Happy Birthday Amaya!

Where did the time go? My baby girl is "FREE!" 

Waiting for the party-goers to show up.

Amaya decided that she wanted a "Tangled" cake. (No, I did not make that. I wish!)

I can't believe how big she is!

Amaya got her very own Rapunzel doll. She calls her "Taneled" :)

Amaya,

My goodness, I can't believe you are already three! Even though you always remind me that you are a "big girl", you will always be my baby girl :) It is so fun to watch you learn and grow and watch your personality bloom. You are such a kind, sweet girl. You are a little mommy at our house and make sure everyone is happy and doing okay--including mom and dad. Thank you for taking such good care of me and your sister and helping your dad when I was sick. You have such perfect faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus. I love to hear you pray and I love when you tell me what you learned about at nursery and sing Primary songs. You are a wonderful sister to Oaklie and always try to include her and help her learn new things. Thank you for being a good example to her and everyone around you. We love you so much and are so happy we get to be your parents!

Love,

Mom and Dad

Relay for Life

Emily and I had such a great time at Relay for Life in Rexburg that we decided to put together a team for the Idaho Falls Relay.

Survivor Ceremony--Me, Oaklie, and Grandpa Baxter (Dallas' grandpa--also had cancer)

Seeing so many people in purple "Survivor" shirts is so inspiring!

(Sidenote: My chemo makes my eyes super sensitive to the light, so any picture taken outside without sunglasses I look like I have two lazy eyes)

Amaya, Hailey, me, and Mom

Olavesons

(Younger) Clarks

Clarks

The family. Relay for life goes ALL NIGHT LONG (6 pm to 7 am) It was a long, wet, cold, fun night.

Our luminary bags

Kory and Hailey were the troopers who stayed all night with us.

CHEEZE!

The Abrams

Tiffany stayed all night as well.

July Part 1

Riding horses at the grandparents.

Dallas is pretending to be a dog. He is such a punk about taking pictures!

Oaklie and Papa

The (younger) Clarks

We went out to Menan again this year for softball. This was our fifth, count it, FIFTH year out at Menan together. Makes me feel crazy old to say that....Independence Day is still the only holiday Dallas has never missed. 

Warming up...

"We're number three! We're number three!" They even won a watermelon!

Amaya and Oaklie did awesome. They were so good all day in the hot, hot sun. We got there around 8:30 am and left at 7:00 pm. When we finally got home, we just crashed. Lame married people, we didn't even stay for the fireworks.

After Independance Day, we went to Bear Lake for the Abrams Family Reunion. It was so fun I forget to take pictures until the last day! 

Amaya's proud moment of the trip: (in sing song voice), "Mom! I pee in the SAND!!!!"

Football

Some cousin loving in the tub before we headed home.

The ride home (we got to take one of our cute nieces back with us)

Crazy girls

Dallas and Oaklie both PASSED OUT. Like father, like daughter.