5 Months + Solar Eclipse

Eisley is now 5 months! She is growing and changing everyday. I feel blessed every single day to have her our lives. She keeps me busy and always wants to be doing something fun. She gets bored quickly and we have to find things to do to keep her entertained. Thankfully she is starting to scoot a little bit and can get around the room by rolling and inching her way. We like to go to Snowflake because she loves being outside and looking at all the trees and flowers. She loves watching all of her cousins play and especially being with Grandma and Grandpa.

The flower matched her dress!

Pretty flower

Eat the flower

Eisley loves her Grandma so much! She loves to help pull weeds and looking at all her pretty flowers.

 Eisley has discovered her toes and they are quite tasty!

Cousin Milo! They are both so cute and love their Grandpa!

 

I have to mention that Solar Eclipse was awesome! We watched it through welding masks and played with Shadows. I hope in 18 years to see it again!

The shadows from the trees looked like tons of moons.

Left side of our shadows were fuzzy and the right were hard lines.

Onward ever onward

I know this is from awhile back but I have felt busy and adjusting to not having Tilly. We miss her but know its for the best. Tilly's new mom has sent me pictures a few times and she is getting spoiled! They had a birthday party with a cupcake and party hat for her :) We are happy she is in a good place and have been so grateful that they are keeping in contact. I feel like it is an open adoption expect with my sweet dog. 

 On to new things...

Easter weekend in Snowflake

Eisley is growing up so fast! I sometimes wish it would slow down but then again it gets easier now that she can roll all over the floor and grab toys to play with. We went to Snowflake this last week and Grandma Mills spoiled her and all she wants is to be held now. We are having fun with her smiles and personality.

I am excited for the summer. Anthony has finished this semester at ASU honors College with all A's!! Yay so proud of him and he has one more year left. It is getting closer to the end. He has a month break and then will start a paid internship in Phoenix. When he is in Florida for training Eisley and I are going to be in Snowflake and probably traveling back and forth quite a lot. We are planning to go camping a few times too. Here's to fun times ahead!

Howl on Tilly!

Saturday was a very long and one of the hardest days I have had in a while. I am emotionally drained in every way. My heart aches and I feel like I lost one of my best friends. We let go of our sweet Tilly dog. I miss her more than I can say but we feel like this was the right decision. When we first got Tilly it was fun but very hard and we both learned so much patience from her and love. We raised a pretty awesome dog. She had her few issues like barking when people came over and how she was overly excited about everything. We felt it best to let her go to a new home. Many people may not understand why but we have our reasons. Tilly is happier now because she has a sister beagle dog, a big backyard, and an older couple, who their dogs mean everything to them. The end of having a dog in our lives for a long time. Tilly is off on a new adventure, as are we. Happy 3rd Birthday Tilly! We Miss you!

Cute Cousins

I wanted to document 3.29.12. Eisley learned how to roll over from her back to her tummy! We practice everyday and today she did it while she was with Anthony! I missed it! Later I went to pick her up and she was on her belly. I said Anthony did you put her on her belly and he said no. Wow! She rolled over like 5 times that night! I saw her do it too! I went to visit Melanie and little Emmett earlier that day which was so much fun! Emmett is such a cutie and it was fun to have a cousin play date. Well they can't actually play with each other yet but it was still fun to visit with Mel!

Cousins! Emmett 10 Months & Eisley 3 Months

3 Months!

Eisley is 3 months old now! I can't believe how fast time flies. We are having fun and most days are pretty good days. There are those few hard moments, last night was one of them. I was feeling a little selfish, wishing I could go and do whatever I wanted. However, I am stuck to this little girl which is sometimes hard but I wouldn't change it for anything. I simply look at her cute face and feel so lucky to have her in my life.

  

  

 

rolling over and sweet smiles

Eisley learned to roll over on Monday 3.12.12! She woke up at 2:30am and I could hear her grunting and squirming around. I was like you have got to be kidding me! What are you doing awake at 2:30? So I turned on the hall light and peeked into her crib. She was on her back so all I did was flip her over and pat her back and she went back to sleep! She slept till 6am and when I went to get her she was on her back again! She flipped over twice and she flipped over again this morning when I went to get her too! Its fun that she can do it but kind of frustrating since she can't flip back over to her belly since she only sleeps on her belly. She is very particular about how she sleeps. She loves being comfortable and is just like her daddy. She is doing really well and growing a little chubbier everyday!

