August 2015!

August 2nd: 

Sundays are always wiping us out. We hang out with all our family!

When we got home from visiting everyone. I realized that my ring seemed scratchy.

I looked down and I had lost a diamond and the prong totally was gone too. 

That was the sharp part that I was feeling. This is the first diamond I have lost. Thank goodness for lifetime warranties. 

Its the small black looking hole at the top left. 

August 4th: We hung out with miss Katey! She just had her tonsils out and I miss my katey. 

We had a great conversation! I seriously snap chat this girl on the daily!

After bath selfies. This is the only time I can burrito this baby up anymore. 

I miss the cuddly stage. 

One of Charli's cousins found this baby bottle and gave it to Charli.

Charli really started sucking on it and was mad when nothing came out. 

August 7th:

Sister Sister... Give me the news! 

Yes the Malone sisters were back. Kelsey came into town to visit. It was so fun having her here and we did so much together! I wish we could convince her to move to utah! 

As we were out shopping at Station Park with my parents, sisters, and nieces and nephews. 

We stopped and ate at Johnny Rockets. Yum. 

Well Charli thought Grandma's fries looked good and grabbed one. 

She loved it until she started to gag. Sorry you don't have teeth yet Char.

Jamicure.. I love the daisy print and country club together! 

It lasted for 12 days! Yay!

August 8th: 

Mr & Mrs Kessler got married. 

I was lucky enough to drive down and be there for pictures and hang out with all the good old hooper friends. I miss these ladies. It was so fun walking around City Creek with them. We helped each other pick out outfits and just laugh. 

I was also lucky enough to do Jessie's Wedding Video. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoy putting those together. It shows so much personality of the couples! 

After the wedding we took the good old Seaswirl out with our friends to Willard Bay. 

And YES! That is me! I finally got up on the wake board. Go me! 

This was a perfect picture. It was the first time I got up. 

I tried it a few more times and then stopped after I face planted.. super hard. 

 Mid fall... 

When I came up I thought I lost my teeth. My face hurt so bad. 

We also have a great video of it! 

August 9th:

Sleeping in Relief Society. 

We bring the carseat in for moments like this. Sometimes its the only way to get her to take a nap.

Dinner at my parents with all the family. Man we are a big family. 

It was fun to have Grandma & Grandpa West there. 

Plus its always a bonus when you match your grandpa!

August 9th:

Cabbage Patch Charli!

At Grandma & Grandpa Nelson's. We were helping out in the garden and then this happened. 

We have always joked about Charli being a Cabbage Patch Kid. 

It was better off as a saying. She hated sitting in the leaves!

August 10th:

I got my ring back. It was so sparkly! :) 

August 12th:

We hung out in Kaysville with Auntie M, Kelsey and Grandma Malone.

We were at Homegoods and I saw the board book version of Jimmy Fallon's children book.

I showed it to Charli and she instantly was opening it. 

We have the bigger version. She loves it! Like not because I say she should. 

If she sees it you better be reading it. 

August 12th:

Wednesday nights are our nights at Great Grandma Smiths. She loves to play with this piano. 

She pushes all the buttons and keys. She makes the sheet music turn pages. 

I also bought and tried out this new CRUDE Personal Care. It is a oil cleansing method. 

I know its crazy because how can you help your acne by putting more oil on your face. But really I have loved this product. It works so much better than any other acne product I have used before. 

It takes my makeup off and it is great at treating blemishes overnight. 

August 13th:

I took my two kids shopping. 

Waffle Love and Target. What could be wrong? 

Oops. Don't forget we also went to Chipotle. 

It was a good day. 

Remember what I said about Jimmy Fallon? 

We love him and so does Charli! 

August 15th:

Cabin Time!

We had everyone up at the cabin. Don't you think this such a cool picture. 

Marci did some serious work to try and get my phone propped just right to take it. 

If you know anything about my family. You know that this is the place that all family pictures are taken at the Cabin. 

It was a fun time with games, four wheeling and lots of food.

August 18th:

I went to the eye doctor and was told after they dilated my eyes that I need to have someone come get me. I guess I shouldn't have been driving. But I really like these glasses that I picked from Costco.

They were cheap and I really love the selection that Costco has! 

August 19th:

Charli's nine month appointment. It was a long wait. But Kelly added some humor to it by dumping all the formula in the diaper bag out on the floor. 

Yay for not having to get shots!

August 20th:

But first let me take a selfie. 

Charli loves playing with our phones. She gets a kick out of looking at pictures of herself. 

