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Utah or Bust!!

Out and About

Well, about a year ago my mom and I decided that we were going to go to BYU education week!  I was really pregnant at the time and a little stir crazy so I was super excited to go!  Since then I kind of had a lot of trips pop up like girl’s camp, NC, Colorado, Vegas, and coming soon: Disneyland!  All of which were AWESOME!  I’m not trying to complain or brag…I’m just trying to say that I know we looked a little crazy this year with our trips and that next year will be the year of Los Alamos!  At the beginning of the summer I should have just written “DISCLAIMER: The pictures on this blog do not depict typical life for those involved!”  So you all have to promise that you will still read our blog next year even if our “stay”cations are not as exciting… okay??  There will still be plenty pictures of cute little Kaylee and Emmy running around!  Throw in their super fun cousins, aunt and uncles, and grandparents and it will still be a party on our blog! 🙂

Anyway, Education week was a blast!  I went with my Mom and Aunt Cindy!  Christina was with us for part of the time too!  So we had a total girls week!  For those of you who don’t know, ed. week at BYU is basically a week where BYU invites speakers from all over the country to come and present short week long classes on a lot of different topics!  If you ever get the chance I highly recommend going!  I went to mostly classes on homemaking, family relationships, emotional/spiritual health, and child rearing!  I loved it!

Christina started teaching school the week we got there but she got to hang out with us for the weekend! Here we are in the car ready to follow my Mom and Aunt Cindy up to Park City!

My Aunt Cindy gets awesome deals on hotel rooms through her time share association!  So she got us this really great room in Park City.  It’s the second story of the section painted green!  It had two bedrooms, two bath, a kitchen, dining room, and living room!  It was pretty much bigger than mine and Alex’s first three apartments! 🙂 The combination of soft beds and no nighttime feedings helped me get super rested!!  Playing cards until 3:00 and talking all night helped me get not so rested!  So it kept me in a good balance!  I had a ton of fun!  Thanks Cindy!

Here we are at a restaurant that was right across the street from our room!  I had eggs benedict for lunch!  One of my favorites! Yummy!

This is my Mom, Christina, me, and Cindy at the restaurant again!  You can see the ski trails behind us here!  It was really pretty there!  I had never really gone to Park City other than the outlet malls (which we went to while we there…score!)  The only sad thing was that I kept thinking of Jon and Kate Plus 8 and how they always went to Park City.  I miss the good ol’ days of that show!

Here we are in front of the restaurant again!  I’m sure the waitress loved taking 3 pics of us!

While we were in Utah we went to Heber to visit my Great Aunt Shirley and also to visit memorial hill.  Here is a picture of the WWII memorial.  My Grandpa is Hal A. Cummings!  All three (yes I have three) of my Grandpas served in the armed forces during WWII and two of them are buried in Heber.  My great grandparents are also buried there.  When we lived in Utah it was nice to visit the cemetery on Memorial Day!

Here we are at the outlet mall of all outlet malls!  They have an Osh Kosh, Carters, and Children’s Place outlet!  It’s pretty much all a mother of little girls needs!  (With the obvious exception of a KOHL’s)!   Anyway, since I’m missing the semi-annual Little Forest Resale this year…I was glad for the outlets’ back to school specials!

Here is Christina in her brand new gym!  She teaches P.E. at a beautiful new high school in Springville!

Sorry the sun was too bright through the window!  This was such a cute picture I had to put it in any way!  This was a really fun day because it combined two of my favorite things: hanging out with my good friend Angela and eating at Cafe Rio!  It was so fun to see Angela and Lucas and meet her brand new little boy Marcus!

So this was my best attempt at taking our picture by holding the camera out!  It was so much fun to see Angela!  I miss her so much down here in Los Alamos!  I got to see her great new house and her great new little boy!  We had so much fun at lunch that I blew off classes the next afternoon and hung out at her house!  Don’t tell Alex I skipped classes though or I’ll be so busted!

BYU also has a lot of affordable nighttime shows and concerts that you can go to!  We went to Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat!  You can see in the picture it had a Vegas spin on it.  It was very cute and we had a great time!

Sisters!! Mom and Cindy at the play!

Sisters! Christina and Julia!

Thanks Cindy, Mom and Christina for the great week!  I had a lot of fun and I think the break made me easier to live with…right Alex??  And of course thanks to my awesome husband for watching the girls and letting me go!  And thanks to Emmy and Kaylee for watching Daddy so I could go!  Well, I feel like I’m giving an acceptance speech so I’m just going to end by saying that Beyonce had the best music video of all time!  :-)  So fun!

Aunt Annah visits!!

