Parkinson Pics & a whole week of FUN!

We got a GREAT Picture of the two of them......

now we just have to work on our family ones :)

Hailey (5 months)Tyler (20 months)

So these pictures are from when we went to Jessie and Adams Wedding last week. It was beautiful! The colors, the decorations, the food and the dancing! We had a great time!
Jessie is Davids sister Kellys sister in law, so they were in town too! Christy (Davids sister too) also came in for a day to film the wedding. It was great to see everyone and spend some time with them.
Kelly and Richs family were here for about a week. It was fun to hang out with them and their fun, energetic 3 boys. Parker is the same age as Tyler (they are 2 weeks apart) and it was great to have them play together. They are getting at the stage when they CAN play, so it was so nice that they got to spend time together. We went to Outback one night, just the adults, luckily too bc we ended up waiting for about an hour, but we did get some free appetizers so its all good. On Sunday we all were at his parents house and had some yummy steak! We then played ticket to ride, a great game! and Stacey won! The next few days were busy for them with wedding stuff, so we got back together on Thursday. We let the kids play at McDonalds before dinner at Magelbys, hoping that would get a lot of their energy out before a sit down dinner, yeah, that wasnt so...lol. No the kids did great, but yes it was a busy dinner. Then we headed back to the house to talk and play games. We played Carcassone this time around and David won, again! I dont think he has ever lost that game, CRAZY! So all in all we had a great time seeing the Evansons and wish them all the best on their move to Georgia, hope to see you soon! We love you!
Then off to St George, Kyle was going through the temple so were happy to be there with him. I stayed home with the kids and I now know what it would be like with 3 little ones...it would be....A LOT OF FUN! Ha ha, it was a hand full, but they were all wonderful! Then everyone got home and we had some pizza, went to urban renewal (great little shop) got some ice cream at Blue bunny and then headed down main street to this little water attraction they just opened. Everyone was there! It was fun..... Kate especially love it! I forgot my camera at Daves parents house, hence not very many posts, its STILL there! anyways, so Brittney has all the pics we took. Tyler is not really that fond of water things like that, David did make him get in though...he started to have fun for a bit. Hailey was with the grandparents just hanging out in the beautiful weather we had. We stayed there until we had to come back and get ready for Kevins eagle ceremony! It was great! Kyle was able to give Kevin the eagle. My dad and Dan spoke and they both did beautifully! Then we had some homemade cookies Rocio made and they were DELICIOUS!
We went back to moms to pack to get ready to leave, but we never want to leave when we are with everyone, so we talked and talked and talked and eventually got out of there at around 10, yeah we didnt get home til Sunday! lol. It was a great weekend! Dan, Britt and Kate will be coming up this weekend for a wedding, so we'll get to see them, then the next weekend we are off to Cali, we can't wait!!!!!

Conference Weekend

We had a great weekend, not only because we were able to be together watching conference but we had family come in town and we all got to hang out.
My cousin Laura and her cousin came in from Miami on Friday for Lauras mission reunion and for conference. They were able to go to the sessions on Sat AND Sun. They were really excited and we were happy they got to go. During priesthood session, Laura, Paola and Wendy hung out with me and we decided to have a cousins dinner. So Sunday after conference all the cousins came over and we had dinner, dessert and a lot of FUN!

Roland, Andrea, Andy, Andreas brother Paul, Wendy, Laura, their cousin Paola, Anthony, Kyle, David, Tyler, Hailey and I feasted on some chicken and rice, with bread and salad. I dont think David and I ever made a dinner for that many people, but it came out great! Gotta love the crock pot! Then we talked a bit, everyone played with Tyler and Hailey and then leave it to Kyle to bring out a new multi player wii game and we were all hooked.Oh so the story with Tylers lip....On saturday morning, David and I decided to go skiing (yes we did listen to conference on the radio) anyways, so we head over to his parents house to drop the kids off and as we were heading out, we see Tylers hat was in the car so I tell David to go leave it with his mom. He was taking a little longer than expected so i head in and hear Tyler crying. Apparently he decided to follow us out and tripped and fell and cut his lip WIDE open in the process. Davids dad came up and said he might need stitches. WHAT!!! and why david didnt come running out to get me when he saw Tyler crying with blood all over instead of cleaning it up so I wouldnt see it if I walked in, thats another story :)
So my poor child is so sad but he is a trooper, after a drink and a banana he calms down, the wound doesnt look that bad and he goes to grandma. We say bye and head to the mountains.
We had a great time, it was cold, i was scared, but i got over it and had a great time.
So back to the pictures, that is the mark on the bottom of his lip, it is probably all healed by now, but it was weird, when i first saw it, it looked like he already got stitches because it was a perfect, i mean perfect X under his lip, it was weird, but yeah so hes fine and we're very grateful!

