the cage so Kylee could feed him her food!

Aubree thought it was pretty fun feeding the goats

I'm glad she was wearing gloves, it helped keep the germs off!

Kylee riding her pony, I think this was her favorite

Aubree's first time riding a pony, she thought it was pretty fun!

All the girls on the train ride

Kylee jumping on the big bouncer

Aubree trying to jump too

Kylee's pig won the pig race, so she won this pig nose. She was nice and let Aubree try it on too!

Kylee with her nose she won

Grandma Bagley and Tyler sitting around the bonfire

Kylee trying to stay warm by the fire

Brian, me and Aubree getting ready to roast our hotdogs. Thank goodness for our bonfire, it kept us nice and warm!

Welcome Back Brodie!!!!!

2009-09-12T21:52:00.004-05:00

My little brother, Brodie is home from his mission!! He actually came home Aug. 15th, but I've been a little behind with blogging. I still can't believe how fast these past 2 years have gone. It was so fun to see Brod again. It is weird to see him all grown up now!! We were joking before we went to pick him up at the airport how funny it would be if we had forgotten him, like the movie RM, if anyone has seen it you know what I'm talking about!! But anyways in Gillette the airport is so small and the planes are always late. We were all in different cars, and all left about the same time. While we were driving there was a small plane flying over head. We thought there was no way that could be Brodie's plan, because they are never on time. But yes, it was his plane. So here comes Brodie coming off the plane, probably expecting a big welcoming and no one is there to greet him! Luckily my other brother, Broc and his family walked in just in time to see him. Then shortly after my parents made it. Me and my two sisters were a little bit more behind. Our husbands dropped us off so we could go running in. I'm sure we looked a little crazy! But at least we all made it. I'm sure it wasn't quite the welcoming Brodie thought it was going to be, but we are so glad that he is HOME again!!!

Brodie and my mom hugging for the first time!

My parents and Brodie

Brodie and dad hugging

Look how happy they are!!

Dad and Brodie

Here they are waiting for the rest of us to get there

Broc's kids made Brodie this cool banner

Brodie with all his nieces and nephews, expect Nicholas who was asleep

Here is my family all together again!! This was the first time in at least 4 years!

The three B's, Broc, Big Brodie and Little Brodie

Here's Brodie checking out his new car, pretty sweet!

My sister, Summer, me and Broc waiting for Brodie at our parents house.

Soccer & School

2009-09-01T15:31:00.004-05:00

Now that Kylee is 4 she is able to do lots of fun activities at the YMCA. She has already done tumbling, and swimming, so we thought it would be fun to have her try soccer. She wasn't as excited at first. When I first told her she was going to play soccer, she said, No that's for boys. We finally had her convinced that soccer was for boys and girls. We told her we would buy her a soccer ball, she thought that sounded pretty cool, so was happy to play after that! I am actually the coach of her team, nobody else volunteered to coach. I really wanted her to play so I volunteered to be the coach, which I know nothing about soccer. But with 4 years old how much do you really need to know anyway?! Kylee loves her new soccer ball. Her favorite was practicing kicking it in the goal!

She was pretty timid when we first started scrimmaging. But towards the end she made me hold her hand and run with her, and she was able to kick the ball a few times that way! I think all the kids loved the snack the most!

Kylee started pre-school today!! She calls this her BIG school, not her little school like what she did last year. This is the real thing! She was really excited to start school she even woke up extra early to remind me that she had school today! She is really excited because some of her good friends are going to the same school as her.

Kylee and Aubree getting ready to leave

Here is Kylee with two of her friends, Ellie and Aliva.

Sitting down and doing puzzles, they look like such big girls!!

15 Months Old

2009-08-21T21:29:00.003-05:00

Aubreed turned 15th months old on the 16th. She is getting so big, and her personality is showing more and more each day. She now weighs 23 lbs. and is in the 59th pecentile. And is 32 in. long, which is the 93rd percentile. It looks like she will be nice and tall just like Kylee! Also about a month ago she finally cut her first tooth! She now has two on the bottom and one on the top. Here are a few pictures of what Aubree likes to do lately.

Aubree loves being outside, here she is trying to get outside. She would be out there all day long if we would let her!

Aubree is now walking all over the place! She has actually been walking for about a month now. But now she is walking much more than crawling, and loves chasing after her big sister.

Aubree loves this little blue chair of Kylee's. I found her just hanging out in it one day drinking her milk. She thinks it's pretty fun to sit in!

Just hanging out

Aubree LOVES books! She loves going to her basket and pulling books out, then bringing them to us to read to her, over and over again. Here is Brian reading to the girls.

Aubree loves getting in to everything, and makes messes where ever she goes. Lately she likes opening the cabinets and pulling out all the bowls and tupperware. She likes sitting inside, and likes to play hide-n-seek with Kylee.

Kylee and Aubree both trying to hide!

We love having Aubree as part of our family. She is a busy, busy girl, and doesn't like being in one spot for too long. She loves exploring everything around her and like I said before loves making messes where ever she is!

Kylee's Flip Flop Birthday Bash!

2009-07-30T22:07:00.005-05:00

For Kylee's 4th birthday she really wanted to have a friend party. We decided to have it at a splash park near by. I found a cute flip flop cake that I wanted to try to make. And we found a cute flip flop pinata while we were in Gillette. So we decided to have a Flip Flop party! It was a pretty windy day and not too hot, but the kids didn't seem to mind, they still had fun running and playing in the water. It was really nice because we had the park all to ourselves!

Here are the flip flop invitations that we made to send to Kylee's friends. They were pretty easy to make. I just traced one of Kylee's flip flops, then glued the ribbon down and put a foam flower sticker on top!

Here's the Flip Flop cake. It didn't turn out quite how I wanted, but Kylee was pretty happy with it!

Kylee sitting by her Flip Flop cake and pinata, waiting for her party to start!

Kylee trying hard to break open the pinata

Here she goes again!

After all the kids had a turn trying to break open the pinata, we finally had to have one of the kids dad break it open for us! I think they were all pretty excited to see all the candy!

Collecting all the candy

Kylee's favorite was opening the presents!

She got a lot of new fun toys to play with

Here she is with her cake while we were singing Happy Birthday!

Aubree loved the sucker that she got from the pinata!

Kylee and her two friends, Hailey and Victoria

Kylee, Cassidy and Braedyn

Happy Birthday to our Sweet Kylee!!

2009-07-06T21:58:00.006-05:00

Kylee turned 4 years old today!! I can't believe that we have a 4 year old now, it seriously went by way too fast! Kylee is such a sweet special little girl! She is a very caring, helpful, loving, kind little girl. She loves to sing songs, ride her bike, go on walks, pretty much do anything outside! She is such a great big sister, and really is so kind and caring with Aubree. We are so lucky to have Kylee as our sweet daughter!

Here is Kylee after Aubree and I woke her up, she was a sleepy head today. We finally had to wake her up around 9:00. She was pretty excited when we were saying Happy Birthday!

Here is Kylee in her new birthday dress

I asked Kylee what she wanted to do today to have fun for her birthday. She thought it would be fun to have her cousin's Brayli and Briegan come over and play. They had such a fun time today! Here they are hanging out in Kylee's pool.

Here they are relaxing and eating some cookies

They had fun jumping on the trampoline, and spraying each other with the hose

Kylee decided that for dinner she wanted to go to Burger King. Brian kept trying to talk her in to something different, but she really wanted Burger King! Here are the girls wearing their crowns!

Dad and the birthday girl

Kylee and Aubree had fun playing in the play place. I was surprised at how brave Aubree was, she just climbed right up the stairs and was following Kylee all through the tubes!

Here they go up the tunnel

Aubree actually climbed all the way to the top with Kylee's help! It took awhile but Kylee was finally able to get Aubree down the slide!

