6 months old?!?!?!? Where does the time go?

Shaelynn Noel Church.......can it really have been a half a year since she was born?
We love her big ol' grins.....

She loves to chew on anything she can reach.......and she has a pretty good reach.....:)

She loves to watch this little dog "walk" around (there's a video at the end) and chew on his ears

I put her on the floor in the living room with cartoons on while I was cleaning and I came back to find Austin had joined her! They almost look like they are having a little conversation! So cute!

Austin loves his baby sister so much....he has a knack for making her laugh....

She even lets him hold her and kiss her.......for a minute.....

She loves the grass.....I have a hard time getting her to look at me while she's sitting on it!

I love dresssing her up for church on Sundays.....

She is such a pretty little thing! I keep thinking she is still so little, but I saw a younger baby in church and realized how big she really is.....I wish she'd be a baby FOREVER.....However.....for her age.....she is still "little"......these are newborn shoes that she wore last Sunday.....they barely fit....but they were so cute.....so I guess for 6 months old she is still tiny!

Some things she loves are:

Being held...

Music/singing...

Eating (she'd probably nurse 24/7)

Chewing on her toys ( or anything for that matter)

Other babies....

Looking at herself in the mirror (this is a surefire way to get her to stop crying)

Her brothers and sister.....

Swinging....

Oh, and did I mention being held? Good thing I have helpers....

Baths....

*She HATES weeding....even if I'm holding her.....or she's sitting in a stroller with toys....or whatever.....she hates it when I weed! I wonder what my neighbors think 'cause she always screams when I'm weeding in the garden! I try and do it when she's sleeping now! :)

We love this little girl so much...and are so blessed to have her in our family!!!

This is a video of Shaelynn getting so excited about this little walking dog! She kicks her feet like crazy when she gets excited!!!

Hiking at Zion's!

Father's Day Weekend meant free entrance into Zion National Park! Yea!!! We like free days!
Austin was getting so excited and pointing up at the mountains he saw out the sun roof!

We rode the shuttle bus.....to Springdale?!?!? We got on the wrong one! So then we got off and caught another one back to the entrance and then found the one that goes up the canyon to the hiking areas!

We're ready to go hiking! We did the lower Emerald Pools Hike! Our friends the Corry's came too!

This is Mikelle and Braeden holding hands....I thought it was cute! They said, "We're stickin' together!"

The whole group!

I don't get in too many pictures 'cause I'm usually behind the camera....so I decided I better post this one so you all know that I do the fun stuff too! :)

Braeden, Tyler, Jayla, and Mikelle posing up on a rock for another picture!

I thought this was really pretty......you can hardly see our little group on the bridge, but the scenery is gorgeous!

"We made it! " The kids loved hiking....and it was a little cloudy which made the weather perfect!

Playing in the grass and sand down by the lodge while we waited for another shuttle bus to take us back to the car! Good times!!!

Summer is already busy, busy, busy.....

We have already had 2 reunions this year (actually 3, but 2 of them were on the same weekend so we didn't make it to both)! I didn't have my camera at the Keith Church Reunion on Cedar Mountain....but we had a lot of fun (Thanks to Jake and Ana for putting it together)! These first 2 pics are at the Heber Valley Camp where we had our Steiner Reunion....I know....I had my camera this time and I only took 2 pictures.....I'll do better when I don't have a baby attached to me! :)
Austin and Mikelle on the bunk beds in the cabin where Tyler and Mikelle slept!

Grandpa and Austin trying out the air mattresses! We had lots of fun! Thanks Grandma Lauri for planning such a great reunion!

Shaelynn is starting to sit up on her own a little now. She does the best out on the lawn where she anchors herself by holding on to the grass!

We all love playing out in the yard is this great weather! Yea!!!

Mikelle sporting her headbands that she has to wear now so she looks like a girl! Lol!

Little cutie!

Soooo tired.....she fell asleep in the Bumbo chair......it looks so uncomfortable!

We love this chair.....she can sit anywhere and not fall over! It's great!

I made this flower before Shaelynn was even born and I thought it was so cute.....I had to take pictures 'cause this is the first time she has worn it! I was excited to find an outfit that had yellow in it! :) Isn't she so pretty?

We love this little girl's smiles...they are so big and so contagious....she gets excited with her whole body and almost jumps right out of her chair or your arms or wherever she is! It is so funny!

Gardening is so much fun....and so much work!!!

The onions are lookin' good! Also there are little green onions and carrots on either side of the onions that are just starting to sprout! Yea!!! (I know.....I need to weed, but my garden is HUGE I'd need an army to have all the weeds gone every day!)

My beans are doing well.....we even have a few that are ready to be picked! You can also see the peppers in the background!

Austin is showing you the peas....we have two different varieties and the taller ones are almost as tall as he is! I saw one pea pod on there today and they are starting to get some more blossoms! I love peas!

We planted some pumpkin seeds so we wouldn't have to buy any for Halloween.....little did we know they would do so well! This is the biggest of the 8 plants....I'm actually pretty excited about our own little pumpkin patch! :)

Here are some yellow sqash plants (we have lots of these....I'm sure we will be giving it away)!

One of our early girl tomato plants already has a tomato on it! :)

Strawberries.....we have already had a dozen of them.....Austin likes to pick them and eat 'em whether they are ripe or not....we are working on this problem :) The raspberry starts are in the back!

Here is the grapevine that was already here when we moved in (we didn't even know it was there until last year 'cause it looked so dead, but with a little water and weeding it is looking great and even more productive than last year!

This is a view of the whole garden and also a corner of the grass where we just put seed down this year! Daniel has mowed it once and we think it is doing pretty good! Our back yard is very long....the front half is grass and the back half is garden! We definitely have our work cut out for us! Some of the other things we have planted that are not pictured are: Watermelon, canteloupe, spaghetti squash, zuchini squash, red peppers, chile peppers, jalapeno peppers, spinach, and bok choy(for those of you that don't what that is...it kinda reminds me of celery...very yummy) and I still plan on planting some radishes, lettuce, cilantro, basil, dill, mint, and picking up some cucumber starts to plant! I better hurry! :)

Austin loves to play on the swingset.....he pretty much loves anything outdoors just like any other kid his age!

This pic wasn't that great, but I just couldn't leave Austin holding the baby long enough to get a great shot! But I had to show that these are my helpers in the garden.....Austin likes to help weed and does a pretty good job, and Shaelynn just wants to go wherever I am going and makes it more of a challenge to figure out how to do things one handed! We have lots of fun! :)