To be continued...

Ok I have another few minutes to post a little more from our weeks with company and visitors. These first few pics are from the weeks Aaron's fam was still here.

I love having two girls, sisters are the best - I would know!

Brynlee had to come over and get her Emberley fix. If there is anyone out there who could rival Taylee in their love for Emberley, it's Brynlee. It makes me happy to see how much she adores her. When she gets her hands on her she doesn't want to let go, I love it!

I just have to mention how SPOILED this girl got with both her Gram and Grama here. Aaron's mom gave Taylee a present every day she was here including the super cute outfit she has on. I think it was quite a let down when everyone finally had to go.

I love this picture. Emberley hanging out with Aunt Bonnie.

Ammon, Taylee and Noah

The last of our Alldredge visitors were Aaron's brother Nathan and his two boys. They stopped by on their drive back from Arizona. They were only here about a day, but we sure loved having them and for Taylee to get to hang out with more cousins.

Father's Day rolled around and we are out enjoying Aaron's Father's Day present as a fam.

The day after Aaron's family left my mom came into town and the spoiling of both me and Taylee continued!

More sister pics...

Dressed up for our first try of church. We made it through sacrament meeting!

Remember how I mentioned spoiled.... Taylee got an early birthday present from Grama, a new bike! Now if we could just get her to not be a big chicken and ride it...

One last picture of Emberley (well last for now)!

Emberley is here!!

Our sweet, perfect, beautiful baby girl arrived on June 9th. She weighed 6lbs. 14oz. and was 18in. long. Everything went fine, fast actually and we are all so so happy she is here and healthy!

We named her Emberley Ilene...

Helped arrived very quickly. Aaron's mom and sister came and stayed for almost two weeks. Thank goodness because I had a lot of up and down days and don't know what I would have done with out the help! Emberley is only grand daughter number 3 on the Alldredge side, everyone keeps having boys!

Taylee absolutely LOVES her new sister. She has been waiting and waiting for her and can't hold her, tickle her or kiss her enough!

Tay is also a huge help! One of the benefits I am finding to having such a large gap between kids. Getting diapers, holding her, distracting her, its great!

1st bath...

Sleeping with daddy...

We got to see more of Aaron's family. Danny and Makay recently moved to Utah so they were close enough to come for a quick visit. Andy showed up too after his semester ended at BYU.

Taylee was thrilled to have cousins to play with. Addi and Taylee having ice cream together...

We were so excited to meet our newest little nephew Will. He is only about a month older then Emberley.

Two proud big sisters!

Can't find a better place to sleep then with daddy.

We had lots more visitors and I will post more about all that soon!

Easter 2011

We had a pretty traditional Easter this year complete with an Easter egg hunt, egg dying and the search for the special surprise left by the Easter bunny. This year we went to Fat Cats (the movie theater here) and did their hunt. It was especially nice because it was indoors and it had the chance to win free stuff inside the eggs like movie tickets or bowling. We were not that lucky, but Taylee was happy just to have a bag full of candy.

Taylee, Conner, Ryker and Avery waiting for their turn to hunt...
Going for it!

Very pregnant me!!!

Then we moved on to Lacey's for some egg dying.

Finding her basket Easter morning...

Unfortunatly I somehow did not get a picture of her in her beautiful Easter dress or any pics of all the company we had with us. Aaron's mom and dad and brother and sisters were with us and we spent a great week with them. Aaron's parents worked hard for me all week making curtains and putting up chair railings in the girl's rooms.... pics to come!

It's a.....

