Laughing Her Little Baby Head Off

The other day Rachel was sliding a plastic cup around on the kitchen counter, and Kylee thought it was hilarious. I set her on the counter so that I could catch it on video...so here it goes:

Catching Up

A lot of people were disappointed that I didn't post a picture of Andy as a lion with Kylee for Halloween, so here it is. He also had a tail pinned to the back of his shirt. I would have preferred him to wear a brown/yellow/orange shirt, but it was already a big ordeal to get him to wear these. However, once he went out trick-or-treating, he had just as much fun growling at people as Kylee did!
This is Aunt Rachel with cousins Branson, Zach, Conner and Kylee.

When I was looking at the photo's on Karen's camera for the Halloween picture of Andy as I lion, I found this one from a while back that I had forgotten about. One night Rachel dressed Kylee up and claimed to be taking her to Disney Land.

Today my sister Connie called from Maryland, and was quite disappointed that I answered my phone. She was all set to leave me a "threatening" message, saying that she was going to send thirty vultures, (that she CLAIMED were circling above her head at that very moment), to eat my dead body if I didn't post Halloween pictures of Kylee by today. So...here they are, along with a video of my little tiny K.P. walking! For those of you who voted "by Nov. 1st" in the poll, you win!! She has been taking steps for the past two weeks or so, but now she's getting pretty good at it, and I was finally able to catch her on video. She would have done better in this movie, but she was trying to impress everyone by showing that she could brush her teeth WHILE walking. Quite a talented young lady! Anyway, I unfortunately can't figure out how to rotate it, so you're just going to have to watch it sideways.

Halloween

For Halloween, we dressed Kylee up as a lion since she likes to growl at everyone. She looked so darn cute! I even convinced Andy to put on a lion mask and tail that I got him, and take her trick-or-treating.
Here she is trying to attack everyone like a real lion!

Look everyone! Kylee finally grew some hair!

2008 24-Hours of Moab

After I posted this, Andy was sad that I didn't use a "cooler" picture, so here's one more. We unfortunately don't have any of him this year riding any of the hard parts of the trail, which is kind of disappointing, but at least in this one he is going down a hill!

On October 11-12, we went down to Moab for the annual "24-Hours of Moab" mountain bike race. It was so ridiculously sandy that I didn't dare take my camera out for photos. This is one that someone else took of Andy out on the trail.
Here we are at camp on Sunday morning at the end of the race. Notice...finally, no more sand!


This is the canopy shelter that we made to try to keep out some of the wind/sand. What you can't see here is that Lindsey and I used a bunch of fire wood to build a wall of boards all around the bottom, and Pat buried it in dirt, to keep the sand from coming in beneath the tarps. We had quite the set up!

Unfortunately, even though our wall of boards kept the dirt from coming under the bottom, there was nothing we could do about the front. This is the dirt on our tables...approximately 5 minutes after Lindsey had just used a brush to sweep it all off! Needless to say, that was the end of the table brushing. We still had a blast, even with all the sand.