Bouwhuis Bunch: 2011

Thursday, December 15, 2011

UtahSweetSavings.com

UtahSweetSavings.com is a great website for Utah and awesome ways to save!! A friend from Church writes for them and that's how I got hooked. I love getting the emails that list out the days deals and then I can look into them more if I'm interested and I don't have to do all the work!! LOVE IT!!! If you live in Utah, you should totally check out their website and get connected to it!! And right now they are doing a cool drawing for cash, a kindle touch and more!! Sounds great to me!! Now let's just hope that I win!!!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Happy Windstorm Birthday to me...

The backyard tree that split and pulled the power lines down with it!!

The trunk of the front yard tree

Good thing it went towards the street and not into the house!!

Well as many of you know, last week we had a really bad windstorm that managed to kill the power and take down thousands of trees in this area of Utah. We live in the little pocket of Davis County that was lucky enough to be without power for 5 days and then for us, since the back tree pulled down the power line, we had to wait until late that evening before it was back on in our home. It was crazy!! Of course it also happened to be my 31st birthday, so I teased that it was because Mother Nature thought I needed help blowing out all of those candles, but mostly it was just a pain. The first night, we honestly thought the power would be back on way before then, we stayed at our apartment in the freezing cold. We all slept in our bed and put lots of extra blankets on, but since our girls are use to their own beds, it was a horrible night for Brady and I and our girls!! We tried so hard to keep warm, but when it's super cold outside and even colder inside, it just isn't fun!! The second night, knowing we couldn't stay in our place again, we went to a hotel that was offering windstorm discounts. Brady's parents, of course were without power as well, and they had the room next door to us. We went swimming and made a fun little stay-cation out of it. And the next day, my in-laws power came back on so they were nice enough to let us stay with them. I was so glad to not be sleeping in the cold again!! That was seriously not fun, but Brady and I did learn a few things from this little storm-We need to be better prepared!!! We are planning to work on this right away!! It is so nice to be home after having to be away, even though I do love getting away and going on vacations. I think it was mostly because I was not prepared at all for this. And when we were grabbing clothes Friday night, I managed to grab all kinds of off colors for shirts to go together. Lucky for me I did grab the same shoes!! We put all of our food into ice chest but most of it went bad, even putting more ice in when it was needed. Our ice chest with all the frozen food was still frozen, but the food wasn't, which I thought was kind of odd. And the other 2 ice chest, were way warm when we opened them up after getting home. I know our apartment was super cold still and we put ice in them 3 times, so I'm guessing that they aren't the greatest of ice chest. Good to know!! Prepare! Prepare!! Prepare!! Is our motto this year!! Hope all of you had minimal damage and that you enjoyed my birthday storm!!!

Live Nativity

You see that adorable little Angel up there in white and gold-that's my sweet Angel Jaylee!! Our ward was asked to help with the Live Nativity that Kaysville does every year and they needed kids for different parts. Well knowing my daughter, I still went ahead and signed her up to do this. You see those of you that know our bug, know that sitting still and being reverent are not her strong points, let alone doing these 2 things at the same time and for 15 min. straight!! Well let me just say, that besides the one twirl, the looking up at the ceiling for a couple minutes, waving to those fans of hers down in the audience and yes even that one moment of being caught with her finger in her nose, she really did an awesome job!!

While J was up on stage, Daddy and Kynna went and colored a picture!! Jaylee did her beautiful picture after she was done. It was a really cool display they had set up. They had a ton of different Nativities from around the world, and then a kids area in the middle so they could color and do activities while parents looked around.

J is getting really good at staying in the lines!! And she is suddenly obsessed with her initials!!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Hi Hi Hi...

Kynna is becoming quite the little chatter box!! She is learning more and more words with her newest ones being, Uh-oh, whoa, bye-bye, and the dreaded No!! She has only said No like 3 times but it is so funny!! And she says the others ones all day long!! When she hears my mom on skype she starts saying Hi until she gets to see her as well, even if she is in bed already!! We try to make sure we let J call before bed just so Kynna will get a chance to talk as well. Kynna had her 15 month check-up a few weeks ago and she is still under 20 pounds. She is getting a little taller but she is still only in like the 10th percentile for her age!! She still has the chunky cheeks that you just want to eat!! She was doing better about not screaming as much but in the last 2 weeks she is back to her old ways so we'll have to get back to stopping that!! She still uses her pacifier when she is sleeping and on Sunday's during church when we don't want her to have a screaming outburst!!! She still calls it a nu-nu!! Kynna is getting a little more daring and has started to learn to climb on things. She mastered the stairs months ago, but only climbing up. I'm not brave enough to let her try the down thing yet!! She loves to drive her little car around the house and seems to be getting more secure with it and can finally reach the floor so she can move on her own!! She does get mad very easily when she gets stuck or when something is in her path!! But she's learning to move it and go around things!! She is almost 16 months and I do believe that she is going to LOVE Thanksgiving this year since eating is one of her favorite things to do!!! It will be fun!!!

Henicorn no more...

On Monday, we went to the Layton Park Lighting Ceremony with Nanny and Poppa. Well J has been calling a Unicorn a Henicorn forever and all of a sudden there is no more Henicorns. They had a Unicorn light display and J was still super excited to see it but when Nanny told her to look because there was a Henicorn, Jaylee very matter-of-factly informed her Nanny that it's called a Unicorn!! It was so sad to see that my little girl is growing up so fast!! I really was hoping that this Henicorn thing would last a little longer but not so much!! Oh well now we can find new things to love about our Bug!!

Jaylee is getting so grown up!! She is really smart and super sassy but we LOVE her more and more every day!! She has had another little growth-spurt and we find that her legs are really out growing the rest of her body!! I doubt she'll be very tall but it seems like she is really growing in so many ways!! She is getting better about being nice to her sister, which is the best ever!! She does still have her moments when she is kind of mean to her, but they are fewer and farther in-between!! She LOVES to sing and if she knows a song, you had better believe that she will sing her little heart out!! She also LOVES to learn and when she learns something new she will tell everyone she talks to about what she has learned!! Diego and Dora teach her all kinds of things!! And her newest LOVE, talking on the video(skype) with Grammy and Aunt Say!! She begs from the time she wakes up in the morning until she's sent to bed, to call them!! She kind of loves them!!! We typically call them almost every night to chat with them and see them!! She is so excited to spend Christmas with them this year!!

Family Pictures of my girls...

I know I'm bias but I do have some adorable girls!!! Here are a few different sets of our most recent family pictures. They were taken last month by my sister-in-law and she did a GREAT job, especially since our Kynna girl was super crabby and J just wanted to play and kept messing with her hair, Brady was hungry and just wanted to be done!! So needless to say it wasn't exactly the greatest of situations for family pictures, but there are some REALLY cute ones!!!