Baby Belle's Blessing

Our sweet little niece, Belle, got blessed this Sunday. It was so nice to hear Rick bless his new daughter-- and to have Trevor, Evan and their dad in the baby blessing circle as well. So precious.

After sacrament, we all headed over to a park and had brunch with both families (Rick is the youngest of 10, so there were lots of kids to add to the fun).

The kids loved playing hide-n-seek with Trevor. I loved watching. Seriously, not to sound corny, but it just made me smile to see him interacting with the kids so much. It makes me so much more excited for our little family :)

International Peace Gardens

We went to the International Gardens yesterday-- it has different exhibits and was created for "peace and understanding between nations". There were lots of different countries within the gardens (Norway, Holland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Africa, Greece, China, France, Russia.. and tons more). We brought lunches and enjoyed walking around looking at the beauty.





Afterwards, we headed over to the cemetery in Salt Lake where the prophets are buried (and got lost on the way, but that's okay cuz Steph and I were loving looking at all the gorgeous victorian homes in the area). I'd never been before, so it was cool to see. It was an extremely hot day so by the end we were all dead tired-- we went back to Herriman to rest, and some of us took a nice nap :)

Fam Bam

It's been fun to have the Sartell fam here to hang out with so much lately. We've had lots of park days, family dinners, and just good bonding time together.


Usually when I'm at the park I wanna be in the sun the whole time.. but lately with my growing belly, I've been loving the shade. I get SO hot outside right now! I seriously have to be in a pool if I'm gonna be outside for awhile to not feel like I'm dying of heat stroke.

Doesn't Steph look good for just giving birth 3 weeks ago?! Goodness. (AND I can't believe it's already been a month now, it's crazy to me how fast the time has gone!)

Oakley is loving having her cousins here and wants to do everything that Kayley does :)

Max gets played with a ton too-- when we come home, he passes out instantly. It's been nice to have him sleepy at bedtime, instead of wanting to play.

Oakley wanted to throw the ball for Max every time at the park, but of course he wasn't satisfied with the distance she was throwing it-- so Rick would pretend that he was putting the ball in the chuck-it thrower thingie, but just throw it himself. Oaks was amazed the first few times at how far she thought she was throwing it, but then she caught on and was not very happy.. haha.






More family fun coming up this week!

Carnival Fun

The fam came down to our house yesterday and we all went to the Spanish Fork Carnival together. We went at 6:30pm thinking it'd be cooled down a little, but nope! We still enjoyed ourselves in the heat though. It was the opening night so all the rides were only $1-- whoo! The kiddos had a blast on the rides, especially Kayley. It was fun to watch them :)



I loved walking around and looking at all the craft booths and cute things for sale, and Trevor and his dad loved looking at the old cars on display. It was a great night!

Trevor's 28th Birthday

Trevor told me he wanted a relaxing birthday, so that's exactly what we did.. relaxed. We slept in forever (and loved it)! We also both felt our baby girl hiccup for the first time! After lounging til our hearts were content, we had some breakfast, watched Prison Break, and Trevor opened his present from me (new shoes that he'd been wanting for at least 2 years-- I remember he first mentioned he wanted them when we were in Florida at the Adidas outlet). He was a happy boy :)

That evening we had family over (+ Jordan, Trevor's long time friend) for pie and ice cream. We thought we had gotten a cherry pie, but it turned out that it was strawberry rhubarb! Haha it was still very tasty though. Trevor ate on the "You are special today" plate :)

 

Evan & Nicole got Trevor a book trilogy that he was excited about-- and notice the beautiful princess wrapping paper :) I had his present wrapped in pink tissue paper too, it's all we have these days from the baby presents coming in! Haha he loves it.

The next day we visited Gardner Village and had fun hanging out just the two of us. It was a fun birthday weekend! Can't believe Trevor is 28!!

4th of July Weekend

We went to the Stadium of Fire with Evan and Nicole for 4th of July weekend. Nicole scored us free tickets from work (whoo!) This was our first year going and it was pretty dang cool, especially since Carrie Underwood sang. She was amazing! I loved seeing someone so talented live. 

Before Carrie started her whole performance, she sang the national anthem and fighter jets flew right above us-- it was CRAZY. They had all the troops come out onto the field, and dancers performed as well. It was a great way to celebrate our independence! 

There was an awesome firework show at the end (and we loved being that close to the fireworks!) It was such a fun night!

Our New Niece!

We got to meet our brand new niece yesterday (Belle Elizabeth Norman). She is the cutest little thing, I loved holding her. She was born on June 28th-- 7 pounds, 20 inches long.

It was almost unreal to see Stephanie throughout her entire pregnancy, and then walk in and see the baby born. I know that sounds funny, but I've never been through that experience with anyone before.

I was right about being even more anxious for our baby now.. it's all me and Trevor could talk about on the way home ("I wonder what she'll look like", etc.)

I think this sweet little baby girl will keep us occupied for the next 2 1/2 months though, I'm glad :)

We're so happy for Steph and Rick (and for Oakley who is now a big sister)!