Easter Weekend Continued...

{Sunday}

We spent Sunday with the Wiests. We all have such a great time together- we can't wait for Matt's sister Jenny and her family to move back to Utah so that we can have everyone here next time :)

Sunday morning we woke up and gave Aubree Grace her Easter basket. She was pretty stoked about getting some new presents.

We got a few quick pictures before church.. Notice she's yelling at me in her individual pictures. That portrays how church went for 3 hours.



{Maybe we should take pictures somewhere nice next time, like not in a dirty bedroom.}

Haha- I love her.

We ran over to my parent's house for a minute to tell them Happy Easter- they had a surprise basket for our family! I love my family- my mom is so thoughtful and always tries to make holidays special for everyone!

{Tam won't be too thrilled about this picture}

We then headed over to Matt's mom's for dinner and an egg hunt. We ended up having the kids hunt inside b/c it was raining. After the kiddos were done, we had an adult Easter egg hunt- we decided that the husbands and wives should do it together, literally together- we thought a 3 legged race to find the most eggs would be a pretty good idea. It was so funny watching everyone get dragged by each other! I think it's a new tradition :) We had a wonderful Sunday with the Wiests and are blessed to have great siblings and Juli!

{Cute Amanda and Allie, thrilled to be here}

{Angie and Jack}

{The Brothers}

{I swiped these pictures from Kelsey's blog- these were the least ugly of us haha. Thanks Kels :)}



Easter Weekend 2011

{Saturday}

We had a great Easter! Matt and I are so lucky to have families we enjoy being with :) It's a wonderful time to be with family members and to reflect on our Savior's sacrifice for us and his Resurrection. I hope I can enjoy our Easter church programs a little more next year; meaning I hope Aubree won't completely freak out during all 3 hours of church.  Either way, I'm extremely grateful for the Atonement and all the blessings we receive from it. Having my own little family has helped me appreciate and understand our Savior's love for us.

Saturday we were with my family-- we went to the Art Festival in town and played at the little splash pad. Aubree was in heaven. She yelped and laughed the whole time she was playing! We'll be going there a lot this summer!

{This is probably the funniest picture I've taken of her, ever. I think she's busy working on something... She'll be so mad at me when she's older for capturing this "moment," if you will, but her face is just too awesome to not share with the world.}

That night we had a BBQ and got in the hot tub. We had a great day!

Lately

We haven't had too much going on lately, but like I've said, April is the most wonderful time of the year, in my opinion, and then Christams, so we've had a great month! We have played outside and enjoyed the weather and our families.

Matt's cousin Tim, his darling wife Amber, and their 3 little kids came to STG to play. We had a BBQ of every type of meat you can imagine and hung around outside all day.

{Audrey, Avery and Aubree}

{Avery, George, Ellie and Aubree Grace}

 

{Instead of enjoying family and the weather, Matt likes to play Angry Birds til the end of time. I HATE this game.}

{Kels, Audrey, Me and Aubree. She doesn't like being inconvenienced for a picture when she's playing.}



I also finished teaching my little dance class this week. I had so much fun! These girls were so cute and did a great job. We had a little show-off for the parents on our last day. I wish I would have taped it- one girl stood there during the dances the entire time, another girl ran up to her mom to make sure she was taking pictures.. Haha that's what made it so fun. They are cute little guys :)



Good times have been had in April!

Road Trip

{Arizona}

It's that time in our life to start thinking about our future and try to find a light at the end of the tunnel.

We went to AZ this past weekend to check out a mechanic school Matt is interested in and it just so happens that one of my best friends in the universe lives there! We had a quick but fun weekend with Garrett and Shelly, who were nice enough to let us stay with them. We left Aubree with my parents and we were so glad we did- She had a blast all weekend and we did a ton of driving so it worked out pretty well.

We went to the school open house Saturday, then met up with Garrett and Shell to hang out. Matt heard about a mall in Scottsdale that supposedly had an amazing water fountain in the middle of the place.. I jumped all over that idea b/c Matt HATES shopping, so for him to suggest a mall...? Awesome. The mall was indeed awesome and huge, but the water feature was just a semi-cool fountain haha- Later, we went to dinner, talked for hours (while the boys watched sports and car shows) and had a great time! Shelly is also pregnant with her first girl (WOO!) so we had a blast talking about babies and our lives and our past lives! We've been through everything, seriously everything, together. It was so good to catch up.

Thanks for letting us stay Messerly fam!

{I was pretty stoked to see the Hoover Dam for the first time.. apparently they just finished building this giant bridge over it, so I didn't see the dam at all and we were too lazy to stop and take a tour, she here is the cool bridge.}

{Matt in front of the "amazing" waterfall. It was neat I guess.}

{We were just happy to be shopping!}



All About Aubree

{15 Months}

-She took her first steps all by herself on April 7th!! She is starting to get brave and try it on her own but she still prefers crawling.
-She says "No" and "Ba" (for ball) and sometimes "Nigh Nigh" (for Night Night). We were in Relief Society one Sunday and the teacher was talking about honesty and asked a question that was similar to "Should we be honest?" and right then Aubree yelled out "NO!" Everyone started cracking up, and then she started laughing.. It was so funny!

She's in size 4 diapers and 18 month clothes.
-Aubree loves chasing the light in our house that comes through the blinds. She yelps and laughs at it!

-She can be such a picker eater sometimes. Some weeks she'll eat so good and other weeks it's rough. Ever since she was born, feeding her has stressed me out. She went from not getting enough from me to me trying to feed her every hour because I was so nervous about her going hungry, so it takes every ounce of patience for me to feed her when all she does is spit her food out (only when I just cleaned the floors, thank you). I'm trying to learn and watch for hunger queues and not freak out if she hasn't eaten a lot that day. She hasn't seemed bothered by it at all, so I guess I should just chill. And she doesn't look like she's starving by any means :) This is when I wish babies were born with manuals. It's actually gotten A LOT better this last week.

-She's been taking one nap a day lately and going to bed earlier. She's never been a great napper, but she's always been an amazing night sleeper. I'll take the latter!

-She's down to 2 bottles a day and hopefully only one at night and then eventually none- by 17 months I want her off bottles completely. Don't ask me why I chose 17 months, it just seems logical in my brain.

-She learned how to scream when she is bugged, so for about a week that is all she did all day when she wanted something or was upset. I felt like I was taking crazy pills, people! Luckily, it's subsided and under control a little now.

-She loves when people come over. She shows off and flirts like crazy.

-The weather has been so great we love going outside- she cries every time we go back in the house.

-She has to have like 3 toys or books to play with while she eats.

{15 Month Stats}

25 pounds

32 inches long

Every stage is so fun with her. We've enjoyed our little girl SO MUCH! We love you Aubree!! 

A Day at the Park

April is THE BEST in St. George!

I love the weather and the feeling of springtime.

Aubree and I have spent a lot of time outside and thought

it would be fun to go to the park with Ashlye and little Kendyl.

These 2 little girls are exactly one week apart. Aubree was a week early

and Kendyl was born on Aubree's due date.

When Ashlye and I first found out we were pregnant, we were

meeting at Cafe Rio (of course) with some of our other besties

for someones birthday. Ash and I were the first ones to arrive and right

when we saw each other we both knew right away the other was pregnant!

We just started laughing really loud and automatically started giving each other

advice haha- that's how we roll.

I hope our little ones become best friends like their mamas!