She's One!

Today is Isabell's 1st birthday. Kaylynn made her a new leash, a card and a birthday cake with her Easy Bake Oven; then we sang to her. She said not all her animals have birthdays (thank goodness - that would be a lot of cake!), but apparently Isabell does. Kaylynn is staying entertained on her winter break!

Nutcracker

Our little mouse did a great job in all her Nutcracker performances this weekend. She looked so cute and nailed her "solo" bumping into Clara!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Christmas begins...

The Christmas season has started and will continue all month long! Kaylynn had a great time at the Children's holiday party at NCAR. She painted an ornament, decorated a cookie, got her face painted, made a reindeer candy cane and had a nice chat with Santa!
We had an early Christmas with G&G Vogt, too. We got some great gifts and had a wonderful time with them visiting.
Kaylynn was so excited to get Kit's best friend - Ruthie!
And her new boots! She is a Justice kid from head to toe!
Just for fun, here are some pictures of Kaylynn and I all dolled up for "The Lion King" last month, too!
Can't you just hear the commentary while she is posing for pictures?!

Giving basketball a "shot"!

Kaylynn played basketball in October and November and (thankfully!) seemed to enjoy it! Here are some pictures of her out on the court against all the boys. She made several baskets and was pretty good at dribbling the ball up the court. I was personally very proud of her instincts to get back on defense so quickly!

Another Wednesday, another snowy day!

I love this weather! Last weeks snow just finished melting so it was about time to get some more. This could happen every Wednesday for the next 3 months and I would be fine with it.
Not quite as much as last week, but 7" is still pretty respectable.
I am not sure if this guy is still smiling though...

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Kaylynn is having a wonderful trick-or-treat "season" and already has a load of candy prior to the actual night of Halloween!It's a gorgeous night for the trick-or-treaters tonight - luckily right before the next winter storm (hopefully!) comes in tomorrow night!

Trip to UND

It was my turn to head up to UND to give a seminar to the Atmospheric Sciences graduate students. This time we brought the whole family. (We needed to show Kaylynn where she was going to be attending school some day!) We had a great time! The seminar went well and K liked the campus. She said "It isn't too cold here". We brought her at the right time of year! K also really enjoyed seeing a Sioux hockey game in their home arena! Here are some pictures from our fun trip.
We started the game in the upper bowl.Then we moved down to some empty seats in row 2 for the third period.
Sioux score!Hopefully we got Kaylynn hooked on UND!! Maybe we should lock in a tuition rate now?!