Getting Back To Normal

Life is finally starting to get back to normal around here and I LOVE it! Here are a few updates on our little family...

Kiley: He's busy working, walking, and just plain being amazing! He started working back at the Abbey Inn and helps me take care of the apartments. He has a lot of motion back in his foot now but he will probably never get all of it back. He tells me that his big toe and that side of his foot have very little feeling in them which causes him to limp a little bit. We are all so happy that he's walking around and doing stuff again! It's so nice!

Me: I'm doing really good these days! I told Kiley the other day that I am finally happy with how our house is. I feel like it's pretty well organized and put together. Of course, there is always new things to do and new projects but overall, almost a whole year later, I think our little apartment feels like a home :) Anyways, I keep myself pretty busy these days with my two girls and the apartments.

Azuree: Talk about a busy little girly! She loves playing at the park, playing with Emri and her cousins, nursery, books, play dough, and Frozen. We seriously watch Frozen all the time! (It doesn't help that her mom might be slightly obsessed with it as well...) Her favorite things change almost everyday but today her favorite color is yellow, her favorite food is beans, her favorite toy is a horsey, and her favorite thing to play is a book.

Emri: She is crawling all over the place! And has recently discovered the stairs and does them very well (except for the going down part). She loves oatmeal, eggs, laughing, her blanket and watching/playing with her big sis. Usually I feel like Emri couldn't be an easier or happier baby, but lately I feel like she must be teething or something cause she's being quite the stinker. But we love her anyways :) She pulls herself up to standing but struggles when we hold her hands and try to have her "walk." That's not her favorite. She says ma-ma, da-da, and she kinda' says bye-bye. She's good at waving hi and bye too.

Here are some pics from the last few months...

Once Kiley started getting a little more mobile we took several trips to the park that's just down the street. Kiley's sister had some neighbors that let us borrow this scooter for a while until we found our own. It was very nice for him to have!

I'm not sure if I mentioned this in one of my last posts but while Kiley wasn't walking Kiley decided to grow out his beard. He said it was a symbol of his road to recovery :)

I am one proud Mamma! Azuree is completely potty trained and has been for a while now! This is a pic of her eating her reward for going potty. Yay for ice cream! But even though she loves ice cream, it really wasn't a motivation for her. We really couldn't get her to go potty on the potty until she was ready to, no kind of bribery would work for this little girl.

We went to Moab for Thanksgiving and had a blast!! This is Emri with cousin James. Aren't they the cutest?!

The "kid table" this year :)

 Azuree had so much fun with her cousin Gentry!

 No idea what they are doing in this pic but...it looks fun!

These are only a few of my mom's famous pies. SOOO delicious!

This was a fun Christmas craft we did that Azuree loved :)

Before we headed back to Moab for the family Christmas party Kiley got his cast off. He was super excited to get it off! He wore a boot around for a while after that.  (Sorry, I know his foot/leg pics are never very pretty.)

Can you guess which one was the injured one?

When we went to Moab for my family Christmas get together my mom put on a tea party for her and her grand-daughters. It has become such a fun tradition and the girls love it! My mom even makes all of the little girls aprons for the party :)

They also made fun, fancy paper hats :)

So much fun!

This was Emri's first time meeting Santa. She mostly just stared.

Azuree on the other hand couldn't have been more excited! This year she talked about him all the time and loved being able to see him.

We went back to our home in Cedar to celebrate Christmas. This is what Kiley and I gave Azuree. I found it at DI and we painted it and fixed it up. I think I was more excited about it than she was :)

Emri was spoiled!

My gift (I was so excited about this! I desperately needed a new sewing machine!)...

And Kiley's gift. We were so blessed this year. There were so many people who helped us out this holiday season after Kiley's accident. We are so, so grateful!

This is just a random, cute pic of Azuree when she fell asleep in the middle of the floor (she never just falls asleep somewhere so we had to document it).

I LOOOOVE this picture! Makes me laugh everytime!

Sisters!

Park time

This is the scooter that Kiley's family bought for him. He was so grateful to have it and used it quite a bit.

Azuree was being daddy's little helper :)

Silly, silly Emri :)

Kiley made Azuree some furniture for her dollhouse. I think he did such an amazing job! I love them!!

Then I painted them :)

This is one of my favorite pic's of Azuree. I think it really shows her personality :)

Crawling...kind of...

Azuree loves boiled eggs! But one day she saved the yolk for last and then stuffed the whole thing in her mouth. She had a hard time getting it down :)

Kiley went back into the hospital sometime in January to get a big ol' 5 inch long pin taken out of his foot. The pin was just holding things in place while they healed. Once he got the pin out we went and had a check up with the Doc up north and he gave Kiley the OK to start walking on it with the boot. Then a few weeks after that...no boot! That was an exciting day :)

Azuree and her favorite stuffed monkey!

Aw :)

Our girls always end up like this, no matter what we do...

Major wedgie!

I got my hair cut!

Here's some beard pics...

It got sooooooooo bushy!

The night that he shaved it off we had a little fun! Below is our version of "Name That Prophet" ;)

Eeeeewwww....

And eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

This is his "my-wife-made-me-shave-my-beard" look :)

I sure married a handsome man!!

Azuree sure loves her cousin Tucker!

What a sweetie :)

Playing outside in the warmer weather....

Aaron came down to visit us. It's always good to have him come and visit!

Watching Uncle Chip fly his airplane!

Kiley and some of his family went and explored some cave's in Hurricane.

Kiley had a blast!! I think he mostly loved being able to do stuff like this again :)

 Emri loves the movie Frozen too!

 Silly face!

 She put on a pair of Daddy's work socks all by herself one day :)

 This was Kiley and I's most recent project. We made a TV stand out of pallets!!

I am so happy with how it turned out!!

Well, until next time...

Good timber does not grow with ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length.
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.
-Douglas Malloch, “Good Timber”