She likes to strike several poses!!
Her dad came to pick her up and she was bouncing off the walls.
When she arrived home, she came in with balloons, a coursage, and a gift bag of goodies. In her bag was a plastic purse, stickers, socks, a little stuffie and some candy. Her and Shaun were able to get their pictures taken there and they had a lot of fun dancing. I am sure she will be talking about this for awhile. It was nice that she could go with her daddy.
Her classroom was very cute. This is her teacher Mrs Kitson:
They each had made a dinosaur head and they were hung up on clothesline. 
Each of the kids got to mold and make their own dinosaur and paint it.Kyla's is the one with the blue head, with all the legs out flat. I assume it was resting at the time :-) 
A big letter D for dinosaur with polka dots and dinosaurs stamped on it.
A dinosaur made from paper plates with a story under it. Kyla has a very good friend in her class named Raylea and Kyla's story was about a girl named Raylea and when I read Raylea's~her story was about a girl named Kyla LOL it was too funny. 
Here we have dinosaur fossils~~ 
And dinosaur eggs, which is really a soap ball and once she uses it, she will find a special surprise inside~~ 
And last Mrs Kitson had a volcano that would erupt when she poured this liquid stuff into it. It was pretty cool. 
We all had fun at school and Kyla has learned alot about dinosaurs. It is fun to go to their classroom and see all their work and where they sit etc. She really likes school and is doing really good too.
She colored it green and she has a animal zebra print dress on. Dinosaur high heels, and a princess crown, a pink flowered necklace and she went wild putting jewels everywhere. lol She chose purple/pink paper to glue it to.
Here is the final dinosaur
She is very proud of it and it has to be the award for the girliest dressed!! I told her to spray some of moms perfume on it on the morning before she leaves just to add that "special" touch LOL
With the left over stuff, she made herself a bracelet 
and glued a heart to paper for I have no idea but she thinks it is neat.
Kaleb is a little under the weather so he just laid on the couch which gave us good time to get this made. I will get pics at her school Thursday night.
Yah, What????
He is getting brave and standing on his own with the help of furniture of course.
Actually he was getting wobbly and about to fall over and he doesnt even realize it. lol
Jake is so patient with Zac and lets him climb all over him.
And the cute face of Jake
Valerie claims that Zac is on all 4's and about ready to crawl but we havent seen it yet. You know how you want him to do it for someone and they never do it when you want them too? LOL He sure is cute though.
Kaleb had trouble sharing his toolbox and his Uncle Tom and his Grandpa. Luckily, I had 2 toolboxes so I split up the tools in each box and everyone was happy again. Kaleb did get used to sharing with Tyler.
Jessica and Tyler got to see Baby Zac. Last time they were here in July, Tyler wasn't a fan of him but he liked him much better this time.
We were able to get some Christmas pictures in front of the tree of the 3 kids with santa caps on and Zachary later with his santa cap.
We even got brave and went and had all the grandkids pictures taken together. My sister had bought them all their outfits, and it was hard to get them all smiling at the same time!! 
Allissa and Zac:
All 8 of the grandkids:
And Kim, Jessica, Valerie and Tom:
It turned out perfect that Jess came when she did because Tom found out that he would be graduating while she was here, so she got to see him graduate. That was cool and we are happy to say that Tom graduated without owing any school debt. After his graduation, we had a big pizza party and just hung out and had fun. 
Jessica and Tyler both wanted snow while they were here, so we got snow alright. Being from Texas, they got pretty cold in it and Tyler looks like an Eskimo~~
Jess pulled Tyler and Kyla in the sled~~ 
And Tyler got to make Snow angels~~
While grandpa was out shoveling, he put Tyler on top of the car. I think he felt pretty cool up there!!
The boys did play pretty good together. It gets better each visit and as they get older too. Kaleb has a slide going down his bunkbed and they both like going down the slide in wierd ways.
I had made Tyler a quiet book for him for the plane ride home. It had about 7-9 pages in it and it gave him something new for the plane.
Tom bought his car while Jess was here too. He will be heading down to San Antonio right after Christmas and will be living with Jess and Scott for 3 months for his internship. 
The time went by so fast as it always does and so soon enough, Tom and I were taking them back to Ohare. But...on the way, Tyler was able to see his grandpa drive by in his car and he thought that it was pretty cool. I got a picture of the truck but wasnt fast enough for the tractor.
