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Happy Summer!!!!

I am the worst at taking pictures while on vacation. I never do it. But we did go to California last week to attend my cousins wedding reception and visit with some of Weston's family. It was a short trip but we had a great time. This is what Haylee did for most of her visit. We stayed with Weston's cousins and they had the perfect size ladder for Haylee to climb on all day every day. Up and down, up and down

This is Allie, Haylee's second cousin? I don't know what the relation is but she is Weston's cousin's daughter. Anyway this girl loves the camera. Everytime I pulled it out she came right up to me and gave the best cheesy smile she could pull. She's adorable

These two little girly's loved to read stories with me. No shortage of pink in this picture

For the most part they had a lot of fun together

I had to throw this pic up because I thought it was so funny. I snuck in on Weston giving Haylee a bath and I caught him having fun playing with Haylee's hair. He was coming up with all sorts of hair styles

Happy Daddy Day

Since Haylee can't blog for herself yet, I wanted to post some of my favorite pictures of Haylee with her Dad through the last 19 months (only because she has the best dad ever and she loves him so much)

I also wanted to thank my own dad for all that he has done for me. I can turn to my dad for anything and am so grateful for all the advice and counsel he has always given me. I love and respect him more than anything and I so grateful for the wonderful relationship he has with my mom and all of his kids. Also Happy Father's day to Weston's dad, Daryl. You have raised a wonderful family and I am so grateful for all that you taught Weston. He is the hardest working person I know and I realize he learned that from you. You are such a wonderful example to Weston and we are grateful for you and your love you have for the gospel and your family. Thanks Dads!!!!!

pink toes

Is there anything cuter than chubby little baby feet with pink toenails?

always a lady crossing her little legs

I'm so in love with my little girl!!

spring day

I love having little photo shoots with Haylee. So today I thought I would follow her around while she played outside.

Haylee loves, loves loves to smell flowers. On every walk she has to stop at every flower to smell them. These flowers just popped up in our yard one day and Haylee loves them.

She heard and spotted a plane. Haylee always tells me where the sky is. She can say sky, clouds, and airplane. She is becoming quite the little talker and it's getting so much fun communicating with her.

She then wondered over to the rocks. She loves rocks and even has a little collection in the basket of her bike. She adds to her collection almost every day

Then she gave me a dirty look to let me know she was done with me following her around with the camera. Haylee is just so much fun and I know I say this a lot but I love her little personality. She learned to say I'm gonna get you so she says it to me all day long, but she'll say it and then turn and run. I guess we should teach her to say, "come get me" Every time Weston leaves the house she always says, "Where did he go?" Maybe I'm the only one who can understand her but she is talking so much now and it's fun having little conversations with her.

Introducing...........

The newest addition to our garage!!! I think it looks much nice than the camry don't you? We love it and it's been fun to have a new car these past couple of days. Weston is so ashamed the windows aren't tinted so when looking at pics pretend like they are. They will be soon enough I'm sure. We car shopped all day last Saturday and nothing was really working out. So monday night we hit the lots again, found this one and we love it!!!!

The other night I couldn't find Weston anywhere, I came out to the garage and found Weston trying to figure all the buttons out.

Haylee loves to sit in the car. I think she likes all the leather. She slips and slides everywhere.

Good ol' camry

When Weston and I got married my parents so graciously gave us this car so that we could have two cars. I have to be honest. I wasn't excited, but I was grateful. Then I grew to really like this car. I loved that it was small and I zipped around in it everywhere and parking was great. I hate parking big cars. Then Haylee came along and I didn't really feel like this was a very good family car. It doesn't have the soccer mom feel to it. But nonetheless we kept on driving around in it, Haylee and I. I can't tell you how many cheez it's, graham crackers, fruit loops, fish crackers, cheese sticks, and dum dums I have cleaned out of this car. I just vacuumed it out on thursday and turns out that was the last time. Friday I took it in to get checked and the diagnosis was that it's time for a new car. As my sister Katie loves to say, we ran it to the ground. This car got Haylee and I around to a lot of places, most often Target, and she ran great for us. We even loved to blast our music, roll down the windows and cruise in it. We looked good in it but it's time for a new ride. What should we get???

making cookies

Step 1: sneak cookie dough when I think mom isn't looking

Step 2: indulge in yummy dough and get chocolate all over face

Step 3: uh oh, mom caught me. Flash her a really big smile so she won't be mad