Cute Abby
Abby loves when her bff Kozie comes over :)
Kozie got to spend an entire day with us and even got to eat dinner with us. These 2 girls are so cute together.
Visiting grandma Riggs (about 3 weeks before she passed away. Grandma was a little bit confused when we visited her. She was still so sweet though and even
sang along with Abby when Abby got on her bed and sang "twinkle twinkle
little star" and "you are my sunshine" with her.
I wrote in last month's blog post about Abby hurting her leg. The x-rays
didn't show a break line so her pediatrician sent us home with a
splint. Over a week later, Abby was still crying about her leg hurting,
and not using it to walk on. So we took her to an orthopedist, and they
noticed a fracture line in the x ray. They put a cast on her leg and she
was so happy about picking out PINK as the color!
Poppy (and Uncle Dan) turned 60 on the 10th of August so we got together
with our whole family and Dan's whole family to celebrate. We made it a
"decades" party and it was mostly a combination of disco and hippie!
The grandkids sang "I'm so glad when Grandpa comes home"
Almost everyone from both families! We were just missing Russ's girls, and of course Barton & Riggs too.
Davis & Abby loving the swings in the Baldwin's backyard
Life father, like daughter!
We weren't able to make it to Bahama Bucks on the last day of summer
(like we traditionally do), so we made a trip there with Suzanne and
Ellie after school on the first day.
We made a trip to St. George in mid-August to deliver Tayler's stuff for
college. We stopped the first night in Flagstaff and found the
creperie, the same place Russ and I went to when we were dating. I have
dreamed about those crepes for 6 years and was so excited to have them
again. I hate to say that they tasted better 6 years ago, but they still
looked pretty so I took pictures! We also took a family selfie to
document our stop at the creperie!
We weren't satisfied with just the crepes so we had another meal
(Mexican) down the road in Flagstaff! haha! We had a good time walking
around in nice weather and eating a few meals.
The drive to St. George was so pretty... this picture was taken out the
window as we drove, but it's so pretty that it almost looks fake!
One of our first stops in St. George was SWIG! The drinks were
delicious and the cookies were even better!
We hiked "Dixie Rock" with our swig drinks in hand...
This is the view from Dixie Rock... the St. George temple is so pretty!
Next, we walked around the temple and read about it's history. So pretty!
Not pictured: later that night we stopped by swig for the second time
that day and purchased drinks and cookies for our drive home the next
day! Yum!!
Sunday, we drove home and passed through Zion National Park on the way. It was beautiful!
We drove through a mile-long tunnel that Abby didn't love.
We also got on a shuttle bus (Abby thought it was a "city school bus"
and LOVED it)... and did a short hike to the "lower emerald pool". It
was so hot outside and felt really nice to get sprinkled by some of the
waterfalls when we made it to the destination!
(Notice the waterfall behind us!)
We stopped at the creek on our way out of the trail. Abby just sat on a rock since she couldn't get her cast wet.
This tree was huge!
Cute snacking babies! This is Abby with Kozie and her cutest baby brother, Boston.
This is just a fun screenshot I got of Russ one day as we were facetime-ing him on his way home from work. haha!
Abby takes after Noah (and her mom)... she likes to line things up.
There's a fun fondue place in Gilbert called ELF (everybody loves
fondue) and they put on a fun game during the month of August. They
would park their truck somewhere, then post on instagram, a clue about
where to find it. Every day I saw our neighbors winning the contest by
taking a picture with the truck and posting their selfies. Surprisingly,
one day I happened to be really close to where the clue pointed to, and
already in my car... so I got there (to Costco) quickly and posted my
selfie. We were the winners!
Winning got us free lunch, so as soon as Noah got home from school that day, we went and had some yummy fondue!
Sweetest cuddle bugs, both watching something on their phones.
Cute matching sisters at church!
We signed Abby's cast on a Sunday night before she got it taken off the
next morning! I was so glad to get rid of that dirty thing.
This is what her poor foot looked like when the cast came off. Moisture
had been trapped in there. It broke my heart to see this sore on Abby's
leg/foot. She babied her leg for another week and a half after this,
because now her skin was hurting. The good news that we got at the
doctor's office was that her bones were healing nicely. The skin looked
horrible on the first day but actually started to heal pretty quick.
We did a lot of visiting with grandma Riggs during her last week. It was
so sad to see her laying there looking so weak. She still knew who we
were even though she was often confused and saying things that didn't
make sense. One day when we were there, I went to give her a hug
goodbye. I said "I love you grandma" and she said back to me "I love you
too" and then said "goodbye Abby". I didn't have Abby in my arms and I
hadn't mentioned her either. Grandma had mostly been sleeping during our
whole visit. It was so sweet that she knew who I was and that Abby
belonged to me. Abby really loved to visit Grandma too, which made me
happy because when she was younger, she would have NEVER gotten close to
grandma and hugged or kissed her. I hope Grandma knew how much Abby loved her before she passed away.
This is a picture of Abby with Grandma on a different day. I had to crop
the picture because I noticed afterward that it was inappropriate...
but Abby was just so cute in the picture that I had to post it!
Russ went out of town for the last weekend of August and the kids slept in my bed. This was at night...
... and this was the next morning. I love how Noah has his arm around Abby :)
Russ made it back safely from his trip and Abby was dressed as a gymnast with an injured head!
