Pioneer Celebration

To celebrate Pioneer Day, we decided to make a quick trip to Utah to visit Corey's family and celebrate with them. It was a lot of fun. The kids got to run free, play with all their cousins, and it was especially nice to get out of the heat for a couple of days. Here are a few of the things that we did.

{Went to the parade}

The boys even got to ride on a float. Great Grandpa Huntman turns 100 this year, so he had his own float. Hailey and Emery were still asleep and missed the whole thing, but the boys loved it and got a whole bunch of candy.

{Ran the races}

{Enjoyed snow cones and a water fight}

(Well Brendan was enjoying getting everybody else wet; he just didn't like it when he got wet.)

Corey also took the kids to the rodeo and they loved it. It was a nice break for everyone and kind of hard to leave. We, of course, made a stop in St. George to eat at Pizza Factory on the way home, no trip would be complete without that.

In 1 months time...

...she has indulged in many late night meals. Has made a significant dent in the diaper stockpile. Dirtied many burp cloths. Been mauled on a daily basis by her siblings. Is starting to show some chubbiness, is up to 10 pounds, and has almost outgrown her newborn clothes. Sleeps for 5 hour stretches. Has grown fond of her binkey. Shows a great intolerance to dirty diapers. Is awake and alert much more. I think I love her more and more everyday.

To Infinity and Beyond!!

Hailey's latest obsession

We have been through this before. Carter absolutely loved this movie. He wore the costumes from Halloween on a daily basis. He actually literally wore them out. He slept with the movie case and his Woody doll for months. If he wasn't in costume, he had on his cowboy boots and hat.

Obvioulsy he has moved on to new obsessions and the movie had not been watched in a really long time. Awhile back we sat down to watch a movie together and they decided to watch something they had not watched in a long time. Toy Story 2 was their choice. Well,now Hailey is hooked. She is obsessed. She asks to watch it everyday and insists she is a cowgirl (or sometimes a springy dog). All the toys have been dug out of the buckets and she walks around singing "You've got a friend in me." Too bad Woody was donated to goowill a few months ago and Buzz was broken and thrown out ( kind of ironic huh?). They provided a lot of entertainment.

Although, I have to admit that this is an obsession that I am okay with. I actually really enjoy the movie. And maybe with the new one coming soon we will be able to replace some of our cherished toys. So we will enjoy this for a little while until a new obsession is discovered.

A few more...

Lovin' this little face-she is getting more and more alert everyday.

(Hannah, notice the outfit, so cute, huh?)

In the last few weeks...

...not only did we literally celebrate the birth of a new baby, but we also celebrated a couple of birthdays...

{Happy Birthday to Carter and Brendan}

Can you tell what Brendan wanted for his birthday?

We managed to have a small party for them before Emery was born. Brendan had a Star Wars party with his friends, then Carter's friends came and they all had cake and ice cream together before Brendan's friends left and Carter had a movie night with his guests. It was kind of crazy, but the boys had a lot of fun. We now will celebrate 3 birthdays in 6 days at our house, so June will always be a busy month for us.

It's a good thing we had Brendan's celebration early though because on the day of his actual birthday is when we went back to the doctor with the baby and she had to go to the hospital and Brendan started another round of antibiotics for an ear infection. Hopefully, next year will be a little less eventful.

We also celebrated the {4th of July}

My parents were here to help out over the holiday so we BBQ'd and did a few fireworks on the patio. Obviously, with a brand new baby we weren't going far, but the kids still had a good time.