I know it's been 4 months since I last updated, sorry. The good news is that we have been busy and having a lot of fun. I have tons of pictures to post so hope you all enjoy them. We're going to start with the oldest stuff and work our way down. It mostly in order, except for the flood stuff. I decided to add it last minute to help explain what we have been busy doing this whole spring.
Ellie's 3rd Birthday!
Getting ready to blow out candles on her cute cake.
My sister made this princess cake and cute cup cakes for Ellie.
The excitement of opening presents.
blowing out the candles...I can't believe she's 3, going on 23.
For her birthday, Ellie wanted to go on a train ride. So, we jumped on the frontrunner to Salt Lake and ate dinner at the Joseph Smith Building. It was cool because the roof place opened up and Ellie got to send her birthday wish up into the sky attached to a balloon. She thought this was awesome!!
View from our table.
Mom and sister on the train ride.
Ellie and daddy on the train ride.
Just leaving the station. Ellie was sooooooo excited.
Now we move on to Kallies 1st birthday. Yep, my baby is one! I had a hard time believing this myself. It has gone by so much faster with this second one than it seemed to with the first. We love our sweet Kallie and feel so blessed that such a wonderful little girls had come to our home.
Her cute Caterpillar cake, made by my sister again. She is a wizard with cakes.
Getting ready to blow out her candle.
It's tough getting a one year old to blow out a candle. She just wanted to eat the cake.
Her first taste of cake and she loves it.
She couldn't get it in fast enough. She had to use both hands and shove it in a fast as she could.
She was very excited about opening presents too. Just look at her face.
We also had an Easter visit from Grandma and Grandpa. The girls loved having them here. It was a great weekend.
We'll move on to our summer trips. We went to Moab to do some hiking and camping. This first picture is a road to drove down to the bottom of Canyonlands. This picture does not do justice to how narrow, steep, bumpy and scary this ride was, but the views in the end were great. It gets you right down next to the Colorado River.
It was a little hot for our little hikers. Ice cream was a good way to cool off after a fun day of hiking.
Kallie really enjoyed herself, she loved riding in the backpack and seeing the sights. Here she is at delicate arch at the end of a very long and hot hike. She was the only one still smiling.
Ellie was a little trooper. She loves to hike, but this was a pretty difficult one. We made it and the views were well worth the effort.
Colorado River in Canyonlands
Mesa Arch, Canyonlands. The last time Lance and I were in Moab we woke up at 5:30 am to hike out to this same arch and see the sun rise over it. Now 10 years later, we're married with two little ones. How things change in just 10 years.
Daddy and the girls at Canyonlands
The girls and I had the opportunity to take a little trip to Colorado Springs with my Aunt Julie. It was a fun time. We got to do a little sight seeing and went to the Garden of the Gods. These pictures are from the balance rock there.
To finish up I thought I'd show the reason why I've been a little busy this spring. We spent quite a bit of time sandbagging in our community. Even though it was bad, we all know it could have been worse. Several homes were in the path, but were blessed to be protected.
This is 5900 W. where they had to cut the road to let the waters through.
This house was basically an island at the worst part of the flood.
With so much rain and cold this spring Ellie had to find ways to get out and play anyway. She loved to jump in the puddles and run around in the rain. After getting her pants soaked she decided it was just easier not to wear pants at all. Here she is out prancing around in nothing but her skivvees.
