Spring Time Fun!

Grandma and Grandpa Meldrum were able to make a long layover (5 days) on their way to GG Meldrum's new house in Boise and we loved it!  It was beautiful weather while they were here and we enjoyed a lot of time outside, visiting the train park in Scottsdale, the Temple, and lots of fun at home.  We were glad that Phoenix was a stop on the way to Boise!

Grandpa decided that everyone needs a pinwheel in the spring!

Mike worked on Monday and we made our way to the Train Museum in Scottsdale.  It was pretty cool and the girls favorites were the train ride and carousel ride they got to go on because grandma and grandpa were there, which is our family rule.  Saves on a lot of whining and money wanting to go on them every time we see one.

  Allie had school the day they left and Grandpa wanted to take some pictures before she left. 

 Hadley did not want to be let out and posed exactly the same as Allie.

On Sunday we went to the temple and saw all the beautiful spring flowers. 

Happy Birthday to Allie!

Allie has been overly excited for her birthday this year. Ever since Christmas, she knew her birthday was coming up, and kept asking "Is my birthday next?" Well, after finally getting through mom's birthday, dad's birthday, and valentines day, we are now ready for Allie's birthday celebration. All week she would wake up each day and asked, "Is today my birthday?" We told her that Grandma and Grandpa Meldrum were coming for her birthday, so as soon as they got here, she knew it was party time!  So to make sure she understood, we filled her room with balloons for when she woke up on March 2nd. Instead she came out and asked, "How come there are balloons in my room?"

Close enough I guess. 

And with that we moved on to the day of Allie!

 Playing with all the wonderful balloons. 

Both girls (and grandma) really loved playing around with them most of the morning.

They enjoyed using the static to stick the balloons to each other!

 

After all the balloons, we moved on to baking.

 

 The beautiful cake that Rach made using the ingredients hand picked by Allie-o 

(blue frosting, pink trim, and awesome pink sprinkles). 

Allie and Hadley got to help with the sprinkles!

 We had a small party with family and Allie was way excited to blow out the candle.

Left: Sweet Allie enjoying the thought of a birthday cake.

Right: Mischievous Allie trying to decide between a wish for a BIG dog or three small ones (at least that is what I would be wishing for)

Happy Birthday to our wonderful little 4 year old. 

Its great to have your excitement, energy, laughter, singing, joy, and even your unlimited questions in our family.

February Fun

February was not very eventful, but we took a few pictures of our daily lives for a bit of fun.

Hadley was sitting in the window in the kitchen in the morning, eating a cookie, and I thought the light hitting her was so pretty, on a pretty girl!

Allie wanted to take pictures outside so we had a fun afternoon taking silly pictures of each other while Hadley slept.   You can also see my baby belly starting to expand here. :)

 I just love these two silly girls!

Cold and Fun Visit!

A few days after we moved in, my parents came into town to help us unpack and settle in and enjoy the Arizona weather.  Well, most of that did not happen as well as planned, but we still had lots of fun!  The week before they came was beautiful and in the 70s.  The week they were here - it was the coldest week in Arizona in like 20 or 30 years - our pool even froze over!  The day that they came, our heater died and we had someone come to check it out and the whole system needed to be replaced.  Nothing like spending $7000 on a heater/AC system 3 days after you move in.  Well, they could not get a new heater until about a week later so we had the coldest week ever with my parents here and no heater.  That night my dad and Mike hit all the Walmarts, targets, Lowes, & Costcos around to find a space heater.  No one had any in the valley but Mike was smart enough to think of getting electric blankets and they found some at walmart.  Hooray!  

The neighbors (that we did not know yet) also let us borrow their space heater so showering and getting ready would not be too awful.  Luckily my parents made the best of it and we all had such a great time while they were here.  

We had trips to the park, organized and fixed some things in the new house, helped clean and check out of our old apartment, and playing - lots of playing! We loved having you here mom and dad, thanks so much!

As usual, I forget to take pictures until almost the last day... but we had lots of fun! 

My girls could swing FOREVER... and grandpa was so willing to push Hadley to her heart's content.  We make it to the park about 2 times a day and because of that, their desire to go higher and higher on the swings has gotten to the point where I can give Allie an underdog as high as I can push and she still begs to go higher.  Hadley goes pretty high too!

Crazy New Year's Eve....

We had a ruckus new years eve.... or not!  After the holidays of family, friends and too much sickness, it was nice to have a night with some cherry 7up, staying clean and enjoying some family fun.  The girls had just hopped out of the tub and I found them both on Allie's bed, drinking their milk and giggling.  I love having 2 girls in a row close to each other because they now have such fun together.  Nothing is better than giggling with a sister!