August Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello!  We had our Norberg and it was fun.  We did bubbles and played at the park and it was fun.  And I had a great time. I hope when you go you will have a fun time.

Grandpa Don came down with us to watch the car show and it was awesome.  I hope when you go to the car show you will have a fun time.

This is me at school on my first day of school and it was fun.  And mom and dad took me for lunch and I had fun at Hawthorn Academy.  I hope when you go to Hawthorn or another school you will have fun and will like your teacher.  Kindergarten was the funnest day of school and we got to have fun with Ms. Z.  And we could play puzzles and we have a little playground to play at.  My friend at Hawthorn, I like to play with him and his name is Cais.  And it was fun.  I hope when you go to Kindergarten or another grade you will have fun.

Chunky waited with me to go to school my first day.  And he's my pet dog and we play with him and we liked to take him on walks and we liked to fetch with him.  And Chunky likes to go out on walks.  And I hope when you have a dog you will play fun with him.

I am into playing HERO factories and Minecraft.  And I like to play with Peter and Alex and Haley and Cais.  I hope you have some friends and you play with them.

Goodbye.  I hope you will have a great day.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

July Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

Hewwo.  Goodbye.  Just kidding. :)  Summertime is the greatest day and I love 4th of July.  We had fun and we did the parade and I got 15 hundred candy!!  And it was a very great time.  And I would like to see your letter and how you like 4th of July.

We had snow cones at our 4th of July BBQ (thanks to our neighbor).  We did fireworks and our neighbor did fireworks and our cousins came and I had a great time and we had snow cones and bomb pops and I had a great time.  I had four snow cones and two bomb pops.  We got to do the Jolly Roger and their little tanks that we got to do and it was a fun time.  And I hope you have a 4th of July party.  And we did sparklers.  

Me, Peter and Alex were just riding our bikes at our neighborhood bike parade.  And me and Peter and Alex all got 2nd.  And we had otter pops at our house at the end.  And I had three popsicles and it was a great time.

This is my cousins and me going bowling with Marcus, Miriam, Vivi and 'Melia.  And we had a great time bowling.  And then we went to Arctic Circle and we had fun there.  We had a sleep over with them while they were here visiting.  And it was a great time since we all watched shows together and we had fun and it was a great time.  I hope you go bowling sometimes.

I got my gold belt and it was at karate and my teacher is named Master Jeon and we have a great time together and I am the bestest yeller in my class.  And belt ceremony was fun.  And I liked it since it was fun.  I hope you go to karate someday.

We went to Seven Peaks.  It was a great time.  And I got to play in the wave pool and it was fun.  We also go swimming a lot at the pool by our house.  And I hope you go to Seven Peaks one time.

I like playing with Peter and Alex and Haley.  And playing with my friend Aiden at the gym.  And we always have fun times together.  We go to the pool and it's a great time.  And mostly every day my brothers go to the pool, Brandon & Eric.

I hope you have a fun time.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

June Letter

Dear Family & Friends, 

My name is Kyle.  I got to go to Eric's school Field Day.  And we had blankets and we had a sponge and we throwed it onto another blanket and we kept doing it.  And we got to golf, like mini golfing.  And we hit the balls into this little circle bucket.  And Peter was there with me for part of it.  And we got to play volleyball and make puzzles.  And we did an obstacle course.  

And we had summer break.  We had a End of School party.  We had pizza and we had M&Ms and cookies and fishy gummies.  There were sprinklers under the tramp and the Danielson's brought a little pool. It was awesome!!  We had a good time.  It was fun and I hope you had a good time.

My mom loves flowers!

And I love going to the pool.  And I had some goggles for one day and I lost them.  We checked in the lost and found and we didn't find them.  I like going to the line and trying different feet like I go farther until it goes to my neck.  I can go all the way to the line and that's really deep.  And my brother got two water guns.  His name is Eric.

For Father's Day we had a good time.  We went to church and we went for a climb at the mountains and we had lobster and meat for our dinner.  I really like him because he's funny and I really love him since we love playing together and playing monster.  And I love my dad because I like having fun with him.

When it was Eric's birthday party we had so much fun.  We got to whack the pinata.

And we got to decorate cupcakes.  We had Sprite and root beer for the drinks.  And we go'd upstairs and played Pokemon and I just kept sorting my Pokemon.  We invited Ben & Kendall Foust, Liam, Karley, and Kade.

And that night we went to the Wards campout.  We ate cake at the wards campout.  And we ate oreos and cookies and chips.  What else did we have that wasn't junk?  (Kyle just ate junk.)  And we roasted smores. And the friends over there the Danielson's and the Orme's and AJ and the Ward's.  We had a big fire.

We also got to play around and fight swords and play baseball.

I love like going to Peter's house and Alex's house and sometimes Haley's.  And I like going to the gym.  And I am in Karate and I am really talent at that.  And I am an orange belt and I am getting my next belt in 2 weeks.  And thank you ... Bye.  This is Kyle.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

May Letter

Dear Family & Friends, 

Hello.  How are you doing?  Good?  This is me on "mudders" day.  My name is Kyle.  What is your name?  We singed to mom on "mudders" day at church. 

