Sisters

    Is there anything better than sisters?!  We don't think so!  These two girls, laugh and play together every single day and they always watch out for each other who could ask for anything more?

Miss Kabree Lee 5yr Pictures

 

    As always Adrianne took amazing pictures of the girls!  Kabree very much had her own ideas for this photo shoot and informed Adrianne where and how she would be posing : )!  We cannot believe Kabree is already 5!  Where has time gone?  Yet we cannot remember life before her!  Kabree is such a sweet, full of personality, beautiful girl!  We love her so much and everything she brings to our family!  Here are a few of Kabree's favorite things and our favorite things about Kabree:

• Kabree LOVES preschool, her friends, her teacher Ms. Cori and everything else about it!  She has loved learning this year and it has been so fun to see her learn so much this year!
• Kabree is VERY excited for Kindergarten next year!
• Kabree LOVES dance!  Again the friends, her teacher Ms. Jill, the costumes and just dancing her heart out : )!
• Kabree LOVES her performances for dance, though she gets nervous before everyone she always tells us she "loves" them after!
• Kabree still loves all animals and wishes we could have a 100 pets or at least a horse in our back yard!
• She loves being outside, riding her bike, jumping on the tramp, going for walks, anything outside she loves!
• Kabree loves crafts of every kind, coloring, making necklaces, painting, play dough anything crafty!
• Kabree loves to sing along with the radio, sing at bedtime, sing in church and make up her own songs, she is always singing!
• She is so curious about everything right now, "What does that do?  How are those made?  Why does that do that?"  She wants to know everything!
• Kabree is on a kick of loving Roman Noodles right now, she would eat them at least once a day if we would let her.
• Kabree loves to help!  She is always asking what she can do or if someone wants help.  She is great to help unload the dishwasher and help with laundry.
• Kabree is the best big sister anyone could ask for!  She is always looking out for Keagan, playing with her, sharing, worries when Keagan is upset and wants to comfort her.

    We could go on for days about all of the amazing things we love about Kabree!  Kabree is full of spunk and personality, yet one of the sweetest, most caring people we know.  She adds so much to our family and teaches us how to care for others.  We love her more than words can express and couldn't love her more if we tried!  We love you Kabs aka Kabby Baby!

Miss Keagan Ann 2yr Pictures

    As always my friend Adrianne is amazing at taking pictures!  Little Miss Keagan was a stinker and refused to smile or really cooperate for pictures but Adrianne still managed to catch a few of our beautiful little girl.  We love Keagan so much and cannot remember life before her.  She brings such a fun spunky spirit to our home.  She is full of personality, curiosity and might be the busiest 2 year old out there!  Some of Keagans favorite things and our favorite things about her are:

• Her beautiful, thick, satin hair!  She HATES it in her eyes and is always pushing it out of her face.  We love to play with it and run our fingers through it ALL the time...surprisingly she lets us!
• Keagans adorable dimples, she had the two cutest dimples we have ever seen!  We see them lots at home but it's rare to get them on camera!
• Keagan LOVES Barbie, playing with them, watching Barbie Life In The Dream House or any Barbie movie she can get her hands on!
• Keagan LOVES fruit!  Any fruit she chows down on it and starts saying "please more, please, please!" before she has even finished the last bite.
• She loves to be tickled!  She will lay down on you and lift up her shirt and smile!
• Keagan LOVES to play hide-n-seek with anyone willing to play.  She is a great hider and loves to hide in the closest the most.
• Keagan has an obsession with purses and shoes!  She is constantly trying to steal peoples shoes, bags, purses and going through them!  She always has on someone else's shoes and has a bag over her shoulder waving and saying "bye!"
• Keagan loves nursery and cries all during sacrament "nursery, nursery"
• Keagan loves to help unload the dishwasher and always does the silverware for Mommy.
• She loves dress up!  Especially gloves of any kind!
• Keagan loves helping with the laundry, she loves to fold the washrags and put them in the kitchen drawer, sometimes they end up waded in a ball and shoved in, but at least she helps!

    We could go on and on for days about everything we love and think is cute about Keagan.  She is a VERY busy, curious little girl and we love her more than anything!  We all love watching her learn and grow.  Keagan melts our hearts with her smile and beautiful brown eyes and couldn't love her more if we tried!  We love you KeaKea aka Keagers!

Preschool Graduation

Kabree, Justice & Keagan

This is how they pose all the time!!!! 

The Redfish Crew

Dalton, Kabree, Trey and Justice 

Kabree and Justice 

What sweet kiddos 

The kids were super excited about these cookies 

Singing their hearts out 

As you can see Kabree and Justice got "VERY" into the actions 

Getting her certificate 

Throwing their hats 

So excited about the cookie! 

