Doug & Randi

Grandma's dress

My mom let me take this dress home to try on Averi. It was her dress when she was little and it looked so adorable on Averi! I wish they still made this style of dress.

As soon as we got home and settled (somewhat), we had a few of Averi's friends over to have a princess birthday party with her. The girls all enjoyed eating lunch, getting nails painted, running through the sprinklers, jumping on the trampoline and eating cupcakes!

Presents!

Happy birthday Averi! We love you more than words can express!

First day of Kindergarten!!

Since we were out of town for "Meet the Teacher Night" I was a little nervous for her but Averi was confident and excited. She marched right in there, found her seat, and blew us a kiss goodbye.

Seriously...It doesn't get much cuter than this!!

As a side note: That morning, a dog that we were watching for the first time ("Lucky") got out of the house an RAN like the wind away from us. With help from kind neighbors and the landscapers, we were finally able to catch him after about an hour of chasing him all over the neighborhood and onto Van Buren Street (2 lane faster road). We made it to Averi's school with NO time to spare! I think she was the last kid to sit down. Such a dramatic start to what ended up being a pretty great day!

Another quick stop in SLC

Since Doug flew out of Boise to get back to work, I wanted to break up our 16 hour drive. I drove back to Salt Lake City and and stayed a couple nights with the DeGraws. Nancy was sweet enough to make the drive to Phoenix and then got a direct flight home after a few days with us.

Me and Deanne took the kiddos to the children's museum

Then got lunch at CPK

We stopped at a hotel out of Las Vegas on the way home. The girls had a blast in the swimming pool. Since it was Averi's actual birthday, we let her open a couple more presents and got some more cake!

My silly little goobers:

New purses from Nammy!!

Kadence is just adorable... enough said!

Home again home again jiggity jig!

Next Stop: Boise!

The girls were already exhausted so they slept most of the drive to Boise

Averi always goes straight out to visit the animals

We went out to The Village at Meridian to eat and hang out. We loved watching the light show at the fountain and the girls got super hyper and were running around like crazy at the play area.

Doug had to get in on the action on the playground

Kadence LOVED the jewelry store!

...and of course no trip to Grandma and Grandpa's is complete without horse riding... at least in Averi's eyes.

We had a small family birthday party for Averi and Kenley at the Proudfoot's house. Of course it was "Frozen"-themed!

The girls playing in the morning with all Kenley's cool toys

Kadence and Rix were cute little buddies most of the time! They loved jumping on the Trampoline together

Maria hooked Buddy up to the cart and the kids had a GREAT time riding around the pasture. Sophie chased the cart the whole time, the little freak :)

Averi was able to go to Kenley's friend birthday party. That girls got a LOT of partying in for the month of July!

We went to the Cobb's house one night for dinner and to hang out with them. It was fun catching up and Averi had a blast with their dog. She's my little dog-whisperer. Sophie and Daisy were thrilled to come along as well.

Then we got to stop by Kristy's school to see her classroom. It wasn't finished yet but was already adorable and the kids loved checking everything out!

These are my favorite moments... Seeing the kids all snuggled up with grandma while she reads to them.

Averi's new sleeping bag that she got for her birthday. She LOVED it! We were going to all sleep on the tramp that night but I didn't want to go to bed as early as the girls so I sent them out around 9pm. Averi chickened out immediately so she came in and slept in a bedroom. Kenley stayed out there by herself until I went out with her an hour later. Brave little girl!