the Gray Family

Saying goodbye

2010-12-31T10:47:00.001-08:00

We had 2 weeks with Kyle and it went by way too fast!! We had a lot of fun, and made some good memories. It was so hard to say goodbye!! We are lucky we only have under 4 months to go before he is home to stay. I am so thankful for my family and that I have such a wonderful husband and best friend who is willing to do whatever it takes to take care of his family and protect our countries freedom!

Nashville Hotel

2010-12-31T10:45:00.000-08:00

We stayed in Nashville the night before Kyle had to be at the Airport, the kids got room service, swam in the pool, and got to sleep all squished in a bed. They had a blast!

Hanging out

2010-12-31T10:31:00.001-08:00

Here’s some random Pictures of us enjoying time as a family.

Baking

2010-12-31T10:24:00.001-08:00

I made some “cake pops” for the girls school parties, they were actually really fun to make! They have cake in the middle and chocolate coating on the outside. This one was going to be a reindeer, I was just seeing if I could make it look right. I just needed to add pretzels for the antlers. The kids loved them!

Christmas

2010-12-31T10:02:00.002-08:00

We were so Blessed to Have Kyle home with us for the Holiday season! That was definitely MY favorite thing I got for Christmas!!

Bowling Fun

2010-12-31T08:53:00.003-08:00

The kids were so excited to go bowling, that is not an activity I choose to do alone with 4 kids so this was a real treat!!

First Day of Kyles R&R

2010-12-31T08:49:00.000-08:00

The kids waiting for their "surprise"

So Excited to see Daddy!!

Trip to the Nashville Zoo

2010-08-26T11:51:00.002-07:00

I took my boys to the Nashville Zoo with some women in our ward. We had so much fun! The boys loved seeing all the animals, and of course the girls were sad they didn't get to go!

My little X man looking so big!!

The Boys playing with a box

2010-08-26T11:51:00.001-07:00

First Day of school!

2010-08-08T22:10:00.000-07:00

I took my camera out, and instantly the lens fogged up from the humidity!
Kamber and her BFF Taryn.
Kamber and Korbin being so good in Kamber's kindergarten orientation.
Little Aiyla Brooke is in 3rd grade!

Random Kids

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Splash Park

2010-08-08T21:59:00.000-07:00

Kamber and Korbin
Mom and Xander

Summer Time!

2010-08-08T21:52:00.000-07:00

The day Kyle was leaving

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Easter!!

2010-04-06T19:03:00.001-07:00

Korbin would find an egg then stop there and see what was inside.

Baby X is getting so big!

Tennessee Pics!

2010-04-06T18:18:00.000-07:00

Kyle and the kids

Aiyla and Korbin

Xander having a blast!

Everyone finding shells

Korbin Loving this dead fish he found..

yes very disgusting....I'm just surprised he dared touch it!

Me, Kyle and X

Heres some cool riverboats I'm going to ride on one day!

It's been awhile so I figured it was time to post! Heres some pics of the family at the land between the lakes in Tennessee.

what a month

2009-10-20T17:19:00.000-07:00

Kyle has been gone for 5 weeks and we are surviving! Korbin cracked his head open and had to have like 10 staples. Then he caught a horrible cold and it sounded like whooping cough, spewing you know what every where! so Xander now is sick (aiyla also not so bad) and I am taking Xan into the doc tomorrow to check to see if he has pink eye. Our dog, Cassie, who Jana so lovingly adopted from me, had to get neutered today, AND to top it off, SHE was PG and they did something sad???to the babies, so she is laying in my garage trying to recuperate from her miserable experience...

Kyle is surviving Boot Camp in Georgia and we are counting the days til he returns home on December 18.

NEW UPDATE FINALLY!!!!!

2009-07-14T20:13:00.000-07:00

For ALL of you sick of my OLD BLOG so 9 months ago......hello Halloween cookes....

HAVE YOU HEARD? We had our #4 child....it's a BOY!

Little fatty grub at 3 weeks...9# already! look at those elbow dimples...

kam HEARTS her bro

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XANDER GAGE GRAY

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bathtime

2009-07-14T19:57:00.000-07:00

Halloween Cookies

2008-10-13T08:59:00.001-07:00

My Kids saw Kim's blog with her girls making cookies so I thought I would copy her and do some of my own.. they loved them.

My awesome decorating.

Kyle sure enjoyed it!

Kamber and Korbin

Sisters, its so nice when they like each other! It's hit and miss.

Kam's cookie

Korbin such my cute boy.

His cookie... I'm not even sure they ate them they just like to decorate them.

Aiyla loved doing this, she is my creative one.

Her beautiful cookie

Playing around

2008-10-13T08:37:00.001-07:00

Kyle giving horsey rides.
Korbin thought this was the funniest thing ever!! Kyle was making his feet move so he was "walking on the ceiling"

Our cute Cassie

End of summer fun!