As soon as they got off the slide Aubree hurried and climbed back up the stairs and climbed all the way to the top again!

But this time Aubree got stuck, and Kylee couldn't get her to come down. I had to climb all the way up the dirty, smelly tubes to get her down! I don't know if you can tell in this picture, but Aubree is definitely not happy to have to come down with me!

After dinner Kylee opened up a present that Aubree got for her!

Here she is with her barbie doll and new dress

Since I am making a cake for her friend party, Kylee decided that she wanted some cupcakes. We just took her to Wal-mart and let her pick out whatever she wanted.

Blowing out all 4 candles!

This year for both of the girls present we decided to get them a trampoline. We used some of the birthday money that they had gotten from my family, and the rest was from us. Brian set it up while we were in Wyoming visiting my family, so the girls would be surprised! When we came home Kylee couldn't believe that she had gotten her very own trampoline. She was pretty excited! Aubree loves it too, she loves to sit there and try to bounce, or just crawl back and forth and laugh!

Kylee and Aubree with their birthday present!

4th of July

2009-07-06T13:48:00.005-05:00

We had a pretty fun 4th of July this year. We didn't do a whole lot during the day, it was kinda cold and chilly out. We did take the girls on a walk, which they thought was pretty fun! Then that night we went over to Pat & Wendy's for a BBQ, and fireworks. All of Brian's brothers and sisters even came up for the weekend, they surprised everyone, it was a lot of fun to have everyone together again!

Here are my 4th of July girls after our walk! This is the only good picture I could get of them both looking at the camera.

Kylee girl! She is always happy and smiling, well most of the time!!
Aubree's not quite sure what's going on! One of the only pictures of her not crying!

This was pretty much how Aubree has been the last couple of days! She is finally getting her 1st teeth. I think there are either 3 or 4 coming through all at once, that definitely can't feel good! We hope the teething stops soon so we can have our sweet Aubree back!!!

Still being crabby!!

Kylee, Aubree and cousin Brayli

Kylee and Briegan throwing their snaps on the ground

Grandma Bagley and Aubree

Cute cousins

Trent, Briegan and Kylee, she's not really liking being held!

Our Family

On Brian's side we have 4 July birthdays. We celebrated all of them on the 4th. We have Kylee's on the 6th, Grandpa's on the 11th, Grandma's on the 15th, and Tyler on the 26th! It was fun celebrating them all together!

Yay! Another Polly pocket, she can't get enough of Polly pocket!

Kylee's big tub of cheese balls from Grandma & Grandpa. This is a tradition that they give each grandkid on their birthday, pretty fun!

Brian's sisters, Wendy & Mandi with Aubree

All the Bagley girls, minus Kylee, Brayli and Briegan

Kylee had fun doing the sparklers

Brian's other sister, Ashley with Kylee and Brayli watching the fireworks

The girls thought the fireworks were a little loud and bright!!

A week in Wyoming!

2009-07-05T13:01:00.008-05:00

Me and the girls were able to go to Gillette and spend a week with my family. We had a lot of fun and had a week full of fun things!! The first few days were a little chilly and rainy, but finally the sun came out and we were able to go to my sister's house and use their new water slide in their backyard. Kylee thought it was a lot of fun!!

Here is Kylee with two of her cousins, Jesilyn and Madison

Here's Kylee climbing up the water slide, it is huge!
Going down the slide with Madison

Aubree didn't go on the slide but she had fun playing in the yard with all their toys. She really liked driving this car!

One of the rainy days we thought it would be fun to go bowling. I was surprised at how well Kylee did. I think she got one of the higher scores out of the kids! I thought Kylee looked pretty cute with her bowling shoes on!

Here is Grandma with Kylee, Aubree and Madison

My grandma was also in Gillette for a few days visiting. Kylee was a little shy around her great-grandma

We were able to go to a couple of public pools that they have. These were really fun to go to. Aubree loved the water, and loved splashing around.

Kylee with cousins, Payton, Madison & Jesilyn

Aubree playing with one of the fountains

We even had a "pretend" birthday party for Kylee. That's what she kept calling it, her "pretend party." She thought it was pretty neat to get to have a party even though it wasn't really her birthday yet! Here she is with her cute little cake!

Trying to blow out all the candles

Me and the girls with Kylee's birthday balloons

Madison and Kylee getting ready to open presents

She got a fun little horse and a barn to put it in

She was excited to get a Polly pocket!

She loves her little tea party set

Holding her birthday cards that had money inside!

On one of the colder days I showed my sister how to make these head bands for her girls with the flowers on them. Her boys thought they needed to wear one too!! They all wanted to model their head bands!

Here is my older brother Broc, and Aubree

Me, Broc and Aubree

My sister, Summer, with her husband and two of her kids, and of course Aubree(who really wanted to play with the balloon) Summer turned 30 on Father's Day, so we had an Over the Hill party for her!

Here is me and Aubree with my oldest sister, Amber and her husband, Jonathan

Aubree and cousin Nicholas are only 2 days apart. They didn't really know how to play with each other quite yet, but in the next few months it will be fun for them!! Here they are sharing a snack, Aubree kept trying to take Nicholas pancakes, but he was nice and was willing to share. I thought they were pretty cute!!

Yummy food!!

At the end of the week Kylee and Aubree were exhausted! Here they are relaxing on grandma and grandpa's bed!

Kylee's got her hair cut!

2009-06-10T13:57:00.005-05:00

Yesterday my friend, Kami cut Kylee's hair! It was getting so long, and so hard to deal with. Kylee hated combing it, or letting me do anything to it. I have trimmed it before, and Brian's sister, Mandi has trimmed it once or twice before. But this time we wanted to chop it off. Not all the way, just to her shoulders! I didn't realize how much hair she had! I guess she is pretty lucky to have such long thick hair. Maybe when she gets a little older it will be easier to take care of. But for now we like it short!!

Here's Kylee the night before she got it cut.

I can't believe how long it was! Look at all that hair!
Here is the first snip

Kylee holding her first strand of hair

She did great the whole time!

Here is Kylee's first reaction to seeing her new hair!! Hopefully you can tell, she has a huge smile on her face!

She just kept saying, I have short hair now! She was pretty excited!

I think she looks older now, not so much my little baby, but my big girl!

Here is the pile of her hair, she saved it to show Brian, she was pretty proud!

Here is Kami, her daughter Aliva, and Kylee. I wanted Kylee to remember who gave her, her first major hair cut! (sorry Kami, hopefully you don't mind me putting this picture on here!)

Aubree's 1st Birthday!!!

2009-05-17T16:24:00.010-05:00

Aubree turned 1 yesterday!! It was fun having her birthday on a Saturday, because Brian was able to spend the whole day with us! I don't think Aubree really understood what was going on, but I think she liked all the attention! She would get a big smile every time we would say

" Happy Birthday Aubree!" Or call her the birthday girl. We went and got her pictures taken in the same birthday dress that Kylee wore when she turned 1. Then we had Brian's family over for dinner and cake. I still can't believe Aubree is really 1, this year really did fly by fast. I was getting worried because Aubree was crawling yet, but last Sunday she actually starting crawling! Now she is getting in to everything and making more messes than ever! She is starting to pull herself up and stand while holding on to things. She likes to wave bye bye and her new favorite word is uh-oh. She loves dropping everything on the floor then saying uh-oh! We love Aubree so much, and are so lucky to have her part of our family!!! She had fun riding around in the wagon before her party
Here is the Ladybug cake I made. I wanted it to be more red, but ran out of red food coloring.

