Summer. Is it really over?

So I cannot believe how fast summer has gone by!!!  I feel like we had a short amount of time to really do anything but we do so much with that time ... just crazy how fast time flies!  I thought I would post some pictures of some of our adventures this summer.  Now remember I am usually not a camera happy person although I wish I could be better So this isn't even half of what we have done this summer!!! I hope you enjoy what I do have!

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Only had this one picture of us swimming but we went ALL the time!!!! WE LOVE SWIMMING!!

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I know it doesn't look like it with our jackets but this really is summer ... like I said summer didn't really start until July!!!

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We all ran the 5k for pony express days! Well I pushed them in the stroller! ha ha

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Adallyn being maulled as usual.  I dont' even know if that is the spelling of maulled ... I am calling it good!

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Girls Celebration in Park City!!!

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Kaydence's friend Holynd.  She loves Holynd and Holynd loves her.  We like letting them play together.  When they play together they like getting into trouble.  This time was lotion all over in the hair.  Just be glad I didn't have pictures of the poop incidentS (Yes there have been more than one)

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As a mommy I clean up multiple messes a day and I guess I just get used to it because I let this happen. :)

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I went in there one morning and this is what I found! Yes she is asleep!  Uncomfortable ... YES.  Adorable .... YES!!!!

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Kaydence wanted to take a picture with my camera... this is what she got! haha

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Got to see my brother be sealed to mom ... AMAZING experience.  Can't wait until we are all an eternal family!!! :) (Really wish I knew how to turn this picture!)


So that was it! Like I said we did a TON of things in that short amount of time I just didn't take enough pictures! REALLY need to be better. Although I am sad to see summer go, I am very excited for fall!  I love the smells and the excitement of the holidays!!!!  I got so excited that I already got all my fall stuff out and I am really tempted to put a fall scent in my scentsy candle melter thing. I don't know the name obviously! I might just go and do that right now!!!!

Preschool ..... ALREADY?

Me having a little girl in preschool, one word, CRAZY!!!!  Although I was a little sad to think that Kaydence was old enough to be going to preschool and that I was going to be leaving her for two hours with someone else,  I was really excited that she got to go and learn.  Even if what she was going to be learning about was colors and the alphabet. I think I was more excited than she was!!! ha ha   

         

Thank you mom for giving me the chalkboard idea.  I LOVE IT!!! (I think all the other moms were jealous that they didn't think of it themselves! hee hee)  Kaydence absolutely loves her teacher, Miss Marcie!  After she got home from school she pretended she was the teacher all day and had students.  It was the cutest thing.  I am so glad that she has something to look forward to every friday (and me too) !

I told Kaydence if she was good for her first day of school that I would take her to arctic circle:

This was so much fun!  I remember being little and having these fun little outings with my mom!  Kaydence, I can't believe how big you are getting!  I love my two little girls so much!  It turned out to be a great day! (even though I really didn't get anything done that I needed too! somtimes those are the best days though)

YELLOWSTONE!!!

 The beginnings of our road trip to Yellowstone!!! We were excited!!

 We decided to break the trip up and stay in a hotel one night so that we wouldn't have to do so much driving with the girlies!!! Worked out much better! Happier girls, made for a happier mommy!

Okay so this was pretty much our first family vacation that was outside of Utah and I feel bad that it had to be with certain people who shall remain nameless but I think overall it was so much fun!! To tell you the truth I really didn't even care to ever to go to Yellowstone.  I didn't get why people would want to drive around all day just to see some wildlife here and there and a bunch of trees! Boy was I surprised when I got up there and I felt like a little kid again everytime I saw an animal even the buffalo that we saw a million times! Not to mention how beautiful it was up there, I LOVED LOVED LOVED it! Being in those kind of places just leaves me feeling at awe with how amazing and wonderful our Heavenly Father in heaven is and this place that he created for us to live in.  I can't imagine what the celestial kingdom will be like!! It's at these places that I feel humbled and blessed for the knowledge and testimony I have of our Savior! 
Any way .... there were a TON more pics but I might post those lata!!!! I am very grateful for the opportunity that we had to go on this wonderfully beautiful vacation!

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 "Guess what uncle Dallas? My birthday is coming up!"  I love that she said this and has been so excited for her birthday! My little baby is growing up! It's not fair that time goes by so fast and we only get a little bit of time with them before they get their own families. I need to love every minute with them now!

 Taking a break from opening all her presents.  It is a lot of work!

 hasn't stopped playing with this since she got it!

 LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

cute jammies!

Kaydence, You are already three.  I remember when we found out that you were going to have a birth defect , it was the day we found out we were having a girl.  I remember feeling so overwhelmed and feeling sad by the thought of you in pain as soon as you came into this world.  I received a blessing shortly after we found out and an overwhelming feeling of peace entered into my heart and I knew that everything was going to be okay.  You were in the hospital for two months.  It was hard for me and daddy to see you in there but I would come up everday and just hold you.  I hated leaving you at the hospital but I knew that you were in safe hands because my blessing told me there would be angels that would be with you!  You were such a little fighter, it was like you knew before you came here that you were going to have to go through this trial, and you were so strong.  Your personality now explains why Heavenly Father new you could go through it!  You were a fighter and you still are.  I hope you will always keep that fiesty attitude of yours and always remember that Mommy and Daddy love you so much and that Heavenly Father Loves you too! He will always be there for you no matter what! Mommy and Daddy will not always be perfect parents, we will always be striving to be that way but it's just a plain fact that we will never be perfect but Heavenly Father is perfect.  Even if you don't decide to come to mommy and daddy at times I hope you will always remember that you can go to Him.  Through him we can become perfect.  I love you so much!!!! I can't believey you are three!  Happy Birthday!!!! :)

Love, Mommy

UPDATES

Ever since I bought Kaydence's swimsuit she has been dying to wear it, so I thought it would be fun if they wore them for bathtime and they looked so cute!!!!  I love these pictures!  Kaydence loves being a little mommy to Adallyn! I especially love Adallyn's smile in these pictures!

I got Kaydence's haircut again and she was so tired the poor thing fell asleep. I ended up having to hold her head up so that Courtney could finish cutting it!!! I thought it was all good and she would just stay asleep the rest of the night but I was wrong, she woke up at 9 and didn't go back to sleep until 12. You kept mommy awake Kaydence, but I still love you!!!! :)