St George Festivities!...and other random April things

Jayde's first face painting at the Art Festival. I didn't know how well she would do sitting there so I had Skittles for her to focus on while she was being painted. She also got soaked playing in the water features/splash pad they have there, but loved every minute of it!

First Easter egg hunt held in the park by our house. She didn't understand the whole concept of getting as much candy/eggs as you can. Once she found something edible she would plop herself down and try to pry it open.

 

 I'm loving the fact that the weather is nice enough to set up our little $10 pool outside for her to play in.

 

 Playing in the splash pad/kiddie river on Main Street with some neighbor friends. She also rode the Carousel for the first time which she enjoyed as well as was freaked out by. When we left she seemed to want to go again though.

 More swimming and splashing in the backyard pool.

 Supposedly when Tyson takes her to the store without me he lets her roam free while he gets the groceries. On this occasion they somehow found a mini shopping cart that Jayde pushed around the whole time. She would put the food Tyson gave her into her cart and would pop a couple grapes in her mouth while they went down the aisles.

 The St George Kite Festival was fun to go to. We met our friends Ann and her girl Ava there and walked around, got homemade ice-cream and home-made root beer. Jayde played some games and rode their little train twice. She got a kick out of riding the school bus from the parking lot to the festival and back.

1 year and family pictures

After Jayde's birthday I really wanted to get some cute and fun 1 year old pictures taken of her. It is such a fun stage, and I didn't want to stress about taking them ourselves. I also thought while we were at it why don't we get some taken of our little family of three?

We contacted Alisha Shaw from One Memory At A Time because we absolutely LOVED how Jayde's newborn pictures turned out. We knew that she would do an awesome job, and she totally did! She is so fun to work with, and captures the cute moments we have every day with Jayde like having her on our shoulders, throwing her up in the air, and her dancing/clapping.

It was hard picking out what we were going to wear because I didn't want to do your typical (boring) matchy-matchy "Let's all wear the same color shirt!" theme. I wanted it to be bright and fun! Here's how they turned out:
















So if you are ever in the Southern Utah area and looking for a photographer you should contact Alisha to take your pictures. I guarantee you will not be disappointed. She is also very reasonably priced and super fun to work with.

It was such a fun photo shoot and we were super lucky to have Tyson's parents there to help get smiles out of Jayde.

pumpkin patch at Staheli Farms

We took Jayde to Staheli Family Farm to take pictures with some pumpkins. It is a farm super close to where we live, and it had awesome things for the kids. We went with our neighbors Nick & Sunny. They had a petting zoo, games for the kids, pigs, chickens, turkey's that scared the crap out of you, a corn slide and a bunch of other fun things. Next year we might do the corn maze and haunted house... we'll see.




On the tractor ride over to the pumpkin patch you pass all their cows and holy cow it smelled soo bad! (pun intended)
It was hilarious because it smelled super bad for like 5 minutes and the smell was so potent that Jayde started crying haha... poor thing. I couldn't stop laughing, it was so funny. At least we know our daughter has a good sense of smell.

The sunset was gorgeous. Her onesie says Daddy's Little Pumpkin. We were going to get some pumpkins from there to take home, but they were a lot more expensive there than getting them from the store so we opted to just get them at the store. When Jayde is older, we'll let her pick one to take home but she doesn't know the difference.