Aubree really wanted her cake!
Here she is by her presents
Opening some clothes from Grandma Bagley

Here's her fun pengiun toy from Jason & Eunice
She loved trying to rip all the paper off
Opening her fun present from Pat & Wendy
Aubree loved trying to stand on all the boxes
Kylee made Aubree a special present all by herself
Aubree really liked her present that Kylee made
Kylee drew a picture of Aubree and a picture of herself! I think she did a pretty good job, they turned out really cute!
Brayli is reading Aubree's new books to her
Singing Happy Birthday
The first time trying out the cake
Aubree's first taste
She definitely loved the cake, she knew just what to do!
Getting more messy
Big Smile!!!
Aubree trying out her new toys

Preschool Graduate

2009-05-14T15:50:00.005-05:00

Kylee had her preschool graduation party today! She loved going to preschool this year, and especially loved when it was at our house! She loves all her preschool friends and is always talking about them. She had fun at her party today, she still keeps asking me what a graduation means?! They had cute little packets for the kids to draw pictures of themselves, their families and their friends. They drew their favorite animal, Kylee's was a donkey, which surprised me a little! They also drew their favorite food and holiday. Then all the kids sang a cute little song. And all recieved a certificate with their names on it along with a balloon and bucket of treats. I think everyone had a fun time!

Here is Kylee and her friend Alivia

Kylee with her bucket of goodies and balloon
Kylee and Aubree outside before the party

Here is the picture that Kylee drew of herself

Waving hi!

All the prescool graduates!

Kylee enjoying some treats

Kylee, me and Aubree, who is doing her fake little cry

How Big is Aubree??

2009-05-08T22:35:00.003-05:00

SO BIG!!!!

Lately whenever you ask Aubree how big she is, she raises her hands high above her head. It is so cute! Sometimes she will only raise one arm, or just raise her arms half way up. I think she does it just so she can see our reactions. Kylee gets really excited for Aubree and starts clapping and makes her do it over and over again!!

Swimming

2009-05-08T22:05:00.004-05:00

Kylee has started swimming lessons again. We tried it a few months ago and it didn't go so well. Kylee was still pretty scared of the water, and hated getting her face wet. We thought we would let her take and break and try it again. Luckily so far this time is going much better! She still thinks that her swim suit is too tight, so we wait until we get to the Y to put it on, and that seems to work for Kylee! She is still scared to jump in the water, because of getting water in her eyes. I told her to just make sure she keeps her eyes closed tight, and so far that is also working! She is doing really well, and having fun. Maybe by the time we get to go swimming this summer she will be able to go all by herself without her life jacket!!

This picture doesn't go with the swimming. I just thought it was a really cute picture of Kylee!

Cute Girls!!

2009-05-08T21:58:00.002-05:00

Here are just a few recent pictures of Kylee and Aubree. They love having fun and playing with each other! Hopefully they will be the best of friends!

Daren & Ashley got Married!!

2009-04-26T22:05:00.009-05:00

Brian's youngest sister, Ashley got married yesterday!! This was the last wedding for the Bagley kids, and the last 4 weddings all happened in the last 14 months! It has been a busy 14 months, but also a lot of fun! It has been especially nice since they have all gotten married here in Omaha, so we haven't had to travel for any of them. These pictures are all out of order, starting with the reception first. Ashley was such a beautiful bride! It was a little disappointing how cold it was, especially since it was 87 degrees the day before. At least we were still able to get some good pictures taken outside of the temple before the rain started and before we all got too cold. It was such a fun day, and so great to see how happy Ashley and Daren are together!! Grandma Bagley with her 4 grand daughters, with one on the way in August!
Aunt Mandi, and the other Aunt Ashley with Aubree

Mandi & Ashley, they are only 11 months apart!

Their colors were lime green and hot pink. I think their cake turned out great! I loved the bright colors!

Ashley with her nieces all dressed in white

Kylee and Aubree in their pretty dresses

Ashley with her mom and dad

Ash and her mom

Me and Kylee, she was starting to get a little cold!

Brian and me

Grandpa Bagley keeping the girls warm

Kylee with grandpa, grandma and Wendy

Pretty Kylee

Cute little cousins

Cute couple

Here are Mr. & Mrs. Daren Judd

Our little family. Aubree was more interested in all the pretty flowers! Me and Aubree

Brian, me and Aubree waiting for Ashley and Daren to come out of the temple

Brian and Aubree

Pretty little Kylee getting ready to go to the wedding

Here we are the night before the wedding. They had a bbq for both families at Brian's parents house. I thought Kylee looked pretty cute with her curlers in, she looks like a little old lady!

Last night of their beginning two Ashley Bagleys! It does get a little confusing, but now we have 1 Ashley Bagley and 1 Ashley Judd!!

EASTER

2009-04-23T10:07:00.006-05:00

We had a fun and busy Easter weekend, filled with lots of fun Easter activities. On Saturday we started by going to Hy-Vee. They had a huge area filled with hay which had candy hidden in. They split the kids into age groups, so Kylee was able to go first to look for the candy. At first she really didn't know what to do, I had to go in there and help her dig around, she did pretty well and found some good treats!

Kylee showing off her treats!

Here she is searching through the hay looking for candy After the egg hunt at Hy-Vee, Wendy invited us to go to a fun park about 20 miles away. The weather was so nice, we had a picnic, and then went to feed to ducks. Kylee thought was was great! Then we hid some easter eggs around for the kids to find.

Here is Kylee feeding the ducks

Brian and Aubree having fun finding all the ducks

Brayli and Kylee throwing bread to the ducks

Kylee found lots of eggs!

All the girls looking at their eggs

She even found a dollar!

Brian and his girls

Aubree loves the swing, she just loves being outside!

Saturday night the Easter Bunny came to our house and left some fun treats for the girls! Kylee was really excited for the Easter Bunny this year. And had a lot of questions for me, where does the Easter Bunny live? How does he get inside our house? Is the Easter Bunny a boy or a girl? How does the Easter Bunny get here? Some of these I had never thought of before, so I wasn't exactly sure what to say, but Kylee seemed okay with my answers!

Aubree even had fun finding some eggs

Here is Aubree trying to get more eggs

Kylee knew just what to do, she found all the eggs pretty quickly!

Showing off her bucket

The girls checking out their goodies that the Easter Bunny left

Kylee was excited for her jump rope, and Aubree just loved all the plastic eggs!

I actually didn't even get any pictures of the girls in their Easter dresses. We were in a rush to make it to Stake Conference I didn't have time before. I was planning on taking some afterwards, but Kylee got chocolate all over her dress. They are wearing the same dresses for Ashley's wedding this weekend, so I'm sure I will get plenty of pictures then! We hope everyone had a great Easter!!

Fun-filled visit with Grandma & Grandpa!

2009-04-16T14:11:00.007-05:00

Last week my parents came to visit for a few days. We had so much fun, and did a lot of fun things! Kylee was really sad when grandma and grandpa had to leave to go back to Gillette. She had the greatest time, and so did Aubree. Aubree even seemed to remember grandma and grandpa, she wasn't as reserved and loved smiling and laughing!! Here are a bunch of pictures from the zoo, where we saw most of the animals.

Here we are looking at the polar bear

Looking at the moneys
Grandma & Kylee by the elephant
Kylee and grandma with the giraffe

Here we are in the aquarium, which was their favorite!

Kylee wanted to take a picture of me and my parents. She did pretty well, except my dad got cut out!

We can't forget about Aubree. She was great, she took a good little nap most of the time we were there!

Here is grandma and Kylee with grandma's birthday presents, Kylee was already getting sad that they were going to leave!

Grandma, Grandpa & Kylee with stickers all over

Grandma & Grandpa with Aubree

Kylee and Aubree love Grandma & Grandpa!

Grandpa with his buddy Aubree

While they were here we decorating Easter eggs! Here are Kylee and Grandma after we were all done.

Aubree wanted to join in on all the fun!

Kylee had a blast! She did a really good job coloring and decorating!

Just getting started!

