The Happenings of Late

I've been neglecting our blog lately. It hasn't been intentional, I've just had a lack of pictures and time/motivation to do it. I looked on the camera yesterday and found that I had a few things on there to catch up on. So instead of doing a bunch of differnt posts, I decided to lump them all together into a really long post about what we've been up to in the past month. When we moved to Utah, we all got a new hair stylist - Aunt Shannon (Danny's sister). After Alyssa, Danny, and I all got haircuts, Ashley did not want to be left out of the fun. So we let Shannon cut her hair also (I had been trying to talk her out of it for fear that once we cut it, she would loose her curls). I thought it was Ashley's first haircut, so I had Danny take a bunch of pictures of it. When I went to tape some of her hair into her baby book, I noticed that there was already some hair in there, so we must have done a simple haircut in the past that I didn't remember. Ashley did really well for her haircut and was so excited to have it done. And I'm happy that she still has her beautiful curls.
I made some new hair bows for the girls a few weeks ago that the girls were pretty excited about. One day they were upstairs playing dress-up and then came down to show me how pretty they looked. I had a good laugh and then grabbed our camera.

Danny's parents gave us their old fire pit, so we finally tried it out. This was our third attempt to use it. The first time it started raining about 5 minutes after we got the fire going. The second time it started raining before we even lit the fire. This time, there was no rain to ruin the roasting and smore's fun.

We took a trip down to Phoenix last week. Danny had a conference there so we went with him and visited my brother's family. We also stopped in Henderson on the way down there and stayed with my sister. We had a nice evening visiting with them. Once in Arizona, the girls enjoyed playing with their cousins, going swimming in their swimming pool, and sleeping in the same room as the two girls closest in age to them. They didn't enjoy how hot it was there. None of us were happy about the small head injury Alyssa got less than an hour after getting to my brother's house. She fell off of a very large ball and hit their ping pong table on the way down. She put a gash in her head that had to be stapled up (with two little staples). Danny was fortunately around that night and spent three hours in urgent care with her. It put a damper on the first 24 hours we were there which had to remain swimless by order of the doctor. We made up for it the rest of the week by swimming twice a day.

The one problem with going on vacation is that we came back to these.

They are so big that we don't quite know what to do with them. I used a third of the zucchini to make bread, used another third of it for dinner that night, and I guess the rest of it will be used tonight. We love that our garden is finally producing delicious food.

Some other pictureless happenings:

My parents came through town on their annual "theater tour" as they call it and stayed with us for a night right before our trip to Phoenix. It was fun to see them and play some One High (that is the game of choice on my side of the family).

I signed Ashely up for a two day a week Preschool in American Fork. I was lucky enough to find one that starts 10 minutes after Alyssa starts school in the morning and finishes 30 minutes before Alyssa is done. I'm looking forward to the two days a week that I will have in order to run errands, excercise without kids, or just read if I choose.

Danny and I celebrated our 8th Wedding Anniversary while we were in Arizona. It happened to be on the one day that we didn't get to see each other at all. However, we celebrated before we went by going to an event called "Taste of the Valley." It was an event where different vendors from all over Utah Valley come to one place and let you sample something off of their menu. We paid $10 each and left so full that we thought we would explode. Some of the food was good and some of it not so much. We learned which places never to try on our own. We are also celebrating again in a couple of weeks by going to see "The Sound of Music" up at Sundance. We are looking forward to that also. I am so thankful for meeting Danny 8 1/2 years ago and for being lucky enough to be married to him. I couldn't ask for a better husband and Father to my sweet girls.