Kaelen outside

Kaelen loves to play outside. He always wants his coat on and when it is cold he wants his hat. He will grab everything and will have you put it on sometimes for him. Other times he will do it. He will spend hours walking around the yard and playing with Bernie. When I saw him outside in what he was wearing I had to grab the camera and take pictures. He had put his hat on himself. It was so cute. He also got some awesome monkey rubber boots that he loves and put's on himself. They were on his right feet this time

Kaelen turns 3

Kaelen turned 3 today. We still can't believe how quickly time has flown. His birthday was on Sunday this year and during General conference. I spent the morning and afternoon making his cake and dinner for everybody. This was acutally his second cake because the first cake he found on the counter and decided to take a very large piece out of the center of it. I was not too pleased.

Kaelen loves the movie Cars, so we decided to make him a race track cake. He loved it. We also for dinner made Grandma Fishers amazing "mom's chicken". Everybody loved it. Kaelen doens't have a favorite meal just favorite foods so I picked dinner for him.

Grandpa and Grandma Heileson came over as well as Rachael, Joseph, Carter and Collin. Kaelen had no idea that it was his birthday. We would tell him he was turning 3 but he didn't even know he was 2. Anytime you ask him how old he is turning he says "good".

When we opened presents he at first had no idea what to think of it. He was giving them to everybody else but after a bit he understood the concept and was excited to open the presents.

Kaelen loves cake and candles as well. If he says any cake he calls it a birthday cake. He loves to blow out candles too. If there are candles on cake he will blow them out even if it isn't for him.

For Kaelen's birthday he got some battery operated trains for his train track. He got two that are from the movies Cars. The train set was originally Jacob's but he never played with it. Kaelen plays with his all the time. He got a cool portable car launcher from his Grandpa and Grandma Fisher and Grandpa and Grandma Heileson got him some much needed clothes. He also got some books. He was given a book when he was a baby about dogs. He loved it so much that it was destroyed very quickly. Well we bought him a new one. He was so excited. He also got the books 5 little monkeys. He loves the stories of the 5 crazy little monkeys. He also got a Boise State bat and ball. He loves Boise State and baseball.

Here are some things that Kaelen can do or does. I could write for hours but here are a few.

-Kaelen's favorite foods are carrots, lettuce, apples, strawberries, oranges and anything chocolate.
-He loves Boise State. He will see the Boise State logo and right a way yell Boise State.
-He loves to watch Dora, Diego, Backyardagins, Cars, Toy Story, Lion King, Dogs (101 Dalmations)
-He talks all the time and says everything. Our favorites are:
Avring (Averien)
Pick he up (for picking Averien up)
he too heavy (when he doesn't want to Averien anymore)
hey Guys (he will yell down stairs for Rachel and Jacob and calls them guys)
Boisa State (Boise State)
puter (computer)

-he loves to count to 13 and counts everything
-loves to chase the dog around the house
-loves to play outside. Will spend hours outside
-loves to play with trains and cars
-he doesn't drink from anything but a cup and then when we go places like church he takes his water thermos. Only water goes in it too, everything is in a cup.
-loves to throw things
-really good at beating up Jacob
-pretends to talk on the phone to everybody but never wants to talk on the real phone
-everything is his pretend computer

Grandpa Heileson and Averien

Grandpa Heileson doesn't like holding new babies very much or so he says. He says he doesn't want to hurt them and doesn't like it when they cry. I always try to get him to hold my babies. He loves kids but babies not as much. Well with Averien he seems to want to hold her a lot more. She loves him. These pictures are so awesome because you can see how happy she is and how happy Grandpa is. I have always said that Grandpa has these blinking lights around his head that only kids and babies can see because as much as he says he doesn't want to hold the babies they all love him. All the kids seem to love him. They all fight over Grandpa at times too. These pictures are just so awesome.

Averien is 2 months old

Averien is 2 months old now. Time seems to fly by so fast. She is getting so big. She is getting so big that she gained 3 pounds in a month. Wow. She definitely doesn't like to eat. She now weighs 11lbs, 9 oz and is 22 inches long. Averien smiles all the time and loves attention. She sleeps pretty good. She will sleep 4 hours at a time at night. She still never cries. Her cry has gotten louder but only cries when tired or hungry. She has started to babble a little too. It is really fun. She is such a fun addition to have in our family. Everybody loves her and loves holding her. Kaelen asks to hold her all the time and then after a couple of seconds says she's too heavy and doesn't want to hold her anymore. Kaelen will acutally call her a he. Everybody is a he. It is pretty funny.

