My Little Blogger

So the other day I got on the blog (since I haven't been on in a while) to update and I noticed that someone was secretly "helping" me keep up on the blog.  I'm pretty sure everyone has seen the cute little posts with pictures and gibberish.  Now you all know when Daley gets a hold of my phone and plays with all the apps, especially the Blogger App.  We all got a kick out of it.  Daley is a lot smarter than we give her credit for.

So I think it's time to give another update on the lives of the Finch's! 

April I think was our busiest and funnest month.  We went down to Queen Creek for Sterling's blessing and to go truck shopping for Denver.  We had tons of fun hanging out with the family.  We went to a place in Phoenix that is a glorified Airconditioned McDonald's playground.  Daley had sooo much fun and some of the slides there were scary!  One of them felt like you free fell and I think that was Daley's favorite!  We found Denver a truck that he had been needing for a really long time.  I am so blessed to have Denver as a husband because he has sacrificed not having a truck pretty much since we got pregnant with Daley.  He sold his truck to get us a reliable mommy car for me to get ready for Daley to come.  Then we saved up and got him a truck when she was about 6 months old and we sold it again to buy a smaller car to get better gas milage.  So he has been truckless for over 2 years until now!  He looks so dang good driving it too!  Denver says that I'm spoiled because I got a new car out of our trip too.  Our Altima was having some problems and Nissan wasn't willing to work with us so we decided to trade it in....

Then in the middle of April we got to go down to Thatcher to visit the Platt's!  Denver went on a pack trip with my Dad and Ian along with a huge group of guys from Round Valley.  He had a blast and talks about it a lot still.  Us girls had a girl party and cooked a lot of [it was really good] dang chick food...as my dad would say.  We are so glad we got to hang out with Hayley, Porter, and Jack before they moved out to Tennessee.  We wish we could have got to hang out with Mitch too because we sure are going to miss them!

 

Then just this past weekend Wade, Nanette, Jennie, Raynie, Kiah, Boston, and Paisley all got to come up to drop Tanner off for the summer.  We had a good time just lounging around, eating pizza, watching movies, and playing cards because that is what we do best up here on the Rez!  Haha.

Denver finished another semester of school at the beginning of May but it was touch-and-go there for a little while because it was a crazy month at the restaurant to say the least.  But he pulled though it with a few really late nights and he got straight A's!  I am so proud of Denver and everything he does for our little family.  Even when work gets stressful, he always comes home and keeps Daley and I entertained with tons of silly jokes and tickles.  We have some company for the summer, Derek and Tanner, and for some reason the subject of Denver and I's love story comes up every once in a while.  It's crazy that after you have been married for three years you don't really think about your beginnings of your relationship as often as you think that you would.  It's been fun talking about all of the cute things that Denver did for me way back in the day.  I thank Heavenly Father every day for blessing me with a best friend as Denver to have as my husband.  I don't ever forget how lucky (blessed) I got, but re-telling our stories is such a good reminder of the little reasons why I fell in love with him in the beginning.  Honestly, I just feel like the luckiest girl ever.

Daley....I can't believe how fast she is growing up.  Everyday she is doing or saying something new.  The other day I was in the bathroom getting ready (her new naughty thing to do is climb up on the kitchen counter and eat bananas or play with my cell phone) and she decided to climb up on the counter.  We keep the front door open exposing the screen door for ventilation for the swamp coolers and we lock it so she doesn't get out.  Well, Denver happens to come home to grab something for work and knocks on the screen door and Daley says "Who is it?!" clear as day!  It was sooo funny.  Everyday she says some new phrase that Denver and I wonder where she picked it up. 

I think because Daley has two new entertainers...AKA Tanner and Derek......I will be able to get some of my projects done.  Updating the blog was at the top of my list so I'm glad I'm getting a start!  I have a feeling we are going to have a great time this summer so hopefully I will do good and keep the blog updated!  Wish me luck!

We Love Visitors!

