Summerfest!

Orem has a carnival every year in June and it it rains every year in June! Despite the rain, its still fun. We walked around looking at all the booths and let Rachel go on a couple rides. Then when it gets dark we come back for fireworks.





Rachel is a bunny!

She's making a pig

So cute!

They had a princess booth and Rachel got to dress up!

Daddy and Rachel on the merry-go-round

Rachel really wanted to ride the spinning strawberries and she was just a pinch too short but the guy working the ride didn't seem to care. I thought she wouldn't like all the spinning but she had fun.

Aunt Heather!

We waited about an hour to see the fireworks and it was a little chilly for June.

Rachel liked the fireworks but not how loud they were.

Walking back to the car.

This is the newest edition!

Welcome Kita! She is a 6 week old Pit Bull and so cute!

Tulip Festival

On Saturday we went with some friends to the Tulip Festival. Its just a 15 min drive from where we live. Rachel had a lot of fun running around on all the spacious grassy areas. And yes, I cut her hair short! She loves it and I love it because now I don't have to fight with her every day to get all the tangles out. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Our little ballerina

Rachel loves dressing up like a ballerina and dancing all around the house. She always asks for "girl music" so she can dance to it. She says she is going to be a dancer like her aunt Heather.

So do I put her in Ballet this summer or preschool?

Timp triathlon

On April 17th Will ran the Timp triathlon in Orem. This was his 3rd time doing this particular race. He didn't train as much but still came in at 1hr 8min. Thats only about a minute slower than his first time doing this course. Pretty good, I think.

He has done a few races with his friend Matt but he just went on his mission a few days before this race. He plans on racing with Matt in mind for the next two years.

birthday week adventures

farm country at thanksgiving point

Jump on It- trampoline place

Lunch at the Mall

Family home evening

Baskin Robbins

Rachel's 3rd birthday

Rachel turned 3 on March 21st! I know, I am a month late blogging it.

Daddy helped Rachel open her family gifts on her birthday.

We had her party on Saturday, the day before her birthday. She wanted to have a girls only party this year so she picked out all the friends she wanted to be invited and chose a Dora the Explorer theme.

My mom came out from California for the week to visit and Rachel was very excited to have her Grandma Judd here. Mom's birthday is the day before Rachel's so they got to celebrate together.

Its crazy to think that she is 3 already. She is so smart and has grown so much. Well she is still small for her age coming in at only 27 lbs but you know what I mean.

Family Home Evening

I just have to write about Rachel for a minute for memory keeping sake. Maybe I'll be the only one who is touched by this story.
So, we try to have Family Home Evening every Monday night and Will usually picks a lesson out of the Ensign (church magazine). After the lesson, we read a few scripture stories out of the kids version of the Book of Mormon for Rachel. You know, the simplified one that has pictures and is laid out kind of like a comic book. I remember reading it as a kid and now we read it to Rachel, which I think is so cool. Well, anyway I guess she really likes having FHE because she wants to read her scripture stories every night. Of course we read them to her whenever she asks. The other day she got the Ensign and her special scriptures and insisted to her cousin Cory that he come sit next to her so she could give him a lesson. Even though he didn't care about what she wanted him to do, she sat down anyway and started "reading" her scriptures out loud. She was looking at the pictures and trying to retell the story from memory. I don't rember if it was that same night or not but when we were getting ready for bed one night I went to check on her and found her sleeping with the Ensign and her scripture stories. She had gotten out of bed sometime and sneaked to the living room to get them so she could read them in bed. When I checked on her and saw this, I couldn't help smiling and taking the books to show Will what I had found in her bed with her. I put them away and went to bed myself. Sometime in the night she woke up crying and I went to her room to check on her. She was very upset because she wanted her "family home evening stuff" and she couldn't find it in her bed. It was so cute and special to me because even at only 2 years old, she has found a love for the gospel and it proves that even if she doesn't focus very well during our fhe lesson, she still treasures the experience. It makes me feel like, as a parent, I am doing something right.
Ok, long story, I know. I had to write it all down though because it is something that I think I will want to always remember. I'm sure Rachel will enjoy the story too when she grows up. I know I like hearing stories about my self from when I was little.

extinction of the nap

Tonight Rachel feel asleep watching TV all cuddled up with her daddy. It was so cute so I had to take a picture. She did this monday night too. She is phasing out her nap time during the day so she is apparently pretty tired in the evening. She fell asleep around 8:15 on the couch and with a nap she falls asleep around 9:30 even though her bed time is 8:30. Personally I covet naptime and am very sad that she isn't taking one everyday. What a precious memory though.