Brigham City Temple Open House

We went to the open house for the Brigham City Temple with some of our family.  Our tickets were for the last day of the open house, so it was really busy.  But it was really great to take the girls to see the inside of a temple.

Preschool

Clara started preschool this year.  She was so excited to go to school!  She goes to preschool for a few hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and there are two other three-year-olds in her class.  It's fun to see the pictures she colors, hear the songs that she learns, learn about the things she learns about.

Clara on her first day of preschool

County Fair

We went to the Davis County Fair.  Clara and Ashlyn loved the petting zoo, although Ashlyn was a little more brave when it came to petting all of the different animals. There were goats, calves, horses, donkeys, camels, rabbits, sheep, and chickens.

At one of the booths, they had a hands-on activity where kids could pump water into some rain gutters, which would move some rubber ducks down the rain gutters.  Clara LOVED it, and spent about 30 minutes playing with it.

This Little Girl Is 2 !!!

The doctor said she is 36.5 in (97%) and 26 lbs (40%).

Funny things she says:
Cowa = Clara
Mines = Mine
Chicken Milk = Chocolate Milk
Ank You = Thank you
Ringer = Finger
Bipe = Wipe (one of her favorite things.  She likes to have one to hold to her face when she falls alseep.)
Seep Sops = Flip flops
She used to say Otay We wiw = okay we will
She likes to ask "How?"  When I ask her to do something or she'll even throw in a "Why"?
I will say something like  "That's pretty huh?"  Then she'll repeat back, "That's pretty huh?"  But the "huh" is a question, not an agreement.

For her birthday, we decided to go to The Treehouse Children's museum in Ogden.  She invited her friends Cami, and Ella, and Addie, and of course her best friend Clara was there too.  Then we went to get pizza at Pier 49.  For dinner we went to Mcdonald's and let the girls play on the play place.  Then we went home and had cupcakes!

Ashlyn is such a great little hugger.  Ever since she could hug, she has given the best hugs I've ever received!  She has a mind of her own and it's hard to change it once it's made up.  She loves playing outside and at the park, coloring, and she loves watching just about everything, but her favorites are probably Dora and Diego.  Her new favorite toy is Legos which she got for her birthday.  She can count to about 12 and can sing the ABC song.  We love having this sweet girl in our family.

                                                                      Ashlyn and Ella

                                                                    Ashlyn and Cami

Jeff's 32!

Jeff had a great birthday.  We opened presents with the girls, who were so helpful, and Jeff and I went to see the new Batman movie.  After that we went to a new restaurant at Station Park, Settebello, which was fabulous and got a special treat to share with the girls afterwards.

Bear lake

 It's starting to become a tradition that we go to Bear Lake around Jeff and Ashlyn's birthdays.  Jeff's is on the 7th and Ashlyn's is the next day on the 8th.  We had a lot of fun and are looking forward to next year!



                 Ashlyn just chillin'
 

                                                                     Clara just chillin'

                                                          We found lots of sea shells.

                                          

                                                              We did lots of splashing!

                                                               We played mermaids!

 Oh and we were there too.  ;)
 

Miscellaneous

Going through our pictures from the past few months, there are some pictures that are fun or memorable, but don't fit into any of our previous posts.  So we put them all together in this miscellaneous post.

Clara learned to write her name a while back.  This was her first time.

We were on a walk to the park, and Clara insisted that we stop and take a picture because she had the urge to strike a pose.

Aubree and I got box seats to see Real Salt Lake play. Even though RSL lost, we had a lot of fun.

Ashlyn loves pudding.

Ashlyn thought it would be funny to put on all of Clara's underwear at once.

Ashlyn has this little crib for her dolls, but sometimes she can't resist the urge to join her dolls for a nap.

Dressing up with Mom's jewelery.

Clara getting a haircut.

Ashlyn getting a haircut.

Clara got this magic wand, and she loved it so much she slept with it in her hand.

Ashlyn LOVES the iPad.  She knows how to run it better than most adults.

New Car

We finally broke down and bought a new car.  It was time to get rid of my Dodge Intrepid and get something bigger and better.  Cleaning out my car (which I've had ever since I got off his mission 11 years ago) was like opening up a time capsule.

Parking sticker from law school.

This is a sticker that Aubree put on my car window when we were dating.

Bumper stickers from my mission

Goodbye, old friend.

Here's our new car: a Toyota Sienna minivan.