A Milestone Birthday and a Marvelous Visit From my Mom and Bro!

My Mom and twin bro came down to celebrate our 30th Birthday! It was a dream come true!

Photoshoot Compliments of Heidi Parker of Memories and Milestones

Three Generations!

Momma loves hugs from her little girl!

Out and About

My mom and Logan got a good taste of Orem/Provo restaurants--here we are at Sammy's, trying hard to be hipster. We also hit up Tucano's for a BOGO birthday dinner, Arctic Circle and Iceberg (for shakes), Bombay House, and Sensuous Sandwich. . . It was fun! But I gotta say, I was happy to get back to home cookin' after all that!

We went to The MOA (Museum of Art) on BYU campus to check out the Sacred Gifts exhibit--the paintings of three famous artists depicting Christ. Leila was sadly not interested. . . but she did like this Asian Ceramic McDonald's logo. She pointed at it as she walked excitedly up to it and said "m". Yep, that's one of two letters she knows, "m" and "o". Coincidence that these are the only letters needed to spell "Mom"?. . . I think not :)

Here is me by "the big love" with "my little love" at the MOA. 

We went to Lou's track meet where she ran the 100 meter dash. We didn't realize until we got there that it was colder than just sweater weather. So Leila got to sport my coat as a full-length dress. I think Leila "wore it best"!

Provo Beach Resort

Leila had been here to Toddler Town before. So naturally she took it upon herself to show Logan and Nana the ropes. She directed all of us to go through this teeny tiny foam tunnel.

Here goes Nana through the foam rollers in the play place! She insisted we all go through before her and made a grunting sound (to indicate substantial effort) as she "pushed" our feet to help us through.

Nana and Leila had fun riding the carousel at Provo Beach Resort.

Both Robby and my Mom love to do Karaoke! We've been meaning to get them together to do it for awhile and we finally made it happen! Robby sung "Ain't Goin' Down 'til the Sun Comes Up" and had the lyrics and speed down so well (which is amazing because the song goes about a mile a minute). And we just loved my moms performance of "Hurt so Good". Our favorite part by far was when she would use the exclamation "huh!" All of us just laughed and laughed with her about it afterward!

Leila just loved playing with her Uncle "Lowen"!

 My cousin Klea and her family put on an amazing birthday dinner for Logan and I. Chicken enchiladas, homemade guacamole and salsa and a killer ice cream cake! Oreo crust. Three layers of ice cream. Strawberry layer. Banana layer. Chocolate bar layer. Topped with homemade hot fudge. . .

Oh baby!

After the celebrations, Logan showed us his break dancing skills on the driveway.
Robby busted some "moves" as well, good entertainment from both :)

We watched Klea's boys, Kent and Richard, tear it up at their basketball game. They were amazing

. . .and yes, they won!

Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point

Leila walks away in nervous excitement from seeing the "moo"!

                                              She was adamant that the horsie was a "moo" too!

               

               

From left to right:

• Wanna know what Leila's favorite part of the farm was? Wait for it. . .the . . .ramp. She loved running up and down it and discovering that she went faster on the way down. Sheesh! We could have saved us some money and taken a trip to the entrance to Daddy's work! 
• Happy girl surrounded by animals. 
• Logan bought some bird seed so Leila could feed the ducks at the pond. As you can tell, it took serious concentration.

    Leila's first pony ride! 

A good reminder on the way out.

We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows in Provo Canyon with Robby's Dad.

Mmm. . .K. . .that's adorable :)