Twelve Months Old

Happy Birthday to our little Izze!!!  We can't believe it has been a year since you were born in sunny St. George.  Izze loves to climb on everything these days, she loves to be the center of attention, she loves to play with anything but toys, she is starting to walk along things and standing on her own for a few seconds.  Izze also loves to eat food and drink water from her sippy cup.  Izze loves to entertain us with her silly ways :) 

July 24th Fun

We met up with some of Andrew's family for a BBQ in Provo Canyon last weekend.  The kids had fun playing in the river, while Andrew and Jed cooked up some hamburgers with plastic forks!  It was nice to be in the mountains with some cooler air.  Afterward we headed back to Jed's house for 

some fun and fireworks. 

On Pioneer Day our ward had a breakfast and then a kid's parade.  Addie loved riding her bike in the parade and around the parking lot, she thought she was so cool.  Izze enjoyed it from her stroller, as usual :)

Dressing Up is Fun to Do

Recently Addie was the recipient of some stellar dress-up clothes and she was so excited she tried them all on in the course of an hour.  I decided to take pictures half-way through so I don't have all of the fun outfits.  And since my child will not smile when I ask her to, there are some fun shots of her posing in her own way.

 

Later that day this is how I discovered Addie when the house became strangely silent for longer than I thought safe.  She is asleep in this picture, I thought it was hilarious.

Flying Dutchmen

For my birthday this year Andrew surprised me with a tent trailer!  We were finally able to take it out last weekend with our friends, the Harr's.  We went up to Logan Canyon and found a spot after much searching, luckily it is a pretty canyon since we drove through it several times :)  Izze slept better in the trailer then at home and Addie only fell off the bed once! 

On Saturday we went to Bear Lake to play in the water and for a famous raspberry shake, of course.  The lake was higher this year so the sand was really more like mud and the water was freezing!  It made us miss the red sand and warm water of Sand Hollow.   The temperature of the water did not deter Addie or the boys though!  Andrew even volunteered to be buried by the sand, yet again.

Later that night we drove to Tony Grove, it was so pretty with the wildflowers and everything is so green up there.  We had so much fun camping and can't wait to go again soon.

Peace Gardens

Last week we went with some of my family to the International Peace Gardens.  We all had a good time walking around trying to find the flags on our paper.  I realized I don't know too many of the flags from other countries.  Then we went to Liberty Park for a picnic and play in the splash park.

Denver Trip

Over July 4th weekend we went to visit Andrew's brother and family in Denver, Colorado.  Andrew found a sweet deal on a hotel in downtown Denver and we had so much fun staying there.  Izze loved her crib so much she decided to eat it, literally, she sucked the warning sticker right off!

We also went to a Rockies game which was a lot of fun.  After the game they had the best fireworks show we have ever seen!  It was so loud and yet Izze slept through the whole thing.

We spent Saturday at Waterworld Water Park.  We didn't even see half of it I think, it is so big.  Addie loved playing in the water and she even found a slide she could go down all by herself.  We did some family tube rides, but Izze was not loving it at all.  She did love splashing in the water though.  We were so busy having fun, I didn't get any decent pictures :(
On Sunday we went to the baby blessing of Evan and if you can believe it the whole reason for our trip and I don't even have a picture of him, how sad.  It was a very nice day though and we are glad we could be there.

On Monday before we left we went geocaching, played at a park, and went to lunch before driving through the lone hills of Wyoming.