Remodeling

A Little of Everything

It's been awhile since I've posted, so I thought that I better put these on before I got busy again. As many of you know Kayle is a "unique" little boy to say the least. Well his latest obsession is dressing himself. Not only are we pretty sure he's color blind (we seriously do, and it's not just because he can't match his cloths), but for the past few days, he's been putting his shirts on backward. Well today, he topped himself. He put his pants on backward also! Reece was ripping out our bathroom to remodel it, and Kayle was beside himself. He was so excited to help daddy (I know because he told me every 2 minutes.) When Reece told him he needed to have shoes on to help, he ran out, got his shoes, and put them on the WRONG feet. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, Kayle comes running through the living room to throw some of the old tiles outside with the rest of the trash, he bends over to throw them and I get a peek of his backward jeans. What made it even better was that he was so serious and on a mission the whole time. Seriously, I hope he finds an amazing woman to marry!

Kayson's latest adventure is gymnastics. He absolutely loves it. He has 5 boys in his class and his cousin Chloe. Luckily she's used to being rough with the boys, because it really helps her fit in. All of them are completely fearless and have made my heart stop a few times. After every class he tells me that his favorite thing is gymnastics. He's actually pretty good at it to.

Last week, I was packing up to go to nana and papa's house in Butte, and Kayle decided to help me pack. I told him to grab his coat, and I was going to run upstairs and grab something I had forgot that was sitting on my bed. Well in a matter of 2 minutes, this is what happened. He had fallen asleep next to the suitcase by the door. I didn't think you could fall asleep that quick, especially when you were so excited 2 minutes before that. Normally if you move him, he wakes up immediately. Well I finished loading the car, buckled him and Kayson in, pick up their cousin Tyler, buckled him up, loaded his suitcase, fueled the car up and got about 1/2hr. from Butte before he woke up. I was honestly starting to worry.

Happy Holidays

I know it's a little late, but I thought that I had better post pictures of the boys on Christmas and New Years. Both Kayson and Kayle really got into the holidays this year, and with the bad weather, we were able to stay home, relax and enjoy them.

Christmas did get off to a rocky start when I discovered that the battery in my camera was bad. Needless to say I didn't get any pictures of the boys opening their presents here at home. Grandma Klinker did come to the rescue later in the day by taking pictures of them over at her house opening the presents from her. Kayson, as always, got excited about each and every gift. We would have to stop him from playing with the opened gifts, and convince him to open the rest. Kayle on the other hand just enjoyed opening the gifts. He really didn't care what it was, just as long as he could tear paper off of it. It's so cute seeing their different personalities!

Kayson's favorite gift was his Star Wars Legos XBox 360 game. He played it all day, and for days after, all he could talk about was all the different charactors and what they do, and what is in each level. Suprisingly, he is extremely good at it. In fact, I've never been to shabby at video games (although I'm not very interested in playing them.), and whenever I would sit down and play with him, he would have to tell me what to do. I finally stopped playing when he kept taking my controller, and playing for me!

Kayle's favorite gift was a toss up between the Race Cars blanket that grandma made him, and the Connect 4 game. He loves having Reece and I play Connect 4 with him (his rules of course!). He was also very fond of the new snow boots and gloves he received. He loves playing in the snow, which with the way the weather has been this year, has worked out well for him. I have however lost the battle on getting him to wear his gloves, and ONLY his gloves. He has to have one of his, and either one of mine or one of Kayson's. Normally I wouldn't care, but he's very good at loosing things.

The boys have had a lot of opportunities to play in the snow this year, which has been really fun. I took them out one day and pulled their sleds with the snowmobile. Kayson had a blast with that. Kayle was more interested in riding on the snowmobile with me than riding on the sled.

A couple days later I took Kayson, Kayle and Jaden (Sasha's youngest) out to the back yard to sled down the huge snow drift that had developed back there. At that point, the drift was almost as tall as the garage! The boys had a blast.

I have had the boys out on that snow drift quite a few times since then, and with the way the wind blows around here, the drift has a new design every time. In fact, we noticed that the snow drift actually extended past the hedges, and wrapped completely around the back and side of the garage. Since the snow was so packed and hard, Reece thought it would be fun to take the boys out to build a tunnel in it. He dug the tunnel, built some steps, and even gave them a nice path to sled down the drift on. They are pretty sure they have the coolest dad.

Last night Kayson also had the opportunity to attend his first rodeo. He was so facinated with everything that was going on. He had a million questions. The hardest thing for him to grasp was why the horses and bulls were being mean, and not listening to the guys. His favorite thing was the clown. He sure got a kick out of him. After the rodeo, Kayson was pretty sure he wanted to do that, and asked if he could get some movies on rodeos. It was so cute.

