Our weekend up at the cabin.....

So, this weekend we took the little drive over to Craig's Grandparent's cabin. We had a good time visiting with them and Craig's Dad even drove up and played with the girls too...The area up there is beautiful and the weather was awesome! It definitely feels like Fall up there!!

Weekend Painting

Craig and I are sick of the gold/yellow color on the walls of our room, so we went and picked up tons of new color samples and settled on this soft green--It reminds me of the color of our kitchen in the Orem apt. Marja has good taste in colors....We love it....We still have a lot to do, but it is an improvement. Eventually we hope to add white crown moulding to the top.
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Haircut

My little lady got her second haircut by her Mom and Dad this week (Dad had to cut after Mom finished so that we BOTH could try to make it as even as possible--It's still questionable). I love her in shoulder-length hair--I think it makes her look so mature....
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Quiet time??

So, Craig and I decided to try quiet time with Grace instead of the striaght-up nap that she has been taking every afternoon. She wakes us up at the crack of dawn (5:00ish) and doesn't go back to sleep, so we thought that maybe this way she could still have a little down time while Abby takes her afternoon nap, but be more tired at night. Anyway, today was the first try. I explained to her that if she just played quietly in her room for one hour she wouldn't have to take a nap today which she thought was great. She was in there playing tea party really quietly and when I went to check on her a little later, this is how I found her....


I guess she's not quite ready to go a whole day without a nap yet.....

Our Storm

Yesterday we had the craziest downpour! The morning was sunny and dry, and then around 4:00 we had the LOUDEST thunder I've heard in a long time and within 1/2 hour to an hour we had about 3 inches of rain in our backyard that was topped off with tons of hail. It was even hard for the girls and I to watch it through the windows for a little while. It left our backyard pretty soaked....and when Grace saw the hail she asked for her coat so she could go build a snowman... :)

My social butterfly

Grace is, in one word, SOCIAL. She loves playing with friends and throws the biggest fits on days that she has to stay inside with Mom for whatever reason. Lately we have even had some of the neighborhood girls coming over (who are around 6-7-8) to ask to play with Gracie. Craig and I sit outside to supervise when she plays with these girls, but to Gracie, age is never an issue. A friend is a friend. (I wish I made friends so easy). This is a picture of her playing with her little church friend Megan....What is about little girls and dressing up??

Lizard friends

So, I'm not sure why, but recently we have had tons of little lizards trying to come into our house. Only the really tiny ones sneak in, but still....I'm not a big fan (although such small ones are extremely cute!!). This particular one we found while Daddy was at work, so the girls and I trapped it until Daddy came home. Gracie enjoyed watching the poor thing run from side to side until Daddy put it outside.