February Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello there! How are you? We are doing good. I had a good February and am looking forward to March. In February we celebrated Valentine's Day and got lots of yummy treats!!

We also celebrated mom's 35th birthday.

I am learning so much. I am a puzzle master. I love to go big puzzles that are normally meant for 6 year olds. I won't let anyone help me and I don't need help because I can crank through them all on my own.

I love knowing my letters and spend a lot of my time singing the alphabet. I also love to list all the letters that I see on store buildings and such.

I love to build with Lego's, play with my Potato Head guys, play trains, read books and sing songs.

I hope that you are all doing well and that I get to hear from you soon.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

January Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello!! How are you? I am doing great. Although my mom has been really slacking on taking pictures. Dad got her a nice new camera for Christmas and now that Christmas is over we haven't been taking very many pictures.

We have been spending a lot of time outside sledding and playing in the snow. Salt Lake Valley in the winter is not fun when the air gets really yucky from the inversion so often times on the weekends we will head up into the mountains to see blue sky and breathe clean air. That makes for some fun adventures and makes the winter bearable.

I have been learning so much these days. I have learned to recognize all my letters and can tell you all their sounds. I can also count to 20 with only missing a number or two. I know most of my colors although I often times do get lazy and just guess green on everything. :) I love to color, to play toys, to build with Legos and to play on the computer. I have learned how to use the mouse and can navigate throughout computers games really well now.

I am very strong willed and there are certain things that I insist on doing all by myself. I am the one who sets the table for dinner every night and go crazy if anyone else tries to do it. I have learned how to dress myself and don't want any help (except with getting my shirt on). I love to battle bad guys and since my brothers are so into Toon Town I go around the house battling Cogs and Flunkies.

I miss my brothers when they are gone to school but like spending time with my mom. I like going to the gym playroom in the morning and hanging out with "my buddies". I also like doing my own "work ups" there at the gym.

I hope that you are all doing well. I love you and I miss you!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

December Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! We had a very fun month and I hope you did too.

We got to do lots of fun Christmas activities that have become family traditions for us like going to Gardner Village to see the Elves. We also went to the Dickens festival, built a gingerbread house, decorated Christmas cookies and performed the Nativity play at our family Christmas Eve party which we had at our house this year.

We also did some fun things while Brandon & Eric were out of school and dad was off of work. We even got to go bowling which I loved! I even bowled a strike with the help of the bumpers and the rail. :)

Christmas morning was AWESOME!! I got new guns from Santa ... just what I asked him for.

I also got some Hero Factory guys which I wanted. Yeah!! My own guys!

I hope that things are going well for you and that you are all healthy and happy. I hope you have a great 2011!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

November Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

How are you? I am doing great!! This month daddy was able to baptize Brandon. It was really great. I had lots of 2 year old cousins there to run around with. :)

Uncle Ryan even let me and Collin play with his Fireball game!!!

Thanksgiving was fun although I really don't come for the food. I am mostly there to play with my cousins and to hang out.

I have learned lots of new sayings this month from listening to others around me. From mom I learned to say "I missed you too" and "Just knock it off." And from my brothers I learned to say "Sorry ... accident".

I come in mom's room every morning and ask for dinner. Anything Star Wars I call "Star Wars 'da Clone Wars". My favorite cartoon is "Tom & Jerry" and I won't wear any PJs that don't have a SuperHero on them. Batman is my favorite!

I am very tough and spunky. I am very into weapons these days and spend my days shooting every one in sight as well as many bad guys who are not in sight. I don't always win these battles I have with the imaginary bad guys though. I can often be found on the floor saying "I dead!" I also place mom under arrest many times a day.

I hope that you are all doing well and that I get to see you soon.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

October Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello everyone! How are you? I am great!!! October is a very fun month. As you can see from my pictures I have done lots of fun Halloween things this month.

We got to pick pumpkins in Uncle Ryan's Pumkin Patch ...

And had a super fun family Halloween party at our house where my favorite activity was the doughnut game.

I also got to go trick-or-treating with my brothers and even though it was raining I totally got the concept and didn't want to quit ... people give you candy, and I LOVE candy!!

This month has been a good one for me. I have finished up my potty training and am completely done with diapers!! Yeah! I am really good at taking myself potty whenever I need to go, then I just go and track mom down half naked when I am done to show her my results. :)

We closed up the cabin this month and are done going up there for the winter. I love "my cabin" and will miss it very much over the next few months.

I am very much into the terrible twos. I am VERY strong willed and things have to be done MY WAY and I like to do everything MYSELF!! Mom has to really think before doing anything for me or she ends up with a temper tantrum on her hands. If she does something for me when I don't want her to do, I will undo what she has done and redo it MYSELF!!! Mom and dad say that all my brothers have been that way but that I am the most stubborn of them all. Good thing I am so super cute, helps me get away with more. :)


Hope to hear from you all soon.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

September Letter

Dear Family and Friends,

Hello! Happy Fall!! How are you doing? I am doing GREAT!! I hit the biggest and best milestone this month ... I am potty trained!! I picked up on it really quickly and now don't have to wear baby diapers anymore (except at night).

We of course went up to the cabin this month. Best thing is, mom got me my own dump truck so I no longer have to beg my brothers to use theirs.

I love the cabin!! I love to ride the 4-wheelers. Dad brought one down to our house for the hunt and I like to climb on it in the garage in hopes that someone will take me for a ride on it.

We went to the cabin this month over Labor Day weekend which meant we got to go to the Mountain Man Rendezvous in Fort Bridger. We LOVE IT!! We got coon skin hats and guns and needless to say we had so much fun!

We also had an Erickson family reunion up at the Stairs Plant this month and it was so nice. What a great place to play.

I had a great month and continue to learn and grow so much. I am following in my brothers footsteps by being a great talker. I can even say my own prayers now. I talk up a storm and would love to talk to you. Hope to see or hear from you soon!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

August Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello there! How are you? I am doing great although since Brandon & Eric both have started school I spend a lot of time asking where they are. But don't worry about me getting too lonely. I kind of like having free reign of the house. :)

We had a super fun trip to the cabin this month. We will be sad when we have to close it up for the winter and wait until spring to go back up. But we plan to enjoy it as much as we can over the next month and a half.

I love to be outside. I beg mom to take me on walks all the time where I get to "ride" my bike (just picture how Fred Flintstone drives his car). But one nice thing about my brothers being in school is that some mornings mom takes me on a long bike ride where I get to ride on the back of her bike. I love that and could ride all day!!


I continue to parrot everything that everyone says. I am quite a chatterbox. I still love Legos. I love them so much that my brothers have to lock their bedroom doors when they go to school so I won't go in and take apart everything they have built.

I hope that you are all well and happy and for those of you far away, I hope that I get to see you soon!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel