The fun we have at home!

These are things that Elly has just figured out. She has decided that she likes to try to dress herself, pull EVERYTHING out of the cupboard in the bathroom, and crawl under things to find the smallest things. I just sit and laugh at her, which I might regret later because she thinks everything she does is SO cute. I am screwed! HELP! haha

Elly trying to dress her self. Everything goes on her head (which messes up her hair. We have lots of fights over her hair.)

Being silly.

Elly has figured out there are alot of things hiding under the sink in the bathroom that she likes to play with. She has decided the curling iron is her favorite. This was her crawling out from under the sink.

Her with her prize.

Pulling EVERYTHING our from under her dresser. I guess we won't ever loose anything with Elly around.

I was able to catch her under the sink this time. She is always ready to pose for a picture.

After a long day of playing, a nap is just what she needs. She will be so much happier when she wakes up! Thank goodness for naps!

The last few weeks have been crazy!

Since we moved, I feel like we have been running around with our heads cut off :).

We had to find clothes for Jason to start work with, get clothes for the reception (oh boy let me tell you how bad that sucked), Taylor got married, Jason left for San Jose 3 three days later, I went to Price to hang out, I came back to pick Jason up and then drop him off two days later, and then I went back to Price. When Jason came back, I came home and picked him up and then drove back to Price the next day for Taylor's open house in Price. Now Jason has started with Ernst and Young and I get to STAY HOME!!! I think of the teacher's that I worked with and I all I can think of is poor suckers....just kidding. I have got so much accomplished in the last two days it's amazing! My house is almost to the point to where I think it should be. It's fun. I will probably start to get bored in a couple weeks but I am over it. Well here are some pictures of us at the open house. I could not get Elly to smile with Jason. I don't know what her deal was. :)

My baby is a year old!

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. We had a baby, (July 10th), I finished my 2nd year of teaching, Jason graduated from BYU and will be starting with Ernst & Young in less than a week, and we have moved to Murray. All I have to say is WOW what a year. It's crazy how quickly life can change. It has been a great but very challenging year. I really got frustrated with having to take Elly all over creation, I had a class from you know where (but I loved them with all my heart), Jason had a freakin butt load of group projects and school assignments (and we thought this was suppose to be the easy year), and this last move just about killed us. I guess they say what is hard only makes you stronger (I know that is not how the saying goes, but oh well you know what I mean).

Well, Elly has definitely changed our lives for the good. I think is is funny how all of a sudden she knows how to squeal when she is mad and jumps up and down in her bed when she is really ticked. It's pretty funny but I can't let her see that I think it is funny! Anyways, here are pictures from her birthday party in Price and Huntington.
*They are not in order because I could not get the stupid thing to work and I started to loose my patient :)*

Family Pictures

Here are our recent family pics. We figured since Elly was turning 1, we needed to get 1 year pictures and family pictures done. If you want really good pictures, this is the best place to go! I love how she took and designed out pictures and she got Elly to smile really well. The link is on our blog under Cheap Shots Photography. She is also very reasonably priced! I highly recommend her! Here are our fun family pics :)

Fourth of July Weekend

For the Fourth of July, we first started off by going to the parade in Provo. We really enjoyed the parade and we were in the shade the whole time so it was REALLY good. After the parade, we went to Lehi to have a BBQ with some friends. Then went to the fireworks in Provo at Fox Field. Elly loved hanging out and really enjoyed seeing the fireworks. I think that was the most quiet I had heard her all day :). Here are a few pictures of us hanging out waiting for the fireworks to start.

On Sunday, we got up and got ready to head up on the mountain. We ended up going to Boulder Mountain (which is clear in the heck up there) and we were basically in the middle of nowhere, but we loved it! We had a great time hanging out with family and enjoying a break (I guess you could call it a break with Elly trying to get down and go crazy).

We decided to take the stroller because we knew that we would be doing a lot of fishing and walking to different lakes. We were walking down to the lake but the road was pretty rocky so Alyssa and Kaitlin decided this would be the best way to carry Elly. She like it :) She thought she was the princess (which she is)

Jason getting ready to cast his pole. He is such a goof ball.

Alyssa and Elly hanging out by the side of the lake. Elly just had to sit and stare at Alyssa.

Ok..so this was probably the funniest part of the trip. So Jason and Jenny (they are in the picture) decided they wanted to take someone elses canoe and go out into the middle of the lake and fish. Well, Jason made it in the canoe safely but as Jenny went to get in, she took her leg off of the log and went to put her other leg in the canoe and the canoe started to to move away from the log. She was doing the splits in between the log and the canoe. We laughed so hard! I felt bad but all I could do was laugh. *By the way she did not fall in. Jason helped her*
Elly's first ride on the 4 wheeler. She LOVED it. As soon as she got on, she went right to sleep. It was fun, but very difficult for me to hold on and keep her on at the same time.

Elly with her helmet on.

Jason and Elly eating lunch.

Elly eating a piece of licorice. She kept cramming it down her throat so we had to eventually take it away from her. She was pretty ticked.
Elly trying to take her helmet off.

Jason trying to get his bubble out of the water. He caught a big fish but it broke his line and he lost everything except his bubble. Poor J!

Jason fishing.

Jason still fishing.

Elly hanging out at the lake.

The awesome view of the lake.

Well, we had a great time this past weekend! It's always too bad when is has to end.