Travelin'

We've had a great couple of weeks. After California we headed to St. George and the family cabin in Brian Head.

My grandma lives in St. George and I love spending as much time with her as I can. She traveled around a lot with my grandpa, they are the coolest people. They have some wooden shoes from a trip to Holland and Ainsley has to wear them every time we are there. We also got to see some other family member too who came to see my Grandpa in the Senior Games. He won a gold and a silver in Lawn Bowling. Go Grandpa!

Little Dutch Girl


Buddies - my little cousin Kyle and Ains are best buds,


Makeup Artist - already harassing her lil cousin Wes with girly stuff.

kisses


Aunt Candice and Baby Wes


We spent a couple weeks up at the cabin while Tom did a bunch of work. We had some friends come up and stay with us. The only thing I love more than spending some time at the cabin, is spending time at the cabin with friends!

Trent, Cristi and Zack came up first. Tom's best friend did a great job when he picked out Cristi for his wife. Thanks for marrying an awesome girl I'm glad to be friends with!


A couple days later RJ and Rusti and their 2 cute kids got there.
RJ, like Tom and Trent, is a computer programmer, so the guys had a blast talking in some language the rest of us ignored, lol. Rusti and I hunted down puzzles and the boys made fun of us for being old ladies as we put it together. Ains adores their kids, Isabelle is such a cute little mommy, and Oliver is a sweetheart that's easy to play with.


We ate lot of yummy food.. that's what the cabin is for, in my book, yummy food. We had kabobs, and chicken tacos, and cinnamon rolls, and cookies, and homemade pizza and more.. I aim to fatten up any and all house guests... be aware.. mwahahaha

Makin' da pizza


Ridin' her horse


Cave Dwellers


"Is your mom taking ANOTHER picture?"
"I know.. she's crazy!"


The crazy thing hat happened while we were there was a big windstorm came thru and blew over this huge old tree next to the cabin. It was amazing that it fell in pretty much the only direction that wouldn't do any real damage. Tom, RJ and Rusti (by this time Trent and Cristi had gone home) went out to survey the damage and start clearing some brush (i volunteered to watch the kids, lol) I tried to get Rusti to leave it to the guys (not at all to clear a guilty conscience for not being out there.. really..) but she said she was having a blast! She was a regular ol lumberjack! I'm definitely impressed.

Big Ol Tree


Mountain woman!


They cleared off all the side branches and debris with gloves and axes, and eventually after everyone left Tom took a chainsaw and hacked that thing to pieces and cleared the whole driveway so that the people coming that weekend could get thru it. I'm not gonna lie, I thought he was totally insane and would chop his leg off and bleed to death and leave me a widow.. but luckily my mountain man survived. :) Yeah, he's tough.

Chainsaw craziness

A California Adventure

playing catch w Daddy at the beach



Checking out baby Evan


Wearing her new shades on the way to Disneyland!



Disneyeland was all halloweeny.. i wanted to get this for my sister Roxanne, but I'm cheap, lol.

Pumpkin Clubhouse Pals

in line to ride Dumbo.. we got a magic feather!

Ainsley LOVED Dumbo!


cruisin the teacups w/ Aunt Anna, Uncle Allen and cousin Jake.

Mickey's house was a favorite. Here's Ains being Pluto

She blew Mickey a kiss all on her own

She was so excited to see him!


little girl was all tuckered out by 1pm and so we road the train and let her crash out.

refreshed and ready to go, here's Jake, Adam and Ains waiting in line for Nemo's submarine ride

Minnie's house!

Minnie's Vanity

Minnie's dishwasher

Tea Party w Minnie

Piano at Goofys house. Each key played a different weird sound like a car horn or a dog barking, she thought it was hilarious.

Goofy's 'thinking chair'.. her words, not mine.


Happy Halloween!

Donald's Boat

The Toon Town Fountain

Mickey and water.. one happy girl

Mommy and Ains on the steps of Toon Town

Ainsy Ears

We had to go back and see Mickey again.. this time she was brave enough to hug him. She also gave him a kiss on the nose, but it was too quick and I didn't get it on camera, dang it! It was SO cute!

Havin' a convo with the mouse

I tried to sneak in 'its a small world after dinner, but we had to walk across the whole park to get there and by the time we arrived she was totally asleep. It was one full day for the Ainsers.


Thanks for a great trip Grandma!!

Our life lately

After we got back from my dads visit we decided it was time and we converted Ains crib to a toddler bed. I was really worried she'd always be getting out of bed to play or that she'd fall out of bed while she was sleeping and hurt herself. With the addition of a guard rail one of my fears was set at ease.


And that night when I put her to bed she fell right asleep, no getting out at all. In the morning I heard her calling for me. She was sitting on her bed crying because she wanted the stuffed animal that was on the phone. Silly girl didn't even get out to get what was right in front of her. And it's been like that ever since, tho now she yells 'mommy where are you??!??' when she gets up. Lol.




Ok, let's see. Other news. Ains got her first real hair cut. She'd had a tiny trim of the back before to prevent a baby mullet but this time it now has an actual shape. A cute little bob. She was so good and sat still and didn't cry. She's a champ. And I got a curl of hair for her baby book. Man, she's growing up fast.





She flew her first kite at a party in our neighborhood where they were giving them out for free. It was so fun to watch her and with her daddy trying to get it up in the air. :)





Ok, I think I'm caught up. Look for Disneyland pictures next!