Thanks for coming to visit mom and dad! We had such a great time, and can't wait to see you all again soon. We miss you already!!!

A Day at the Zoo

2009-03-26T15:14:00.003-05:00

Last week was so nice outside we decided to go to the zoo with some friends. The kids had a really fun time! It was perfect weather, we all really enjoyed being able to be outside!

Here is Kylee swinging on the rope in the Jungle Kylee, Jace and Alivia in the Aquarium
Aubree having a good time!

Alivia and Kylee with the Jelly Fish

Kylee and Jace by the huge Gorilla

Aubree and her 2 friends, Addison and Maeli

Me and the girls looking at the bears

Here's Kylee trying to draw her own fish

Jace and Kylee climbing on the Gorilla

The kids sitting in the butterfly chair

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

2009-03-19T19:51:00.004-05:00

Here are Kylee and Aubree dressed in their St. Patty's Day outfits! Kylee drew a picture of a leprechaun that she was pretty proud of!!

A Fun Time at the Children's Museum!

2009-03-19T09:56:00.004-05:00

This last weekend my sister, Amber and her family were in town visiting. We thought it would be fun to go to the Children's Museum downtown. We haven't ever been there before and Kylee loved it! There were so many fun things to do, Kylee didn't want to leave. Aubree even had a fun time playing, especially with her cousin Nicholas!Here are Kylee and Joslyn shopping in their play grocery store. They had everything that a normal grocery store would have, it was really cute!

Here are me and Kylee putting on a puppet show!

Our Family

Kylee had fun picking the corn off the cornstalks

Aubree was able to ride on the baby cow

Here's Kylee on the mama pig

They even had a fun little room for babies, where they had tables with built in chairs, and mats for the babies to crawl around on. Aubree thought the table was pretty fun!

Aubree and Nicholas having fun playing with the toys!

Aubree the fire fighter!

Our little fire fighters! Kylee felt pretty cool driving the big truck.

My sister, Amber and her son Nicholas (with his favorite red ball he found!)

Kylee and Joslyn having fun with the floating balls!

Kitty cat Kylee, they usually have people their to paint the kids faces. They didn't this time, so I had to paint her face and this is the best I can do!

More Kylee & Aubree

2009-03-17T14:24:00.004-05:00

Here are a few recent pictures of the girls! Kylee loves to hold Aubree, but Aubree doesn't always like it! She loves watching Kylee and playing with her, but she's not always a fan of being held by her!
Kylee and Aubree playing on the floor!

I had gotten these glasses at an enrichment that I went to and the girls thought they were pretty fun! Here they are wearing their funny face!!!

Tumbling and a Princess!

2009-03-17T14:16:00.002-05:00

Kylee has started tumbling class again! She loves going to class, and loves to practice what she learns at home. Kylee's cousin Madison gave her a couple of letards to wear, and Kylee thinks they are her tumbling outfits. They are the only things she will wear to class.

A few weeks ago Kylee went to her friend, Braedyn's birthday party. It was of course a princess party, and they had to wear their princess clothes. Kylee loves playing dress-up and was so excited to wear Briegan's princess dress to the party! She is such a pretty princess!

Happy Girl!!

2009-03-14T16:47:00.004-05:00

It is so fun that Aubree is getting older. She is getting more and more social. She is always smiling, babbling and trying to talk to us. She is a funny little girl!! Biggest Smile!
Here is Aubree's first time in the swing, she really liked it! The first time I pushed her she got a huge smile on her face! Here she is sticking her tongue out again!!

Happy Aubree playing with her toys on the floor

Aubree being silly with Dad

Spring Is Almost Here!!

2009-03-14T16:03:00.003-05:00

It was so nice outside last week, we had a fun time being able to play outside again! Here are Kylee and Aubree trying out their sunglasses while playing on their blanket! Aubree loves sticking her tongue out now, it's a pretty cool trick! Kylee had fun drawing with chalk. Here is one picture that she drew. The pink one is Aubree, the yellow is Kylee and the blue one is Dad!
Here is Aubree trying to eat some of the grass. She wasn't quite sure what to do with it!
Aubree had fun pulling out the grass, she hasn't ever felt it before, and seemed to like the feel of it.

Kylee was excited to ride her princess scooter again, she is getting pretty good at it!

Kylee and Aubree posing again with their glasses!

Kylee got her ears pierced!

2009-03-03T14:12:00.003-06:00

We went with Kylee's cousin, Briegan to surprise her by getting her ears pierced for her 5th birthday. I had been wanted to get Kylee's pierced for awhile and we thought it would be fun to have them get their ears pierced together. Kylee was very brave, Briegan went first and started to cry. Even after seeing that Kylee still wanted to get hers pierced too. She did very good, she just cried for a few seconds, and as soon as she got her lollipop she was much better! Here's Kylee & Briegan after it's all done

Kylee right after it happened

Here is the first ear, she is looking a little nervous

She wouldn't smile at all, she was very focused

Kylee and her cousins, Brayli & Briegan showing off their new matching necklaces

Trying on some glasses

Cute little cowgirls

Showing off her new earrings

Brave little girl, she loves having earrings now, and can't wait to put in some new ones in a few more weeks!

I think we will probably wait a little until we get Aubree's pierced. With her I will definitely make sure they do both ears at the same time, that seems much easier, and hopefully a little less painful!

28th Day of Love

2009-02-28T21:56:00.002-06:00

February 28th:

I LOVE that March is tomorrow!! That means it's getting closer and closer to SPRING!! I am ready for some nice warm weather to be able to go outside to play and go on walks with the girls. It will be so nice to get out of the house, and start doing fun things again! I am tired of the cold and snow, and can't wait until Spring is here!!

27th Day of Love

2009-02-27T14:17:00.004-06:00

February 27th:

I LOVE my family! This includes my whole side and Brian's side of the family. I feel really lucky to have such great families and support on both sides. My parents have always been very supportive of me and the decisions that I have made. I am very lucky to have such great parents like them. They were very patient with me growing up and were always there to help me when I needed them! I also love my two sisters and two brothers. They have all been great examples to me, and I feel lucky to have such great relationships with all of them! I also love all of my in-laws, they have always treated me like family from the very beginning. It has been fun living close to them, and getting to know them all better! I think that Kylee and Aubree are also very lucky to have such a great loving family that will always be there for them!

26th Day of Love

2009-02-27T14:03:00.002-06:00

I LOVE our house! We have lived in our house for 3 years this March, and I still love it! We went from a one bedroom apartment, with Kylee, to a 3 bedroom house. When we finally moved in to our house Kylee was 8 months old. She finally was able to have her own bedroom, and not have to sleep in our dining room anymore! I especially love having a garage. It was no fun climbling 3 flights of stairs with a baby and groceries, it was even worse when it was raining. It's also nice not having to go and start the car up 20 minutes early, and have to scrap all the snow and ice of the windows. It's also nice having a yard for the girls to play in. It's nice to have extra room for when my family comes to visit us, even if they have to sleep on a air mattress, it's still better than staying at a hotel. It's fun being able to decorate a little here and there. Having a house really is great!!

25th Day of Love

2009-02-25T15:05:00.003-06:00

February 25th:

I LOVE going on road trips! It is so fun to get the car all packed up and to take a break from your every day normal life. Most of the time the trips we take our out to Wyoming to visit my family. But every now and then we make it to Kansas City when the Yankees are playing. It's always a fun weekend! For the most part our girls do a really good job traveling, it helps having a dvd player for them to watch movies on! Growing up on every trip we made I would pretty much sleep the whole time, which made the trip go by really fast! Now with two kids it's getting a little harder to just pick up and go, but it's still nice when we get the chance!

