Movin' and a Shakin'

This little girl is on the verge of crawling. She is scooting around and will often roll from one end of the room to the other. I also keep finding her asleep on her belly. I feel like she doesn't like her back anymore.

These bath pictures are a little older now (Almost a month ago. which means one month after surgery). Maisy loves the bath. She is still healing great and we are now putting some vitamin E on her scar. Does anyone swear by anything for scars? Our other advice was just to keep it out of the sun.

The Big Six-Oh

 My dad turned 60 this last Tuesday and we had a big party on memorial day. There was a lot of good food and even more great company. We had fun visiting with everyone and the only sad part was that it didn't last longer.

Carrie and Maisy

Maisy with Great Grandma A*

We love our cousins and love any chance we get to spend time together. (thanks to Carrie for the picture of my dad and the one of these three cute kids).

Mini popsicles at the park.

The queen with her stick horse

Kim helped Gracie get all decked out after seeing this story on KSL. It makes me laugh every time. Did you know that Kim and Carrie were both Pine Valley Princesses in their day? Hopefully one day I can live the queening dream vicariously through my girls :)

Should've Been a Cowboy

While in St. George, Justin went on a cattle drive to get the cows out on the Arizona Strip. This is a yearly event that Justin loves to be a part of. We usually meet them in Pine Valley when they bring the cows home, but this time we joined them at the herd houses for root beer floats after the long journey. Have I mentioned how much I love that Justin is a cowboy?

Gunner LOVES cows

See what I mean?

Margaret Ann meets Margaret Ann

 

Did you remember that Maisy's real name is Margaret Ann? With all of the craziness when she was born, I don't know if I ever explained the significance.

Justin's grandma is Margaret Ann

My mom is Ruth Ann

Justin's mom is Carol Ann

My name is Margaret.

Both of the names Margaret and Ann are scattered all through our families and we also liked Maisy, which is a nickname for Margaret (most popular in the British Isles).

Well, Maisy finally got to meet her great-grandma, Margaret Ann . It was so fun to visit with Justin's grandparents. We did a few puzzles, robbed them of their teddy grahams, and caught each other up on all the latest. We miss them.

Maisy with Great Grandpa- she was so happy 

Jumpin' Jacks

 We sneaked off to Utah for a week. It was a fast trip with a  lot of time spent on the road but we got to see both of our families. I'll do a few separate posts, but we went to Jumpin' jacks in St. George. Justin's sister Carrie was there with her kids and several other family members (justin's cousins and aunt came) to meet us. We had a blast and it was so great to see everyone.

Gracie and Maddie

Holly and Maisy

I think the kids rode this about 10 times. They loved it.

I almost left this picture out, but it was so typical of Gunner running from one thing to another. he had SO MUCH FUN. We all did.

Long time no blogging

Gracie and Gunner in the pool with the giant blow-up cow from uncle Jeff.

Did you miss us? We've been having so much fun that we have been our usual bloggy selves. We are loving the freedom to go and do. May held a lot of fun for us- swimming, playing in the backyard, going to the library, braving stores, going to church as a family,  and the end of school for Justin. here are some pictures to document the fun.

Gracie asked if she looked like  a rock-star doing this pose. She's wearing Gunner's suit.

More rock-star action

The big sis feeding the little sis. Gracie is such great help.

Gunner stole this out of the garbage to finish it off.

Pine Valley green beans- yum