Hubby Tag

Ive been tagged to answer some questions about my hubby. So now I tag all of the Jen's and whoever else wants to do it too - go for it!

what's his name? Burke McCabe Simmons

how long did you date? Who knows?!? We met when we were juniors and started dating since the Homecoming dance and then on and off from there. Then served missions - do you count that? I'll just say we knew eachother for 7 years before we got married. There.

who eats more? I think we eat about the same - except for treats, then it's all me. He's more diciplined than me in that area.

who said 'I love you' first? Ok, so I didn't remember! I asked Burke and he told me that he did. We were in my mom's living room our junior year and he said "don't you know that I love you? Cute.

who is taller? I would say we're exactally the same, but Burke says he's like 1 1/4 inches taller than I am. I don't think it's that much, but we'll let him win.

who sings better? Well, well, well- Burke can actually read music and I look at it like it's a different language - so I'd say he's better that way, but I really enjoy singing with other people like my sisters - then I'm alright.

who is smarter? It depends on what subject your talking about. We both have our smarts in different areas.

who does the laundry? Both

who does the dishes? Both

who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do.

who pays the bills? I do, we tried to have it be either of us, but that gets confusing, so I won the job.

who mows the lawn? Our landlords. It's great!

who cooks dinner? I do mostly. But he does when he can. I really enjoy it when he does too, cause he's a great cook.

who drives when you are together? We take turns, especially on long drives. Unless me eyes are bothering me, like on our trip to Colorado Springs and back - he drove it all! Thanks Burke! Although I think it's more of a break to drive, cause I'm helping kids with stuff most of the time when I'm in the passenger seat and I don't call that relaxing!

who is more stubborn? I was going to say me, but Burke's got a stubborn side to him too - so I'll say both

who kissed who first? Hmmm, I'm pretty sure it was him, I don't think I would be so gutsy.

who asked who out first? He did. He asked me to the Homecoming dance with a plant that was wrapped up in a diaper - the note said - I'd wet my "plants" if you'd go to Homecoming with me-cute huh?

who proposed? He did, at my mom's house. No one was there so we didn't have an audience, that was nice. He sang me a song with his guitar and then got down on his knee and asked. sweetie.

who is more sensitive? Me, me, ME!

who has more friends? Uh, I don't know. We've collected a few over the years, since we've moved a few times, but they become both of ours. But I do keep in touch with more of mine than he does, so then I guess you could say me.

who has more siblings? I beat him by one.

who wears the pants in the family? I would say both, because we go along with one another's ideas or suggestions for our family.

Christmas FUN, FUN, FUN

We're back! We went to Colorado Springs to spend Christmas with Burke's brother Blake and his family. Burke's sister Chanelle and her family and his parents and sister Chalei all came too. It was really fun. Here are some of the highlights of our Christmas trip.

Here is Eliza, Kaiya, Braedon, Kaleb, Larissa, Kyle and Paul. My sister-in-law, Sharise, had a great idea to play the Primary Nativity song and have the kids come out when it talked about their part. It was so sweet and they loved it too - then it was short and sweet.
We played a game where we had to get the ball to the container on the spoon without it dropping. We did quit a few different variations like holding the spoon in our hand or in our mouth as you see Burke's mom Cyndy doing in this photo. We played girls against guys. It was great.
There were also many starring contests between the kids and Grandpa. Kaiya thinks whoever blinks first wins so her contests always end quickly with her blinking right away and then yelling "I WIN!" She's great.
Here's the p.j. tradition on Christmas Eve. They loved their new pj's. Kaleb told us his were baby pajamas because they were so soft. I had to disagree since they have pirate stuff and skulls all over them. Katelin and Kyle are a couple of months apart. Kyle is the older one so he likes to crawl all over and take off Katlin's bows and play with whatever she's playing with. They're so cute. Katelin likes her toys we got her but still would rather play and eat any paper she can get her hands on. It's just makes such cool sounds and melts so ealily in her mouth - can't blame her?

Kaleb was so excited to get some new superhero guys. That's really all he wanted. He actually really is enjoying his other gifts too - I'm so glad.

Kaiya's been having a lot of fun in her new dress up clothes she got from Grandma and Grandpa Simmons and her dance clothes and princess dance video we gave her. She decided to sit and watch it through first before she started dancing along. But sure enough, after she watched it over once there was no stopping her. She loves this princess dance DVD - it came with the cute little mat she's sitting on and the wand. What fun to be a little girl.

It snowed quit a bit while we were in Colorado and so Kaleb took advantage of it and played with his super hero toys in it. The weather was great there and back for the drive. It just snowed in between when we were there. Perfect.

It was really a nice Christmas. I did miss my side of the family though. We're going there tomorrow to spend New Years with them, I'm excited to see them also. Yea!

Snowball fight

My brother-in-law Steve sent us one of these snowball fights with their little family and we were just crackin' up over it! So we had to do one of our own. Burke put it together while I was out visiting teaching and when I got back the kids were playing it over and over and over again laughing like crazy. Enjoy!

