Discovery Gateway Children's Museum

Today we went with my friend Villy and her kids +2 neighbor kids (so we had a total of 6 kids and two adults!) to the Discovery Gateway children's museum in Salt Lake. We had never been before and Ella and Lily loved it! First we went to lunch at the food court which was a little crazy! Then headed off and played for hours at the museum. We had to by home by 5 to pick up Villys oldest from school, so we left the museum a little early and stopped at Häagen-Dazs for some icecream..SO good! Then another walk back to the car which was a little crazy and a drive home with 6 sleeping kids!

Lily loved the ball room

Really, ALL the kids loved the ball room! It was pretty neat. Ella spent most of her time in the ball room at this little station. You put the ball in that tube and it blows air up, so it takes the ball through some tubes and ends up across the room in a bin of balls (like the thing at the bank drive ups)
the back of Lilys head, part of Villy, Ella, Nessa with her head cut off, and the back of Noel

Ella and Jackson in the construction room

Ella in part of the farm area

The water table was also a huge hit with the kids. Lily came away soaked!

We stopped and watched part of the water show

Yesterday I found this black widow crawling across our porch..YUCK!
Joe took it out the the middle of the street and stepped on it

James, Joes brother, had his farewell talk at church today.
He did a great job and will be a great missionary!
Lots of family and friends came over after church to chat and eat.

The girls before church.

Cousins
Lily, Ella and Annie (Annie is a few months older than Lily)

Tonight I got to go with Cassie and Kathy to Womens Conference! It was my first time in the Conference building and it was awesome!

Me and Cassie!

Lily, Ella and her friend Jackson.

Cute Lily girl

We got out our Halloween boxes today....

Ella wearing her new Belle dress we found in the costume box, holding her Belle princess and watching Beauty and the Beast (well she was watching it before she fell asleep!)

Cassie and Kathy came over and had baby Tasmin with them.

She was born a few months before Lily. She was a little afraid of Lily.
Lily would get really close to her face and scream because she was so excited!

8 Months

Lily is already 8 months old!
Here are a few things she is doing...


Learning to clap and wave

Lily has recently discovered the jump and spin zebra. She loves to hold on to the handles and jump which makes the lights and music on the zebra go off. She is getting really good at standing on her own. In the past few days she has been trying to take a few steps. Usually she gets one step and then drops.

She also recently discovered Cheetos which she LOVES!

Ellas new bike came today! She was SO excited!

Lily liked it too!

When my parents were here we ate lunch at the Mayan. Ella loves watching the divers and its nice to go to a sit down restaurant where Ella will be good!

Ella and Grandma Lyn

Mom and Dad

Me and Joe

Grandma Lyn bought Ella this fancy new dress when they were here

Joe took Ella on a riding/camping weekend (check his blog for pictures of that),
so I got to spend the weekend with Lily! Its amazing all the things you can get done with just one baby! I organized my closet and the girls closets, (took 7 big bags to the di!) I did about 400 loads of laundry, okay more like 5 but still a lot (and put it ALL away, thats the worst part of laundry, probably why I took so many clothes to di! ha). But mostly I spent my time reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Its the second book in a series, the first is the Hunger Games. Great book, now I just have to wait for the third book! I also went to a Relief Society get together in Midway at a cabin. We had really good food and I had fun getting to know some of the ladies in our ward better. One lady runs marathons so I had a good time chatting with her about running. Today when Joe and Ella got home we took a few more bags to the DI and found a single jogging stroller for $10! I wanted to go jogging with just Lily this weekend but didn't want to push the giant double jogger so this work great!

Such a happy baby!

She has gotten pretty quick at walking along the furniture. She usually goes from the couch to the train table, then sits and crawls under the train table where she gets stuck!

Ella is in and out of the house all day playing with "her guys" so I have to leave the door semi open for her. But if it gets left open enough for Lily to realize its open, she takes off!

Lily is a very happy baby. Usually very calm and smiley....

But if you take something that she wants, she will let you know!