Sisters

I was looking through some of the pictures I've taken this month and this picture of Hannah refusing to put her feet in the water made me have such a flash-back to Ella when she was younger. I knew I had a picture somewhere, so I searched through until I found it. It made me laugh how alike they are and so I decided to go through and compare some side-by-side pictures of them when they were the same ages (Hannah is on the left and Ella on the right) :



Newborn



About 3 months



About 6 months



About 12 months

About 18 months

Playing catch-up (part two)

OK, somehow I have managed to let a month go by without blogging. I blame it on the summer. We have just been so busy! Here's the low-down on what we've been doing in July:

1st weekend - spent the 4th of July holiday with family in Southern California. We went to a really long, fairly miserable parade in the blazing heat, but then we went swimming and spent the evening at a great fireworks show. They had some jets fly overhead and then a plane dropped some parachuters (is that a word?) down which was pretty cool.

2nd Week - We were home for about 2 days and then then we went to Southern Utah for a week (Aaron just came for the weekend) to visit more family. We went into the mountains for a fun picnic and it was so refreshing to be outside in some cooler air for a change! We also got to meet Ella and Hannah's new second cousin (or is it cousin once removed - can someone explain that?) while we were there. Baby Daniel is just the cutest little thing and made me just the teeniest bit baby hungry.

Third Week - Again, home for two days and then my sister Kristen came with her four kids for a few days. It was so great to catch up and let the kids play and just spend time with family! We went to the Natural History Museum and the kids loved it.

So then, two days after my sister left, my brother-in-law Tim came for a visit with his girlfriend Allie (sorry Allie, is that how you spell it?) who recently returned from her mission. Again, another great visit. It's always so nice to be with family.

And that pretty much brings us up to date. Whew!