Cache Valley and Catching Up! (Keep Scolling for New Posts that go all the way onto the next page!)

I have been so bad at blogging lately! Summers are usually pretty busy for us, but in the middle of all of our craziness we also moved into our very first home! We were so excited to find a home we loved in the cutest little neighborhood with so many little friends for Addie to play with. It is also really close to Bryson's work and now we have our very own backyard, that we have been wanting forever! We moved in end of June and have been painting and unpacking boxes in the midst of many visitors and also some traveling. We our loving every minute in our new place and have already fallen in love with the area and all of our neighbors! I guess that kinda explains why I have been so horrible at posting lately, but I have gotten completely caught up, so make sure you keep scrolling down for new posts cause there are a lot! (pictured above is Bryson, Me, Addie, My Aunt Lisa and Uncle Dale)
We went up to Cache Valley last weekend and had so much fun visiting with family. We stayed with my grandparents and got to visit with my Aunt, Uncle and cousins too. We took Addie to the Willow Park Zoo while we were there. She had so much fun, and I felt like a proud Mom watching her point and talk to all the animals. She learned to say "Duck" and "Quack" while there. She got so excited seeing the ducks that we had to get her out of her stroller so she could squat down at their level, it was way to cute!

Of course her "Dolly" had to come along with us

Quacking at the ducks!

Pointing out the animals

Addie also had her very first Ice Cream cone at the famous "Angie's". It was just her size and she had a death grip on it! She was eating it so fast and getting brain freeze, we could not stop laughing, I wish I would have gotten it on video.

My cousin Darren, Addie and Me

Addie loved this swing in my Grandpa's backyard

Aunt Lisa, Darren, Me and Addie

The Whole Crew

Addie loved this Chair, she just sat in it and read her books

Addie fell asleep right in my Mom's lap while they were rocking, she never does this, so we had to get a picture!

Hitting some balls with Gramps

Me and my Gramps!
(I know. ..my legs are super white, please don't judge!!!) hahaha

Pioneer Day!

My parents were up visiting over the 24th of July, so we had fun spending the day with them. I'm not sure why I didn't get any pictures of all of us, but these ones of Addie and her Grandma are pretty cute!

The Snake

This picture says it all! So sad, but so cute at the same time! Mr. Snake was living in a hole underneath our cement in the backyard. Bryson caught him the other day and tried to get Addie to touch it! Well, from the picture you can see how it went!

Addie's Pool

Now that we have our very own backyard, we bought Addie her very own pool! She had fun swimming and playing with her toys while Bryson and I tried to catch some rays (warning we are extremely pasty, don't be scared)!!!!

Doesn't she look cute in her little Tankini

Waving Hi

We found this in the garden the previous owners had planted! It was extremely large! Since then we have found three others even bigger!

4th of July!!

We didn't do anything extravagant for the 4th this year, because we had just moved into our house. Bryson also had to go into work that day, so we all went to lunch and hit up the mall before he had to leave.

Addie and Grandpa

Addie and the Robin at "Red Robin." She was not afraid of him at all and was actually trying to hit him! We were laughing so hard(I know we are horrible) but it was super funny!

I guess the mall tuckered her out!

Later that night, Me and my Dad watched four different firework shows from our new backyard! It was really pretty and such a nice view of all the different cities fireworks!

10 Months Old!!!

Dear Addie-

Ten Months old has came and went way to fast! Right now as I write this, you are almost 11 months old, leaving us with one more month before you become a big "One" year old. Ten months has been the funnest month yet with you. You did so many new and fun things this month that it is hard to keep up with you. You have started walking all over the place holding on to things. You love your fire truck that Grandpa bought you and push it all over the place like such a big girl! You have started to stand up unassisted and even took two steps the other day all by yourself. We are just waiting for you to decide you don't need us anymore and take off on those cute chubby legs of yours!
We moved to our first house a few weeks ago, and after a few days of being there you mastered crawling up all the stairs! You have been talking so much lately and love to say "Uh Oh" about everything you see. We laugh so hard when you wake up in the morning or from naps, because the first thing we hear is "Uh Oh" over and over again. You also have started to say Thank you(daydo), Peekaboo(teekadoo),Mama, Doggie, Duck, Quack and when we ask what a Doggie says you respond with "Ruff Ruff." You love to also imitate anything your hear and have become pretty good at the siren noise of your fire truck or a cop car(this of course makes Daddy very happy). You love to wave hello and bye bye to everyone you see, and when we ask you to give kisses you lean in with those big lips and give us a smacker!! You have become such a cuddler lately and we love it! You love to give us "loves" and hug us whenever we ask, you also give all your stuffed animals big squeezes daily, and it is so cute!
You have also become such a fun little dancer, everytime you hear music you squat down and start to shake your little bum, and in the last few days you have also added a head shake back and forth which cracks us up! You love to play games with us and lately your favorites are peekaboo and throwing your food on the floor(which Mom is not a fan of). You have discovered the wonders of table food, and want nothing to do with your baby food any longer! You also have four teeth on bottom now and four/almost five on top!! We have had so many laughs with you this month and love seeing all the new tricks you can do! We love you girlie!
Love,
Mom and Dad

Traci's Wedding

While we were in St. George, Traci got hitched! What can I say, besides the fact that I was so glad I got to be there and it was so much fun seeing all my girlfriends in one place! The wedding was gorgeous which I wouldn't expect anything less from Trac!