Baylee * Abbee * Kalyssa * William * Paisley * Emmy

Baylee * Abbee * Kalyssa * William * Paisley * Emmy

Walking Lambs

Baylee and Abbee are leading their lambs around our backyard.

I'm just getting more pictures for their portfolios.

The fair is next week!!! The girls have been working their lambs harder than before to get ready. Abbee's lamb Lexi is harder to handle than Bay's lamb, so they might switch lambs at the fair. It is Baylee's 3rd year and Abbee's 1st year showing, so Bay would be more comfortable showing a difficult lamb. But we'll see what happens. 

Jul 31, 2012

11 Months Old

The twins turned 11 months old yesterday!

Paisley is giving me her classic cheesy smile she always does. Everyone loves it! 
I'm getting her ready for bed and tickling her so she'll show me her 4 teeth.

Emmy doesn't have such a cheesy grin to see all her teeth at the same time. She has 6 teeth as of today... 2 on the bottom...

...and 4 on the top. 
Emmy's teeth are funny... her 2 "fang" teeth came in on top before the middle ones did. It was super cute. None of my other kids teeth came in in that order.

Jul 30, 2012

Grandma's Birthday

It's Grandma Mary Ann's 72 nd Birthday today. Please forgive me Grandma for posting your age, but all of us hope we're as beautiful as you are at 72! :) Her party was at Lana's house and I love Lana... she always makes me laugh... she didn't have a #7 candle so she used a #5 instead. I'm sure Grandma didn't mind that her cake said she was 52.

Family....

...and more family. Love every one of them to death!

Grandma is opening her presents with Emmy and Connor.

Grandma is helping Emmy practice eating birthday cake for her 1st birthday... which is next month.

Paisley is waiting for me to finish feeding her dinner.

Abbee gave Grandma a birthday card.

Happy Birthday Grandma!
You do so much for so many people... you're amazing and deserve to have a wonderful birthday. 
You're the best!

Jul 30, 2012

BBQ with Friends

We went to a BBQ/Birthday Party with friends at the park and got all our kids together to take their picture. Dustin and his daughter Addison have the same birthday and they both wore a silly birthday hat... I wish I could have got a picture of Dustin grilling with his on. 

Their goofy faces :) 
It was fun, but Will is kind of a bully lately and pushed some older kid in the stomach and make him cry. I was embarrassed AGAIN. He likes to play rough.

Jul 28, 2012

"Mama? A Movie?"

Willie is always saying, "Mama? A Movie? A Movie?" He LOVES movies! We are selling our camp trailer and it had this little TV in the bedroom with a DVD player. Will is next in line to have a TV in his room, so we put it in there... and OMGosh was he tickled about it! 

He tried to watch a movie when it was bedtime, but nope, that's not happening Buddy! ;)

Jul 28, 2012

I'm Argentina


I'm not really into quizzes, but my friend Joy told me she took a quiz online that said according to her age and weight she should be from Samoa. It was so funny, and she is such a cute lady!!! I tried to find the quiz, but only found this one...

What Country Are You?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatcountryareyouquiz/


You Are Argentina

You are a set of contradictions, and it often seems like you live in two worlds.
You are introspective yet outgoing. You are modern yet traditional.

You are warm and honest. Your life is petty much an open book.
You are a hard worker, and you don't mind putting in long hours. And then you'll go party til dawn!

Splish Splash...

I haven't bathed the twins together in the past because it's too hard to keep two from drowning! But Paisley was standing on the side of the tub watching Emmy and was kicking her legs and wiggling like crazy... like she couldn't wait for her turn. I put her in and they splashed together and had a ball!!! It is hard to keep the water in the tub tho... Emmy thinks the plug is a toy and pulls it out constantly.

I only got them to look up at me once, then they couldn't care less and were having too much fun. They are really starting to love bath time. :) 

Jul 26, 2012

Pioneer Day

The 24th of July is Pioneer Day in Utah. We celebrate when the Mormon Pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. It's basically just like another 4th of July holiday with parades and fireworks everywhere. 
This morning Brandon and Baylee woke up early to drive tractors to downtown Ogden for the Pioneer Day parade. Brandon drove the big Chopper in the parade with Bay, and Channel 2 News had their cameras right on them. I didn't go watch the parade cause we were all so tired from Cherry Hill yesterday and I'd have to drag all the kids out of bed and go there myself without Brandon's help... so I'll pass! :) 

Later, we went with Mary and Nate to their friends house, Jeremy & Rhianne's, for a BBQ and to play on this bounce house.

