Ivy's baby blessing

Ivy is such a special and beautiful baby to us. We really wanted to be able to have a little bit more family around to take part in our babies special day so we decided to do the blessing in Utah this time around. It was a pretty last minute decision to do this but it worked out very nicely and we have my family to thank for a lot of that!  We had the blessing at my parents house and my sister Alli pretty much planned and carried out the entire event for us! We just showed up and enjoyed:) She did all the food prep and planning with some help from my mom but I honestly did nothing. I am so thankful for them and was so impressed with everything they did.

Here are some pictures from that day.

I ordered her blessing dress from a girl that makes them locally in Sandy and had my sister pick it up for me the day before the blessing. Luckily it fit! I loved her dress so much! Thanks Lilly J Design's!

The AMAZING table arrangement and food that My favorite sister Alli put together.

It was also just a gorgeous day outside. Isla was soaking it up.

My cousin Christi and I. We have babies just a month apart. They are already little friends.

Some of my cousins that were able to come. I don't get to see them very often but when I do it's great!

Steve's awesome parents who are always inspiring me to do better.

And thanks to Scott for coming and bringing the older Kiddo's. It was so fun to have them!

My wonderful parents who do so much for my little family. 

My lovely sister, always so cool, stylish and helpful! Love you BFF!

Families are truly forever thanks to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his sacrifice for us. We are so grateful. 

So the day was amazing and the blessing was perfect. It was nice to be around so many people we love and care about. 

Halloween 2013

HALLOWEEN 2013

Isla was an adorable BYU cheerleader and Ivy was a classic cute pumpkin. This was a fun Halloween for us since we think Isla had a lot of fun trick-or-treating this year. She probably could have cared less about dressing up and in fact would have probably been happier walking around town in her pajamas. We think she looked pretty cute though. Ivy was just glad to be warm and cozy since she was only a couple months old.

Isla 20 months

Ivy 2 months old

Isla is a loving big sister. She is always wanting to help with anything Ivy needs.

Steve loved taking Isla trick-or-treating. It is so nice to have such a great husband that probably gets more excited about Halloween than Isla does:)

So our neighborhood is a popular trick-or-treating neighborhood. People actually drive here from all over Mesa and park in our church parking lot to trick-or-treat. There is one street in particular where the houses literally have lines of people leading up to each door step. The people that live in these houses generally sit outside to hand out candy or else their front door would be permanently open.

 It's quite an experience to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood. We have a lot of neighbors that go all out with the decorations. It's sort of like the movie Christmas vacation but Halloween style.

This house was the best. The lit up faces you kind of see actually sing along to music. Their mouths move so it looks like they are really saying the words that are sung to any song and they light up to the beat.

 We also had a ward trunk-or-treat that had pony and train rides. Such a fun Halloween for our family.

Ivy's birth announcement

This was Ivy's birth announcement.