Kellen's latest prayer

I know I keep writing about the prayers that Katie and Kellen are offering but sometimes they are just too dang funny not to!

Tonight Kellen asked that he be blessed with the following:

1)He asked that he no longer have wrinkles even after a bath or swimming. I have NO idea where that came from. Apparently, it is an issue that he felt needed to be included tonight.

2) He asked that he be blessed with a pet platypus...thank you Phineas and Ferb!!

Tom and I tired to remain quiet and composed but it didn't work. We were both laughing by the time the prayer ended :)

Baby Brielle

On October 20, 2011, our first Lyle cousin came into the world. The kids just about split a gut when heard baby Brielle was born. Her full name is Brielle Christine Bolen. She was 6 pounds 13 ounces and 19.5 inches long. To me she looks just like her dad. When she was born she had such cute little cheeks and was given the nick name of Smushy! She is so precious!

Katie and Kellen holding cousin Brielle.

Grandpa & Grandma Lyle

The happy Bolen family.

Grandma & Scott enjoying their doughnuts.

Kellen really wanted to hold Brielle. I was a little nervous about it. It took many adjustments to make it happen. He felt like such a big boy.

There is a story behind these doughnuts. My dad took Diana and myself to go get doughnuts when Shellie was born. When we were ordering Diana kept telling my dad she wanted a chocolate bone. It took a while to figure out what she was talking about BUT finally my dad realized that she wanted a long doughnut with chocolate frosting. Every time a baby is born in the Lyle family (Erica, Scott, Katie and Kellen) we get "chocolate bones". Diana and I didn't get a hold of each other before we purchased a dozen doughnuts. Yes, we had 24 doughnuts and they were so yummy!

Shellie looks great after having a C-section.

Katie and Brielle. Katie cannot wait to help babysit!

Uncle Scott holding his second niece.

Greek Day at Val Vista Lakes Elementary

Katie just recently celebrated Greek Day in school. Her teacher assigned her (which means me) to bring Baklava. Before the assignment I had only heard of it. I had no idea what is was made out of it or how it looked. Thanks to an internet recipe and help from our pastry chef friend Jenica I made it. Katie said most of the people liked it but some kids spit it out. That's always nice to hear when you spend money on making a gourmet dessert for third graders. Oh well, it was fun for them to try and Katie had fun.

Here is Katie in the traditional Greek garb.

Kellen's Birthday and soccer game

This fall Kellen started again! Woo-hoo. He is having a lot of fun. His team is The Rattlers. He is always so happy when he makes a goal.

Something on his stomach must be super interesting because he stopped playing for a minute to check it out.

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Kellen just recently turned 5 years old. I am not sure where the time went! He is such a good little guy. Kellen is really funny, he loves to quote movies and play with his sister.

This year we had a family party for cousins at Chuck E Cheese. It was a lot of fun to watch the boys run around earning tickets. That weekend we had another family party with grandma & grandpa Lyle and aunts and uncle Scott. Thanks everyone for celebrating Kellen's birthday!

This picture is so blurry but cool at the same time.

Katie pushing the car :)

Kellen, cousin Jack, & Katie.

This was Kellen's birthday cake this year. It was the easiest cake I have ever made. It was fun to have something different.

Aunt Di with Kellen and Katie.

The box was a real hit with Kellen.

Uncle Mark liked the box too!!

Katie's prayer

Lately Katie has been saying the sweetest little prayers. Every time she prays I have a smile on my face. Tonight she thanked Heavenly Father for all we have, the past and present, and her school friend Faith that is moving. She also prayed that Faith would be safe and that we could enjoy the scriptures during our study. I am so grateful to have such a faithful little example in our home. I just had to put it on the blog for posterity sake.


Oh, and these few pictures are from her baptism photo shoot. I just couldn't help but put them in. She looks too darn cute :)

Kellen's prayer....

Today after school Kellen really wanted to watch another movie. As I have been working a little from home he has been able to watch a few more movies lately. Anyway, Kellen was bugging me to watch another movie. I kept telling him no for several reasons 1) Katie had to do homework and could not be distracted. 2) He already watched three short veggie tale movies that day. 3) No!

Here is how the conversation went after the 16th time I said no:

Me: Kellen you are not allowed to ask me about watching a movie anymore!

Kellen: Ok, fine. Mom and Katie please fold your arms. I am going to say a prayer.

Me: (silently in my head) Why?

Kellen: (He started to pray) Heavenly Father, please bless that I can watch a movie and thank you for my pirate guys.

Me: Amen. Thanks Kellen for your prayer. However, it is not going to work. Would you please go play with pirate guys that you just thanked Heavenly Father for. Oh, and the movie thing is still a no!

Kellen: (ran outside cause he was mad) I don't want to play with pirate guys, I want to watch a movie. (The complaining got softer as he was running away from me)

I was just impressed that he would start praying hoping that Heavenly Father would answer his prayer. I think he knew that in the end he would not win this battle even with a very cute prayer.