April Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello!  How are you?  I am doing great.  It's been a very busy, very fun month.  First of all, at the beginning of the month we went down to Moab and met up with our cousins the Sintay's and did some 4-wheeling.  It was so much fun and I loved being with my cousins.

Then, of course this month we celebrated Easter.  We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt at Aunt Melissa & Uncle Randy's house.  It was so much fun and we got lots and lots of CANDY!!  Yeah!!

And the best thing about April ... MY BIRTHDAY!!  I am FOUR now!!!  We celebrated by going do to Trafalga in Lehi with our friends the Danielson's.  We got to do mini golf, laser tag and ride fun rides.  It was the best birthday ever!!

We also had a family birthday party for me with cake and ice cream ... YUM!!

We have been busy with lots of things this month.  Brandon & Eric both started soccer.  I like to go and watch their games.  Mommy is the coach of Brandon's team.  We also did a fun run at my brother's school where we all ran a mile race.  I was the first place 4 year old finisher!!

I have been busy with the regular 4 year old things.  I love to jump on the tramp, play LEGOs and play with my friends.  I have lots of play dates with my friends Alex, Peter and Hailey. 

I like the fun run.  I beat daddy.  I like the school.  I got a golden egg at Easter and it had a guy and a $1 bill.  I like my birthday cake because it had my name on it.  I am four now and I like my Ninjago set from Aunt Melissa.  And I like hiking and I like birthdays.  And I like cakes.  And I like being 4 and 5 but I'm not 5 right now.  And right now I am 4.  I like jumping on the trampoline and I like wrestling.  And I like to play LEGO guys and I like building ships.  And I like getting more LEGO sets.  And I like looking at pictures.  I like Michael Jackson and I like to dance to Michael Jackson. 

I hope you are doing well.  I love you all and hope you are healthy & happy.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

March Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello.  I like my family so much because I love them.  I love my mommy and daddy.  And I love flaying with my toys and I like flaying at my school.  I like my friends.  And I like playing puter (computer) and I like playing the Leapster.  And I love going on trips.  And I love drawing, painting, flaying with my brothers, sleepovers with Eric on his bunk beds.  And I love playing the Wii.  And even I love the Holy Ghost and I love having zert (dessert) and eating.  And I love Jesus.  And I love the church and the temple.  And I love my house, even love my friends house.  Even love every house in the whole world.  And I really like my own daddy.  I love Kung Fu Panda 2 and Angry Birds.  And I love my bed and I love being outside with my blankie on the trampoline.  I love food: apples, nannas, oranges and yogurt and nola (granola) and plain yogurt.  And I love the reader and scriptures. 

Goodbye!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

February Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello everyone!  I hope you had a great month of February.  I sure did.  Grandpa Don & Grandma Jinx came in town to visit and we got to watch the Super Bowl with them and celebrate Grandpa's birthday.  It was very fun!! 

I also took the opportunity to teach my older cousins how to play Uno.  I love Uno.  I beg mom to play it with me all day long ... everyday!!!

This month we celebrated Valentine's Day which was great because we got to decorate Valentine's cupcakes with Aunt Lizzy.  They were DELICIOUS!!!  I especially loved decorating them with M 'a M's and sprinkles!!

We also celebrated mom's 36th Birthday this month.  We got to have pizza and cake with mom M 'a M's on it.  Mom loves treats just like a little kid so that is both her favorite and my favorite!!

I am very much into games these days.  I have my own cupboard in the kitchen where all my games are and I love to play games all day long.  I have friends come over a lot to play games with me and I play with mom a lot during the day as well. 

I like Legos.  I like being an ogre cause he's fun.  He can punch.  I like popcorn.  I like playing with Grandma and Grandpa.  I like to play Uno and like playing Trouble and I like eating food so I can get big.  Eric & Brandon have a lot of Legos.  I like ships driving, rrrrrrr!!  I like being with my mommy.  I don't like having eye infections and I don't like being sick.  I like playing Leapster and I don't like being in trouble.  And the last thing I like is my little puppy spot!

Hope you are all happy and healthy!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

January Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Happy New Year!  How are you?  I am doing great!  I am now a Sunbeam and get to go to primary.  I love to learn to sing songs in primary!

