July 7

5 months old today! I can't believe how fast the time is going with Emery. She is such a delightful baby. She is SUPER smiley and is putting everything in her mouth. She is getting better at sleeping through the night and is only getting up 1 time about every other night. She loves her siblings and will give her big, toothless grin for anyone as long as she is safe in mom or dad's arms.

July 6

Emery had her first try of baby food tonight. You can tell by the expression on her face how she felt about it. I'm not sure I'm ready for her to be eating solids yet but thought we would give it a go tonight to see how she did. I'll wait a few more days before trying again.

July 5

Mom and I made these darling 4th of July wreaths after I found the idea online. They were more time consuming than I originally thought they would be (as always) but I love how it turned out!

July 4

4th of July! This is us at the ward pancake breakfast. We decided to have a "lazy" 4th and just hang with our little family. It was wonderful after spending 2 weeks apart. We went swimming, went to a movie, had a BBQ and then went to Allen's office to watch the fireworks at the balloon fiesta park. It was a perfect, relaxing family day together!

July 3

It wouldn't be a trip to CO if I wasn't hauling something crazy home on top of the car from my shopping exploits! This time I brought home a gorgeous rug for the living room and a fun salvaged window I picked up at a flee market. Luckily my dad is SUPER patient with that kind of thing and kindly strapped everything to the top of the car for me! We were sad to leave CO but were ready to come home and be with Allen and our normal life!

July 2

Today Grandma made Smoothie's for breakfast. Guess who liked it the most?

July 1

Today we spent the day hanging with the Crocketts. The kids had so much fun together and especially loved making up plays and performing them for the moms. It was really cute to watch them together. We love seeing our "old" friends when we come to CO and pick up right where we left off last time!