Happy Happy Birthday!

Our sweet little Abigail is 2 years old! I honestly can't believe how fast these two years went by and how absolutely wonderful they have been. By far the best 2 years of our lives! 

We had a fun little party with the Sellers the Mortensens and Derik and Kaity. We were so grateful that our families made the trek out to our house to celebrate with us! 

We had a Mickey Mouse themed party and Abby loved it. Kyle and I stayed up Friday night making this cake for her. We totally felt like Cake Boss. Our hands hurt so bad from all of the piping! But it was worth it when Abby got up the next morning and freaked out when she saw it. 

I made these awesome Oreos too. They were really cute and yummy!

We had a water balloon fight! 

Abby didn't have any idea what was going on all day. Singing "happy birthday" and blowing out the candles totally went over her head. But she was all over eating the cake and ice cream.

She also loved opening up her gifts. She got a color book, a cute little toy broom, a lawn mower that blows bubbles, a baby stroller, a minnie mouse and some other fun little toys. She was a big fan of all the new toys. 

Juliet was a sweet heart the entire time. She loves my aunt JoJo so much!

Jolene's sweet little boy Drake that is 6 months younger than Abigail. He is such a funny little guy. 

Cute little Avery with her face covered in black frosting. 

Brinley made a huge mess with her oreo, it was so cute. Her red hair just kills me. Its so adorable.

Three cute sisters. 

We had so much fun with all of our friends and family. It was so fun to have everyone there to help us celebrate our little sweetheart. We missed our family that was still in Arizona! 

We just love you Abigail. You bring so much joy to our home. You love to read books, sing songs and talk all day long. Your little sister just loves you. One of my favorite things is watching the two of you laugh together. You give the sweetest hugs and kisses. Every time I say "I love you" you say "love too" back. Sweetest thing ever. You keep me on my toes every day. You make the biggest messes but you love to help me do my chores. I love that I can ask you to help me and you will. Thank you for coming to our family and making us a family. You are incredibly special and we love you! 

Love, 

Mom, Dad and Juliet

Gardening

This morning I was working on our patio cleaning out dead plants and weeds to get ready to plant new things.  Juliet was asleep and Abby was playing with her chalk and running around. She loves to play this new game with me where we hold hands and I say "ready, set, go" and then we run as fast as we can across the patio. As soon as she was distracted with her chalk I got down to business cleaning out weeds. I had my gardening gloves on and every once in a while Abby would come over and help me put some weeds in the garbage bag. Then she disappeared. I thought she got bored and went inside to play. A little while later she comes back outside and she has this little pink mitten on her hand. She was so proud of herself and she was ready to pull weeds  just like me. With her mitten on her hand she worked with me the rest of the morning. It was the sweetest thing I had ever seen. 

She let me get a couple of pictures before she was done with pictures. This little girl cracks me up.

I would love to have been in her mind as she saw my gloves and made the connection that she had some of those, and then went in the house to find it. I can just imagine her little face when she found it and got it on her hand without any help. Then she ran outside ready to help her mom. I am so grateful for this little girl. She makes me want to be a better person because I know that she is watching every little thing that I do. Right down to how I pull weeds. I want to be the best example I can be so that she will grow up to be a righteous, strong woman.

I love my little Abby. Thank you for making my day today! I love you!

Afternoon Walk

The weather is starting to be absolutely beautiful and we have been taking a lot of walks!

These little girls just love their daddy. Abby always has a big hug for her dad.

This little Abby has so much personality. We just love her. She loves to play with her chalk out on our back patio. 

We are loving this Colorado Spring. It was worth waiting for!

Kyle's 26th Birthday!

I'm a little late in posting about this but Kyle's birthday was in April and he turned 26! It was a pretty low key birthday. I bought him the Bourne trilogy and made him a funfettie cake. It was pretty delicious. 

We had our friends over for cake and ice cream and they bought Kyle Lincoln!

(Yes the ground was covered in snow... in April!)

Kyle had a big test on his birthday poor guy. But once he got home we spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing. Juliet is getting bigger and cuter every single day!

Abby loves to roll around and play with her dad. She thinks he is the coolest thing ever!

