ANNOUNCING...

This little sweetie has FINALLY gotten her appliance off and she can now have any sticky, chewy, gummy thing she wants. It has been a tough 8 months for her-given she had Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's, and Easter to survive not being allowed to have her treats she received. To say the least she was THRILLED to come home last Thursday from the orthodontist free from her appliance! She claimed the weekend as her Chewy Party. And that is exactly what we did.
I made these for breakfast Saturday morning. She has been missing them. This is my quick version of caramel monkey bread. It was ooey, gooey, sticky, caramel liscious! Just what Kaleigh ordered up. They had lifesaver gummies at lunch time and I made peanut butter chews(some know them as Scotcheroos). Kaleigh was in pure heaven! Oh, and she also finally got to have dried mangoes with her lunch too. She loves, loves, loves dried mangoes and 8 months without them has almost "killed" her. Her words, not mine. She's a funny, funny girl. She's also one very excited girl. Poor thing though, the orthodontist said she is still going to need both up and down set of braces. Oh man, I sure hope she gets her fill of chewy, sticky, gummy things before that day comes. Poor girl, she takes after her daddy-well at least her teeth do. I on the other hand have never had the lovely experience of anything being wrong with my teeth. They are naturally straight and cavity free! I only hope that most of the kids follow my teeth and not Eric's!

Fast and Easy Caramel Monkey Bread
2 cans of Pilsbury Grand Flaky Biscuits
1/2 c butter
3/4 c brown sugar
sugar
cinnamon

Heat oven up to 350 degrees. Mix up some sugar and cinnamon in a ziploc bag. Cut up all the biscuits in fourths and place in a ziploc bag with the sugar cinnamon mixture. Shake the bag to coat the biscuit pieces. Place the biscuits in layers in a 12 cup bundt pan. Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the brown sugar until dissolved and mixed together. Pour it over the biscuits and smell the caramel flavor-Yummm! Place in the oven and bake for about 40-45 minutes. Pull out of the oven and cool for about 5 minutes and then flip it over on a serving plate. Eat and Enjoy!

Photos from Kaleigh's baptism

Kaleigh and Eric
Kaleigh with our bishop
Everyone that attended.

Kaleigh and her great-grandmas.

Kaleigh and grandma and grandpa Hansen . She thoroughly enjoyed her special day and was happy that everyone came to celebrate with her.

Fashion Show

The boys and I got invited to a fashion show put on by Kaleigh and Laney. It was way cute. We had a day with no planned activity and K and L spent the morning dressing and accessorizing their barbies. They requested us to come see the show and the boys ran into their room and took their seats. Logan was really excited to see the show. He's so cute and loves his sisters to death. They made up their own music and Kaleigh was the announcer.

The runway for the dolls was so cute. They are so imaginative and creative little girls. It really was a cute show.

Noah even sat still throughout the entire show. What cute little kiddies I have. I love being able to see these wonderful little moments. Staying at home and raising these kids has been one of the BEST decisions I have ever made. I just love my life.

Kaleigh is getting Baptized!

So, it's official, we have another child who has turned eight and is getting baptized. We decided to do a little photo shoot before the big day. She was so excited and struck a pose in every shot.
This is right in front of the Jordan River Temple. I just love the flowers here.

Strike a pose! She does this very well.

She wanted one last one by the fountain. She really gets a kick out of photo shoots. She's so cooperative and always ready to pose. We held her baptism yesterday afternoon and all morning she kept asking how much longer. She was so excited to be getting baptized. She counted down the days all this week. It was a great milestone for her and we are very proud of her and her choice to get baptized. She is a wonderful daughter and sister. She brings joy and love into our lives everyday. I take great pride in calling her my daughter. She is our little trickster and clown. She can get the best of even adults, but that's just our little Kaleigh. Not so little anymore, but always a joyful girl! We'll post pictures of her wonderful day at a later time. My wonderful MIL took them for us and we got lots of great ones. We missed family that couldn't be here, but we were thinking of you.

Happy 8th Birthday Kaleigh Brianne

Kaleigh Brianne joined our family on August 23, 2001. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 10 oz. and was only 18 inches long. She was and still is our smallest baby ever. To most people she is average, but for our babies she was tiny.

Our darling little Kaleigh always had a smile and would strike a pose. By the way she still does even today. She may be little, but she has a lot of spunk!

This was our first big family trip all by ourselves and Kaleigh had a blast. She's our thrill seeker and wanted to go on Thunder Mountain, but she was too short. She cried the whole time that I was gone with Alexis and Christian on it, until she got to meet Jesse from Toy Story 2. She was the only one who got to meet her.

Here's our cute little spunky girl at her b-day party last year. This year we just had a nice quiet family dinner on her birthday.

Here's her first year at Softball. She had a blast on our team. I coached her and

Alexis last fall and we all enjoyed it.

This sums Kaleigh up. She's a cute girl who just adores to pose for pictures. She's been doing it since she could crawl. Who knows, maybe she'll model some day.

She just loves the camera anytime it comes out.

We love our little Kaleigh and can't wait to see her get baptized in a couple of weeks. She makes us laugh everyday and she is quite the spunky child. We love you and Happy Birthday miss Kaleigh.