Happy Birthday Shaylee

Shaylee is 3 today! She is getting to be such a big girl.Everything her big sister does,she wants to do. It's so sweet . She started dance (tap,ballet and jazz) on Thursday and is already wanting to know how long until next time. Savannah is in the same class and told me that the teacher had to tell Shaylee to be quiet because she kept talking to the girl next to her. I guess they were talking about their tutus.
"SO CUTE" if you ask me.
We took the girls and our friends Micah, Mary, Amber and Kaylee to Amazing Jakes for Shaylee's birthday party. We had such a good time. The girls rode a frog hopper, a train and some spinning tea cups and then played some other games. It was a Tinkerbell party, which Shaylee loves right now. If we ask her what she wants to be when she grows up she says "Tinkerbell."
What a delight this little girl has been to our whole family. She has such a sweet and fun personality and makes us all smile so often. We love her sooo much.

Luna Pioneer Days

We just got home this afternoon. We had so much fun. Jared had to work all week so the girls and I went up last Monday. It has been raining up there for awhile now so the grass is knee heighth and the weather is beautiful.
So on the way home I had a brain storm and decided to make a Moon Valley Outfitter float for the parade and have all five grandkids be in camo on it. My sister-in-law Larae and I dressed in camo and rode with them. As you can see in the slide it was pretty cute. The kids threw out lots of candy and ate quite a bit while they were doing it. Savannah had a bugling tube and she bugled threw the whole parade. She is sounding pretty darn good too.
Then we went to the rodeo.My brothers Dalon and Elden and their friend Armondo Aarona got in the Wild Cow Race and won! Woo Hoo! Dalon also won the bareback riding. He says he is trying to collect enough Luna Rodeo buckles that if he marries a big girl he will have enough buckles to make her a concho belt with them that will go all the way around her! I think he has 8 or 10 by now so he should be getting close. He is so funny.
Savannah,Kason and Hadley all rode sheep. Shaylee wanted to but I was to scared to let her, probably next year. Savannah was so excited to do it as soon as we told her about it, all the way until she got in the shoot with it. Dalon helped her and she told him "Uncle Dilly, I think I've changed my mind." Of course he told her to grab two hands full of wool and hold on tight. She made it pretty far and when she hit the ground she jumped up and dusted off smiling. She says she can't wait to do it again. Kason and Hadley were also so cute riding theirs.
Yesterday evening we drove down in the meadows below my dads house. There must have been 200 elk (cows and calves) in there. We turned the truck off and listened to them all talking to eachother. The girls thought that was so cool that they stuck their heads out the windows and were trying to make the elk sounds also. It was so cute.
We had such a great time just hangin out with family and friends and can't wait to go again.

The Little Mermaids

We have swam a lot this summer thanks to Aunt Eloise. She has been so nice and let us come anytime we want. Savannah could swim really well last summer and this summer she has become awesome at it. She can dive 9 feet to the bottom of the pool and pick up diving rings, swim from one end of the pool to the other and is so much fun to watch. She absolutely loves it and would swim two or three times a day if I would take her.

Miss Shaylee has been pretty timid about until the last couple of days. She has figured out how to put her face in and we take her floaties of in the shallow and she can swim a few feet at a time now. The other day she had been playing without her floaties on for quite awhile so I told her we should put them back on and she got a sad little face and said " No Mommy, I just wanna be a little fish like Savannah." She loves to be like her big sis so I'm sure it won't be much longer until she is being a fish just like Savannah!

A wonderful weekend

We went up to Luna and Quemado for the weekend. We went to the parade in Quemado and the girls filled a big bag with candy. Then we went to Luna and had dinner with family, a fish fry of Striped Bass some of my family had caught at Lake Powell last week and some Tuna and Mahi Mahi dad and mom caught in Mexico a couple of weeks ago. It was so good! Then we set of a bunch of fireworks. Savannah and Shaylee loved them.
Then we went back to Quemado for Nani Joy's birthday. We had a hot dog roast, made smores, had cake and set off a few more fireworks. It was all so much fun! Our families are the best!

We had so much fun

Bibbidi Bobbodi Boo

Well, it started with Shaylee on Sunday having a fever after church. She was hot for probably 12 hours but with the help of tylenol it was'nt to bad. Then Savannah got a fever Wednesday afternoon and with Tylenol hers only lasted 3 or 4 hours. Nevertheless I feel so sorry for them when they don't feel good. Anyway, I started chilling Wednesay evening and went to bed early. I woke up at 2am burning up and having a nightmare. I could'nt go back to sleep so I came down stairs and put all the new colors on my blog. When Jared went to work about 5 o'clock I went and layed down with the girls. I then slept until 9 o'clock. Shaylee and I woke up about the same time and Savannah was already laying there awake just bein quite. When I told her good morning she said "Oh I'm so glad you and Shay Shay woke up, I was starting to worry that someone had cast a sleeping spell on you guys."

Do these boots make my feet look big?

The other day I was in the kitchen and Shaylee was by the door and she kept hollering "I'm leavin." So I went to look and here is what I found. I don't think she was goin very far in daddy's boots, at least not very fast anyway.

Little Miss Ballerina

Savannah's ballet recital was a couple of weeks ago. She did so good and was so cute! Both of her Nani's (aka.grandmas), Popy Tommy, Kason, Aunt Pooh and Uncle Kriston all came to see her. It was lots of fun and we were all so proud of her.
Shaylee was clapping and cheering the whole time, she is so excited to start dance this fall and big sis is already showing her some "moves"!