Tulip Festival!

I know this is really over due, but I realized I never posted these pictures on my blog, & wanted to do it before its too outdated...
We went to the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival a few months ago, and Steve's mom took amazing photo's. Here are some of them:

Walking to a Secret Garden:

sisters discover a secret garden door...

It was such a wonderful day... it was beautiful. Thanks Grandma for the fun adventure!

Milly Moments

StInkEr BUg!
This little rascal LOVES Rolly Polly's! She is constantly scoping them out, roling them up & showing them to us. She loves to find "A-Bug".

My Silly Milly is quite the creative, curious, cute little terror... Looks can be deceiving!
For example, Milly decided it would be a great idea to just DUMP the whole bag of cheetos out rather than have to reach inside the bag!? WHY?!

The only thing that i can come up with to makes me laugh rather than flip a noodle, is to think of how her mind is just exploring & developing & how creative she will be one day... well, at least that's what I tell myself.

Uh, Oh- WALL ART...

I had to take a picture of this Milly moment. You may not be able to see all the beautiful red crayon circles up the wall, but sure enough, they're there- all the way up the stairway. You may ask yourself... "why wasn't her mother watching her?" Well, I was RIGHT by her, doing the dishes. I could see her out of the corner of my eye, thinking she was sitting so quietly on the stairs. I should have known better. Here she is, attempting to clean up her mess.
After the other 8 crazy messes she made earlier in the week, I had to snap a photo of this one at least, for a little proof! I think the day before, we were getting ready to leave out the door & I found her in her room covered HEAD TO TOE in VASOLINE! Yes, water-repelling petrolium-jelly ALL over her! You can imagine the clean up of that little grease ball. I believe the next day was when she dumped out handfulls of potting soil all over the living room floors, JUST as i finished vacuming the house:)

I honestly can not even get mad at her at times like these. It's almost as if i'm so frustrated that I just laugh. Sadly, it's the little things that make me more upset?!

Rainy Days

Raindrops keep fallin' on our heads...

Talk about the rainiest June EVER! I actually really loved it. I love the rain, especially when it is still warm like it has been. I love the way the rain seems to make the earth so fresh and clean, and beautifully bright green. And then to top it off is the beautiful rainbows that follow!

This moment brought back SO many wonderful memories of my childhood. I remember those times, splashing in puddles, walking up and down the rainy gutters, barefooted & carefree.
Notice the kids on the other side of the street.
What a wonderful thing!

PLAYSCHOOL GRADUATION!

Just realized I never posted these photos of Rylee's Playschool Graduation...

June 1st, 2009

Showing their Dad's singing time:

Performing their super sweet dancing skills:

Watching the photo montage:

Rylee's Lovely Graduation Speech:

We had a fun year with friends doing our own little Play School! Rylee is turning into ONE SMART LITTLE COOKIE!!!

happy fathers day daddy!

This is a little something special Rylee & Milly have been working on for weeks, to give to Daddy for fathers day:


Great job girly's:)
We sure do love our Daddy!
He's "OUR BESTEST DADDY EVER!"
(a direct Rylee qoute)

This song really rings true for both Rylee & Amelia. The best time of the day is when Daddy comes home. Rylee say's the things she loves to do most with her daddy are: Play soccer with him, Go on special treat runs, have him push her & Milly on the swings, go to football games, and she likes when he goes to her dance classes... There are so many fun things to do with Dad!

We were lucky enough to spend our Fathers Day like this:

pretty little dancer!

Rylee Jo's
LAst dAy Of DaNcE

Thank you, Mrs. Erica, for your patience with all these 2 & 3 year olds all year long!
This is the cute "pretty little dancer" plaque she made Rylee:

FRIENDS:

Daddy got to come see his little princess at her last day of dance. Rylee was SO so excited that he was there to watch her. She was gitty the whole time, & kept running up to him to see how proud he was:)

Great job little dancer... we love you, & look forward to all the years we have ahead of us to watch you perform!

memorial day

Time to remember our dear ol' Brother Brett...

Thank you everyone who left wonderful things at his grave sight. It was fun to go see how beautiful it looked, and who had visited! It's so great to know he's still so loved.

We all sat around Brett's "Pad", & had a little picnic...
It's still crazy to think that he's really gone, for good:(

Early that morning, Amelia & I went with my Dad up to Tremonton to visit his parents' grave. We had a good time taking a walk down memory lane & visiting all the old spots where he grew up. You'd never guess that he was raised in such a tiny town as a farm boy...

Down on grandpa's Farm...

Grandpa Ralph's beautiful Farm

Okay, so here is a GREAT example of my girls' two different personalities... Rylee loved being out on the farm & thought it was fun riding the fourwheelers & watching the cows, but was over it after a while. She couldn't wait to get back to the house to put on her new white dress from "Old Lady". Amelia, on the other hand, was in her own world. She was runnin' around in the dirt & tripping over COW PIES- thinking all the nasty, stinky poop was just the greatest thing:) She would not go back inside & just wanted to stay in the truck with the cows!

First things first... Roundin' Up the Cows:

Then time to snag 'em & tag 'em:

Rylee's a little nervous, & grandpa's tryin to help her get her hands dirty!

Rylee thinks the cow's crying is a little too loud, & Milly learned that cow's don't really say "moo", it's more of a "Uuuhhghhh", grunting sound!

Lastly, it's off to the dry Farm:

(milly looks like she's praying in fields)