Air Force Museum

I met with a friend from college and we let our kids run around the air force museum. It was a great welcome to Utah and the first day in a long time we didn't spend in the car.

Later that day my Dad was so kind as to remind the girls how much they LOVE ice cream cones. Cherry toppers, yum.

Farewell Dad

Here are a few pictures from Tyler's camera the day he left.

Cell Phone Follies

Since I have been without my camera, I have found a way to get the pictures from off of my cell phone. Here are pictures from this year. Check out the captions to see what they are about.

Loss of Life

Well, it feels that way anyways. My external hard drive that had all of our pictures since we've been married was destroyed 2 weeks ago. It also had all the current files that I use on our computer at home, so it was basically my computer while Tyler is gone. It's been driving me crazy. I can't get any work done because I don't have my files. And I'm quite sick about loosing all of our backups. I have most things on CDs but now I'm going to have to sort through it all and organize it all over again. It's an overwhelming task.
Does anyone have a good recommendation of a large Flash memory drive storage device? I need to purchase something to replace our broken life backup.

Back blog of Birthday and June

I found these pictures from Nancy and I wanted to share them. They are a little old, but still fun.

Lily got a "beautiful jewelery box" that lights up on the sides. She LOVES it! Perfect gift from grandma.


Random pictures at Nancy's house


Lily's actual birthday happened while we were camping at the Redwoods with the Sharps. We also celebrated Ellen's birthday that was the next week. Lily couldn't get enough of everyone singing happy birthday to her. She LOVED the princess stuff and her new chair has been well used.

Aunt Diane and Trip to Utah

We played with Diane before we left. Thanks Diane for the fun stay-cation!








Three days of road trip, oh boy!

Niki Climbs Highchair

Austin Auto Show

This was on Tyler's top 10 before deploying so we did it.

Pizza and Pants

The girls were so tired they both fell asleep eating pizza.

Niki has a new entertainment of going through the clothes hamper and trying to dress herself. What is her clothing of choice? Lily's underpants of course. I guess they are the easiest thing to put on. It sure is entertaining to see the many ways she finds to wear them.

Lily's funny clean story

I was getting Niki a bottle in the kitchen when I notice that the few spilled water drops that Niki and I had just walked through were actually a pool of, you guessed it, pee. After emergency disinfecting I then turned to "so where's the pee-er and what else has she sat in?". the answer?

I found Lily in the tub. Clothes off. Water filled. "Washing and Scrubbing" her clothes. Leave it to Lily to just clean up after herself. I just had to laugh.

Niki's words

Niki has really started to talk this week. She has also found a new form of entertainment: books! She has a few of the basics down great: dad, ma(mom), no, up, grandpa, cookie, duck (specifically poop-duck), cup, clock. Now that she can say a few words, she of course thinks she can talk and rattles off long phrases that kind of sound like something you'd say, but really have no distinguishable meaning. She will also respond to "Can you say ______ " with her best efforts, but she only gets 1 sylable right at a time. For example, apple comes out "abbb" "mmmple" but not "a - ple". Is she really this old already?

Family In Town

YEA!!! Thanks for visiting us. For being sick, we sure had fun. We miss you.

Park Break

We got out of the house and took a tour of Post housing Parks. We found a very cool climbing wall. Niki is quite the climber - like father like daughter.

Easter

We actually did a lot to teach the girls about Christ, his resurrection, and his atonement this year, but those things are hard to take pictues of. Easter egg hunts however, are easy, so here they are.

We had a ward easter egg hunt and b-fast, we decorated eggs with our neighbors who came over last minute, and we hid all the candy again for the girls to discover in our backyard. It's so easy to have fun with our girls.

Niki Playing

Niki's playing is becoming much more advanced these days. Unfortunatly, I rarely get a chance to really notice. I did get a few pictures of these moments this week.

Niki likes to play with her doll. She's learning how to care for it instead of just carying it around. I found her changing her diaper and trying to get her dressed this week. She like to put her in the doll carrier/car seat and tote her around the house. One day, Tyler told the girls to get in the car. Niki came running, doll carrier in hand out to her car seat. When Tyler tried to get Niki to let it go so he could do up her car seat, Niki had a huge melt-down of dissapointment, most likely because she thought that the doll wouldn't get to come with her.

Niki loves to cuddle with blankets. She grabs one corner and rolls on the floor 'till they wrap around her.

Niki is even trying to talk now with parts of words like "cu u u" for cuddle or "u u u" for up. The hardest one she has attempted is "du" and "k" for poop-duck, but she never could get them together at the same time.

Niki is so much fun!