summer fun

we went down to richfield to the goodwin family get-together and where able to spend some time with aidans family! Bridger had sucha blast playing with the other kids and being outside and running around! here he is with his cousin lele! she is crawling around and i guess bridger thought it would be fun to join her!
i think he forgot that she was a baby and not his pillow =)

he loved playing the piano with his aunt ashley.

and lele loved yoda!

we have decided that bridger is ready for his first bike and even tho his birthday isn't until sept we got him an early present! he loves it!

For Goodness Cakes!

i went home this last week for my two beautiful nieces baptisms! then i stayed for a week to make a wedding cake! bridger and yoda came with me and boy did we have a lot of fun! here are pictures from our trip!

this was toward the end of our stay and bridger was all tuckered out and taking a nap on grandpa!
being a goof at grandmas house!

bridger loves his cousins and really enjoys anytime he gets to spend with them!

with it being summer we had a lot of time to play in the water this picture is at the lake we had a very hard time getting bridger out of it! he also got to go to the city pool and play on a slip-n-slide!

yes he is rocking out in this!

this was one of bridgers favorite things to do! he ran to the four-wheeler every time we went outside!

this is the construction of the cake we put a lot of hours into this cake (it was our first paying gig!)

here is the final result the girl we made it for told us just what she wanted and i think it turned out AMAZING!

it was a fun week but it's good to be back home i can't wait to sleep in my own bed tonight!

check out my other blog!

hey guys just wanted to remind you about my other blog the shutter bugs! anyhoo i'm going to post the spring pictures in the next few days so if you have any get them sent to me asap! anyhoo if you like taking pics and haven't checked it out yet here is the link! it's also on the side of my blog too on the right at the top!

http://theshutterbugphotos.blogspot.com/

A condo garden looks like this....

so i tried to do a small garden when we lived in the duplex and the stupid neighbors dog at my only zucini! so this year i decided to so a small salsa garden on our deck! i got a really good deal on some plants from IFA they where each 99 cents and then they gave us a free tomato plant and a strawberry plant! anyhoo i've had them for a bit and decided that they really needed to get planted! so yesterday that's what we did. i discovered that bridger loves dirt! i gave him his own spoon (cuz i don't have a shovel and the spoon works just as good) he loved it, at one point he even tried to eat the dirt off his spoon! well here it is three tomato plants two peppers and one strawberry!

the tulip festival!

ok sorry about another blog with a billion pictures but i take so many now and i just love them they capture so much fun! we went to the tulip festival at thanksgiving point. it was a lot of fun!
this is bridger rolling down the hill (which he started doing all by himself we didn't show him how)

he just had to sit under the tree even though it was poking into his head!

my little guy is such a blessing he just loves life!

he might take after me....but just a little!

we watched this helicopter practice getting water in his bucket.

Aidan is an amazing father!

my three wonderful boys!

Sunny St. George and a Snowy Easter!

so we have been having snow storms in april! on easter i looked out my window and we had a whole bunch of snow on the ground! i decided i'd had it!!!!! so i talked aidan in to going down to st. george and i booked us a motel and we headed off the next day....it was sooo worth it even though we stayed only one night. we went up to snowfall canyon and hiked for a little and then played in the red sand dunes, which bridger loved doing.

this is bridger by his first ever palm tree! this actually was bridger's first ever family vacation and he did so good!

i made sure i booked a motel with a heated pool! bridger is such a water baby he did not want to get out even when he was freezing.

the easter bunny brought him a kite and we were able to go to a park and use it....but only in st george!

this is bridger getting to fly it all by himself!

due to the 3-4 inches of snow on the ground the easter bunny had to hide the eggs inside. bridger had a lot of fun but didn't want to put them in the basket...he preferred smashing them

against each other.

he did however really like his easter basket!

heather my sister brought over her two boys and they all colored easter eggs. they all had a lot of fun even though bridger was more of a terror rather than a helper, but i wouldn't have it any other way!

My Sweet Little Ella

today is the day that my little girl would have been 4 years old. i can't imagine what life would be like if she where here with us. i'm making a spot in my blog to reflect on my thoughts of her and how special she is to me. i went through a full 9 month of pregnancy and for anyone who has been preggo before you know of that excitement that comes the moment you find out that you are expecting. then the day you hear the heart beat, the first movement that you feel and that ultrasound finding out that i was having a little girl! my whole life i wanted nothing more than to have a family. to give all the love that i have to a special little person of my own. i've always looked at children with such love and just feel the spirit radiate from them. however i never really knew what it would be like to fully love a child as i did my own. well my first pregnancy went perfect until the end. there where no signs of problems. that little girl was healthy and seemed to me to be very active and happy. i couldn't wait! but on march 10, 2006 my heart was shattered and will never again be completely put back together. the doc couldn't find a heartbeat and at that moment i knew that i would never see my little girl alive in this life. it's hard to explain what kind of pain that is because i can't really explain how much i love my children to give you the full effect. there are no words for that kind of sorrow. my sister in law said it really well when telling her sister what it was like to be a mom. aubry said, "it's like having your heart in someone else. you just don't realize how much you can love someone." this is pretty accurate it really felt that way while at the same time i experienced what felt like my heart had just stopped beating. it died that day with my sweet ella. however difficult those hours, i knew that i was being watched over and taken care of. in those same moments is when i really truly understood our heavenly father. i never felt as close to god as i did in that hospital room. i knew that angels where watching over me and my family i could just feel them crowding the room. i knew how important Jesus Christ and his atonement is. he was the reason that i'm going to get to be with my little girl again. i'm terrible at bearing my testimony in public (due to my extreme shyness) but i will tell you all right now that i know Christ lives. i know that he is with my little baby right know. i know that he has a plan for me whether it's the one i want or not! he loves us so very much and he really does carry me when i can't seem to take another step. i love my family, my husband, my little bridger and even my dog! they have been my strength over these past four years and are the keys to having helped me put my heart back together as best as it can be! i miss you my sweet ella and your momma always will!