1st Annual Klinker Family Christmas Party

This year we decided to start a new tradition in the Klinker family. We had our first annual Christmas party and gingerbread house making contest. It was so fun. The little kids ate pizza and candy, and ran around most of the time the older people were working on the houses. (Because I refuse to be old, I'm simply referring to people older than our 5 year olds.) For the houses, we really didn't have much for rules, except that everything showing had to be edible. Reece lucked out, because about 1:30 in the morning he got an amazing idea to do the Salt Lake Temple. He went out to his shop and made a base for our temple consisting of a box and a few small pieces of plywood. He showed back up in bed about 2:00am with this absolutely ugly structure that he was so proud of. We then hit Great Falls to find the best candy for the job. We had so much fun trying to figure out what candy to use. We obviously went way overboard! All of us had so much fun, but we were a little bummed that we would be the only ones to see them, so I thought that I better at least post them on here. You guys will have to let me know who you think did the best job.

First up the "Nut House" by Marge, Sasha & Tucker

Check out the bars on the windows!

It says, "Home proudly constructed by Nut House Residents."

Next up the Southern Bungalow by DJ, Kelley, Mikayla & Christian

Nice car!

And last but not least, the Salt Lake City Temple by Reece & Jen.

Winter's Here

Yesterday morning, we woke up to a very rude awakening. It was blizzarding outside with wind blowing around 30-40mph, snow, and windchill's around -40. To top it off, our power had gone out! Being told that most of the surrounding area was out of power, we assumed that we would just have to bundle up for awhile, and hope we would have power soon. Kayle of course was up by 6, and crazy busy as ever. We kept telling him to lay down in mommy & daddy's bed, and keep the covers on. He would sit still for about 2 minutes, and off the covers would come! I'm not sure what we were thinking when we thought that Kayle would sit still for awhile. (I guess we shouldn't be trying to think that early, especially when it's 40 degrees in our house.) Anyway, we found out that most of our neighbors, including Marge and Marvin across the road had power, so Reece decided to investigate what our outage was caused from (he used to be a power lineman). After about 1 hour of driving around, the power was back on.

We spent the day being lazy, well the boys and I did anyway. Reece was running from house to house, unthawing pipes and wells to the rental houses, and fixing power outlets.

In the evening, the boys and I thought that it would be fun to have a little campout in the livingroom (it's the warmest room in the house, not to mention, it has a pretty christmas tree!)

We even had s'mores (well pop-tart s'mores), and watched some christmas shows, and slept in our sleeping bags. The boys were so excited. Kayson begged me all day today to let him campout again tonight. (I suppose I can let them enjoy this for awhile. It's supposed to be -20 degrees outside for the next couple of days.)

Beautiful Day

Since today was probably the last nice day of the year, we thought that we would take advantage of it, and head out to help daddy in the field. As usual Kayle really got into the "working" mode. He "helped" daddy get all of the tools out of the tool truck, and even helped him loosen the bolts he was taking off. Kayson enjoyed it for about 1/2 hr. , then was ready to go home. Kayle on the other hand was insistant that he stay out with daddy. Unfortunantely it was nap time.

When we got home, Kayson threw a fit because we wouldn't let him play his video game. (He got grounded the other day from it, because he hit his brother.) When Reece told him he could either go outside and play or go up to his room and take a nap, he chose outside. About 5 minutes after he went outside, Reece looked out the window at him, and this is what he saw! Reece asked him what he was doing, and his response was, "If you don't let me play my game, then I'm never playing my game again!" He hasn't quite figured out that his threats to us, are actually punishing him, not us.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year Thanksgiving was extremely laid back, and lazy. Due to Kayle and Mom having a really bad cold, we weren't able to go to Nana & Papa's like planned. We did however make it over to Grandma and Grandpa's for a wonderful dinner on Thanksgiving.
We told Kayle that he couldn't go to Papa's until his eyes were better, because we didn't want Papa getting sick. (He had Pink Eye.) Anyway Kayle was positive that since Band-Aids always make things better, it would make his eye's better also. Since we weren't able to participate in all the festivities with the rest of daddy's family, I thought it would be fun to put up the christmas decorations.

Sauka decided to check out the view from the top of the tree while the boys were decorating. Apparently they did a few things wrong, because Sauka had to rearrange a few decorations.

After all the decorations were up, the boys and I decided to watch a movie and have some popcorn and hot cocoa with marshmallows. As fun as the day was, it tuckered everyone out!