California

Kamryn and I were able to go to California for my beautiful cousin's wedding!!!  Kamry was of course a big hit with everyone and we had such a good time!  Thanks to my whole family for making a wonderful stay!  So glad we got to be there!

While in California my sisters and my dad and I were able to go to the Sacramento Temple.  They did baptisms and I did Initiatory!!  (What amazing blessings!)  The Temple is beautiful and like always I felt the Spirit so strong!  I got lost from my sisters and dad for about 45 minutes (couldn't find them anywhere...even in the baptistry) so I walked around the Temple grounds and just enjoyed the beautiful gardens and the wonderful weather!  I just want to share that Heavenly Father knows of our needs and our struggles and he is there to help us if we just ask!

The rest of the trip was spent doing things for the wedding... rehearsal dinner, girl sleepover, actual rehearsal, getting hair and make-up done (thanks Jamie), and getting the bride ready of course!  It was so fun to spend time with my cousin Katie!  I love her and am so excited for this fun time in her life and so happy she found Aaron!

My Uncle Rick with Kamryn!  He loved her!  He is going to be a Grandpa soon!

My dad with Kamryn!  It was fun to see my family there as we aren't going home until November!

This is the bride, Katie, with Kamryn! 

 The day after the wedding Kamryn and I went to the California State Fair with my Uncle Rick, Cora, Rochell, and Melissa.  It was a lot bigger than the Utah one! =)

This is the goat that sneezed on me shortly after this picture was taken... GROSS!!!!!!!!

Can you believe that?  Chocolate covered bacon?  I like bacon and I really like chocolate, but I'm not sure about together... maybe I'll give it a try one day!

Deep fried.... EVERYTHING!  At this particular stand they had oreos, cereal, pudding, moon pies, twinkies and pretty much any candy bar you could think of! 

What is a State Fair without a corndog?

They have these beautiful amazing gardens there.  They were growing all sorts of food, hay, rice, flowers, veggies and fruits.  It was very impressive and everything looked so healthy and big!  I want a garden like that one day! =)

Such a fun trip and so nice to get away with just Kamryn!  Thanks to Merrill, Annette, Khayden and Baxter for coming to stay with the other 3 kids ;) (Nik included) they had such a good time and it made it easier for me to have a good time while I was away because I wasn't worried about them!

What we've been up to,,,

Fun visit from Aunt Sara and Uncle Izaak

Nik put up misters using his father's day ladder!

Playing in the cupboards

Miranda thinks it is so fun to get into the lotion or conditioner or diaper rash cream and rub it all over her, the walls, the floor, her dolls... loads of fun lately!

We moved to a new house and we love it!!  I will love it even more when I get everything put away!!

My little finger sucker...hands and feet... pretty talented if you ask me!

Lots of swimming!!

All ready for church!

First time sleeping in her crib! She usually sleeps through the night!

Fell asleep standing up!

Ian thinks he is big enough to hold Kamryn... I disagree!

"Happy hot dog man"

Notice she is talking on her phone while pushing her stroller!

When Nik holds her she always hangs onto his ear!

Those fingers again!

Mini Trip

KANAB UTAH!!  Love it!  I needed to renew my drivers license in Utah so we decided to go to the closest city... Kanab!  We had everything planned out... Kanab is about 5 and 1/2 hours from where we live so we left really early Monday morning, we were going to renew my license, let the kids play somewhere, and head back home!  Our plans were destroyed when we went to the office and they were CLOSED and are only open every 2nd and 4th tuesday of every month... can you believe that?  Luckily the 4th Tuesday was the next day so we eventually decided to just stay! 

They have the best city park!!!!  It is beautiful and we spent about 5 hours there!

(What else were we going to do?)

All of us kids had a really good time!!

This actually turned into one of the most fun things we have done!  Nothing was planned and we didn't have any cell phone service so we couldn't tell anybody where we were at and we didn't have any distractions!  We had so much fun with the kids and they were such troopers! 

The grass was so wonderful and soft and green!  I made the kids roll around on it just to feel how wonderful it was!  We also took our shoes off and ran around!  We had a blast!

We found the cutest place to stay called the Victorian Inn!  I highly recommend it if you ever stay in Kanab!  The funny part about this mini trip is that it wasn't planned... we didn't have clothes to change into, toothbrushes, food, deoderant...  Luckily the hotel provided toothbrushes and a comb!  Needless to say my new drivers license picture is not the cutest!! (But I did get it renewed!!!)

On our way home we stopped to see part of the Grand Canyon... (the free part!)  We walked out onto this bridge and it was amazing!  I was completely sure one of my kids was going to fall over the edge though so I was a nut case and we didn't stay very long because it was too stressful, but it surely was AMAZING!! =)

See how big those holes in the fence are?  Definately not safe!  I seriously about had a heart attack with my kids on the bridge!  Plus it was really windy and they wanted to run around on it... I had a death grip on both their hands and walked in the very middle of the bridge most of the time!

Fun little family mini trip!!

KAMRYN 

She is such an ANGEL baby!  She is so sweet and so cute!  She is so happy and always smiling!  We love her so much!

I think we need a bigger pool!?! =)

Happy Birthday Miranda!

Miranda turned 2!  She had a fun Birthday!

She was spoiled with presents from those who love her... we had a pinata... she had a little party... and the whole day was about her!  No wonder she LOVED it!  I'm pretty sure we sang Happy Birthday to her several times just because she liked it so much!

We got her this little car and it was a big hit!!  Lots of static electricity!  She practically fell asleep in it and was playing in it this morning before we even saw her!  She loves it!

 This is what happens to her room during nap time!! =)

She is such a good girl and we love her so much! She definately adds flavor to our lives and sometimes it is sweet and sometimes it is spicy!!  We are so happy and blessed to have her in our family!

Happy Mother's Day!

On Mother's day Nik and the kids made me breakfast and cleaned up!  They drew me pictures and gave me these cute flower holders with real flowers in them!  (Thank you Home Depot for providing mother's day presents for the free workshop!)  We had a good day!

Girl Party!

This weekend was the father and sons camping trip!  My husband didn't go, but the girls decided to go to a girl party anyways!

We headed over to Yogurtology and had some yummy frozen yogurt!  Miranda had chocolate and green apple yogurt with M&M's and a gummy worm!  I had pomegranite, vanilla & chocolate yogurt with fresh raspberries!! 

We had a good time!

All the ladies (most of whose husbands did not go camping, but they should have!)!

Then we headed to Kylie's house to watch a little bit of Tangled before coming home and going to bed!  Miranda kept saying "I like the girl party!"  It really made her happy and I think I'll have to start doing things with just her a little more often!

The boys of course were a little jealous so they decided to have their own party!  Ian wanted a picture of the "boy party"!  They watched movies and popped popcorn!  Fun night!

Getting so smiley!

 

Her eyes are SO blue!

She is such an angel baby!  Sleeps good, eats good, plays good... could't have asked for a better baby!  She brings so much love and joy to our house!  We are very lucky to have her!