Arcadia Starts Preschool

While in New York Arcadia had her first day of preschool! I was very sad to miss being here, but it couldn't be changed. Richard's mom took her to Wendy's for lunch and off to school they went. She, of course, had no problems going in and seemed to have a great time. My mom and sister picked her up afterward and went out for ice cream. She has been back once since and when we got there she took off running and yelling, "TEACHER, TEACHER!" She never looked back. It is so fun to see her starting this new thing in her life. It makes me sad to see her growing up, but she is loving every minute of it. Richard's mom has the pictures so I will post them soon!

Mekensy's 1st Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Mekensy! Okay so it was a couple of weeks ago, but I'm a little slow. We had a Winnie the Pooh party for Mekensy's 1st birthday. I made a beehive cake that turned out pretty cute, until you had to cut it up and then it didn't look so appetizing. We had some famiy and friends over and had a great time. It is bittersweet seeing her grow up. It seems like she has grown up so much faster than Arcadia. She is crawling, pulling herself up on furniture, screaming when she wants something, and she is into everything! She is really a good baby. She enjoys her sleep and really enjoys eating. We love having her in our family and love watching her do new things everyday!

I'll post pictures later. For some reason I can't get them to upload!

I Heart New York!

As a surprise for my birthday Richard took me to New York. I have wanted to go there for as long as I can remember. For our six years of married life every vacation we have gone on has involved water and sand. Two things that I don't care much for so I told him that I was not going anywhere that involved the two until I have been to New York. Much to my surprise he listened and now I can blog about it! We had an amazing time seeing all there is to see in New York City.

Our trip started off a little rocky when we sat on the plane at the gate in Salt Lake for almost 2 hours before they decided that the plane was not working and we had to get off. We ended up catching a flight about an hour later and much to our dismay we arrived in New York, but our luggage didn't. After a 12 hour fight the hotel finally tracked down our bags and we were free to enjoy our stay.

I'm just going to give you run down of all the things we did and post some pictures at the end. There is so much to see and do in New York it was amazing. We saw The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, The Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, Serendipity Restaurant, the Hello Deli, Yankees game, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Times Square, Wall Street, riding the Subway, Trump Building, pizza, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys, NY city cops (which everyone gets pictures with, except us!), Arcade games at Dave and Busters, and nightly stops at the 7 Eleven. I'm sure there was so much more, but I can't remember it all!

Thanks for taking me Rich. It was a great surprise. I had a great time spending time with you and getting a break from my kids. Thanks to my Mom and Dad and Richard's Mom and Dad for watching our girls. They also had a great vacation with out us!

Fun in the Sun!

Playing at the park with Daddy while Mommy was at Girls Camp!

More pool fun! Arcadia, Dallin, and Hayden enjoyed playing in the tiny pool together!

Fun with Cousins!

On our way home from California, way back in July, we had my cousin Loren come stay with us for about a week. Arcadia loved having another big girl in her house. Richard enjoyed having yet another girl living in the house- me, Arcadia, Mekensy, Staci, her Dog, and Loren might have been a little more than he could handle! We had a fun week playing in the mini pool outside, swimming at Richard's mom's with the Young Women, shopping, going to the park, doing crafts, and going to lunch with Grandma and Grandpa Jensen. We had a great time with Loren and were sad to see her go! Hopefully she will make it up for a visit again soon! Here are some pictures of the events! This was Arcadia's 3rd time in the pool with all of her clothes on! She listens really well!

Doing crafts that Aunt Kris brought over. Loren made some really cute little bugs!

Lunch and playing at the park with Loren, Arcadia, Dallin, and Hayden!

Slacker!

I can't believe how long it has been since I have blogged. It is pretty sad that in order to do any blogging I am having to look through my pictures on my camera to remember what we have done. Since our last blog we have celebrated the 24th of July, been swimming, had my cousin come stay, celebrated Mekensy's 1st Birthday, Richard and I went to New York, and we went to the State Fair. I'm sure there is much more things we have done, but that is the only thing I took pictures of! So be ready for a long list of blogging!