Jacob shooting a gun

Jacob for Christmas got a red rider BB gun. He loves shooting it. Enoch set up targets all over the yard for Jacob to shoot. I was so glad that all the 'Chick for Congress' signs that we had in our garage were finally getting some use out of them. :-) Jacob did a pretty good job shooting. Kaelen loved watching him but also was really good at setting the targets back up. When Jacob would shoot them down Kaelen would then run out and put them back up. They played outside for a really long time doing this.

Jacob"s spelling bee

We have decided that Jacob is such a smarty pants. Today at school Jacob had a spelling bee with all of the 2nd graders at his school. Jacob a week or 2 before was given a list of words to study. Jacob worked pretty hard on the words with his dad to learn them. The day of the spelling bee they divided the kids into 2 groups. The higher and lower spellers. The lower spellers competed in a the spelling bee and then the higher spellers competed in the afternoon. The students were all given numbers and then one at a time stood up and was given a word. It was like a regular spelling bee. If they got it wrong then they would hear the bell and then they were out. We were not going to go to this but in the morning decided to go. I called Enoch too and asked him to come because I thought it would be fun for Jacob to have his mom and dad there watching. I was so glad that I made that decision to go. I would have been so sad if I hadn't of gone. Jacob made it through the first round where about 10 kids were left. Jacob then made it all the way to the last 3. It was Jacob with a boy and a girl. The boy ended up spelling one of his words wrong and then it was against Jacob. The girl and Jacob kept going back and forth. Jacob would get a word right and then the girl would. Jacob would get a word wrong and then the girl would as well. They did this for about 10 words or more. It was so crazy. At one point the kids from their classes in the audience kept saying just get a word wrong Jacob so we can be done. It was so funny. Jacob during it too would have ht biggest grin like he was ready to laugh and he would have to grab his mouth to stop from smiling. He was so fun to watch. Well at the end of it Jacob got his word right and the girl got her word wrong. It was so nerve racking. I was freaking out inside. I was so dang proud of Jacob. I still can't believe we almost missed it. Jacob got a medal and a trophy for winning the spelling bee. Jacob won by spelling the word 'recognizing'. The hard thing was after kids who didn't win cried because they had missed their words. It made me sad because here was my boy who won and then others who were sad. I guess that's life. It made me happy too that Jacob did really well at it because he isn't athletic like a lot of the kids at school so it was nice to have him be good at it. Jacob was such a good winner. He went and shook hands with the other 2 he competed with and told them that they did really well. He was so sweet and humble about winning.

Here is a list of the some of the words from the spelling bee (how many of you could have spelled them?)
centimeter
challenge
compare
comprehension
contrast
define
demonstrate
describe
develop
differentiate
distances
estimate
evaluate
expert
expository
forces
freezes
friction
fulcrum
gases
glossary
gravity
identity
inclined
inferences
informational
investigate
kilometer
length
liquids
magnetism
measure
model
motion
Newton
observe
predict
recognizing
repel
rough
smooth
surface
technology
temperature
understanding

Rachel and Kaelen Sleeping

I came up stairs and this is what I found. It was so cute. Rachel had been asleep on the couch and Kaelen climbed up on the couch and had laid down next to Rachel and fallen asleep with her. It was so cute to see them sleeping next to each other like that.

March and April Birthdays in the Heileson family

Something that is fun with the Heileson family is there seems to be so many of the same birthdays around the same time so we will all get together and celebrate every bodies birthday together with a bunch of different cakes. This time we all got together and celebrated Aunt Rachael's, Uncle Joseph's, Aunt Lindsay's, Lucy's 2nd birthday and Kaelen's 3rd birthday together. Kaelen and Lucy both had their own little cakes. They loved blowing out their own candles.

Averien in the bath

Okay we really love bath pictures. Averien is so fun to watch. She splashes and loves putting her feet on the tub wall. She will spend all day laying in the tub if you let her. She is always so happy to be warm and in water. She will kick and splash so much that we end up getting a little wet too. It is just extremely fun. It amazes us everyday how much bigger she gets and how much she changes.

Averien and her cousin Claire

Today Madeline and Brytton welcomed a new little girl into their family. Claire Jane Long was born early in the morning weighing 10lbs 2oz. She was bigger than or just as big as Averien at 5 weeks old. Poor Madeline has big babies. I can't even imagine. It was super fun to get pictures though because they look about the same. Claire even though was as big or bigger than Averien was still a newborn so she slept the whole time and seemed way heavier because she has no head control and her head seems heavier than it really is. It was nice to be so close to the hospital and to take the kids to see their new cousin. It will be fun to see Averien and Claire as they grow up because they are so close in age.

