Kysa is my X-Games Girl

Oh mom, that will be WONDERFUL to have you come next week!

I talked to dad before he left and he said he would come up next week...so I
don't know if the two of you have talked, but whenever you can come, we will
be grateful. We are set to close on our house tomorrow. Landon Kesler was
our mortgage guy and he just does an awesome job making sure we have
everything lined up.

Ty has three more golf tourneys in Twin, so maybe he will take Raleigh on
the bus with him so he could spend the day with you. Raleigh really wanted
to go today but it was going to be too crowded. They brought all the kids
who were trying out for the team and had them play at Burley, while the ones
from last year played in a tournament at Twin. No golf in our neck of the
woods, heck, in the subdivision where we are buying that house there is
still 8 inches of snow. Most of ours has melted in Ammon, it's weird that
it's been that much warmer over here. Of course, we still have piles of it
where it has been shoveled, snowplowed, etc, but on the flat it is gone.

Shay took awhile to go to sleep tonight and entertained herself by taking
her shirt off. She looks so peaceful in there, I didn't dare wake her up to
put her shirt back on. We almost have to do the zip up jammies for her,
seems like she is taking her shirt or pants off every time she's not in a
one-piece.

She is getting so big. I just love my big babies, I wonder what it would be
like if I didn't have such sturdy kids. I don't think I told you this, but
Shay opened the door from grandma's kitchen to the front porch by herself.
She can reach the door handles at our house, but hasn't figured out how to
open them up quite yet. It won't be long. She opened the lever door at
Apple Athletic Club's treehouse today and walked right out. Yikes! I'm
excited to see how she does on the trampoline and find out if we have
another Kysa on our hands.

Speaking of Kysa, she got her coat and hat and shoes on and wanted to go
outside, so Raleigh was nice enough to go out with her. They had a great
time jumping on the tramp and I would periodically check on them, but I
stayed inside with Shay. Well finally they came in and Raleigh said, "kysa
really likes to jump off the tramp." Huh?

"Like into the snow bank, right?" I ask.

"No." Raleigh explains. "Onto the grass."

"How many times did she do it?"

"A lot. Like five, no...seven...no....ELEVEN!" Raleigh informs me.

Okay, so who knows how many times my 25 month old jumped off the trampoline,
but tomorrow when they go outside I am going to watch very closely.

If there ever was a girl destined for something like the X-Games, it is my
Kysa.

I attached some pictures of the girls--Kysa doing her superwoman on my feet,
Shay being cute in her high chair--she loves to try to feed herself with a
spoon, Kysa showing us her mad face, and Raleigh playing Kelsy's GameCube
with Ty.

I tried playing Raleigh last night in one of the racing games on the Game
Cube, and he beat me so bad it was embarrassing. And he beat my bad TWICE!
I think I'm hopeless at video games. But he was so cute, he said, "Mom, you
just need to practice. If you want to be good, you have to practice, that's
all. I'm not that good--I just practice. But Daddy's really good."

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry and Roanne Gillette [mailto:jerrygillette@safelink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:38 PM
To: Kaly
Subject: busy week

I know you are very busy. I will try and be there Sunday night. Well that is
if you have planned on doing lots on Monday. I can come for a few days,
then I will go to Kirby's to see ALL. But I will come back for Easter Sunday. You're not planning on a Egg Hunt? Too much going on for you to do that.
Just for Raleigh, and Ky? That will be good. Dad is with Doug Manning, Perry, Stan. On the ClearH2O. Be back on Sat. I have a Track Meet tomorrow. 4 teams coming. I hope the weather
will be nice. The internet has been down for 5 days. At Armstrongs they are using an electric fence and it interferes with the connection. It's just the pits. PMT is aware and working on it.
Love, MOM