All About Emmy

Toward the beginning of August my sister Annah visited!  (Also, can I just say I can’t believe tomorrow is October 1st…how am I still so behind on my blog!!)  Anyway, Annah HAD to spend most of her summer vacation doing boring things like living in France, working for the World health organization, and sight seeing most of Europe…so I’m sure she was glad that she got to come somewhere exciting like Los Alamos to end her vacation!  😉

While she was here we went down to Santa Fe and had a girls day!  In the mall they have those little toys that you can ride on and they go up and down and whatnot.  Well, usually I just let Emmy climb in them and pretend (because imagination is free!).  This time, however, she saw some other boys going up and down in the helicopter and she put two and two together and as a result got to take her first real ride in the school bus with her sister Kaylee!  As you can see Kaylee loved it!  Aunt Annah held on to Kaylee because she was trying to walk all over while the bus was bouncing up and down!

Here’s the bus in all it’s smiling glory!

We bought a pool pass this year so while Annah was here we went to relax at the pool!  Here’s a little princess enjoying some Trader Joe’s pretzels with her princess cup and princess towel!  (Did I mention she likes princesses?)

Annah attacking Christian!  Am I going to have to separate you two troublemakers?

Here’s Kaylee relaxing in her stroller after a hard day of splashing!  She going, going….

gone!  Sleeping beauty!

We all agreed to pose for this picture (even though we were in swimsuits) becuase my Mom said she would pay for the popsicles!  Woohoo!! :-)  Thanks for visiting Aunt Annah!! We had a lot of fun!

Uncle Ray…Rescue Ranger!!

All About Emmy

So this summer some of our friends, the Masons, came to visit!  We had a great time with them while they were here!  Emmy and Eldon are just a few months apart and always get along great!  The Mason’s daughter Lily is a doll too! While they were here we hung out, went hiking and went to the duck pond.  I forgot a hat for Kaylee on the hike so she had to wear a swim diaper on her head!  I wish I had the picture!  It was super fun to see them!

Anyway, you may be thinking…what does this all have to do with Uncle Ray!  Well…when we went to the duck pond we had a great time throwing bread pieces to the birds.  Then when we ran out of bread so Eldon threw my car keys into the middle of the pond!  He has a pretty good arm too :-)  Anyway, as I started calling around about Honda keys I found out that it was going to be like 100 dollars to replace since they put a chip in it to sync it to your car…blah blah blah… So Ray took a rake down to the pond and Emmy showed him where to comb for it!  AND he had to wade into the pond like 6 inches up his leg!  So that is what makes him a hero right there because I wasn’t going in after them!  Anyway, after only like 5 minutes he had a crowd accumulated to watch him and after only 10 minutes he pulled up the keys!

He took them home and cleaned them using rubbing alcohol and the remote still works!  I couldn’t believe it!

Here is Ray at Ruby K’s with the van key!  We took him out to eat there as a reward!  I even made him pose for this picture so I could do a blog post about it!  Thanks Uncle Ray!

Park Pics

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I take about a billion pictures every time we go to the park so I thought I’d combine some of my best pictures and make a post!  I put away the girls shorts and things and unpacked their winter clothes so I needed a summer-ish post!  (funny side note:  I just barely put away Emmy’s 12 month clothes like 3 months ago when she outgrew them…and I just got them back out for Kaylee who already needs them!!)

Here’s Daddy helping Emmy with her brand new bike!!  Her legs are finally long enough to move the pedal in a full circle!  Good job Emeline!

Kaylee loves the tunnels at the park!  She can already navigate them all by herself!  They are one of Emmy’s favorite things too!

This picture took about 3 trips to the park to take!! They would both always look out the holes but never for more than about 5 seconds!  So I had to be ready and fast with the camera!  And I never was…but I finally got it with the help of my mom!

What a cutie pie!

Emmy is so proud that she can go up the ladders and down the slides all by herself!  A few months ago a little girl kept pushing Emmy from behind and telling her she was going to slow on the slides!  Emmy was kind of upset…but the next time we went to the park she told me to time her!  And she would go up the ladder and down the slide over and over again and make me count!  She is one determined little girl!  Good job Emeline!

Here she is coming down the big slide!

I love this face!

Kaylee is definitely our little Maggie Simpson!  She always has a pacifier when she’s on the go!

Here is Emmy on the “Big Girl” swings.  As she always reminds us, “I am getting so BIG!”

Vote for Emmy!!

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Hey There! So I’m going a little out of order but I just entered Emeline in a Disney photo contest and wanted to post it so that you could vote for her!  If she gets the most votes she could win some special princess costumes.  There is also a panel of judges who will pick one girl’s story and she will win a trip to Disney World.  Anyway, it’s kind of a long shot since there are 4,000+ girls in it but she is so stinkin’ cute!  I uploaded one for Kaylee too but it isn’t up on the website yet.  I’ll let you know when it is!  Anyway, here is the link…it’s on my facebook too and you can even post it to your facebook profiles and tell all your friends to vote for it!  I’m pretty sure you can vote for it once a day! So tell all your friends and keep voting!  Thanks!

http://family.go.com/princess-picture-contest/who-is-the-fairest/princess-emeline-17004/

And since this is a blog post…here is the picture as well!