Pioneer Day 2013

Family came to visit this week! 

Best mini family vacation! 

My aunt Diana came up to pick up her daughter from BYU-I. 

They all stayed with us about 2 full days and then headed home. 

While they were here we decided to take them to the Pioneer Festival my town puts on every year on July 24th to commemorate the Pioneers who came and settled in UT.

It was so much fun! 

Will went to go to Deputy school and got a sweet badge!

 Mustache, anyone?

Found these delicious Squash Blossoms from a local vendor and cooked them inside our quesadillas. 

they were so good!

Grateful when family comes and visits us. 

Today we threw a surprise birthday party 

for my sweet sister in law.

We drove up to her house around noon 

to have lunch with her little family.

Little did she know that her younger brother would be driving down from Rexburg for a weekend surprise! 

My sister in law is a wonderful person. 

She is always thinking of others. 

There has never been a moment where she 

wasn't there to lend a hand. 

My babies loves her. 

I love her. 

And her family loves her too.

Thank you for letting us crash all day today! 

We love you. 

Happy Birthday 

Today we kept Sam's birthday pretty chill since we celebrated with family a couple of weeks ago. 

Sam didn't mind. 

That's what I love about him, he just goes with the flow.

 Kent helped me with the sprinkles. We wanted it to spell out SAM 1 but for some reason the S looks more like a 5.  

HA! 

( its 5am, somewhere)

Sam turns 1

Sam turned 1 today!!!

I can not even begin to tell you how amazing this boy is. He has only been in our family for a short time and already made a huge impact. 

As you know I have been keeping monthly record of him and his progression and it has been fun seeing him grow. 

I try to have a chalk board next to him showing how old he is but he was not having it. he kept wanting to touch it and throw it on the floor.

So this is what we got instead.

He talks so much!!

He repeats everything we say and do.

He sleeps amazing. 

It only took us 2 days to get him back into his ol' schedule.

He eats everything. 

We started giving him whole milk and he loves it.
He growls a lot!
He loves to play with Will. Will is an amazing big brother to him. 
He watches out for baby Sam.

He can stand all by himself, but doesn't walk yet. which is fine! 

He already gets into trouble... and I want him to stay a baby forever!

29th Birthday

to me!!!

It first i had mix feelings about all of this but after setting some goals and looking back at all that I have accomplished up to this point, I am excited for what my thirties will bring.

there are so many new and exciting projects in the horizon for us. 

Today, Kent treated me so well. He always does. Its never a dull moment with this guy.

First he surprised me at work with a cute banner, balloons and a card on our car. ha ha! it was great. 

A Dr. Pepper Slurpee was up next.

then we took the kids to Riverwoods for a walk and kent surprised me with dinner at Tucanos.

(best Brazilian buffet in town)

then we were caught in a Utah monsoon so naturally we took cover at 

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for a delicious Apple Pie carmel apple. 

( tradition of course)

Thank you Mom and Judy for my lovely gifts! 

While we were at Grandma and Grandpa's, Will and Sam had a little surprise waiting for them every morning. 

Even though they have the busiest lives out of anyone I know, they still took time to open their home for us. Even in the mist of work, callings, house construction... you name it, they took time. The uncles slept in the loft to give us a room and that is the sweetest thing ever. They took care of the boys too! 

Grateful for them.

But really its all for their grandkids. 

Grandma Judy sure knows how to spoil her grandkids. 

She really IS made of magic and love.

Our last day in SD

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala

After we packed up the car and left our in laws, Kent took me to one of his favorite spots in San Diego.

It was so beautiful! A little hidden treasure. 

I thought it was pretty cool that it was founded on July 16th 1769. 

244 years before I was born. 

** Kent and I would love to build our home to look like an old mission**