9/08/2014

A Big Catch up of our Summer!!


JUNE

The beginning of summer started with a fun trip to St. George. We stayed the first few days with our good friends the Searl's, who we met in Dental school. My girls LOVED staying in their condo and playing with their little girl Elery. 



 There was an awesome playground right outside the condo.
 Playing in the swimming pool
 The rest of the time we spent at Greg's mom and dad's time share. We had a great time swimming, playing, eating, and go on this fun little hike!

McKay and his buddy Ellie. He LOVES her and won't even come to me if she is holding him.

 Brinley playing in the yucky water!

 Brinley always has to be where the action is!
 It was a great trip!!! Should have took more pictures!


I had a fun get together with my friends. Emily, was in town from Texas.
 At West Weber visiting my cousins Kole's new baby cow!
 First Cabin trip of the year!
McKay with Grandpa
 Baking with Grandma
 Cute McKay
 R&R, what we do best up there!!
 Julianne has so much fun playing dress up in Grandma Carole's clothes.
 Uncle Jared and Aunt Kristin's family came to visit! We went to the cabin again with them and celebrated Greg's 34th birthday!!


 Playing in the water

 We met up with Heather's family for the day at the lake!
 For the rest of the time Jared and Kristin were in town, we played non stop! It was sooo fun!
Here we are at Liberty Park in Salt Lake.

 We even ran into Kajsa and Manna! Fun surprise!
 It was HOT!!!
 We went to Park City one evening and rode the Alpine Slide!
 Julianne and I rode together
 Brinley was brave and went by herself!
 One day we went the the Bountiful rec center and went swimming. Christian and Brinley played non stop!
 Julianne on the other hand, played in the water for about 10 min and then just wanted to sit on her beach towel and eat snacks!! A girls after my own heart!
 On the last day they were here, they blessed new baby Ellie! She looked so beautiful and I'm so sad that I don't have a picture of her in her dress! We LOVED having them all here!

JULY

We went with some of our cousins to the Bountiful 24th of July Parade! So HOT but so fun!




The next day we had a big Fab 8 reunion! Almost everyone was there! And all of us together, have sooo many kids! 23 and two days later Danny and Darci had their baby so it makes it 24!!!
 AUGUST
We had the best little miracle ever! The Gubler's, (minus Tim ;( ) came to visit!!! They were so kind to fit us into their busy schedule! My girls were in absolute heaven seeing their long lost buddies from st. louis again! 

Julianne and Sam played non stop and she even got him to wear a dress!!
 Brinley and Peter picked up right where they left off and played every second together! They still said that they wanted to marry each other!
 So Cute!!!
 We miss them so much!
 Cynthia and I. I cried sooo hard when I hugged her goodbye. I miss all my St. Louis friends everyday! They are so special to me!
Thanks Gubler's for making time to see us!

And no summer is ever complete without our annual River Trip! My girls and Greg talk about this trip ALL year! 
Emma doing Abby's hair

 Meagan Jane and Brinley
 Such fun cousins! They all get along so well together!
 Brinley and Emma went down together for a little bit!
 Meagan Sammy and Greg getting ready to go down...again!
 Uncle Gary!
 The whole bunch! Lookin' River good!
 We sent McKay with my mom and dad up to their cabin, which is about 45 minutes away, and then they were kind enough to bring him to us for the last day. McKay LOVED the water and cried when we got him out, but much to Greg's dismay I would NOT let him go down the river! Maybe next year!
 Brinley and Meagan turned into wonderful river buddies! Brinley is still laughing and telling stories about all their adventures going down together :)
 Julianne got the best deal ever! My Dad brought up his raft the last day and so she got to ride with Grandpa first class! She even went down the water fall in it!
Celebrating Papa's and Michael's Birthday!
 After we had a BIG dance party! The girls are loving Abba right now. (I wonder where they get?) It was so fun watching them dance together!
So fun!!!

We decided to end our summer with who it began, and had the Searl's up to my parents cabin for the last weekend before school started. It was kind of cold and rainy most of the time, but we had a blast anyway. 
The girls loved playing with Ellery and Greg Bryce Miranda and I all had fun talking and playing games the whole time!! 

Singing to Frozen!

We had a GREAT summer!!!

McKay's 1st birthday!!

On my sweet third child, I hope you know how much I love you in spite of my lack of writing about you!!
My baby boy turned one years old on the 29th of May. He is such a sweet boy and it was so fun to get to celebrate him! The day of his birthday we were also leaving to go to St. George with Greg's side of the family, so we mainly celebrated it down there.

Here he is the morning of his birthday!
So cute sleeping!
 Always a happy boy!
 With his two biggest fans!
 Before we left for St. George my Mom bought his this cute little cake so they could celebrate with him as well.
 I love this boy!
 Here was his cake at his party down in St. George.

A little bit about my angel baby: McKay was absolutely the biggest blessing of our crazy year of moving!!! He was so good to go with the flow and be happy where ever he was placed and whoever he was placed with! He is so content to play by himself as long as he has toys. And LOVES everyone! 
At one years old he can: crawl, climb up stairs, loves to eat and makes the funniest little yummy noises while he eats, blow kisses, give hugs, say DA DA, Papa, and Ball, and melts your little heart with his constant smiles! 

Some more cute pictures! Had to throw this one in.
Smiles!
 Playing the piano.
 Finally made it up the stairs!

We LOVE you baby boy!!!

We made it to Utah!

We made it to beautiful Utah! Our drive went really well and it feels so good to get to live by our families again! We decided to live with Greg's parents for the first little while, until we decided what we were going to do with our lives,(they were very brave and kind to let us to this). We moved a lot of our stuff into a storage unit near by and the rest between my parents and Greg's parents house'.

When we first got into town, we had a big party at Greg sister's Michelle's to celebrate all the April and May birthdays. My girls were so excited to finally get to celebrate in person with them! Normally when they do these parties, they call and sing to who ever had a birthday that month, but now we get to be there in person.
Aunt Michelle was very fancy and made each of them their own cake!



Then, of course, Brinley had to start school...again. Her third one this year! Luckily she had the sweetest teacher ever, and made her feel so welcomed and loved!!
 Brinley wanted to take our picture too.
 Tallest tower yet!
 This was my Mothers Day breakfast. The kids tried to be soooo sneaky while they were getting it ready upstairs. (with a little help from dad as well ;)
 Brinley only went a total of about 4 weeks to school, before they graduated. I was glad that they made a big deal about it and put on a darling graduation program for the parents!

 They even gave Brinley the "Perfect attendance award" for going everyday for a month! So funny, but she thought it was way cool.
 Me and my cute graduate!
 Her darling teacher Mrs. Robinson
LET SUMMER 2014 BEGIN!!!