Kotter Family

We decided to go down to Utah for a few days, and it just so happened to coincide with Kryssi’s birthday (I know, quite the coincidence).  So I took a few days off work, and we made the technically-not-too-long-but-with-kids-it-seems-extremely-long drive down to Julie and Jill’s.

While there, we celebrated Kryssi’s birthday, went shopping at IKEA, Costco, Hobby Lobby, went bowling, and just relaxed.  We had a nice day on Kryssi’s birthday, with Kaitlin coming and joining us, Jill taking us to Los Hermanos, Kryssi getting embarrassed because they sang to her, a nice dinner made by Jill, and then Jordan and Cailin joining us for cake and ice cream.

Our last day there we went bowling, since it happened to be some sort of World Record day, trying to get as many people in the US to go bowling that day, so it was free.  The guy at the bowling alley didn’t seem to know what we were talking, but it said online that particular bowling alley was participating, so he relented.

It was a really fun trip and Lucas tells us constantly how he misses his best buddy Kayden.

Opening her presents.  Amazingly she held off on opening them until that afternoon.  Usually she wants to open them the second she gets up!

Having some birthday cake.  We couldn’t fit all 24 candles on here without starting a fire (Just kidding!  But you are getting old Kryssi!)

Getting a wagon ride around the block.  He was able to convince both Savanna (or banana as he calls her) and Jill to take him on rides.  Spoiled kid, since at home he just has to walk on his own when we go on walks.

McKinley and Kayden at the bowling alley.  She loved being with Kayden probably just as much as Lucas, which is saying a lot!

My less-than-perfect form.  But I did get probably my best score I’ve had in a while, which was enough for me to be champion of the day.

This past weekend we had our annual Fielding family reunion, up at a cabin in Palisades.  We have never gone before, other then for a few hours, but we decided to go up Friday afternoon this year.  Well Kryssi decided at the last second she wanted to go sooner, so she hitched a ride with my grandparents and went up Wednesday evening.  I rode up Friday afternoon with my parents and we came home the next day.  It was a lot of fun boating, playing, eating, and enjoying nature.

But Kryssi only took one picture, as she said the memory card was full on our camera.  I don’t know why she couldn’t have just deleted some pictures, but oh well.

Hanging out with Savanna (or banana as Lucas calls her).  I guess McKinley wasn’t too happy the first day, and only wanted to be with mom, but she got over that and had a great time with all the attention she got.

Since this is the only picture we have, I decided to put a few others up that have all been taken in the last few months.  So enjoy!

She loves playing with my printer.  Don’t you love her innocent look?

Sibling love.  Lucas loves holding his sister, and he has to be reminded constantly to be gentle with her.

Crazy hair! She loves doing this squinty eye face, where she scrunches her nose and squints her eyes. It’s pretty cute.  See the next picture for a better idea of what I mean.

I know it’s a little past due but I figured I’d post some pictures from the 4th.  We didn’t do much, as I worked until the Friday before but luckily I did have the 4th off.  We went to the Idaho Falls parade that morning, which turned out to be really nice, as we got there early enough to get a good parking spot as well as a nice spot to sit.  We went to my parent’s house for the afternoon of the 4th, and played with some water balloons and water in general.

They have the big fireworks show here, put on by Melaleuca, and it is pretty close to our apartment.  So we decided to just stay home and watch from our front lawn.  It wasn’t the best view, but it wasn’t bad, and it was a lot better then dealing with the traffic.  We had neighbors doing fireworks till 1 in the morning, which was not fun, but I guess that’s what you get on the 4th of July!

Sitting in the camp chair, waiting to party.

Filling up some water balloons.

Pretty girl all dressed for the fourth.

Lucas loved throwing the balloons and watching them explode.  He would throw them a lot faster then we could fill them up.

As promised, here are some pictures of Lucas’ birthday.

Getting ready to open some presents.  The first thing he wanted to do that morning.

Spongebob cake that Grandma made for him.  It was pretty cool, and tasted amazing.

Playing pin the tie on Spongebob.

Kryssi made the Spongebob out of some poster board and the kids all had a turn to try and put the tie on him.

The obligatory birthday sign.

Well I believe I’ve already said it before, but I can’t believe Lucas is now 3 years old.  It makes me feel a lot older then I really am.  It has been a great three years and we are so lucky to have Lucas in our family!

Trying to help me get some work done.

Dressed in his Green Lantern costume he got from Subway.

Lucas went under McKinley’s crib so of course she had to follow him.

So I believe I’ve mentioned a few times that Kryssi wanted a site to try and sell some hair bows and other things she makes and I’ve taken my sweet time getting it done, but I believe it is ready to go.  So go and check it out: www.craftyk.net.

Please let me know if you notice something that looks wrong or doesn’t work.  I try and check every site I build as much as I can, but there are always bugs that I don’t notice.