Kyle's big birthday present was supposed to happen that following Monday. The Braves were in town playing the Rockies and Kyle got two tickets. We had planned on having our friends come over and watch the girls and put them down for bed so we could go out on a nice, long and fun date! BUT the game was canceled because it was snowing... snowing in April! We were so bummed so instead we went and saw the movie 42. It was a really good and it turned out to be a really fun night. The game was moved to the next afternoon, so kyle went with two of his dental school friends. It set the record for the coldest temp for a rockies game, about 23 degrees. They had a great time anyway.

I always enjoy Kyle's birthday. He isn't the biggest on celebrating birthdays but I love to celebrate him whenever I can. I am so grateful that he is my husband. He is the most patient, kind and selfless person that I know. He is the best dad, and I love how much he loves his girls and how much they love him. He is such a good friend to me. He always makes me laugh and we always have such a great time together. I love this life that we are building together. He is wonderful and I wonder every day how I got so lucky to be his wife. I love that man and look forward to many more birthdays!

A fun weekend!

This past weekend was warm and sunshiny and full of fun family time. 

Abby and Jules love to play together. Juliet loves her swing and Abby loves it when she is in there because she is at the perfect height for Abby to talk to her and play with her.

On Friday night we had a little family bbq and used our new grill for the first time. As you can see Juliet was thrilled to be outside.

Abby loves to help me in any way she can. She is helping to carry the chips from the kitchen to the table. Her favorite chips are the cool ranch doritos. She can put them away faster than I can! It was a really fun little meal, we just had chips and hotdogs. Abby loved her hotdog. It was the first time that she had really had one and actually ate it. She loved being out side and playing with her bubbles she got for easter. She would start yelling "bubbles" when we would blow them.

Saturday and Sunday was Conference. It was amazing! We actually were able to pay attention to quite a bit of it. Abby thought we were continually praying. She would come in and fold her arms and bow her head. She was a little confused. Saturday night my friend Kaity came and hung out with me and the girls. We went to YoSweetness. The best fro yo place in the world. Not really because of the frozen yogurt, but more because of the name. Then we came back to the house and watched Les Mis and waited for the boys to get home. When they got back we were only part of the way through the movie, so we made Kaity's husband Derik watch the rest with us. He is not a musical kind of guy and it was pretty funny trying to convince him to like it as much we all did.

In between the sessions on Sunday we headed out to the park to get out of the house. Abby really liked it a lot. And Juliet was actually tolerant of being outside.

This sweet little girl's smile just melts my heart.

I love my little Juliet! She is just getting so big, so fast!

Abby is so lucky to have such a fun dad to play with!

It was such a nice weekend to have Kyle all to ourselves and to hear the voice of the prophets!

Easter!

Easter was so fun this year. I just love this holiday and what we are celebrating. I am so grateful for my Savior and I am so grateful to know that he lives!

Easter Sunday was an absolutely beautiful day. It really felt like spring, and that was so wonderful. 

Juliet at 3 months.

Matching Easter dresses! Juliet is still really floppy.

Abby thought it was pretty funny to have her little sister leaning on her.

She loves to snuggle her little sister.

Classic Abby face.

I love this picture of these two little girls. I hope they are always such good friends.

Another classic Abby face.

I have the hardest time trying to get pictures of Abby's face. She runs away every time I have the camera out.

So being the amazing parents that we are we pulled out the smarties and bribed her to let us to take pictures of her face.

Shoving the smarties in as fast as she can.

But I actually got some pictures so it worked.

The family Easter basket. Abby got bubbles and new crayons. She carried those crayons around all day. Kyle got cadburry cream eggs, and I got reeses eggs. The easter bunny brought some other small toys and Yahtzee for my and Kyle. Ever since we got yahtzee, Kyle has killed me just about ever single time! It drives me crazy. How can someone be so good at yahtzee?

 After church on Sunday we went over to our friends house for a delicious Easter dinner. Kaity out did herself with deviled eggs, ham, and cheesy potatoes. Super yummy! We had a little Easter egg hunt outside for Abby.

She loved carrying that basket around. It was super fun!

It was a beautiful Easter! I can't wait for next year!