August 21st: 

Remember that day we spent over 12 hours at the Apple Store and drank 2 Fiiz drinks. 

I wish I didn't remember that day. But at least I was there to give my mom company as we waited for her computer to transfer over to an external hard drive. We were there from 11am to 10pm. 

August 23rd:

Yes we both wear pineapples because we are cool!

August 23rd:

Saying goodnight to Grandma Smith. Charli loves going to Grandma's. 

We love seeing grandma as well!

August 24th:

Doing some Costco shopping with Grandma Malone. 

We graduated and can sit in the cart without a carseat. 

It's really cool.

August 24th:

Dance Studio Rat's.

We got together with Lisa & Alexa to go over some choreography and song ideas. 

It was a fun night. 

August 25th: 

Mom relaxation happens at midnight and it begins with a LUSH bath bomb and a bubble bath. 

Watching the Bachelor in Paradise on the iPad. 

August 26th:

Coaches who take selfies stay cool together. 

Yes we are all wearing Beatles shirts.

Woot. Can't wait for this next year. We started some awesome routines.

August 26th:

Tulle, flowers, and pink bows. It can't get any better in the PJ department.

August 28th:

It can't get any better than one last swim party with our cousins.

Yes she has a good sunscreen mohawk going on. 

After we went swimming Kelly helped me set up for a Visiting Teaching Interview breakfast the next morning. We did a Waffle bar and had a great time with the ladies in our ward. It was a lot of work but I love Waffles so who cares. We got dinner at our favorite Costa Vida and watched some Netflix.

August 29th:

We ended summer right with going to Farr's Ice Cream with my parents.

It was a fun night. And yes I got Play Dough. It's the best ice cream as far as I am concerned. 

July 2015

July 2nd

We survive because of naps somedays!

4th of July!

We spent the weekend at the cabin with some of our friends! 

We tried out the hiking backpack on a walk to the river!

Tongue out always! 

The Weller's! If you look closely you can see B's homemade leash. Carli is one creative mom!

Lets go for a dip? Kelly & Moss decided a dip in the river would be fun. Well it sure was fun for everyone else. They were quite cold after! 

We drove down to Evanston to watch some fireworks, eat dinner and light off our own fireworks!

Your not cool unless you wear Old Navy flag shirts! 

I fell in love with this festive outfit for charli at Old Navy. The front says "Shine like the stars" and the back is an adorable cut out with little red bows! ...it makes me happy! Lets not even mention the cute blue and white star shorts that came with it!

Mom & Daughter Attitude was on point. The entire trip she was all about stinking her tongue out!

We were sitting right by the LDS church while watching the city fireworks. The whole time all the citizens were lighting off fireworks as well. It was war zone. We stayed to watch more even after the cities were done. I was shocked at how many people spend money on fireworks. When I thought we were cool for buying roman candles & neon sparklers. 

Scary story: As we were watching the fireworks the church has a metal roof on it. And well an  artillery shell hit my shoulder. If you look at the picture of me holding charli it hit my right shoulder which was only about 4 inches away from charli.  

Janae and Charli hanging out at the firework shop! It was a fun day for everyone although me and Janae sometimes acted like we weren't married to our husbands! They totally acted like little boys once they had their fireworks. 

July 6th: Lunch with the girls!

It was fun day of talking and of course what's bad about Costa Vida! 

Love my girls! 

July 7th:

If you are lucky enough to go on the Seaswirl then you know all about this saying! ;)

July 9th:

Puppy & Playing. 

Kelly was gone to scout camp at Lake Powell so that meant me and charli hung out by ourselves for the week. Which meant she did a lot of playing and Nala was a great puppy as well. Nala really likes being close to charli. 

While Kelly was gone to Scout Camp. I found a pleasant surprise on my front porch. There are two big food groups I live on and that is Pizza & Salsa. But not any salsa.. Tyson makes the best Salsa and he happened to be home that week and made some just for me! It was delicious! 

July 10th:

Cuddles oh cuddles. Something about grandma malone and Stuart. But Charli was so content hanging out with both of them. The best part is Grandma and Stuart were just as happy.

Before and after! 

Above is the queen bed... 

Below is heaven.. aka King BED

Ever since Charli I have hated our Queen size bed. I wanted more space and I hated how the mattress felt on my back.. Well after saying that in front of family. Kelly's Brother in Law Chris found us this steal of a deal on a King one. 

After church one sunday Kelly and I spent the afternoon hauling out the old bed and setting up the heaven of a King. After sleeping on it for a while now. I WOULD NEVER GO BACK!

