Visit from cousins Isaac and Xavi

isaac visit

My cousin Isaac and his son Xavi made a rare visit to Phoenix last month, causing a gathering of family from my Mom's side. My Granma Pomeroy drove up from Patagonia, Aunt Gene and Uncle Del were also there (Aunt Gene is my Grandma's sister) along with their son Mike and his wife Jewell, his daughter Janet and her kids (somehow they escaped the wrath of my camera), their daughter Karen and her husband Jim, my family, and Steph and her family. We met at Peter Piper Pizza and had a good time catching up!

The New Neighbors

So, as I mentioned before, we got some new neighbors, the Nelsons. It has been a lot of fun having someone so close to hang out with. I know Stephanie lives less than a mile away, but somehow it is so much easier to just let your kids walk across the street to play than to load up in the car.

This first picture is a repeat picture from Lindsey's bday, but it's all I got of Dan and Linsey. They are a lot of fun and like to have game night, so it looks like I might finally get Scott to play games with me! Dan is in dental school, so aren't seeing much of him now, but hopefully we are keeping Linsey company!

This is their little boy Rayce. He is 21 months and is sooooo cute!


This is Danielle. She is 6 and she and Kaylin and Hailey play together every free second they can find! She is a lot of fun.

Wanna fight?

We had a portrait session with one of our good friends Cindy Price and this ended up on our camera...I think Kaylin took it. Maybe she is a budding photographer herself! Anyway, you should go visit Lily p studio in my blog list links and maybe we are still on her blog somewhere. She did a great job and now we are at the hard part of deciding which ones to get!

Lindsey turned 2 yesterday, she knows how old she is, but is still trying to figure out how to show how old she is on her fingers. (Excuse her bed head in the video!)

This is the end of Lindsey's Happy Birthday song! She loved blowing out the candles!

Lindsey's Birthday Party

Lindsey had a great birthday. Scott's parents drove up from Tucson to help celebrate and my sister Stephanie and her kids came as well as our neighbors, the Nelsons (more about them in another post!) Lindsey was excited about blowing out her candles, in fact, she blew them out immediately after they were lit, so Scott had to relight them so we could sing Happy Birthday to her. Her 5 year old cousin Olivia made her a homemade card and gave her the little bunny Lindsey is holding in one of the pictures. I thought that was so cute that Olivia did that for her! Hailey found a quarter at the store and bought Lindsey a sticky hand out of the gumball machines. Almost as thoughtful, but definately jsut as cute! When Kaylin realized that she didn't have anything for her, she ran upstairs (after the presents were over) and wrapped up one of her newer Happy Meal toys and gave that to Lindsey, not as thoughtful, but still cute and she wins the prize for most humorous! The last picture, Lindsey is inadvertanly flashing her undies. I only point this out because Lindsey's present to me yesterday was deciding to be potty trained! She would only wear undies, not even pull-ups, and she stayed dry during errands and nap time and all night! And it was only the day before that she peed on my coffee table while my visiting teachers were over! Oh well, with Lindsey, everything happens on HER schedule!

I thought I would make a slideshow all about Lindsey in honor of her birthday. I realize that this slide show is ridiculously long, but she is just so darn cute, that it was hard to not include every picture! Just be glad that there are pictures from a few months of her life that are stored on another computer, so I didn't include any of them!