Quick Update

It seems like it has been forever! The charger for our computer decided to retire which in turn meant we could not turn on our laptop making blog entries non existent. Finally the new charger has arrived and we are back up and running!! We've been up to a lot since Christmas! There has been weddings, birthday parties, swimming lessons and with this horrible weather lots of time spent in the house.

Eva and Kynzley all ready for an evening of dancing at a wedding

The three amigas! Preschool buddies all ready for Macy's princess tea party

The girls made homemade purses, such a cute idea!

Another birthday party and Chuck-E-Cheese. This is one of Kynzley's favorite games! Gives her great practice - her form is gettin' good!

Swim Lessons

Celebrating with Hans Mayer a great accomplishment of reading 1000 books before Kindergarten! 

I love this picture! Francis got chosen to help with one of the songs and when it was over Kynzley gave him a huge hug and said "thanks daddy!"

With her certificate! 

(She actually accomplished this goal two years ago, but it's still fun to be recognized!)

Christmas/2013 wrap up

  Wow! Today definitely feels like a Monday. We had a wedding on New Years Eve and Francis went back to work this morning for the first time since the week before Christmas, making it feel like we just wrapped up the weekend. Crazy!
  We finished 2013 great! Our Christmas was nice and cozy this year! Kynzley has been anticipating Christmas since ...hmmm... I would probably say about July! Every time we would walk through a store we had to check out the toy isle and her famous line was "I'm going to ask Santa for that and that and that and that!" This year she got to visit Santa TWICE! Once in La Crosse and once up north. She was pretty excited since she was able to add to her list the second time ;) She specifically asked Santa for Princess Twilight Sparkles (My Little Pony) and Frozen jammies with snow on them with matching Elsa and Ana Dolls. Okay then! Santa must have thought she was a pretty good girl this year because both wishes were granted on Christmas morning! This year we also added Elfy, ,our elf on the shelf. Oh boy! Was he ever a great help when someone turned their listening ears off!!!! He hid all around the house sometimes causing mischief. Kynzley had a blast finding him!!!
    2013 was great and we cannot wait for 2014! So many fun things to come this year..... I can feel it! Happy New year!!!!!!!

Writing her letter to Santa. Cookies and Milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer :)

So excited to see what Santa ate!

All ready to see what Santa left them! 

It didn't take him long to disappear with one of his gifts

This year was so much fun picking out gifts! We each took Kynzley and decided to let her 100% on her own pick out what she wanted to get each of us. When I asked her what she wanted to get daddy her reply was "new sunglasses and a game"! She picked him out a pair AE sunglasses (with some bracelets lol) and a booger game

An Elsa dress!

The gift she picked for me: she thought I needed my very own baby. Too sweet! She also picked out some purple and pink nail polish! 

Ana Doll!

In heaven! 

Someone else was pretty happy with his gifts as well!

Sporting their new shades! Merry Christmas!!!

Little Performer

Kynzley has been super busy lately! She had her Christmas recital this past weekend and also had her Christmas concert for school. She was kept on her toes between rehearsals and performances! Unfortunately after the world slowed down for her she got the crud, but at least nothing is standing in her way of getting plenty of rest!!!! Hopeful wishes for a speedy recovery!!! Anyway ...... both the recital and the concert were so fun! Her dance group performed to a beautiful version of "Twinkle Little Star" and the girls did a great job in front of an auditorium full of spectators :) They also all looked beautiful!

Kynzley goes to a school that is preschool - grade 12, so for her Christmas concert it was fun to see the littlest to some of the biggest perform. They added an orchestra class this year which opened the concert with beautiful music! Kynzley's class sang a song about candy canes, ohhhh sooo cute!!! 

Kynzley and her BF Macy

Kynzley's class all dressed up!

"Oh candy cane, oh candy cane!"

Merry (first) Christmas

This past weekend we traveled to the FROZEN ( I REPEAT FROZEN) tundra -aka- up north to celebrate the first Christmas of the season! Besides the beyond negative temps we had a great time! Kynzley is blessed with lots of cousins close in age  to play with, she has a blast and is always pooped when we leave. We also got to meet the new addition to the family, baby Harmon Price! Such a cutie!

Eva, Kynzley, Owen and Nora making magnets for grandma for Christmas

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandbabies 

L-R: (top) Harmon, Eva, Kynzley, Owen, Nora, Halle and Becca

(as you can see, the kids play hard enough where holes get in the pants!)

Thanking Grandpa for her Christmas gifts :)

Saturday afternoon Kynzley got another opportunity to talk with Santa!

Merry Christmas 2013

Candy time!

The Price Family

Thormodson Family

Bowling

Friday night Kynzley went bowling for the first time! It was fun to watch her catch on and improve with each frame!

McKenna and Kynzley - ready to bowl

McKenna was an AWESOME cheerleader :)

good thing for bumpers ;)

We're not pros but we had fun! 

Goodbye October, Hello November

We said goodbye to October and hello to November with some fun activities! We wrapped up October with Halloween festivities. Kynzley really wanted to stay home this year and "throw candy at the kids" :) We were able to convince her to go trick-or-treating at a couple houses with our neighbors to get the whole days experience!

We stared November great! It was our neighbor, Aubrey's, third birthday party! It was a great time watching the kids play games, ride rides, dance and sing!

She's a pro!

Happy Birthday Aubrey!

Kynzley, Aubrey and Elise

*Side note!*

Francis shaved his beard.....and goatee for a beard growing contest at work (he had to be completely clean shaven on Nov. 1). Well, Kynzley has NEVER (I REPEAT N.E.V.E.R) seen Francis without facial hair. Ha! You can imagine how well this went, lol! While her and I were snuggled in bed Friday morning, Francis came in to say goodbye before work. He went in for a hug and a kiss and was welcomed by puzzledness :-/ She said "you look silly! You look different" When he left she looked at me and said "daddy looks different, he looks like Uncle Tom!" Throughout the day she kept reminding me how different and silly daddy looked before work and when he came home after work I think she was expecting his hair back. He walked in the door and we had one scared 3 year old :( All day we talked about taking daddy out to eat, when he walked in the door we couldn't get her to come out of the basement, she hid and would not look at her Francis! Finally we got her convinced that it was still daddy and we headed to eat. On our way tot he restaurant Francis was telling a story and Kynzley in the backseat whispered "mommy! His voice is still the same!" Lol! Yes, Kynzley it is still daddy! On Saturday she told Francis "don't worry! It will grow back and you will be daddy again." I guess someone is a fan of facial hair!!! Luckily, Francis is a beast and can grow a full beard overnight, she will have her daddy back in no time!