music...

i am a huge music person. i listen while doing dishes, laundry, bills... couldn't live without my ipod! just some random music i've been listening to lately, mostly mellow stuff. the new coldplay album is awesome by the way!

july 4th weekend

our fouth of july was spent with lots of family, swimming, yummy brisket and fireworks at the park. dan's sister's husband joined us for the weekend. we loved having uncle travis stay with us! the girls had tons of fun with him. the fireworks were actually pretty good this year! i wanted to take a few photos of the awesome finale, but avery fell asleep in my lap. i don't see how she could sleep through all that noise!

saturday we went to the beach with all the family. we had a great time! these two are so cute playing together

the kids spent a lot of time digging a huge hole in the sand

even uncle travis enjoyed digging in the hole.

avery stayed away from the waves and played in the sand.

kyla loves her mermaid tail!

reading

we've been taking lots of trips to the library and all three of the girls joined the reading club. elayna loves reading to her little sisters.

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strawberries...

..the perfect summer treat!

when i grow up....

yesterday i was looking through elayna's school journal that she brought home on the last day of school. i thought this entry was so cute and funny, i had to share.

rain boots

after the morning rain, kyla grabbed her boots to play outside in the muddy backyard. i told her to jump in one of the puddles so i could take a picture of it, but she didn't want to get her boots "messy." :)

first day of summer

we took a fun little family bike ride this evening.

what we made today...

..lots of beaded necklaces and bracelets!

father's day weekend

i attempted to get a picture of daddy and all three of his girls. what a joke. avery wouldn't sit still for 2 seconds!

and we got to spend most of father's day with my daddy. love you dad! we attended their ward to hear jeremy's mission homecoming talk. he gave a great talk!

emily and her family came down for the weekend. we had a family gathering on saturday at our place to celebrate this cute little guy's birthday. he turned 4 on the 13th.

we had so much fun making these kabobs. we made chicken, shrimp and steak kabobs! great idea mom.

my favorite were the steak and mushroom

pretty little ava enjoying her watermelon

celebrating our anniversary...

we had a fabulous time on our cruise! it was sooo relaxing and so much fun! we really needed this. thanks mom and dad (and the rest of the fam) for watching the girls! all these pics were taken with our new little point and shoot. it did a pretty good job!

we had a room with porthole windows, which was really nice

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we did a lot of this...

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and a whole lot of this....don't worry, i helped dan with that plate of fries :)

our ship went to cozumel mexico. we decided to spend the day on an small island off of cozumel called passion island. it was gorgeous!! we pretty much had the whole island to ourselves. there was only about 15 other people there on the beach. so romantic :)

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check out the water!! it was the most beautiful clear emerald green!

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we had the most delicious all-you-can-eat mexican lunch on the beach!! we were in heaven! this was the best meal during the entire cruise!

here we are docked in cozumel. our ship was the ecstasy.

formal night

last day at sea....watching the sunset. so sad to see it come to an end.

10 years

tomorrow is our 10 year anniversary. wow. i can't believe we've been married that long! it goes by so incredibly fast. i love you sweetie! i can't imagine my life with anyone else. we are going on a cruise tomorrow to celebrate. so excited!

happy girl

enjoying a little treat from daddy!