Julia's New "Do"

So after months of talking about it, Julia finally agreed it was time to cut her hair. She wasn't even sad about it. In fact, she was pretty excited!




I think her new do looks very cute on her, but I'm biased.

A group of friends and cousins hiked to the Y last week. It was hard for me because I'm so out of shape. I was just glad I made it all the way. It felt good to get some exercise in such a fun way.
Julia, Chloe, Rissy and Tessa with the view of Provo in the background.

Josie, Chloe, Tessa, and Julia. Cute cousins. These girls did not complain at all about the hike. They did great!

Julia on the Y overlooking the valley.

Lisa and I. Baby AJ made his first trip to the Y at just 7 weeks old!

AJ's Blessing Day

Sunday was AJ's Blessing Day. Eldon gave him a beautiful blessing. We are lucky to have many family members close by to support us. AJ could not have been better behaved. He slept through his blessing and then through the next two hours of church, thanks to Aunt Lisa.
AJ wore the same blessing outfit Andrew wore for his blessing. I was worried that he would be too hot in it since it's June, but it turned out to be a little chilly and even rained in the morning.

Gotta love the baby acne. It always shows up just in time for the blessing.

Getting a good family picture gets harder and harder with each new addition.

It's hard to stay awake when you're holding a sleeping baby. Just ask Grandpa Tuckett!

And Eldon:)

I wonder what Grandpa Hult's excuse was!

The Grotto

Summer just isn't summer until we have made at least one trip to our favorite hike spot up Payson canyon. The Grotto is the perfect hike for kids and it ends at a waterfall. We love it!
Brynn and Jeanna came along and B just loved walking herself on the log bridges.

Thankfully Josie helped Andrew cross this bridge. Since I had AJ in the snuggly it was hard to do both.

Julia turned for a quick photo. She was excited because we were almost to the waterfall.

I let Julia hike up to the top of the waterfall this year. It made me nervous to have her go up without a grown-up, but she did just fine and was so excited to be up there all by herself. She is getting so big.

Summer Fun

We are really enjoying our new slide as a way to enter the swimming pool!
Julia going head first.

Julia and her friend Amanda playing with the sprinkler.

Andrew looking nervous to let go. Josie willing to catch him.

Julia upside down and head first.

Emma and Andrew

Emma's last day of Preschool

I guess technically she will still have 3 weeks of summer school, but today was Emma's last day of the regular school year. Her teacher decided not to do a program or a preschool graduation of any kind. I'm not sure why, but it might have something to do with the fact that she just had a baby in March. Instead she rented a big bounce house and the kids just jumped and played today. We went in to take teacher gifts at the end of class and to take pictures with all of Emma's teachers. This first picture is of Emma's bus driver and the bus aide. Emma absolutely loves to ride the bus and these ladies help make her bus experience great!

Jana is one of the teacher's aides in Emma's class. She was in one of our past wards so we already knew her and knew we liked her!

Kathy is another teacher's aide.

Misty has been Emma's teacher for two years now. She will be staying home with her baby now so Emma won't see her during summer school and next year Emma is going to Transitional Kindergarten at our neighborhood school. Yeah!

Our Cute Kids!

Four seems like a lot!

Emma looks like she's giving AJ a blessing.

I was trying to get a picture of each child by themselves with AJ, but Emma refused to be left out of Julia's picture.

Something was funny!

My sweet boys! I love this picture because AJ almost looks like he's smiling.