Ms. Cori and Justice

Ms. Cori and Kabree

    Where has the time gone?  We cannot believe that our beautiful Kabree is already old enough to be graduating from preschool!!  This year has been great!  Kabree has loved every single day of preschool at Mother Goose and that's because of our amazing friend, neighbor and Kabree's teacher Ms. Cori.  The kids talk about Ms. Cori all the time and always want to write notes for her or think of something to take to her.  Kabree has learned so much this year and is definitely ready for kindergarten.  Kabree has loved making new friends and going to school 3 days a week.  This year was full of lots of firsts, going to preschool at a school not a home, new teacher, new kids, and car pool and they have all been awesome!  Kabree and Mommy were both so nervous going into the first day of preschool this year and now looking back we laugh because everything has been great!  

    Graduation was so much fun!  They sang their hearts out at and were so excited about their cookies that had their names on them!  It was such a cute program and again we are so grateful for awesome preschool teachers, thank you Ms. Cori for being so great and making this year so fun!

    Thank you to those who were able to come support and celebrate Kabree, what would we do without such awesome people in our lives?!  How did Kabree choose to celebrate her big milestone?  Dinner at Arctic Circle of coarse!!

Zach's Graduation Day!

Kabree and Keagan are proud of their Daddy! 

Our proud family!

Gary, Zach and Sally

    Friday May 9th was Zach's graduation day!  We are so proud of him and all that he has accomplished.  Gary, Sally, Heather and JoAnn were all able to attend with me and cheer him on crossing the stage.  Whitney was so sweet and between her and Matt Kabree and Keagan were taken care of the whole day.  After graduation Matt and Heather hosted a graduation party of pizza, salads and Zach's favorite desserts.  We were so grateful for all of those who were able to attend to help celebrate Zach's huge accomplishment.  He has put in countless hours at both school and work to provide for us and allow me to still stay home with our girls.

     Zach going back to school was a HUGE leap of faith, Zach felt prompted by the spirit to quit his job and go back to school even though he didn't have another job lined up.  It was very scary at first but we both felt strongly it was what he was supposed to do and what was best for our family.  That was December and fast forward to March Zach still didn't have a job and we were taking our name of the adoption list when we were asked if we wanted a baby!  We said yes and 2 short weeks later Zach got offered a job and Fred Meyer but the Wednesday before he started we were blessed to have Keagan placed in to our arms!  

    Zach started working nights and weekends which wasn't super fun for us missing him but we were so grateful he had a job and could still attend school.  Then in April of the next year he got offered an internship at Idaho Central Credit Union, but it paid less and was less hours.  Again we took a leap of faith and Zach took the job.  Fast forward to this year and Zach is graduating and has a full time job waiting for him Monday morning with Idaho Central Credit Union in the Computer Information Systems department!

    It wasn't the funnest or easiest road but he stuck to it and we made it and we are all for the better because of it.  We feel so blessed that God always blessed us with enough and a way to what ever we needed and that we are so blessed with family, friends and neighbors who were always there to help out when we needed it.  So congratulations Zach, we love you and couldn't be prouder, here is to our next great adventure!!!!!!

Branding 2014

Cactus, Mattie and Keagan 

Kooper and Keagan 

Cactus, Kabree, Mattie and Grandma JoAnn 

Zach and Keagan checking out the cows 

All of the hard workers 

Kooper and Captain Jack 

JoAnn and Cactus 

Katie and her friends hanging out 

 Cute cowgirls enjoying the show

Eric and J.T. perfecting Blue Steal from Zoolander

Grandpa Vance  

Morgan and Kabree enjoying the soda 

Mattie, Lilly, Kanyon, Kabree and Morgan 

JoAnn got 2 feet! 

Jeff taking a turn roping 

Kooper roping

Katie jumping in on the action 

 

Keagan wanted Grandpa Vance to take her in the middle of the cows 

Denver 

Keagan getting a closer look 

J.T. showing some muscle 

Zach taking his turn roping 

  Larin was pretty proud of how tuff his cowgirl is!

 

Kabree and Keagan loving on the new baby 

    It was time once again for branding!  Zach loves branding and everything involved so he stayed up until 2:30 a.m. every morning for a week to get all of his papers and final projects done just so he could go.  This was one of the most low stress, most enjoyable years yet!  Though they were few in numbers everyone worked hard, helped out and got it done in record time at that!  The girls LOVED playing with Mattie and Morgan and because of the new fence situation they could run wild!  They of coarse loved the soda as well!!!  Keagan didn't like riding the horses so much but kept trying to con people to take her into the middle of the cows!  Kabree just kept saying "I'm having so much fun with Mattie!'  Even though Kabree is so much younger Mattie included her the whole day and made Kabree's day, she had so much fun!  After the branding, lunch and mostly everyone left Grandpa Vance took the girls down to see the new baby colt!  It is the sweetest  most loving little thing and the girls adored it!  As always we love Arbon and everything it has to offer!