Family Time Apr-Aug 2010

We love our family time. This is what we've been doing since I last blogged in March.

 Amber and Allison love playing at any park that can get me to take them to. Amber show's how big and strong she is to be able to climb the rock wall.

 Amber and Allison love swings. Amber's even learning to pump by herself.

 This is typical Allison. Climbing where she's not supposed to be and thinking she's gotten away with it.

 This little dress is SO CUTE. It's like a little milk maid's dress.

 Here's Amber chillin in her princess PJ's, on the couch, watching tv.

 Mommy and Allison. Can you believe she's my kid? look at those blue eyes and blond hair. It didn't come from me. BUT it did come from Aaron, some of our other family member's grew up with blond hair before eventually turning dark. I think Aaron's sister Elysa is one of the only true full blonde left.

 Amber and Allison riding together. I love it when they compromise and get along.

 In our Medford mall there's a little indoor play ground. Allison practiced and finally mastered jumping off this frog hehe.

 here's Amber Climbing the side of a bridge, she got up and then she.....

 JUMPED! she did it over and over. She even jumped off that big bear in the back ground.

 Here's Allison playing with the laundry basket again. Geesh. but it just so cute!!

 Daddy, Amber and Allison having reading time.

 We have this little toy piano and instead of playing it Allison climbs on it. the girls pound on it too.

 My new Hair cut back in April, It's grown so much longer since then. But here I got my bangs swooped, and some layers in the front. oh yeah and about 3 inches cut off. It's all grown back by now though. (october)

Miss Allison playing dressup in mommy's shoes. Oh the girls LOVE LOVE wearing my shoes around the house and going clunk clunk clunk on the hardwood floor. It's cute but can be really annoying.

Easter 2010

We were so Thankful to be able to spend Easter at my parent's home. Luckily it's also about a 5minute drive. But we're grateful non the less.

 We couldn't believe it when we saw a Rainbow. But not just a regular rainbow it was a FULL rainbow left to right. There were no breaks in it. Oh it was so Beautiful. I think Aaron took like 20 pictures hehe.

 We colored our Easter eggs with the Heady's, Uncle Brian and Aunt Becca and their kids, Jessica, Owen, Ben, Steven. Amber got to color some too. This was a first for Amber b/c last year we did plastic eggs with candy. So now that she's old enough we'll probably color them. It was a lot of fun.

 Here's Ownen-8 showing off his goofy egg. Each kid got 5 eggs to color. They were each pretty creative. They used crayons, rubberbands, stickers, and different colors.

 All of our eggs that we ended up hiding.

 Steven and Amber looking for Easter Eggs on Grandpa Heady's playset. Oh they had so much fun together. The big kids, Jessica, Owen and Ben were on the other side of the house looking in a little more difficult hiding places.

 Allison's first real easter egg hunt at 18months. Last year she was only 6months old so she didn't participate. She loved it and understood that looking and finding an egg was a lot of fun.

Here's Amber being a nice big sister and showing Allison where an egg is. They were in plain site but Allison still needed the eggs to be pointed out sometimes. What a fun year. Can't wait for next easter.

Gila Valley, Arizona Temple Dedication

at the End of May 2010 the Lindsay Family flew on an airplane to Phoenix for the Temple Dedication in the town/stake Aaron grew up in. It was all very spiritual and exciting for experiance it.

 We were Able to visit our super good friends Aaron and Amber Jarvis, Unfortunitly Aaron had to work and we couldn't see him. But Allison and Amber played with the Jarvis girls Emma and Sarah. Oh my they had fun playing dress up. Wish we could get together more that once every 1-2 yrs.

 In Safford (Aaron's home town) located 3hrs east of Phoenix it was just beautiful weather, It maintains about 10degrees cooler than Phoenix. Here's Aaron's stepmom Jayna pushing Amber and Allison on Grandpa Lindsay's homemade swings. Fun Fun.

 Here's a shot of the garage side of Aaron's childhood home. His Dad and his wife Jayna still live there.

