Happy Cinco De Mayo

Although Stella refers to this as her "Jessie" hat (Toy Story). 

:)

Easter 2013

Stella loved Easter this year!!

We've been practicing finding eggs for about a month

every time we went to my grandparents this past month

Stella would make me hide all her decorative eggs

and then she'd hunt for them

So by the time the real thing rolled around....we were ready.

We had a big Easter Egg Hunt at Mindy's house

Stella found one of the $5 eggs all on her own

I literally didn't see it.

It was way low....so being short paid off for her!

This is my favorite shot of Stella in her Easter dress

She was giving a dirty look to Brooke

(don't mind all the treasures in the background...

my mom went a little crazy with the Easter baskets this year...

Jordan actually ended up asking

"What holiday is it again? Christmas?")

The Easter Bunny came to our house and hid more eggs

Gotta love the bedhead hair

She got many other surprises in her basket

a  princess crown

books

 pjs

a doll

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

lucky number seven

these two crazy cats have been married for 7 years now

and is it just me or does that sound like a long time?

we got married 2/17/06

which is obvious right next to valentines day

and it usually falls on the three day weekend

so we get to celebrate for a few days

andrew arranged with his bro-in-law to go up to his cabin near sundance

we had so much fun

this picture was taken saturday morning,

but when we got there friday night it was dark and we had to haul all our stuff

through the deep snow to even get to the door

it was fun

 the cabin was so cozy--eventually

when we first got there it was 50 degrees

so we had to wear our coats while it warmed up

friday night we watched movies and enjoyed that fact

that my parents were watching stella for us

on saturday, we went down to tucanos and used my free birthday meal

then we went and saw 'the impossible' 

and later that night we used free tickets (that i had gotten at the mall last week)

 to go to the byu basketball game

sunday we drove to park city 

it was freezing

we went shopping at the outlets

then drove home to get stella

i'm looking forward to another exciting year

with my hubby, my partner, my pal

Sierra's Tree

We went to the Festival of Trees

We haven't been in years

and I really enjoy looking at all the trees and hearing the stories

 

This is Sierra's tree.

It was so pretty and so special.

I was an utter mess when we finally got to it.

 

Cornbellys and Halloween Night

For family night last week, we took Stella and Zander to Cornbellys

Most of pictures turned out too blurry because the kids couldn't hold still

There was too much fun to be had

We made the dads take the kids on the bucket train.

It was a fun night.

Stella dressed up as a fairy for Halloween

but she kept saying she was a princess with princess wings

whatever she was...she was cute.

So cute in fact

that I had to run to Cabelas on Halloween

to pick up something last minute for Andrew's hunting trip

and Cabelas was having a Halloween Costume Photo Contest

I almost didn't do it

but last minute I had them take a pic of Stella.

And two days later we got a phone call....

Stella won 1st place!

haha

The prize is definitely one she's dying for.

A $50 gift card to Cabelas.

(Merry Christmas Daddy, I guess)

Stella and Jersey went trick or treating at Grandmas

Finn was Mickey Mouse

and also had skeleton jammies that he was wearing at this point of the night

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!!

Happy Birthday America!!

We celebrated the 4th of July all day long.

First, Darren and Jenny brought their kids over to swim with us

Then we went to my mom's house for a BBQ and more swimming

Then we went to Stadium of Fire with my family.

Stella LOVED all of it.

She wanted to sit on my mom's lap the whole time.

It may or may not have been becasue

she was feeding her treats the entire time.

Me, Andrew, Kyle, and Brooke

My hair looks nasty in this pic

Hope it wasn't that bad in real life

Jersey's face kills me in this shot :)

These 3 girls had so fun together!

Stella enjoying treats and the Beach Boys.

We taught Stella the song Barbara Ann a long time ago.

She loves to sing the "ba ba ba" part.

She was so excited when she heard it live in the stadium.

We're Proud to be Americans!

Let's Celebrate Dads

Last Bit of Easter

Ballantyne Family Easter Party

Stella's feet did not touch the ground on this bike

but she really wanted to be able to ride it

so we took turns pushing her.

 Jersey coloring eggs

Kaylee and Brylee

Getting ready to go on the Easter Egg Hunt

Our first egg!

Getting the hang of it 

Pro

The girls with their loots

Easter Morning

What did the Easter Bunny bring?

New Easter Dress

Andrew gets a D+ for Easter morning photos.

Blurry and not looking at the camera.

Dibb Easter Party 2012

Here is Zander and Parker eating lunch.

Mindy was on the ground picking something up

and peeked up just in time for the shot.

 Parker and Joanna

Kennedy

Let the games begin...

The girls won!

All the grandkids (minus 3 1/2 in Australia and 1 at college)

A hunting we will go...

Stella found 2!

Parker

Kassidy

Darian

Hannah

Joanna

Suzanna and her friend

Zander

Nick

Breanna and Kayla

Nick, Gavin and Kooper

Gavin

Jonathon and a weird arm thing he had going on

Koop found the first silver piece

(worth about $15)

Koy looked hard for the 2nd silver piece

(worth about $33)

When Zander figured out his eggs were filled with candy

all he wanted to do was sit and eat it.

The photographers

(side note: I just realized I missed pictures of

Connor and Kennedy with their egg stash...dang it!  So close to perfect.)

The hunt for the 2nd silver piece took well over an hour

and things got a little crazy

But the winner was Makayla!!

The silver was hidden up in the lawn mower

By the way, Kayla wins every year.

Probably due to her mom

spying on Mindy and Brian's conversations

and begging for clues and hints from them. :) haha

Wishing you a

Happy Easter

from the Dibb Family!!!