The Park

{8.30.2010}

Since has been cooling down (it's not in the high 100's) we have been going to the park in the evening.

Stella has been loving it!

The park we go to has a dog run area and Stella will stand at the fence with her hand through trying to get he dogs to lick her.

She can go down the slide by herself and she loves swinging. 

I hope it doesn't get cold to fast so we can keep doing this.

Water

{8.21.2010}

We were invited to a birthday party for one of Stella's friends down at the fountain at the Towne Square.

We had never been down there

It is really nice and Stella loved playing in the water and chasing all the other kids there.

I grab her swimsuit thinking it still fit but once it was on I realized that she is too tall for it, oops!

Dressing Herself

{8.19.2010}

Stella decided that she didn't like the shirt she had on so she tried putting on another shirt

Well she forgets that she has a bigger head and shirts are hard to get on and off

So it got stuck and she thought it was hilarious.

I love that her bow is sticking out.

Tony's Home

{8.17.2010}

Scott's last brother came home from his mission in Minneapolis.

All 7 of the Madsen boys went on mission, and we are all excited that the last one is home.

I don't have anyone else going on a mission until my 8 year nephews turn 19, yea!!

 Tony had to hug and talk to all 10 nieces and nephews (2 were missing), his parents, all 6 brothers and 5 sister-in-laws and cousins.

 Tony & Emma

Steve being the on time guy he usually is showed up a couple minutes late :)

We are so happy Tony is home

He has now left to BYU Idaho to go to school.

In Remembrance

of my Grandpa Robert Dalton

He died 9 years ago today.

Scott, Stella and I went to his grave site.

 Me, my cousin Hannah and Grandpa

Grandpa & His mom Jesse Dalton

Things about Grandpa:

1. He LOVED to garden (i had a picture of him in his garden but I couldn't get it to load)

2. I always had 2 bags of twin pop Popsicle in freezer

(that is why we are all addicted to popsicles)

3. He wore Airwalks, that was his favorite shoe

4. He started the celebrity concert series

5. He taught at Dixie College and was loved by his students

6. He has 4 sons and 1 daughter

7. Was over 6 feet tall
8. He had a closet full of toys that were vintage when I was little
9. Had an old push lawn mower and he would let us mow his lawn every Sunday
10. Had a huge pot (i think my dad made) almost full of rubberbands

I loved my Grandpa!

Simple Amazing

...My Mom Is!

She makes so many wonderful things for Stella.

She is extremely talented and creative and I love her for that (and other things too)

My mom made this cute bird mobile to go over Stella's crib.

She used real sticks and then sewed the birds

 A little over 2 years ago Scott and I bought a high chair at the Enterprise Corn Festival

It needed to be painted but with all our moving and our crazy life it left in my mom's basement and forgot about.

Well my mom decided it would be a good time to paint it.

And she did an amazing job!

 She hand painted everything!

I love my mom

Thank you for everything Mom!

Birthday Lunch

{8.14.2010}

August and the first of September is full of Dalton Birthdays

(and 2 new baby's this year)

so my Grandma Dalton pulled as many of us together as she could to eat lunch

It was a blast hanging out with my family, of course, my Cousins and Mac and Margo.

We were trying the Peter smile but we just couldn't handle it

Family Time

{8.8.2010}

Peter got a day off school so he decided to go to his 10 year high school reunion in town

so we were able to see him for a couple of days, it was really nice!

(We missed Michelle)

We all got together for dinner on Sunday and decided that we needed to take A LOT of pictures because Dan was leaving to the U and Anna was starting Nursing School at SUU and Peter was going back to Pheonix.

Peter kept taking videos of Stella on his IPhone and would let Stella watch herself on it, she would laugh every time she went crazy on the video and she loved that she could hold the phone and look through the pictures by herself.

Know I really want an IPhone! They are so neat!

Cheese

{8.16.2010}

To get Stella to smile at pictures you just have to tell her to say cheese and she will say "eese"

and smile, but she likes to put her face up to my face and then squeeze my face.

I think it is so hilarious and cute!

We have a lot of pictures but a lot of them our blurry because she moves so much while we try and take pictures.