Already doing her own makeup

Don't worry, I'm sure she will do yours too if you ask!

In case you didn't get enough mountain pictures last time

We went back to the mountain again on Saturday. We literally can't get enough. We found this grassy field to soak up the sun while breathing in the smell of pine and wildflowers, while Audrey ate sticks and Kirsten hunted bugs and played in the dirt. This green grassy field (that was almost too good to be true) was against a beautiful mountain range. The whole time we were there I felt like singing songs from the Sound of Music.
Austria vs Nevada...right
(I think the desert heat is getting to me)

11 months!

Audrey is busier than Santa at Christmas. She is always on the move, always something to do. She is crawling everywhere and is so close to walking. She can take a couple steps between us. She has mastered crawling up the stairs by herself and knows the best way to get attention is to crawl over to the stairs. In fact her favorite thing to do is to crawl over and sit on the bottom stair just waiting for one of us to run and grab her, she waits patiently with a big grin on her face. She still likes to play bashful and will always turn her head a blush when people smile directly at her. When she gets frustrated so covers both ears with her hands or she dramatically flails her body onto the ground (and then stares us down until we come and pick her up). She has started to kiss us, big open mouth kisses. She is one energetic, funny, adorable little girl!

Disciplined by a two year

My sister Chelsey wrote the cutest blog post about Kirsten on her blog (here). They have had a lot of fun together this summer, but last night was the best. I threw an empty two liter sprite bottle to Chelsey but it bounced off of her and hit Kirsten in the head. Kirsten demanded Chelsey give her kisses and tell her sorry. So Chelsey kisses her and say's she sorry, then Kirsten pointed her finger to the corner and told Chelsey she needed to go to the corner. Kirsten leads 18 year old Chelsey to the corner and then goes back to play with her princess's. Kirk and I are just cracking up! We finally told Kirsten to go get Chelsey out of the corner. Kirsten told Chelsey "don't do it again" and made Chelsey give her another kiss and went happily back to her dolls. It was hilarious and had us laughing for quite a while.

Mt Charleston

So not much happens in Vegas over the 24th of July (imagine that!). But since my family was getting together having fun in Vernal, Chelsey and I insisted on doing something fun. Kirk whisked us away to Mt Charleston. Ok sure we thought get us out of the house. We can stand outside in the sage brush and cactus for 20 minutes before our blood starts to boil. But Mt Charleston is not Vegas. Or Nevada I'm pretty sure. IT'S GREEN, like with trees! As soon as we realized we were in actual mountains we rolled down the windows and couldn't get over how good it smelled. Like fresh air, pine trees, rain! I'm positive that is what heaven will smell like. I have never loved the mountains more than I did today. We were out of the car for more than ten minutes and didn't even sweat, seriously! But all good thing come to an end and ours ended with swarm of flies following Kirsten around.
Enjoy a few pictures of our fun day!

Pictures for Grandma

Talking to my mom the other day she requested more blog posts. I guess since we were the ones who moved so far away the least I can do is post more pictures! Audrey playing in her yogurt this morning was too cute to pass up.

The girls sleeping schedules have been miserable lately. For a week straight one or both of them is up at 5:00 EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING. (including my birthday!) And Audrey has been waking up multiple times during the night. So Kirk, being the amazing man he is gets up with the girls every morning and takes them running with him (yes in 95 degree weather, actually he does sweat for 3 hours afterwards, how did you know?) while I get some extra sleep. The girls share a stroller and are usually pretty good about. They use to sit side by side but Audrey decide to lean over the side and try to grab onto the tire (yes she does keep us on our toes!) So here are a few pictures of them in their pjs going running with daddy! (Cinderella goes too of course, dressed as Snow White, naturally)

Two Princess's at the Park

Tonight after dinner we took the girls to our little park to exhaust them before bedtime. They were so cute we made Chelsey run home and get the camera. Audrey was climbing everywhere...she even went down the slide by herself a couple times! (meaning she dived off herself and Kirk guided her down with his hand on her belly). And then she started climbing down the stairs herself. Crazy girl about made my heart stop a couple times. And Kirsten was her usual energetic self, always with princess's in hand.

We took this cute video of Audrey learning to walk the other night. Who told her she could grow up?