Temple Square

While Mary Kay was here we went to Heritage Park for a tour. It was really neat to learn about. When Brigham Young arrived in this area he came to this spot and looked around and said, "this is the place," and this is where they settled. It is an amazing town with original and replicated buildings of how the first LDS settlers lived.

The girls ran up to each house. Since it was Sunday they were not open but it was neat to look inside the windows.

This is at Temple Square

It was so beautiful with all the tulip's blooming and blossoms. The girls had a blast playing in the fountains making wishes.

Maddie and Tiffy

I LOVE how happy Avery is! Sweet little thing!

Josh, Cio and Tiffany were able to meet up with us at Temple Square. It was a fun day!

The SLC temple took 40 years to build. Made out of granite that was hauled, first by Oxen and eventually by railroad about 20 miles from a Quarry and split by hand with chisels! Amazing!

Hogle Zoo

Isaac's Aunt Mary Kay came to visit us from Washington! She is one of the coolest Aunts around! She is always happy, funny and very entertaining. We all have a blast hanging out with her. She was so sweet and brought the girls each an outfit and prize.

After we picked her up from the SLC airport, we went to the Hogle Zoo. She has never been to Utah so we wanted to show her around.

This was a new trainer, she was holding an owl.

I did not get as many pictures as I would of liked to, but we had a really fun day!

Family Party

It is crazy how time fly's so fast!I remember being pregnant with Maddie and couldn't wait for her to arrive. I went in her nursery every day and looked at the clothes, smelled that baby smell and would picture her sleeping in her crib.

Now she is SEVEN already! One more year until she is baptized. I LOVE this girl with all my heart. She has such a tender little heart and teaches me how to be a better person. I love it when Maddie giggles when she is being tickled; I love it when she wants to "snuggle;" I love it when she asks what she can do to help; and I really love how I can see what a strong spirit she has through her prayers and understanding of the gospel.

Maddie and daddy My cute little girls (Avery was sleeping) Maddie and Mommy My cute little Brynster bear. Look at those kissable cheeks!I love seeing them happy with each other! Brynlee took this picture of her Neena Most of the Pierce side of the family at Brick Oven for Madelyn's birthday lunch.They sang to her and brought a sucker and ice cream! Opening presents, this is a scripture bag she got from Neena and loves it!

Madelyn turns SEVEN!!

Madelyn turned seven this past week. She had a party with some of her good friends. We gave the girls each a pedicure and manicure, they also got their hair done up fancy with glitter.

Outside on the deck eating pizza and breadsticks..........YUM! Madelyn and Sadee

She was so excited to get a toy! It's a really cute Unicorn!

Here is a back view of all the girls with their hair done. It was a fun day. They also had chocolate cupcakes and played musical chairs.

San Antonio

I have the BEST husband...........he took work off and flew me out to San Antonio to visit some of my close friends. I flew out Thursday morning and got back Sunday evening.

Amy picked me up and I stayed at her house, she also organized the entire weekend full of festivities.

On Saturday we went to get pedicures. It felt So good to have someone else take care of my feet and give me a good foot rub!

Then we had my favorite Mexican "Alamo Cafe." They have the BEST queso and chips in the world! I also love their chimichanga.

Sharon had a big party at her house. We stuffed ourselves sick with chocolate covered strawberries, peanut butter cupcakes, chips-n-dip, enchiladas, lasagna, etc. It was SO yummy! I know I gained 5 lbs just that night! ha! Holly and me, I am holding little Ian~6 weeks old We were also celebrating Amy's birthday

Thanks to Sharon for all the wonderful food and for hosting an amazing evening!

I truly miss all my friends in San Antonio. But I feel blessed that I was able to go back to visit.

8th Anniversary

Well we dropped the kiddos off with their Neena and we headed for the mountains. Up to Midway, UT to celebrate our 8th anniversary. On the way we saw some pretty cool ice formations as we passed through the historic and quaint town. We had heard some recommendations for the place so we were hoping for the best. As it turns out, the Homestead Resort, where we stayed, was a great choice. We had our own little cottage suite with a private entrance and a great view of the mountains. It was comfortably elegant.

http://www.homesteadresort.com/

Anyway, we had everything right there on the resort and it made it so nice to relax and spend some quality time together...Wink, wink, nudge, nudge...you know what I mean. We also swam in the hot spring crater, which was way cool. It is 90 feet deep and about the same for temperature.

Then in the morning it was off to Park City to see how rich people live and of course purchase some caramel apples from the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, yum! We did a little shopping and froze our nubbins off since we totally didn't plan for how cold it was going to be. Regardless our anniversary was a lot of fun and we had a great time together.


Well we loved our stay at the resort and the time we had to celebrate eight wonderful years of marriage together.

My first hair

Little Miss Avery has had the "old man" hair since she was born.........hair in the back and little on top. She got a little A-line bob in the back a couple months ago because it was getting so long but the rest wasn't catching up!

I decided to explore and see what her hair can do..............

She got her first curl on top.....or some would call it a "mohawk." I was suprised, I really did not think there was much on top.

And with a little bit of ky gel we made the back all curly. The back is actually long enough for pony tails but we'll wait to do those another day.
Cuttest little bug isn't she!!

This baby girl makes me so happy. She is such a happy thing! Her new thing this week is nodding her head "yes" or "no" to things she wants or doesn't want. New word is "Daddy!" And you will not hardly ever catch her without a stuft animal~usually it's the poodle!