There was so many kids there and they had a blast.



Willie was jumping on the trampoline with another little boy... as I walked over I heard the boy say, "No! I don't want to fight!" Then I heard Will causally ask him again as he jumped... "Wanna Fight?!" I thought, Oh no, Brandon says that to Willie ALL the time when they wrestle each other. I hurried and told the boy Willie doesn't really want to fight he just means he wants to play. lol. Then the little boy was totally fine with it and said, "Yeah, I wanna fight."

Nate BBQing...

We went home for the twins to get a nap and our kids got showered and jammies on, and we headed to Justin & Lacey's house to watch fireworks in their neighborhood, and the kids played with sparklers and snaps.

Jul 24, 2012

Cherry Hill Resort

My Dad, Paula and Kysson are here visiting us from Arizona, so we spent the day at Cherry Hill Resort.

Abbee, Nate, Mary, and Dad cooling down.

Paisley with Grandma Paula in the kiddie pool.

Baylee & Abbee watch Emmy splash in the water.

Willie swimming around in the kiddie pool.

Hanging out with the twins.

Paisley is splashing water in her face. Haha... my baby girl is so cute!

There was 4 of these little water fountains... Will loved them.

Emmy doesn't get as crazy as Paisley does in the water... she just chills. :)

Me and Emmy Lou


Abbee and Baylee eating lunch

Kalyssa and Taylee take a break to eat lunch too.

Mary is almost 8 months pregnant and is super cute!

Nate takes Will down the rapids on tubes.

I'm surprised... Willie didn't fall off his tube and he loved it.

Nate, Will, and Bay

Taylee and Kalyssa swam in the pool most of the day.

Goggle Gals!

Paisley fell asleep chewing on her blanket while my Dad tickled her face.

Mid-day... time to relax.

Emmy is napping in the stroller... and sweating.

Makayla just went down the slide.

She is exploring the pirate ship.

Will got out of the water long enough to check out the ship too.


Brandon got off work and met us here in the afternoon! He took Emmy in the Lazy River... its a huge whirlpool. Every time water splashed in Emmy's face she would pucker up like this.... it was so funny. She floated around in this for an hour... and loved it! We tried this earlier and she freaked when water got in her face... but a nap fixed her mood.

Mary and Makayla in the Lazy River.

Nate and Will go under the waterfall.

Kysson, Dad and Paisley. We are watching everyone float in the Lazy River. Kysson would take off a lot to swim in the pool. I think it was his favorite. :)

Kalyssa and Taylee floated by...

Kysson and Me... 
Kysson is my cute nephew that I don't see very often... I was so happy he came to Utah too.

Dad and Paisley grabbed a tube in the Lazy River.

Dad & Paula went for a pizza run and brought it back for us all to eat dinner.

Mmmm... I love pizza!



 Paisley got super messy enjoying this sucker. Drool was dripping down her chest, elbows and legs like a faucet.

Bay & Will
Will has never been in a pool before... only the kiddie pools that are 2 feet deep. I got him to go in the pool with me and he was scared at first, but rode on my back as I walked around the shallow end. Then I showed him how to inch himself along the wall to the deep end, and he got brave enough to jump off the edge into my arms in the pool. He did that over and over and over! Then we went back to the shallow end and he would doggy paddle from the steps to me a few feet away. I had to watch him super close, he was swimming non-stop... a couple times I turned my head and looked back, and his life jacket made him turn belly-up and he'd start to panic. He was having a great time and is a little fish! :) Brandon and Baylee found us and started to swim with us too, so I went to get my camera.

Willie looks like a flying squirrel. Haha.


Kalyssa and Taylee... STILL swimming in the pool. :)

Dad and the Twins.

Will finally fell asleep in Brandon's arms and we laid him down.

lol... Brandon going down the rapids.

Brandon and Bay

Emmy fell asleep again. 
The rest of my family left a little early, but me and Brandon are staying with our kids until closing time.

Brandon with our kids in the Lazy River... Will woke up and went back for more swimming.

There they go... floating by...

Kalyssa is under the water floating on her back...

Kalyssa

Brandon and Will. Will was shivering to death, so we got him out to dry off. Cherry Hill was closing soon... Brandon and Bay ran over to the Rapids to go for one last ride.

Kalyssa's wrinkled feet after swimming all day long. :)

Jul 23, 2012