First Day

Melia had her first day of preschool this week.It feels like it's been a long time coming, but also has gone so fast! She could have gone last year and had 2 years of preschool but I'm so glad I waited because she was so ready this year. She picked out this cute outfit for her first day. She said she needed the sweater because it was "Go Utes Red." Dad was happy to hear that of course. She was so excited for school. I was worried that she may not be able to get up in time since all summer long she slept past nine and that is when her school starts but as soon as I woke her up and told her it was school day she jumped out of bed and wanted to get ready to go! I got to come along for the first day and we had so much fun! She was most excited about painting and made a bunch of pictures for us. She has a great teacher and it will be fun to hear all about her days at school now.

St.George by Melia

Melia was lucky enough to get to go on a trip to St. George with just her and her Grandparents. It was so nice of them to take her with them she had a blast! I sent her with our little camera and was excited to see what she came up with. She loves to take pictures and it's always interesting to see what a 4 year old thinks needs to be photographed! Here they are starting off their journey. Already taking some pics here I am saying goodbye to my sweet girl and already missing her like crazy.



They went to a beach on a reservoir that is just about 20 miles away from St. George but forgot the camera. She also said her favorite part was the beach and swimming. My guess is that it probably isn't the greatest idea to let a 4 year old with a camera near any sort of body of water so I'm glad they "forgot" the camera those times.

On sunday they went to church then over to the temple. The St. George temple is one of my favorites. I just love how the beautiful white temple looks in midst of all the red rocks. This is where she got most of her pictures...

The beautiful flowers...
The cutest girl I know...
Jesus...
Grandpa and Grandma on the steps of the Temple...
Eating a nutritious snack of pears and a cinnamon roll...
Oh and even some random people Melia tells me they really wanted there pictures taken. I'm pretty sure they asked Grandma to take their picture with there own camera and Melia decided to also take a picture with her camera.


She informs me that this is sleeping beauty... I happen to agree...
And the final picture is one I am very proud of, It is a great one of the Temple...
So Thank you to Mark and Sheila for taking her on this trip with you I'm sure she will never forget it, it was so sweet of you.

My buddy and me

While Melia was in St. George with her Grandma Sheila and Grandpa Mark, Cooper and I got some fun one on one time together. We were missing "Mela" but it was nice to be able to really talk to Cooper and do just what he wanted to do. So today he wanted to go see the "Ephalants" and we headed to the zoo. It was beyond packed(Really, I've never seen it that busy) but since I just had one little guy to look after it wasn't too bad. We started with the monkeys and it was a great place to start... This is the first thing we saw...

Even Cooper could see that there was something wrong with this picture and said "GROSS". He was laughing and so was everyone around us.
Next we headed for the whole reason he wanted to come to see the baby "ephalant".

We ended with a Choo Choo ride. Cooper must have been missing his sister because every little kid we saw he felt he needed to tell them what he was doing. He really wanted to ride the Choo choo and let all the kids know "I'm going on the choo choo now." I love this pic just shows how excited he really was. What a nice day with just my buddy and me.