24th Day of Love

2009-02-24T14:23:00.003-06:00

February 24th:

I LOVE nap time!! I love every afternoon from 1-3, that's when my girls are taking their naps. That is usually my time to get as much done as possible. I have time to clean, do laundry, update my blog, pay bills, catch up on some of my tv shows, and sometimes even take a nap myself. It is great having a nice and quiet house for at least 2 hours everyday. And especially nice to have some alone time to do what I want to do, or to watch what I want to watch. Nap time is such a great time!

23rd Day of Love

2009-02-23T21:02:00.002-06:00

February 23rd:

I LOVE Temples! I especially love the Winter Quarters Temple, because it's where Brian and I were sealed together. My oldest sister was also married there, as well as Brian's two brothers, one younger sister, and his youngest sister is getting married there in April. It is such a beautiful place, as well as all temples. I love them all, they are so beautiful and amazing. I have loved looking at them ever since I was little. It is really nice having one only 15 minutes away from us. Kylee loves going to look at the temple and walk around outside. I love how she talks about getting married in the temple, it is so sweet.

22nd Day of Love

2009-02-22T21:14:00.002-06:00

February 22nd:

I LOVE Aubree!
Aubree is such a sweet little baby. We are so happy that she is part of our family. There are so many reasons why I love her, here are a few:

I love her big bright smile
I love when you ask her for a kiss, she opens her mouth really wide and gives kisses on your check
I love that she sleeps 11-12 hours at night
I love her cute little laugh
I love trying to make her laugh
I love how she is always watching and studying Kylee
I love how she says mama and dada, but mostly mama
I love how she is always looking around for me when I leave the room
I love that her hair is getting long enough to put a pony tail in it
I love how her personality is starting to show more and more each day
I love that she is such a good eater
I love that she makes grunting nosies when she wants our attention
I love how she tries to sit up on her own, but can't make it all the way yet
I love how happy she is in the mornings
I love that her and Kylee are starting to play with each other
I love that she is always smiling and laughing at Kylee
I love that she gets excited to see Brian when he gets home from work

I really am so grateful to have this sweet little girl in our family. She really does bring us so much joy and happiness!

21st Day of Love

2009-02-22T10:03:00.003-06:00

February 21st:

I LOVE Girl Scout cookies! I love this time of year when you get to start ordering these cookies! I think they are the best ever. My favorites are the thin mint and carmel delight. I could eat the whole box of both by myself. I can't wait until my cookies get delivered this year!

Happy Valentine's Day

2009-02-20T14:24:00.006-06:00

We had a really fun Valentine's Day this year! Went over to Pat & Wendy's for our annual Valentine party. We started with home made pizza. Then decorated the table and all the kids got a bag of goodies. Which Kylee thought was the greatest thing ever! She really thought getting starburst was the best! After dinner we played some fun games that Wendy had put together. We first played Valentine's memory. There were pictures of all of us and we had to find the matches. Trent and me tied, so for the tie breaker we had to arm wrestle. I actually won, I was pretty surprised. I beat him left and right handed! I'm pretty sure he won't let me beat him again! Then we played our favorite game with the pull and peel licorice. And I won that game too!!! It was a pretty good night for me. Thanks again to Pat & Wendy for having us over for a fun night!Kylee & Briegan getting ready for dinner
Kylee & Briegan playing the licorice game

Our Valentine girl Aubree

Kylee getting ready to look in her bag

Dad and Aubree

Our Valentine girls

Little Aubree

20th Day of Love

2009-02-20T14:14:00.002-06:00

February 20th:

I LOVE Fridays! Fridays are especially nice because Brian gets off of work early! It is a nice start to our weekend. I also like Fridays, because another show that I love is on, Friday Night Lights. Lots of Fridays we have a family movie night, which Kylee just loves. It is nice to just be able to relax, and have Brian home with us for the weekend. Friday nights are the best!

19th Day of Love

2009-02-19T13:45:00.002-06:00

February 19th: I LOVE Kylee!

There are so many reasons why I love her, she is such a great little girl. Here are some things that I LOVE about her:

-I love how sweet, kind and caring she is
-I love how she calls Aubree our little
sweetheart
I love how she waits up for me to get off of work on Tuesday nights, so I can come and give her a hug and tell her good night
I love how she always wants to say the prayer
I love that in her prayers she always says thank you for our sweet baby Aubree
I love how she likes to babysit Aubree on my bed, while I take a shower
I love how she loves to draw and color pretty pictures for everyone
I love when she tells me I'm her best friend, and that I always will be
I love how she is always reading books
I love when I ask her what she's reading she tells me it's a grown up book, and she can't read it to Aubree because she's not a grown up yet
I love when Aubree is crying, she says, mom "your" baby is crying
I love as soon as she hears the garage door open she knows Brian is home and runs off to hide
I love how she makes up her own songs to sing, just like me when I was little
I love how she is singing and dancing all day long
I love when she says that she looks like me because we both have long hair, and Aubree looks like Brian because they both have short hair
I love that she says when she grows up she wants to be a mommy and a Doctor, so she can help people
I love how she can play by herself and keep herself entertained
I love how every night she asks if she can stay up just a pinch more
I love how she loves going to church, and especially primary
I love how she gets excited about little things
I love how she likes to be in the same room as me, and follows me around the house
I love how she tells me the white crayon is broken, because it won't show up on her paper
I love how she is so creative and always makes up laugh
I love how she can always get Aubree to smile and laugh at her

These are just some of the reasons why I love Kylee! She is such a great daughter to have, we are lucky to have her in our family!

18th Day of Love

2009-02-18T17:06:00.003-06:00

February 18th:

I LOVE going to Body Pump! This is definitely my favorite work out class to go to. I have been going since Kylee was about a year old, and I still feel like I get a good work out each time. I like how we use weights and work out every part of the body. It's nice having an instructor telling you what to do. They change the routine every few weeks, so you use different muscles each time, and it still make me sore!

17th Day of Love

2009-02-17T14:43:00.002-06:00

February 17th:

I LOVE Paradise Bakery. This is my favorite sandwich place to eat. I usually always get their grilled chicken artichoke sandwich. It is so good, the best sandwich ever! They also have really good salads, my favorite is the crumby bleu cheese. And of course they have the best cookies ever. While you are in line ordering your food they have samples of cookies for you to try. You also get a cookie with each sandwich. Again I love when my parents come to town because we always have to eat here with them!

16th Day of Love

2009-02-16T14:20:00.004-06:00

February 16th:

I LOVE that my girls can finally play together! It is so great now that Aubree is getting older that she is able to play with Kylee a little more. It used to be Kylee trying to play with Aubree, and Aubree just laying there. But now Aubree can interact with Kylee and they have so much fun together. Aubree is still fascinated with Kylee, pretty much anything Kylee does Aubree thinks is pretty fun. Kylee does a good job keeping Aubree entertained for me. On Friday during our snowstorm, Kylee had been playing with this box she found. She thought Aubree would have fun playing with it too. I put Aubree in the box, and she thought it was pretty great! They both played in there for awhile and had a fun time.

Today after lunch while I was in the kitchen cleaning, Kylee decided that Aubree was still hungry, and finished feeding her by herself. She actually did a pretty good job, and even got Aubree to finish all her food. There was just a little more mess to clean up, but Kylee had fun being a good helper.

15th Day of Love

2009-02-15T20:47:00.002-06:00

February 15th:

I LOVE to read! Reading is one of my favorite things to do. I have loved reading ever since I was little. My two favorite series are Harry Potter and Twilight. But I do like any book by James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham and Gerald Lund. It usually doesn't take me to long to finish a book if it's one I really like, sometimes it's hard to put them down. Especially Harry Potter and Twilight! Laying on a beach reading a book would be one of my favorite places to be!

