Happy First Birthday Pen!

Our sweet Baby Penny turned 1! She is the sweetest and best baby. She loves her older sister "ceec", "mama", "dada", and her very first official word "dog". She loves our Sarge and every other dog so much. We walk into our house and she says dog over and over again until she sees him. She loves to eat, she's gotten very good at signing it too. She always waves 'hi' and 'bye', and signs "more" and "please". She loves to hug, but we call it the Penny Lean, she will just lay her head on your shoulder and smile, it's the best kind of hug. She's a super crawler too! She has gotten so fast I don't think she even wants to walk. 

We were lucky enough to have family in town for Penny's birthday, so they all came over for some chocolate cupcakes. It was so fun to have all of this family in our home celebrating a birthday. 

Then since my parents were out of town, we did another party the next week. We are so lucky to have both grandparents here for this sweet girl's birthday party. We love this sweet and happy girl and are so blessed to have her in our lives and in our home. 

Bear Lake with the Jacksons

Sue had been planning a big family reunion in August with everyone in Provo. But when we came home from Bear Lake talking about what a great time we had she decided to reserve a cabin last minute so we could go up there for a few days out of the week. We went up with Bob, Sue, Jane Anne, and Jared's Family, then met Rob's Family there. Livy loved being in the same house as all of her cousins. They all got along really well, and she loved playing with them all. 

We spent mostly all day Monday and Tuesday at the beach, in the water and playing on the boat. We had 4 babies under the age of 17 months, so it was a bit of a challenge, but we all survived and managed to have fun in the meantime!

We had such an awesome time. We love Bear Lake and look forward to making many many more memories there in the future. 

On our way home Livy was doodling, and I told her to write her name, and I was so impressed I had to take a picture to remember how amazing this little girl is!!

Family Pictures 2014

I've been wanting to hang family pictures up on our walls, so I just decided to get some new ones taken since Baby Pen had just turned 1. I had gotten some advice from a friend, to get an appointment for family pictures the week of so you don't have time to stress over it, it was great advice! I called our friend Lizzy, and got an appointment for that next Saturday. The girls were perfect for the entire hour, and we loved every picture that was taken. I am so grateful we have these precious pictures to remember this special and fun time in our lives. We love these two sweet girls so much. 

Primary Pioneer Parade

Livy had been looking forward to the Pioneer Parade for weeks (even though I don't think she really knew what it was all about). She knew she had to dress up like a pioneer and she knew there would be donuts. So since she was so excited I decided to make her her own little pioneer outfit. She complained about the long walk, and it being hot, but was so happy to get her donut. I love watching her grow up and look forward to these kind of activities!