Kysen's 1st B-Day!!

Our Sweet Kysen turned 1!! I cant believe it, he is so cute and has been so much fun.  We had his party at our house with Grandpa and Grandma Nelson.  He got so many fun toys and clothes he didn't know what to play with first.  

Kysen's 1 year old stats:

Weighs 23lbs

Height 30.75in

Kysen loves to play with his brothers, toys and go for walks.  He loves his Mom and cry's when she leaves the room.  Kysen is an excellent sleeper!! He can crawl, walks around furniture, wave bye-bye, clap to patty cake, and loves to read books.  He can say Hi, Dad and shakes his head No when he doesn't want something.  He is growing so fast and is such and sweet little boy. We love you Kysen!!

First Day of School 2013

We are back in school and the boys seem to be really excited.  Chase's first day of school was on Aug 19th.  He is going to the Washington Rec Center Preschool's 4 year old class.  They get to do Karate, Gymnastics, Zumba, Swimming and cooking at this school.  His teachers names are Mrs. Julia and Mrs. Jessica.  He seems to like his new school so far! 

 Caden is back at Riverside and is in the 2nd grade.  His teacher is Mrs. Shakespeare and he loves her already!  He started school on Aug 14th and seems to be really enjoying it.

Wyoming Summer 2013

Chad went on his annual fishing trip to Canada so the boys and I headed up to Wyoming for the week. We had so much fun and stayed busy playing with all of our friends and family.  It was so fun to see everyone and the kids loved playing with their cousins.  We went to the Rec Center swimming, pond craw dad hunting, Bear Lake, train park, and Star Valley for the Erickson Family Reunion.  

 Bridget and her kids at Bear Lake

 Kristin 8 months pregnant enjoying the lake.

 Bailey, Caden and Peyton

Chase eating his favorite food Chips

Kysen had been taking amoxicillin for a ear infection and broke out in these welts on day 7 of taking the medicine.  We were in Star Valley so we took him to the local Dr there to see if they could do anything for him.  The Dr. put him on a steroid to counter act the allergic reaction and within hours you could see a huge improvement.  We wont be giving him amoxicillin again. Poor Kid!!

 This is before I took him into the Dr.

 This was just a couple of hours after taking his fist dose of the steroid. By the next day the spot were barley even there.  I was shocked how fast they went away!

 Grandpa Erickson teaching Caden how to play horse shoes.

We hiked up to the Geyser in Star Valley with my family and my Uncle Chad's family.  It was so pretty and an awesome hike.  Caden said he wished he could hike it everyday.

 Caden

 Grandma Erickson and Kysen

 Chase and Grandpa checking out the ice

 Caden drinking from the Natural Geyser.  The water was so cold and good!!

 Chase and Wiley

 Machesney

 Kysen, Grandpa Erickson and Uncle Chad

 Jason and Uncle Randy hanging out at Uncle Chads house

 Grandpa and Kysen

 Machesney and Kysen

4th of July 2013

This year we stayed in St. George for the 4th of July.  It was so so so HOT, it had been about 115 degrees all week long, but that didn't stop us from having a GREAT time.  We went to the St. George parade then over to the St. George park for kids rides and games, had a BBQ with Chad's family that afternoon and then off to fireworks that night.