14th Day of Love

2009-02-15T20:27:00.003-06:00

February 14th:

I LOVE Brian! Iam so lucky to have Brian as my husband. He works so hard to provide for our family, to allow me to stay at home with our girls. He is always supportive of me, and everything that I do. He is the best dad to Kylee & Aubree, he loves to play with them and help Kylee learn to play sports! He is still very athletic and loves playing any sport. He puts our needs ahead of his, and does so much for our family. He loves spending as much time as possible with us, and gives me my break every now and then. He is becoming more and more handy around the house, which is really great! I love that both of our girls look just like him! I love that even though he really wants a boy, he told me he would be happy with all girls too! I am really glad that I said yes to our blind date 6 1/2 years ago!!

13th Day of Love

2009-02-13T12:56:00.005-06:00

February 13th:

I LOVE to bake! My two favorites right now are the pictures here. On the top is a Brownie cookie with chocolate frosting, and on the bottom are Double chocolate chip cookies. Both are from Betty Crocker. Baking is especially fun on a day like today, where we are snowed in because of a snowstorm. But unfortunately I don't have any brownie mix or chocolate chips! So I'm not able to bake much of anything today. I guess I will have to stock up for our next snowstorm! I am not always the best at baking new things, but it's always fun to try and really fun to eat! I love everything about baking except for the mess that you have to clean up afterwards.

12th Day of Love

2009-02-12T15:38:00.003-06:00

February 12th:
I LOVE Victoria's Secret Love Spell lotion and body spray. It is my favorite scent! It's more on the flowery side, not to strong but just enough. And smells so good! I can usually tell when someone else is wearing it. I discovered it about 6 or 7 years ago and have loved it since!

11th Day of Love

2009-02-11T13:26:00.002-06:00

February 11th:
I LOVE The Children's Place! This is my favorite place to buy clothes for my girls. They have the cutest clothes for kids. Their colors are all
so bright and fun. They also have the best clearance sales. I never pay full price for clothes, I just wait until they go on sale! Thanks to my sister for introducing me to this store!

10th Day of Love

2009-02-10T13:42:00.003-06:00

February 10th: I LOVE Sonic's Cherry Limeade's!
This is by far my all time favorite drink to have. If I could, I would drink one everyday during the summer. I love their crushed ice, and if you go between 2-4 drinks are half price!! I love when my mom comes to town because she really likes them too, so we usually end up at Sonic alot, which is fine with me! I pretty much love any drink with cherry in it, others I like are Cherry Coke Zero and Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi. But the Cherry Limeade is the best!!

9th Day of Love

2009-02-09T15:41:00.003-06:00

February 9th:
I LOVE having a clean house! Since it was a rainy day and Aubree isn't feeling very well, I thought today would be the perfect day to get my house cleaned! I have gotten pretty much every room in the house clean, even the dusting and vacuuming! I love walking through the house and everything is where it should be. There aren't any toys laying on the floor, all the dishes are washed and put away, and I still have laundry to fold and some clothes to iron. I know my clean house won't stay clean for very long. Kylee just got up from her nap and has already gotten toys out, and I will have to get dinner started in a little, but for now I LOVE having a clean house!

February 8th

2009-02-08T16:54:00.003-06:00

A friend of mine, Kami has been posting on her blog something that she loves for each day of the month of February. It sounds like fun so I thought I would try it too. I am a starting a little late but thought I would do it anyways. So if anyone else wants to start now they can too!!

Day 8: I love warm weather in the month of February! Yesterday was so nice outside, it was a perfect day. I think it was somewhere in the 60's. Kylee was able to ride her scooter outside, and we took Aubree on a walk. I was even able to vacuum out and clean my car!! I wish it would stay like this until Spring, but I'm sure we will be getting another snow storm again soon. At least we were able to enjoy it while we could.

1st Ponytail and More

2009-01-29T10:25:00.000-06:00

I was fianlly able to put a little ponytail in Aubree's hair the other day! At first she didn't like it and kept trying to grab it. But soon she forgot all about it. Kylee kept telling her how pretty she looked and what a big girl she is!
Kylee and Aubree after church, getting ready to go to Uncle Jason's birthday party
Kylee loves dancing and making up her own songs to sing. Here she is being a ballerina!
Showing us her pretty smile!

8 Months Old

2009-01-22T13:53:00.001-06:00

Aubree in now 8 months old!! It's pretty crazy how fast these past 8 months have gone by. Aubree is growing and changing everyday! She isn't crawling yet, but she loves rolling all over the place. From one end of the room to the other! Her favorite baby food is now banana's. I have a hard time feeding her vegtables now, but when she gets banana's she can't get enough. She likes to do patty cake, and can clap her hands together. She is starting to say mama and dada, mostly mama though! She still loves playing with Kylee and thinks Kylee is the greatest ever! Here is Chef Aubree, she likes to chew on Kylee's play food while Kylee makes us yummy food to eat!

Aubree loves to play on the floor with her toysKylee and Aubree in their Christmas dresses
Aubree all bundled up and ready to go, she hates to put her coat on. I can't wait until Spring when we won't have to wear coats anymore!

It is really rare that Aubree will ever fall asleep while we are holding her. This is after getting her out of the car, and she stayed asleep on my shoulder, all bundled and everything!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-22T10:03:00.001-06:00

This year for New Year's we went over to Brian's parents house. His sister, Ashley was home visiting from college, and his brother Scott and his wife, Ashley were visiting too! Pat and Wendy and their kids were there and so were Jason and Eunice. Brian's dad was put in charge of the games. He did a great job finding games for all of us to play. We had a really fun time. Our favorite game was the sack game. There are two people going against each other. They both have a paper sack with a bunch of different items in them. Then they have to race each other to try to find the item that gets called before the other person, and without looking. It was really fun, even though Jason ended up winning the whole thing, and won $10.00 for it!! Here are Brayli and Kylee playing, Kylee was pretty good at the game but only because she looked every time! Here go Kylee and Briegan!
Here is Aunt Ashley and Kylee. Ashley got engaged the day after New Years!! They are getting married in April. This will be the 4th wedding in a year and a half for Brian's family!! Soon their should be lots of cousins to play with!
All the cute girls!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2009-01-03T14:51:00.000-06:00

We were in Gillette this year with my family for Christmas. All of my brothers and sisters were there expect for my little brother who is serving a mission. It was so much fun to all be together again, it had been a long time since that has happened. We missed having my little brother there too, but at least we were able to talk to him on the phone on Christmas day. My parents have 11 grandkids so their house was pretty packed! Kylee had so much fun playing with all of her cousins, she played and played the whole time we were there! All of the kids were so good with Aubree, they entertained her the whole time. I think she got too used to all of the attention, and now being home during the day with just me and Kylee just isn't the same! She is having to adjust again. Christmas Eve we had the best food ever!! My mom's new kitchen worked out great for all the people and all the food we had! After dinner the kids did their talent show for us. My niece Savannah played the violin while the younger girls sang and danced along. They did a great job! Kylee was so excited for Chirstmas this year, it was really fun. We stayed the night at my sister's house and Kylee got to open her presents with their 4 kids. There were a lot of fun presents that all the kids got! After we got ready we all went back to my parents for Christmas breakfast and opened presents from them. All the kids loved their presents, they all got a box with a big wad of one dollar bills inside tied together with a bow, they thought it was pretty cool getting all those one dollar bills! Later that afternoon we went to the church and had a family volleyball game. It was really fun, and we voted my brother Broc, to be the MVP! After that we went back and were able to talk to Brodie! It's crazy to think he will be home this August, it sure has gone by fast. He sounded older and more mature, and seems to be a really great missionary!! We can't wait to see him again! We had a really great Christmas and had fun spending time with my family, and hope to be able to see them all again soon!! The "three amigos" these three are all only a few months apart from each other, and love playing together!
Kylee and Madison in their matching pjs, which me and Summer didn't even plan!
Kylee with her dollar bills!
Grandma & Grandpa Rice with Kylee & Aubree
Kylee got a sleeping bag, which she really wanted!!
Aubree opened a cute puppy toy to play with
Brian and Aubree on Christmas morning
Kylee & Aubree getting ready to open presents
Kylee with her presents
Grandpa Rice and his little buddy Aubree
Cute cousins in their Christmas pjs!
The cutest little reindeer!!