We had a carnival for preschool and what treats I had was Cotton Candy!  I had fishing, I got to throw sponges at "duckses" and they fall over and you get a pencil.  At the carnival the clown blows balloons and I got a pirates sword.  Next I had Graduation.  I had a great time.  We set down with our hats and then we got this little skirt thingy on us.  And we got two of these little circled papers (diplomas).  We ate monster cupcakes and tons of treats.

Hello ... this is me at the cabin.  And I went fishing and I caught a fish.  And I threw footballs and I went "4-wheelering".  We went on a big trail and we were looking for cows and we didn't find any.  And it was still a fun time because Chunky went running and chasing stuff.  And he saw a bird.  And we went with Uncle Darren and Aunt Cindy and Koen, Tyler, Jackson & Dylan and Uncle Brian and "Wydia".  And with dad and you, mom.

I just graduated and I like playing with HERO factories and I like playing with Peter.  And I like playing with my cards.  And I like playing with Alex and "Hawey".  And I like playing at the park.  And I like playing with "Hawey" at the park.  And I like playing at my house with "Hawey" and Alex and Peter.  And I used to be in preschool but now it's summer time and we are having a big party.  I want to play night games and I want to play kickball, dodge ball, stuff like that in the summer.

Dave & I spend a lot of time trying to teach our boys the difference between a privilege and a right so that they learn to appreciate what they are given.  We also must mention often enough that we didn't have all the things when we were kids that they have.  One day while driving Kyle asked me "Mom, were you ever a girl scout before?"  I told him no.  He said "Oh, that's because you didn't have any privileges."

Kyle started martial arts this month.  He LOVES it!!  One morning he told me "I don't want to be a policeman anymore when I grow up.  I want to me a "minja" and teach martial arts."

One day, out of the blue, Kyle asked me if I was ever a police officer.  I chuckled and told him no.  He then asked me "What were you when you grew up?  I thought you had to be someone when you grew up."  I guess I am not something cool enough for a 5 year old.

Kyle asked me one day "Why can't I look at my eyeballs?  Oh ... because I am my eyeballs!"  

Bye.  Hope you have a great time!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

April Letter

Dear Family & Friends, 

Hi.  I hope you had a good sleep.  This is Kyle.  Every letter I say that to start out.  And this is me hiking ... it really is me.  I was in Zions.  

While hiking Kyle said "My legs are running out of energy".  And later "I can't hike anymore because I am all out of air."

This is me hiking in Bryce Canyon.  And there are tons of caves up there to play in.  And I liked it!  There was tons of cool rocks to see.  

My first birthday party when I just turned 5.  We brang some cupcakes and we went to Cafe Rio for lunch with the Danielson's.  So it was Alex, Jace, Kade, baby Eric, Rachel and Trevor.  And then we went to Planet Play.  And that was my second time to go there ... on my 5th birthday.  And it had tons of video games and my favorite is Laser Tag!! 

This is me ... Kyle!  I had a friend party and their names were Haley, Peter and Alex.  And we decorated cookie pops and we ate them.  

So this is me ... Kyle and my mom ... Shanna.  We made a cake out of cupcakes.  The cupcakes were shaped into a K.  This was at our family party.  My family who came to the party are:  Sean, Kate, Jadon, Tyler and Koen, Lizzie & Joe, Grandma, Aunt Melissa and Aunt Cindy.  

So I got presents.  So Aunt Melissa gave me a cool guitar.  And mom & dad gave me a Zune.  And Aunt Cindy gave me all these new shirts and new shorts.  My Zune, I got it for my birthday.  You like get to like really, you know, you can listen to the songs.  And I want to talk about all my favorites.  So I like Haunted, and I like one of the police officer chasing the animals.  And I like the Spanish one.  And there is another Spanish one that I like.  And I like um "Calling the Guardians", "Fanfare of the Elves", and I like "Unicorns I Love Them, Unicorns I Love Them".  And I like "I'm Having A Bad Bad Day".  And I like the Star Wars.  I like "Thriller".

So what school do you go to? ... and my name's Kyle.  And the one who is one of my friends who goes to my school is Peter.  And my favorite friend to play outside with is another boy ... I'll ask him his name.  My teacher, Mr. Tyler kicked a ball onto the roof.  I like the friend who I don't know his name, I like to get on a bike and I'm red and the other team's yellow and I try to capture him.  It's like police officers and robbers.  And when I always get home I always listen to my Zune.

Funny things that Kyle said this month:

Whenever Kyle doesn't do what he is asked to do he tells me "I just need to buy a new mind so I can remember because this one is just not a good one."

One day while Kyle and I were laying down for our afternoon nap he said "I like being in this family.  I forgot to tell you this when I was born because they took my memories.  Why do they take my memories of living in Jesus' kingdom?"

Kyle is very into money these days.  He doesn't care about dollar bills though, he is most interested in coins, especially pennies which he sometimes calls "Goldens".  One day Kyle and I were driving to the dentist and he got talking about money and how much things cost and said "Cars cost like $200 and ten pennies, that's like a rip off.  If it's so expensive then I would just have to walk everywhere.  Like walk to the gym and to restaurants ... everywhere!"

