I gave Elise and Ryan haircuts tonight. I teared up a little as I saw her curly cues gathering on the floor. I debated about whether or not to give her bangs and then I thought "Well I have given them almost three years to get long enough and they still aren't. I guess it's time...I guess it's time."


 Well I hope that she loves that her hair shouldn't be in her face as much. And she thinks it's "adowable."  Here's my new big girl.

I had to steal some pictures from my sister in law in order to finish my update of our summer. In June we went to the zoo for Ryan's mom's birthday. We had a lot of fun there.

Us in the eagle's nest. Do you think this is the same one I used to get into when I was Elise's age?

Big smiles and tongue...I'm not sure why....

Seals were Elise's favorite. She stayed there for ages. And squealed everytime they swam by.

She was so proud of herself that she got up there by herself. She kept saying "ROAR!"

Here is all the cousins in the pool, DUKE, ELISE, ATLEE, LOGAN

This may be too late for some but have you seen that pinterest pin that says to put sparklers in a cup to seperate their hands from the flame?  Do not use the plasticy solo cups! They melt a hole and then your baby gets burned. I guess if we were to try this again we would try a wax dixie type cup?

They are best of friends instantly. After she left Elise would cry and we would ask her why and she would say "I miss Atwee"

I mean seriously cute right?

Daddy can be under your spell in July too right? These are the PJ's Atlee's mom brought from AZ so Elise had to have hers on too.

They were so nice to baby Duke too.

Kylie was really nice and babysat both her niece and nephew during the day. Elise is so sweet to him. I think they will be good friends.

Thanks Kylie!

I love Elise's face in this one. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

 We are now home owners!

Working at the carwash....the carwash Yeah!

Ryan and I on a mini vacation to St. George with a bumch of friends of ours. No children for a whole weekend. It felt so decadent. Thank you Kylie, Grandma and Grandpa for watching Elise for us.

For some odd reason I got creative with nail polish for the fourth. Elise had flag toes and fingers. Oh and she LOVED it. That's prolly why I thought it was worth it.



FIREWORKS!!!

Hiking fun for FHE

I got to go on another small girls only vacay with my sisters to St George. We went to tuacahn, got pedicures, swam, hiked, farmers marketed, went out to eat. We had a grand ole time!



Fishing with grandpa, Court, Mandi, Heyborne's and extended Heyborne Fam. So much fun!

Hanging with Cousins

Dinner up the mountains with cousins. So much fun!

We also had Elise give up her binki. Is there anything more painful? I mean she was really good as she is with most things, but the lack of sleep has turned her into a different child. She is clingy and whiny constantly now. I'm hoping things will even out once we get her used to the new house as well as the binki-less sleeping.

Also, Elise has hit the why stage. Heaven help me. Lucky for her she's really cute and well behaved mostly and I love her SO much, so I'll keep her around ;)