8.22.2013

July 2013

We decided to get Cowabunga Bay season passes this summer!  We had a blast each time we went!  We will be purchasing these each year, for sure!



 4th of July Volleyball up in Park City with The Porter's!  An outdoor volleyball league called UOVA puts on grass tournaments each Saturday.  Bella has played in several and has loved it.  They play in a Juniors division which is 17 and younger.  They are mostly always playing against high school girls but can totally keep up and even win a few sets!  So fun to watch!
 The grass was a soggy mess and the girls got quite muddy!

We headed to Jordanelle to cool off and clean up after volleyball.  The kids were in heaven with these paddle boards!  Thanks for the fun day, Porter's!

 To top the 4th of July festivities off- a BBQ with great friends and amazing fireworks! 

 Love these cute kiddos!



We decided to take one last vacation before the girls start school!  California of course!  At 16 weeks pregnant, and a few tests later to make sure the baby was healthy and growing, we decided it was time to tell the girls that a baby was on the way!  The excitement of finally being able to talk about it around them and see their shocked faces was finally here!  I had planned with my mom to go down to their park/lookout point right by their house when we got there.  We were going to have a picnic dinner and she put together a big wrapped box with gender appropriate balloons that would fly out at them when they opened it.  She had attached a cute baby outfit as well with an ultrasound picture attached.  IT'S A GIRL!  We couldn't be more thrilled to welcome another little princess into our family!  Feeling so blessed with this little surprise miracle on her way!
 The girls just couldn't believe it!  I think it took a second for the news to sink in.  (Bella may have overheard a comment the night before at Mike and Martsi's about me being pregnant...)  I love Mya's face in this shot... She and Ava were dancing around with excitement and Bella just had a sweet grin on her face the whole time.  Immediate questions and non stop chatter about this baby started right away!  Love it!

 Still hard to believe that this is really happening!  


 Now it's time to play at the Beach all week long!  Pure happiness!  

 We got to play with this sweet boy several times during the week.  He is the happiest, 
most easy going child!  So fun!


 Chris decided to wrestle these gigantic waves one day... Mya couldn't watch!  He had quite the time out there and ended up full of water and had sand everywhere.  It was pretty entertaining to watch!

 Ava doing cartwheels all day long!


Last night... ride on the trolley to dinner.  Thanks to my parents for being such great hosts!  Love them!

Another amazing trip full of great memories!!!

8.20.2013

Wolfcreek 2013

One of the most beloved trips of the year!  
 Our first motorhome rental!  The girls on the ride up.  Can you tell they are excited?

 Grandpa got another truck!  Deer rides are back on and the kids couldn't be happier!





 Cute cousins!

 Leo's first year!  




 Silly.

 Uncle Bryan and his family came this year!  So great to catch up and spend time together.

 These cute brothers.

Another successful year filled with wonderful memories.

June 2013

Hooray for warm weather and summer!!!
 Ava and Emery start tumbling! 



 Bella's puppet show and Art gallery.  This child is becoming quite the talented, beautiful, young lady!  


 Last day of school!!!

 This teacher right here is life changing for these kiddos she teaches!  We were lucky enough to have her for both Bella and Mya.  


 Mya, the jack of all trades, starts her first season of Track and Field!  


 Happy Birthday to me!  Mya is so sweet and woke up early to make me breakfast in bed!  Little did she know that I am SO SICK!!!  Darn pregnancy nausea!!!


 Bella has a Bingham High summer volleyball camp!  She fell in love with them and they fell in love with her... Junior High tryouts, here we come!



 End of year dance recital!  I love these girls and their ability to shine on stage.  So fun to watch!


Happy Birthday to Chris!  
Seeing a movie, one of his favorite things to do.


Bella has officially passed up Grandma Nadine in the height department.  She is still growing like a weed!  5'6" at age 11 with a women's 9 1/2 shoe size!  It'll be interesting to see how tall she becomes!  

May 2013

Typical start to the month of May... 

 Snow one day...

 Sunshine and flowers the next!



Bella's last volleyball tournament of the season :( So sad!  She played great!  One of the sets, she served 21 points in a row!  WOW!  Her arm was really sore the next day.

 This team was lucky enough to get an amazing coach!  Les was just what they needed to be motivated, confidant, and he made sure they had fun!


  They ended up taking the silver medal!  Such talented girls with bright futures ahead of them!



                                          
 Mya pick Amelia Earhart for her Wax Museum project.  What a cutie!  




 Ava graduates from preschool!  We love Miss Brittney!  


 Memorial Day weekend brought up The Jensen's for baseball :)!  We love when they come!  Sweet Millie needed a few minutes to warm up but then became her usual cute, fun, self.


 I don't think we'll ever get used to this scene.  We love and miss Grandpa Walley so much!!!


Mya was the spotlight student in her class and she also got to present her county report... She chose "Wayne" county because of Grandpa Wayne :)!


This month, we found out CRAZY, unexpected, news....
Baby Morley is due to arrive January 1, 2014!!!  Shocked, scared, unprepared, excited, were just a few of the emotions we were feeling.  It was to be kept TOP SECRET until we felt everything was going well enough to tell the girls.  They can't have another baby heartbreak!