A cute perspective on rain

Elysa loves to clap.. especially when tons of people are clapping.

This morning Elysa woke up wanting to come in our room with us so we brought her in. The first thing Elysa likes to do is look out the window at the "woof woof ". This morning she looked out the window, stared, then looked at us all big eyed, then she started clapping. Both me and Devin looked at each other.... then it clicked.. she thought the rain was people clapping. I have to admit that's a cute perspective on rain.

Our new addition to the family

This is Bagel..

We have been looking, for fun, for a little while for a smaller dog. Elysa loves dogs and we also wanted to have a pup that we could take everywhere with us.. poor Sabaaka is just to big, even for our van! He is about 200 lbs now ! When I'd first got him they said he'd be maybe 100 lbs tops.. that was 5 years ago.. crazy that he's 5 now. Anyways we researched alot on different small breeds of dogs we like such as: Yorkie, Carkie, Irish Terrier, Fox Terrier. Then we found beagles. We started reading up on them and found that it was the perfect breed for us. We hunt and they are good hunters, they are really good with kids, they are friendly, travel well, and aren't to big but they aren't to small either. We decided down the road we'd just have to get one then we saw this little guy and he was in Logan and we just fell in love with him and decided... why not now? Elysa loves playing with little dogs and he would make the perfect family dog.

First night we took him home Elysa couldn't stop smiling at him and she kept folding her arms and patting them, that means "loves" in her little sign language. It was so darn cute. She kept chasing him around the house and tried giving him hugs but as soon as she'd get her face close to his, his little tongue would attack her face.

We went out and got him a little crate and all the necessities, we've decided to have him mostly inside. Last night I was quite surprised, the last time I had a little puppy he yelped all night long and needed all the lights on, this little guy slept peacefully all night long and didn't mind only having a night light by his bed. Today he road around with Devin at work and then went to the park with me and Elysa.. busy day so far for a little guy.

We introduced him to Saabaka, he is the size of Saabaka's foot! But Saabaka couldn't stop wagging his tail and kept sniffing Bagel out. It was way too cute.

We love this little guy and are excited for him to be with our family and we can't wait for him to go everywhere with us. This weekend he'll experience camping!

Elysa Birthday, Celebrate America show, Real Salt Lake soccer game

So as you can tell from the title alot has happened that I am SO far behind on . Here are the pictures I promised from Elysa's birthday:

This little rider toy she got was the best thing ever. It also turns into a walker and she became a pro walker from walking around with it. Altho now she is FAST and we have to actually run after her now when she gets away haha.
Our spray painted yellow hat for the "Man in the yellow hat" haha.

My monkey cakes I creatively made. It was actually really fun and i'm sorta glad all the cake decorators in logan are lame.

The beginning of September is the Celebrate America Show. My mom is the marketing manager for it so we get invited to go ever year. You get delicious food and a great show for $50 a person BUT since my mom is incharge we usually get to go for free :). This year I put together the Celebrate America Show's website so we got to go for free for doing that. If you wanna check it out go to www.celebrateamericashow.com

After the show they always have a dance for couples.. there are some amazing dancers out there and it has inspired me and Devin to try and take some couples dance classes this winter since the soccer arena is gone.. maybe it's a good thing because it will give us a chance to try new things this winter.. altho I'm still going to miss indoor.

Last Saturday, September 12, we got tickets to the Real soccer game. We haven't been once this year so we were really wanting to go. We invited Devin's bro and mom to come with since they love soccer as much as we do haha.. nice to have soccer buddies..

It was a way fun game to watch. It was very intense to the end the score was 1-1. This was Elysa's first Real SLC game and she LOVED it.. whenever anyone clapped and cheered she'd clap and cheer.. if they booed she'd start booing.. it was so cute to watch her.. she was so good the whole time too.

What a fun way to end the summer. I am just sad summer is gone, I love the warmth. But I am way excited for building snowmans with Elysa and sleding.