So we have been waiting and waiting to find out what this little baby is inside me, I am 6 months pregnant after all and we actually went in like two weeks ago, but our modest little thing would not open its legs. We were in there for like 45min and the nurse kept going back and trying to see. She poked and jiggled my belly trying to get this little baby to move, but at first its little feet were crossed and then it had one leg on top of the other and would not cooperate. I was not giving up, I was expecting to stay there and thought there was no way I was actually not going to be able to know what we were having until finally the nurse said "so how do you feel about it being a surprise". Uh, not good was my first thought and after asking what else we could do, they were nice enough to let me come back in last week. So the big result is... ITS A GIRL!! Taylee was a little grumpy at first as she had her mind set on a brother, but after a little talking about what a great big sister she would be she is happy now, but still hopeful for a boy next time. Aaron and I are both thrilled and are so happy to be saying she instead of it!!

Valentines and a Very Happy Birthday

Preschool has been so great for Taylee this year. She is learning a lot and gets to do all sorts of fun things when holidays roll around. This year for Valentine's Day they had a fancy Tea Party and everyone had to dress up and bring Valentine's to share.

Of course Taylee's Valentines of choice were.... Toy Story. She had a great time and looked so cute!

Aaron's birthday came on a Saturday this year and I had quite the surprise for his big 3-0!! He didn't get to actually do it though till the next week-end so we went ice skating during the day. Taylee had been begging to go all winter and Aaron really wanted to take her.

It was a challenge to even get her to think she could stand up, let alone skate, although I was not used to hockey skates and had a hard time too.

Luckily she had a good Daddy that held her up the entire time. I was impressed though cause it was hard and she stayed so happy and when she fell down she got right back up and wanted to go back out on the ice.

Although a bit ridiculous to skate with a four year old, we had a great time.

Later that night we went to dinner with Brad and Lacey.

Sunday we had a yummy dinner and had the requested brownies for dessert.

(count the 30 candles... just have to rub it in a little)

They real Happy Birthday was sending Aaron on a trip with his brothers and his dad. He got to go to Leavenworth in Washington and stay in a nice place and hang out with his brothers. He had such a great time so a big thank you to all his brothers and his dad for taking time off to celebrate with Aaron! Happy Birthday babe!

Quinton's Baptism

Quinton is the first of any of my neices and nephews to get baptized and I loved that we got to be there for his special day before they took off.

Cousins!!

Not the greatest picture, but its what we could get!!


Because Tiff's house was pretty much all packed up, everyone came over here for a yummy lunch and to celebrate a little with Quinton. Isn't he so handsome!

Opening some special presents...

Eating with the cousins.


This was a bittersweet day. We were so so proud of Quinton for making such a good choice to be baptized, but so sad knowing that the next day they would be gone...

The proud parents...

Thank you Quinton for being such a good example for Taylee and for all of us!

Happy Valentines from Taylee

We weren't able to get Valentines in the mail this year, but decided that it wasn't too late for Taylee to tell all her cousins and grandparents who are far away how much she loves them. So the following are personalized Valentines for each of them. We love you all!

TO: THE CRABTREES

1st heart: to Holland, 2nd heart: to Weiland, 3rd heart: to Quinton, card: to Ellie

TO: THE SILLITO'S
Outsides of cards- left is for Lily, right for Abby.


Insides- top for Lily, bottom for Abby


TO: GRAMA AND GRAMPA SILLITO

Pink for grama, blue for grampa



TO: THE SILLITO'S

Top for Jacey, bottom for Broden, and Saide we love you too!

Inside of Jacey's


TO: ALLDREDGE BOYS

Left for Ammon (notice the A!), right for Noah.


TO: GRAM AND PAPA ALLDREDGE

Green for Papa, purple for Gram.

TO: THE ALLDREDGE'S

Left for Addi, right for Isaac

TO: ALLDREDGE'S

For little Joel!

Happy Valentines from Taylee!

(We love the Neilson's too, they just got their own Valentines since they live by us!!)

Sleepover with Ellie

We had to have Ellie over one more time for a sleepover before she moved away. She is one of Taylee's very best friends and we have loved having her here so much.

We decided to eat out at Craigos and the girls just giggled and giggled and had a great time. We miss you already Ellie girl!