2008-10-13T08:24:00.000-07:00

Our newest member of the family, Cassie

Kam is our moody child, just like her mother. I always tell her how cute she is. So when she is in trouble she says "FINE I'm not cute!!" and lately she is telling me that I'm not cute Haha

Kyles new favorite past time...

The kids outside enjoying the warm weather while it lasts!

Sea World!

2008-09-06T20:09:00.001-07:00

Kyle and the kids and I were invited to visit his brother and wife Kelly in Texas. There was an off road trail kyle and Dylan went on one day, we went shopping and Dylan got free tickets to seaworld from his old marine base. It was HOT there and so humid but all in all it was fun and the kids were actually really good sports for the 20 hour car ride. Kyle and I

Aiyla, Kamber, and cousin Conner playing around
Watching a show
Waiting in line for a ride. Kamber and me
Kyle and Korbin
Kelly and Aiyla
A blurry shot of the penguins
Relaxing in the cold penguin exhibit. It was 90% humidity yuck.
our little family watching shamu.

Yelling for shamu!!
Taking a break for lunch... a slice of pizza and fries for $7.50!
I almost had a TON of really good Pics of shamu and the other whales jumping, I am using my brand new camera trying to figuring it all out and i messed with something so my shutter speed was soo slow. So basically I have 6 amazing pics of Shamu's splash. Lame.
This was a Huge aquarium with a ton of fish, It was really cool.

Some dolphins. I really wanted to pet one but I'm not that lucky.
Korbin and his Uncle Dylan
Heres a pretty good Pic of a whale. (kyle took it of course!)
Kyle Korbin and the pumpkin patch? Not sure whats up with those at the end of August.
The girls and I
Kyle, korbin, Conner, and Dylan
Korbin, lucky boy. Everyone was fighting to sit on his shoulders.

Aiyla having a fun time.
Korbin, all funned out by the middle of the day.

Our trip to Texas

2008-09-06T19:36:00.001-07:00

Loading up to drive 20 hours to visit Kyles brother Dylan.

Aiyla getting ready for the day...

Going for a 4 wheeler ride

Aiyla in the Disney store.

Ward Party

2008-08-25T08:03:00.000-07:00

We had a summer party at the church for our ward, they had a BBQ and the blow up slides for the kids.

New Project

2008-08-25T07:34:00.000-07:00

Kyles brother Preston bought this samurai to make into a rock crawler. Kyle loves doing this so he dug right into it.
The Kids loved it almost as much as he did!

Queen for the day!

2008-08-25T07:15:00.000-07:00

Aiyla was queen for the day in school. She got to take a bin full of things from home that tells about her. The bin in the picture is not the one she took, it was much smaller and decorated, I just noticed that ugly thing ha. Then the class made a little book that said what they liked about her and why she was special. Today was better than her first day. It was such a long day for her and she cried at lunch when she couldn't get her milk carton opened! SAD!

1st Day of School

2008-08-22T22:11:00.001-07:00

Aiylas first day of 1st grade. She was so excited the night before you'd think it was Christmas!
The kids waiting for Aiylas bus.. I had to drive her to the bus stop because its so far from our house. What a nightmare.
Aiyla and Kaden, she was so excited that he rides the bus with her. Sad they are both so big now.

July 4th

2008-07-06T22:18:00.001-07:00

We got a few sparklers for the kids while Aiyla was fortunate enough to go the stadium of fire with Grandma.As you can see Korbin was NOT wanting anything to do with them.

Here's Kyle trying to get Korbin to hold it so I could get a few pics..
That obviously didn't happen.

Korbin was screaming at kyle here.

He tried to get as far away from that as fast as he could!

Kamber was a pretty good sport for me tho.

In the end they ended up throwing the snaps

And Korbin hating those just as much.. oh well there's always next year!

Red Robin

2008-07-06T22:09:00.000-07:00

Korbin LOVES balloons more than anything! We have to ask for one everytime he sees one somewhere!

Korbin is obviously his moms son! He loves sauces more than I do!

Kam and Me

Korbin and Dad

It's ZOO time!

2008-07-04T20:35:00.000-07:00

We go to the zoo every summer this year was fun cuz all the kids were old enough to care about where we were. We went to pay and the guy asked if kyle or anyone in his family was in the military, he said his brother was and just got discharged for getting his legs blown off. (His wording not mine) So the guy let us all go in for free! GO USA! Waiting patiently to go in. Me and the Kids

Looking at some Lizards . Me and Aiyla

Korbin loved to tease this snake!

Kamber loving her nice cold snow cone

Aiyla and dad looking at the ducks, now those are rare around here! By the end of the day everyone was tired and hot, they got to rest but dad never does!

I'm blogging!!

2008-07-04T19:23:00.000-07:00

SO... I got talked into it. I've wanted to start one for a while now but I didn't realize how computer illiterate I am! I finally figured out the basics but it might take me a while to get into the swing of things.