These past couple of months we have had lots of visitors! Grandma, Pop, Aunt Madi, Nana, Papa, Blake, Martha, Riley, and Tess all got to come for a time. We didn't do much other than eat pizza, take scenic drives to Monument Valley, and lounged around. It's nice to be able to chill away from the fast track world every once in a while and we think our visitors get just that when they come up to visit us!



Pop and Grandma


Family Picture with Aunt Madi!


Daley and Pop



Since Tess and Riley were here we decided we had better get a cousin picture in the bath tub! They had way too much fun...



This isn't the greatest picture but we got another puppy because Blue ran away. He is our rez dog and we love him. His name is Chief.....Our friends in our ward found him out by the horse pasture with no mom....so she brought him home and we happened to go over to their house and I fell in love with him because he was so chill....haha he's gotten hyper since then but he's still a good dog when you spend time with him.


Family Picture at Monument Valley

Papa and Nana

El Capitan...we can see the tip of this from town...It's so gorgeous!

We loved having our visitors and we look forward to them coming back!

Update!

Wow we have a lot of updating to do! It's been pretty crazy lately with me working but thank goodness that I will be done here at the end of this week! I can't wait to just be a mommy instead of a working mommy.

So I guess I need to start at Thanksgiving! We got to go down to Thatcher for Thanksgiving and we had a blast! We hadn't been home in over 7 months so it felt good to finally be home. We drove through Eagar on the way down to catch Tanner's basketball game. We spent the night and then woke up to go visit Denver's grandparents. We hadn't seen them in a while and we miss visiting them at least once a week like when we use to live in Eagar. After we visited we headed down to Thatcher to surprise my family! They were thinking we weren't going to get there until late that night but we rolled into town about 3:00pm!

The rest of the weekend was spent reminiceing with the family! We enjoyed just talking and catching up with everybody. The only bad part was the flu went around while we were there and I was sick on the way home....it wasn't too bad.

We put up our Christmas....well we actually put it up Nov. 1st because we hadn't ever put a Christmas tree up since we've been married because we have moved every Christmas until now...My mom made me a new tree skirt for my birthday that looked just like Ballard Designs latest and greatest....I loved it!

Later we had a ward Christmas party that was really fun! Daley got to meet Santa....

Then before we knew it...Christmas came Whizzing by! We got to make a surprise appearance at the Platt Family Yearly Christmas Party that is usually held the weekend before Christmas. It was a quick trip but totally worth it! We miss our families so much!

Then it was time for Christmas which we spent in Eagar with the Finch's! We got to spend Christmas Eve sledding in freezing weather! Haha the weather looked nice but it sure had a bite to it. We went up toward Sunrise Ski Resort and pulled off to the side of the road by Greens Peak. Once we got a fire going it was a ton of fun! Blake has a snowmobile that we all got to ride around. After sledding we all went home and warmed up. We had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas! Denver and I had to come home and work our little tales off until New Years because we were so busy at the restaurant. But all is well! We are so glad it is finally 2012 and we are ready and excited for the year...whatever comes our way.

Here we come 2012!

This Little Girl Loves Daddys Hat

Daley has been hilarious lately! She finds Denver's hats (and a lot of other things she can fit on her head) and she will wear them for a while! She put on a hat and wore all the way to the restaurant to show dad!

She has also run into the terrible twos I'm afraid! Haha she likes to fake cry and she can throw quite a fit. But they are kinda cute and funny ;) lately Denver and I will ask her a question and sometimes it sounds like she responds with a full sentence. Haha. She's been talking in gibberish sentences since her first birthday. Like tonight Denver and I asked her if she wanted a toy and she responded to what it sounded like "what is that?" with perfect inflection and everything. Denver and I in the past couple of weeks have been hearing little sentences from Daley and we'll ask each other....."Did it sound it sound like she said .......?" and we both agree .

I'm not doing the best at updating but I might do better now that Denver finally got a phone so we don't have to share one anymore haha. I just found the blogger app and I'm loving it! So we'll see how I do from now on....