Miss Tri-counties pageant

Last weekend me, my mom, Paisley had Hailey took a little trip to Boise to watch Hailey in the Miss tri-counties pageant. She did so good. She won Swim suit (an honor in it's own), evening gown and she was the first runner up! We are so proud of her. Good job Hai! These are some pictures from that little trip.




In these pictures Me and Paisley are sitting by a window in a store. She kept spitting and then laughing at herself spitting. It was so cute! Then I looked behind us and she had drawn a crowd. There were a bunch of people watching through the window and laughing at her laughing at herself. She is just so much fun!






These pictures aren't from the trip. I just thought they were cute so I wanted to share them.

Picture update

I finally got the time to add the pictures I wanted to put with my previous post!
This is when Cody was sworn into the army. It was hard to say good bye but we are so proud of him!



The first night I went back to work I was SO sad to leave Paisley. But my cute little husband surprised me and brought her to work later that night so that I could feed her and put her to sleep. She was in her car seat with a blanket over her and when I pulled off the blanket she was holding three little roses! Isn't that so cute?



Paisley started eating some baby cereal and she loves it! But I did cheat a little bit and add some banana baby food to it to give it a little flavor. Now she'll probably never eat her vegies!

Back to blogging!

It has been over a month since I have done any blogging. So I thought I better let everyone out there know that I haven't been trying to be rude by not checking out your blogs or leaving any comments. I have just been so busy! So much has happened since my last post. I will start from the beginning.
Lorin has always meant to go back to school and finish his degree. So we decided to take the plunge. He has to finish school at BYU-Idaho because that is where he started and it is too big of a pain to transfer.... So we leased out our house, packed up and moved back to Rigby Idaho about three weeks ago.
We are currently living in my mom's basement. I know that doesn't sound like the ideal situation but I love it. My mom is alone in her house most of the time because my dad works out of town. So it is nice to be able to be around to keep her company. And she has worked so hard to make us feel at home. We have the whole basement to ourselves. There is a family room, a bedroom for us, a bedroom for Paisley, a bathroom, and a laundry room. She even let me paint Paisley's room just like her nursery in our house to make us feel at home. So we are so grateful for all she has done for us and we love living here.
A couple of other major things have happened. I went back to work 1-2 days a week. That was so hard to leave my baby girl! And my brother Cody joined the military and went off to boot camp! I have pictures but it is too late and I am too tired to post them right now. We finally have our computer set up so I will try to do it tomorrow. I just thought that I would give an update. Sorry.....I didn't think it would end up being SO LONG!

New pictures

About a month ago I had new pictures taken of Paisley and I finally got the prints back that I ordered. I was so happy with how they turned out. Thank you so much to Lorin's mom and sister's who pitched in and gave me a gift certificate for these pictures for my baby shower present. You guys are awesome!

Growing So fast!

Paisley is four months old now and I can't believe how quickly time is flying by. I wish I could slow it down! Althought is makes me so sad to think that someday my baby girl will be all grown up it is fun to watch all the new things that she does. Here are some pictures and a video that are proof she is growin way too fast!
She's just started laughing at us the last coupld of weeks. For some reason she thinks it is so funny when we startle her. That used to make her cry.
I don't usually buckle her into her bouncy seat but now I have to. I left her sitting in it the other day while I went to grab something out of the other room and when i came back she was halfway out of the chair.


Paisley on her 4 month birthday

I didn't think this dress would ever fit her.... Now it is almost too small :(


Her legs are getting so strong (yet so chubby) and most of the time she would rather stand than lay down.
She's rolling over. She just started and now she is a rolling machine! The first time she did it she flipped over so fast that it startled me. I yelled for Lorin to come see and that startled her and she flipped right back over. So Lorin missed it. I had to roll her over to get this picture. So it is a little staged but you get the point.
I just thought this picture was cute. See what I mean?....Growing too fast!

My cousin Tom, his wife, their new baby and my cousin Kristi came down from Reno for the week. Look at Paisley compared to his new 3 week old baby. She could eat him!

Family reunion

This past weekend was our family reunion. This is one of my favorite parts of the summer. Every year we go camping at Warm River. It is the perfect spot. Right next to our camp site is a river and it is not even close to warm. We just spend the weekend camping, floating the river, hanging out, and eating(which I think is the best part) We have tons of extended family that goes to this and I really enjoyed hanging out with them all weekend. We have such a fun family!
I was really worried about taking Paisley camping. She is still so young. I was worried that she would get bitten by mosquitoes, get a sun burn, hate the Idaho wind, or not sleep well. She didn't do any of those things. She was so good!

The weekend before the family reunion we were also in Idaho. Lorin and his family went and did some white water rafting. I stayed behind with Paisley because I'm just not ready to leave her for that long yet. I'm way too attached! Lorin said it was a blast and I hope that they do it again next year so I can go. I made him take his camera to snap some pictures but they wouldn't allow them on the boat. :( I spent the day with my mom, Hailey, and Tasha & her girls. We went to Heise swimming. These are some of the pictures from that trip and some random pictures of Paisley that I just couldn't help but share.

I know this is already a long post but I have to add one more thing. Maybe if I didn't procrastinate so much I wouldn't have so many things to post!
Everyone always tells me and my sister Hailey that we look like twins. We are seven years apart! I've never been able to see it until I saw these pictures. Maybe it's the matching outfits that my mom got us for Christmas but when I saw this picture I thought I was Hailey! Love ya sis!

I'm the bigger one. I probably should have been holding her up. Sorry Hai.

Trying to be cute. TRYING is the key word!

4th of July weekend

So I never get my posts done in time. The fourth of July was a week ago and I am just now posting my pictures. I am such a procrastinator! But we had such a fun weekend in Idaho. We hadn't been there for a while so it was nice to go back and spend time with family. I am always so bummed to come back to Utah!
On the fourth Lorin was in a golf tournament with his dad and my uncle. So he missed out on the Menan fair and parade. Something tells me he might have planned it out that way on purpose. Everyone else's husbands said they wanted to know how Lorin got out of going. To tell you the truth I'm not sure how he got that one past me. So I just went to the fair and parade with my mom, Hailey, and Paisley. After the tournament we all went down to the river for the fireworks. My Mom's side of the family ropes off an area down by the river so we always have an awesome view. We had a little grill and BBQ'd while we waited for the fireworks to start. And they were amazing this year! But poor Paisley didn't like them at all. She screamed until about the last ten minutes. I felt so bad for her! We had so much fun and I can't wait to go home again! I have turned out to be such a homebody.

Dad and his girls


Me and Hailey hogging the sparklers from the kids. We went through like ten of them just trying to get this picture. By the time we would get the second one lit the other one would burn out! But we finally got it.

Paisley and Sadie finally met! It also took us a few tries to get this picture. They didn't want to cooperate.

I was so happy I got to see my long lost friend Traci at the parade and the fire works. We made up for lost time by making our husbands sit and listen to us talk about all of the dorky things we used to do when we were younger.


On Sunday Greg and Tasha blessed their little girl and we were able to go to that. But I was so mad I forgot to bring my camera. So This is just a picture of Paisley when we got home from church. I wanted a cute picture of her in her new dress but every time I took the pacifier away she started to scream. I think I'm in trouble because she is pretty attached to that thing!

Paisley and Grandpa Mickelsen

Paisley and Grandma Mickelsen