More Cousins in Vegas!!

Scotty's brother and his family moved to Las Vegas, from North Carolina! Getting to spend time with them this summer was an extra perk! Yay!

Things get crazy when these ones are together, if you can't tell by their smiles!

There is nothing like being with cousins.

Thanks for having us over a few times Bryan and Kalyn! The dinners were delish!

Ella and Nickel have a sweet relationship. I think they understand each other!

These two...T-R-O-U-B-L-E! Seriously. But, how cute are their ice cube thumbs up?!

More Southern Utah!

Waiting for Cousin Alisha's play to begin at the Shakespearean Festival! She did a fantastic job in Noises Off! She is also in the Music Man!

The campers!

Fun facts: Ella loves Croissants! And being thrown around in the pool!

Southern Utah 2011

Jason and Joe (my brothers) have been at Scout camps working all summer, so we took a trip up to Southern Utah to spend some time with them and get a little Shakespearean and Tuacahn in there as well! It was a really fun day. And sadly, it will most likely be the last time that all four of us siblings will be all together for at least two years!!! You know why?! Cause Joe is going on a Mission for our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
We are very excited for him.

Not the best picture...the sun was shining.

While the campers did their weekly laundry, we took a trip to Cal's Ranch for some, chick, duck and turkey play! And, I must say it is a miracle that we didn't go home with one of each for the little girls, and grandma!

We met back up at the bowling alley in Cedar. Do you know how long I've wanted to go there? I wasn't even sure if it was even still open.

Give me a high ten!

Ella ended up with a score of 92, the highest girl score, right behind Papa Kent and Jason! (Bumpers up!) We were pretty sure it was b/c of her 1 lucky bowling shoe, that was tied like a ballet toe shoe. ;)The scene

Sharing nuts with Jason's friend, Miranda and Papa. Pais brought her pistachios, Miranda brought her cashews. :)

We then drove to St. George for Tuacahn's showing of GREASE! (Little Mermaid is showing too! We're going Wednesday! :)

"Woo-hoo-hoo, honey!"
It was a long, jam-packed day!
And the girls were still happy at midnight, when we finally got to our hotel!

Faith.

Found some window markers at Target and though I don't love the lovely residue that is left on the windows AFTER I clean them, I did LOVE finding this little phrase that Paisley left for the world on Broadway to see.

Faith is like a little seed.

And here is the song that she is referring to, including some cute lil hand motions. :)
Love when they come home singing the primary songs that I haven't taught them.
It's like a sweet, little present.

Faith is knowing the sun will rise, (arms form a half-circle over head)
Lighting each new day. (arms slowly drop to shoulder level)
Faith is knowing the Lord will hear (cup hands behind ears)
My prayers each time I pray. (place hands together as in prayer)
Faith is like a little seed: (cup left hand and pretend to plant a seed in it with right hand)
If planted, it will grow. (right hand imitates a plant growing from the cupped left hand)
Faith is a swelling within my heart. (place hands over heart)
When I do right, (point right index finger upward)
I know. (touch right index finger to head)

SoOoOoO....I've been blogging from Las Vegas. We've been in Utah, California (with Scotty) and will be in Vegas til the beginning of August. (without Scotty) :( I'm very far behind on blogging. So I've decided to start backwards from here.... with the most recent, because that is what usually gets me all caught up!

Paisley Graduates from Kindergarten!!

Pais got all the love at her Kindergarten Graduation! (June 22, 2011) Ella got to ditch class and Elise, Gary and Daddy were able to come!! She was edible as usual, performing her songs and dances!
Here is one of the songs they sang!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkwXk9CCUo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

After the ceremony, the class met in their classroom for a picture slide show and each child read a poem that they wrote themselves! Adorable!!

Congratulations Paisley Anne. We're so proud you baby girl!

After the graduation, Scotty and I took our oldest niece, Elise, to lunch at 5 guys for her graduation gift! :) She is starting high school this year, its crazy. She was in Kindergarten when Scotty and I met! I remember watching her ABC- 123 performance on the internet, at the same elementary school the girls go to now! Love it!

Having visitors means....

...crossing off a few more things off our "NYC to do list"! Thank you!
(The list is never-ending.)

My cousins Kristin and Rachel came to celebrate Rachel's High School Graduation!
It had been awhile since we got to do some touring around, so it was great fun! Especially the day that it was 100 degrees and we all hopped in the car and did a driving tour, jumping out of the car to take a few pictures and climbing back into the air conditioning! :) We may have to do that again, when YOU come to visit.

The Donut Plant was on my mind. Our tummy's all got some love that day. Ella has a humongous cinnamon roll, which she shared with Paisley. Pais got some homemade strawberry lemonade, and somehow I ended up with coconut, mango and dulce de leche donuts! SO delectable! Scotty had a yummy after-work treat that night.

Ugh! Are they sitting by each other again?! They did pretty good sharing the chair, that's one small shop!

Ella found a fellow American Girl Doll Liker! Our girlies liked spending time with two girls that were sisters too!

More pictures to come!

Family Fun Day at the end of May.

Family Fun Days are the best. On this particular one, we went to Olive Garden...that's how I get these three little homebodies out of our apartment on a Saturday!

Then we went to the United Nations. Another check off our list! We all loved it. And the gift shop!

And then, the best part of the day was going to visit NYU Langone Medical Center, where Scotty works! The girls and I hadn't really been there. I must say that it seems like a wonderful place to work and visit! There is a playground on site for pediatric patients and their families to enjoy, that's open to the public as well. It's simply amazing. It is all wheelchair accessible and happy and beautiful! Just a little slice of heaven in the city. Also, connected to the playground is an aviary type place (although some birds are in cages), with all kinds of different birds, plants and a Koi pond. We walked through and visited it all.

I was so happy to see these in the bathroom. I'm always using my paper towels to open the bathroom doors when out in public and a lot of the time there are only hand air dryers (which I've heard create even more germs!) so NYU gets hospital of the year from me. :)

We got to go up and see an anesthesia machine and hang out in the office/break room.

A dove and it's eggs.
She's not the only one who enjoyed that hammock!


I think big, fluffy bunnies can make anyone smile!

Our happy car.

(It's blurry, but our car looked so happy on our street, under a tree with the sun shining on it, had to take a picture from our window! :)

Our car became New Yorker a few months ago, although it's been here for two years. We're all registered. We're quite thrilled that a majority of the time, we can find a parking where we can see the Mazda from our apartment window! It's wonderful! Before we moved, we were a little nervous that we wouldn't have as close of an eye on it as we did on 88th street, but this has actually been even better than before! Hooray! I love having our car available and actually enjoy finding parking...for the most part...Scotty has different feelings about that, but he's also much busier than I! Breaks up my long days while our girlies are in school...take a little trip to Target, Costco, New Jersey...a drive up the Hudson. SO thankful we have it.