9/08/2014

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!!!

6/18/2014

Our last days in the State of the sun!

We only got to live in California for a total of 4 months exactly. Although that's a very short amount of time it had a HUGE impact on our family and I would never change anything about our time there. I'm so glad our family had this last little detour before moving back to our homeland, Utah, which I feel will be the last state we ever move to (knock on wood).
 God truly is in the details of our lives.  Greg and I always had California at the top of the list of places we would like to end up and although Utah was our #1 choice I think we would have wondered what life would be like living in California. We had such a wonderful time and met some wonderful people, but in the end it just wasn't meant to be for us.

Here are some pictures of our last days!

 Easter Sunday was our last Sunday. We went to church and then to Dan and Mel's for our last dinner with them.

Before eating dinner, we went on our favorite "hike" again to the badlands. So beautiful. I love the ocean! I've come to the conclusion that just by looking at the ocean, it will increase your lifespan. There is just something about it that sinks into your soul and makes you happy to be alive! 
 Me and my honey!
 A few days later we drove out to Huntington Beach, but it was SO windy that we just took and picture and got back in the car!
 Brinley's last soccer game! It was so much watching her play! She had the best time and had such a cute little team. They ended up taking first place in their division. So sad we had to miss that game! This is Ellie Brinley's best friend here in Cali.
 GO GREEN WAVE!!!!!
Easton and Julianne. Eastson is Ellie's little brother, we had play dates with both of them at least once a week! We are going to miss them so much!

And of course our last day at Disneyland! We went a total of 17 times! Not bad at all for only 4 months! We made so many amazing memories with our kids here. I have always had a special place my heart for all things Disney! I don't know why or where it came from but it's definitely an emotional connection. Living so close to here has really been a highlight in my life and I'm so glad we were able to go as often as we did! Now I just have to get use to tearing up anytime I see or hear anything that reminds me of this fun place!



Last but not least I felt that I should finally get around to posting pictures of our beautiful home. This is of course taken a few weeks before our move :).
The most amazing kitchen ever!!!
 Our awesome great room
Finally got to put my old piano in our living room!

 The loft upstairs, also where we had the kids toy room.
 They spent hours up here!
The front of our house, just before pulling out of the driveway for the last time! We LOVED living here!



5/09/2014

Julianne's 4th birthday!

I love to celebrate this little sweetie! Julianne turned 4 on the 16th of April, a week and a half before our big move!
Greg had to work the day of her birthday so we celebrated the weekend before at "Uncle Danny's and Aunt Melanie's". We have LOVED being so close to them and LOVE visiting them. They live in such a beautiful area and so close to the beach.

It just happened that Grandma Carole and Papa were visiting as well so we got to celebrate with them too!


Brinley is our ocean girl and played in the cold water the whole time!
Then we came back and all warmed up in the hot tub!
Her yummy pink cake!
Singing Happy Birthday!
Opening presents!

Love this girl!

On the morning of her birthday we opened presents before Greg left for work.
My mom and Dad gave her this darling ballerina outfit and she wears it all the time!
After picking up Brinley from School we went to In n Out for lunch! WE had a great time!
All together! The girls love when they can wear matching outfits!
WE LOVE YOU JULIANNE!!!

Some fun facts about Julianne:
She is a girly girly girl! She loves anything to do with princesses,dancing, dressing up and purses! She ALWAYS has to carry a purse of some kind with her!
She is very good at playing by herself. Sometimes I spy on her and she just is talking away to herself in her own little world. She loves to write her name and play school.
She still longs for the day when she can play volleyball and talks about it all the time.
She loves Sofia the First and sings all the songs!
She is already a hopeless romantic and loves anything to do with getting married and being in "love."
She LOVES to wear my shoes and tells me everyday after I get dressed that I look so beautiful!
She is a wonderful little sister and big sister and we just could not imagine life without this little angel!
 We love you Julianne!