January Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Happy New Year!!  Hope you are having a great new year.  I am.  We have gotten a lot of snow this month and so we've got to play in the snow a lot.

I love to go sledding and to help daddy shovel the driveway.  I have my own little yellow shovel and I am really good at shoveling. I even go and shovel for my friends in the neighborhood sometimes too.

Now that the holidays are over I am back in preschool.  I love preschool.  It's way fun.  My teachers are Mr. Tyler and Mr. Jake.  They are great.

I like to play video games like LEGO Batman, Super Mario Bros and Balloon Tower Defense.  I also like to play with my HERO Factory guys.  I can make mixed up guys too.  And I have four new ones.  They are Iron Man, Stringer, Breeze and Xtra4.  I like to play with my friends Peter, Alex and Haley.  I like about preschool when we have our juice and our snack.  I like when you get to play outside.  And ride tricycles.  They have tricycles there that I really like.  I know I love them.  I like when we get exercise outside.  I run around with the tricycle, riding around on it.  Bye Bye!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

December Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a great 2013.  I did lots of fun things this month to celebrate the holidays.

 

We went and saw the lights at Temple Square which was great!!

 

 

I got to talk with Santa and told him that I wanted to have a set of boxing gloves so that I can play Punch Out with Eric.  I actually got to see Santa two times this month.  Once at the store and once at Preschool.  I have been off of school for the last couple weeks for Winter Break.  I love preschool.

 

We got lots of snow this month which was great.  We have gotten really good at shoveling the driveway and have even spent some time shoveling snow for our neighbors.  Dad has taken us on some sled rides, hooked behind the 4-wheeler too which was awesome!!

 

We had a big Christmas Eve party at Aunt Cindy & Uncle Darren's house which was fun.  Then we went home, got some new Ninjago cozies and hurried off to bed so that Santa could come!

 

Christmas morning was great.  Santa filled my stocking with lots of treats and brought me black boxing gloves. Mom & Dad gave me two new HERO Factory sets that I had been wanting.  Yeah!!

 

And to end the month, on New Years Eve we had a little nacho party at home.  We also made cookies and took them around to our friends and doorbell ditched them!!  That was fun!

Um, I got for Christmas, Iron Man, Stringer and I got boxing gloves.  I have been playing with Peter and I've been playing with my HERO Factorys.  I have been playing in the snow when it was Christmas time.  And it was fun.  I got all of the stuff that I want for Christmas.  Christmas is about Jesus' birth.  That's what it's about.  Not presents.  And I like playing with my ship that I got from Grandma Chris.  And I got dollars from Grandpa Don and Grandma Jinx.  And I got a hero poster from Grandpa Pat.  It's of Nephi.  He was going to get some food for his family.  He broke his bow and he made another one to go and get his family some food.  Goodbye.  Happy New Year.

 

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

November Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Happy Holidays!  I hope you had a great November and a great Thanksgiving.  We did.  We got one big snow storm early this month which was so much fun!!

 

And we had a couple of fires in our backyard firepit which was great.  We roasted some marshmallows and hotdogs.

 

Our cousins the Sintay's came in town for Thanksgiving so we got to play with them and some of our O'Berry cousins a lot.

 

We also went to Wheeler Farm the day after Thanksgiving to see the animals.

 

And the next day, we went to Gardner Village to see the Elves.  I love it there.

 

Mommy seems to be having a hard time with me growing up lately.  She asked me the other day if I would please just stay 4 forever.  I thought about it for a minute and then told her "I'll try.  But if I turn 5, then it didn't work."  I am a very sweet guy.  I think that is why mom doesn't want me to grow up.  The other day I said "I'm done on the computer now, I'm not into the computer right now. I'm into you mom, because I love you."

I also asked her the other day while she was making dinner "Why do they call them Girl Cheese sandwiches, it's not like they are just for girls?"

 

We are still waiting to see what happens with dad's job, whether we will be moving next year and so while driving to preschool one day I said "I don't want to move because then we wouldn't be able to go to church and we'd just have to stay home on Sunday's and watch church movies."

My name is Kyle.  And my brother is Eric.  My bigger brother is Brandon.  And my mom. And my dad.  I love mom and I like playing with HERO factories.  And LEGOs.  And my friends.  And my brothers.  And sometimes I like to play by myself.  And somedays I really like to play with my friends.  Only somedays. Sometimes I be with my mom and dad.  And my brothers.  Mom sometimes lets me play the Wii and the computer.  And I like to play Triominos and Skipbo and Uno.  Goodbye.  See you next time.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

October Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello everyone!  Hope you are doing well.  This has been a very fun month.  I FINALLY started preschool this month.  I love it!!  I love being a Jr Jag. 

 

On the evening before my 2nd day of school, mom laid out clothes for me for school the next morning.  I went to the closet to get my Jr. Jag sweatshirt out.  Mom told me that I didn't have to wear it everyday.  I looked at her, puzzled, and said "But then I won't look like a Jr. Jag, I'll just be a regular human."

