Welcome Kaden Lavell Kolste!!

We have a new cousin this week! We are so excited about it! Matt's twin brother and his wife had a baby boy on the 18th. He is so sweet! We are excited he made it before Christmas! We don't have any of our own pictures, so check him out by going to Mike and Tiffany's link!!

More Christmas!!!

We are finally getting a little settled in our house. We have a tree up...nothing spectacular, but we are excited to have it feel like Christmas! I also added a few more picures of Matt's homemade Christmas decorations:





I love these cute little houses!


The red bird in the spray-painted gold nest finds its way toward the back of the tree every year, but we still like it!


This sweet Santa Claus can easily be made with a toilet paper roll and some felt material if anyone wants one.

A Christmas Story!

I have the cutest husband ever and when he was little he wrote the cutest Christmas story every. Luckily, his mom saved all of the Christmas stuff he made and gave it to us when we got married.
Enjoy:


Santa and the Dog by Matthew Kolste


This book is dedicated to Mom and Dad. They take me to school each day.


Once upon a time, there was an old house in the woods.


One Christmas Santa came and the dog scared him away.


So in the morning when the kids woke up there were no presents.


Then they cried.


Santa came back the next year.


The dog did not scare him away.


The End.


My name is Matthew Kolste. I am a second grader at Highwood. I live at home with my parents. I have three brothers and four sisters. (He actually has four brothers)
My favorite subject in school is reading. Three of my favorite hobbies include playing guns, playing cowboys, and riding horses. Someday I hope to become a cowboy.

Sooooo Cute!!!

Cruise!!

Finally I have a minute to put some pictures up. Matt's work took us on a cruise to Mexico! It was a lot of fun. We LOVED Mexico! I wasn't too crazy about the boat itself after a while, because I was pretty sick. But all together, we had a great time. It was fun having a lot of people we knew with us! We missed Savannah a lot though. Most of the pictures I took were with a little disposable camera, so here are a couple I took with our other one:


The jungle in Pureto Vallarta was beautiful!! We drove up through them, then took zip-lines that crossed back and forth over the valley. It was a lot of fun!





Puerto Vallarta--- I was trying to fit in with the natives.


In Cabo San Lucas, we paid this guy to take us around. I thought the name of his boat was pretty funny. He had huge speakers in it and would blast music as we drove around.


Mazatlan


Mazatlan--- We took Catamarans out to an island to do some snorkeling.


Every evening when we came back to our room, it was clean and had a towel folded into a different animal!


Cabo San Lucas--These rocks are in "Pirates of the Caribean"

We closed on our house the day after we got home, so it has been a busy week. We are officially in the house now...just have a lot of unpacking to do.

Big News!!

Well, you guessed right! We are not very good secret keepers. I have been sick too, so that doesn't help us keep it secret either. We are really excited though. We are thinking it will be another July baby!!!
Cruise pictures to come...

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We have had a great Thanksgiving weekend! We spent time at my parents where we got to visit and eat lots of yummy food! We have so much to be Thankful for!
To make things even better, BYU beat Utah in the football game!
We have been so busy, so I haven't really posted this week, and now it will be a while again. Matt's work is taking us on a trip. Should be fun. We will be sure to post lots of pictures when we get back, plus Savannah has some big news to post.
But for now...here are a few pictures of our Thanksgiving:





The boys frying a turkey!


It's getting cold!!!


Savannah made a new friend


Checking out the choo-choo. (if you look close enough you can see it) The kids love to watch the trains and run outside whenever they hear one.

Go Cougars!!!

Well, the big week of the BYU-Utah game has arrived! No one needs to question which team we are cheering for!!!! Here are some pictures of last years game to get everyone excited!!!!
ps..If you want to watch the youtube click, be sure to go to the bottom of the page to pause my music or you will hear both at the same time.