The ultra nose!

So Hailee must take after her Aunt Jamie, because she smells everything and makes the funniest comments about it. We have had a new funny story to recount everyday for the past week. On Sunday she leaned over to Kevin in Sacrament Meeting and said, "Daddy, what that smell? It smells like cashews!" And to test if she truly knew what cashews were, we covered her eyes and held out some cashews for her to smell and she guessed it right instantly.

Then the next day was her birthday and our neighbor, Joy brought her a birthday cake and Hailee looked at it and then smelled in and said, "Mom, this smells like roast beef!" I started to laugh and then she said, just as seriously, "What's roast beef?"

A couple of days later she came in the room while Kevin was changing Kyle's diaper and she said, " It smells like fishies, Dad!" She is so random it cracks us up!

Then as Kevin and her Uncle Brad were playing a game together she walked up and said, "It smells like stinky feet." And her Uncle Brad said, "Sorry, It's probably me."

I have many more stories, but I'll spare you, it just cracks me up how she always has a comment to make about smells, she reminds me so much of my sister, Jamie when she does that. I love you Jamie! :o)

Hailee's 4th Birthday!

Paige, Hailee, Corrine and Raelyn! Three out of four birthday girls! Hailee turned 4 on September 23rd, Corrine turned 5 on the 24th, and Paige turned 3 on the 25th! Rae is just too cute to not let be in the picture.

Silly birthday girls!

Kyle likes Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's bean bag chairs! Isn't he just the cutest?

Happy to be here, at least Hailee was! :o)

Hailee had a little princess party with her friends and everyone got to come dressed up as a princess. Hailee is Sleeping Beauty and Rae is Cinderella. Perfect Princesses! And Rae bonked her head earlier that day, she ran into the corner of a door, and after the party she was running outside on the grass and fell, but her head landed on the cement and she hit her goose egg again. So, it became even bigger and brighter than it is in this picture. Poor thing.

Here are all of our princesses!

Doesn't Kev look so cute surrounded by all the little girls? He was so great, he ran the whole party with me being the backstage manager. He was so good with all the girls and all of the girly games. What a great Daddy!

I take ZERO credit for this cake! For enrichment we had a service auction and I bid and won on a birthday cake for someone in my family. So my next door neighbor, Joy made Hailee this incredible birthday cake! Isn't it beautiful?

Birthday girl! I can't believe I have a 4 year old! Crazy!

Kyle in his blessing outfit! He even has a little bit of a smile on his face! What a handsome big boy. He had his 2 month doctors appointment and he is now 24 inches and 16 pounds. He is huge! He came in at 90% for height, 95% for his head and 105% for his weight! What can I say, we like to make and grow chubby babies, and they are so cute!

The girls helping Daddy with dinner and snitching some cheese.

I can't believe I have a 4 year old and I also can't believe that I have three children, it is scary how fast time flies. In a couple of months we will have been in Idaho Falls for two years, craziness!

My sweet little Rae!

Hailee put this hat on Kyle while we were driving somewhere and when I went to get him out he was asleep like this! Isn't that cute? Check out those cheeks and that double chin! :o)

Kyle's Blessing!

The other set of Proud Grandparents (Kev's Mom and Dad)! Are you happy now Dad? :o)

My parents and Kev's parents at our house after Kyle's blessing! Kevin gave him a beautiful blessing. His name is now officially Kyle Nephi Hermansen (Kev's middle name and the same initials as well).

Our not so little family anymore! I can't believe there are five of us now, that seems like a lot.

Mom, Dad and little Kyle...who is also not so little anymore!

Grandma Johnson with Kyle!

Kyle with his cousin Jordan who is, believe it or not, 2 months and 3 days OLDER than Kyle...we like to make 'em big!

Grandpa Johnson and Kyle!

Kyle and I were waisted at the end of our long weekend, filled with yard renovations, lots of family and a baby blessing. Kev and my parents were just chatting that evening and Kyle and I just curled up on the couch and went to sleep.

Summer Fun!

Hailee's hair after the mini braids! It took almost as long to take them out as it did to put them in. :o) You'll notice two band-aids as well on her face, one above her right eyebrow and the other on her chin; she was at the neighbors house and got stung by a wasp, so she came home and got all fixed up and then headed back over to their house to finish playing and pretty soon she was on her way home to get another wasp bite taken care of. Needless to say the neighbors searched and found a wasp's nest under their swing set and quickly got rid of it. Poor Hailee!

Kyle and his Best Friend Jaren! :o) Our good friends here in town had their little boy a day before Kyle was born, we even hung out in the hospital together a little. But here they are, just one month old and hanging out already

Hailee, Raelyn and Hattie (next door neighbor). They spent like 2 hours one afternoon making, necklaces, anklets, and bracelets...you can see they are all decked out. Girls are so much fun!

Our last water trip for the season! I didn't dare water ski so soon after having Kyle but I couldn't resist tubing. Don't worry I am somewhat of a scaredy-cat when it comes to tubing so we never go too crazy...otherwise there is no way Kev would have been able to stand up.

Where's Kyle? We had to miss out on our fun family tubing ride. The girls love it so much that they flip out every time they have to get off. I am glad they like it so much. I went one time with Hailee, my sister Jamie and her daughter Corrine and Hailee and I fell off twice, she was pretty shaken up, but not so much to keep from riding and having fun.