Our Family!!!!

This is our fun vacationing crew!!! what fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vacation Time!!

I miss you Aunt Dee Dee!

Decorating Easter Eggs

We love our Uncle Kris!

He should go pro already!

The two brownies!

Tyson and Kollin playing Army guys.

Check out those boots Kollin!!

Working on their tan!! They already have the figures!!

The Grand Canyon

We had the BEST vacation EVER!!!! We went to the Grand Canyon and then spent 5 days at Ruth Elizabeth Aunt Dee Dee...etc.... and Uncle Kris's house in Marana Arizona. I have sooo many cute pictures that I could post for days on these! These are only a few from my camera not even Gabe's or the day I didn't have one!! We had so much fun. It was beautiful weather and we were able to spend so much time together with our cousins! Thanks so very much for letting us stay there you guys!! We swam over at Kevin and Ala's house and had so much fun getting to know them too! Ate carne asada mmmm... and played guitar hero. We should have made Kevin and Ala battle!!! Next time! I will be practicing for a rematch! :) We hung out, went to see where Kris works, went to the children's museum, went to dinner, watched Office... Gabe is addicted now! We are going to have to start season 3 now!! Went to the park, dyed eggs, and had a beautiful Easter!!! We made memories that we will cherish forever. We cried when leaving, and really miss all of you. We can't stop repeating Kohen's cute phrases and thinking of Kollin's cute face with his sweet eyes!!! It was the best and we are just so very thankful to have such wonderful family!!!!!!!! We love you guys and Ala, kevin and kids too!!!! xoxoxo P.s. Sorry Crystal we didn't make it over. The only drivong we could really do was in the middle of the night!! Aliya hates the car!!! Love you!!

My only girl cousin!!

So... this is my cutest niece Alexis!! Aliya has 7 boy cousins and Lexie is her only girl cousins!!! They are soooooooooo cute!!! We love girls and can't wait til they can play more together!! :)

Aliya is another month older!

I love cookies!!

My best friend Kali

Mmm... Oreos I wanted to be like my Aunt Dee Dee!

Aliya loves to play the piano! She has the prettiest long fingers. She will be so good at it!

Ok so by now you all know that this is basically Aliya's blog! :) haha JK I have just been using this as our photo album/journal! So bear with me... My princess is yes another month older. And she has grown sooooo much!! I keep wishing that she won't get any bigger but she does. She weighs 18 pounds now... the same weight as her almost 1 year old cousin Lachlan!!! What a little chub! She is crawling now... but only backwards and in a circle! She hasn't figured out that trying to pull herself forward with her face planted to the ground is not working!! It's only a matter of time though and she will have it down. She has her first tooth too!!! It finally popped through on the bottom!! So cute! I will miss her little gummy smile though! So much fun!! She talks and sings so much!! Always making noises saying MAMA!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! She calls for me! It is the cutest thing ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a little sweetness! We all love her sooooo much! What would our life be like without her? Sometimes it is still hard to believe that she is real. She is such a special part of our family!

"Octodog"

For Family Home Evening this week we had our lesson on nature and we decided to do something fun for our dinner and dessert!! So this is our little octopus hotdog on pasta and for dessert we had ice cream dirt with gummy worms! It was a lot of fun and the kids LOVED it!!