Bowling

This past Saturday the Hirst Family got together to go bowling. It was a lot of fun and I was the one who walked away with the highest score out of the whole family! Dan almost beat me in the 10th frame by getting two strikes in a row which put him two points behind me, then he went to bowl again to win and he ended up only getting one pin down! So I won by one point, Dan said he did it on purpose but I don't believe that! Then after bowling Mark decided that I needed a night out and so he sent Nicole (sister-in-law), Leona (mother-in-law) and me out to see a movie. We went and saw Bride Wars, it was so funny and it was great to spend time with them! So thank you to Mark, Matt, and Skip for staying home with the kids so that we could go out and have a girls night! It was a lot of fun.

Here are some pictures of bowling...











Anastasia slept almost the whole time while we were bowling, so I just thought I would put up a different picture anyway!

Our little fun Vacation...

This past week we went to Vegas/St. George with the Chandler Family. It was alot of fun, but along the way we had alot of things go wrong.. these pictures will explain all....

Well as you can guess from these pictures... we had a little accident. On the news I'm sure you heard all about that 22 car pile up. Well we weren't part of that accident but we were one of the many that went off the road, and a mile post poll got our car. It was so scary, my very first accident that I have been in. That happened on our drive to Vegas, so what a good way to start a trip don't you think? My poor car!!


Well other then having a fun accident, we did have alot of fun and tried not to worry about my car while we were on the trip. We just put some duct tape on it and called it good for the remainder of the trip.. Our first day in Vegas Josh, Kristi, Mark and I all went to the strip and left our kids with Grandma and Grandpa Chandler back at the condo. It was fun to go and run around like little teenagers again and not have to worry about our kids! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Chandler for watching our kids so that we could go out and relax and play! I will let the pictures explain what we did.






I have always wanted to pull the slots and see what it felt like... So of course my good example brother-in-law Josh encouraged me and even gave me the dollar to try it out, Thanks Josh... it was alot of fun. I lost the dollar and Mark lost, but don't worry Josh won ten dollars and Kristi won five dollars and 50 cents. I can see why people like to do that, but at the same time it gets really boring just to sit and push these buttons and then leaving with less money then what you came with... It didn't make sense to me, but it was fun and I enjoyed myself.

Then we went to the Coke and M&M Factory and tried all the different types of drinks from around the world. Some of them were really good, but some of them were really nasty!!










The Bellagio had really pretty flowers this time! They always amaze me when I go see them!

So then Saturday morning we got up and headed to meet up with the other half of the Chandler family in St. George.


Here was her cute Valentines outfit.

Her first hotel!


She loves her cousin Ely!

Her first time swimming! She LOVED it!

So to end my story of why our trip was such an interesting one, Mark took Anastasia for a swim for her first time and also decided that his cell phone wanted to go too! So it was fun trip but also a very expensive one! hahaha. So we had a very good way to start our trip and a good way to end our trip!! I hope all you had a wonderful Valentines and Presidents day weekend!!

What do you think?

Here is a picture of me as a baby and a picture of Anastasia. So tell me if you think she looks like me or Mark.. I need to picture of Mark up also! I will work on that next!

Yes we are wearing the same exact outfit and even shoes.. We had to scan in my picture so it doesn't show the color as well as mine did. I took Anastasia's picture later then my mom took mine. I wish I would've taken her picture a little bit earlier so that it would be closer in age. I'll just put up some more cute pictures that I have taken of my sweet little girl! I can't believe how fast she has grown and how much time has past! She is getting really big and really wants to be mobile but can't figure out how to move her body. So I'm pretty sure she will get it figured out and soon.

This is her favorite thing to do.. put her finger in her mouth!

She has the cutest smile and laugh!

She got sick of pictures being taken!

She is such a wonderful joy in our family! I love her so much! I love watching her grow and discover more things!

My mom is going to kill me!!!

Well I did it again... I went brown! My mom gets so mad whenever I change my hair color... but I LOVE IT! She hasn't seen it and didn't know I was doing it, so I'm a little nervous seeing her again! I can tell you word for word what she is going to say to me, "JULIE, I prayed so hard for a platinum blond, blue eyed girl and LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO IT!!" As she is doing circles around me looking at the damage that is done! hahaha




But anyway I will also put up this funny picture of Anastasia, she is into this new stage where she has to sit up as far as she can and hold it. So today we put her in her swing and this is what she did while she was sleeping...

It was so dang funny and so dang cute... she slept like that for about 30 minutes and then she was asleep enough that we could move her back. She is such a funny little girl! I can't believe how big she has gotten and how fast time has gone! She is already 3 months old!!! It is very exciting but at the same time I am SO SAD!!! But everyday gets more and more fun with her! I love her so stinkin much!

GO AGGIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pink

As you can see this blog has alot of pink! I wanted to take advantage of this wonderful "holiday" that is coming up, and I can do as much pink as I want and Mark can't get mad! YAY FOR PINK!! haha

Holiday Season

I know this is long past due.. but this holiday season has been very busy. We had a very fun and eventful Christmas and loved having a baby with us, even though she had no idea of what was going on. It was still fun and we had tons of fun with family. We also got to talk to my little brother Nate who is on a mission, that was fun to hear from him again and talk to him for a minute. Here are some pictures from the Hirst Family Party that we had up in Kamas.


Lauren, Katrina and Anastasia

Jill and Sam and Heather and Anna and my mom recording and Lauren

My dad and Matt and Danny and Lauren

Jeff and Gina and Devin


Grandpa PJ holding Devin and Joey coming to get him..

Here is most of the Grand kids

Now I'll put up some pictures of Christmas Day, and Christmas Eve.

Our Christmas Tree



This was a huge part of Anastasia's Christmas, her bedroom set!

Her pj's from Grandma and Grandpa Chandler

Grandma Chandler giving out presents

One of her cute Christmas outfits

You can tell how excited she is about Christmas morning.

Here is her other outfit

This is her favorite toy we gave her.. she loves that blue monkey! She talks to him non stop.. it is really cute!

We had a very fun and exciting Christmas and New Year, We are looking forward to this New Year and watching Anastasia grow.