I had way too many pictures to post so here is a slide show of the other pictures I took while we were in Wyoming!

Since we were in Wyoming for Christmas we had Christmas with Brian's parents the night before we left. Both the girls had fun opening some presents early. Aubree especially had fun playing with the paper! Kylee was a big help and helped her open all of her presents!!

Grandma & Grandpa Bagley with the girls and the photo book we made them for Christmas
Grandma Bagley and Aubree
Kylee helping Aubree with her present
Aubree loved ripping the paper!
Kylee loved her Cinderella and horse!

Kylee's Preschool Christmas Party

2008-12-19T10:26:00.001-06:00

This week for preschool we all got together and had a fun Christmas party for the kids. Kylee had so much fun! She painted a Christmas tree ornament, went on a Christmas treasure hunt, frosted sugar cookies and sang Christmas songs! She had a lot of fun playing with all her friends! Her favorite was eating her yummy cookies after she decorated them, she did save one cookie for dad though! Here is Kylee shaking some bells while they sang Jingle Bells
Here is me and Aubree watching Kylee on the treasure hunt
Kylee having fun frosting some cookies
Kylee's preschool friends
Having fun painting her ornament!

Santa Claus and Gingerbread Houses

2008-12-15T21:38:00.000-06:00

Saturday night we went over the the Trail Center where they have a big Gingerbread display each year. I have never been to it before and Kylee really likes gingerbread houses for some reason! They have a fun little play house for the kids to play with which Kylee and Brian had fun playing in. Kylee had fun posing with her face in the big gingerbread people, Aubree liked that part too! Tonight we went to the mall to see Santa! Kylee was so exicted, all day she kepted telling me she was going to sit on his lap al by herself this year. Last year she was so scared of him she would only sit by him if I sat with her! It helped that Brayli and Briegan where there with her. Aubree didn't have any idea what was going on, but at least she didn't cry, we'll see how next year goes! Kylee is so excited for Christmas this year and all she talks about is Santa Claus and his reindeer!!

Our Christmas Tree

2008-12-11T14:42:00.001-06:00

The Monday after Thanksgiving we put up our Christmas tree. Kylee had so much fun helping to put it together and put on the ornaments! She kept telling Aubree when she's a big girl she can help too! Kylee & Aubree, I think Aubree looks just like Brian here!
Dad and the girls, Kylee has been practicing tumbling, that's why she's wearing a letard!
Putting the star on the top of the tree!

Fun With Cousins

2008-11-29T22:24:00.001-06:00

Kylee, Aubree and me went to Gillette last week to visit my family. Kylee had so much fun playing with all of her cousins and grandparents. The drive home she kepted asking if she could go back and play with her cousins again. Luckily we will be able to go back for Christmas! Here are some of the pictures I took in Gillette and one of Kylee and Brian that I thought was pretty cute!! Kylee & Aubree with Grandma & Grandpa Rice
Kylee and Madison being Home Depot workers
Jesilyn, Kylee & Madison with their clown makeup
Cute little clowns

Aubree's 6 Months Old

2008-11-29T22:14:00.001-06:00

Aubree turned 6 months old on the 16th of November!! She really is getting so big and her personality is really starting to show! She is such a happy baby, she is smiling all day long. We went in for her check up and she weighs 18.6 lbs and is 27 inches long. She is in the 88th percentile for weight and 94th for height. She is a tall girl so far just like her big sister! While we were at her check up we found out she had a double ear infection! I felt so bad that I didn't even know she was sick. She is always so happy! We thought she was getting better but today we had to take her in again and she still has a double ear infection. Hopefully she will get feeling better soon! But even being sick she is still such a good baby! She is doing really well at sitting up by herself and is rolling from her tummy to her back. She is loving her baby food, and so far sweet potatoes are her favorite!

Happy Halloween!!

2008-11-02T21:09:00.001-06:00

We had a really fun Halloween this year!! Kylee loved trick or treating, she loved running from one house to the next. By the end of the night she kept saying how tired she was! Halloween day my sister, Amber and her son, Nicholas came over to hang out. It was fun to see them, and have Nicholas over again. Him and Aubree had a fun time playing together on the floor, well kind of! Aubree wasn't very happy that day, she just wanted to cry and wanted me to hold her! But it was fun having them over. Once Brian got off work we went to Pat & Wendy's house and meet up with some other friends, Jeff & Heidi and we went out! It was the perfect night, we couldn't believe how warm it was, Kylee was getting too hot in her costume. Kylee had fun being a chicken again this year, and Aubree was a pea pod, which is what Kylee was for her 1st Halloween too! Next year will be even more fun when Aubree will be able to trick or treat with Kylee.

Here are Aubree and Nicholas trying to play, Nicholas is wondering what she's crying about!

Kylee and Aubree ready for Halloween day!
Cute Aubree in her Halloween clothes
Our little chicken
Dad and his pea pod Aubree
Kylee and cousin Nicholas
Dad and Kylee
Playing together again, at least Aubree isn't crying now!
Me, Aubree and Amber
All the kids dressed and ready to go
Cousin Brayli and Kylee
Aubree and her friend Brianna the bumble bee
Sitting out by the pumpkins
Kylee with lots of candy!
Cute chicken and pea pod
Happy little girls!
Aubree our pea pod
Sitting by our pumpkins

Carving Pumpkins

2008-11-02T20:09:00.001-06:00

Last week we were finally able to carve our pumpkins! Kylee was so excited to be able to help take the guts out! At first she wasn't quite sure what to do, but than eventually got the hang of it! Brian's didn't take too long because he chose a face that was pretty easy to do. I decided to try doing the spiderweb so mine was a two day project. But I finally got it done and it didn't turn out too bad! We found the smaller pumpkins with faces painted on them already for Kylee and Aubree to have. I don't think Kylee will let us throw her pumpkin away she really likes having it around!

Aubree had a fun time trying to help out!!

Kylee still isn't so sure about this, she was pulling out one seed at a time!
Now she has the hang of it!
Brian and Kylee showing there messy hands!Kylee and Aubree with their little pumpkins!

Vala's Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-24T14:08:00.000-05:00

We went to the Pumpkin Patch on Tueday with Grandma Bagley, Pat, Wendy and their kids. It was a little cold outside and we had to leave early because of the rain, but we still had a fun time! We even had a bonfire where we roasted hotdogs and smores. That was probably the best part!! Kylee's favorite part was the pig races. Her pig won the race and she won a pig nose to wear!! Kylee had a lot of fun, and can't wait until we go back next year!! Aubree will have more fun next year, when she will actually be able to do more things!!!

Aubree all bundled up Princess Kylee with me and Aubree
Feeding the goats
Kylee with cousins, Briegan & Brayli
Kylee by a lot of pumpkins
Briegan & Kylee trying to stay dry
Kylee being a goat
There's a half smile from Aubree
Kylee's pig nose!!

Family Pictures

2008-10-24T13:27:00.001-05:00

Last weekend we had Brian's mom take some family pictures of us outside, before it starts getting cold! Both of the girls did really well, Kylee had fun posing for all the pictures, and Aubree had fun staring at everyone who was trying to make her smile!!

Me and the girls

Our Family
Another family one, but Kylee didn't want to smile anymore
Cute baby Aubree
Pretty Kylee
Aubree loves her big sister!!
Two cute girls!
Sweet little girls, both smiling but looking different directions!

Scott & Ashley got married!!

