September

September brought lots of fun. Especially for Mia.  She turned 3!  I can't believe it's been 3 years already.  It's amazing how fast time flies.  Mia loves coloring with her markers.  One day she was coloring quietly in her room. When I went in to check on her this is what I found.  She'd fallen asleep after shoving a bunch of markers in her sock.  Nap time is a rarity around our house these days so that made it all the more adorable.

We picked up a couple kites when we were at the store and decided to try them out.  We has one this spring but it broke.  This time I bought 2 just in case one broke again.  We got the cheap Barbie kite flying great, however no matter how hard we tried we couldn't get the more expensive one off the ground.  Next time I'll just have to stick to the cheapies.

The 2nd weekend in September was Cousin Sophie's blessing. It was good to see baby Sophie again and spend time with family but somehow I don't have any pictures from it.
Just before Mia's birthday we went out to Red Robin for her birthday dinner.  She absolutely loves their broccoli (funny girl).

 The Friday before Mia's birthday we spent 8 1/2 hours in the car driving to Wyoming to see my brother and his family.  They were blessing baby Daxton and we don't get to see them very often because they live so far away.  It was our first time getting to meet Daxton too. 
Mia enjoyed dinner with cousin Khloe but it was a new experience for her having to keep her food away from a dog.

 The girls all ready for bed.

 The next day we had a combined birthday party for Mia and Khloe. Khloe's birthday was over the summer but life was crazy at that time so she didn't get a cake or anything so we celebrated together.

 3 candles for Mia and 2 for Khloe.  Mia blew out all the candles so we had to re-light Khloe's candles for her to blow out.

 They had lots of fun opening presents.

 They got matching shirts and matching Noah's Ark magnetic games.

 Birthday cake is always delicious.

 In Wyoming you can do fireworks all year round. Since Mia loves fireworks and Khloe was kind of scared of them, Uncle Steve pulled some out to see if having Mia there would make Khloe think they were cool.  She was still a little timid but did have fun.  Mia on the other hand just wanted to keep going.

 Mia, Daxton, and Grandma and Grandpa

 Grandma and Grandpa with all 3 of their grand kids.

 My brother Steve and his family- Nicky, Khloe, Daxton, and Buddy (the dog).

 After an 8 1/2 hour drive back to Idaho we decided to let Mia have a bubble bath in Grandma's big tub.  If Grandma put it a little soap to make a little bubbles then a lot must make a lot of bubbles.  That's what happens when Mia gets her hands on the soap.  She put half the bottle of body wash in the tub when we stepped out.  When she sat down it was just a head floating in bubbles.

Once we got back home we had to have another birthday party with the rest of the family.

 This time we did birthday pie.

 To say Mia was spoiled this year would be an understatement I think.

 Shaun the Sheep has been sadly missing from our house since it went off Netflix. Luckily Aunt Trina was able to find it online.

 Nana made Mia her very own scrubs.

 And she got a medical kit and 2 boxes of bam aids (her word for band aid) to go with them.

 Lots of clothes and some new PJs

 Mia's got the opening presents things down.  She's going to be lots of fun at Christmas this year.

 She got her very own camera so just maybe she will stop stealing ours and it won't take such a beating.

 Her princess dress from Grandma and Grandpa.

 And her scrubs from Nana and Grandpa

Now Mia can get dressed for work like Mom.

Apparently I didn't do a very good job taking pictures after Mia's birthday.  We're spending more time inside these days with the cooler weather.  We've broken out the Veggie Tales movies and Mia's very happy to have Shaun the Sheep back.  Now that it's cooler we've had some lunches out with friends. Mia also started preschool one day a week at Bravo and she is loving it.

August

I have to start this post with an addendum to July.  The pictures weren't on my camera so they didn't get put with the rest of them.  On July 4th we welcomed a new little cousin, Monty's brother and his wife had a little girl named Sophie.  She is adorable and Mia likes going to visit "Baby Dophie" as she calls her.  July 17th Mia got another little cousin named Daxton.  My brother and his wife had their 2nd child.  We get to go see him in September.

August seemed to settle down a little bit for us.  It was still super hot so we spent a lot of time either hanging inside or playing in the water.
We started out the month with our Ward Camp out.  This was Mia's first time camping and she had a blast!  Mom and Dad were left exhausted but it was a good time.  Mia helped Monty put up the tent by holding the stakes and handing them to him.

 Don't let the sour face fool you, she was very excited to finally be able to climb in the tent.

 Mia and Monty joined in on the game of kickball.

 Sitting at the campfire waiting for the evening program.

 Mia was very excited to go to bed in her tent.  The problem was she was too excited to fall asleep.  It was after 11:00 pm before she finally passed out and then she was up before 7:00 am.  Like I said we were exhausted but everyone got a nice afternoon nap to make up for it.

 Bet you can't guess what kind of doughnuts we had for breakfast on the camp out.

 Monty took Mia bowling for the first time with a bunch of our old friends from up in Ogden.  She had a blast and managed to knock down a few pins.

 We had only been to the splash pad in Riverdale so we decided it was time to check out some of the other ones in the area.  This is the new one in Layton.

 Mia was a fan of the slide.

We also hit up the splash pad in Kaysville.

I decided to turn the carpet cleaning box into a little house for Mia.  She got nearly a whole month's worth of play out of it before it finally fell apart.

 It definitely is a Mia size house and not a Mom size house.

Monty's mom had a grand kid sleep over this month.  The girls all brought their tents and they had a camp out in the back yard complete with a hot dog dinner.
The pyramid (or at least as close as you can get with 4 people).

 The girls decided to teach Mia how to roller skate.

Ready for bed!

 One Saturday we decided to check out the Air Force Museum at Hill AFB.  Neither Monty or I had ever been there and we are always pointing the planes out to Mia as they are flying over our house so we figured we'd go get a closer look at some of them.

 They had some seriously massive planes there.

 Mia caught a ride through part of it.  Really it was a convenient way to keep her from touching stuff.

 Mia liked the plane with the mouth.

 Sitting in a cockpit seat was pretty cool too.

 Mia is absolutely obsessed with her "keys" as she calls them.  It's two blankets that she has taken a liking to and she has to have them both.  She was wearing one of her keys this day.

 Mia likes to go on walks with Aunt Trina to WalMart.  This is usually what she looks like upon return.  Out like a light.

 Our neighbor Claire has outgrown her roller skates.  Ever since Mia slept over at Nana's house she's wanted to skate more.  When Mia found these in Claire's basement she didn't want to take them off.  Luckily we have nice neighbors and they are letting us borrow them.

 The last weekend in August we went bowling as a family.  This bowling alley had ramps so Mia was able to get her ball down the lane with some force.

 No summer would be complete without a trip to Cherry Hill.

 We had a great family day playing in the water.  Mia was really disappointed that she wasn't big enough for the tube slide but try as we may there wasn't a way to put her in her own tube that she could stay on very well.

 This girl definitely loves the water!

Until next month our friends!