Our Vacation & Alyssa's Birthday

We've had a very busy week! We went on vacation to Mesa (for Jeff's wedding) and Tucson. Even though it was a lot of driving, we had a good time. The wedding and the reception were very beautiful. Kayla had a blast at the reception, dancing and running around with her cousin Jaylee. Alyssa slept through half of it. In Tucson we went to the Zoo, to a movie (Meet The Robinsons, very cute! Alyssa slept through that too!), the mall, and swimming at the hotel. We also drove around A LOT!!!! We're looking into moving down there and we wanted to make sure that we liked it first. Today was Alyssa's 1st birthday. Unfortunately, we were in the car the whole day, but when we got home she got a cake and presents. She made a huge mess with the cake, as you can see in the pictures, but it was worth it. I can't believe she's already 1! Now it's back to the old routine, until next week anyway. The girls and I will be leaving to go up to Farmington for a while.

She's On The Move!!!

This is a really cute dress Aunt Deena sent to Alyssa when she was born. She can finally fit in it! She only kept the hat on for the picture though.


Here's Alyssa up on the coffee table with her Elmo book.

She did it! Alyssa is walking and she did it before her first birthday! She's not a pro yet, but she can go about 7-10 steps before she falls down. She's also learned to climb up on things. I was cooking dinner the other night and looked over and she was on our coffee table reading an Elmo book. I've really got my hands full now! :-) Her and Kayla are starting to play together a lot more. It's really cute. We're getting ready to take off to Arizona at the end of the week for Jeff's wedding and then to Tucson for a couple days so we should have a lot of fun pictures to post later!