Summa Summa

Summertime has been fun, HOT but fun! We have had so much fun playing with cousins and Aunts and Uncles!

Hadley loves her Aunt Shay & Aunt Kylee

Playing in the Pool!

Loves the Water

Someone was in Hadley's car seat and Parker thought it was so funny, he had to see who was in it! It was Jase!

Hadley LOVES Dax

Aunt Tara and Hadley girl

Daddy & Hadley

This little girl loves to stand! She lost interest in walking, but that's okay she's only 9 months!

Hadley and Baby Bridger - Best of Cousins!

I know I know, this is only well 3 months overdue, but like I always say better late than never! It's true too, I loved late wedding (or any occasion) gifts, who wouldn't! Especially when you really aren't expecting them! Well my sister, Kori, had her little man and did an awesome job, might I say! I hope to be like her in the delivery room on the next go-around (no epidural - wow!) Tyler and Kori are such great parents, and we love having little Bridger around! He is so cute, and I don't mind watching him (hint, hint) if you ever need me too!

Mike (shortly after the shaved head bet) with Hadley and little Bridger Boy!

Grandma and Hadley girl! Hadley & Bridger have the best Grandma ever!

Hadley and Bridger boy. Oh he is adorable, I can't get over it!!

Looks like I am going to need to take some updated pics of the cousins together again!! They sure grow up fast! We love you Bridger boy, thanks for joining us!

Summer Time in Snowflake

Well, we are back! Mike, Hadley, and I spent a good portion of our summer up in Snowflake/Heber, AZ. Mike was working on a LDS youth camp in Heber, AZ with a construction company for his internship for ASU. Mike's parents have a cabin up in Snowflake and were generous enough to let us crash there for a few months, which is only 25 minutes away from Mike's work, so it was perfect! We had a blast and it was nice to get away from the heat, well cooler heat... If that makes sense! We came back down to the Valley on a lot of weekends though to see family and for birthdays, holiday celebrations, and Baby Bridger was born (more blog posts to come with these events)! Chase, Bethany, and Oakley came up to visit us for a weekend, we love hanging out with them! Hadley loves Oakley! The day they left, she learned how to crawl and learned to escape the Bumbo! Oakley is a great teacher, we love him!

Grandpa & Grandma helped us pack up to head to Snowflake - Grandpa closed Hadley in with her toys so she wouldn't wiggle off the couch!

Hadley likes to wear her bibs like a cape... She also loves to tip her entire body back as far as she can when drinking her sippy!

Oakley & Hadley missed each other, they say Hello by giving kisses (when forced too)

They love playing together, in the Bumbo and on the floor!

Mike and Chase had an extremely muddy, fun, time on the quads!

Look at all that mud!

Who can the other one the most dirty?!

I spy... a Foot and a Quad - they are camouflaged in mud!

Hadley loved to watch as they had fun in the mud!

Isn't she the cutest! She learned lots of new tricks over the summer, we had a blast and don't worry there are plenty more posts to come!!

Thanks Chase, Bethany, & Oakley for coming up to visit us, we had a Blast!!

HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!

We are so grateful for this wonderful country that we live in and for the freedoms we enjoy! We are also grateful for our little All American baby, she is growing up so fast!!

My 2 Favorite People

Hadley loves her daddy!! He is the best!

Blessed!

Mike and I are extremely blessed in so many ways. We have a beautiful little daughter who is happy and very healthy! We have family and friends who are a blessing to us in many ways. We are blessed to have the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. We know Christ lives and will return again. We believe in paying tithing, 10% of all income we earn. Mike has been greatly blessed to have been awarded scholarship money for school. His grandfather also has generously set up a trust fund for all of his grand kids to help with college expenses. What a blessing both of these have been in our lives as Mike has decided to return to school to do what he loves! We had a feeling that we needed to pay tithing on this money (scholarships and trust money). Although it was not money we earned, we felt we needed to pay it anyways. The bible talks about giving the Lord 10% of our increase. For us, we felt that because this was an increase (although not earned income) and so we would pay tithing on it. It was a substantial amount of money to pay, for us, but we had faith and we want to give as generously as we can because we are incredibly blessed. So we paid our tithing on Sunday. Our check cleared on Tuesday. It just so happens, that same day, I was working on Mike's ASU school schedule for this Fall Semester. I was online at the ASU website all day. A notice popped up under Financial Aid, so I clicked on it. When I looked, I was shocked! Mike had received enough money in scholarships (for good grades, go Mike!) to cover his entire year of tuition at ASU for ALL of next year!!!! Wow! That is not a coincidence! We are truly grateful for our Heavenly Father watching over us and blessing us in so many ways! And even if Mike had not received any scholarships, we would still be very grateful to pay tithing to the Lord. We are indeed blessed!!!!

Growing Up Fast!!

Well, Hadley girl is 6 1/2 months old!! Wow time flies! She has such a cute personality and we have so much fun with her! She has such a determination that is so adorable! Whatever she sets her mind too, she accomplishes! Here are a few of her recent milestones... She sat up completely by herself at the age of 5 or so months. She now has to sit up in the bath tub because you know she is a big girl! Hadley began "army crawling" at 6 months and is pretty fast! She has been up on all fours for awhile and rocks really hard back and forth and is now starting to get the hang of moving her knees and arms forward at the same time! She became more interested in household objects than her toys... She will crawl to anything that looks interesting and loves to crawl and try to eat peoples shoes and feet! Today I watched Hadley attempt to pull herself up on the TV stand after she crawled over to it...?!! She's now mobile!!

Baby Bridger, her newest cousin, was born! He is adorable and she loves to watch him (especially when he makes little noises). You can check out how cute he is here. I will post some pics of the cute little cousins together shortly!

Well, we love having Hadley around and she is so fun! I will post some updated pics of our family-fun summer adventures soon!