Maylee's Blessing

So we blessed Maylee the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Thanks you to all the family and friends who came. It was an absolutely wonderful day. She was so good and did not cry during the blessing.

Thanksgiving

Wow so It has been a while. Thanksgiving was awesome. We had a fun time at the Smoot talent night on Wednesday, and then we spent Thanksgiving day with the Bowdens. We had so much fun being with family this year. It was wonderful. We also attended a party at the Morgans on Wednesday for a party for the kids. It was really fun. They did all sorts of fun things.

Tribute

I wanted to let all of our friends in Arizona know haw very much we appreciate them. We miss them and are so glad that we had the chance to meet them and become such good friends. They were our family while we were down there. They took such good care of us and we had a lot of great times laughing and crying with them. THANK YOU!! We want to keep in touch and are excited to see them in June for graduation. You guys made our lives so much better and fun. Thank you for sharing your wonderful families and time with us. We love you all and were sad to leave you, but we know that we will continue to get together and have good times in the future.

Moving

Well as most of you know we recently moved back to Utah. It was so tiring. The drive was really long, but okay. Maylee did a lot better than we thought she would. She hardly cried at all during the first 10 hours, but then the last 5 hours she was DONE. She would cling to us when we tried to put her back in the car seat. Anyway, I thought I would post some pictures of the move.































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Halloween

We had so much fun this year for Halloween. We did a theme of "The Wizard of Oz". We went to three parties, two at friends houses and then the ward "trunk or treat". Maylee was super cute in her cowardly lion outfit.

hanging out

Well Timothy is now halfway done with his first rotation. We have 3 and-a-half weeks until we move! WOW! Time has really gone by so fast. Maylee is growing so fast and is so strong. She loves to spend time just hanging out with dad, especially when he is holding her. She loves to stand, she hardly ever wants to sit on my lap, just stand. She has also started to play with some of her toys, it is really cute to watch.

The ZOO

Timothy had most of last week off, so on Wednesday we went with some friends to the zoo. It was really fun, and the weather was better than I had hoped. We left at 7:30 am. It started out cloudy and only around 80 degrees. It got up into the 90's, but that was it. The zoo was really cool. They had all sorts of fun things. Timothy and I got to go in to the cage with the "wild" monkeys (we didn't think it would be good to bring Maylee in). It was pretty cool to see them playing in the trees and ropes with no barrier between us and them. We really enjoyed the day, and were pretty tired by the end of the trip.

This is how excited Maylee was to be at the zoo.
It was a little too early for her.

This was inside the big red barn. There is a petting zoo in here and a place to
comb the goats just outside. The older kids really enjoyed it, and the adults liked the cool air inside :)

There were several Peacocks that came really close to us.

There were all these cool animals for the kids to sit on for photos
and to enjoy being close to the life size statues.

we had to pause for feeding time.

okay so first because Maylee is still an infant this is the way
you should put her in the baby carrier, however, she hated it.
So we turned her around and she was looking at everything.
She smiled and enjoyed it a lot after we turned her around.

The elephant was throwing dirt on himself to keep cool. It was interesting.

In the child's play area they had these really cool benches.

This is the playhouse with tree slide

There were tons of turtles just swimming around in all the ponds.
It was pretty cool to see. They have islands with monkeys on them
surrounded by turtle infested waters! Pretty scary (Ha Ha Ha)

Our great husbands with the strollers and maps making sure we didn't get lost.


Tuckered out at the end of a big day.