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Say MOM

Katelin says mom in this video. SO cute! It's towards the middle-end - I've told her to say it ever since she was born, boy did it pay off. They always say dad first! Now I'll work on dad. haha

Wrappin' presents 101

I decided to let Kaleb and Kaiya wrap Katelin and Burkes gifts since they probably can do just about as good a job as I could. I really do a not so good job, probably because I'm just being realistic - I know it's just going to be torn to shreds so why make it super nice! Anyway, they had a blast. Kaiya was the tape girl and used WAY to much, I need to buy lots more. And Kaleb started out with a great technique of just puting the present on the paper and then wrapping it all up in a jumbled mess and then putting tape all over it. I did give him the tip of folding it over so it meets in the middle and then taping, but other than that it's all him and her.

He's so proud of their wrapping creation.

It snowed in Green River!!!!!

And they said it didn't snow here. Well, ok they said it does, but not much and it usually melts by the afternoon. It started a bit last night while we were picking up the kids from a friends home. She watched them so Burke and I could go out to eat for his b-day yesterday, it was nice. Burke told the kids it was snowing because it was his birthday. So this morning Kaleb reminded me that's why it snowed. Cute. So I found the kids boots, hats and gloves so they would be ready to go out in it. Kaiya does have a coat, it was in the van, but it actually didn't feel to cold. Kaleb was late to school this morning because I had to find all of the stuff and I had to take a picture because I'm afraid it will all be gone by the time school is out. Priorities right? At least he made it there. When I took him into the school there were a few ladies talking by the office and as we passed they said "Wow, boots Kaleb?!?" They were impressed that he had boots. One of the ladies said "Oh well they came from Logan." So I'm guessing I'll find out Kaleb is the only child in his class who will have on a pair of boots today. Then the ladies went on to tell me how their kids never owned any boots and only went sledding like twice in their childhood! Crazy.

Happy Birthday #31 mein Schatz

First of all, Schatz means sweetheart in German. I learned this word my junior year in my German class and we have used it ever since. Good thing I took that class, just for that huh?! Burke took this picture of us yesterday. Does he look like he caught up to me in age? Well he did. Happy Birthday to my Burke. He's such a fun husband and friend and a wonderful daddy to our kids. We sure love him. He really makes life fun because he's so creative and likes to experience fun things in life. He loves to do things outdoors and loves to cook (and believe me I love it when he has time to do so! He makes everything SO good - he even makes left overs taste better. Amazing, I know.) He is so patient and fun to be around. Happy day cutie! We love you!!!

Dress up

Last night after dinner Kaleb and Kaiya were having so much fun together playing and laughing. Then a while later I realized it was really quiet and I hadn't seen them in a while. So I walked down the hall and saw that my closet light was on. When I walked in Kaleb was dressed up in Burke's church shirt and was looking for his pants and Kaiya had my shirt and was trying to get my brown skirt down off of the hanger. So I helped them finish and sinched things up so they could walk without them falling off. Kaleb wanted pictures by the tree so here ya go. I love Kaiya's wink with her mouth open and one eye shut. She does that to us a lot; it's so funny. I think Kaleb is going to be a photographer when he grows up. He told Kaiya how to sit and then positioned himself by her in cute little poses. Then Kaleb decided that they needed a stand up fighting pose. They sure keep life exciting that's for sure!

Nikolous Day

Here is a picture of the kids yesterday morning on Nikolous Day. (Sorry if I spelled it wrong mom. I copied the spelling off of Tiff's blog - so if it's wrong it's her fault. hehe. :) What happens is, the kids put their shoe out on the 5th and the morning of the 6th there is candy and a gift or something. They were so excited, Kaleb wanted to put two shoes out so he'd get more. They have such small feet I had to just lay the stuff on top of their shoes anyway! They got some candy and Kaleb got a little magnetic fishing game and some more magnetic alphabet letters. We have some on our fridge, but we're missing some and he's learning how to spell new words at school. So when he tries to spell something and we don't have the letter he says "I'll just use this v for the a instead." So I decided I'd better get him some more letters to work with so he can use the correct ones and not get confused later on. And Kaiya got some magnetic numbers and some beads to make jewlery with. She loves to play with her beads. And the store I went to here didn't have any baby toys, so Katelin got nothing. But I let her suck on an apple slice and she was happy. :) Oh and if our tree looks like it's leaning onto the window - it is. I busted the tree stand so we'll have get a new one of those. oops

look alike meter

And Katelin's the winner looking equally like both of us! Until she gets a little older and has more features other than baby ones. We'll try again at another date. But for now that's just cute - we're triplets! hehehe.

Shopping trip weekend

We needed to go shopping badly so we made the trip to Grand Junction Colorado over the weekend to get things we needed. We have the choice of going an hour to Price for Wal-Mart or an hour and 20 minutes in the other direction to Grand Junction which has two Wal-Marts, Target, a Mall and just about every store you ever wanted! So we chose Grand Junction. And we decided to make it a little mini trip and stay over Friday night at a hotel there. It was so much fun. Burke booked the room over Priceline.com and did it quickly so we didn't know we signed up for a room with only one bed! Hahaha on us! It was a King size bed though so we actually all fit on it just great. It was a fun sleep over. And we knew they had a pool, but did't know it was an outdoor one. But of course my three oldest children wanted to go swimming still. I have to include Burke with the children because he's just a cute kid. He loves to do crazy things and the kids absolutely love it! They went swimming three times in our short stay. And it was the weekend where it snowed everywhere else except here, but it was COLD. They said it was nice in the heated pool and jaccuzi though. Katelin and I hung out together inside the warm hotel hallway and took pictures of them through the window. Smart girls huh? Anyway, we had a blast and got all of our shopping done too! Perfect weekend.