Merry Christmas!

We hope you are having a wonderful Christmas with your families. Please have a safe and Happy New Year! We look forward to the many adventures this new year will bring. So enjoy all the adventures in your life. Love you all.
The Hoisington's Kyle, Katrina and Girls

What's that in the back yard!

 

About a month ago I was making dinner and I looked outside and there were sheep in my back yard eating our grass. I called Kyle and he went out and started rounding them up. I went out and helped him, we took them back to our neighbors house. I think they like our grass, because a couple days later I saw them in another place in our yard. That time my neighbor came driving in his car and was able to get them to go home. It was a fun little adventure!

Decorating Tree 2010

 

This year we decided to put up our fake tree. Kyle brought it up to the house and after church we decorated the Tree. It was mostly me and the kids while Kyle watched. Until the very end when it was Lydia's turn to put on the star. It was a really nice sunday.

Kris Kringle comes Again!

 

When Kyle was a child they lived in Germany and in Germany on Dec.6 Kris Kringle comes to your home. The children put their shoes out and Kringle fills your shoes with goodies. This year our kids brought out the largest shoes they could find. They received silly bands and lots of candy. This has been fun tradition!

November Snow

The week of Thanksgiving we had snow! The girls played in the backyard with all the neighbors. Kyle decided to take the riding lawn mower and pull a sled behind them the girls thought it was great fun.

Great Pumpkin!

 

Every year my mother in law has all the grandkids over on Halloween and the great pumpkin comes to her home. He hides goodie bags all over the house. The kids come in to a dark house with flashlights until all bags are found. Then they all hang out and have fun! Here are just a few of them haveing a great time!

 

Halloween 2010

 

This year we had a variety of Costumes. Gabby Athena(Greek God)She is really into lightening Theif! Miley was a cowgirl, Belle was a Nurse, Lydia was Jesse(Toy story)also a cowgirl, and Lilly was an adoreable Dalmation. Kyle was a Hippy dude!

computer problems?

I just wanted to let everyone know I will be posting soon. We are having done computer issues mainly some dumb virus we can seem to get rid of. So I am doing this on the wii. It is driving me crazy. I HAVE TONS OF fun stuff to update you with so plese bare with me. My girls were scolding me the other day for not posting. So I hope to have a computer over Thanksgiving weekend. So look forward to some fun posts.

Date Night Mariners fun!

 

At Kyle's work they have a drawing for Mariners Tickets. He won!! It was so much fun to go on an actual date and leave all the kids at home. (It was almost like when we were dating) They won the game too. It was fun to walk from the ferry to Safeco Field and a little scary at night to walk back. We still had a blast.

Krista's Wedding

Krista's wedding was a Mad Hatter theme. It was fun and turned out great. It was raining that morning so we had to move it to the church. It turned out great, because we had a lot of room to get ready with the bridesmaids on one side of church and grooms men on the other. They just moved all the decorations to the Gym. It turned out wonderful as if it was planned that way. Kyle was the photographer and set up a back drop up on the stage where he took so many pictures. With the back drop set up he took tons of family members family pictures. He took just under 1200 pictures. So I just picked a few and left out a ton.

Carlee did the wonderful Cake. Aunt Gerene did the food and decorating with help in the kitchen from many friends and family. I want to Thank everyone who helped so much with the wedding. I also want to Thank all the family members who came from a distance to be here for Krista and Tommy's special day! We loved having you! Enjoy the pictures!

Night Time Swim!

Since it's been hot this last week the girls have been swimming everyday. Kyle promised them they could swim one night in the dark. I gave them glow sticks and they would throw them to the bottom of the pool and then race to see who could pick up the most. I think Kyle and Emma did it the most. As you can see the 3 youngest were in the boat. Kyle put warm water in the boat for Lilly and Lydia from the hot water heater. They had a great time! I stayed out so I could help the kids get in and out of the pool plus it is cold. They still had a great time and want to do it again. Hopefully we will have some more warm weather again soon!

