Well I won't really try to catch you up on all that has happened since my last post, but I figure I should write something or I will just get further behind. Ari is 21 months today. We had these pictures taken 2 months ago. Ariana is becoming such a fun girl with a fun personality. She has three of her four molars now and is learning to brush her teeth. She loved to suck on the top of lotion and sunscreen bottles. I have no idea why she thinks it tastes good. She loves her walks and loves her show Phineas and Ferb (Dad loves it too!) This summer has been full of fun. It started off with a 50's Sam's Diner party for my dad's birthday. We went to Lagoon with the Probst family on Memorial Day. Seth, Ari and I hiked Emigration Ridgeline trail again and this time went pretty far. It was a tough trail at some parts. We were able to go to Lake Powell with my family for a little bit and Ariana loved the kayaks. We spent the 4th of July in Midway and Paul, Connie, and Marissa were able to fly out for that. Steven and Luci have moved to Orem, and we were able to go to Wesley's baby blessing this month as well. We went to Bear Lake with Jace, Brooke, Amy, Megan, Emily, Tavish, Mom and Dad. It was so fun. We hope that becomes a family tradition. It is so beautiful up there. Then the following week, Kylee and Jon were in town and we ate some yummy thai food and went to Seven Peaks in Provo along with Amy and Ryan and their family.
We have been busy house hunting and it is a tiring process. It has been a good 3 months of looking every day at the new listings and going out with our agent to look at houses. Everything is going really fast right now and interest rates climbing, so it feels a bit stressful, but we hope that the right one will open up soon. It is such a hard decision and I want to love our choice. Seth is enjoying his work, but he is usually pretty tired come Thursday afternoon. It has been really nice that he has Fridays off. I usually go into work that day unless we have out of town weekend plans. Seth has played airsoft a couple of times this summer and is excited more of his brother/cousins/friends are getting guns. That is a fun activity for them. I have been playing tennis with girls in the neighborhood on Tuesdays and Thursday and am also on a women's soccer league with Krista Blanch and some of her friends. It has been fun to be active and play some sports. It makes me happy. I haven't played outdoor soccer for a long long time, but it is fun, even if I am winded after three sprints up and down the field.
Ariana is in no hurry to learn to talk. She knows how to make the noise for dogs, cats and birds. She loves to try on everyone's shoes and is getting very tall. People ask me a lot if she is tall for her age. She used to love nursery but now doesn't want us to leave her in there. She has a bad habit of biting and scratching when she gets upset, so we are trying to help her break that habit. Not an easy thing. We sure love her though.
We have been busy house hunting and it is a tiring process. It has been a good 3 months of looking every day at the new listings and going out with our agent to look at houses. Everything is going really fast right now and interest rates climbing, so it feels a bit stressful, but we hope that the right one will open up soon. It is such a hard decision and I want to love our choice. Seth is enjoying his work, but he is usually pretty tired come Thursday afternoon. It has been really nice that he has Fridays off. I usually go into work that day unless we have out of town weekend plans. Seth has played airsoft a couple of times this summer and is excited more of his brother/cousins/friends are getting guns. That is a fun activity for them. I have been playing tennis with girls in the neighborhood on Tuesdays and Thursday and am also on a women's soccer league with Krista Blanch and some of her friends. It has been fun to be active and play some sports. It makes me happy. I haven't played outdoor soccer for a long long time, but it is fun, even if I am winded after three sprints up and down the field. 
Ariana is in no hurry to learn to talk. She knows how to make the noise for dogs, cats and birds. She loves to try on everyone's shoes and is getting very tall. People ask me a lot if she is tall for her age. She used to love nursery but now doesn't want us to leave her in there. She has a bad habit of biting and scratching when she gets upset, so we are trying to help her break that habit. Not an easy thing. We sure love her though.
