The Power's
The first exciting thing that happened recently is the my awesome older sister and their family moved back to Utah! They bought a house about 20 minutes from mine...I am SO excited to live nearby them and spend more time trying to convince my nephews and niece that I'm their favorite aunt, bwahahaha! Zack is super excited that he gets to play with his cousins again too!
My parents and I the kids to the Zoo shortly after they moved in so that Trisha and Wes could have some time unpacking their house without having to watch their kids too. We had lots of fun.
I know none of them are looking at the camera in this picture but it is just so cute. :) It's so nice for the cousins to be all together again, now all we have to do is get Richie and Kira to move here someday and then we'll all be back together!
Bradley got his head "stuck" in the alligator's mouth right after this picture was taken. It was a moment of panic for him but I have to admit I was secretly giggling while he wiggled his way out.
Hanging out with Grandpa...I wonder if Zack is going to start getting jealous now that he has to share his favorite person's attention with his cousins? :) A warmup for the upcoming baby brother I guess!Melissa Marie
I can't believe I haven't posted about it yet but my little sis got her mission call and she is going to Tampa, Florida. She leaves October 21st. I am SO excited for her! She went through the temple for the first time last week and it was so special to be there with her and most of our family.
One of the temple workers turned to my mom while we were waiting for everything to get started and said to her "Isn't this the greatest payday a mother could ever have?" I'm sure how excited I was for her didn't compare to my mom's excitement but it was so special to be there with all my sisters and my husband...I just got an overwhelming feeling of how AWESOME my life is right now!
(I think Melissa had the 2 prego's stand on both sides of her so she'd look skinnier! Tricky, Tricky.)Kira Michelle
My brother and his wife Kira are expecting their first child on October 16th. They are going to have a boy (yep, their little boy and ours will only be 2 months apart fun huh?) Kira was able to come visit one last time before she has the baby so of course we took the opportunity to throw her a baby shower. We had tons of our family come and I think it turned out really well. It was a really fun night!
Of course Zack's favorite part of the night was the cupcakes my aunt Sherry made!
Trent made me promise to get all the decorations up in our house before the shower just to give me a deadline. He knows me too well, without a deadline I would have spent the next year debating what I wanted to do and wouldn't have gotten anything done! So everything was a little crazy trying to get the house put together before but I'm SO glad we made that goal because we got a TON of stuff done and now the things we have left are just small...it's nice to have our house feel more "homey" now that we have our pictures up and everything. I promise to post some pics of the house and the neighborhood soon...I know I said that like 2 months ago but I will I promise! :)Zackie
With so many things I was trying to accomplish the last couple weeks I'm afraid to say Zack was getting slightly neglected. Finally one day I just decided to forget about my "to-do list" and spent the entire day just hanging out with Zack. It was really fun and relaxing to just enjoy some time with my boy.
We literally spent the entire morning until lunchtime at the park, he LOVED it! Of course I just HAD to take a few pics. It's the moments where I'm just relaxing with Zack that I always have to whip out my camera, I'm always afraid I'll forget how cute and wonderful he is right now, how to capture all those feelings in a picture I don't know but I keep trying anyway!
Zack came up with this all by himself, we live near the new Oquirrh Mountain temple and we can see it from our windows. He LOVES it and talked about it all the time. This is a picture of him pretending he's a temple! :)
Here he's "feeding the birds," didn't you know they love dirt?
I just LOVE this kid!