French Braids

 I finally decided I was going to attempt french braiding Hadley's hair- and it actually worked!!  I was originally worried that it wasn't long enough but it was.  This was the first time and it definitely doesn't look amazing but I'll keep practicing!  I really love having a little girl to try fun, different styles on and she just lets me do whatever (as long as Word World is on!).



Weekends

 I love nice warm weekends spent with my little family!!!

Blowing bubbles while Steve and I do yard work is a definite favorite around here...

 BBQ in the backyard under the hot sun...

 Feeding the ducks and turtles at BYU...

 Heading up to campus to walk around and have a picnic lunch...

 Roasting ooey gooey marshmallows in our new fire pit...

 And best of all, enjoying the smores we made.... 

 Aren't weekends the greatest?

Spring Break!!

 Last week was Spring Break for me at school so I got to spend the whole week home and it was wonderful!!  I have to keep reminding myself that I only have 5 more weeks left until I can do that forever!!

We had some gorgeous and warm weather at the beginning of the week so we spent alot of time outside!  We stuck close to home Monday and Tuesday because I had a nasty cold and sore throat so I didn't feel great.

 One evening we went and played tennis and to the park and Hadley loved it!  She was just chasing all the balls around the court!!  Then she decided she wanted to be a cat- she spent like 10 minutes crawling around the court meowing!!

Here's her crawling and meowing.. quite the little imagination!!

We did venture out on Tuesday and we picked up our friends Kelsie and Landon and went up the BYU Bean Museum.  Of course I forgot to bring my camera but Hadley loves that place no matter how many times we go!!  By the end Hadley and Landon we running around together having fun!!

She's also become quite the helper in the kitchen!  I'll be doing something and she'll just push the chair right over and get up to help.  It's usually fun to have her help when she's not sneaking the food.  The other day I was using butter out of a tub and it was almost gone.  I was cooking on the stove and I look over a few minutes later and she had licked the entire tub clean- yea gross, I know!!  But ask anyone in my family, Hadley's favorite food hands down is butter!! 

Thursday she helped me make blueberry muffins for some friends in our ward and for my friend Debrah who had a new baby (who we got to visit also!!).

Thursday and Friday the weather was kinda crumby so we stuck to indoor activities.  Steve took Friday off and we went with Becca and Jesse and kids up to the aquarium in Sandy.  Hadley went when she was 5 months old but is now getting to the perfect age to LOVE these type places!

She only wanted to play in the water until she saw the sting rays, then she had no interest in putting her hands in there!!

 I can't wait for all my weeks to be so activity packed!!

Easter Weekend

 We had a fantastic Easter weekend!  It started off with the city egg hunt!!  Of course the ground was covered with like 5 inches of snow and it was freezing (which we weren't exactly prepared for).  But Hadley had a grand time despite the cold!  Last year she was a little unsure of what to do and this year she went all in!!  The city asks that you only get like 5 eggs but I think Hadley ended up with like 15... whoops!!

 Since she was only in the same age group as Max we met up with Luke and Livi to check out everyone's loot!!

 Saturday evening we dyed eggs at Becca's and Hillary and Kevin came too!  Hadley was also really into this and of course ended up cracking or breaking most of our eggs.  Oh well, all I cared about is that she had fun!

The Easter Bunny came to visit and hid some eggs but we decided to wait until after church to do all of that so we would have more time to enjoy it!  I seriously only got like one or two pictures of Hadley before church in her cute Easter dress :(  I don't know how anyone does it but she won't ever smile for the camera and WILL NOT hold still long enough for me to get a picture!

Everyone came for dinner evening and it was great end to a great weekend!!