 

I may have just started school but I am quite the math whiz already.  One day, Eric was doing his math homework.  He asked mom, "Is 8 + 8 = 15?"  She told him no.  He recalced and figured it out.  Then out of the blue I said "Is it 9 + 6 equals 15?"  I love to count and will count well past 100 every time we are out driving.  I can also write all my letters and am learning how to read.  I am a smart cookie! :)

 

 

I love my dog Chunky.  I often tell mom "Thanks for getting me Chunky" or "Chunky is important to me."

I am supposed to do household chores everyday.  I am also responsible for keeping my room clean.  One morning mom asked me if I had finished cleaning my room.  I told her "It is clean. ... Are you going to check the closet?"

I talk a lot about "When I am a Dad".  While driving around the other day, I told mom "Mom, when I am a dad, I will want a van for Christmas.  Because you got this van for Christmas."  Mom told me that she didn't get the van for Christmas, that they just got it when they needed it.  So I told her "Ok, then I will just save my money and buy my own van when I have enough money."

I love to volunteer to say the family prayer or the meal prayers.  We often pray for Grandpa Don's leg to get better and also for him to stop smoking.   But sometimes it's hard to keep all my grandma's and grandpa's straight.  In one particular prayer, I prayed "Please bless Grandpa O'Berry's leg to stop smoking."  Mom & dad had a hard time being reverent during that prayer.
 

We got pumpkins from Uncle Ryan's pumpkin patch which was super fun. 

 

We had fun carving them.

We of course went to Gardner Village this month in our costumes and took pictures with the witches.  We were all characters from Harry Potter this year.  I was Draco Malfoy.  Too cute to be a villian. :)

We of course had our annual Halloween party at our house.  It was so much fun.  We ate doughnuts off a string, did a pinata and played with our cousins.  It was great!!

And on Halloween I really scored!  I went to a trunk-or-treat in our circle first and then went trick-or-treating to get even more candy.  Daddy had to be out of town all week for work so we went trick-or-treating with our friends the Danielson's.  Their dad took us around to trick-or-treat while mom & Rachel gave out candy.  I love having treat fests and eating lots of treats!!

Hi.  I was trick-or-treating.  I went with my friends, Kade, Jace and their dad and Eric comed over and me was there.  I got a lot of candy but I was just tired.  I really liked it.  I really like preschool.  I go trick-or-treating at preschool, my own school.  I made a lot of new friends and a lot of new teachers.  I really like it.  It's fun.  We get to play with these little toys.  I really like preschool.  We had a Halloween party with our family at my house.  I really liked it.  It was fun.  It was actual fun.  We ate doughnuts off a string and it was super fun.  I was Draco Malfoy for Halloween.  He's from Harry Potter.  He is a bad guy.  Even Eric was Ron for Halloween and Brandon was Harry for Halloween.  Mom was Hermione for Halloween and dad was Hagrid for Halloween and we got a lot of candy.  I liked it.  Even I got some for my mom. Bye Bye.  See you next time.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

September Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

 

Happy Fall!!  I love fall.  We have had a fun September, I hope you have too.  At the beginning of the month we went up to the cabin over Labor Day weekend and went to the Fort Bridger Mountain Man Rendezvous.   It was super fun.  Aunt Amy, Ian and Ledger met us up there.  It was great!

 

 

We also got to play with lots of our cabin cousins who were up at the cabin over the weekend.  It was awesome!

Mom has continued to compile the funny things that I say.  Here are the latest:

• One day, I came home from my friend Peter's house.  Mom asked me why I came home and I said: “You know what Peter thinks? He thinks shows are important. I told him that shows are not important, that moms and dads, brothers, Heavenly father and Jesus Christ are important.”


• Mom sent me downstairs to clean the toy room on morning.  I came up and said: “But there are so many papers and I only have 2 hands. Can't we just do it yesterday? Another yesterday? After the last night.  When are we going to play Skipbo?"  Mom told me we could play when I had the toy room cleaned up and my reply was. "It's not like I have 12 arms. It's like I have only 2 arms."


• One day my friend Hailey was over for a play date.  When her mom Alena came to pick her up I noticed that she had dyed her usually blong hair brown.  I looked at her and at my mom and said: "Brown – brown, two browns, you match. I don't even know which one is my mom.


• All day long I ask mom "Wanna play Skipbo with me?"  Skipbo is my favorite game and I am really good at it.  I deal it out and have get it set up for mom all day long. 


• And my favorite thing to do is to sing the Primary song "Nephi's Courage".  I sing it pretty much all day long.

