MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!Thank Judy Allen and Team with RE/MAX real estate, For the awesome Christmas pictures with Santa. Everyyear Judy Allen sponsers this event for families and the best part about it is IT'S FREE. We have gone the last three years and love it, we've really enjoyed the amazing photo's. Thank you to Legacy Dance (The Draper's) for the great photographer.

Kirsten at 5 months! Our awesome aunt Janica came over and took some great shot's of Kirsten in the Santa hat and Stocking. Janica also took a few of our family photos this past fall, and she is learning,
but doing a great job.
WE HOPE EVERYONE WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
LOVE THE BECKSTRANDS

Cute Pictures of Kelsie

My Sister-in-law has been taking a photography class and loving it. Check out her photo site of some of the cute Pictures of Kelsie and my cute niece Kira. Thanks Janica Can't wait for Sunday pictures with all three girls. Love ya

http://www.photographybyjanica.blogspot.com/

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY KELSIE!!!! other events in Aug.

Wow our little Kelsie is 3 years old today. Where does the time go, she was just a baby and now she is Sassy, Sensitive and full of life. Everyday is an adventure with her, she always has an excuse for everything. Most mornings she ask me if Cala, Kira or Max can come play, and she loves to be with Kae. We are so grateful for her special spirit and We love having her in our family. WE LOVE YOU KELS.

Daddy Blessed Kirsten this weekend and did an amazing job, Kirsten too was great during the blessing. Thanks to all of our family and friends who came and supported Kirsten on her special day, and to our Family who helped with food. It turn out really nice, and we appreciated all the love.

A very special Thanks to Carole (Grandma Hymas) who made our beautiful dress and hair bow. She is very talented and we always appreciate her hard work.

We love you Grandma.

This is a very special picture for us, Our Grandma Beckstrand passed away yesterday. We are so grateful that she was able to attend the blessing and enjoy being with family. We will miss her, and Grandpa we love you so much.

Kaelyn is finally in Kindergarden. This is her first day of school.

Walking to school with her friends Kate, Kaylee, and Mason. They were so excited they giggled the whole way over to the school. This day was long in coming to these 4 excited kids to finally be big enough to go to School

Kaylee, Kaelyn and Jada with their Teacher Mrs. Wells

All of the neighborhood kids
Ethan, Mason, Kaylee, Kae, Jada and Kate

And a very Late Happy B-day to Brant, so much going on this past week I

Didn't get a chance to Blog on his day. He is a wonderful father and husband and his girls love to be with him. This cute picture was taken at Texas Road house for his b-day diner.

LOVE YOU BRANT.

Happy 5th Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!

KAELYN IS NOW 5!

Wow! time does fly, I can't believe that we have a 5 year old. She is so excited to be finally 5.

All of her friends are and she is the last one, for a while she was sad that she was last, but

after her baby sister arrived she was fine with it. Kaelyn is fun to be around. We love her spunk for life, she loves to dance, play soccer and now softball. Kaelyn is very excited to be starting Kindergarden this year. But most of all being a big sister. Kaelyn we love you and enjoy every moment with you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Introducing........

KIRSTEN BECKSTRAND

Born: June 22, 2009

6 lbs 9 Oz.

19 ins.

@ 3:19 pm

Most excited sisters Kaelyn and Kelsie

This was a very easy delivery, We are very excited to finally have

Kirsten here. Our biggest struggle is keeping the big sisters from fighting

over who gets to hold her, and our little mother KAELYN who is

always there to take care of everything for baby sister.

Thank you to our parents and sisters who helped with the girls, and to

our friends for the gifts and notes and food.

YELLOWSTONE

We are only 4 weeks away from having baby sister, and have lots to do before she arrives. We decided to get a few family outing out of the way before she comes. So we took the girls to Yellowstone, and Stay in Uncle Dan's family cabin located in West Yellowstone. It was awesome, the cabin is nice and only 10 minutes outside the park. The area is so beautiful, and green, and the girls loved sleeping over in the cabin. The first day all they wanted to do is go back and play at the cabin vs. seeing all the animals in the park. This was another relaxing weekend for us, and we got to enjoy mother natures creations, and warm weather.

While we were waiting for the Old Faithful to shoot off, Jamon told a guy sitting next to us that Brant was a photographer from National Geographic, So while the geyser shot off the man into his recorder stated that they were here at Old Faithful with a photographer from the National Geographic, he shook Brant's hand and asked his name. He also said he would look for his photos in the magazine. The only reason why, was Brant had Barrowed his Uncles huge professional lens to take pictures. So he looked like he could be a professional photographer.

The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Just a random Geyser and hot pots off the side of the road.

We had no luck in seeing any bears in the park so we took the girls to the Bear and Wolf discovery. They enjoyed watching the staff members feed the animals, and playing in the playground.

This mother squirrel entertained the family for about 45 mins. She would take her babies out of one tree and into another. One baby she left hanging by the hole to the new home for about 10 minutes. The baby didn't move for the longest time, then it started to fall but the mother was there to save it. At one point I thought that the mother would attack Brant for being so close to the tree, where she had moved the babies. The four little girls loved watching her, Kels keep talking about how the mother let the baby hang outside the door to their home. But I think the adults were more intrigued by the event, Brant said he took over 100 pictures of it.

Yellowstone at sunset, one of Brant's many photo's of the sun setting in the park.

Mesa Fall in Ashton Idaho

Thank you Dan and Janica for a fun family vacation, We love you, let's do it again.

Camping, and Preschool Grad.!!!!!!!!

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Camping

We took the girls camping over Memorial weekend to a campsite that Brant goes to every fall for Hunting. It was so beautiful, it is just west of Flaming George. During the nights we were at the campsite, and during the day we headed over to Diamond Mountain to Grandpa Beckstrand's cabin, The rest our family was staying in the Cabin. We still enjoyed the camping and exploring the mountains, even though it rained the whole 4 days we were there.

Kelsie saw this lake on one of our night rides around the campgrounds, she wanted to put her feet into it so bad. She was a little unsure after daddy allowed her too.

Dan told us about this cave that is 5 miles long, so when we had about 4 hours of good 4 wheeling weather, we went exploring and hiked into the cave. Our flashlights were not the best but we went into it about 1/2 a mile, there were these awesome ice blocks, and the day before this cave was full of water? Kae wanted to keep going, but our little Kels was nervous, so we headed back.

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Preschool Graduation

Kaelyn with Miss Sandy and Kisha

The preschool program was summed up what they learned all year. As they would sing the songs they learned, Kaelyns facial expressions were really intense. She was so cute while she performed each song. She also gave a little part, " We also had a lemon aide picnic at the park, a car wash and water day, but our favorite was getting into a giant bubble, and we had lots of bubble gum." Kaelyn had her part memorize, and gave it without any help.

The Three cousins, happy to have Graduated preschool and now Moving on to Kindergarden.

Jada, Tate and Kae