St. George

A week ago we went down to St. George with Damon's twin and his family. My sister-in-law's grandmother has a condo down there so we got to stay there.  The condo was in a nice subdivision with a nice pool and playground.  So you can just guess where the girls always wanted to be.  They loved the pool, and with the weather being in the high 90's who wouldn't.  We were there for 3 nights which was just perfect. 

One of the days we spent up at Zions National Park.  It was beautiful!  We did a nice hike and got to walk under a waterfall.  I was so proud of Olivia, she hiked up the whole thing and did a really good job keeping up.  Sophie got it easy and got to ride in BOB, lucky girl!
On our first morning there Damon and I were actually able to go the St. George Temple it was so beautiful inside, I loved it!  It was such a nice moment on our vacation to go and do that.
The trip was a nice break, we had such a fun time with everyone and all the cousins had so much fun playing together.

On our way to the pool!

Look at that cute ruffle bottom!

Swimming with daddy!

Having fun with cousin Alyssa!

Oh its so bright!

Our outdoors girl!

Standing under the waterfall.

I love this picture!

All smiles!

For Nanny...

My mom is in Wales right now taking care of my grandmother, and I was told by my dad that I needed to add some pictures to the blog because she was going through grandchildren with drawl. So these are for my mom. They were taken last night before bed. We have been spending LOTS of time outside enjoying the sunshine.

Oh and the last two pictures are from what I got this morning at Bountiful Baskets. Quite the assortment of fruits and veggies!

Preschool Graduation..

A couple of weeks ago Olivia had her preschool graduation!  Unfortunately on that day she was not feeling good at all, so the picture below is the best one we got.  We just loved the preschool she went to.  Teacher Nisha is such a great teacher and has a wonderful preschool set up in her basement.  Olivia loved going to preschool and is really going to miss Teacher Nisha.  Graduation was a cute little program with some songs and counting and saying their ABC's.  Teacher Nisha made all the kids scrapbooks of things they had made throughout the year, it was great to see just how much Olivia has grown this past year.

5 YEARS OLD!!!!

On May 7th Olivia turned 5 years old!!!! I can't believe I have a 5 year old!!!  This was the first year that she had a friends party, we ended up having 14 little girls over to our house for a princess themed party.  They were all so cute and came dressed up as cute princess's.  Olivia loved every minute of her special day.  This is her last birthday before she is in school, tear.  This August she will be going into Kindergarten in a brand new school.  Whenever we drive by her new school she always tells me to look at how big it is.  I don't know how I will handle her going to Kindergarten, and she will get to ride a school bus!  I am super nervous about the bus, but Olivia is beyond thrilled about it.  
Okay back to her birthday, so this year Olivia got a bike.  She had been telling us FOREVER that she wanted one.  She is so cute riding it, and is very cautious.  She always got a blow bouncy ball pin from my parents, luckily we have a basement where is fits great.  Then with all the presents all the guest bought she made a killing.  I'm so glad that she has some great friends.  Olivia is my little social girl and make a friend anywhere but she really has some great friends.  I'm so proud of her and the wonderful girl she is becoming.  She is still fiercely independent, but she has a big heart.  She is always looking out for Sophie, she hates to see Sophie get hurt and will actually cry herself.  She is such a sweetheart and I can't wait to see what year 5 brings for her!

 The birthday girl coming down the stairs in her new princess dress.

 Her new bike!

 With some of her friends.

 Some more of her friends.

 Getting ready to hit the pinata

 First hit!

 Sophie gets a turn!

 Cousin Alyssa does the final hit!

 Of course Olivia cries because the pinata is broken!

 Waiting for the cake!

 Neighbor Sunnie

 Sophie in her costume

 Ready to blow out the candles

 The Tangled cake

 Cute cousin Megan

 Opening  presents with Reagon (another neighbor) looking on

 More neighbors Kendra and Hallie

And this is how Damon was 15 minutes after the party was over!

Look who's 2!!!

                                                             Crying before she got her cupcake!

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In her new car

Miss Sophie turned 2 on May 6.  I can not believe that she is 2!!!  Where has the time gone.  Her birthday was pretty laid back.  My parents were in town and so we went out to dinner to the Mayan, seriously if you are ever in Utah and are going out to eat with your kids go there.  They will be entertained the whole time! Then when we got home we let her "blow" out her candle on her cupcake.   Love this little girl SO much, we had no idea how much two years ago she would change us forever!