I like my water boots, my things that can walk in water.  And I like when I usually step in the water, it's fun fun fun.  And I really like when we go to the cabin cabin cabin.  And I like when we usually go on hikes, hikes.  And I like when we usually play with friends and play with our cousins.  And play with our uncles and play with our Uncle Brian.  And I like when I build LEGOs with Eric.  And I usually like mom.  And I like dad, daddy.  And I like Brandon.  And I like Eric.  And I like my own self.  I like Uncle Brian.  Bye Bye.

I hope that you are happy and healthy and that I get to see you soon.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

August Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

 

Hello everyone!  How are you?  I am doing great!  My brothers started school towards the end of the month and so for the last week or so I have had more alone time with mommy.  Mommy took on a new contract programming job at the end of July which eventually she will do completely from home but for awhile she has been going into the office a few days a week for a few hours so I do get to play with my friends sometimes while she is in the office which is fun.  I play with Peter and Alex a lot.

 

Mommy says that the things that I say are so clever and funny but I never remember what I said to tell you in my letters so she started a little running list.  Here are some of the types of things that I say:

Kyle: "You don't like me to be a dad?"
Mom: "I would love for you to be a dad someday, but not until you are bigger."
Kyle: "Yeah, because I am so cute like this.  If I was a dad, you would be the mom with me, dad would be dead."

Kyle: "I wish I wouldn't get killed."
Mom: "Kyle, you are not going to get killed."
Kyle: "Maybe not until I am like 25."

I also often say: "And when I'm a mom ... "

And mom's favorite: "I need a drink because I am drinkey."
 

My mommy says there are lots of other things that she didn't manage to record. I am a pretty interesting kid. :)

 

 

This month we went up to the cabin and built a fort for us kids.  Our friends the Dailey's came with us and we made all sorts of cool stuff in our fort.  We made tables, chairs, a telescope, a sign, a board for visitors to sign in on and we even added a tarp over the top to protect from rain and sun.  It's super cool!

 

 

I love to ride my bike, I love to jump on the tramp, I love to play LEGOs. 

 

Hi.  Good to see you.  I like when we go on 4-wheeler rides.  And I like when we have some dinner at the cabin.  I like when we go to the cabin.  And I like when I go with dad and I like mom.  And I like when I usually ride with dad since he got me a new 4-wheeler and it's the Thunder Cat.  And I like when we usually have lunch there.  And I like you when you make lunch.  And I like when I play with my brothers.  And I like when I usually play with LEGOs with Brandon and sometimes I play with Eric.  And I like when we go to friends houses because I like people.  And since I like mom and dad.  And I like when I usually read books.  Yep, I like when I read books.  And I like when I usually go to church.  And I like when I go to the library to get some Batman books.  And I like when I get to play the 'puter sometimes and sometimes play the Wii.  Sometimes I want to go to church.  And I like when I usually play with Peter, Alex, Hailey and Kyler.  And I really like when I usually go to all those friends houses.  That's all I'm going to do ... bye!

 

I hope that you are doing well.  I love you!

 

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

July Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello there!!  How are you?  I am doing great.  It's been a really fun summer.  It's also been a really hot summer so we have spent a lot of time up in the mountains to escape the heat.

On the morning of the 4th of July we went up to Silver Lake and hiked around and watched the parade.  Grandpa Pat, Uncle Jonah and Uncle Micah were with us so that was really fun.  Then we had BBQ at our house that evening with some of mommy's family and some of daddy's family.   It was a really nice evening and the fireworks, the ones we lit off, the ones our neighbor lit off and the city ones we can watch from the backyard were all great!

 We also had a super fun camping trip this month.  We went down to Beaver Utah with Darren's family, Brian's family and Aunt Amy and we had so much fun.  We did a lot of fishing, a lot of 4-wheeling and had such a nice trip!

Also this month, we got to celebrate Pioneer Day with our Sintay cousins and with Collin & Liam.  It was so much fun.  Uncle Steve got some fireworks and then we got to watch them in the backyard again because of an Osmond concert that was going on at the Rodeo grounds.  It made for a perfect night!

We also spent a weekend at the cabin this month.  It was great.  It was Chunky's first trip to the cabin and he had so much fun.  He loved exploring around and chasing squirrels. He is such a great dog.  I am so happy that we have Chunky. 

I have been having a very fun summer. I love to go and play with my friends and ride my bike.  I learned to start myself on my bike this month so now I can ride around all I like without any help.

I like playing with my cousins a lot of times.  And I like playing the 'puter sometimes.  And sometimes I just like taking Chunky on a walk. And I like to jump on the trampoline.  I like my cousins.  I like getting a big fish.  And I like going to the one by our camping place, by Beaver.  I like just waiting for a minute and I like catching fishes whenever I catch one.  And I did catch one, and I liked it, and it died.  I like lighting fireworks.  You light them with those fire thingies.  And I really like using sparklers and I usually like throwing smoke bombs.  And I like when Chunky comes up to the cabin.  And that's all ... goodbye!  See you last time.

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

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel