Tessa's 1 year old

Tessa turned one on Aug 23. Still can't believe my baby is one! We had a tiny party for her. I got the idea on a blog I follow. It was fun. We had tiny hamburgers and hot dogs, tiny bow tie pasta salad, tiny drinks, tiny chips, tiny fruit skewers, tiny donuts, tiny cakes, tiny brownies, tiny gummy bears, tiny goldfish, tiny m&m's, tiny lollipops, and tiny oreos. And we had a tiny pony come at the end of the party! It was lots of fun.

Katie let me have it in her backyard. I wanted to hang these on a tree and I don't have a tree in my backyard..well at least like this one!

Tessa had NO hesitations in digging in. I put it down and her hands went for it!

Tallie sucking on a tiny lollipop.

Ethan and Claire are Tessa's cousins who we are SO glad moved back to Utah.

One dad and one of our tiny guests!

Rose drinking a tiny apple juice.

Couldn't get a smile.

Tessa LOVED the pony. Laughed the minute we put her on till she got off. I love this little girl so much. She has so much personality just like my other two. She is a good baby but very vocal if there is something she wants or if she is upset about something. She is constantly moving. She has the biggest smile and loves to be chased. I am so glad she is part of our family.

SUMMER FUN

Watch out Tessa he will SHOOT!

Tessa absolutely LOVES the water.

These guys really do love each other!

I get this face at least once a day.

My little acrobat.

This summer we got a table for outside and that is their new favorite place to eat every single meal. Yummy.

LOVELY VISIT

One of my dearest friends came to visit from Idaho! Our kids are relatively the same ages so it was tons of fun. Good food, good laughs, water fun, birthday celebrations, and a failed attempt at a sleep over (we tried, right Lissa!)

We got the pool out for some summer fun.

I love this girl!

Owen and Camden really hit it off. Owen cried when Camden had to leave..so did his mom!

Lissa and I were just dying to know what they were talking about.

Jace man is so cute..look at those eyes!

Ella loves to give hugs!

Lissa celebrated my birthday with me. This was my gift from Blake...so exciting!

FRANCE

WARNING: LOTS OF PICTURES IN THIS POST

We had the opportunity to go to the south of France in June with my two sisters and their husbands. It was so nice to spend some time with them...we have never all been on vacation together and it was great!

This is the island of Porquerolles. We rented mountain bikes and biked the entire island. This is one of the cliffs we came to.

AHHHH how I miss the pastries. Ate one almost every day!



This is the view of the ocean from our villa we were staying in.

This is one of the beaches on the island we biked around.

This is another beach we made it to on the island. Isn't it great.

This is in Italy. St Remos to be exact. I absolutely loved all the streets. Although this particular town was a bit dirty.

On the way home from Italy we stopped in Monaco. WOW the money that is there. Very expensive cars line the streets!! And yes, this is how most of my pictures with Blake turn out!



In Italy we HAD to have pizza. This is the pizzeria we stopped at and we loved our server.

I absolutely love this picture because it shows Blake's REAL smile!




This is the oven in which they cooked the pizzas!

Can't see this in America.

This picture was taken in St. Tropez. We had a great dinner there.


This is the entrance to our villa and exactly what I pictured France to be.

We had a boules court at our villa and we all played some games. It was girls against boys and the boys won. We are a competitive bunch of girls and we were not happy about it.

A serious game going on.

Rolling out the court before playing.

This is was at the bottom of our villa. You had to walk down some stairs and then there was some rocks you could jump off and go swimming or you could walk over to an actual sand beach.

This was in Nice the first day we arrived.

This was Nice as well.