Gabbie Turns One!!!

This adorable, happy tiny girl turned 1 on April 6th

She had a darling flower birthday cake

Gabbie and I both had on navy and white stripped shirts  

She us now a walking girl!

Here she is tring out her birthday cake, YUMMY!

And opening her presents

I found this fun toy you fill with water to play with outside in the summer.

These 3 cousins all have a VERY LOOSE TOOTH!!!!

Molly was brave enough to let me pull hers out, she was so excited for the tooth fairy to come!

Cline Family Visitors

The middle of March, Mike's brother Steven retired 

packed up his car, and with the help of their brother Mark and his trailer, headed to SLC.  

They arrived here a few days before Sterling and his family who were here for Carol Sue's dad's funneral.  It was nice to have all the Cline brothers here for a quick visit before Sterling and Mark both headed back to Texas.  

Corin, Mark's son flew in from Rhode Island where he is in the Navel Accademy, and spent the night at our house, before visiting friends in Rexburg during his Spring Break.

They got to have a fun visit with their dad before leaving for home.

It was nice to have Steven join us at Sophie's blessing, Mike is going to love having a brother in town to be able to do things with.  

Spring Break in St. George

Right after Sophie's blessing, we hoped in our van and headed to St. George with Krista and her girls for Spring Break!  (Since it's tax season, it is the busy time for Matt at work so he wasn't able to come)  We had 2 DVD players, ear phones and a bunch of fun DVD's and off we went.  These two girls were absolutely perfect on the way there and back!!!!

And so was Sophie.  She fell asleep as we drove out of their drive way, and didn't wake up until we stopped at the stop light right before the condo in St. George.  UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

We had such a fun time, we went swimming,

and Sophie slept by the pool.

The first day there were lots of kids, but the second day, we were the only ones in the pool.

The girls got kites for Easter and had a great time flying them.

Unfortunately, Aida's got stuck in the tree outside the condo.

We did lots of puzzles

Aida took this picture of me and Hailey

Here are 4 of the puzzles we did. The girls are pointing to their favorite ones,

We did a bit of shopping.  Krista found this darling outfit for Sophie at Target, she looked so cute in it!

Krista put Sophie in her front pack when we went on a walk.

The girls loved riding bikes there where the speed limit is 10 MPH.

Before we left for home, we cleaned up the condo.

What fun and NICE girls to take on a vacation!!!!  (I love how Krista wraps Sophie like a baby burrito when she puts her to bed.)

Sophie's blessing day!

Our sweet little Sophie Ella Hurst was blessed on Easter Sunday.  What a great day it was, she looked beautiful and was absolutely perfect as usual!

Her big sisters adore her!

Here's her whole family.

And Jamie, Emily and their girls

And Josh, Merijane and their girls.

Everyone looked so cute in their Easter outfits, that I made them do a photo shoot. 

After the blessing, Krista had a delicious brunch at her house.  Everyone brought something, and it was very tasty!!!!

There were lots of people.  Here are two of Sophie's great grandmas.

Mom and Sophie, so pretty in pink!

What a perfect little angel!!!

Our 3 little babies

Tonight I was able to get a picture of all 3 of our babies together!

It was a little scarey, because the babies really liked Sophie

Krista was standing close by to protect Sophie

I just know they are going to be great friends like their big sisters!!!

Good bye Elder Wenner, welcome Elder Wilson

In January, it was transfer time again, and Elder Wenner was transferred to Murray and we kept Elder Banks.  His new companion is Elder Wilson (the former AP)  from Dallas Texas.

They have had a ton of success the last few months!

This has been a freezing, COLD winter, but it hasn't slowed these two down.

Cousin Sleepovers

The last few weekends, we have had a lot of fun having the cousins for a sleepover.  It  is a little tricky getting them, since Katie is way north, Abbie is way south, and Aida is waaaaay east, but they have so much fun.  We sure appreciate their parents meeting us so we don't have to spend 3 hours in the car to pick them up.  This past weekend we had the little girls and they were so darling!  The weather was great, so they got to go outside and ride bikes and play on our playground.

They sure love being together!!!!!

2 weeks ago we had the big girls!  

 The weather wasn't quite as warm, but they still had fun riding bikes in the church parking lot.  It's so fun to have cousins the same age who just adore each other!!!

It will be lots of fun in a few years when we can have the baby girls

Gabbie

Kelsi

And tiny little Sophie for a sleep over too!!!!

Here's our first real attempt at a picture with all 9 girls!  What a cute group!!!