Our Trip to Boise March 4-6th

On Friday in the late morning we all drove to Boise to spend the weekend. We were going for Morgan's baptism on Saturday. I was so worried about driving and how Averien would do. She actually did awesome. It takes about 3 1/2 to 4 hours to get to Boise. Averien actually slept the whole way till we got to Mountain Home (30 minutes from Boise). She pulled over there and changed her and fed her and then drove on to Boise.

When we got to Boise we went right away to meet with Annelise who took our family pictures of the blue turf at the stadium. When the football team is not practicing the field is open to the public. We went in our Boise State attire and got pictures. I even went as far as making matching blue and orange flower clips for Rachel and Averien. We had so much fun and the pictures turned out amazing. Jacob and Kaelen absolutely loved it. They loved running up and down the field. It was pretty cold and windy out buy it didn't stop the kids from playing. Our family are huge Boise State fans we wanted an updated family picture for our living room. We have a 24x20 picture of us in our living room that we update all the time and this time we had to have it on the blue turf. Our kids will remember this for a long time.

After our pictures we checked into our hotel. We then went and met Annelise, Noal, Wendy, Morgan, Ainsley and Grandpa and Grandma Fisher for dinner. We had a lot of fun eating. WE ate at a place called Soupor Salad. It is a buffet style place that has tons of soups and salads and then a pizza bar and taco bar. We loved it.

All of us but Wendy and Ainsley (they went home to bed) then went to Meridian Bowling lanes to go bowling. That was a lot of fun. I played with Kaelen so our score sucked. It actually would not have been better even if Kaelen had been playing with me. We even had the bumpers on and still did bad. Kaelen kept crossing the line though so we kept getting fouls. Kaelen also hated waiting his turn. We all had so much fun though. It was fun thing to do together as a family.

The next Morning (Saturday March 5th) we woke up and went to the mall to the Blue and Orange store where Jacob got some Boise State stuff signed by Jeron Johnson. He was a safety for the Boise State football player. Jacob loved it. Well just before Jeron Johnson was to leave the owners came up to us and said that Jeron wanted to give him a jersey with Jeron's number on it and signed. It was amazing. Jacob was so dang excited. It is a white football Jersey that retailed for $50. Wow, what an amazing thing to get for Jacob. I was so impressed. The owner said how much he loves their fans. That I think was the highlight of Jacob's whole trip this weekend.

Morgan was baptized in the afternoon. It was really awesome to be there. Jacob really loved it. Kaelen loved running around so Enoch wasn't their for any of the talks. It was a Stake baptism so they had other kids form the stake there too. We all sat in the chapel for the talks and then each ward was taken at separate times to the Relief Society room where they were baptized and confirmed. Kaelen loved watching Morgan get baptized. When she was done and they were closing the doors to the font Kaelen still sat on the floor watching. It was really cute. We were so glad that we could be a part of Morgan's baptism on her special day.

After Morgan's baptism we went to Noal and Wendy's for dinner with the Fisher and Park families. It was a lot of fun to hang out. Jacob and Morgan went and played the knect. They loved that. It is a totally awesome game that uses no remotes. It senses your body and you do different games just using your body. Amazing. We really loved hanging out with Noal, Wendy, Morgan and Ainsley. All of our kids get a long so well and we always loved being with them all. We ended up staying pretty late that night too.

The next morning after sleeping in we woke up and packed up and went to say goodbye to Grandpa and Grandma Fisher because they were heading back home and we wouldn't see them for a while. It was nice to see them for a bit and have our kids say goodbye. Our drive home on Sunday went really well. Averien once again slept really great. It was so nice. I hope she drives that good all the time. We loved our weekend with family. It was so much fun.

Crazy Dress Day

Rachel had a crazy dress day for Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2nd. She enjoyed picking out her outfit. Rachel has these little quirks that she does all the time. She gets her clothes out everyday and sometimes when she wants to know how it will look she lays it out on the floor so when she gets up in the morning she knows what to put on were. Rachel also everyday with a dry erase marker writes things on the mirror that she needs to remember for the next day. It will have how she wants to do her hair, remind her to grab certain things and to wash and brush her teeth. Sometimes it even has directions for Enoch on how to plug her flatiron or curling iron in. It is pretty funny. I love that she does it though. She will then after wipe it all off. When she does it though she never does forget important things for school. I enjoy each night before going to bed and going into the bathroom and reading what she has written. It always brings a smile to my face.

If you notice in the pictures of the mirror she has drawn pictures for Enoch on how to turn her crimper on. It is pretty creative and funny