Yep you guessed it, MORE CHRISTMAS!!!

We gave my mom a scrapbook of Kiya.  Kiya loves looking at pictures of herself, she can't help it, she's so dang cute :)

Steve and Lindsay moved into their new home a few weeks before Christmas.  So we all went over to see it.  It's such a beautiful home, we're so excited for them!

Kiya did a good job taking down grandma's tree.

My sister Shelly LOVES books!  So she of course got quite a few to add to her library.

Ok, don't look too close at this picture :)  Love the cheesy grin, I was so excited to get my pretty new mixer.

I guess we know where Kiya gets that cheesy grin huh.  She loves draping things around her neck - daddy's belt, tape measure, her pj's, etc. this time she got it right with Katie's scarf.

Grandma Riddoch made this adorable cape, so cute.

My mom rockin her FABULOUS new shoes!

Lindsay surprised Steve with new skis!

Kiya and her auntie Lindsay

Lance was the hardest one to drag out of bed, poor guy was so tired - we got in late the night before.

Kyle was sooo sick, he didn't play with his new toys til probably a week after Christmas.  I told him to smile, and you can tell the poor kid just didn't feel good.

Kiya and Katie (and Kitty)

Brother Steve - looking lively, they were up since 5 am!

I know, it's getting a little ridiculous.  But I'd like to do the thing where you get your posts printed off or whatever, so this is the last of the Christmas, I swear!  These are from my parents house, Christmas morning.  Lance and I drive to Boise Christmas Eve night, I think we got in at midnight. This year it wasn't one of the youngest siblings waking everyone up at the crack of dawn, nope, it was my married brother Steve and his wife Lindsay, I love them!  Yep, they were up at five, but kindly waited til like 7:00/7:30 to come over and wake us all up!  It's always so good to be home.  We had such a fun morning.  It was the first year that Kiya could kinda get into things, and she did.  She started walking the week before Christmas so she definitely was enjoying her new found freedom!  She enjoyed her new toys and of course, had fun with the wrapping paper.  We always have crepes for breakfast, and my mom gets each of our favorite cereal to eat that morning as well.  And then she fills the kitchen counter with every kind of food - candy, hickory farms spread, little smokys (mmmm), 7 layer dip(Lance's fav), cookies, mints etc. etc. you get the picture - it's a freakin smorgasbord!  My parents always do so much to make Christmas special.  We pretty much eat, play with our new toys, watch movies, and just enjoy being together.  Good times.  

And MORE Christmas

Oh my Goodness! I've been looking through all our Christmas pictures, and there's a lot!! So here's some more, these are from our stay with Lance's family. We usually spend a week with the Riddoch's before Christmas and then take off after the family Christmas Eve party to spend Christmas with my fam.

Poor thing, by the end of our vacation this little girl is SICK of the car!

Kiya and her cousin Caitlyn. Kiya has lots of fun cousins close to her age!

Yet another picture with the binky. Heaven help me when it's time to take that thing away!

Meagan, Shawna, Cara and me! It was so fun to see all of them! We had a good time shopping, going to lunch, and Shawna showed us how to make cute flower clippies for our girls (thanks Shawna!).

Kiya and her Great Grandma Strobel.

Lance and his bro Brant

Just Chillin

Kiya meeting her cousin Bella for the first time!

Um, yeah. Kiya knows where the good stuff is, mom's purse!

Lance, Kiya and Taylor and Cara's cute baby Anton.

Uncle Rees and Kiya

Ok, I love this picture. I believe I was sitting there telling her no, while Lance took the picture. She's looking at us like "What? I'm not doing anything!"

Christmas 2008

Here's more Christmas!  Lance, Kiya and I went and saw the lights at the Mesa Temple.  It's kind of a fun little tradition that we started.  Kiya appreciated them a bit more this year than she did last.  It's fun to see her growing up, she started walking the week before Chistmas!  Which has definitely been an adventure in itself.  She's also started saying a few words - stop(top), night night(nigh nigh), do this do that(do dis do dat).  I have loved every stage our little girl is going through.  I feel so blessed to have her in my life.

Kiya with her mama and dada in front of the Mesa Temple

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My child LOVES her binky, sometimes it's hard to get a pic without it :

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This was during our loooong journey up to Idaho.  Kiya was so good, she read her books and actually watched the DVD player really good.  She doesn't really watch much at home (too busy getting into anything and everything), so I don't know if she wasn't used to it or what, but she wouldn't blink she just stared at the screen and her eyes would start watering really bad.  Lance and I kept trying to get her to blink :)

On the way up to Idaho we usually always stop and stay the night at my Grandparents in Utah.  It's always fun to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house and this time was no exception.  We opened presents and got some really fun cuddly blankets.

Kiya really cleaned up at her Great Grandparents house, she loved her cuddly doggy and pretty coat and a Christmas book!  Kiya loves stuffed animals she hugs them and gives them kisses and makes squealy animal noises.

While in Idaho we went to the Harwood's ugly sweater party.  (In Jess and I defense we rolled into Idaho the night of the party, hence the lack of ugly sweater on our part).  It was a really fun party - thanks Whitney and Travis.

Girls Night

So I thought I'd start posting all the Christmas Season stuff.  Starting with girl's night at the Nutcracker.  Jessica, Leah and I went last month.  It was so fun to get away for a night, we went to the show and afterwards went out for sushi.  

Random!

This post is completely random. My lovely sister Katie (love ya Kates) accidentally loaded all my pics onto my fam's computer, which somehow erased them from my memory card. So the other night my awesome daddy emailed me a bunch of the pics that I had lost from my camera. I was so excited to get them, and thought they were too cute not to put on here :) A lot of them are from our adventures this last summer!

All tired out after a trip to the Zoo.

I bought this little monkey while at the zoo. It ended up being Kiya's favorite animal there :)

Bath Time!

Aunt Shelly, Kiya, and Lamb :)

Grandma Cook and Kiya (love the hairbow)!

The Fam up at Secret Lake.

This was at Christmas time, sleeping with uncle Brian. This one pulls at the heart strings, my brother Brian is on a mission right now. We love him and miss him and can't wait to see him again in a little over a year from now.

Kiya with her Grandma and Grandpa, gotta love Costco!

Happy Girl!

This was in our apartment for the summer. Sunday pictures. I love this dress, Great Grandma DeHaan made two of these by hand for Kiya, they are priceless.

Again, in our summer apartment. Kiya was just starting to figure out the crawling thing. She looks like she's goin down for a pushup :)

Kiya and her aunts and uncles :)

I Love this picture! Kiya loves her daddy so much!

4th of July

Kiya is the first Grandchild, Great Grandchild, and Great Great Grandchild on my mom's side. She's a very popular girl! This is at our family reunion in the summer, where she constantly had an "entourage." My sister Shelly is in the middle, and the rest are all my cousins. Good lookin' bunch!

Kiya and her aunt Katie taking a little nap.

Kiya and me at the Zoo