Heritage Days parade!

Wow, I'm really behind. This is from the parade at Heritage days! We missed the fireworks because I had to work. But my family was up, and it was so fun to hang out with them!

Roy aquatic center with the Johnsons!

We were SO happy when Charise and Kyle were staying with the Bitters for a couple of weeks, we got to hang out a lot! We briefly saw Alisha and Brian too, who are going to be in Cali for a couple of months {sad!} We all went to Roy Aquatic Center for one of the days, it was so much fun! Nate of course had to be a party pooper and didn't come because of school. But Bruce and Cam came!

It's kinda funny that Kaylee has to wear a diaper even though she has been potty trained for a year. Do these things even really work?

Kaylee LOVED swimming, but still was too chicken to try the slide.

Damon loved the horsey tube!

Damon's face kills me! He is so dang cute!

Bruce took Jakob down the slide!

CUTE!!!

Tired boy...

Me and Brenna...she's SO close to walking!

This is a picture of Jake taking a nap...see his little foot?

Brenna for baby idol

Go to this link to vote for Brenna on baby idol! Just go to VOTE NOW...she's number 118. We appreciate your votes!!! :)

Brenna's Birthday Bash

First of all THANK YOU!!! To everyone who came and/or spoiled Brenna with presents! Here's a few pics of the party we had for Brenna Mae.

This is Jake, just doing his Mowgli crawl.

A few party guests!!!

Cami (the reason my children are always dressed fashionably! Thanks for the cute outfits Cam! We love you!)

Lois, Mark, Cindy.

Jake, Allison

Jake!

I made this!

At first she didn't know what was going on, wouldn't touch her toys!

Then she warmed up to the idea! This is her playing with the toy cell phone Grandma Townley gave her!

She kept saying, "Hello! Hi!"

Sometimes, Kaylee was more excited about Brenna's gifts than Brenna was! These glasses were a hoot, thanks Allison and Darin!

She blew out her own candle, good girl!

When it came to eating the cake, she kept looking at me, then cried cause she thought she'd get in trouble!

Of course, some face painting from Daddy.

Both girls loved the singing tea set from Grandma Julie! Thank you so much! And the play dough ice cream set was all we did for the next couple of days!

Thank you for coming, Angela! Drove all the way from SLC!

One year

One year old today! I just can't believe it! I've had so much fun looking at all the pictures of her month by month. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

June 10, 2008- Newborn

July- 1 month

August-2 months

September- 3 months

October-4 months

November-5 months

December-6 months

January-7 months

February-8 months

March-9 months

April-10 months

May-11 months

Stay tuned for her birthday party pictures!!!!

Sunglasses

At the grocery store the other day, I put my sunglasses on Brenna, thinking she would just rip them off right away...

but she didn't! She left them on the entire trip! And sometimes she would look up at me and just giggle! Isn't that so funny?

And the man that saw me taking pictures of my kid in the middle of the grocery store gave me a look like I was crazy.

Evening stroll

Woo hoo! I finally learned how to make my pictures bigger!!!

On my days off, I try to take the girls out for an evening stroll. This really sweet lady in my ward just came over to my house and dropped off this double stroller...YAY!!! I love it. The girls love it too. So this time we wandered across the street to the elementary school park and had some SERIOUS fun! (and I took pictures of my gorgeous girls)

Here it is in all its glory!!! Look how happy Brenna is in this picture.

I took these pictures SERIOUSLY seconds later. I love my little drama queen! She screamed any time I stopped pushing the stroller. Man, she's hard to please sometimes! {note Kaylee's face as well. Like, What on earth is wrong with her???}





I love this picture of Kaylee comforting her.

Kaylee has finally started smiling for the camera! I am so glad, because she has such an ADORABLE smile.

The first time I took the girls on a walk, I put this hat on Kaylee because it was sunny. Now she goes and grabs it every time we go, even if it's cloudy!

Kaylee liked the little tunnel once I convinced her that it was okay that it was "gross" in there (from a little dirt).

Meanwhile, Brenna busied herself trying to eat the little pieces of wood. She could have played in that stuff for hours!

Look at those eyelashes man! Those come from her daddy. I wish I could say they were from me!

She curls her toes just like Kaylee did.

So while I was taking pictures of Brenna, I didn't realize that Kaylee was STILL in the tunnel, and wouldn't come out!

Apparently she was really scared of the holes in the floor once she noticed they were there. I had to go up and get her! She wouldn't budge!

Look at my awesome self portrait skills!

I like how Kaylee and Brenna both look so miserable here. I guess I AM going to be one of those moms that drives their kids nuts!!!

I laid down next to Brenna and took pictures of myself in my workout clothes with no makeup on. I know, I need to get a life!

This was kinda funny too...the end is the best part.

The island of antelope, and playing in the water

I think this is the first time in my life that I've actually DONE something fun for memorial day! That and the fact that it was Mark's birthday the next day, we took a trip to antelope island!!!

Every year, one of my beloved children BUST my sunglasses. This year I think it was a combination of both Kaylee and Brenna. So here's this year's shades!

See the mini tornados? Yeah, those are NATS. Sick. Good thing they were not bad on the actual island!

Me, Kaylee {and Ryan}

Ok, I give you all permission to make fun of me in this picture. I didn't want to wear the helmet originally, but when we got on the trail and there were hundreds of HUGE BOULDERS in the actual path, I decided I didn't want to die of a brain injury. I crashed a number of times (so what if I'm not the ultimate biker!), and broke one of my shoes in the process. If I had known I would be biking a rigorous trail, I would not have worn flip flops!!!
And of course, Nate was too cool to wear a helmet! (actually, there were none left for him!)

This is what Nate and Ryan did when I told them to pose for a picture. I encouraged them to put their arm around each other in a loving way, but it didn't happen.

Kaylee's always been a dirt girl! She made castles and 'cakes' all day!

Cami and Brenna

Had to cover her big knoggin to protect it from the sun!

This year the Rich's are gone. Which makes me sad. We saw this inflatable pool when we were cleaning up, and hoped they wouldn't mind if we blew it up and let the kids play in it!

This is Brenna, waiting for Dad to blow up the pool. She LOVED getting squirted with the hose!

Can you see her top teeth? She has 4 now!

Oh, I forgot to mention that I got this SWEET new camera from my loving hubby for Mother's Day! (I know, we already have 2, but the first one is ancient and falling apart, and the other one is too big to carry around, plus it's so nice it might get ruined if I'm the one carrying it!)
This camera can go under water up to 30 feet! Shock proof! Water proof! Sarah proof!!

{mine is the silver one}
See, I took this picture from under the water.

And these ones.
Brenna kept almost drowning, so I put her in her tube.

Here's a little clip of them playing. Pretty cute girls!

June is a month of birthdays!!! Happy birthday to Ryan, whose B-day is on June 2nd! (We celebrated it Saturday)
Also coming up is Carissa on the 4th, Brenna on the 10th, and Allison on the 21st!!!
Happy Birthday this month!!!

And the good thing about having a sick baby is...

...she's super cuddly!!!