Daines Family 2016

Daines Family 2016

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Tytan's Five Months Old

The last five months have been so amazing with this little man.  He is generally a happy little guy as long as the basics are covered: fed, changed and not tired.  He is the first of our kids that is ok with playing with toys, hanging out in a swing or on the floor or playing with his toes.  He doesn't like to be left alone in a room but as long as someone is there, including his sisters playing, he is chill.  He has the biggest smile that seems to take up his whole face.  You can not help but smile or even laugh when you see him smile.  He still rarely laughs out loud but we are starting to hear it a little bit more.  He LOVES his sisters and smiles at them a lot.  We love this little man and love that he is a part of our little family.  









Monday, November 3, 2014

Trick or Treat: Halloween 2014

A month or so ago, assuming I knew my girls picks for Halloween costumes, I found an amazing deal on a set of Anna and Elsa dresses.  Thinking I had found the answer I asked the girls what they wanted to be for Halloween just to be safe.  To my surprise they chose totally different directions. Kenlee decided she would like to be UniKitty off of The Lego Movie. This sounded fun but I was honestly nervous if I could pull of putting the costume together.  Jordyn first said she wanted to be Pink.  Eventually this evolved into wanting to be Pinkalious which is a character from one of her favorite books.  This I knew would be a super easy and fun costume.  I loved how they both turned out and was so grateful that they stood out in the crowd of Anna's and Elsa's.

Before Tytan was born, Blake and I went shopping and found a little Batman onesie that had a cap and decide that was little man's costume. He looked totally awesome and I loved doing a boy costume this year. So loving this little boy add in.

Last minute Blake decided he wanted to dress up as a Mummy for work (or as Jordyn calls it Mumma.) For a night before costume I think we pulled it off and he had a great time with it too.

Halloween morning started with Kenlee heading off to preschool to her Halloween Party. She had a great time but would only tell me that they had a sugar cookie.  She did however tell me all about the other kids costumes and how cool they looked.  After a quick lunch and a much needed nap time (Jordyn was feeling emotional..... I know strange) we all got completely dressed in our costumes and met Tiffany at Lee's to do their Halloween Walk.  Daddy had left for work before Jordyn woke up so when we found him at work she freaked out.  She would not look at him, talk to him or even get close to him. No matter how much we tried to explain to her that it was Daddy she would not budge. We wandered through the stations and gathered tasty treats. Then once we were back at the service desk Jeana decided she wanted a family picture of us so we tried to gather.  Jordyn panicked and would not come over.  I finally picked her up and let her scream for the picture. I promise we put the Mumma on the other side of the group and she still freaked out.

After Jordyn's melt down we decided that we needed to unmummify Daddy or Jordyn would not be letting him help with Trick or Treating.  We hurried home and unraveled him. Once he was done Jordyn started laughing and saying "that's not a mumma that's my Daddy" over and over again, cracking herself up. Funny girl.  Tiffany came trick or treating around our ward with us and then headed to a family party.  We did a good little loop and then once it got chilly we headed back home to quickly feed Tytan and gather in the van to visit a few houses in Smithfield. Gammie and Poppi were in St. George with the band so we didn't get to go visit but we will hopefully be doing a late party.  Once we picked up Aunt Karlee and made a few other stops we had to head home to wash all the pink out of our cuties hair. We honestly didn't gather a lot of candy but the girls had a fabulous time trick or treating (except that they were nervous trying to go to the doors) and they loved visiting with their friends.

They had such a great holiday that everyday since they have played "costume party" and talked about nothing but what they want to be for Halloween next year. When Jordyn woke up Saturday morning she was very convinced that we needed to dress up again and trick or treat. Funny Girl!

Also we found out later on that Blake had an award winning costume.  At work he took 3rd place in the costume contest.  The tally was really close for the winners too.  He won $25!  (I totally think my effort deserves a portion of those winnings.....just kidding)

Blake the Mummy

Tytan as Batman

Kenlee as UniKitty and Jorydn as Pinkalious

Lots of adorable Pink

Mumma

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Moments in Time: October 2014

These two cuties got fresh haircuts and where so happy!

Sweet Tytan snuggled up and ready for bed!

He crashed in his swing snuggling with his teddy bear. So cute!

Love this little mans smile, you can not resist smiling back.

Hanging at the Aggie Game

We love his froggie hat and pea coat!

Oh Jordyn, how you make us laugh!

Our Tiny Tytan Football

Sibling Love: Tytan is worried

His smile is so contagious 

Pretty girl at her football game

Hey Blue Eyes! Loving the weather at the Aggie Game

Tytan's Mask Test

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Pumpkin Carving

This years pumpkin carving was one of the funnier.  To begin with we did not end up with the pumpkins we usually use.  The guy at the seed store told us that the pumpkins were going to be great carving pumpkins but sadly all of them were no bigger then a babies head.  We decided to see what would come of them anyways and I honestly had a really good time and was super entertained coming up with small carving ideas.  The kids all had a good time including Tytan who decided to get involved.
Miss Jean got right in like normal and cleaned out her own pumpkin this year. She loves the goo!

Tytan Boy had no issues with playing with the pumpkins, he got his hands right in and wanted to get in more if we had let him.

He seriously looked like he thought magic stuff was going on inside the pumpkin.

Little messy hands make for a happy little 5 year old!

Jordyn did NOT want anything to do with the inside of the pumpkin, once it was cleaned out she did "color" the outside of her pumpkin but did not want to touch the goo.

Daddy cleaning out his amazing pumpkin. He carved the Avengers symbol and sadly when I went through the shots there was none of his finished work. Sad news.

Super Tiny Tytan!  His first pumpkin!

Jordyn's cute funny face pumpkin!

She was pleased with the funny face!

Kenlee had her daddy carve a lady bug.  He did a great job and she was so tickled!

Cute Little Lady Bug!

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Pumpkin Walk times Two!

Once again this year we got to go to the North Logan Pumpkin Walk with Kenlee's preschool class. It was the perfect day for it.  The weather was beautiful and we were comfortable in just our coat and gloves.  The kids LOVED the scenes and couldn't wait to see what came next.  I really honestly think that each year we go the pumpkin walk gets better and better.  By the time we had made it through the whole walk both girls decided that we needed to take Daddy.  So that night when Blake got off of work we loaded back up and went through again. It was so fun and the girls couldn't wait to tell Daddy about each scene and take even more pictures.  Kenlee was really into being in the pictures but Jordyn would only go into select ones.  I really honestly don't know why she wasn't into it but she is 2 and there is not many who can explain a 2 year olds mind. Silly girl!

Kenlee and Jordyn in front of the Doctor Who Scene

The girls in front of the Tardis for Uncle Brady

Kenlee and her friend Hailey from preschool


Kenlee in front of the Lego Movie Scene





The girls thought that this was about the Sky View Marching band and not the music man.  They said that one of them was Uncle Nathan.

They loved the beautiful butterfly






Kenlee actually recognized the muppets. We haven't really seen many muppet movies but she was excited!

Kenlee with Snoopy and Woodstock

Our pretty princess: Kenlee Jean

Kenlee loved this Mary Poppins Scene

Jordyn was very excited about this Wilbur piggie

Kenlee's favorite Snow White Scene

Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Kenlee Jean



Second time with the Tardis

The girls in front of Wicked

They now love to listen to Popular and Defying Gravity

Kenlee with the Little Mermaid
Princess Jordyn

Little Kenlee Jean