This is our Sadee!

Sadee Bug is our little sweetheart. She loves to be held, loves to be chased, loves to be tickled and most definitely loves her monkey. She has finally figured out the walking thing and is going everywhere in the house. She always pulls out everything in the pasta cupboard and I am always finding her in the pantry on the top of the stool pulling down sippy cups and kiddie plates and bowls! But we sure have a lot of fun with her cute smile! Too bad I rarely get it on camera!

This is her serious face!

Hanging out with Cousin Michael

Talking on the phone

Truly a California Girl, already trying out flip flops!

Who needs to color?

A lil' Devil!

We were a splishin' and a splashin'!

When you take this...And crawl like this...

And run like this...

And try to dive like this...

You get happy faces like this...

Thanks Aunt April for bringing the slip and slide over, even though we don't know how use it!

Moving, Moving, Moving!

Here's some pictures of our last days in Provo, as we packed up to leave our favorite neighborhood ever and all of our besties!

Wondering what she did to do this Face?
Does this picture explain it?
Jayla played with one of her besties, Matthew, while his mom helped me clean and pack!
Cute Pregnant Girl
Julia pretending to pack!
Nick was the real amazing packer! ( And Jordan and Julia giving him a good game or something like that!)

After a long day of packing the U-haul, little girls get very dirty when their mommies and daddies are busy packing and cleaning! Thanks to Aunt Ju-Ju who saves the day and gave them a bath all together!

On our way out of town, we stopped by the Gividen family reunion! We couldn't leave without saying good bye to lots of family. (Wish we got more pictures.) Plus....
Josh's grandma asked him to make his grandpa's cake for his 75th birthday. We didn't know we were moving when Josh agreed to make it! After packing until eleven at night, Josh worked another two and a half hours on this monstrosity of a cake!

With a little bit of Pixie Dust...

We celebrated Jayla's 3rd birthday in style, with Pirates, Fairies and even Queen Clarion!

We planned for her party to be at our favorite Park, however, the rain ruined our plans so we crammed everyone into our little house for games, flying and pixie dust!

Playing Fairy, fairy, pixie dust! or duck, duck goose!

Fly to your Heart

Tinker bell Cake

Blowing out the Candles with help from Morgan

Sugar always guarantees a smile!

Tinker bell presents

Jayla received tons of tinker bell presents and loved everyone.

Did you notice how I wasn't in any of the pictures? Nope, I wasn't behind the camera either! I was sitting upstairs in bed, recovering from wisdom teeth extraction! Crazy, you say! I only survived with the help of my family over the weekend and my mother taking care of the kids and the house for a whole week afterwards.

Let's catch some rays in Santa Fe...or St. George!

We went to St. George at the first of August with the Preece family. This was our first vacation altogether. Let me tell you, it was a success!! We rented out this 4 bedroom house with our own personal pool and spa, Big screen tv, pool table and huge kitchen. It was so much fun to get away and hang out together. We played a lot of the Wii, lots of board games, and did a lot of swimming!

We also went a local lake and went cliff jumping and went swimming there as well. Grandma and Papa bought fun floaties for all the kids so they could go float around and take a little ease off of us!

Jordan's Homecoming!

He finally made it home!! Yeah! (He's the one with the funny face!)

We were able to fly down to San Diego, in July, and welcome my little bro home from his mission. Well, technically, he'd been home for about two weeks, but it was so great to see him and spend time with my favorite little brother. It was a very fun, but stressful weekend.

The day before we arrived, my dad had gone into the doctor to get his hand checked out because it was swollen, bruised and really painful. They told him it was some sort of infection and sent him home with antibiotics. Well, it didn't get better with the drugs, by the next day, even got worse and so after two more visits to the emergency room they admitted him into the hospital. This was, of course, Saturday night and the doctor told my dad that if in the morning the swelling had not gone down they would have to operate. This would mean he couldn't come to my brother's homecoming and hear my sister sing for the first time in church.


To make matters worse, my mom forgot to buy all the food for the homecoming luncheon and put my sister and me in charge of getting everything ready. Having one day to buy all the food, clean the house from top to bottom, and get everything organized for the next day was craziness.

Sunday morning came and the doctor said he didn't need surgery but recommended that my dad stay one more day to keep an eye on his hand. My dad told the doctor he had somewhere he needed to be and could he leave for a few hours. The doctor told him it's your hand or your children? What's most important? My dad ended up leaving the hospital, just to hear the talk and hung out with all of the friends and family that stopped by for a few hours, before the nurses called and told him to come back.

It was quite a fun adventure and we actually had an awesome weekend with all of my siblings! It was so much fun to be a family again and to play Mario Kart together. haha! You can see the pictures below!

Oh, I also ran a 5K that my parents' stake sponsored. Hardest race I have ever ran, but it was totally worth it to run with my sister and mom. Thanks guys for going with me!

Sadee's First Birthday Party!

I am beyond behind on my blogging and I really want to catch up on everything that has been going on in our lives. Sadee turned one on July 26th, and we celebrated her birthday with lots of friends and family. Check out the fun pictures!! I will continue to update our blog with all of the fun things we have been up to as best as I can.