2008-10-12T16:05:00.000-05:00

We are so excited for Scott and Ashley getting married!! Scott is Brian's younger brother and he just got married yesterday! This has been a crazy year for weddings for Brian's family. One of his younger sisters, Mandi just had her wedding a month ago. Jason, Brian's older brother got married in Feburary, three weddings in one year! It has been a lot of fun being able to be at each wedding. Jason's was definetiely the coldest and Scott's was the hottest! It was such a nice and hot day yesterday, most of us were dressed too warmly. We are so happy for Scott and Ashley, they are so cute and happy together! Ashley was such a beautiful bride!! Kylee loved her dress and kept talking about when she gets married she gets to wear a pretty white dress just like Ashley! Kylee and Aubree looked pretty cute in their own white dresses again! We had a fun day being together with Brian's family again!

Mr. & Mrs. Bagley!

The happy couple
Ashley with the cute little girls!
Cute cousins
Grandma Bagley with her granddaughters
Cute little Aubree
Pretty Kylee getting ready to go
Happy girl! Big smile!!
Not too happy about wearing shoes
Me and Brian
Brian & Aubree
Me and Aubree
Uncle Matt holding Aubree
Matt & Mandi with Aubree
Pretty sisters!

4 Months Old

2008-09-29T16:10:00.001-05:00

Aubree is now 4 months old!! She had her check up last week and now weighs 15.8 lbs and is in the 86% for weight and is 24.5 inches long and is in the 58% for height. She is still our big little girl!! I still can't believe how much she has grown in just 4 months, she definetiely isn't our little new born baby anymore. She still loves to smile and is starting to laugh a lot more. She is sleeping really well for us, usually waking up around 6:30 or 7:00 then going back to bed for another hour or so! She loves her big sister Kylee. Any time Kylee is in the room Aubree looks around for her and gives her the biggest smiles!! Kylee has fun trying to make Aubree laugh, and roll over! She still isn't rolling over by herself, but Kylee is helping her to learn. She has now started to eat some rice cereal and is really liking it! Even the first time we tried she ate it all gone. She is our good eater and you can see!

Kylee & Aubree having fun playing train!

Biggest smile
Big Girl!
She really does like her cereal!
Having fun in her exersauser
Getting ready to go to church

Starting Preschool & Swim lessons!

2008-09-21T15:56:00.000-05:00

Kylee started preschool three weeks ago and loves it! There is a group of us in our ward that are taking turns teaching. We have it once a week and each week it is at one of our house's and we are the teacher for the day! It works out pretty well, most of us live in the same neighborhood and only have to teach once every 6 weeks. Kylee loves bringing her back pack and making sure she has her pencil box with her crayons and glue inside! She thinks she is a big girl for going to school now!
Kylee also started swimming lessons at the YMCA. I didn't know how well she would do without me in the water with her. But her first lesson she was jumping in and even putting her head in the water, which she never does! She still hates wearing her swimsuit, because she says it's too tight!! This first picture is of her crying because she doesn't want to wear it, but soon after she was as happy as could be! Funny how quickly she can change her mood!

Matt & Mandi's Wedding

2008-09-07T22:26:00.001-05:00

Brian's younger sister Mandi, got married on Saturday at the Winter Quarters Temple. She was a very beautiful bride!! We were glad to be able to be a part of their special day! Here are some of the pictures that I took at the temple and the reception. Their colors were black and hot pink. Which Brian said this was the first and only time he would ever wear a pink tie! We all had a lot of fun. Kylee even wore her pretty white dress all day even though she said it was too tight!!

Mandi and Kylee being shy

Kylee caught the bouquet!
Our two sweet little girls!
Baby Aubree in her pretty white dress
Kylee walking away pouting
Kylee smelling the pretty flowers at the temple
Kylee was one of the candy girls, who gave out candy kisses!
Our little family!
Brian and Aubree
Me and Aubree
Me and my girls
Brian and Me

More Matt & Mandi wedding pictures

2008-09-07T22:24:00.000-05:00

GO BIG RED!!

2008-08-31T22:53:00.001-05:00

Here is Aubree is her Husker cheerleading oufit to cheer on the Huskers for their first football game last night! Amber and Jonathan gave Kylee this outfit when she was a baby, and now Aubree gets to wear it too!! We thought she looked pretty cute in it! GO HUSKERS!!

Random Pictures

2008-08-31T22:46:00.001-05:00

Here are a few recent pictures that have been taken in the last week or two. Kylee still loves being a big sister to Aubree, and loves to make her laugh and smile! It will be fun when Aubree is old enough to actually play with Kylee!!

Dr. Kylee/ Chef Kylee

2008-08-20T14:24:00.001-05:00

Ever since Aubree was born Kylee has started saying that she wants to be a Dr. when she grows up. She wants to be a mommy and a baby Dr. just like her aunt Amber! At least once a day Kylee will tell me, "Mom I still want to be a Dr. some day". I'm glad she has high hopes for herself!! She is also into cooking and helping me with dinner. She loves her little play kitchen and wearing her hat and apron. The other night she was helping me make hamburger patties and she wanted to pour the seasoning on her hamburger. I turned my back for a second and when I looked back Kylee had dumped almost the whole jar of seasoning on her patty! She loves being a big helper, sometimes a little too much!!

Aubree's 3 Months Old

2008-08-16T08:56:00.001-05:00

Aubree is 3 months old today! She seems to be growing and growing!! I can't believe how big she is getting. She is now smiling all the time and even starting to laugh a little! Here are a few recent pictures of her. She loves her little bumbo chair to sit it. She loves sitting up like a big girl! She also likes being on her tummy and sometimes it seems like she is trying to roll over, so we will see!

Gillette Trip

2008-08-01T19:58:00.000-05:00

Last week we took a trip to Gillette to spend some the week with my family. We had a ton of fun with everyone. Kylee espeically had a lot of fun playing with her cousins! We went to the lake twice and Brian was actually able to get up and water ski! He attempted last year but wasn't able to. This year was much better! Kylee had fun driving the jet ski's and being pulled on the back on the inner tube. My sister's two oldest kids were able to water ski too. Kylee is still a little too young for that, but maybe next year. We were glad the weather was nice for us, it usually either rains or snows when we go to visit! My other sister Amber and her son were also able to make it down for the week. It went by too fast, we were all very tired from being out in the sun so much. But it was a great trip!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KYLEE!!

2008-07-17T22:20:00.001-05:00

Kylee turned 3 on July 6th! I can't believe that we have a 3 year old now, even though she sometimes acts like she is 16th! She definetely keeps us busy and entertained with her funny stories and things that she says. This year she was lucky enough to have 2 birthday parties. We had one in Sioux Falls and the other at our house in Omaha. We were in Sioux Falls on her actual birthday for her cousin, Nicholas's blessing. Jonathan's brother has a little girl a few weeks younger than Kylee, so we had a little party for the both of them. It was easy since they both love princesses, we had a princess themed party. It was fun having Grandma & Grandpa Rice there to celebrate along with Amber, Jonathan and his family. The week after we had her other party at our house. Brian's parents both have birthdays in July, along with our nephew Tyler. We decided to have a big party for all of them! I made some princess wands out of brownies for dessert, Kylee thought they were pretty fun! She had fun opening lots of presents again. She asked me the next day if she could have another party, I told her probably not until next year!

2 Months Old!

2008-07-17T21:31:00.001-05:00

Aubree turned 2 months old on the 16th. I really can't believe how fast these 2 months have gone! It seems like we just brought her home from the hospital. She has changed so much since then! She is smiling a lot more now and likes to try to talk back to us. She loves her big sister, Kylee. Everytime Kylee is in the room talking Aubree looks around for her! Here are a few of the latest pictures, these are the best smiles that I could capture on camera! There is also a cute picture of Kylee burping "her" baby after she fed her!!