 Another homemade swing from Aaron's dad. A big Semi truck tire that's been cut and sealed and turned into a swing. Grandma Jayna had a lot of fun with her two (step) granddaughters.

 Allison's first time to Safford at 1 1/2yrs old. She loved walking around.

 Another great shot of Aaron's home. The front this time. The trees had all grown a lot. It's amazing when I see pictures from 20yrs ago how little everything was.

 This was so cute. Amber and Allison were chasing lizards. They would find one, follow it the best they could then lose it and have to look for another one.

 Allison and Amber eating at the bar at Grandpa Lindsay's house.

 Here's the Beautiful Gila Valley Temple. The look of it really fits the southwest feel. It so amazing that Aaron's home stake now has a Temple!

Another Amazing shot of the Gila Valley Arizona Temple.

 When we started this trip to Arizona we flew on an airplane. As we were headed back to the airport we ran out of gas an missed our flight (faulty gas gauge). We had to DRIVE Home (which we swore we're never do again). Luckily all we had to pay for was the gas and hotel room. The rental car place paid for the car which saved us $300. oh well. We did have quite an adventure and it's something we'll always remember.

 Amber and Allison in the car. The sun seemed to always be on Amber so we finally put up a blanket to block it.

 One of the sites around the San Fernando area. All these wind mills. Amber was so enthrawled and loved looking at them

Another stop to stretch our legs. They always wanted Aaron to hold them. Which is sort of the opposite of stretch the legs right? Silly girls.

Fun with Friends

Sometimes the neighbor kids get ahold of my camera. I'm glad they do otherwise these pictures wouldn't have happend.

 Allison, Amber, Ryliegh

 Amber driving Allison around.

 Here's Ryliegh

 Here's Carrson

 Allison, Ryliegh, Amber

 Allison, Carrson, Amber

Sister & Brother, Twins, Ryliegh & Carrson

 
Amber and Carrson and so cute sometimes.

Amber's 1st lost tooth

Friday March 5th, 2010 I couldn't believe it. Amber and I were brushing our teeth and all of the sudden I noticed a little blood in her mouth, so I looked and saw a hole in her row of bottom teeth. Oh my. She didn't say anything or even notice. So I ask her what happend she said "what happend to what mommy?" I said Your Tooth Silly, where is it? Well Amber looks in the mirror and sees the little hole. I ask her where it is and she doesn't know so we're looking in the sink, in the places she was playing that morning and couldn't find it. I was hoping she hadn't swallowed it. Then I felt like I should get down and look on the floor and There It Was. It just fallen out without warning. She hadn't even noticed it was loose, but she'll be paying more attention to any loose teeth from now on. So we saved it and plan on giving it to the Tooth Fairy. At first Amber was really shy about 'a tooth missin' she thought it was bad at first. Then I got some library books about other characters losing teeth and she realized that it happens to everyone. My little girl will be 5 on June 30th and starting kindergarden in September and she already lost her first tooth Wow!

Amber, Flower Girl...Allison, Pirate

We have about 75 flower clips for the girls and Amber thought it would be so much fun if I put them in her hair. At that moment we only had about 25 so I put them in her hair and she looked like a pretty little flower girl.


we were at my parents house with my brother Brian and his kids thought it would look so funny if they put a pirate's bandana on Allison. The suprising thing is that she came upstairs and started showing it off instead of just tearing it off her head. So I had to get a picture. SO cute.

When Daddy's in charge

I couldn't believe I saw these Pictures. By the time I had gotten home she of course had gotten a bath and I never knew UNTIL...dun dun dun I went to go post stuff and there they were on the memory card AHHHHHH my poor baby. BUT she has fun when Aaron's in charge b/c she gets to do this (sometimes) b/c when mommy's in charge I'm right there to clean up a mess hehe. So see she gets her freedom. Just not when I don't want to give the baths.

Girls in the house

Allison loves her pickles.


Amber is just chillin on the couch.