Trip to Warmth!!!

My Aunt Donna, Cousin Amy, Thaya and I made a girls trip down to visit our Grandma Hicks in Arizona. While we were there the weather was a wonderful 75 to 85 degrees. It was absolutley wonderful to open the car door and be blasted with heat, I know I will not be saying this in the summer, but when you go from 12 degrees to 80 degrees, you enjoy every bit. We went swimming, took Thaya to the Tucson Desert Museum and ate a ton of food, ( yes literally a ton!!!). We had so much fun and soaked up the sun. Thaya keeps saying she wants to go back! Thaya and I also visited my parents, they have a beautiful home and seem to be doing well in the warmth. Yes, It was a good trip! It always makes me happy to see Thaya spending time with her Great Grandma and Grandpa Hicks, I hope she will have wonderful memories to last a life time! Thanks to Everyone who made the trip enjoyable, and to all the animals that we comsumed, thank you for your sacrifice to make delicious meals!!!

Our new addition!!!

This is our new baby!! She is 8 weeks old and pure bred Jack Russell Terrier! We love her! We named her Ruby!!! We are so happy to have her, she fills a great need that we have had!

Christmas and New Year's!!!

Ok, I have been lectured enough, I will finally put up a new post! We went to Colorado for Christmas and had a blast, until I came down with strep throat. I was sick over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The day after Christmas I finally went to the ER because I felt like I couldn't breathe. They gave me a steroid shot in the hip to reduce the swelling in my throat. They also put me on drugs and antibiotics! While Derrick took me to the hospital, Grandma and Grandpa Broun took Thaya sledding, she loved it!!! By the time I was feeling better, it was time to go home!!!
We rang in the New Year with my aunt, uncle, cousins and Stacey too!! It was fun with games, food and fireworks!!! Always fun at the Kelly household!!!
Hope all of you are doing well!!!

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!!!!

David Archuletta was there!!!

Isn't Jordan so Cute!!!??!!!





Ruth, Amy, Me and Kathy!!

I finally have the pictures from the New kids concert i went to in November!!! It was the best concert ever, although I had ringing in my ears for 3 days after the concert due to all the SCREAMING women!!! (including myself) I have been wanting to go since I was 9 years old so it was a dream come true. At one point the New Kids were in the center of the arena and we were just a few feet away, I joke that we could smell their sweat, it was more like all the SCREAMING women!!!

1 Dancing Princess

Thaya started dance lessons, she will be learning tap, ballet and expression. She will also be in a dance recital in May!!! I am so excited. She wears her tap shoes every day!!

O' Hallo's Eve!!!

We had a ward Trunk or Treat party the Wednesday before Halloween that was so much fun!! Thaya had an absolute blast!!! We then took her up to Aunt Donna's and did some trick or treating. Then went and saw Thaya's little boyfriend, Estebaun. She got large candy bars from him. We spent the rest of the night hanging with friends and eating spaghetti and artichokes that I cooked all day long, yumm....!!! It was a fun Halloween, but they aren't like our Halloweens in Washington having parties with our friends. We miss you all!!!

Beautiful pictures!!!

My daughter is a knock out!!!




I took Thaya and the neighbor kids over to an empty lot with wild sunflowers and took their photos. They came out awesome. I wish I had a really nice 10 or 12 pixel nikon or cannon camera to really take some awesome pics.