FEBRUARY!!!!

i cannot believe it is february! my computer crashed so i have been absent from blogging.

it has been a great start to 2010!~ we have really enjoyed this year and are excited about what the lord has planned for our family this year. we are praying for a healthier 2010 with less illness :) but we are also praying for a year of spiritual growth. we have made some high goals this year to help us in alot of areas in our lives. i am praying to really stay focused and stay faithful to what god has placed in our hearts.
mark is doing great! i have been overwhelmed this year by the support we have gotten during the diagnosis and adjusting to life with marks sarcoidosis. i can honestly say i feel he is doing GREAT!!! i have seen a huge change in his energy these last couple weeks! it is sooooo exciting to see him start to feel "normal" again. we are praying hard that this disease does not flare up this year and we keep heading in the direction towards remission!!

kya is also doing awesome. she is loving school ! she also started at a new dance academy last month. she is in a ballet/tap class and is having a blast!!! i love watching her dance and interact with the other little girls in her class. kya has such a caring and sweet spirit and i am so proud of her! i feel like i learn so much from her each day on how to treat people the way god calls us too! she is one special girl! we just got her all signed up for kindergarten. she starts the beginning of july right before her 5th birthday! i cannot believe my baby girl is going to be in kindergarten! i can't talk about it much or i start crying. i am so excited for her, but am going to miss her SOOOO much!

kinley is amazing! she is running now, climbing everywhere! she is a total monkey! you would never have known she was so delayed in her gross motor skills! i am amazed in the progress she has made since she started walking in september! in 5 short months she has progressed sooo much! she has also had a much healthier start to 2010! she has had a couple little colds, but it has been amazing to see her bounce right out of them and not get double ear infections with each little bug! taking her adenoids out and replacing her tubes has helped her a ton! we also did a followup hearing test in dec and her hearing is back to normal. there were some concerns if there was going to be any permanent damage done to her ears from her 20+ ear infections. we are so happy for this and can't wait to see her speech progress now that she can actually hear! we are getting her back into speech therapy this month. kinley is a ball of fun and i am loving watching her learn new things every day!

i am also doing great! i am loving my life as a mom and wife! i feel so blessed to be given the opportunity to raise my girls to be the best people they can be. i feel blessed to be in an amazing marriage. i seriously have the best husband in the world who loves me soo well! i am back to working 2 nights a week. it is much busier, but is going great! i love my job, and am so thankful to have a job where i can still be home with my girls everyday and make money for our family! i feel sooo blessed in my life !

mark and i are so excited that in april we get to go to mexico! we had planned this trip last year, but then mark got diagnosed 2 weeks before we were supposed to leave so we cancelled. but i am soooo excited that we were able to re book and are going THIS year!

i also am lucky enough to be going on a trip with my sisters and mom in may! i am going to be one spoiled mama this spring with 2 trips to mexico!! i can't wait to lay on the beach with a margarita in my hand and just relax...ahhh :)

well here are a couple pictures of my sweet girls from last night. i promise to blog more often now that i have my computer back! :)

christmas 2009

marks dad, stepmom and sister came to colorado this year for christmas! this was the first time they have ever been here for christmas so we were very excited! everyone stayed here and the girls were so exctited to have everyone sleep here :)

there was alot of game playin, book reading, and just over all fun!!

auntie kerry got a nice family shot before we headed to church on christmas eve

the girls got the traditional pj's and slippers on christmas eve night along with a couple of little fun gifts

two excited girls :)

kya christmas morning...so happy :)

stocking time :)

the one thing kya really wanted a music box, kinley was a little sleepy but has LOVED her lincoln logs :)

we celebrated christmas with my family at my mom and dad's house the sunday after christmas...here is all the kids opening their stockings from gaga and papa :)

we had a FABULOUS christmas and made many fun memories with family!

santa

we took the girls to see santa . it was so fun to watch kya so excited to see and talk to santa. kinley was all smiles until we took the picture. the man taking the picture was jumping up and down and making all kinds of crazy sounds...it think she was a little scared of him. she was fine sitting on santa's lap....the picture guy ....not too sure :)

kya's christmas school program

kya and kinley with some of their friends before the program

kya with kendall. they are such good friends and so love eachother!

kendall's little sister shelby...kinley loves her too!

family picture before the program

kya LOVES to sing...she did such a good job and sang her little heart out!

kya and her cousins after her performance

christmas vests

i love these vests! auntie kerry gave them to the girls last year for christmas and i am sooo glad they still fit this year! i can not believe how much the girls have changed in one year!

DEC 2009 DEC 2008

christmas pictures 2009

it is that time of year again when i do the annual christmas pictures. i love/hate it. something always comes up....a fall, sickness...something :) well this year was no different kya fell the day before our original pictures and gave herself a black eye so we rescheduled for the next week. the morning of our reschedule kinley woke up with a nasty cold. i figured we had to go and at least try to get some good pictures! it was an interesting morning trying to get a almost 2 year old to sit and smile. kya of course was a doll sitting perfect and listening. but i have to admit i was very surprised with all the good shots we got! i love having new pictures of the girls!

gotta love the sister pictures :)

one of both of their favorite things...reading books! this was an easy one!

sweet girls :)

love this of both of them...finally a picture of kinley walking :)

i love how their personalities come through on pictures!

Merry christmas :)

disney on ice

we decided to take kya and maci to disney on ice this year for part of their christmas present. they were both VERY excited to get dressed up in their princess dresses :)

the boys were supposed to go to the parade of lights but it was SOOO cold so they last minute got tickets to go too! we ran into the boys in the lines going in, just enough time to get a group picture :)

we had a couple of very excited little princesses on our hands :)

are they cute or what!?!?!

the girls got spoiled and got cotton candy with tinkerbell hats and auntie dana got them tinkerbell snow cones!! so fun! we also got to see princess tiana from princess and the frog!

love making such fun memories :)

gaga, auntie dana and at the last minute auntie sonya all came along for the fun night!

maci LOVEd the show, most of the time she would not even look at the camera...her eyes were glued on the ice! and also LOVED her cotton candy and snow cone :)

we had so much fun...mark and i couldn't stop watching maci and kya's faces as they watched the show. it was PURE excitement!

it was an AWESOME show! we can't go again next year!