The Sprouls

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Videos For My Grandma!

These are the videos of the kids opening their presents after Christmas. These are from my wonderful Grandma Melba. She is so nice to get us gifts for Christmas! The kids love them! Thank you Grandma so much! First is Malcolm and second is Kaylee. Enjoy! (Oh excuse the mess and hindsight I probably should have turned off the TV oops!)

Monday, January 20, 2014

Cuteness in December

Aunt Ruth got there just in time for Kaylee to wake up from a nap and fall back asleep on her

Self explanatory

They are best friends

At the mall with Grandma

This is at Mal's eye appointment on New Years Eve

At Bostonia Park

The Shorten Sealing

On Kevin and I's anniversary we were honored to be able to attend the sealing of my best friend Monique's family's sealing. It was beautiful! I was able to capture some pictures of this beautiful family.

Isn't she beautiful? They all look so happy and I am so happy for them as well.

Christmas 2013

This is the first Christmas we got to wake up in our own house with just our family and see what Santa brought us and see if he ate the cookies. I have very much enjoyed being at one family or the other's house but sometimes it is nice to be the one actually experiencing with the kids present opening and all of that instead of just taking the pictures because they are obsessed with everyone but me. Unless I'm the only option.

Anyway, so it was cool taking photos and video while being the one they wanted to show their stuff to and help them open presents. I haven't uploaded the videos but here are some pictures from the day.

After our morning present opening, we went to my parent's house to open presents. Above is Kevin and Julio having their morning cuddle.

Funny thing about the above dragon. Kaylee at first cuddled up in Aunt Claudia's arms and cried a bit in fear. Now it is a favorite in the house. One both Kaylee and Malcolm enjoy.

After all of that we went to my uncle Bob's and had Christmas lunch. That's where we split up. The kids were sick (Boo!) and so Kevin (my angel) took the kids home while I continued on to go to my Aunt Claudia's house for Christmas dinner. It was a wonderful day!!

We moved

We moved! Just like 5 minutes from where we were. But we now live in a little town home that we are renting and so far we like it. We moved on December 21 so Christmas time was even more hectic. I will post photos once we have more things put together. If you need my address let me know and I will get it to you.

Potty Trained

After about a year of working with her Kaylee is FINALLY potty trained! It is SO nice not having to buy so many diapers and she can do everything on her own. So proud of my Kaylee girl!

Christmas Party and Poway Christmas

This year's ward Christmas Party was REALLY good this year. One downside was Kevin was caroling and couldn't make it. But he busted in the money so it was ok. This year my dad was Santa. So naturally we had a talk with Kaylee about Santa's helpers. After we had them sit on his lap and take pictures I asked her how she liked Santa. She said very matter of factly, "He was good. He was Campa (Grandpa)" And then on if she was talking about the experience she referred to him as the Campa Santa. "Remember when I got a bag of treats from the Campa Santa?"

Above Kaylee with the Campa Santa

Malcolm with the Campa Santa

So we did something new this year (Oh and by the way this is Kaylee's posed smile most of the time the month of December) we went to this free even the have in Poway almost everynight of December. We just went one night. It gets really crowded. It was pretty cool though. This family decorated their house with all sorts of Christmas decorations for people to come see and they also serve free cookies and hot chocolate or cider. They also had a Santa. The kids were able to pick out a free toy from Santa. We didn't actually see that Santa because the line for him was easily over an hour long. It was a fun event and we will go again next year.