Vancouver Temple Open House

On our way home from Whistler during Spring Break we decided to go to the open house of the temple. It was so wonderful the spirit was so strong. My girls thought it was beautiful. When we were all done and they were looking at the brochure I asked them what there favorite rooms were I think all of them pointed to the Celestial Room and the sealing rooms.

We of course took tons of pictures mind my kids hair we were already on our way home so Lydia's is a little messy from the car ride. Kyle of course had to take a picture of the maybe 3 protesters. Gabby was really upset that they were there. She even told her primary teacher about it.

So I know this post it late in coming, but it was on a different camera and I was just able to download the pictures. I thought it was a really important event to document.

Lilly and her baby

 

I thought these pictures of Lilly were too cute with her baby.

Zoo

Jared(my brother) and Ali came for Krista's Wedding and stayed all last week. So we decided to go to Point Defiace Zoo and Aquarium. We saw a lot of fun animals. The high light for me was seeing the new baby Tigers. They were so cute. Belle really liked the owls and Porqupine, Gabby liked the Tigers and Monkeys, Lilly it was hard to tell but I think she was most fasinated with the Walruses, Miley liked the Tigers, Elephants and the New Snow Leapard, Last but not least Lydia liked the Walrus and Tigers. So the baby Tigers were #1 at our house.

We had a great time with Jared, Ali and Cody. I hope they come again soon!

Goodbye Cousin Doug

It's been about 2 weeks ago now that Kyle's Cousin passed away. Leaving behind 2 adorable little girls. He was hit by a drunk driver who was being pursued by the police. She was going 80 miles an hour and he died instantly.

Doug was a good father and son. He recently took his daughter and my 2 oldest girls to Seattle for the day. They had a marvelous time. Roxy is in between Gabby and Miley. They love to spend time with each other. Roxy lives in Utah.
Roxy and Margot our prayers are with you! Aunt Gerene Doug and Cousins they are with you too. We love you all!

Hells Canyon

 

On our way home from the reunion Kyle decided we should check out Hells canyon. I think he liked it just for the name. Doug Holladay said it was awesome. It was beautiful and the girls liked it. Not quite what we expected and according to the map the road went through. It had since washed out so we ended up doing some back tracking. We were so late that we decided we were to tired to drive any farther and camped at some campground on just before immigrant springs. We put up the tent and had kids in bed in 20 minutes. In the dark using the headlight for light. Good times!

This is just a few of the shots from the reunion. That is our tent we stayed outside which was nice. Kyle decided to camp away from the other tenters. He wanted to be under the trees. The adults were teasing Kyle and said, that is where the snakes are. Well, Lydia heard this and Kyle picks up a seed pod and says see the snake. Well, Lydia wakes up in the middle of the night standing up and screaming at the top of her lungs pointing to Belle's head. Saying something about a slug or snake. Thank goodness we were away from the other tents. Serves them right for scaring a 4 yr old.

We had a wonderful time as always at the reunion. See you all next year here in Washington.

Fireworks Fun

 

On the 4th the weather was bad in Nampa. So they decided to wait and do the fireworks during the reunion. It was a wonderful show. They did a great job! Kyle was able to get some great Pictures.

Visiting the Killions

 

Our friends just moved to the Boise area a few months ago. He just finished Chiropractic school and bought a practice in Eagle. So we decided to surprise him and walked in to his practice. He knew we were coming soon and was pleasently surprised. We then went to his house with him and the girls all played. They have 5 girls too. Becca and I worked together at Dr. Brians a long time ago. We had babies together. Steve and Mike (Kyle's brother) were unseperable in High School. So Kyle and Steve have so many stories of when they were younger, Steve was at their house all the time. We love them. The girls get along so well.

Our releif Society President is Becca's Mom. A funny story (I'm in Primary) so when we got there Sis. Lonyd was there and had been there a month. I didn't even know she had been gone.

Becca and Steve came over on Saturday to the reunion and played all day on the inflatables too. They were so excited to see Grandma Hoisington. Steve and Becca thanks for visiting with us!

Inflatable Fun!

