cousin fun.

we got to spend an evening with the ayers.

[cheryl and john were in town for william and stephenie's new baby.]

clearly you can see everyone had so much fun!

utah trip. {easters.}

we got to spend easter in utah.  

we got to go to the walter family party on saturday.  emery got her first easter basket.  and we loved seeing everybody! 

on sunday we enjoyed going to church, having maria and ellice, and some of the johnsons over for dinner.  

utah trip. {byu}

we decided to take emery and give her a byu campus tour.  

figured she might as well grow to love it already...

we had fun spending the morning with uncle addison. 

then we headed down to visit (meet) great grandma and grandpa eliason while we were in utah county.

utah trip. {april}

byu picnic. // flower from grandpa.

all the attention. 

new swimsuit. // shopping with grandma.

meeting baby porter.

a little light reading. // the family childhood chair. 

great grandma and grandpa walter.

visiting great grandma johnson at "work". // visits with grandpa downtown.

derek had a trip for work in utah in april.  of course, we decided to join him. 

we had so much fun visiting our family and friends.  

emery got spoiled and so much attention. 

we love visiting utah!

all the spring tulips.

every time i think of tulips i think of that stupid joke that i only know the punch line for, "my two-lips!"  

but, the tulips at the arboretum this year did not disappoint.  it was fun having family in town to go with us!

technology ftw.

here's why we love technology...

[side note:  "ftw" means "for the win".  because you're totally going to forget 5 years from now.]

1.  we still get to participate in sunday family game night.  

2.  emery gets to meet her great-grandparents.

3.  facebook live has changed family history.  

monthly broadcasts from grandparents mean all sorts of good family stories!

4.  babysitting! [i wish.]

5.  facetime is often our best family photos.

a walter christmas.

my family was able to come down to spend christmas with us.  

it was a fabulous [warm] texas christmas. 

 we spent a night in downtown grapevine looking at the lights.  

matching pjs for us all.

somebody was a little spoiled...

but the absolute best part was making our family music video.  

i told them it was the tradition i wanted to start.  

they delivered. 

[watch it here.]

other things of note...

 tennis on christmas eve.  in t-shirts. // mommas holding babies holding babies.

little ems is so loved.  // grandma, grandpa, & uncle add. 

we love having visitors.