July 13th: Watching So You Think You Can Dance & the Bachelorette

training her early.

July 14th :

Dinner with the Nelson Family at ABC Mandarin. 

It was a fun time to see Aunt Diane and Uncle Skip, every time they are in town all of us go eat chinese with them. All of the kids love Chinese food and we always have tons of leftovers. We tried giving Charli so steamed rice and well she threw up all over. Just one parent failure. 

July 15th: Chillin at the studio.

Charli goes everywhere with me.. I am sure you figured that out but she does great at the studio. There are times she wants to be held and other times she just acts like a goof ball. This was one of those times.

My Grandma is still cool and buys all of us grandkids nerf guns. I waited for Kelly to come inside and had all the lights off and started shooting him from the kitchen. It was awesome! 

Looking for peace and quiet. This is the toy. Charli loves playing with all the fun things that are on this toy. 

July 16th:

Bee's Game with my parents!

I was whining for an Ice Cream Cone... then my dad came back with this.. 

Did I mention that my dad is pretty cool. 

Ever since I was a kid he would take me to the Raptors game for Daddy Daughter Dates it always ended with him buying dinner and some type of souvenir. Yes I was the favorite girl!

Charli even got her first foul ball at her first baseball game. She loved it. My mom actually caught it and fought an 8 year old boy over it.. just kidding. But she really did catch it. Way to go Grandma. 

July 17th:

Sass and Tude. 

We spent the night doing yard work and someone wasn't happy that she couldn't have either of us.

July 18th: 

We took Grandma Smith out to breakfast at Jeremiah's. They have the best breakfast!

Grandma loved it and so did everyone else. 

We then spent the rest of the day at Willard Bay!

This was Charli's first time! It was kind of an overcast day and Kelly was just waiting for me to say 'let's go home'. But then it cleared up and was gorgeous! We hung out with his sisters foreign exchange students. They loved tubing on the back of our boat and were taking so many fun pictures. They had never been to a lake before.. Even though we wouldn't say Willard is a lake. 

I also was able to give them some Taylor Swift CD's after we found out they really like her! 

My type of girls!

July 19th:

Church Selfies. 

Sometimes when we are stinkers and scream in Sacrament Meeting we hang out in the hall. And sometimes we take our Sunday Selfies.. What's wrong with that?

July 20th:

I get crap for this picture from my family. "Glad to know you buy cereal maggie!" 

Okay, I only took this because it shows perfectly that Charli looks like her dad!

Twinners!

July 21st:

Let her sleep.. or watch her sleep. ...I spent the morning in Charli's room just looking at her and thinking how did we have such an amazing girl come into our lives. 

Beyond Glazed.. 

Yum.

Yes that is a Maple Bacon Doughnut, Raspberry Mango Doughnut, Old Fashioned and Cookie's and Cream.. And yes they are delightful. 

July 23rd:

Thumb Sucking Charli. We love our thumb! 

July 24th:

A creeper in the nursery.

Good Ole Tyson. Taking a nap in Charli's Room. 

We celebrated the fourth by going to the rodeo. Well I didn't want to go. I knew that it would be a packed night and horrible seating. I also knew that it wasn't the best place for a 8 month old to be entertained with. So after a good old fight between me and kelly we left the rodeo.

Hello Zeppes. We introduced Tyson to this wonderful gelato shake. It was amazing. 

 July 25th: 

Surf N Swim! 

The best part about Kelly's family is being able to go to all of his siblings and brother in laws work parties. Tonight was one of them. It was fun eating and hanging out in the pool. Charli loved the water but she mostly hung out with her aunts and Grandma Nelson. 

July 27th:

I love this outfit so I had to take some pictures of her plus she was babbling and saying bye bye. 

What happens when Dad feeds you.. 

Is there any in her belly?

(Really she gets food stuck up her nose and then food boogers happen)

When mom feeds you! Happy little lark fell asleep. She is a chunky bloated monkey.

July 30th: 

Trying out our pincher skills. She loved trying to eat some bread crumbs. 

July 30th:

Swim day at Auntie M's. We love their pool almost more than we love them..

shhh. Just kidding. 

I spy with my little eye..

Someone likes to roll over and look at their mom grabbing diapers. 

Second Cousins... Charli and Georgie. We absolutely love Georgie and she was so happy to sit and play with Charli. Georgie is such a sweet girl. Before we left the wedding Georgie made sure to tell me she wants to babysit Charli. 

Family Picture at Baby Norah's Blessing!

Here Comes August!