Summers over...onto school

School came WAY too fast! I swear the Summers get shorter every year.  And in a blink of an eye, its over.  Cambree was thrilled to start 3rd Grade this year!

And since Addison started Kindergarten this year she got to have an extra week off before school for her.  Wasatch County was the first County in Utah to do all day Kindergarten.  It was a big adjustment for her to be in school all day long.  It was also weird for Lincoln and I to be together all day long without the two girls!

The girls had a fun first day of school!

Addison at 6

I can't believe it's been 6 years since the twins were born.  It all happened in a blink of an eye.  We miss our Allie so very much it still hurts every day that passes to not have her here with us. Nothing we can do about it, except move on and enjoy every single day with the ones we love and make the most of what time we have with one another.

Some of our family gathered together at her grave site.  I love that we have our tradition of sending her love notes on balloons to Heaven.

Addison is such a fun spirited child.  She's all sorts of sassy, sweet & shy. She doesn't like to interact with new people.  She smiles this funny way when she doesn't want to be smiling.  She hides when she gets into trouble (usually under a table or chair), if she's crying and Benton says to her "You better turn that cry into a smile"...she always giggles.  She never falls asleep in the car.  She talks non-stop.  Her and Cambree sleep in the same twin every night even though they both have their own beds. She loves to copy letters from things around her so my passwords have ended up written out on big pieces of paper.  She still loves to be carried like a baby after her bath.  She cries when you brush her hair.  She loves to be tickled, she will hold up her hand, arm, legs or shirt where she wants you to "title" her.  We love who she is and can't wait to see what she will become.

Her c's and k's are t's.  So when she speaks it's still adorable.  Example: school is "tool", cat is "tat", car is "tar", kitty is "titty".  However she is getting tested to go into speech therapy to help her.

We loved celebrating our girls on their birthday!  6 is going to be a good year!

Here are some of Addison's Favorite Things at 6:

Food- Thai Noodles

Candy- Peanut Butter Cups

Best Friend- Evie

Color- Pink

Animal- Zebra

Movie- Snow White

Wants to be- An Artist

Love you Addison!

Party for ADDISON!

For Addison's 6th Birthday, she wanted to have her first ever friends party!  I must admit it made me a little sad because that means she's growing up and wants to do her own thing.  But it makes me happy seeing her with her cute friends. 

We had a pool party planned for our house but it started raining.  So we picked up her friends and we all went to the Heber City Pool!  They had the best time and I was glad we went to the big pool because the kids loved it so much!

Little Lincoln

Our little man has so much personality and we love how it shines through!  He's obsessed with dinosaurs and rolling his tongue right now!

Island Park

We planned a trip the beginning of this year with The Earl family (Benton's sister) and the Sanders Family (our niece)!  Our kids have the best time with each other and they loved camping within walking distance of one another.  

We were able to walk to the river and let the kids play (supervised of course).  

We all headed to Yellowstone for the day.  We ended up splitting up because it was a bit too hard trying to stay all together.  But we all saw some amazing wildlife and nature.

 My favorite part was just being able to relax and hang out.  I'm pretty sure that's what my kids favorite part was as well!

And we all know Benton's favorite part of camping, fishing!

I love the Summer months and being able to explore.  Also I love our families and being able to fun stuff like camping together!

Fairy Land

Since we've lived in Heber, I've heard of a little place in the Uinta's called Fairy Land.  My mom came up for the day so we decided to go see what it was all about!  I had no idea that off a little path was so many fairy gardens people have made through the years.

The kids had so much fun looking at everything.  My mom brought a couple fairies to find a good spot to live.  Addie was disappointed she didn't actually see a real fairy flying around. We assured her that they don't want people to see them so they hide from humans.  I love her little imagination!

We live in such a beautiful place!  It's pretty crazy to me!

Summer Days!

We spent the morning with my parents at the Natural History Museum!  I love that they make such an effort to spend time doing activities with my kids.  I know my kids love spending as much time with them as they can!

Afterwards we headed to my brothers lush apartment to swim!  My kids basically had the whole pool to themselves and they were in heaven! Thanks Tom for a great afternoon!

Rest of our trip

The last few days of our trip in Star Valley, we spent with just our own family exploring around the mountains nearby.

We headed up to Murphys Lake for the day to play in the water and fish!

The next day we headed out to go fly fishing up in the Little Greys River.  Benton is teaching Cambree how to fly fish on her own.  She looks ADORABLE in her wadders!

We had the best break spent in the mountains with our favorite people!  I'm so glad I can call each of these people mine.  Hope you all had a great 4th of July week!