Sunset

Me: Jo look at the sunset! It's beautiful isn't it! 

Jo: mom, look Jesus is hanging down watching me!

Me: of course he is! 

Jo: see him on that cloud? 

I suddenly got a little emtional (me, emotional? Never!?) I instantly felt a comforting feeling come over me knowing that this feeling was my heavenly father was testifying to me that what my 3 year old was telling me was true. He is always watching over us and I'm so grateful Dal has come to realize this too! They say children can feel and are closer to spirit and heaven, so Jo really might have seen Jesus hanging down from one of those beautiful clouds making sun rays. 

Winner!

At the spur of the moment on Thursday afternoon I remembered it was the bike races for the Longhorn Days celebration at about 430 and ran down to the school to get her entered and ready to race by 5. And boy was this a great idea! Dallie raced very well on her little balance bike, politely slowing down so no one would hit her. she was in the top placings in her group and she was the lucky winner of a new bike! She was soooooo excited! 

When we went to sign up to race you pay $1 and you get to put your ticket in one of the baskets in front of several bikes all different sizes. They had a very cute pink princess bike with training wheels that Dal chose to put her name in for, well when she wasn't looking I took her ticket out and put it in for the bigger bike (the princess one was smaller than her balance bike she already has). 

Best $1 I've ever spent! 

My cousin Dewey's little boy won a bike too! What a lucky group of cousins! 

While at the races, dal caught up with her little friends Haz and Whit. I'm pretty this pic is the start of many, hopefully just not mug shots from getting in trouble?! 

8 month pics

I've been going through some pics and finishing some wall decorating and i decided it was time to update Cooper's pics. They turned out soooo great! 

I had my friend Tarrin Monson take the pics and she knows how to catch thr cutest faces and moments. 

And like always I like it compare the girls at this age, so here is Dallie in the same tutu. 

Sunday best

I finally got a Sunday dress pic. We are usually in such a hurry to get to church my 9 tht we usually don't have time for a pic. But I made time last Sunday. 

Aren't those the cutest girls you've ever seen?!

8 month babies

 Here are both the girls, at 8 months in the same little outfit. Cooper is quite a bit balder and a bit smaller than my chunky Dallie. But Cooper has two teeth coming in and dal was our little gummer until 11 months.

They are so different in so many ways but they sure do look alike!

Teacher Jo

Dallie's main goal lately is getting to watch Cooper all by herself. And obviously I can't let her go for too  long but I didn't let her watch her while I vacuumed and when I went to check on them i found a little teacher and her student. 

Cooper fit Dallie's little doll chair perfectly and Jo was quite the little teacher. I heard her say, "student you have to listen so you will know what to do" I'm pretty sure she's heard tht a few times for her mother!

I love when I find them having fun! 

4th of July

We had such a great July 4th weekend. Our fun started on July 4th which was on a friday with picking up rocks.... Which was rewarded by going to the rodeo in Tabiona. We always enjoy this little rodeo. We got rained on for a little but the girls didn't mind!

The next day we went for a nice little horse ride up Hell's Canyon around Mill Park. It was so fun taking cod and dal around where I used to ride every summer. My gpa Brent used to have the grazing permit and just riding around brought back so many memories. So many good memories. Memories of my aunt Stacy riding old Curtis and racing my sisters down the trail to get to lunch first. It was really hard work pushing the cows up the mtn sometimes but it was there that we truly learned to ride and ride well.

After our little ride, we cooked up some yummy tin foil dinners and just enjoyed the scenery. The girls had a great time! It wasn't too hot and we even got a little rain! 

I hope this is a tradition we can keep up so my girls can have the same memories I have!