Anniversary

Happy 7th anniversary! We celebrated by going swimming with family during the day. Then went to the temple and then to Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Its been a great 7 years. I love you Joe!

Summer and Hads

I love summer. Probably because I'm married to school teacher. Joe is teaching the morning session of summer school and then is home by 12:30. We have been swimming everyday since Memorial Day. We bought a family pass to all the Mesa pools and have had fun going to Stapley pool almost everyday. We did try out Shepherd which was fun, but I think I like Stapley better. I am excited to try out some other pools that we haven't been to yet.

Keelie and Kate warming up during a safety break at Stapley

I forgot that I hadn't posted Hadlie's stats from her 12 month dr. appt. This is just for me cuz I like to look back and compare size and stuff with Keelie when she was a year, and for future kids.

weight- 20.3 lbs. 30%

height- 30 1/2 in. 90%

head- 18 in. 75%

What can I say about my Hadlie girl? She is definately more opinionated and fiesty than Keelie ever was. She knows what she wants and is not afraid to scream until she gets it. And forget about trying to take something from her. She will fight you for it! We switched her into a front facing carseat which she doesn't seem to like very much. We are hoping she gets better before we make our 15 hour drive to Texas in July to visit my sister. She does not like church either. She lasts about 15 min. in sacrament meeting before one of us (usually joe) has to take her out for the rest of church. I hope i'm not making her out to be some unhappy baby that cries all the time because she's not. She really is happy most of time. She is definately a daddy's girl. She knows where her nose, toes, ears, head, and bellybutton are. She folds her arms so cutely when we say a prayer. She doesn't like to be left out of anything. If we are playing duck, duck goose with Keelie she is sitting right there next to us. When Joe plays hide-n-seek or tag with Keelie, Hadlie joins in to, which mean Joe holds her while he runs around. Her favorite is to hide in the bed under the covers. She cracks up when someone finds her. Even though Hadlie is a bit of a challenge sometimes, we love her so much and wouldn't trade her for anything. She is our little Hadlie madlie girl!

Happy Birthday Hadlie!!

Today is Hadlie's 1st birthday! We actually celebrated on Saturday along with her cousin Carver whose birthday was 4 days before. We had a blow up water slide that was a huge hit with all the kids. Its funny though because Hadlie hated it. She would just cling to Joe when he would try to put her on it. Oh well, everyone else had fun!

Especially Keelie. I'm pretty sure she went down more than anyone.

Jack was the only one that would look when I was trying to get a group shot and he gave me nice shot of his arm pit.

Screaming!

Loving it!

Eating her cake

Carver stealing a taste of Hadlie's cake

She got 3 dolls (among many other presents) and would hold all of them at the same time. So cute! She loves dolls!

Easter

We had a really fun Easter this year. We have WAY to much candy, and I can't stop eating it! On Saturday we celebrated at my parents house with my family. We had a yummy dinner, decorated eggs, and of course had an Easter egg hunt.

Keelie after finding her eggs

Keelie, Hailee, Kendal

Joe and I having fun on the wiggle cars


Keelie eating her candy and Hadlie sneeking some candy

Keelie modeling her Easter dress. She liked it cuz its shiny. Joe thinks her dress looks like an Easter egg. (he liked it though)

Both my girls

Hads modeling her Easter dress

After church we went to Joes parents for the Goodman party. Some more good food and again, way to much candy!

All the cousins that participated in the hunt.

Hadlie and grandma and grandpa Goodman

Inspecting all their loot. The Easter bunny brought the Platt girls swimsuits. I'm pretty sure thats what they get every year, and every year thats what they wear all day long. I think its pretty funny!

Our family. Joe is the only one that looks normal in this picture, but this was the best one we got!

Joes b-day

Happy 29th birthday Joe! You're the best and we love you!

time for an update

I haven't posted in awhile so I thought I would do a quick update with the pictures I have taken recently. I went to lunch with my friends this week. So fun. I haven't seen them forever. I have been friends with most of these girls since like 2nd grade, and the others since jr. high. Jacque(pregnant), Lisa, Alyssa(pregnant), Evonne(pregnant w/twins!), Tarah(pregnant), Brooke, me, Tiffany I love my girls! They definately have different personalities. Lets just say that Hadlie is alot harder than Keelie ever was as a baby. She is so opinionated and stubborn. She is still sweet as can be, but if she wants something or doesn't like something, she will let you know! Keelie has been especially sweet lately. Like yesterday she said to me about 25 times out of the blue "I love you so much mommy!" Sometimes I forget she is only 3 cuz she acts so much older. I don't know why, I must say it alot, but she has been saying "Oh my gosh!" so much lately. Last night she said to Joe "Oh my gosh daddy, you are so silly!". She says it when she is happy or mad. It's pretty funny.

I just thought this was a cute picture. We were at Joes baseball game and she stood up and said "Mom, take a picture of me at dads baseball game" so I did!

Spring Break

We had a really fun spring break this year. Joe, of course, had the week off so Monday morning we headed up to the cabin with my sister and her family. But before we could make it to the cabin, Joe took us on another adventure. We stopped at Tonto Natural Bridge, which is just north of Payson. I didn't know what to expect, but it was pretty cool. We started up at the top in that first picture, then hiked down. You can see it kind of looks like a huge cave but it goes through and its just this huge natural bridge, hence the name. I don't know why I didn't take a better picture of it so you can tell what it is. And you can walk across that man made bridge and go directly under it. You can even climb some rocks and go through it but we didn't because we had the little kids.

We were there for about an hour or two, then we were off to the cabin. We had fun and did the usual cabin stuff: went on walks, played outside with the kids, we went and visited Joes brother Mark and his family who live in Snowflake. One of the days we drove up to Fool Hollow Lake in Show Low and had a picnic. The girls had fun feeding the ducks. One of the ducks almost bit Kendals finger off! We all had fun and got a little sunburned.

Keelie and Kendal are so cute. They play so well together and can be the best of friends, but some days, especially if one of them is tired, you can't get them to stop fighting.