Mount Rushmore

My nephew Trevor was getting married, and we decided to take a bit of a scenic drive to Utah. We have never been to Mount Rushmore- and wish we could have stayed longer. It is beautiful in the mountains, and absolutely amazing that they've got faces on mountains!

 



Baylee Turns 5!

Baylee had a Pajama and Pancake Party. She asked each of her friends to come in pink or purple pajamas, we played a game with pom poms, took pictures with props, and ate pink pancakes. These little girls were hilarious! 4-5 year olds are the best!

 

Happy birthday Baylee- we love you bunches!!



Kids Activities

Each of the kids have really enjoyed all their activities- and we love watching them!

 

 

I didn't get any of Ashlee in tumbling- she carpooled with a friend, one of those things when you have more children then you do cars and people to drive them around.

 

 



Family Pictures

We needed an updated family picture for my Grandma Betty's 90th birthday party. I asked a friend in our ward if she'd be willing to take some of us even though it was freezing outside. I was excited because we were above freezing temps- which was a really big deal. But, being in the shade and not taking into account the wind- it was really really cold! The kids had hand warmers in their shirts and pants- that's how cold it was..

 

Here's a few of them!

 

 

 



Ashlee's Orchestra Concert

Ashlee loves the viola- and she works very hard at it. When we moved here she was 2 years behind all the kids in school, but with only a couple months of private lessons she has caught right up!

 

We love watching her play, and love watcing her learn and succeed!

 



Cell Phone Pictures

I am terrible at remembering my camera- luckily I have a cell phone that takes decent pictures. Here they are with some captions- and a lot of them are kind of old...

Ashlee's 12th birthday!

Mother's Day 2011

 

Baylee's ENT visit for her hoarse voice. Found out after they scoped her she has vocal cord nodules- and it's not common for 2 year olds to have them already:/

Ashlee Adi and Aly after their Orchestra concert- and they all received their gold medals for passing off advanced songs- 6/2013

Baylee and Gisele- these girls LOVE dress up! 6/2013

Ashlee trying to learn how to flip the ball in 8/2013

Scary scary storms! Ashlee has conditioner in her hair because we rushed her out of the shower to run across the street with us for safety 2013

5 family garden, many hands make less work!

Lexi and Ashlee BEGGED to sleep on the trampoline, we didn't think they'd last the whole night- but they did! 2013

One of my favorite pictures of Lexi bunting the ball 2013

Ashlee and Aly at Orchestra camp at the University of Arkansas. They stayed for a week on campus and loved it!

Happy 4th of July!! 2013

These 4 kids have grown up together, such cuties! 3/2013

Our new home in Minnesota! 8/2013

Ashlee and Baylee- little twinner soccer players! 9/2013

Belle is back with us! 9/2013

Halloween with Pocahontas and Belle:) 10/2013

Carly's 3rd grade teacher has what's called "College Friday" and the kids are encouraged to wear college shirts to get the kids setting goals for college. Carly wrote a letter to South Dakota State to ask about their fashion design program and they sent her back all these fun things.

Corn maze fun!

 More corn maze fun!

Baylee got a stomach flu that caused her to throw up for over 30 hours every 20-30 minutes. She was so weak she couldn't stand anymore, and I was a bit panicked! She looks asleep in this picture, but she's actually awake, she just was too weak to open her eyes and lift her head. After some anti nausea meds and finally getting her to keep fluids down, it took another 2 days but she was back to her normal silly self.

Lexi's first season playing basketball

Ashlee playing basketball- first time for school

Carly was so excited to start her basketball season!

All the mom's at Grandview Lodge- we were a little tired??

Baylee as Mary for her preschool play