Kids playing!

Look I am trying to crawl mom!

I am just happy to be alive. Kayla is trying really hard to move around the floor. Soon she will be crawling all over the place. The other day she rolled about 10 feet.

Alex stacked these boxes all by himself so he could reach the top of the counter.

No pictures DAD!

Look, I have reached the the top of the counter and I have taken moms stuff for cooking!

Now I am using them as drums!

Cookie time! Dad gives me cookie time more then mom wants him too! "dad is great. . . .he gives me chocolate cookies. . . " (bill cosby)

Mommy and daddy just got home from a dinner date and mommy is greeting me! BIG SMILES for mommy!

Christmas(belated) and January!

Santa comes to Grandpa and Grandma Kasper's house every year on Christmas eve. The kids are looking for him. They go downstairs, upstairs, to the back door and to the front door looking for him. It is a very fun tradition!

I think the older kids see Santa!

Alex is joining in the fun. He is doing a lot of running back and forth while the older kids stay put longer.

Uncle Kelly and Aunt Tia were helping the kids find Santa.

Santa finally made it. Alex loved Santa and showed no fear.

This is when Santa first came through the door. . . I mean down the chimney . . .

I don't know why I added the top of his head. I think he is cute from all angles. . . I must be the mom!

Alex finally got to sit on Santa's lap. He isn't scared just thinking about what he wants for Christmas!

He was so excited to open his presents. He didn't care what he got.

YEAH! Pajamas! Just what he wanted!

Baby Kayla taking a turn on Santa's lap!

Family shot!

Erik and Matthew being Dorks!

My babies with Santa!

More of the big Dorks!

All of the grand daughters that came to the Kasper Christmas party!

All of the Grand Sons that came. Alex did not want his picture taken!

So much better. All 3 smiling. It was a miracle to get this shot!

All of the grand kids together. Alex was done with the pictures. He is on top of the couch pouting.

Still pouting~

Cool car! Mom got this for dad a couple of years ago for Christmas. It is a 58 Chevy. . . Dads dream car. Dad had this car as a youngster and always dreamed of owning one again. Mom surprised him with it a couple of years ago. They had it painted and this is the finished product.

This is January pictures! Alex adores Kayla, and she adores him. If he gets close to her she gives him the biggest grin. They are going to be good buds!

She looked so peaceful so I had to take a picture. The flash ended up waking her up. It was worth it.

Happy Baby Kayla!

These are just a few video clips of the kids. You can see how much Kayla and Alex adore each other. In one of them Alex is telling me to push it. I was filming this with our regular camera and he wanted me to push the button and take the picture already!

Kayla is 5 months!

I was going to take a new picture of Kayla but we left our camera in Idaho and still have not received it. I talked to my sister in law today and she just sent it today. I will have to take some pictures this weekend or early next week when we get the camera. I am dying to see what we have for pictures from Christmas. I will have a lot to post that will be late.

Kayla is growing like crazy. Her newest thing she is doing is when it is time for bed I will put her in her crib. She sleeps on her belly the best so yes I break all of the rules. She is usually asleep when I put her in her crib on her belly. Then a few hours later I here a high-pitched giggle. When I go in she is on her back with the biggest smile on her face. She has been rolling herself over and instead of crying for me she starts to talk and giggle. So much more fun to see then a screaming baby. At church she is the highlight of each Sunday. I am not just saying that. I don't get to hold her on Sunday at all. Someone is always stealing her from me. One Sunday they were lining up and telling me to take her from the person who had her. One lady said we need to pass around a sign up sheet with time slots. I am flattered that so many people love her and want to hold her. I will have to go hide out if I want to hold her. She is a sweetheart.

Happy 5 months Kayla!

I guess I will jump on the bandwagon and post our new years resolutions.

1. The first one we wanted to do was to take Alex's sippy cup away. He has been drinking his meals since the day he was born. We tried to take milk away last summer and that did not work. We decided when we got back from Idaho we would take away the sippy cups but not the milk. It has been a week and it is working fabulously. He is eating like he should have from the start. He eats all day long. One of my friends told me about a year ago that I better watch out because Alex was going to eat us out of house and home. I think he is finally achieving that.

2. The next thing on the list to do was to get Kayla out of our bed. It has been a week and she has been in her own crib every night. She still sleeps through the night but she gets up at about 5 in the morning. I am hoping to get her to sleep a few hours more. Maybe once she starts eating she will sleep better.

3. Now time for the typical resolutions. I haven't been to the gym in about 5 months. Kayla has to be 3 months to go to the child care at our gym. Well she turned 3 months and I went back gun ho and ready to go. I hurt my back the 1st day back. When I started to feel better it was to close to Christmas so I decided to wait until the new year. Alex catches everything at the gym and I didn't want to chance him or Kayla catching anything before we traveled. Alex ended up with the flu anyway but it was less then 24 hours so it wasn't so bad. So I am now going to the gym 5 days a week. . . . .at least that is my resolution.

4. We want to take more vacations this year. Erik is already planning a trip to the Dells. (Wisconsin Dells) Then we probably will head back to Vegas this spring. . . .I still would like to visit my parents in India. . . we will make a few trips to Idaho. . . and of course Missouri for Thanksgiving.

I guess that is all we have for now. We wish everyone a Happy New Year! I hope everyone can achieve there New Years resolutions.

Christmas!

Our Family Picture with Santa. Santa comes to grandmas house every year to bring the kids presents and to say hello!

All of the sweet little grand daughters! (under the age of 8 there are many more but they werent here)

The grand kids that were here this year. L to R (Keelee, Porter, Tianna, Keayen, Natalyah, Kayla is on Natalyah, Selah, and Monika. . . .Alex is on the top of the couch refusing the pictures)

We forgot our camera in Idaho so I stole this from my sisters blog. I will post more later when our camera arrives in the mail. Alex was a stinker because he was tired of getting his picture taken. All of the little girls were fighting over who got to hold baby Kayla. I gave Selah and Natalyah the responsibility since they are the older two.

Christmas was very enjoyable. It was fun to get together and be with everyone. It was really fun to show Kayla off. . . I think she was quite a hit. We had to get creative this year with presents because we flew again and didn't want to hall everything back. We got Alex popcorn, Doritos, Milk, a couple of little games and a few other things. The Doritos was the biggest hit. He opened them and said "oh. . . my. . . Gosh" he was so excited. Who needs expensive toys when you have Doritos.

Alex was also a huge fan of Santa Clause. I wasn't sure how he would do this year but he loved him. He wanted to sit on his lap with all of the other grand kids. We had to keep moving him out of the way so the other mommy's and daddy's could get pictures of their kids without Alex's big noggin in the way.

We stayed with cousin Deb and Lance this year. It was a fun change. Very relaxing. We went to my Uncle Kent's and Aunt Janell's a couple of times to help Kent put puzzles together. Overall it was a great Christmas break.