Another Easter Video

I have all these fun videos we took while out with Grandma K, Grandma and Grandpa Cook, and Todd's aunts and uncles. So as I am working on other things on the internet anyway, I am taking the time to get them downloaded and share them with you. So...it's a little out of order (maybe). But here is another fun clip.

When we first got to Grandpa Cook's house almost three years ago now. Kylee was about to turn one putting Karla at two and a half. Todd looked around and noticed that nobody was there. We knew the Elder's Quarum was coming to help unload the truck. But since nobody was there, he got excited. He pulled our anxious toddlers out of the car. "I want to show you something." And he took them straight to the merry-go-around.

Emily's graduation

I went on a long vacation. I needed it too. But the first leg of our trip was out to Rexburg Idaho to celebrate with Emily Jean Nef. She graduated from BYU-Idaho as a Pre-school Teacher. We are proud of her. It wasn't easy to finish school while becoming a mommy. Devin and her will have their second child (first little girl)--another great achievement!! Way to go! After her graduation celebration, we hung out with Todd's family--alot of the time we spent with Aunt Julie. I enjoyed water aerobics class with her, visiting, and playing.

Who gave the baby chocolate? The kids did really well in the car. I am so proud of them. We got a portable dvd player--the kids thought it was great. And it was a huge help.

Here we have our monsters: Karla, Kylee, and Jakie

Aunt Julie took us to feed the ducks. Do you see all those kiddos. Even Kaylyn got involved. We left Allison in the truck.

Our wild things.

Rodney, Trevor and Spencer pictured above. (Spencer is one of the newer editions to the Nef family).

Here we have Kaylyn, 11 months; Arianne, 18 months ish, Allison 5 months old. You could definately tell that Kaylyn was older and a ton more mobile, but they are almost the same size. Allison is a little bit smaller than her.

Here is us again, feeding the ducks. The kids had so much fun with this.

More video clips from Easter

Here is a video my mom took. Kaylyn really wanted to suck on pencils. We would not let her, so my mom, surprisingly enough, gave Kaylyn a sucker. She loved it!! And she has done really well suckers (we watched her closely). So here is Kaylyn!These are videos of 4 generations playing together. How fun!

Easter with Grandmas

"This is my swing" Grandma K. We swapped a lot of stories.

Grandma K playing with Grandpa Cook

On the teeter totter with Grandpa Cook

Playing on the swing set. How high can climb?

All these years and they are still very much in love.

Some of Grandma's jewlery.

Tyler is playing dress up with Grandpas hats

Todd flew Karla's Tinkerbell kite.

We did paper bag kites. It was great! And we had plenty of wind.

We played in Grandma Cooks jewlery. She then let us pick one out for each of my girls. One for Lorna, and those girls, and one for the other granddaughters.


Trying on a bracelette.

This was grandma cooks grandma's quilt top.

The scraps were so small--and it's hand stichted.

I actually have some pictures of me because I gave Garth my camera for a while.

Karla on the merry go round.

All the brothers and sisters were able to get together. We just happen to live close.

Grandpa taking the kids on the merry go round.

Karla dancing.

Grandpa and Kaylyn on the merry go round. Kaylyn didn't want to get off.

We did also have an Easter egg hunt and we colored eggs--but I guess those pictures didn't make the cut. We so enjoyed seeing our family. And we are so glad they came out. One of these days we will have to make it out to North Carolina.

Karla goes to Preschool

Karla's ECAP preschool class. Ms. Lara is her teacher with Ms. Leta and Ms. Dana as aids. Karla has loved Preschool this year. She loves to do homework. Her teacher said she is the Queen of Patterns. She picked it up immediately and is constantly looking for patterns. She often does complicated patterns as well as simple patterns. We did an activity (making paper chains) and karla made hers with a pattern, and we included Kylee, and Kylee messed up Karla's pattern. So Karla fixed it after Kylee lost interested and moved on. It ended up going blue, green, yellow, purple, purple, green, blue, yellow, yellow, green, yellow purple, and then repeat. And Karla did repeat so that you could see the pattern.
Karla also shows her fathers inclination for numbers. She can count to 14--14 through 17 messes her up. She can add and subtract numbers under 10. She does word problems. If given the choice she will work on number homework over letter homework any day. But she doesn't struggle with letters either. She can write her name. She loves to copy. And she has learned to write Karla heart mom--and writes it on everything!! She is the only one in her class to pretend to write. With Karla's love of books, I don't think it will take her long to pick up on reading. She already reads two words: a and I. Her best friends are Pacie, Joseph, Darian, and Autumn. (At this point she really wants to marry Joseph). She always has to tell me what is in the share can. The share can gets passed around. On your turn, you put something in it. And then you give the class clues to see if they can guess what it is. When we sing songs, which we like to do a lot, Karla always wants to sing a song from preschool.
ECAP has been a great fit for our family. And as reluctant as I was, I am glad we put her in. She has blossomed (and into a social butterfly). She is always asking to go play at peoples houses now.
Karla, Mommy and Daddy love you so much!! And I am so proud of you. I know you can do anything! You are beautiful, but more than that, you have a good heart with so much love!! I can't wait to see what you do with it. Great things are ahead for you, and I'm so glad you came to our family.