4th of July

We had a fun 4th this year!  M loved the fireworks and even let us give her sparklers to hold this time.  She still asks if we are doing more fireworks, so I am glad that we still have the 24th.  M was in the Hooper Parade with our ward's Primary, sort of unexpectedly.  We were there to watch the parade, and as our Primary's float went by, they told M to join them, so away she went.  I helped her catch up, and we put her on the float on someone's lap for the rest of the parade while I walked behind.  She still got some candy before hopping on the float, so she was a happy girl.

Sisters

I thought it would be fun to compare some baby photos of M and A at about the same ages, in the same outfit.  These pictures were all taken in M's room.

I think they look a lot alike as babies.  It will be fun to see how they look as they get older.

Cute Cousins

While Kathy and the kids were in town for the family reunion, we took some pictures of the girls' matching dresses from Grandma, plus O in his tie.  It was hard to get four kids this little all sitting still and looking at the same time, but we got some good ones regardless.  These are some of my favorites.

Brintopia 2011

I'm making a blogging comeback!  I've been putting a lot of time and energy into my posts over on my craft blog lately, but I want to keep this one up too.  I guess it has really only been a month since our Brintopia Family Reunion, but it feels like a lot longer.  We had a pirate theme and a lot of fun!  Tom, Kathy + kids, and us + kids kicked off the festivities with a dinner at Pirate Island in Orem.  Tom also gave us a sweet tour of the new BYU Broadcasting building.

Next, we got some serious pool time in!  It was little A's first swim.

We had a scavenger hunt to find our pirate treasure (t-shirts) and lots of fun and games.

Brintopia, Brintopia, May you forever be, Brintopia, Brintopia, the only place for me!

Easter 2011

First off, I found this video that really belongs with the last post.  This is M talking on her phone:

Easter was a lot of fun this year.  M is starting to get the concept of holidays a little bit.  She gets a little bit more excited with each new holiday.  For Easter, she was very excited about the "Easser Bunny", even if she didn't really get what was going on.  We went to the Hooper Easter egg hunt, which was great.  Our city does such a wonderful job with activities throughout the year.

M had some awesome finds and ended up with a bunch of candy, a big frosted sugar cookie, and she also found an egg with a piece of paper saying she'd won an Easter basket.  It was pretty deluxe, with a stuffed unicorn, princess wand and crown, sidewalk chalk, and a few more little goodies.  She also got to meet Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny.  We didn't get a photo with them, but we did get this video, which is even better, in my opinion.

We also had a good time on Easter Sunday.  I got the girls dressed up in their matching dresses.  These are the best of the photos I took that day.

And that's it!  We also had Easter dinner at our house and had a lot of fun with grandparents from both sides and Uncle Tommy.