Manito Park

Spokane I admit is not my favorite city, but one thing I love here are the parks. We went to Manito for FHE and caught everything in full bloom.

Back in Spokane

We have moved back to Spokane for our final year of law school! Josh is working at a law firm that keeps him very busy, taking classes, doing law review stuff, and looking for a job for after school (which is a job within itself!) So he is staying super busy and I am so greatful for all of his hard work for me and Lyla!

The first week we got back we got together with our friends and had dinner. It has been nice to have a group of friends that are all in the same situation, live close by, and great company! We will miss them a lot when we move for good

Took a pic of the babies close in age.

Here is the after summer:

McKaylee Day (born in April), Lyla (born in Feb) & Claire Barney(born in Dec)

And the before summer:
Claire, Lyla, McKaylee

They sure have changed in just a few short months haven't they?!

A few weeks after we got back there was a Relief Society Retreat up in the mountains about 45 minutes north of our house. We had a ton of fun with just the girls stayin up late and doing all kinds of different activities:

Made some bracelets
Karaoke- super blurry, but we had a ton of fun jammin out to 'Any Man of Mine'

Heather pullin a solo!

We also enjoyed sitting by the fire, jumping on the trampoline, games and just talking talking talking!

Lyla also got to finally move into her crib! She slept in a pack 'n play all summer and has been enjoying all the room in her crib and moves around like crazy!

Heritage Square

A few days before dad and Josh drove to Spokane we took a last family trip to Heritage Square, ate burgers and went down the alpine slide

Josh and I are the two in the back, just finishing up our ride

Ly hung with Gma and Gpa while we went down

Ha, love Josh's dog face

Lyla's First Meal!

Back in mid August Lyla got her first real food: rice cereal.

She used mom's baby spoon that she used to eat with. It has my name and birthday engraved on it even.

"I'm so full"

4th Anniversary

Celebrated on August 13th in Denver because of the move to Spokane on our anniversary

Loved Maggiano's so much on my bday and got a coupon so we went back for our anniversary and happened to also sit in the same spot!

"Venice on the Creek" in downtown Denver. Romantic and fun.

It even has locks, just like the ones huge boats use. We are going down a lock in this picture, and went down about 6 more feet after this was taken. Also, our boat was an authentic boat from Venice!

Lake Almanor 2010

Had a great time at Almanor again this year. Lyla's first year and she did great and everyone loved her!

Water was a little too cold for Ly this year, but she still put her feet in

Cute Wrigley. Kasia is prego with number two, another girl.

Karli looking cute as always! Spencer would have had his first year but couldn't make it due to internship responsibilities.

Cute little toes. She seemed to like putting her feet on the sand and would curl up her toes.
Sutherland and Holland couldn't get enough of Lyla!

Wakeboarding as usual

And of course tubing. That's me in the middle, and Sutherland on the end.

Tried to go see the Kirk's who were also at Almanor on the other side, the boat engine overheated on the way over and the boat quit. Here we are being towed in back to shore, never getting to see the Kirks since it was our last day

The famous shuffleboard, Josh and I won 4-3!

The whole fam, getting bigger every year with spouses and more kiddos!

Visited Gma S after getting back to Sac town.

Summer Fun

I turned 25! Went to Maggiano's for dinner, it was SOO good

It is an adorable restaurant inside and out

The restaurant brings out some amazing lemon cookies for my bday

Got a "nothing bundt cake" which is super yummy, i got choc with cream cheese frosting

I got a sewing organizer from the rents, a passport!, and some amazing pictures of Lyla and frames put together by Josh and bf Jenn

More Swimming, Lyla loves it more every time!

Free Concerts in the park, its every week and we have gone about 4 times now! So relaxing and fun to lay on the grass on a summer evening and listening to music

Lyla loves to touch the grass and hang with the fam. New hat made by mommy :) I just can't resist making things for her, its so fun!

Rodeo in the Ranch!

It was about 95 degrees and nap time so Ly stayed at home with gma

Great summer so far! Looking forward to more memories to come before school starts up again next month.

Baseball & July 4th Weekend

Josh LOVES the Red Sox and they just so happened to come play the Rockies this summer so of course we had to go.

Lyla gave dad a baseball outfit for fathers day, here she is sporting the "daddy's home run hero" outfit

She did great at the game even though it was 90 degrees and past her bedtime!

Grandma is a Rockies fan but still agreed to hold the Red Sox fan, for a little while

4th of July downtown Denver- Symphony in the Park and then fireworks shooting off the county building with a light show on the building

Lyla and dad matching for church on the 4th. I made the onesie and shoes and added on a strip of matching fabric on the skirt, it was fun to be festive for church

July 5th everyone had off work so we went to Estes Park for the day and walked around Bear Lake. Here is Josh scaling the wall...with flip flops, he was super high.

The fam at Bear Lake

Me and Ly looking out at the lake together. The front pack brought back prego memories with being off balance and lots of weight in the front!

Beautiful Lake! The weather was perfect and Lyla loved being outside. It was a great day together as a family since we dont get those very often