Big Brother Kyler

Kyler loves being a big brother and just adores Caden. This picture also shows how much hair Caden has, I'm just hoping it doesn't all fall out!

SO SWEET!

The snow is really starting to pile up! We have some pretty big snow piles from plowing our driveway, and they are perfect for Kyler and "Justin" to go sledding on.

He's Here!

We finally had our little boy! He was born on Monday January 21st at 11:29 pm. I don't know if you would really call him one day early because he was only 31 minutes away from being born on his due date. We named him Caden Lynden Kunde. He ended up being a lot bigger than we thought he was going to be. He was 8lbs. 9oz. and 21 inches long. Kyler adores him already. He is always giving Caden kisses on the head and is very concerned when he cries- which thankfully hasn't been very much. Caden's internal clock is off though, he sleeps all day and just sits and watches you at night.

The first time Kyler saw Caden he didn't want to get too close and wasn't quite sure what to think of him, but that didn't last long.
Justin's very happy to have two little boys!!
Just about to go home from the Hospital
Caden loves his vibrating seat!

Only 12 Days left! -hopefully! By this point I'm pretty tired of being pregnant. I don't think I am as big as I was with Kyler, so maybe this one will be a smaller baby. The bad thing about it being so close is we don't have a name yet! Choosing a name has been so much harder this time, Kyler's came without any question!







I towel dried Kyler's hair after his bath and it stuck straight up! He noticed it and actually liked it.











We had a great Christmas and drive home until we drove into our drive way at 12:30 AM. It had snowed so much while we were gone, but we thought, we have four weel drive and we'll just run over it acouple times to pack it down and worry about plowing tomorrow. Justin tried backing the Jeep back out, which had a trailer with a snowmachine on it, but the trailer was sucked into the snow and pulled the Jeep in with it. So in the mean time I'm pulling the truck out of the garage to pull the jeep out and get it stuck in the snow as well. So there we were in the middle of the night when most are sleeping with two cars stuck in a ton of snow! We'll just say Justin shoveled alot of snow, and I was sitting in the car not feeling so good because I was really tired and hungry. He eventually got his truck out and tried pulling me out several times from many different angles, getting even more stuck. Finally at 2:00 AM we had both cars back on the road not daring to drive back in the drive way again. We ended up cracking something in my jeep and lost all the windshield washer fluid in the snow. And on the way back home we discovered we had lost Kyler's old car seat on the highway. He got him a new booster style car seat for Christmas, so his older one was strapped to the trailer in a heavy duty garbage bag. The odd thing is everything around and even in it was still intact. We have no idea what happened to it! So any way that was our drive home from Christmas break!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone! We absolutly love Christmas time. We love the snow, lights, music, movies, and all the fun little activities that go with the season!

Kyler has been very excited to meet santa this year. He made sure to ask where his reindeer were.

First time Kyler has helped me make sugar cookies! He thought it was so much fun stamping out the shapes in the dough.
We also made Gingerbread houses. I think his favorite part was eating all the candy!
Justin made sure it was very structurally sound.

Here is a video of Kyler blowing out his candles. Trick candles are always a lot of fun and almost impossible to blow out!

Happy Birthday Kyler

I can't believe Kyler is three! He has become such a big kid. He was so excited for his birthday, he couldn't wait to open presents, eat cake and play with balloons. He asked me all day long if he could. He had fun trying to blow out his candles, they were the relighting ones- I know I'm so mean!

Trimming the tree

Our tree stands about 11' , luckily we had the height clearance this year. I love having a tall tree. Kyler put all his bulbs in the same location on the tree until we helped him spread them out. We laughed so hard because it didn't matter how many were already on one branch he always went to the same branch to decorate.
The tree is so prickly this year. We could hardly touch it without gloves and long sleeves. That is one way to keep your kids away from it. Kyler has already broken 3 Christmas bulbs, and counting!
















I have been so bad about taking pictures this time around. So here I am at 32 1/2 weeks, every day counts.

Cutting down the tree

We had so much fun this year cutting down our tree. We went for a snowmobile ride and enjoyed being out in nature with all the snow covered tree. The views were so beautiful. We finally found our tree up by Brundage Mountain

The snow was a little too deep for Kyler so he rode on Justin's shoulders.
We cut the very top of the tree off because it was so string bean like. It is now Kyler's Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
I had to prove I was out getting a tree too -at 32 weeks along.
The tree measured out to be about 11' long, They always look so much smaller than they really are.
Justin cutting down the tree. I'm glad we went when we did because the next day we got "well over" another foot of snow.

Kyler enjoyed playing with little Lynden over thanksgiving,

or it might have just been all his toys he liked playing with, j/k.

I couldn't get Kylers attention long enough to get them both to smile.

Kyler loves playing with sugar (our neighbor's dog). It's nice because we just play with her, then send her home, and we don't feel like we even need a dog. But we would love to have a dog just like her because she is so good with Kyler.

Let there be snow!

It snowed yesterday, and Kyler could hardly wait to get outside to build a snowman. We actually received about 4 inches then it started to rain and everything became so wet. It is amazing how much kids grow in a year. Kyler's winter clothes from last year were so small on him.

"I like to eat snow!"

Kyler's baby

Jason (Justin's twin brother) has been working over here in McCall every week for a while and Malia has been student teaching and unable to come over with him. So last weekend she came over instead of Jason going home. We had a lot of fun. I always feel so far away from everyone until someone comes to visit.
Kyler and Kaylee played so well together, even though Kyler made her cry a lot just by barely bumping her the wrong way. She is very dramatic, it was so funny! Kyler would say "Shhhh, no cry baby."



I found Kyler fast asleep in my room the day after they left. He had gotten the pillow and blanket by himself and he slept for about three hours. He must have been really tired because he doesn't take naps very much anymore.

Say cheese

It seems like Kyler never has any clothes on, that's because he has learned to take them off and prefers to run around in underwear. I'm always putting his clothes back on lately.-And he is also starting to eat so much better. Now he is really going to start growing. I always thought there is no way he can grow by only eating corn dogs, fruit snacks and chocolate milk!

Kyler has been learning his colors. He does pretty well until he starts getting silly.
He was so careful to get as little paint on him as possible, until I showed him it is alright to get your hands dirty.

Howdy Y'all

Kyler was a Cowboy again for Halloween. I think he really
enjoyed it a lot more this year and actually understood what was going
on. I took him to the trunk or treat at the church, then to a few neighbors
and members in the ward. He said howdy to everyone and

told them he was a cowboy. I thought he was so cute !

Rub a dub-dub!

Kyler loves my bath tub. He has taken more baths in it than in his own tub! -I don't blame him!

Happy Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins was alot of fun this year. Kyler has been calling them "happy pumpkins for at least a month now!

Don't they look like buddies?
I thought if I held the pumpkins by my round belly it wouldn't look so big. I don't know if it worked though! I'm 28 weeks! Only 12 weeks to go!

Kyler walks better in heels than I do!

Last nice days of the year!

We went on a walk yesterday and the weather was just so nice. It made me wonder where this year went!
Kyler found lots of grasshoppers and wanted to step on them all! I don't know where he gets that from!