Dancing Queen

Alida has begun doing the cutest thing!
She stands in one place and spins in a circle!!! (like she's dancing!)
She started doing it on Sunday at church! I'd never seen her do it before.
Now she does it when she's playing at home.
She's our little dancing queen!

An update

So, with Alida's birthday just under 3 weeks away, I still don't know where we're going to have it! Anthony and I have been hoping for an apartment in Spanish Fork and we're hoping and praying we get it! If we get the apartment, I'd like to have the party there, but if we don't, I'm thinking it'll probably just be at the Spanish Fork Library Park... weather permitting.
Anthony, Alida and I are doing fine. Anthony and I are finally getting over our colds and hoping Alida didn't catch it. Her nose has been a little runny, but nothing we're too worried about.
Yesterday I got to cut my brother, Blake's hair. It hadn't been cut for a year or more and it was getting REALLY long! He wouldn't normally have cut it, but was offered $50 if he did... so he let me cut it! It was REALLY FUN!!!!
I have been working on a surprise for my brother, JayDee who will be home from South Dakota in just a couple of months... but I'm not going to say what the surprise is, just incase JayDee reads my blog!!! (*raspberries JayDee*)
Other than that, I really can't think of much else to report on. It has been a really uneventful couple of weeks.
^_^

Just a head's up

There is just one month left until Alida's first birthday!
Invitations to her birthday party will be going out in the mail soon, but I wanted to post a quick notice now just to give everyone a heads up!
I know you may not be able to read the text very well... so lemme just point out... it'll be on her birthday (july 14) at 7pm...but we're not sure where yet. We'll put the place on the invitations we mail out! (location is TBA pending a decision by someone else *wink wink*!)

A month of fun!

I want to give a shout out to the June family birthdays!!!

Michelle My Belle!!! 26 years on June 7th

Mom B!!! 46 years on June 13th (TODAY!!! *throws confetti*)

Richard Dean!!! 21 on June 28th!

Also, I missed wishing Blake a happy 15th birthday on May 21st!!!

We've had quite an interesting time trying to find an internet connection so I can blog, so I'm covering all the bases now, while I can! lol

Family Fun

A little over a week ago, Anthony, Alida and I went to visit my sister Michelle and their new baby, Daphne Laurel, in North Salt Lake. While we were up there, Anthony and I decided to walk around Temple Square for a little while, since we never get to go up there as a family! This wasn't our first time going to visit the Sheets in N.S.L. but we always tend to leave their house late and don't have a chance to wander Temple Square, so this was Alida's first time ever at Temple Square. The sister missionaries and older couple missionaries loved Alida and Alida was REALLY talkative!
We went on EVERY tour that we could go on! We saw the Tabernacle, the Conference Center (which, surprisingly, Anthony had never been inside of), the 2 visitor's centers, the original church (that sits in the southwest corner of temple square) and the Beehive house! It was WAY fun!
Next time we go, we'll have to top the day off with dinner at the Lion House!!! (instead of the mall! lol)

Update

First of all: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELLE MY BELLE!!!
Ok, so this is just an update of the previous post.
I said I'd put a photo of the finished result from weeding mom's lilac bushes. If you'll recall,

This was what it looked like before

And this is what it looks like now.

Notice the difference? If not, it's time to get your eyes checked!

The Chase

Now the chase is on!
Alida is all over the place these days and there's no stopping her!
She has discovered the joy of running, not just walking any more, Running!
Any time we open a door or leave the stairs un-blocked, she books it for the opening and will get into things she shouldn't or she'll climb up the stairs and be half-way through the living room upstairs before we even realize she's gone up. She's still not used to walking with shoes on, but when her shoes are on, she's usually in the stroller.
We put her little inflatable pool downstairs and put blankets in it. She lays in it when she has a bottle and plays in it the rest of the time. She loves having it! We also got her a larger pack of swim diapers, so she and I can go over to Lana's more often and go swimming with her!!! (because of the danger of bacteria, the rule is un-potty-trained children must wear swim diapers or 2 diapers when swimming in pools used by other people.
We are planning a camping trip with some friends for this August and I don't think it's gone very far yet... but we still have a couple of months to get it all planned! lol
The Spa/Salon is set to open in just a couple of weeks, and I'm helping everywhere I can. For Anthony, the reality of being able to quit Macey's soon is getting stronger! He is so excited to be able to sleep at night and be awake during the day! He is also excited to get to be with Alida all day! He's such a cute daddy!
Yesterday, we went to a bbq at my Grandma June's house and got to see Michelle and Brian's new baby, Daphne! She's so beautiful!
It was also a bbq to celebrate JayDee's graduation from high school and his going to South Dakota for the summer to work as a staff member at a scout camp. It was fun to see so much family together!
Blake and I weeded mom's lilac bushes the other day. It was amazing, the difference it made. There are also peonies and irises in the little corner of "garden" we weeded. We kept as many of the irises and peonies as we could, unfortunately most of the peonies were so mixed in with a large bunch of weeds, that most of them had to be sacrificed. We managed to save the 3 biggest shoots of them. Hopefully, mom will keep up with the weeding and keep it looking nice.

(mom's lilac bushes before we weeded them)
(I'll add a picture of the finished result in a day or 2. I have to take one first. ^_^)