Cherry Hill

Last week we had a ward activity at Cherry Hill, and Ayla got to go down the water slide with Tony a few times. She loved it! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures. She talked about it all the next day, "waher, Daddy... dide, weee!" Do I need to translate? (Water, Daddy...Slide, Weee!).

Washington Lake

Why are you making me sit on this rock?



Two weekends ago we went on a little overnight camping trip with Tony's family up in the Uinta's at Washington Lake. The Uinta's are always so pretty. It was hot during the day but the nights were so cold which I was really looking forward to! The lake was absolutely beautiful, it was a bright blue, so pretty. Of course, Ayla and the kids had fun throwing rocks in the lake and Ayla loved walking in it too! It's so fun for Ayla cause she has so many cousins and 2nd cousin's her age to play with. Every trip we've taken this year my sweet husband has done all of the packing, which I have been so thankful for, but I have to tease him because he doesn't pack "outfits" he just packs random clothes, so then when I go to get Ayla dressed nothing matches! Kind of funny!

Picnic

(How funy is this picture!)



I wasn't feeling too well this day and thought it would do us some good to get out in the fresh air. So I took a lunch and went to my favorite place in the world: The West Valley City Family Fitness Center. I love to go walking there, it's just a really nice place. So Ayla and I sat on the lawn and ate our apple slices and watched them mow the baseball diamonds with their big lawn mowers. Just a side note, this was on a Monday but she brought me her whole complete outfit down to the shoes and socks that she had worn the day before because that's what she wanted to wear, so I let her. It was a nice little outing.

It's A Baby Now!!!

I had a doctor's appointment a couple weeks ago and these are the ultasound pics. On the machine you could see the baby much better but of course the print offs were really bad, but you get the idea. The first one you can see the baby's arms are crossed, and the second one you can see it's eyes, it's no longer a teddy gram it's a real baby now with arms and legs and everything!

Butterfield Canyon

Alright we've got to jump in the way back machine for these. These were from the first week in August, we wanted to get out of the house for a bit so we went up Butterfield Canyon. We pulled off the side of the road in to a little open space that had the most shallow little stream running through it, just perfect for Ayla to play in. She had a blast throwing rocks in it and getting her feet wet. Then she thought she was so cool climbing the mountain with Daddy! We were walking back to the car when we heard some really loud thudding right near us in the trees then we heard it gallup across the street- it was a deer! If you look closely in this picture below the deer is right in the shadow where there's a little opening, this was after he had crossed the street. You always expect to see deer up Butterfield, we were just surprised to see one that close!

Reflection Perfection

I have so many, many pictures to share of our last couple weeks! I am really excited to look through them. Ayla was goofing around this morning and I was taking pictures and I thought this was a really fun photo. Kind of liked it in black & white too, I never can decide which I like best!

TAG: Why Do I Blog???

Sarah tagged me with the question "why do you blog?"

I think of it as a journal. Ideally, I would like to keep a journal for Ayla with little stories and pictures of what she is doing... I am doing that but am so behind on it, it's hard to look back and remember details and little things as much as I would like to. Journaling takes me so much more time, but I use this blog as a refrence for that. This I put my favorite pictures on so it makes them easy to find and then I put little things on here about what she is doing, like words she is saying, and what our family is up to. So when I work on my journal I look back on my blog to see what she was up to. That is my biggest and main reason for doing it and I'm so glad that I have it for that reason, also the fact that other people are looking at it and expecting new stuff every so often motivates me to keep up on it. I do also like that it's a fun way to keep in touch with friends and family. I LOVE to see pictures of other people's kids and families and see what they are up to and I love to share mine with all of you.

I tag:

April

Ashlee G

Ashlee V

Julie

Christa

27 Years Old

Yesterday was Tony's birthday so Ayla and I made him a cake. She was so excited about it cause she knew it was for Daddy!

18 Months Old

Ayla turned 18 months old on July 24 and I've been thinking I needed to get some good shots of her for her 18 month old picture. So I drapped a curtain across the fireplace for a backdrop and took some pictures of her. I left the curtain hanging there and the next morning Ayla climbed up on the ledge of the fireplace with the backdrop behind her and started saying "cheese." So I got my camera and took some more pictures, and they turned out much better than the day before. She was totally posing and being a ham for the camera.

It Was A Great Trip!

Old Faithful

Ayla loved watching the gysers. We went to old faithful and afterwards she would point her finger up in the air and go "pshhhuuu!" cause that's what Old Faithful did! She was so cute the whole trip and such a talker... just jabber, jabber, jabber the whole trip, a lot of it jibberish but a lot of words too. She knows lots of words like "daddy big truck" and she would show us "trees" and "stars" and the "moon" and "rocks" and "Bup-bo" (her new word for buffalo). She would also say "whatyadoin" and "why" and "I sorry" So cute! She actually talked so much that the next day she lost her voice- we thought it was hillarious!!!

Wild Life

When Ayla would get a second to look away from her busy coloring she loved looking at the animals. We saw 5 bears, a tun of elk, a tun of bison, a few coyotes, and a moose in the river.