 

Doug and Judy hosted the Reunion this year and they have all these inflatable toys. So Saturday the kids spent the day playing on water slides and enjoying each others company. I applied sun screen a few times but they still all burned a little. Lydia stayed on them the entire day! The other kids came and went just playing in the yard. It was so nice to catch up. Thanks Doug and Judy!

Reunion Trip Camping

 

We decided to stay at Immigrant Springs state park on our way to Nampa this year. We also decided to stay in a cabin and not our tent. It was a duplex of sorts us on one side and Janene and her family on the other. It was fun! Rex made ribs for dinner and the kids just played and played and played. Those boys are so active. Janene you do have your hands full. Poor Edmund fell right on his face I felt so bad. Lily did well with sleeping with us and all. It was a lot of fun! We'll have to do it again sometime.

Computer Issues?Xsjkpoi

I'm sorry I haven't posted lately. My computer wasn't working with google for some reason and wasn't able to log into blogger. For some reason it started working today so I will be doing some posts. I still have a lot to catch up on even back as far as spring break so bear with me!

A stop on the drive

 

This year we had the family reunion in Idaho. On our way there we stopped at this park for lunch. It was in the 90's and pretty hot. We bought lunch and took it to the park to let the kids play. The kids thought it was so cool that there was a merry go round. They had fun the only problem it was pretty hot because of the sun. Lilly fell and got a slight burn on her knees. It was so sad. As you can Gabby is reading her book and the other kids just having fun. Janene and her family caravaned with us so there is a couple pictures of her kids in this collage as well.

Camping Fun

 

We went camping this weekend with Mike, his kids, Bryce and Braden. We camped at Fort Townsend State Park. It was so cool. We stayed at the group site where we could of had a ton more people come. There was this old building in our site where they use to x-ray bombs during world war 2. Our family is standing in front of it in the collage.
When we got up in the night and walked through the building a bat started flying at Kyle to try and get his head lamp. Kind of scary.

We decided to camp at Fort Townsend and then Spend the day at Fort Warden our favorite place to go. We ended up playing on the beach. Exploring the bunker on the beach and went for a walk to the light house. We had never done that before and it was super fun.

Boy Scout Ape Cave Adventure

 

A few months ago Kyle and some other leaders in our ward took a the boys to the Ape Caves for an adventure. Here are some pictures from that fun Event!

Mormon Battalion

 

This is a picture of my parents last summer. I love it. They were visiting the Mormon Battalion monument. My Great Great Great Grandpa was in the battalion. They went there to find out more information. The monument is in old down town San Diego it is fun to check out. It was just recently remodeled.

2nd Cousin Fun!

 

 

Roxy came to visit her Dad for a couple of weeks and the girls were able to go with them to Seattle for the day. Here are some pictures of them hanging out at our house. They had the best time. Thanks Doug for taking them!

Cousin Megan Visits

 

My cousin came for a visit yesterday. We had a great time doing nails, listening to music, going to the park and just hanging out. we miss you when your not here Megan.

Pizza Tradition Last day of school!

 

Ever since Kyle was a kid their family would go to Godfathers the last day of school. His cousins and would go too. So now all of the Hoisingtons in the area with kids in school meet on the last day of school and have Pizza. It is a lot of Fun. So here is the pictures from this year!

Girls Last day of School

 

Belle and her fabulous teacher Mrs. Chamberlain. She is so cute and loves all of the kids. We will miss her. Thanks for being such a great Kindergarten teacher!

 

Gabby was in a 5th/6th split this year. She made honor roll and loves her teacher Mr. Mackie. She will probably have him again for 6th grade. My only thing is those 6th graders were a little harsh. Gabby loves to read and more often then not she has a book in her hand. She has been reading the series of unfortunate events lately.

 

Miley's teacher was Mrs. Bronson and she just happens to be in Grandma Hoisington's ward. Which Miley loved since she knows most of our family. Abby did really well this year. She is working hard on her reading. She likes to read!

Wrestling with Daddy

 

The other day the little girls started wrestling with Kyle. Before long all 5 girls were wrestling with him. Even the baby joined in. It was super cute! I guess girls even love to wrestle with their Dad. I did get some Video but I can't seem to get it to work. So these pictures will have to do.