Congrats Daren & April!

My brother Daren and his wife, April, welcomed a little girl into the world on October 11th @ 12:39am.
Natalie Rose Manis, 8lbs 6oz, she is so petite, and sweet as can be!



We just love her so much already, we got to visit yesterday for a little bit, the girls just loved holding their new little cousin!




I loved holding her too:) (she nestled her little face into my shoulder, it was so fun holding a "tiny" baby again:) (Still doesn't mean I want more though:)

Fun @ The Mall

Although the toys at our mall have seen better days, it's still a nice place to go when the weather isn't the best:)



Dayna had a good time with her sisters, they are 3 very silly girls!

Mummy & Monsters

Jayda can't decide what she wants to be for Halloween... she changes her mind daily:) Yesterday she decided she wants to be a Mummy... she even drew this cute picture to show me.


We spent an evening at Grandma Jiggy's while the boys went to their General Priesthood meeting a few weeks ago. I wish I would have taken more pictures of our crafting fun... coloring masks was a favorite thing for everyone to do, here's a few of our scary masks:)


Can't wait for Halloween: Candy, costumes, candy, and more candy:)

Dayna- 9 months old

Dayna is 9 months old now, she eats lots of different "solid" foods now and loves to eat. She crawls all over the place, pulls herself up on things, stands alone, has started taking steps with help, she's attempted going up stairs (and fallen each time:( She pulls the movies off the rack, books off the shelf, and spends most of her time getting into things:)


Dayna's first park trip (atleast first time in a swing:) (We usually go to parks without swings, because I can't stand pushing the girls for long periods of time:)

Fall/Winter Just Between Friends

JBF in Spokane has become a tradition with my sisters, mom and I. This JBF was super fun and included my mom, my 2 sisters, 2 of my sister-in-laws, my dad, and two babies (Dayna & Ashlynn:) (Otherwise we were KIDLESS, and it was Awesome!:)
We found lots of treasures, each of my girls got 4 outfits, a toy, and a few books... time and money well spent!

I can't get over the amount of stuff that is brought in, it's so incredible... almost overwhelming:)




I wish they would do one in our area... maybe I'll look into that:) Can't wait til the spring!

Here are my little divas in their favorite outfits:) (They had to model them for me:)

"Anaconda, Squeeze"

We are so lucky to live down the street from both sets of parents... our girls love having their grandparents around, and love to play and be silly with them! Grandpa Ray & Grandma Jiggy brought us a DQ treat for FHE last week, the evening ended with Grandma getting the girls all riled up... Grandma had all 3 of them laughing to tears:)

Our Little Sunshiny Girl:)

Dayna, all shiny and bright, all ready for church!


Dayna is one of the happiest little girls around... We love her to pieces:)

Dayna's first teeth

A few weeks ago Dayna's bottom 2 teeth starting coming in at pretty much the same time, now they are all the way in and are so cute when she smiles:)

Busy Little Dayna Buggy--

taking all the movies off the rack...


playing behind the couch...


watching cartoons with her sisters...


learning to play an instrument...


and just being cute...

Boulder Cave 2011

 

Boulder Cave is the place to go on Labor Day... we've gone with Lucas' family for the last 4 or 5 years now, but for some reason, this year it was super packed, there were LOTS of people. We had a great time hiking to and from the cave (it was so hot, I was dripping sweat by the time we reached the cave... partly due to the fact that we forgot the baby pack, so I ended up carrying Dayna all the way up and most of the way back... she was a little trooper:)

After hiking to the cave, we rested, ate yummy hot dogs, and then played an intense new game called KUBB (Luke saw a family playing this game at a park, looked it up on the internet, talked to his dad about it, and then his very talented dad made it:) We had a really nice time with the family!