One Month

Talk about not liking that flower on her head!

This is a week after her 2 month mark.

The animal book in the background is her favorite book. She will stare at all the animals for a long time. She loves when I read her books and will sit in my lap and look at the pages.

    

Cute Big feet!

 March 10th Smiles

It is starting to get so much fun with all her big smiles! I have yet to capture a big smile on camera but we are having a blast. Everyday is a new story with this little one but I am doing my best to figure her out and have fun along the way!

Happy Birthday Anthony!!!

25 things I love about Anthony for his 25th Birthday today!

1 he is happy 95% of the time
2 he doesn't care if the house is clean, all he asks is for a happy wife
3 he cooks a lot and does an excellent job and i love that he wants to go to culinary school with me(someday)
4 he makes friends with good people at ASU
5 his passion about learning new things and that he wants to know how to do so many different things
6 his desire to own his own business and be an entrepreneur
7 all people like him when they get to know him
8 he takes Tilly out every morning and gives her baths
9 that he makes silly faces out the car to random people (which usually embarrasses me)
10 when no one is around he always honks the car horn
11 he hates to drive but always will
12 he has a long board, can skate and snowboard
13 plays the guitar and was in a screamo band in high school
14 can do really cool pen tricks
15 he likes to read books and never procrastinates on his homework
16 he likes to teach lessons in church and is really good at getting people involved in the lesson
17 loves the scouting program (fitting that it's his calling) he likes it because it helped him so much in his life
18 that he served a mission Canada Montreal French Speaking
19 that he kissed me for the first time on top of the Effiel Tower in Paris :D
20 that he always loves me no matter what
21 that all the kids in our complex love to say hi to Spiderman! (they think he looks like Toby McGuire)

22 he is a wonderful dad! he will give Eisley baths and babysit whenever I need him to
23 always does what I ask him to do even if he doesn't want to
24 he will go grocery shopping for me when I need some help
25 that he is confident and such a good example to me

I love him so much and love learning new things about him each day. I could keep going about all the things I love but i'll stop at 25! He is a really good person and I can't express how grateful I am to have such an amazing husband and best friend! Happy Birthday my Love!

All Dressed in White

Feb 5th 2012 - Blessing Day! 

It was a special day and neat to see our sweet little baby all dressed up in white. There were 5 baby blessing in our ward including us! That is a lot of new babies! The chapel was filled with the spirit as each one received a name and blessing. We are so thankful for all the family that came and missed those who couldn't make it especially Anthony's dad, but we sure were thinking about him though! It is such a neat experience to have a new baby and feel of the spirit Eisley brings into our home.

Our little family!

 

 Special shoes made by Anthony's Grandma Hall before she passed away and socks from Aunt Geneva. Thank you so much! We feel honored that she could wear them and know she was there with us. We are grateful that Eisley has such amazing relatives and a great heritage. 

  LOVE!

Sticky Spaghetti

Have you ever played with your food? Well I have! Good thing Eisley is too young to realize that her parents play with food! Anthony and I made Elk Pork Spaghetti the other day. It was actually really good. Anthony has also made Elk Pork hamburgers too and they turned out surprisingly delicious! Anyways on to my point about playing with food. After we were done eating I went back for some noodles. I love noodles! Whenever my mom makes lasagna and I am home I secretly hope she has left over noodles so I can snack on! I grabbed the pot and picked up a long noodle and it bounced into my hair and stuck! Anthony said Ewww it is in your hair and I laughed. I pulled it out and threw it away. I said they are so sticky and he said throw one at the door. I proceeded to throw a long noodle at the door and it stuck! I laughed and then started throwing noodles at the door! It was fun and Anthony joined in too! By the end we were laughing and had noodles all over the door and when they would drop on the floor Tilly would eat them. It was a fun moment to remember and I hope that my kids learn to have fun from us but no throwing food! (Unless it is with mom and dad) Haha Sticky Noodles!

4 Generations

Eisley got to meet her Great Grandpa Hall for the first time at Christmas! 

She is his 115th great grandchild!! That is a lot of greats! 

It is always fun to visit Grandma Donna and Grandpa Hall!  

 Grandpa Hall, Great Grandpa Hall, Anthony, and Eisley