The Phillips Family

April was a great month it started out with an amazing family coming to visit. My sister in law and her four kids came to stay and they were nothing but a dream to have come.
I am so lucky to have so many great families to look up to and learn so much from. It was great to spend more time with one of them :)

We had lots of fun with them here including: swimming, parks, kites, Anasazi Heritage Center, short hikes, late night snakes with the big kids, quite time, Nintendo DS, more parks, lots of cousin time, story time, and a whole lot of fun!

Here are some videos of Tuck and Tru being awesome. Cora loved having all of them here (and still talks about when her "friends" were here) but she LOVED Truman and he was so kind to play with her and be such a great cousin.

The kids all played hide and seek and it was Cora's turn to count she laid down on this bridge and counted with her hands over her eyes because that is how Tucker did it and she pretty much copied their every move they whole time they were here. Which was a fantastic thing because they are all such good kids.

The rest of the pictures pretty much describe them selves and I stole them from Emily's blog (Thanks Emily :) ) And Thanks again for driving all the way down to hang out with us we loved it! Come again soon.

Easter 2013

We started our Easter Celebration the Wednesday before at storytime in Dolores. They had one of the librarians dress up like the Easter Bunny and hop around outside then come in and give all the kids an egg. Cora thought she was funny when she was outside but when she came in she was a little nervous. Until I told her that she was handing out eggs then she had enough confidence to go get her egg but then kept her distance :)

The library egg hunt was awesome there were a TON of eggs all over the library that the kids to go and collect them all. And each egg had only a few pieces of candy with stickers and/or bunnies in a barrel (like monkeys in a barrel but bunnies)

This is my attempt to get a picture of both Cora and Lucy. They were both having a good time but just didn't want to show it in this picture :)

Since Lucy couldn't eat the candy she decided to eat the eggs

This is Cora and her good friend Hadley at the Easter Egg hut again in Dolores but on Saturday at the park. Cora pretty much cleaned house but was kind enough to give some of her eggs to the littler kids that didn't have as many. Or else we would still probably be eating the candy

Waiting for the hunt to start

This was Easter Day after church. I had made skirts and scarfs for the girls and myself all with coordinating  colors and i didn't want Chad to feel left out so the night before I made my first tie :) I think we all looks quite festive :) Even if we didn't get a picture of all of us together here we all are in many pictures.

March Catch Up

March has come and gone and here is a little bit of what we have been up to.

Lucy became a lot more mobile and could get around... as a side affect here is her first big bonk. (its on her forehead you can't see it super good but it is there)

Cortez has some good windy days so we took advantage of it and went to fly a kite. As a kid what I remember of flying kites was trying to run really fast to get my kite up in the air and anytime I turned around to see it flying it would come crashing down.   But this kite experience was much different, we just stood in one spot and it fly high :)

Lucy enjoyed the grass while we flew kites.

This is Cora enjoying some granola one night before bed. I just love these pictures because it shows how big she is getting! I can believe it.

Lucy's everyday

Lucy is growing up so fast! She will be turning one year old in about two weeks and I can't believe it. I wanted to post a few videos to remember her at this stage. She is crusing around walking as long as she is holding onto a hand but goes right down when we let go.
She loves to go up stairs and just yesterday came down them (the correct way/not getting hurt) by herself.
These videos show her favorite trick...the headstand. She will do it all through out the day and thinks it is so funny. She often falls back onto her back after and then does it all over again. The video also shows her laugh, it is sometimes hard to decipher between a laugh and a cry but I love it.

Hopefully on her birthday I will update more about her but here are a few clips to hold you over :)

Making memories

I love the night time routine. It has evolved over the past years but every change I still love it.
Right now Chad reads books to Cora while I get Lucy to bed then I tell Cora a few stories in bed then Chad signs her a song or two while rubbing her head.
She loves every part of it.

A big change happened on March 6. Lucy crawled over to a new stroller that our friends the Patrick's gave to us and just started walking with it. She hasn't taken any steps totally unassisted but loves walking with her stroller or holding on to our hands.  

 Cora and Lucy have really started to play together. They like to copy each other and laugh and laugh.

This past week has been beautiful! The weather is warm again! It has been in the 50's and 60's and getting to the 70's. So that means we can go to the park!

Lucy loves the swing as you can see in a video down below. And Cora's legs look so long when she is in the baby swings :)

 Lucy is now 10 months old and can definatly make a mess. She has learned how to pull everything off the selves and sit in the mess and play play play. This video makes me so happy to just watch a short clip of my everyday. Watching these two girls play and explore. I love it

Come Visit Us :)

We had our first official visitors in February. My sister Emily and her family came it visit and it was awesome! We loved having them come and would love anyone else to come :)

Cortez is not super exciting but we sure are :)
They got her Friday and Saturday morning we went to the swimming pool and had a blast playing in the lazy river, going down the slide, and wading in the kid pool.

It was semi warm so spent some time outside going for a short walk and coloring on the drive way.

Cora could hardly contain herself with excitement and/or lack of sleep but she still often talks about all her cousin to come and play with her here.

This is baby Lily or baby Luly and Cora calls her we were excited to meet her and give her lots of loves.

So it may have technically been the Huff families vacation but it felt more like ours. Matt was in the kitchen most of the time making all of my favorite meals. Delicious Pork Tenderloin, creamy mash potatoes, drinkable gravy, fall apart roast, yummy fruit sauce... and on and on. You guys should probably just move in :)

Lucy making a mess with dinner. It was all over her face and hair.

Some may say that I have done this a few times but none the less... if you leave surprise pictures on my camera everyone gets to see them :)

Thanks again Ava

We had a few competitions with Perfection and just hung out.
We again loved having them and are excited for more visitors to come ;)

Valentines Day

 For Valentines Day we had Heart Shaped Pancakes and pears arranged in hearts. For me Valentines Day is a challenge to see how many thing I can shape into a heart

 A Baby that I love

 For dinner I made Cora's (and possibly Chad's) Favorite meal. Sweet and Sour Meat Balls shaped into hearts of course :) And Asparagus

 We had dinner by candlelight...so romantic :)

We hope you had a day filled with love! :)