This month I have started some really fun things.  I have started having preschool with my two best friends, Peter and Alex.  We take turns at each others houses.  We have a little lesson and then we have lots of recess!!  At my house we learn letters and I can spell my whole name and have even learned to write my name.  At my friend Alex's house we learn numbers and at my friend Peter's house we learn colors and shapes.  I love going to school.  In addition, mommy has started giving me reading lessons every morning using the same book she used to teach my brothers to read (Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons).  I am doing great at it and am having fun learning to read!

I did get an ear infection this month which wasn't fun but we are hopeful that I will grow out of them soon.  My tubes in my ears are almost out.  I actually haven't had one in about 9 months so that is good.  Hopefully I can be done with constant ear infections.

I have become very obsessed with the idea of growing up lately.  I talk every day about how I am going to grow up and be a dad and have my own family, babies and kids and my own house and go to the temple.  I am very bothered that I can't marry mom.  She says she is already married to dad and that I can marry a different girl but that just doesn't work for me ... I want to marry my mom!

I am also obsessed with jet packs!  Mom and dad have no idea where that came from but I often talk about wanting a jet pack so I can fly to church or wherever I want to go.  Maybe when I grow up I will just have to invent a jet pack that can fly us all around.

I have my sweet moments but I have to admit that I can be quite a stinker as well ... I am 3 after all.  When I don't get my way I complain about things not being fair.  "It's not fair I have to eat my food!"  "It's not fair that I have to take a nap!"  And if I don't get my way I become very threatening. "If you don't let me have that, I will break the house!"  I do get very specific, sometimes I threaten to break the house but specify that I won't break the beds, just the rest of the house.  Sometimes I threaten to break the whole world!  Or if I don't get my way I will go around and turn off all the lights on everyone and tell them that they have to be in the dark and never have lights AGAIN!  I am VERY THREE!!

I like Factory guys.  I like building 'em.  I like getting Factories for my birthday.  I love my room.  And I like having dates on the train with dad because I never been on the train.  I love trains.  And I love having a house and I don't like being sick.  I really want to marry someone so I can get on the temple.  Because I never been to the temple.  Because I love the temple.  I like staying with my mom for a date.  And I love going to McDonalds because you get to eat there.  Because I like eating.  I want to be in real school but we are in fake school.  Real school is the school outside.  And I really want to go to real school.  My school now I go to my house then Peter's and then Alex's house.  I love building a jetpack so I can fly.  I am going to try it out when I'm going to build it and then I am going to put it in the garage and fly it everywhere and we can just fly to somewhere we nont to go if we all have jet packs.  that would be fun if we all had jet packs.  I like play dates but I don't like sleeping because that is boring and you don't get to do anything.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

December Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a great new year!  We had a really fun month celebrating and preparing for Christmas.

We did lots of really fun Christmas traditions including seeing the lights at Temple Square and visting the elves at Gardner Village.

We also had a super fun Christmas Eve party at Uncle Randy & Aunt Melissa's house this year.  I finally got to be a king in the Nativity play (normally I have had  to be a sheep)!  We also got new PJs on Christmas Eve night which is a tradition.  This year they were Cars 2 PJs!!

You will be glad to hear that none of us ended up on Santa's naughty list so there was no sign of coal in our stocking on Christmas morning.  Santa brought me a blue HERO Factory guy, just what I asked him for!!!

 

I also got a remote control car from mom & dad and a different remote control car from Grandma Chris.  We got Mario Kart for the Wii from Grandpa Pat and some cool new movies we had been wanting from Grandpa Don & Grandma Jinx.  We were very spoiled this year.  It was really fun!!

Another really great thing that happened this month is that mom finished up working just before Christmas so now we are going to be home together during the days again.  I had fun playing at Little Joshua's house and Peter's house but I like being home with my mommy too. 

I like Christmas b'cause um, I nonted for Christmas the blue guy.  I like Santa.  B'cause he brings me new undies.  And I like my blue car because it has a c'trol with it.  I like going to Sean's house.  And Grandma Pat gave me Mario Kart.  I like Mario Kart!  I like going to Alex's house.  I like flaying Mario Kart.  Mario Kart is cool!  I like building puzzles.  And I like my car.  That's all mom.

I hope that you all had a great Christmas as well.  This has been a great year for our family and I hope that 2012 is just as good for us all.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

November Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello everyone!  We got our first big snow this month and were very excited to get on our snow gear and get outside and play!

