Aspynn Turns One Year Old!!!!!

Cake attack!  Well, one finger did the trick for Aspynn.

We had a lot of fun at Aspynn's birthday party.  Cookie decorating, pin the nose on the pumpkin and the sand box were enjoyed by all the youngin's.  We still can't believe that she turned one today.

It sure is fun to see her walking.  Her smile and those bright blues shine up any room.  We LOVE you ASPYNN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

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Mira decided that Aspynn needed to wipe her hands off from the cake, so she found a napkin and tried to clean her up....what a good sister!

Mira is SOOO smart!

Mira showed interest in writing letters, and so I found a website that prints off pages where we choose the words and it makes a page for us to print off.

Well I was surprised to see her write them so well.  As you can see on the last page just how well she did.  I am so proud of her.

She also likes to say the letters as she draws them.  You can also see how well she holds the pencil (thanks to both her grandmothers for helping with that).

NEW BLOG!!

Today, I started a blog that I will use to showcase my designs. I have created a lot of interesting things lately and have more that are in the works. This blog is to also show what kind of design services I am providing for those of you who would like a professional. First of all, here is the blog:

kaylenefrostdesigns.blogspot.com

I have also posted a link to the blog on the right hand side for easy access. I hope you enjoy visiting my design blog and hope that you will comment on what you have enjoyed.

Marriage Blog

I would like to introduce a new Blog I was told about that helps to improve a marriage.

http://improvemymarriage.blogspot.com/

Anyone who is married knows that not everything is perfect in a marriage, which means there is room for improvement. Please take some time to look it over and I can most likely guarantee that there will be something that would help.

Lots of love from the Frost Home. (And Yes, we are not perfect too).

Delight!

[God] expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. -Jeffrey R. Holland



***Mira surprised me on my birthday by saying and signing a 5, count it....5, word sentence.... "I want more water, please" ...WOW... she sure is growing up.

More fun pictures from this summer.

Highlights of our Summer at Camp Tahquitz

Kaylene at the top of COPE

Cutie pie Mira being silly.

Mira playing in the dirt with one of the Staff members. This was almost a daily occurance.

Larry in his uniform. Isn't he handsome?!

Mira suited up the go up the climbing tower. She made it to the top with help from Daddy.

Mira's first time bowling (Big Bear).

Don't forget the cute bowling shoes.

Larry holding Mira who is holding a dog on her shoulders.

Upper Meadow. One evening Larry and I watched the bats feed on mosquitos here.

Holding a snake at the Nature Lodge.

More to come later.

Great and Terrible Week

This week was hard yet so much fun!!

Sunday I found out that my brother Seth was willing to go with me, and the girls, up to Idaho for a family reunion. So we packed and got everything ready to go out Thursday morning. We drove...all...the...way...to...Idaho Thursday and arrived at the camp site 12:30 am Friday (Idaho time). Yikes!!!! It was about 16 1/2 hours because of all the stops we had to make for the girls. Then we kept everyone up because Aspynn woke up and was not happy and wouldn't calm down for an hour. Sorry! Needless to say, we arrived safely and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

The reunion was for the Genther side of the family and there were many people there that I hadn't seen for years! It was great to meet new spouses and children of my cousins. Mira had the greatest time with all of her second cousins and cousins (Devi). Rebecca's and Kirsten's girls especially wanted to play and show her around. Thanks little ladies. Aspynn was adored by all with her piercing blue eyes and playful smile. Oh, also thank you to Tacie's daughter Cambrie for sharing her doll stroller. We know what to get Mira for a future present.

We had fun playing in the Lava Hot Springs pool. Mira learned to jump in from the side of the pool where Mommy, Grandma or Grandpa caught her. She didn't want to do anything else in the pool and wore out all of us.

Larry's brother, Ian, who lives in Pocatello at the moment, just happened to be going to Lava Hot Springs with some friends and was able to take me, Kaylene, tubing down the river there. It was great fun ...until... a guy from our group ended up caught at the bottom of a small waterfall where I was headed and with the current I hit him and bumped him out of his predicament. Well, in doing so I was flipped over and ended up with only a few bumps and bruises. Except, while I was trying not to die or hurt myself very badly, the river decided to steal my eye glasses when I went under. Yup, I was then blind the rest of the day and the next, which was all the way home where I had an old pair to use until I got new ones.

Lucky for me Seth was able to drive all the way home on Sunday, another 14 hour trip. Yay for the girls being able to handle such a crazy trip. I think they will love to see themselves in pictures one day looking back at their second cousins. We were grateful to go and we always have so much fun on the Genther side for family reunions.

PIctures will follow shortly. ...anticipation...

Growing UP

Just a quick update on our little girls.

Mira is talking more and repeating a some of what we say. She cay say more of her alphabets and continues to sign them too. She is starting to sing some of the songs that we have sung to her. Like 'twinkle, twinkle little star', and e-i-e-i-o. We love that she is starting to 'share' with her sister and we think they will become best buds.

Aspynn is growing up so fast. She is now army crawling everywhere and can now get into things on the floor. She loves her sister and laughs when Mira is showing off. Aspynn has found her tongue and sticks it slightly out just because she can. It is way cute and I need to get a pic of it and post it. Aspynn loves food and is loving all the new flavors I am giving her (and her sister, thus the sharing, which sometimes isn't good. :)

Enjoy the pics:

L.A. Zoo

Here are some pics of our recent trip to the L.A. Zoo with Kaylene's and Larry's parents as well as our niece Cosette.

Pics from Mira's Birthday Party

Can you count how many kids are in the sandbox? It was a hit!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRA!

Our Mira has been in our family for two years now and we have had such a wonderful time. She is a light to all who meet her. She is smart (as you can tell with her abc's); she loves her sister Aspynn; she is definitely a daddy's girl (maybe because mommy disciplines her :); and beautiful like no other!

What a wonderful joy she is. We love her immensely and wish this birthday a great one for her.


Mira Jean Frost
Born May 25, 2007
7:00 am
7 lbs 12.8 oz
20 inches

1 Year
22 lbs
2' 5''

2 Years
28 lbs

Easter Pics and Mira's ABC's in Sign Language

This is Mira signing her ABC's at 22 months.  We think she does pretty well...what do you think?

EASTER

Mira

Aspynn

How come we are so bad at this?

Oh yeah,

Because our computer wanted to quit on us. We don't have our normal computer to play with, so we have a billion pics to download and all of the projects we want to do have been postponed. Hopefully in the near future we will get our tax return back which will buy us a new computer. THEN we will keep up (that means at least once a month) on posting to our blog.

To update:

Larry has started substituting for the San Bernardino School District and has enjoyed working everyday since he was able. To tattle on him...I think he is a facebook addict and you will always be able to find him on there when he has the least bit of time.

Kaylene WHOOHOOO is going to the BYU Women's Conference this week. Leaving Wed (29th), returning Sat (2nd). I am so excited! The hardest part is leaving my family for 4 days. Especially Aspynn who is a momma's girl. I feel for my friend Sarah who gets to hear her scream for the next 4 days. I have been trying to make it easier for everyone, but we shall see.

Mira is now sleeping on a toddler bed. (The crib without the front) The hard part is for mommy and daddy when she wakes up in the middle of the night and knows that she can come into our room. Mira is so smart. She almost knows all of her abc's in sign language and can recognize some of them on paper as well as say some of them.

Aspynn is showing more of her personality lately. She loves touching and tasting things. She is learning to scoot and is still learning the benefits of rolling over. Aspynn only wants mom when she is tired and has very good lungs. It is so much fun to see Mira put on a show for Aspynn and then see Aspynn laugh and smile. They sure love each other.

Our garden is doing great. The plants that are doing well are the corn, tomatoes, beans, spinach, swiss chard, and bell peppers. We will post a pic soon.

This is starting to sound like a Christmas letter so I will leave you with that and look for upcoming posts from our new computer. :)

Our BIG GIRL

Today we went over our friend Katie's house and while Mira played with her son Ryan, we weighed Aspynn on an infant scale. She weighed a whooopin' 15 pounds 3 1/2 ounces. She is only 19 weeks old. And you would not have guessed that nursing was sooo, what's the right word, excruciatingly awful at the beginning. I just hope that she appreciates all that I do for her when she gets older. We'll see.

It's that time again.

Well, as you may have noticed, we haven't added any new post on here for quite a while. Let's just say that things have been somewhat busy, not to mention the fact that the display on our computer has not been cooperating (it is worse than a stubborn toddler).
Here are some of the other things that have happened in the last few months:

Larry lost his job at Juvenile Hall and started the credential program at University of Redlands.
Kaylene started a little business.
Mira continues to grow like a weed and is increasing her vocabulary by leaps and bounds. She can sign the entire alphabet with help as well as identify a number of letters on her own. Mira also enjoys helping with the dishes and other things around the house more and more.
Aspynn is working hard to catch up to Mira in size. She continues to eat well and sleeps longer when we leave her in her bouncy chair than when we put her in the bassinet. She still hasn't rolled over, but is getting close.

Over the last few weeks, we have been planting a garden in the back yard. We put in a few tomato plants, some peppers, corn, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, beans, broccoli, spinach, swiss chard and carrots. Hopefully our harvest this year with a lot of different plants is similar to the harvest last year with only a few types. It's been a lot of fun to play in the dirt as a family.

Hopefully it doesn't take us quite as long to get back on here again.

Whew!!

So I just tried my new 'rebounder'. And let me tell you, within the first three mintues it had already kicked my butt, but I managed to get through 5 mins. 5 mins and I am already tired and I mean wore out. So that either means that this works really well or that I am really out of shape. Probably both.

I can tell that I will be encouraging all of the stay at home mothers, and those that do not have a lot of time to exercise, that this is the way to go for exercise.

Betterment

Recently I have been feeling like I need to better myself in different ways. This week has been learning to improve my health. My energy hasn't been as high as I know it could be and my body just tells me I need to do something about that, so...possibly due to an answer to prayer I have found several things that will help me as well as Larry (if he has time).

The first one is called psyllium husk powder. It is normally used as part of a colon cleanse system, but I was only able to obtain the powder for the time being. I am not going to try to explain it to you because I am not that great with words but I will post here a website that can. Enjoy...

www.colonzone.org/psyllium-husk.php
www.healingdaily.com/colon-kidney-detoxification/herbal-colon-cleansing.htm

Another wonderful addition to my exercise/health part of my betterment is what most people already have heard about but do not necessarily know what kind of help and also fun it can give us. I have also been looking for a way to get some aerobic exercise at home. This was the perfect remedy...its called 'rebounding'. :)

http://www.healingdaily.com/exercise/rebounding-for-detoxification-and-health.htm



Just for a sneak peak at the website, here are some of the benefits of rebounding...

It increases the capacity for breathing.
It circulates more oxygen to the tissues.
It helps combat depression.
It helps normalize your blood pressure.
It helps prevent cardiovascular disease.
It increases the activity of the red bone marrow in the production of red blood cells.
It aids lymphatic circulation, as well as blood flow in the veins of the circulatory system.
It lowers elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
It stimulates the metabolism, thereby reducing the likelihood of obesity.
It tones up the glandular system, especially the thyroid to increase its output.
It improves coordination throughout the body.
It promotes increased muscle fiber tone.
It offers relief from neck and back pains, headaches, and other pain caused by lack of exercise.
It enhances digestion and elimination processes.
It allows for easier relaxation and sleep.
It results in a better mental performance, with sharper learning processes.
It relieves fatigue and menstrual discomfort for women.
It minimizes the number of colds, allergies, digestive disturbances, and abdominal problems.
It tends to slow down aging.