Well...what can I say? Life is busy! But today seems to be kind of a calm day which means that I get to sit down for a bit and update you all on how our little family is doing :)
To begin, I have decided that I am the worst at remembering to take pictures during special or important events. I'm just too caught up in enjoying myself that taking pictures usually doesn't even cross my mind till after the fact. I always regret not taking more pics. Here are the ones that I did remember to take...
We celebrated the 4th of July in our new home with Christian, Melanie and Baby James.
It was a fun day!
We were able to have Aunt Brandie and her kids over. We loved being able to see them! This is Azuree and her cousin Ruby.
Emri and cousin Isaac
Azuree, Jet, Isaac and Ruby
On our way to Moab for Emri's baby blessing we saw a double rainbow. So pretty!
Now this...is what I am most sad about. I didn't get any pictures of just Emri on her baby blessing day. *gasp!* I know, I know! I am very sad about that. Ya...I'm a terrible mother. Oh well, at least she still has her dress, right? :(
Even though I don't have many pictures to prove it, it was such a special day! Emri was blessed on the same day as her cousin James, and her Uncle Kamron gave his farewell talk that day as well. It was so wonderful to have so many family members there.
We went to Hurricane for Kiley's Grandma Jepson's funeral. That was another very special day. We will miss Grandma Jepson very much.
Kiley with his brothers Shane & Travis.
The next day was the Jepson family reunion. That was a lot of fun! The Woodbury's did such an amazing job.
I love this picture! Azuree and Ruby enjoying their treats :)
What sweethearts :)
Kiley, Azuree & I had a toenail painting party one night. Kiley is such a good sport :)
Sisters!
I've had fun trying new things with Azuree's hair now that it's getting longer.
Emri and James
Silly sleeper :)
Azuree fell asleep with her head under the bed :)
Emri couldn't be a happier baby! She is always so smiley! We love it!
It's always so entertaining when they start eating baby food. Makes for some fun pics :)
Yum yum!
Kiley threw me a birthday party. It was way fun! He made me cheesecake (my favorite cake :) and even bought some fun photo booth props!
I think everyone had lot's of fun with the pictures :)
Azuree loves playing kitchen
So smiley!
Smolder :)
Emri loves Daddy time
For our anniversary we took a trip up north. On our way up there Kiley surprised us and we stopped at a petting zoo! Needless to say Azuree was THRILLED! She loved the animals! We had to work hard to keep her from chasing the animals :)
I think the baby goats and the ducks were Azuree's favorite.
Ha ha ha! I just had to include this picture. This was our attempt at setting the camera up and getting a family pic. It didn't really work :)
Of course, this was the only pic we took of our whole anniversary trip. This is an RSL game! We went up north and
were able to drop the girls off at Rob and Natalie's house so that we could go to the RSL game that night. It was awesome! We had never been to one of these games and we had a blast! The next day we went to Seven Peaks. I had never been there before and loved it! Kiley was in charge of our anniversary this year and he sure made it fun. Thanks babe! And thanks again to Rob and Natalie for watching our girls :)
James and Emri again. Aren't they the cutest things ever?!
One of our favorite activities is to walk to the park that's just a block away from the apartments. Azuree found a sunflower on one of our walks :)
This is kind of random, but I tried my hand at making granola and I loved it! I think I will make some more...soon.
This is what happens when Daddy helps get the girls ready for curch :)
Our new apartment doesn't have a pantry and we were in need of some more storage, so I bought this display case/shelf at DI. Because this was going to serve as our pantry I didn't really like the glass fronts showing all of our food. So I bought some fabric and put it behind the glass to hide the food. I kinda like our "pantry" :)
Happy, happy girls!!!
I just love Emri's face in this picture
Oh how I love being a mom!
Silly face!
I finally mustered up the courage to give Azuree her first haircut...and I actually think it looks pretty cute! I was just glad I didn't completely butcher her hair. I was very nervous.
Azuree, Emri and I just recently took a trip to Arizona with my mom and Symomy. (Sadly, Kiley had to work so he couldn't come) Grandpa Skouson was celebrating his 79th birthday and Grandma Skouson was throwing him a party. So we decided to take a girls trip! It was lots of fun! We were able to see Grandma and Grandpa Call and some other family in Taylor, and then we saw lots of family in Mesa at Grandpa Skouson's party. And again, these are the only pics I got of the whole trip. But I think these pics show how good these girls were for almost the entire trip! I was so surprised at how good they were. We drove every single day of our five day trip, so having happy girls made the traveling that much more bearable.
When we got back to Cedar City daddy surprised us with flowers and a Mini Mouse cup! What more could these girls ask for?! He is so good to us :)
Well, that about wraps up the last few months of the Sanders family life :)
