Getting the morning started
Cozy bathrobe gals...
Santa brought a Karaoke machine that was quite the hit. Here Aubrey and Kayla share a verse of Jingle Bells.


Brenna and her Leap Frog
Brenna loves ducks!!!

Emily's preschool class had a field trip to Wheeler Historic Farm today. Jenna and Brenna joined in the festivities and got to see ducks, geese, pigs, horses, cows, sheep, roosters, etc. (pretty much all the typical farm animals). Emily was a little overwhelmed at the ducks and geese approaching her for food. Brenna was nearly nubbed to death by aggressive geese who wanted the sandwich she was carrying and did not care that she was trying to eat it. We have no pictures of that as Jenna had to rescue her.

Emily loves her preschool and her preschool friends. It doesn't hurt that the gender composition is much like home with 9 girls and 1 boy.



Brenna thought she made friends with a rooster, but I guess he had a different idea. Who knew the farm could be so dangerous.

After two years of planning, Kayla's big day at the Lion House has finally come. Everyone had a really good time. Grandma Webber made the trip from California to participate, along with Robert, Jenna, Aubrey, and 7 of Kayla's friends. For those of you unaware, the Lion House is the historic home of Brigham Young in downtown Salt Lake City. They have preserved some of the rooms to appear as they originally were 150 years ago and it is a popular place today to hold wedding receptions, parties, and 8 - 11 year old girl birthday parties. It is so popular for birthday parties that Jenna had to reserve the date for Kayla's 8th birthday party back when she was six.
The girls enjoyed playing hide the thimble and button/button as well as making taffy and eating the little tuna fish sandwiches. The hit of the party was the cake with the hidden gumball. Much to everyone's dismay, none of the pieces served at the party had the coveted gumball (don't worry though, once we got home Kayla dug through all the frosting in the leftover cake and found it for her year of good luck). We feel so blessed for the wonderful friends that Kayla, and all of our girls have. They are all sweet girls who enrich our family.

On Sunday (Kayla's actual birthday), the Cain's and the Tomlinson's came over and we had cake and ice cream and Kayla opened her gifts. She loved all her gifts, especially her digital camera from Papa and Grandma Miller and has been busily taking pictures (we may need to get her a larger memory chip) and her baptism pillow.
Kayla is such a precious little girl and we feel so blessed to have her in our lives. It is hard to believe she is growing up so fast on us. Robert can not believe how much she is like Jenna, both in her sweet spirit and her glowing personality. How blessed we all are to have Kayla in our lives.

To try and keep all of you better connected to what is transpiring in our little piece of heaven, we are going to give this a little try. We will attempt to be as consistent as possible, at least making posts when new and exciting things are going on. We hope that this will help us feel closer to those of you who read it since so many of those who are dear to us are geographically far away.