seeing stripes...or maybe plaid...or possibly both.

 

Just another one of Chamberlain's sweet outfits.

I like how the colors match, at least he is branching out from all blue. 

What I love most is the self confidence.

 Here's to an awesome July. 

party dress

 I love her party dress. 

The funny thing is; is I bought the onsie when I was with my friend Jennie at the Beehive Bazzar

sometime before Christmas. I had then forgot about it until cleaning underneath my dresser the other day. 

I bought the skirt a few days ago and hunted for a top to match and could never find one. 

I was thrilled when I found the onsie.

It goes perfectly.

It felt like finding money in your pockets that you had forgotten about.

Score.

The party was awesome. 

I will post on that later.

I felt this party dress need a post of its own.

Smiths, I used some of your party ideas.

Turned out brilliant. 

Thanks.

Siri's First.

 I tried and tried to take pictures of Siri all day long. 

I wanted one simple picture of her smiling and looking at the camera. 

I took a lot. 

But thats OK because today is her 1st birthday.

I even pulled out the bubbles...inside the house.

Tried walking up and down the sidewalk.

Even the red slide that makes her smile.

But I never got one. 

However I'll take all the ones I did get.

We love you Siri.

You have made life soo much sweeter with you in it.

 

Birthday Week.

Grandma and Grandpa Chamberlain suprised Siri with a rocking chair of her very own.

Siri couldn't be happier.

She was all giggles when she saw it.

We laughed for about a good hour.

Siri was so funny with her chair and she knew it was her chair. 

She kept giggling and giggling and running back and forth from her chair to her Grandma.

Thanks Grandparents for getting such a thoughtful gift.

I loved watching her reaction with the chair. It amazes me how she could put together that this new pink chair was just for her. 

She is such a smart cookie. 

I'm sure this chair will be well loved for many years to come.

Chamberlain loves that they both have rocking chairs of their own that can sit side by side.

 

 

the best time of day

to visit Bridal Veil Falls is not before 10 am.

Its FREEZING!

We decided to mix up our morning routine a bit, since the hike to the Y is too hot and our usual route up to the temple, albeit beautiful, can be monotonous everyday, we decided to spice things up on Saturdays. 

We decided to do Provo Canyon and see the falls. The first time we did it is was mid morning and there were tons and tons of people. Some of those bikers are dangerous. They just expect you to know they are coming and do not care if you are in your lane. So this week we decided to hit the trail early morning and reward ourselves at the end with the falls. We parked at the falls and ran down the canyon and back to soak our feet in the cold water and let Chamberlain play. 

It was a good idea at first there were less people.  

Once we finished there was no one at the falls except for some abandon flip flops. 

Chamberlain was so excited to play in that water and he did not care how freezing it was. 

Boy was it cold. But we made the best of it. 

Provo is such a beautiful place in the summer. 

cooling off.

This is where you can find us most evenings.

Last year you could find me and Chamberlain at the pool pretty much every evening. The pool was right down the street, so convenient. Since we moved, I'm not a huge fan of the pool that is close to our house, and our beloved pool from last summer is a 15 to 20 minute drive, the splash pad has been our go to for cooling off and killing time having fun.

Ms. Siri at first skirted around the edges ignoring the water but the last few times she has just jumped right in. 

I hope the water is clean. Oh well, it builds the immune system right?

Just a side note; it seems that everynight this week I have gone to bed with dishes in the sink, and laundry that still needs to be done,  and yet I feel like I have been doing dishes all day along with laundry. I guess its just one of those weeks. Or maybe we were just spending extra time at that splash pad. Here is to next week!