New Sunday Dress

We were just thinking the other day that we needed to get Kaylee some new dresses (she wore a 9 month dress to church the other week). Thank goodness for Kaylee's Gramma Wurtz! She came to the rescue and bought a new dress. We took a bunch of pics of her sporting it!

Daddy was goofing off in the background to try and get her to smile. It worked!

We just love that smile!

Daddy and his sweet little angel...

Our next door neighbor, Veronica, just loves coming over and playing with Kaylee. She had a ball playing with Veronica's hat...

Here are some other random pics of Kaylee...

Grandpa getting a little smoochie smooch...

Kaylee's new face that she makes when she gets excited about something...

Happy Birthday Holly!

Happy Birthday to Holly! Holly's birthday was on Wed. last week. It started off like normal, feeding Kaylee breakfast. But Kaylee decided that she wanted to use the new spoon that Grandpops and Meme gave her all by herself.

So far so good...

This is starting to get a little more interesting (and messy)...

By the end of her meal (of playing with her meal) she was quite proud of the mess she had made! The best part was that I didn't have to clean it up! Hehe...but Holly and Kaylee had fun and we got some cute pics out of it too!

Now I'd like to take credit for what we did next, but I have to confess it was all Holly's idea (mostly). She told me what she wanted to do for her birthday (I had no complaints). We went down to Shoreline Village in downtown Long Beach and had dinner. Then we rented a bike and rode it along the beach and took in some sights. It was a lot of fun and it reminded us of how long it had been since we had a night out just the two of us!

Pretty sunset...

Holly used to work in the tall building on the right.

We love Holly so very much!

Utah Trip

We took a trip to Utah Aug 5-9. Jared's Brother Deric came home from his mission in Adelaide, Australia. It was so awesome to see him! We're very proud of all the hard work he did and know that he'll do great as he gets back into school etc. Look out ladies!

Deric also got to meet Kaylee for the first time since she was born when he was out on his mission.

One of Jared's brothers (Justin) got married that week also (we love you Talia - welcome to the family!) and so it was quite a wonderful trip being with family and enjoying time together. Between all of the boys (5 of us) being on missions at different times, it had been quite a while since we had all been together. Good times!

Here is a picture of Deric with Kaylee.

A family photo? Yeah, I know it's been a while since we did one of those...

Kaylee looking cute outside on the SLC temple grounds.

We went out to eat at Costa Vida one night with Jared's Dad, his wife Mary Ann and all of the siblings and spouses. Hmm...let's see...between us all there were 13 (and 1/2 - Kaylee's going to have another cousin!) at dinner that night. Thanks for dinner dad!

The original Thomson clan

Of course Grand pops and Meme couldn't let an opportunity to give Kaylee a gift go by...here's Kaylee with her new doggy!

We also got to take a trip out to the Provo airport and watch Jared's brother Dustin take off in a helicopter as he was teaching a student. Here we all are before take off.

One day we took a drive up Provo Canyon. It brought back lots of great memories (the place where Jared proposed to Holly)! Isn't it beautiful?

But here was the most beautiful sight...Kaylee sleeping in the car on our drive!

Just Because

I bought Holly a new camera for her birthday and gave it to her early because we're going to Utah next week and I wanted to take it with us. So we've been playing around with it trying to learn how to use it. Here are a bunch of random pictures - and of course we got some of Kaylee too.

Poor little purple flower! He's certainly seen better days...

The neighbor's palm tree across the street.

Some other random pics of Kaylee...

Kaylee saying, "Look doggy, we got some milk!"

Eddie's licking at his chops to get some!