Happy Birthday week Allie!

I don't know if you guys are the same, but if you have a birthday in our house it goes on for a week. Allie is turning two on Wednesday, and we started out her birthday week with a party with my family. Sheldon and Ryan went birthday present shopping while I was in the hospital on Firday night, and they picked out this Cinderella dress up outfit for Allie.

After we opened presents we sang happy birthday and Allie got to blow out the candle. She told Sheldon and her cousin Kyle they had to help and they were more than happy to do that...

You can't have a cake without tasting it first... Allie just wanted to pick the sprinkles off and eat them. She could care less about the cake.

Kyle want so badly to dance with Cinderella that he just about came out of his skin. He loves the movie more than any other one... He calls Allie "Baby Girl" and he keep saying "I need to dance with Baby Girl Cinderella."

After their dance Cinderella and Prince Charming had to kiss, and then Prince Charming road off into the sunset on his horse (which is his dad Randy.)

For the rest of the week, we haveplanned on Wednesday Allie gets to have a special lunch date with Daddy, then that evening she is having a friends party. And then to round out the week next Sunday the Hoskins family will be coming for dinner.

A weekend at the cabin

For those of you who don't know, my family has a cabin up Weber Canyon, that we spend a lot of time at during the summer. This past weekend we went up with my parents and two of my brothers to do some work.

We had a few trees die over the winter, and to reduce the risk of fires on the property we cut down the dead trees, and then use them for fire wood. This is a picture of Ryan and my big brother Rob right after they fell the tree

(that is really what it is called when you cut down trees.)

This is Ryan's favorite part of the cabin... cutting down 50-60 foot trees.

Allie loves to watch the big boys when they cut down the trees, but sometimes she thinks that the chainsaws are too loud. :)

After the boys finished dropping four trees we thought that it would be fun to play in the river. This time of year it is really low and doesn't move very fast.

Sheldon loves to walk across the river and then turn right back around. He thinks that he is one of the big boys because he can make it all the way across and back.

We built a little dam this year and made a small pool...

The pool area was deep enough for Ryan to sit down in it, but the water was really cold.

This is a picture of my neice Emily who is about 2 months older than Allie trying to help Ryan stand back up... then she decided to splash him instead.

My cute dad loves to sit on the side lines and watch his family playing together...

He loves to have us all up at the cabin, because it reminds him of when we were all a lot littler and when his mom was still alive.

I just thought this piture of Allie was so cute. She is giving everyone a kiss and telling them thanks for looking at our pictures of our fun weekend. :)