Cascade Springs

We drove up through Midway to Cascade Springs mid September to see all the beautiful leaves.

It is gorgeous up there, and the girls all loved running on the wooden walk ways.

Oh and I cut my hair short this week

On our way home we stopped by Jamey and my cousin Dallin's benefit concert for schools for Kenya. There's Jamey on the drums.

Grandpa Greg, Grandma Beck, C and Michelle spectating.

Vienna 3 years old

Oh Veena! How we love you. 

This smile right here usually comes right before she's about to do something mischievous. 

Vienna knows how to love so completely. She can make a bad day good, and a good day great. She gives the best hugs, frequently tells us, "I wub you." She gives praise freely ("Cambry you ride your bike really fast."), she cheers and claps for us all, whether it's Myla taking her first steps, Cambry needing some encouragement to write an alphabet letter, me folding laundry, Devin fixing the car, etc. She frequently laughs (Cambry says she laughs too loud), and keeps us all on our toes since she tries really hard to do whatever she wants.

She loves hugs, kisses and snuggles, playing with cousins and friends, pizza, chocolate, broccoli, swinging, Diego, riding her bike, being chased, the park, dancing, playing with her princesses. Her favorite animal is a cow- she's had this obsession with cows for months! Her favorite color is blue... and all the other colors, but her favorite favorite is blue. Her favorite princess is snow white. Her favorite book is Go Dog Go (she calls it go go dog). Her favorite toy is a fisher price farm with its animals. Her favorite person is Cambry. She loves technology, and thinks that my tablet is actually hers. She loves frosted mini wheat crumbs- like the stuff that's at the bottom that most people throw away. When we don't have any crumbs, we even crush mini wheats for her... so high maintenance :)

She keeps us laughing. Like the time she threw a toy at Cambry in the car. Cambry was in tears and Veena just keeps yelling over and over, "I'm busy and mad and special!"

When uncle Derek was leaving on his mission, I told her, "guess what? We're going to a restaurant for breakfast today and we're going to say goodbye to uncle Derek." Veena looked at me distraught and said, "Do those guys have crumbs?"

She wants to know everybody's names ever: People we see driving by our house, figures in books, strangers that pass us while we're doing errands, etc She's always asking, "What's that guy's/girl's name?" What are their  names?" I used to just make up names, but now I ask her what she thinks their names are, I get some GREAT responses like "egg, Goosey goose, Binko, Licky face, Triceratops", etc.

She picked this cereal for her birthday cereal

Veena's Birthday was on the day of the Airhart Sunday dinner. Built in party- great!!

Grandma Beck gave her this book with all the princess pieces that she adores, and sleeps with.

We got to celebrate Myla a little more that day too.

Since her favorite color is blue along with all the other colors, I made a rainbow cake.

I told her there was a surprise on the inside... she loved all the color swirls on the inside. She is so fun to please! Happy 3rd Birthday Veena! We love you dearly!

Soccer

Cambry started soccer this fall for the first time. She was so excited about it. She loved running around with all the kids and kicking the ball periodically. 

Veena had a great time cheering her on.

 Some of Cambry's favorite parts were giving her coach high fives, kicking the ball, running, and treats after the game.

Grandma Beck came to some of the games and brought some giggles to share.

The after-game treats may have been Cambry's favorite part.

This was frequently the mode of transportation to Cambry's games.

Myla 1 year old!

Myla Avolene has changed so much in the last 3 months! After she started crawling at 9.5 months, she got really fast so quickly. She started crawling up stairs at 10 months, and just after she turned one she's been the energizer battery, walking everywhere just because she can. Her favorite place to walk seems to be in the middle of the road and right in front of swings. 

She loves following her sisters around, pulling things out of drawers, waving to people, and carrying things around in both hands and in her mouth too. She loves snuggling her blanket in her bed, feeding herself, turning the page while reading books, ripping up tissues, bath time with her sisters, and tickles. She doesn't like people touching her hands, grass, sleeping past 6;30 am, wearing shoes, and getting her nose wiped. 

She eats more than all of us right now. She loves all food except cheese so far. She's 50th percentile in height, weight, and head- which means she's growing bigger since she was in the 30th. My hypothesis is she's about to go through a growth spurt with how much she's eating.

Myla has an iron grip- our family has an unspoken agreement that you have to REALLY want/need whatever it is in her hand to go through the trouble of trying to wrestle it out of her hands. Then you have to be ready to give her something else immediately to attach on to. Her hair is getting thick and long. It grows straight forward, so it's a good challenge to keep it out of her face so we can see how adorable she is.

This is her on her Birthday

She loved her presents. She had a hard time tearing herself away from this little piano.

Myla's sisters were so excited to help her open her gifts

and help her play with them.

Sorry Myla! We almost lost Grandma Ber on your Birthday, so we did donuts instead of a homemade cake. You didn't seem to mind, and ate half of it before we even finished singing "Happy Birthday" to you! 

We love you to the moon Myla Avolene!!

Labor Day + Boating

It's me, Devin, for the first part of this post.

On Labor Day, I took Cambry and Vienna on hike with my parents, brother, sister and her family. Here, we all are at the beginning:

All the cousins. Will was obsessed with the goldfish and carried them all the way up.

Lily guarding the conniving troll, Ava. 

We made it to the waterfall!

Once we made it to the falls, my Dad set up some ropes for repelling. It was so fun and gorgeous!

There goes my Bro.

My Dad has still got it.

And my sister too.

The kids found a little cave to play in on the way down.

That night, we went to the Beck and Greg's for a BBQ.

Joslyn now.

Cambry and I were the only healthy people in the household on this boating day. So we were lucky enough to head up to Jordanelle will Jamey &Michelle, Jordan & Margaret, Jess and their kids. It was so fun to be out on the water. We did some wake boarding, skiing, and tubing.  So fun to have some time with Cambry by herself.

It got a little chilly, so we all got to snuggle together.