My Baby Girl's 1st Birthday...

My little Day Day turned ONE yesterday. It is so funny how emotional I get when they turn one. I did the same thing when Cole turned one. I look through the photos of the past year of their life and think Man where did the time go, and so maybe I shed a few tears as well.

Well we had a fun day celebrating. My Mom (aka. the incredible cake decorator) came over early to decorate and design the big cupcakes that were made out of cake. She does such a great job. They looked perfect. Than we went to see the floats at the expo center. We than celebrated with cake and ice cream and presents. We had a little cupcake cake for her to attack but she was not going to do it. Maybe we will have to try another time!

Dailey is such a sweet girl and I just love her smile. she has her top two teeth in and one on the bottom left side. I love that she just scoots around everywhere and seems to be content with it. She absolutely loves her big brother and can't wait to see him in the morning.

We sure love you Dailey. Thanks for being in our family!

Kids...

Cole yells from the other room. "Mom what's a postcard? I go in and he is under his bed with a container full of cookies and I say: It's like a letter. Cole: Oh now I gottcha!"

That kid cracks me up. Not sure where the post card question came from but he is always throwing random at me! Than I tell him to go get the cookies from under his bed. He says: How did yooou seeee that?

Ha. ha.

Cole says: Mom are you thinking what I'm thinking? Me: What are you thinking? Cole: umh a bird. Me: Nope not thinking the same thing.

Yesterday we filled up the little pool and got in it and played. Well later Cole went back outside for a minute and I went out to check on him. Well He had the itouch outside and it was wet. I said Cole did you put the itouch in the pool? Cole: Mom are you mad? Me: Cole tell me what you did. I just dipped my hands in and touched it to clean it. Andy cleaned his iphone.

Mom I just needed to clean it. Well Thanks Andy. Ha ha. Just Kidding. We may now try the rice trick someone told us about!!!

The Zoo Zoo Zoo, how about you you you..

We went to the Hogle Zoo on Saturday. We went with the Austin's and Grandpa and Grandma. We had a great time. It was a hot day. We packed in a lunch and ate inside. Cole loved running around with Brock and Alli and chasing each other and being silly.

Dailey did well too. She likes to people watch and liked to look at a few animals too. Cole kept talking about how the animals smelled. Guess he's a bit of a city kid. huh. We had a great time. Thanks Susan for getting us together!

It was crazy how long the giraffe's tongue was. He kept licking the pole that had a basket with his food on it.

It's not the zoo without a picture in front of the famous lion drinking fountain. They now have a couple of these fountains. It is a hot spot for photos.

My Mom always sang this song that went like this: We are going to the Zoo Zoo zoo how about You you You? You can come too TOO Too. So of course we sang it all day long!

This photo is not from the zoo but was at little Abby's 1st Birthday! She is such a happy little girl. Look how cute these three little ones are!!

Recap of 4th of July Weekend...

Being Silly!
Us at Sandy Fireworks
Picking Peas in Grandma/Grandpa Bush's Garden

Patriotic Day Day!

The kids Feeding the Horse in Henefer

We had a great time celebrating the Fourth all weekend long. Kevin took another CPA Exam on Friday morning and than was done by noon so we kicked it off by going to Copperton Park than went to dinner and a dollar movie. How to Train a Dragon was a cute little movie, and right up Cole's ally with the fighting of dragons even though he had seen it before. He loved it in fact half way through the movie, he yelled to his cousin, "I've seen this before" as it just clicked for him. Ha. ha. I love going to a movie and hearing all the kids laughter. So great.

The next morning we headed to Henefer for breakfast and the town fun. We had snow cones and 10 cent ice cream cones and bounce house chaos. What a great time. Than we drove home and got ready for a BBQ and ate some yummy food played the starburst mouth unwrapping game (with the new summer flavors) than went to the Sandy fireworks. It was so fun to see Cole and Dailey watch the big fireworks. There is something about the loud sounds and bright colors in the sky that make it so magical. I also forget how much I love playing on the grass waiting for them to start.

The next day was Sunday and I loved being in church on the fourth. I love singing the patriotic hymns. It helped me to reflect a little more and realize how blessed I am to be living in this great country and for the freedom we do have. I also loved sitting in primary and listening to the kids sing a few patriotic songs as well. I sure do Love being in primary. That evening was fun to eat dinner with more family. Than we came home early and went on a walk and watched fireworks from our house.

On Monday we packed our jeep with tennis, swim gear, cooler and everything else we could think of that we may want to go and do that day. I guess we didn't want to waste any time going home. We packed in all the fun we could. We went to breakfast at one of the cousin's house and than headed to Daybreak lake and went out on the paddle boats they have. It was so fun. We found a secluded beach area and the kids played in the sand and we kept rotating turns out on the boat. From there we went and had another BBQ and did our own fireworks. Another late night.

Man these days were packed from going to one thing to another. I think Kevin was glad to get a break and go to work today. The kids and I are still in our pajamas and just hanging out trying to catch up on some sleep and just relaxing at home. What a fun weekend!

Thanks Family.

Ready for The Fourth of July...

I went to Winco this morning and they had these cute gummy bears in red, white, and blue. Cole has to take a treat to his class on sunday and it is the 4th so we picked these up.

I am so excited for this weekend. I love that the 4th is on Sunday. We get to celebrate all weekend long and into Monday too!

I was trying to teach Cole about the 4th and why we celebrate. I started singing some patriotic songs to him and he even learned one too. Love, Love, Love this time of year!

Bedroom Rearranging...

When I was little I use to rearrange my room every other week it seemed like. I loved switching it up. I would shut the door and a few hours later everything would be organized and rearranged just as I would like it to be. Well I still do this with my living room furniture to the kids bedroom. I moved Cole's bed and Dailey's crib to different spots in their rooms.

Because hey Variety is the Spice of Life right?

My Dad and his Childhood Memories...

So my Brother and Sis in law had a great idea. They thought it would be fun to go downtown where my Dad grew up and go to all the places he lived and have him tell us stories from his childhood. So we all packed up our sack lunch dinners and drove to the Avenues. It was fun for the kids too, they all rode in different cars with their little cousins.

It was so much fun to hear the stories and to see my Dad remember when he was young. To see the houses he use to live in and where he played as a boy.

This is now a cafe but my Dad told us how it use to be a store/gas station and he worked there when he was 14. He was working late one night and got robbed. The guy told him to give him all the money in the till. My Dad asked if he wanted the coins too. The guy did not think that was funny. Than he left and my Dad called the owner who than told him to call the police. Crazy to be robbed at the age of 14.

I think my Dad lived in three houses on the avenues. This one he called the jungle. It was surrounded by trees and was on a hill. You had to climb up stairs to get there. He use to raise boats down this rain gutter. This place looked so fun to grow up at.

This is looking down from the house back to the street. It was so pretty. Lots of bugs but very pretty.

This is the house my Mom and Dad moved into right after they got married. They were renting the bottom part of the house from someone they knew. LDS hospital was less than a block away. My Oldest brother was born at LDS and they brought him home here.

My Mom told some fun stories too. Like how they went to my Dad's Grandma's house for dinner when they were engaged and she made them dinner. But my parents were an hour late getting there. She told of how mad grandma was and how she told them it was very rude to be late to someone's house for dinner. Love hearing both of there memories.

This was such a fun night. I should have asked more questions but it was fun to see all of these places. I would like to due a post on my Mom's childhood memories too one day when we go to Bear River. Than I think I will do my own post about the only home I lived in!