Bye.  I hope you have a good day. Goodbye.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

March Letter

Dear Family & Friends,

(Ok so this one is all Kyle.  I just wrote what he said and tried to keep a straight face.)

Hewwo!  I am nice to see you.  And this is St Patrick Day.  We celebrate about the President Monson.  And this is me dressed up in a hat that is green.  Because St Patricks Day, like the people who plan on St Patricks day are green.  The sneaky leprechauns, Eric set up a trap and he saw tons of stuff on his trap.  

And this is me.  This is my school pictures.  And I go to preschool.  And what school do you go to?  I go to preschool, that is what I go do.  And my name is Kyle.  Preschool is about learning about like important stuff like you know that homework is how you like learn to do like, how to read.  And reading is about school.  And preschool is what school I go to.  And what school do you go to?  Just find out.  First you go to preschool, then you go to kintergarten and now I am going to talk about Kintergarten.  Kindergarten there are games that are fun.  See Kintergarten is not like how to watch movies and play, you have to play like at a certain time you have to play when the school says to you that you can.  

Now this is about Easter.  See this is Easter and these decorating eggs, they are not like when you want to decorate eggs.  You have to wait for the achievement girls.  They are like the ones that join in and the achievement girls got to decorate eggs with us.  They are the ones that help my mom to do the right thing.  They are the ones that are very talented at doing eggs.  And the Easter Bunny is the one that has our baskets.  This is the holiday, Easter.  And we collect eggs.  Your mom goes out and hides them in the field and we run out to grab the eggs and find them.  Because the next day we were doing an Easter Egg hunt at our grandmas.  

And the next day before that we did a ginormous easter egg hunt at a field where they were just laying on the ground and I was in a circle that had tons of eggs and I was sitting on the middle part collecting all the eggs that are over me.  And no one was bothering me.  Only I was collecting the eggs.  And this is the day about Easter.  

And this is me.  Easter is the resurrection of Jesus.  Jesus is the one that had to go in the tomb.  He's the one who saves us.  With his special power, like if we are in water and it's a big storm he can like stop it from doing the thing.  The resurrection is like after you died you go up to heaven and your resurrection and that's how you go in the tomb.  Now let's talk about baptized.  When you get baptized you see, mom's can't do it you know.  But dad's can because they have the Priesthood.  So you know that, you see, you can't be like 6 or 7 or like 5 or 4 to be baptized.  You see you just have to be like 8.  Because when you are 8 you get to be baptized and that's the important thing of church.  And because when you are baptized that means you are close to being dead, but you can come back someday.  But you can't come back right away, you have to wait like a minute before you can come back.  It's not like when you get dead that you come back into the tummy like a baby, you just come when the Priesthood tells you, you can go back to live with your family again.  And that is the portant part of dying.  You can't come back when you immediately die.    

I have been keeping track of some of the funny things that Kyle said during the month.  So I will add that here:

"I love the number 8 because you get baptized."

He saw some of the little fuzzy buds that come off the trees this time of year.  He told me they were caterpillars.  I told him they were just buds.  He said "No mom, they are caterpillars, dad told me.  Those caterpillars turn green and they help the trees grow bigger and more colorful."

"You buyed me from Jesus to get me."

And my personal favorite "Boys are human and girls are women."

Goodbye.  And next time, have a good day at school.  And Easter, and have fun.  Byyyeee!!

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel

February Letter

Dear Family & Friends, 

Hello.  How was your February?  Mine was great.  We had a super fun Valentine's Day.  We had a fancy special breakfast.  

We made a heart tree on our wall with things that we love about each other.  It was very cool.

Then we had a fancy dinner and decorated sugar cookies.  It was great.  How I ended up with a pink hand print on my face right off the bat I am not sure.  I love cookies.  We put M&Ms and sprinkles on them.

This month we also celebrated mom's birthday.  We went to Grandma Chris' house for a birthday dinner.  I love birthdays!

We have had lots more snow and lots of cold days again this month.  We are very ready for winter to be over.  We try to play outside as much as we can.  I like to play outside with Eric, he comes up with lots of cool clubs and make believe games to play with me and our friends in the neighborhood.  

Hi.  My name's Kyle.  And this was when it was mommy's birfday.  Now mommy got a cake from Alena, Alena is Haley's mom.  During the day I play HERO Factories.  I have Breeze and Stringer and Roca and um oh yeah, Extra Four ... that's all of the HERO Factories that I have, the names.  And mixed up ones.  I have snack at Preschool and there is milk and juice for our drinks.  At preschool I can play inside or outside.  We get crazy, like we start to tackle and we shoot soccer balls at us when we go outside.  But we don't be crazy when we go inside.  Daddy sometimes plays tickle monster and kiss monster and sometimes monster.  Different kinds of monster.  Our mom always takes care of us.  My birthday is so soon.  Goodbye.

Love Kyle Patrick Barnhisel