Over the Hill

In April, Dan turned 30!!! I had such a fun time teasing him about how old he is. Sad thing, I am not too many years away from that myself. Weird to think how young we still feel but as kids 30 was ancient.

Dan doesn't mind being publicly teased in the least bit so I had to take full advantage by throwing him a surprise birthday party.

These were the invites I mailed out to family. I have been waiting for the right opportunity for years to use this picture of him.

Daphne stayed overnight with her Aunt Nat and Uncle Mike while we went to Park City. It was the first time we left her with someone else overnight. It was a good experience for all three of us. When we arrived back in Layton I had Mike invite us to dinner and say he had coupon we could use. I knew after having spent money in Park City he wouldn't agree to spending more unless it was mostly free!

Dan was quite confused when I had to literally drag him to this weird back corner of Roosters with the curtain closed. It was fun to pull off the surprise. Most of the family were able to make it, which was great.

Pictures of all the guests:



Wouldn't be a party without our friend Mike stealing my phone to take a picture of himself

Only old farts like Tinkerbell

Wrapping up March

Just a few random pictures of March. I am not very good about printing most pictures anymore so if I at least include them here, they will end up printed in our blog book.



She went through a phase of loving to help with the dishes.



Just being cute

Had a fun play date with Karson Deaton

She especially enjoyed riding on his zebra and is now the proud owner of one herself. Silly girl loves to hold crackers in her mouth.

 Hanging out with her Uncle Rueb and Aunt Kamille. In this instance, I think she preferred the carrying methods Rueb used over Kamille.
 

St George- March 2013

Yeah, I am three months behind on blogging. I guess that is what happens after Daphne turns a year old and I stop my monthly posts. Oh well. A lot has happened since then. Hopefully I can do lots of small brief posts and get caught up so I can order another blog book!:)

Back in March, we went to St. George for the weekend to visit Dan's dad and his grandma. Daphne learned a few new tricks while we were there. She learned how to talk on the phone versus just playing with it as well as how to stand up! The second one was much more exciting. I love when Daphne learns new tricks. She is funny to watch. She was so proud of herself that she would squeal and clap her hands, look at us, in hopes we would join her, and then when we did, giggle and clap so hard that she would topple over. Such fun.

She also loved crawling over to her Grandpa's picture table and pointing out her cousin Boston's picture all day long. Guess she missed him:)

We took her to ride the Merry-Go Round, went swimming, visited Grandma Crandall, and went to Zion's while we were there.

 At Zion's, we hiked the three legs of Emerald Pools. Note, in the picture to the right, Paul pushed the stroller (or rather carried it as you could only push it through the first leg before it was mostly climbing) the whole way there and back empty. Yup. Daphne stayed with Dan the whole time! It was funny to watch Paul carry it everywhere. Not sure why he didn't even fold it up.

Second, we hiked to the beginning of the Narrows trail. This time Daphne actually used her stroller. On a side note, we ran into the Barkers from our ward during this trail. It was funny, because we had ran into them pretty much every day of our visit in the most random places. Their kids were ecstatic to see we were on the same trail as them and had to speed up to catch up to us. Small world.

Easter