Alaska Here we come!!
Our family is heading to Alaska early Friday morning. Joshua's family lives there and we are so excited to see them! I am sure I will have tons to post when we get back. We will be gone for a week so I am sure I wont have time to post while I am there but I will when we return. Here are a few pics from last time when we visited. Us by the glaciers, a view from the boat while fishing and a view of where they live.




Cute Mariyah in Alaska
in August of 2005

RIDING THE VACUUM
When I vacuum Brooklyn and Mariyah think its fun and like to "ride" on the vacuum cleaner. At times it's lots of fun, but since I vacuum everyday it gets crazy at times. Lately when I get the vacuum cleaner out Brooklyn immediatly gets her little barbie vacuum out and starts vacuuming and it's so cute:)

Happy Birthday Amy!!
Ok so it may sound a bit weird that I am wishing myself a Happy Birthday but I wanted to say thank you to all my friends and family who sent me birthday texts, cards and lots of great phone calls. I really felt loved and I appreciate each one of you. Thank you for making my birthday special.
Today my mom, my sisters and Mariyah, Brooklyn and me went shopping at Chandler Mall. My mom bought us lunch, and she bought me a few new shirts for my birthday. We had a wonderful time and then this evening Joshua and I went out to eat while my parents watched the girls. It was a wonderful day and I felt like a princess for the day:)
I am frustrated because my video doesn't work for some reason on my blog, but I got the cuties VIDEO ever of Brooklyn. She goes around saying Happy Day and lately she seriously started saying "Happpy Dirday do you" and it is the cutiest ever and I got it on video. She turned 17 months today and in all honesty I am amazed at what she can say...and she also calls me Amy...I'm like no I am mom and she says no Amy and then says why mom. She has such a funny personality.

This pic was taken at girls camp. Mom thank you for being an amazing mom and all the fun we have had over the past 29 years of my life:)

Me when I was a baby. I took it out of the scrapbook and sorry that it's not very clear....ya know it's not like their were digital cameras back then haha

Every year on our birthday's we always get a cute balloon

GIRLS CAMP!!!!! BE LOYAL TO THE ROYAL!
EXTREMELY FUN Leaders: Sarah, Ashley, Amy, Natalie, Jlynn



This past week I went to Girls camp and had many amazing experiences!!! Girls camp is so incredible and it was so neat to be with the Young Women and be apart of their camp experience. Of course I took tons of pics and here is a slide show of a few of the many pics I took. What was so fun is that my mom was the cook up at camp and my sister Lindsey was a 5th year YCL, and I am in Young Womens, so we were all 3 of their together. We had a dance Friday night and us leaders had a blast dancing and we were all being crazy and having TONS of FUN!!!! They also had a zip line and a merry go round. Check out the pics!!! I must also say that we did lots of cute crafts, did certification with the girls and had many incredible spiritual experiences too. The Young Women girls were amazing and they were all so much fun!! It was so neat getting to know the girls better and the great laughs we had too. Overall camp was an incredible experience and one that I will cherish for years.

Why not have fun putting a Qtip in your sister's ear:)

The girls were playing and when I came into the room I realized that they were laughing and couldn't figure out why. Then I looked and saw something sticking out of their ears. They each had a q-tip in their ears!! I got a great laugh out of it. After taking a pic of them with the q-tip I took a few more fun sister pics. We are so thankful that we are blessed with such beautiful girls that really bring so much joy and adventure in our lives everyday.

I might be crazy....but this is bizzare!!!
So a few weeks ago we went to the zoo(as posted below) and we lost Brooklyn's pink shoe. Of course I was sad, but I was like oh well I guess we will just have to buy her a new pair. Then the other day my friend and I went to the zoo and I thought I would ask the lost and found if they found her pink shoe.
I had to describe her shoe...so I told the lady that it was pink, a SIZE 6 (this is where it gets bizzarre) and velcro on the top with a strap. She comes back with a size 6 shoe, velcro on the top with a strap and it was Brooklyn's sandal. I was like YEAH since I haven't bought her a new pair yet. The only thing that was bizzare is that the pink sandal had faded, but I just thought it was because it had sat in the sun for a few weeks until someone turned the sandal in. To make a long story short I get home and Brooklyn is seriously excited that she has her shoes back and then it happened....they both fit the same foot....yeah thats right the shoe that I was given wasn't her shoe, someone else had lost the same shoe, same size...I mean really what are the fippin chances of that. Even the same color(although not really since I did think the sun changed the color. I mean the same size!!!! Come on and very crazy. Now I feel like I need to go to the zoo and take it back. Then again maybe that mom was looking for her daughters shoe and they gave her mine:) I may never know...ahhh

ZOO DAY!!
We went to the Phoenix zoo and had tons of fun!! I didn't realize that they had a splash park so the girls got wet in their clothes. Since it was so flippin hot outside they dried up quickly. Oh the joys of livng in AZ:) What's funny to me is that Mariyah got blue snow cone all over her outfit and once she started to play in the water it washed out(no need for bleach) and if you look at the picture of her on the bee standing up the blue is no longer on her shirt. We had a wonderful time and the girls enjoyed playing on all the fun toys they have their too. Brooklyn was so cute because everytime we would see an animal she would tell us a "story" about each animal. She would usually call the animals Puppy Dog since she loves to say that word.