Summer Days are Gone too Soon

Stella decided to play dress up with this tutu she got for her birthday from her cousin Addie and Aunt Emily...

...a little touch of make-up...

...she's just too cute!

Her royal throne. Getting up is easy, getting down??

David and I love going to Real Salt Lake Soccer games, it's the only sport we really get into and I thought it appropriate to get a jersey for his birthday and he loved it.

A few weeks back we went to the State Fair with some neighbor friends of ours, I thought I took a lot more pictures than this, but I guess not! Anyway, we had so much fun.

Stella became really excited over the bunnies. She was crawling out of her stroller to get through those cages, it was really cute.

On a gigantic pumpkin. I couldn't let her turn around and see the cherry tomatoes though, she would have devoured them!

Happy Birthday David

It's David's birthday today and I can't tell you how blessed Stella and I are to have him in our lives. When I first met him and we fell in love I didn't think it was possible to love anyone any deeper, well, over the past 9 years I was proven wrong. I love to tell his success stories on how he's done so well in school and is going on for his masters. I love to tell how he soared at work and was honored to travel to Canada and Puerto Rico to fix radars at those sites. But I'd also like to tell you the trates he's too humble to admit himself. He's always reaching for goals, in fact he's got a long list of them and keeps track. He's also very supportive of my goals, in fact he's helping one of them become a reality very soon and has been very understanding in making it happen. But in the last nine years, I've come to see something that I just discovered in the past year, and that is just how much love he has for our baby girl. No one can make her laugh like he can, no one can calm her down like he can, and I have never seen her attatched to anyone like she is attatched with her daddy. David has spent a lot of time and energy on our new little family, always looking at how he can help me out and learning the ropes right along side me. With him, I feel like we can get through everything. I'm glad we're still young and have everything ahead of us. I love you Davey, I love everything you are and everything you're striving to become.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Just a little taste of our laughter. He's always making fun of my towel head in the morning, so one evening after we got Stella out of the tub and I was making her bottle, both daddy and Stella were laughing, I turned around and this is what I saw.

The ABC's

A is for Anniversary....

August 18th, David and I shared our 4th Anniversary! Marie came to babysit while David and I went to Park City and rode the zip lines. I was so scared at first, just from being afraid of heights, but it was so fun! We stayed and watched people take their ski's off of jumps and into the pool doing back flips and other tricks. That was really fun to see, in fact, David wants to take the class so he can take his board of the olympic jumps and into the pool too. After that we went to Wasabi for all you can eat sushi. My Favorite!! Then with full bellies we walked around Liberty Park. It was a great anniversary honey, thank you & I love you!

He even bought me roses! Those of you who know David really well, will know how suprised I was to receive roses, thanks love!

B is for Birthdays....

Saturday August 29th Stella's 1st and my 27th birthday!

I made Stella's cake, David made my cake and we both made plenty of food.

She couldn't figure out what to do with it at first. In fact she was a little nervous with everyone watching her and camera's pointing at her. But as you'll soon see, she figured it out eventually.

Stella's sippy cup, the final topper

The best part about the cake was after she made her mess, "David, she's all done and It's my birthday too, so you get to clean her up!" Ha Ha!

Our family

Our neighbors, friends and Stella's play pal, Coasten, Nate and Shana

Pam with her mom and three kids

This is what David gave me for my birthday, a bike trailer/stroller. So far Stella and I have put it to good use. I absolutely love it!

Thank you everyone for making our birthday's so special! We are so blessed to have friends and family like you!!

C is for Camping...

David had a family reunion at camp Bartlett over the Labor day weekend. We camped out in a tent for 3 nights and Stella did great! I'm coming to find out she doesn't mind adventures like these because she loves anything new and she loves the outdoors. I should have taken more pics of the family and scenery, but I did get some cute shots of her holding still for once! I'm not into feeding her too much sugar, but I gave her a lolly pop and had to capture her cuteness.

Sharing with daddy

Want some???

She is getting cuter and cuter everyday. I LOVE this stage, she's so much fun and learning little bits at a time how to communicate. I just can't imagine our lives without her. She is the BEST.

I get nervous shooting guns, but they had a rifle range and I had to test it out too. This was David's dad's gun a 9mm. Yikes!!

Tuckered out on the way home. This is her new forward facing seat grandma Lolly gave her for her birthday. The first day we set her in and drove to church and back she giggled the whole way. She loves being able to watch more of whats going on with mommy and daddy.

More random photo's

Tormenting the neighbor's cat

Bent it half... her newest sleeping position.

She just started cuddling with this puppy I received ages ago. She snuggles it right before she falls asleep and cuddles it the whole night through.

Birthday Party Invite

If you are reading this, you are invited=) Let us know if you plan on coming so we can make enough food! Thanks, love you all!

I realize it's a little small to read, here are the details:

Saturday, August 29th from 11am to 1 pm

we'll be celebrating mostly Stella's birthday, but since mine fell on the same day, we may celebrate mine too=)

Bath time dancing bye-bye baby

Stella has some nice dance moves down. We tried to get her dance for us but it was a little hard without music.

I love to see the Temple

Well, here we are in Salt Lake City! We just moved to Sugarhouse and so far we love it. Yesterday after church we realized just how close we were to the Salt Lake temple so we decided to take a drive and take some family pictures.

Birthday dress

Stella had so much fun in the flowers it was hard to get her to look up for pictures

So these were all taken the same day, hence, wearing the same clothes=) My mom, Tom and Jessy came this weekend for a special birthday weekend. Since they won't be able to make it for Stella's first birthday, they decided to come a little early. So, Saturday Tom took David to the golf course to do 18, Mom and I went to Park City to do some shopping, and Jessy stayed home with Stella. Mom and Tom

Stella remembered her grandma and would get really upset whenever anyone would take her away. It was so exciting for grandma and such a good break for mommy!

I LOOOOVE my new dress! She was sweet to come celebrate this weekend, since her birthday was actually on Sunday.

Happy Birthday MOM!

So here are some random pics of the things that have been going on. This is Stella in a little outfit Aunt Jenny gave her... she fits in it now, thanks Jenny and Tori! We miss you!

Stella's cousin Addie came all the way from Indy to swim in the tub =) Mike, Emily and Addie all came out for a few weeks and it was so fun to watch the two baby cousins play. Stella learned to say "more" from Addie and and Addie learned how to crawl on her feet instead of her knees from Stella. It was so fun to watch them together. Stella looks mad, but she's actually just singing at the top of her lungs.

Swimming and splashing buddies

David treated Denise and I to a pedicure

This is sort of late, but for the 4th of July we went to Emily, Brad and Ava's house for a BBQ and firework show in the the driveway... sadly, this is the only picture we took of Stella and Ava.

Stella now has 3 teeth, two on top and 1 on the bottom, although I think I can feel the 2nd one coming up on the bottom, it should be here soon. She's growing smarter every day. One of my favorite things she does is when she crawls across the room to get a book, she crawls back to me, climbs into my lap and hands me the book. We always joke around that's the only time she'll hold still is when you read to her, she loves being read to. Her balance is awesome, she loves standing up in the middle of the room without support, we're expecting a step any day now.

The transition from our last apartment to our new apartments was a little rough for her at first, especially since she got a double ear infection and a sinus infection. But now she's got all the rooms scoped out and has the run of the place so I think she's in her comfort zone again.

She can say: more, uh-oh, ball, boo (for book) mamma and dadda and a whole lot of other things we can't understand yet=)

We also took our scuba diving trip in July and that was awesome. We are getting the pictures scanned from our underwater camera and i'll save all the details for a scuba post in a few days.

We love you all and hope your summer has been beautiful!