Hide and Go Seek...

The other day I was cleaning up the house a bit while Adda followed me around jabbering to herself.  She was right behind me one minute and then gone the next, and completely silent.  I searched all of her usual favorite spots with no luck. I thought I was losing my mind because I could not for the life of me find her anywhere. Then I heard her giggling and this is where I found her...

That's right...under the kitchen table! Such a funny girl!

Adda's Bestie...

Adda's best friend Emmy came to visit a couple weeks ago.  It is ridiculously hard to get the two of them to hold still long enough for a picture, let alone catch them both looking at the camera! We had a lot of fun having Cami, JD, and Emmy stay with us for a few nights!

Father's Day Take Two...

After the first attempt at an awesome Father's Day for Jer failed I decided to not try camping a second time. Instead Adda took her daddy balloons and visited him at work, then picked him up after and went on a really pretty hike up to a hidden waterfall. Thankfully this was a success!

Christian is HOME!

Yay! June has finally come and 2 years (plus some) has finally passed! Adda and I headed to St. George with Cass, Ry, Miles, and Kimber to welcome him home.  He was supposed to get in around 6 pm, however, there were complications with his bags and flights, so he missed his plane to St. George and had to wait for a later one.  He didn't end up getting in until after 11 pm.  I was really bummed because I really wanted to take Adda to the airport, but I didn't think it would be responsible parenting to take her at 11 at night.  It was so fun to see him walk in and to spend the weekend with him.  I can tell he was an excellent missionary! Jer and Dustin rode down on Friday afternoon together. That night we all went to the temple together for Cody's first time.  It was pretty neat to be able to be in the Celestial room with my whole family! Then on Sunday Cody, Christian, and my dad all spoke (in a few different wards), and we celebrated Father's Day for my dad.  It was a great weekend with the whole family!

We were all a little goofy at the airport so late...

...especially Cody:)

Adda loves her uncle Christian!

He's home!

Two good lookin men after Cody's ordination to the office of Elder.

Headed to Costco in a packed car.

These two love each other so much!

Costco pizza for lunch...mmmm!

Queen of the pool!

Adda couldn't stop giving Rylee hugs! So cute!

Father's Day Flop...

This year for Father's Day we were going to be in St. George for Christian's homecoming talk, so I told Jer we would celebrate Father's Day early for him.  I wanted to plan something so fun that he wouldn't mind being in St. George for the actual day.  I thought long and hard about what to do, or I guess I knew we were going camping, I just didn't know where. I wanted to go somewhere close that we hadn't been before. I did a little research and stumbled on Utah Lake. I thought it would be a blast to go camping there and then play in the water, maybe even rent a canoe or peddle boat. So I reserved a spot and made all the arrangements.  We got out there and it started out okay. Adda was a little fussy, but not horrible.  We took a walk to the beach and got camp set up.  Then Adda lost it.  We tried putting her to bed while it was still light outside and she wasn't having it. She basically just screamed forever.  I felt so bad for Jer, because it was supposed to be a really fun camping trip for him and it was turning miserable for both of us. At 9:30 we finally decided we'd had enough and we were starting to get eaten alive by mosquitoes so we gave up and headed home:-( So disappointing!

Mommy and Me Fashion Show

On mother's day weekend Adda and I participated in a fashion show for the University Mall in Provo.  I saw a post on facebook about it about a month before asking for mother and daughter volunteers.  They were wanting kids 3+ years of age, but I replied anyways thinking it would be fun if they decided to take younger kids.  I didn't hear anything back for about 3 weeks so I just figured that they just wanted older kids.  Then the week of the event they finally got back to me and said we could participate.  I was so excited! I thought it was just a bunch of moms and daughters doing this for fun like we were. I was wrong. I showed up to find out that they hadn't had enough volunteers so most of the show was legit wanna-be models doing this gig as an audition for other shows. They were throwing out for-real modeling terms and practicing all morning. Needless to say, I was way out of place, but we still had a blast! Jer was a trooper and pretty much hung out at the mall all day so we could do this. Thanks babe! Also, thanks to Shellie for sticking in town a little longer than planned to come see the show!