Wednesday, May 11, 2016

A full weekend in May

A Boise trip, an anniversary and a little nature walk. Sadie, turned 8 and was baptized. Haylee and Sadie have spent a lot of birthdays and big events in their lives together. I'm grateful they've been able to do this and hope to keep it up as often as we can. Cousin bonds are strong and powerful! I did not get any pictures of the baptism sadly but it was beautiful and Sadie looked adorable. Weston and I celebrated 10 years at the cheescake factory. My sisters watched our kids so a meal eaten in peace was all I needed to celebrate. After getting back

Home we went on a trail right behind our house. I've always known about it but somehow we've never walked on it. 
We enjoyed the wells's pool, swings, and toys. 
Weston was super thrilled about doing a photo shoot.
We did a scavenger hunt and one item on their list was a stick. 
They didn't mess around. Haylee found this massive bamboo stick. 
We also celebrated Mother's Day. It was fun being together with all of my sisters and my mom for this. Molly put together a beautiful tribute to my mom and Katie gave us a special gift. A beautiful list with pictures of our ancestors watching over us and cheering us on. It was a lovely family weekend and I'm
Grateful we have each other. 

Monday, May 2, 2016

Haylee bug

I need to do a little post about Haylee because I want to freeze her and remember her at this time in her life. She is really beginning to get all grown up I feel like. This is one of her best friends from school Ava. It was twin day at school. These two played on the same basketball team together as well. We love Ava! She is such a sweet girl and I have become good friends with her mom. Haylee is becoming a great helper around the house. She loves cleaning her room and likes to vacuum as well. Thumbs up!! 
She still loves to craft with me and even though my crafts are easy and a bit on the preschool side she adds her own creativity to it. 
She is always coming up with new hairstyles. She'll explain to me what she is thinking in her head and then I have to try and replicate it. This does not always end well but this day she was thrilled it turned out exactly how she had envisioned it. Phew!! It was stressful 
She has started taking guitar lessons and is working on the song hey dilly dilly from Cinderella. It sounds pretty good. I'm
Learning with her and she is better than me. Because she can sing too! 
I hope these two brothers know how lucky they are to have her as s big sister! She is truly golden to them. And such a great helper with Hudson and Hunter adores her! 
She is also playing soccer right now and taking gymnastics. She is really progressing at both pretty quickly. Her soccer team played together in the fall and are with the same coach. It's been fun watching them play this spring because they are really understanding passing and working together now. They know their positions and their skills are growing. The games are pretty fun to watch. She has a strong testimony and often shares it in sacrament meeting. I love hearing her testify of her faith and Jesus Christ. We are so proud of her.