Aria's 1st Birthday

As I was looking through these photos, I just couldn't believe how much she has grown in just a year!  It feels like she was just a tiny bundle not that long ago.

The story behind the following pictures: I told Myla I had to take Aria's birthday pictures, and she said, "I didn't take my birthday pictures on my birthday!"  So she grabbed her quilt and wanted to sit on a chair like Aria and take pictures with her.  Also, I told myself I'd never be the mom to have my children wear matching clothes, but Myla has been in a matching phase where she wants to wear either what I'm wearing or what Aria is wearing.  So here they are in matching outfits.

Do they look like sisters? Hahahaha.  Look how white Myla is.

Laughing because "Aria's face is so big!" I guess she hasn't seen her face next to Aria's.

And of course she had to take a picture with the umbrella, and who knows why.

Visit to Utah and First Balloon Fiesta

This post is mostly a bunch of pictures from the past two weekends, and because I haven't posted anything for quite a while.

Utah Visit

We got to go back to Utah the first week of October because Robert went to BYU for recruiting for his job, so we decided to make it a family trip.

One place we went to while in Utah was Gardener Village and we got to see all of the witch decorations.  Myla was all about taking pictures with the witches.

This was right before Aria grabbed the llama's ear.  He was not too happy about that.  Oops.

Awkward poses all around.

We also got to go to Jaker's Pumpkin Patch.

Pretty sure my mom (top right corner) was having more fun in the corn than Aria.

Aria did not love the corn at first.  She did wake up in the middle of her nap too, which adds to her unhappiness.

Apparently when you're supposed to make silly faces when you do these things.

My friend pointed out how the horse perfectly frames that family... 

Myla was the maze leader.  She lead us straight back out the entrance.

And then a couple of pictures of Aria with my dad, just because I don't really have any pictures of him with the girls.  He also was doing some magic tricks for Myla, and she loved it!

International Balloon Fiesta
We got to experience the famous International Balloon Fiesta here in Albuquerque, and it was actually pretty fun.  We didn't do any of the balloon chasing that add to the experience, but it was cool to see hundreds of balloons up in the sky every morning.  We went to Glowdeo Thursday night at the park, which is where the special shapes balloons are tethered to the ground and they shoot out flames every once in a while, which creates the glow affect.  The kids can go around to each basket and collect cards, so Myla got a few cards.  Later in the evening they had a little laser show, along with fireworks.  Aria was mesmerized with the fireworks!

The balloons starting to get blown up

Kinda dark, but that's supposed to be Spider Pig.

We then went to Mass Ascension Saturday morning with Robert's family, and that was a sight to behold!  The pictures don't even do it justice.

We also celebrated Aria's birthday a little early while Robert's family was in town, and what's a fall birthday without pumpkin pie as the birthday cake?