A Morales Minute

Have you seen the episode of Modern Family where Phil gets the iPad for his birthday? Well, on the iPad there's an app with a birthday cake and candles you can actually blow out. We have it on our iPad so when Aidan woke up, the girls and I walked into his room singing Happy Birthday with this picture of a cake and flickering candles. Aidan was "blowing" out the candles all day. I'd say he was practicing for the "real deal." See this, sheer excitement on this boy's face. He feels so special.  BLOW! YUMMO! Tools, every guy has to have tools! He's a guy now that he's two right? Aahhh, the PLANE! He loves this Furreal bear and how it makes sounds and moves. He likes to hug and carry it around. He even got an electric drill and already knows how to use it. Happy Birthday Aidan! He's no longer a baby.  Definitely a toddler. He totally enjoyed his birthday. He was so excited about his cake with the airplane on it...

She's in first grade now. She's definitely taller and more independent and really, A LOT of help at home. I miss her help. She's already noticed that there's more work and less play in first grade. :) The other night I put Tyler in the jumperoo to keep in occupied while I got stuff done. After a while I realized it was so quite. This is what I found... And this is how he woke up to hearing the camera. He's the only one of ours to ever fall asleep somewhere odd. You hear about kids falling asleep in high chairs or in their plate of food on the table, ours...nuh uh. This was a first for us. I thought it was adorable. I felt bad when he woke though.

The Flavel House This is the same jail used in the movie Goonies. The girls enjoyed going to the "Goonies Museum." I always know when the end of Summer is coming to an end. We always take our annual trip to the Oregon Coast about then. We had a great time and enjoyed the nice weather. That isn't usually the norm when we are there.

HAPPY 4TH! We celebrated by having Nerf Wars while my brother was visiting Had a bbq celebrating the holiday as well as Darin's b-day. Happy birthday Darin. I know this was a month ago but I was looking at pictures and realized that I hadn't posted any of them from this...Happy 4th even though it's late.

We had our family reunion on my Dad's side a couple weeks ago. We rented a cabin in Island Park. It was right on the river, beautiful scenery and up close to animals. We went to my old college stompin' grounds at BYUI in Rexburg, we went to Yellowstone, went shopping, went canoeing, rode paddle boats, played in the river, we had lots of food and snacks, played games, stayed up late, had a Nerf gun war, and enjoyed visiting with everyone. I haven't been to Rexburg in 7 1/2 years and it has changed so much. Campus has gotten a lot bigger, there's a lot more apartments, there are two new church buildings and right next to the temple that wasn't there when I was there either. It's beautiful. Aidan walking on campus like he belongs there. This moose walked right up next to our cabin. We had only been there maybe an hour. So it was a good way to start the visit. These are the falls in Yellowstone National Park. The girls LOVE waterfalls! Looking at some hot springs......