Happy Birthday Daley!

Denver and I can't believe we have a little 1 year old running around the house! The year has completely flown by.....

We started having flashbacks of the day she was born on the 4th of July when we went to the airport to watch the fireworks....right after the show a medical plane landed and was parking near by and we thought it was crazy that a year ago we flew in a medical plane to pheonix because I went into premature labor with our little Daley.....

Now here we are celebrating her 1st birthday! Daley's friends Ryann and Carter came to her party and they had so much fun! Bri, Sonora, and Chad got to be there too! When everyone got there we had some hot dogs and let the girls play around.....then we sat around and opened presents and then had some cupcakes......

I think by this picture it looks like Chad was have a blast! hahaha...thanks Chad for being such a great sport! Daley loves you!

When we lived in Flagstaff I had a friend that was into decorating cakes....I never made one with her but she told me some tips on how to do it.....so I had fun decorating Daley's birthday cake! Don't look too close....it's definitely not perfect. Each cake I try I think of other tools that would make the cakes look better....I think what I need now are different sized smaller pans. This is my first time trying a two teer cake. The top layer is made out of rice crispy treats that I molded because I didn't have different sized pans and you cant find them here in good 'ol Kayenta. I thought it worked out pretty well.

Here are some stats on our sweet little Daley Girl.....

-she is 21 lbs. 6 oz. and 30 in. long

-she is walking everywhere

-finds a book and wants to sit on your lap so you can read it to her

-she loves to wave to everybody

-she is starting to jabber....A LOT, she says things like "go," "this," and "momma, & dadda!" It is the cutest little language I have ever heard. My parents said that I did the same thing and they called it Meganese.

-she will tell you "go" and rock the basket if you are taking too long in an isle in the store

-she loves to jabber on her toy cell phone.

-she loves to follow us around the house and help out...she is the best little helper! ;)

-she loves to hold her little dollies and push them around in a little stroller....we are teaching her how to burp them....it's cute when she tries

-she loves to play outside with Blue

-she loves to swim....when we take her to the pool sometimes she tries to get out of our arms to swim on her own...kinda scary! haha

-she makes kissy sounds

4th of July

This 4th of July was a small one this year because we couldn't spend it with any of the families this year. We still had a ton of fun celebrating with just our little family and our ward. It was a block party with a few families from the ward. They all lived in the clinic housing (I'm not sure if that's the real name.....they are all medical people) so all of the members that were there were all next door neighbors. Daley really enjoyed hangin out with her nursery friends out in the street.

It is a small world in Kayenta! There is a couple in the ward that got back from a mission and decided they werent ready to retire when they got home but they didn't want to deal with the hustle and bustle of a private practice like what they did before their mission. So they asked where it the hardest to keep dentists and it ended up being Kayenta! So it has been fun having them in the ward! Their youngest daughter and her husband came to celebrate the 4th with them and Denver and I had fun getting to know them. The husband is a grandson of a couple Denver use to home teach when he was young in Eagar. We really enjoyed making friends with them and hope they come back to Kayenta to visit!

We had a pot luck at the block party and later we met up with everyone at the airport to watch the fireworks. The fireworks were great! I didn't think any firework show could get as good as Eagar's, but Kayenta's was pretty good! Kayenta's show has 5 Grand Finales!!! haha That's a joke.....There would just be long pauses in between some of the fireworks and we thought it was a grand finale. You just had to be there.....

Daley has this new obsession with rocks....at the block party, Daley was busy running around looking for the biggest rock to either carry around or suck on. This is her and Max....Max was

deciding on whether or not sucking on rocks was as fun as Daley thought it was.

Finch Reunion

The weekend before the 4th of July we got to take a quick trip down to the ranch and go camping with the Finchs'!! Denver and I made our tent in the back of our car. It worked out great with Daley sleeping inbetween us. When she woke up the next morning and realized where she was she turned into a crazy girl! Haha....she was squealing and had a ball playing in the car. When we got up and got dressed we enjoyed our time we got to spend chatting and hanging out with the family and Daley really enjoyed running away from us and playing with all the kiddos! We really enjoyed our weekend and getting to see everyone again.

Daley found Jenny & Kayde's soda stash!

We had to leave late Saturday afternoon because we had to talk in church the next day. We were really sad to leave so early but if you have to talk in church........ you have to church. Well when we got to church the next day a couple of girls were asked to bare their testimonies

on their experiences of the Trek they had near Flagstaff. They were given 2-3 minutes. Well 2-3 minutes turned into 20 minutes each at least and Denver and I were asked to talk two weeks later! Hahaha! But it was all good....we really enjoyed hearing the girls testimonies and I was really impressed with them how they could bare their testimony for so long! Still to this day I couldn't take up that much time if I wanted to! Denver and I have really enjoyed going to church up here! It almost feels like home....