This was funny. Every time Tyler saw Paola, he would run to her and give her a big hug and want her to hold him constantly....does that sound familiar, yeah, thats what he does with my MOM, crazy huh, we think he thought Paola was my mom. When Laura and Paola came in on Sunday, Laura came in first, Paola followed and Tyler started running toward them and then jumped straight into Paola arms, totally skipping Laura, it gave us all a big laugh. But yeah we couldnt believe how he was acting, luckily Paola didnt mind holding him and playing with him all weekend, Thank you!

Tyler and Paola aka Grandma for the day

Pictures....yeah they werent all ready...

As I said Kyle brought this new wii game, you had to do some crazy things with the remote, it was very involved. You would need to stand up, twist, hold the remote to your nose and oh watch out if you got the "big cheese" who knows what you would end up doing, lol!

Kyle

Anthony

Lindsey

We had ice cream and brownies for dessert. I usually dont make dessert for our meals, so this was a treat, especially for Tyler

ummmm....I'll say he really liked it!

I guess Kyle did too!
What do you expect from a poor, starving for home cooked meals, college student getting ready to leave for his mission, I'd look this excited too :)

Hailey loved having everyone over, she especially LOVED Laura. Laura would take her and talk to her and Hailey could not stop giggling everytime she had her, it was very cute!
p.s. thanks for holding her so much she loved it!

Our smiley baby Hailey

Tyler and Uncle Kyle

First attempt........

Second attempt.....
YAY we got everyone looking!
Back: Wendy, Anthony, Paola, Laura, Lindsey, Hailey & David
Couch: Andy, Tyler, Roland, Andrea, Paul (Andrea's Twin) Kyle & we cant forget Precious

Thanks guys for coming, we love spending time with all of you, come again any time! We'll have to do it again very soon!

My Brother Kyles' Mission Call

We went down to St George for Easter weekend to spend time with our family, but most of all to be there when Kyle opened his mission call. My mom received it on Wed and we were all coming down on Friday, she was going crazy, she wanted to open it for him, but luckily she didnt and we all got to be there for this special event in his life! Kyle with his "call"
All of us gave our guesses to where he would serve and as we were doing that, his friend asked what the postage on the envelope was, Kyle says $1.31 and they both blurt out "STATESIDE!"

Some friends that were there:
cousin Robert, Friend TJ and Matt, and cousin Anthony

Cute nephew Tyler

Dad and precious little niece Hailey

Girlfriend Carly and of course Kyle was there and the rest of the family! minus Brittney, Dan and Kate and Aunt Linda but dont worry they were on the phone!
With everyone gathered, Kyle starts...

Kyle opening THE envelope....
(Carly holding the phone that Brittney was on)

It is open! He stopped and paused, he still hasnt opened the book yet to see the letter for his call....

Here we go, he's reading.....
(Dad holding the phone with Aunt Linda and Carly holding the phone for Britt)

He doesnt look too happy does he......

lol, Just kidding! He reads it aloud, he tells us where hes going and then he immediately gets passed the phone.

Here he is talking to Brittney and Aunt Linda....

Elder Kyle Pierce is called to serve in the
Virginia Richmond Mission
He reports to the MTC June 11, 2008
Congrats Kyle, we know you'll do great, we love you and thanks for letting us be there to share that special moment in your life!

BYU Intramurals

We went to Kyles Basketball game on Thursday. It was the first game in their tournament and it was a really good game. It went down to the last second! Anthony had a nice 3 to get ahead in the last few minutes and then it was tied and there was about 5 seconds left, Kyles team had the ball and just as the clock ran out they fouled #30, so he got 2 foul shouts. He missed the first one but made the second so they won! 52 to 51 was the final, YAY for them, we love going to the games, Tyler loves them and we get to see not only Uncle Kyle play but we get to see my cousins Anthony and Roland play too and Andrea takes score, so its a family affair and we love going! Good job guys well cya at the next game!

Some action shots
The first one is Roland and who know what that guy is doing and then the second one has all three of them

Tyler sat like this the whole time, did not let go of the ball, it was so cute! Then after the game Anthony took him on the court to play a little bball, he loved it!

Kyle at the foul line, he had a million foul shots

Anthony, Kyle and Roland
(sorry for the bad pics, Hailey was in my lap the whole time)