Fun Week!

                    Gavin had Fall break this week, which meant lots of fun family time!!  Oh ya!  The girls have been playing outside and eating lots of popsicles (mostly because AZ weather is amazing right now, it is in the 80's, sooooo nice!)  We're finally out of the heat wave! 


 Last night, we took the fam to a miniature golf/batting cage place in Scottsdale (courtesy of Mary and Josh's b-day gift to us, thanks guys).  The girls had fun, even though they couldn't hardly hold the golf clubs :)  Gavin and I were competetive as usual, and Gavin won :(  boo.  (by 2 points). 

                                                             Gavin at the batting cages! 

       And we found this amazing park about 5 mintues away that the girls LOVE!  We went there tonight and had a picnic and playtime :)  The weather is awesome right now, so we can finally enjoy being outside. 

                And here Hallie is again, enjoying popsicles :)  She is going to turn 1 this coming Sunday (the 16th).  I cannot believe how fast she has grown up, she has been so fun. 

                                  Life is good here in AZ, and we've adjusted to the new climate.

Life lately

We're loving our rental house in AZ!  Here are the girls enjoying movie time!  It is still blazing hot here everyday, I'm still getting used ot this.  I'm waiting or it to get cold and start snowing, but that won't be happening here :)  I gotta get used to this weather :)   



Abby is really growing up lately!  We love you cutie!




One of their favorite things, swimming on our backyard!  They always tell everyone that we have a backyard, it is a big deal for our family :)  We've never had one yet :) 




Cute Hallie, yes, that is a big booger on her eyebrow, sorry about that :)  We've all had colds for about two weeks now and are finally getting over it.   




One happy girl!! 

Gavin has mid-terms coming up this week, can't belive his first semester of law school is halfway done!  He is enjoying it so far and is staying really busy.  We're thankful to be living in such a nice home while we're still in school. 



I just realized I never posted our family pictures!  These were taken back in April I think, sorry for the delay :)  My friend, Stacy Thiot, took these for us, and did an amazing job as always! 

We are loving our new place in AZ, but are a little homesick for Utah.  Gavin is busy with law school, and I'm busy with the girls and keeping up on the housework and Etsy.  We are loving our new ward and our new adventure though! 

My poor, neglected blog

Wow, life is CRAZY right now.

And yes, this blog has been suffering because of it!

So for a quick update, Gavin was accepted into Phoenix School of Law and we are trying to get all packed for the big move to AZ on August 11th!  It is quite the task to pull off with three little girlies running around.  Everything we clean/pack gets messed up 5 minutes later, lol.  We found a cute house in AZ that we will be renting, and I am sooooooooooo excited for the following things:

a garage
a fenced-in yard for the girls
a nice sized kitchen
a driveway
pretty much, just really excited to be able to rent a HOUSE!! 

I have been taking all the orders I can with my Etsy business, so I have been sewing like crazy, and am about to go nuts.  But, I'm thankful for the extra little income. 

Oh, we just got a new car!!  It is a Chrystler Paciffica (sp?), and it is a beauty :)  I guess my car accident paid off in the end :)  I'll post pictures of everything soon, but for now, work work work and packing!!! 

4th of July Celebrations ( so far :)

Yesterday was a really fun day!! We wanted to do something fun (and free), for the girls for the 4th of July, but there wasn't much going on in Provo/Orem area. So, we went to Riverton for a few hours to walk around their booths and the girls went on a few little rides. It was so fun, but hot! So, we didn't last too long. We ended up coming back down to Provo to watch the Stadium of Fire Firework show, which was so fun. The girls loved the fireworks, even Hallie enjoyed most of them! I think Hallie was just so tired that she didn't even realize there was a firework show going on, haha. More fun tomorrow with the Provo parade in the morning and getting together with cousins!

On a side note, we are still working out everything with our car accident. Insurance companies are taking their sweet time, but hopefully we can get into another car this coming week. We've been enjoying driving the Nissan Cube though, it is a fun little car :) I'm still going in for my whiplash pain, and feel so lucky I don't have any broken bones or serious injuries. I'll most likely be getting an MRI of my nose/mouth area from where I hit on the steering wheel this week as I have had continued pain in my nose and mouth. Gavin will find out this week if we are accepted into Phoenix School of Law (hopefully by Wednesday), and then we can start planning our move out there if it works out :) Life it crazy right now, but we have been so blessed in many ways.





A scary thought, Abby driving a car, lol.





another scary thought of Bailey driving a car :)
our cute girlies :)

Recent Pictures

Life is busy lately, and since the weather is finally warm here in Utah, we have been getting outside a lot with the girls. They run out the door any chance they get when the weather is good :)

We went up to Grama and Grampa's last Sunday for dinner, and the girls loved playing with their cousins!! We were so excited to have my brother, John's family move back to Utah!
Cute Becca and Tommy

The guys discussing something, probably how wild the girls are :)


playin' hop scotch
Singing a primary song with cousin, Alli :)
This was so cute, I spotted Bailey reading a book to Hallie one day, had to get a picture of that one!
Hallie is such a happy little thing, we just love her!
First time ever with pigtails! It was a miracle I got them in!
Mother's Day (yes, these pictures are totally random, hehe)
Hallie is on the move lately! She is doing an army crawl and rolls and rolls. She is also putting everything in her mouth, which forces us to keep a perfectly clean floor now :)

It is amazing that Gavin and I can keep up with our busy girls; we try our best :) We're so thankful for our cute daughters.

Gavin is starting his last week of the law school courses this coming week, and then we'll drive out to Arizona to take his tests and check out the area for housing. This summer is flying by!

We were also excited to get family pictures done with our friend Stacy Thiot before they moved to SF. Hop over to her cute photography blog for a preview: click here :)