We had a really nice Thanksgiving this year down in Lehi at Great-Grandma Norberg's house.  It was really nice to see so many cousins.  My cousin Abby even brought a play about the first Thanksgiving and made us all hats and gave us parts in the play.  I was an Indian dog. :)

Then the next day, my family, along with my Uncle Jonah who was in town headed up the cabin for a day of fun in the snow and to cut down a fresh Christmas tree.  It was hard to walk in the snow.  Good thing that Jonah carried me on his shoulders the whole way.

Then on Saturday we celebrated daddy's 36th birthday!  We went out for pizza for lunch and then had cake and ice cream that night.  I love anything chocolate and get very excited at the sight of chocolate!

I am still spending a lot of my days at my friend Peter and little Joshua's house while mommy goes to work.  I like to play with my friends and am always very happy to load up my backpack with toys and go off to their houses.  Mommy works from home some of the time so on those days I enjoy being home with mommy as well.  I am pretty easy going and don't mind whatever is going on each day. 

Hi.  I'm sledding in the snow.  I like sledding.  I like wearing a Indian hat.  I like cutting down a Christmas tree.  I like going to the cabin.  I like 4-wheeling at the cabin.  I like eating cake.  The kind was chocolate!  I like chocolate!  I like eating ice cream.  I like eating it.  I like playing LEGO Harry Potter.  I like playing chess.  I like doing scouts.  I like playing with Alex.  I like sharing my toys.  I like playing with them.  And I like playing with my brothers.  I wanna say I like Christmas, our Christmas tree.  I like putting Christmas decorations on Christmas tree.  I like putting Christmas stuff all over our house.  I like getting out Christmas lights and Christmas cups. 

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

October Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Happy Halloween!!  Did you have a great Halloween?  I sure did.  I had a great month of October.  We were all pirates for Halloween this year, even mom and dad!  It was super fun!  I love trick-or-treating!!  I got lots of yummy candy.  I love to run with my brothers as fast as I can (I do my best to keep up).

This month we did lots of fun things like go up to hunting camp with dad for the day. It was at Strawberry reservour and we got to shoot guns (I just got to watch) and ride the 4-wheelers. We also spent some time at Gardner Village visiting the witches this month which is something that we do every October. And dad even took a day off of work one day and took me and my brothers to the zoo. I hadn't been to the zoo before and I really liked it, especially the elephants!!

 

We went to Uncle Ryan's pumpkin patch and picked pumpkins and then brought them home and carved them.

We also celebrated Brandon's birthday this month and got to make silly faces on cakes.  It was super fun!

We also had our super fun family Halloween party at our house on Saturday night. Lots of my cousins came and we got to bob for apples, eat doughnuts off a string and eat a lot of junk. There were lots of soups and other good food there but I settled for desserts and rolls. Yum!!

Mommy went back to work this month part time for her old job.  She is just helping them through their busy season so she will probably just work until around the end of the year and then she will be back home with me.  I don't mind it too much.  I go to two friends houses during the day.  I go to Little Josh's house during the morning and am helping to teach him how to share since he is only 1 1/2 and an only child so he isn't used to sharing.  Then in the afternoon I go to Peter's house.  I love Peter's house and he is one of my very best friends so that is really fun.  The only bad thing is that I don't usually get my nap during the week because I am not home and so by the time mommy gets home I tend to be tired and crabby.  And for some reason, when I am tired and crabby, I forget how to do pretty much everything.  "I don't know how" to wash my hands, put on my shoes, open a door ... all the things that I full well know how to do, when I am tired and missing my mommy, I forget them all.  Luckily I have been really good about still getting my naps on the weekends so mommy hopes that once she is done working I will still take my afternoon nap like I normally have done.

I like the cabin.  I like the gym.  I like Alex' house.  I like Peter's house.  I like little Josh's house.  I like to flay.  I like to jump.  I like to flay in the party, I like the party.  I like, eat cake.  I like getting candy.  Yeah, I do.  I like Peter and my family.  I like to play with my friends.  I like to play with spot, my light saber and I just flay with those two.  I like to flay with Eric's LEGOs.  I like to flay with Brandon's LEGOs.  I like to flay with my LEGOs.  I like to go to some parties.  I like taking pictures.  I like flaying 'puter. (playing computer)  I like to draw pictures.  I like to like, play downstairs in the toyroom.  Bye.  I love you! 

(Italics are direct quotes from Kyle when asked what he would like to say.  It was hard to get him to stop!)

I hope that you are all doing well and looking forward to the holidays.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel