Brady, Laurel, Paisley, and Beckett

Brady, Paisley, and I have had a crazy summer trying to fit so many things in before moving to Pittsburgh! Family, friends, and ward parties were a blast and we already miss EVERYONE! I went back to work full time, finished all the course work for my masters, and Brady graduated from Weber State. It was very busy, but now we are in Pittsburgh I am so grateful we made so many memories. Now I am staying at home with Paisley, Brady has started school, and life has made a 180, but we are loving our home, his school, our new neighbors, and ward. It will be a lot of fun the next 4 years. (Pictures on the way of our adventure since being in Pittsburgh our first week.)

The Elders Quorem threw us a going away party and we ate barbeque turkey (a first one for me and really good) and then swam with Paisley til exhaustion! They had the cutest floating device and Paisley sat in it the whole time. Her smile above shows her excitement perfectly. She just laughed the entire time she sat in it.

Here are some of my best friends I have met through marriage. They married Brady's high school friends and I couldn't have picked better friends. We had fun having a few baby showers this summer and it is the best to all have children within a year!

These girls have been some of my best friends since 1 year old. It was fun to have a bridal shower and baby shower for two of them too. One other baby on the way so I am excited for another baby shower!

It was so great to spend time with the in-laws and everyone was so supportive and loving!

We are going to miss all of our nephews and neices especially for Paisley to not be able to play with them, they are all so sweet with her.

Paisley has started eating baby food and rice cereal this summer and LOVES it! She thinks she needs to feed herself and she ends up looking like below:

Brady's uncle and aunt got back from being over the Montana mission last month and we got to go hear them speak and see family before moving. This is Brady, his mom Leslie, and me.

Brady with his Grandpa Fisher.Brady with his Grandma Fisher.

Kurt is such a good grandpa. He is always with the kids and he can go hours on Sundays just entertaining them.

Paisley and her Great Grandpa Fisher.

Paisley and her Great Grandma Fisher.

Our awesome friends threw us a going away pool party with good food. It was sad to say goodbye, but a lot of fun with all the children and the swimming.

This is a picture of Paisley right before she got her cast off. Her smile seems as if she knows what is coming.

It is hard to tell in this picutre, but her arm and fingers were so swollen and red. Her finger nails were also so long! She would rub her arm over things to itch it. Now weeks later it is looking right back to normal and her thumb looks great.

When Brady and I went to Pittsbugh to buy a house, I had a breakdown about the age and condition of the homes and nonetheless we decided to not buy a house. We ended up finding a great rowhouse (townhouse) to rent. The first time we walked through I thought it was livable and Brady was disgusted. We asked the owners about any future updates that were planned and declined renting it after hearing none. After driving/crying around Pittsburgh the rest of the day without any clue if we would buy/rent or where to look, our prayers were answered. They agreed to replace all the carpet, repaint everything, and clean it to look much better. We were nervous to see if the would live up to their end of the agreement, but when we arrived we were so grateful. It is a great little home for us for the next 4 plus years. Pictures will come once everything is in order. It is old and has it's flaws, but it is so much better than most places we have seen. Well anyways now to explain the picture above, since Brady and I had come to Pittsburgh for 6 days and signed a lease on day 2, we had a lot of time to kill. Plane tickets were too expensive to switch to and it would be $800 more to drive the rental car to Utah! (Can you tell we wanted to get back to Paisley?) Anyways we decided to go to Kirtland and visit Brady's mission in Coilumbus. It was so much fun and we got to go to the first Sunday in a church that was announced to be built the last day of Brady's mission. Brady said we could go see the Columbus Temple or the Horseshoe (Ohio State's Football Field) and of course the football field won out. That is Brady in front of the enormous place!

Here is a picture of Brady and I at the Newell K Whitney store in Kirtland. It was so amazing to be in rooms Joseph Smith wrote scripture and lived in. It was sad to see the condition of the temple since the reorganized church owns it and hasn't taken as good of care of it knowing how the church cares for temples, but it was amazing to see church history.

I had to get a picture of Paisley's favorite thing in the whole world! She can bounce in this for over an hour straight! It is such a great babysitter ; ). Now that she has her cast off, she keeps her right arm in the air as if she is a bull rider, it is hilarious! She just bounces and laughs all while watching me or the t.v.

We went camping with the Mock's and were so lucky to use my Grandma's trailer instead of staying in a tent with Paisley. Unfortunately I am so bad at taking pictures and this is the only one we have.

Again, this is the only picture we have from the 4th of July weekend. We went to Idaho Falls and spent time with my sister and her family.

We had such a fun summer and we are grateful for all the time we could spend with family and friends. Everyone went to so much effort in our benefit with parties and other things especially with moving. Thank you to everyone, we miss you all already, and we will be back "home" in Utah for Christmas. Until then I will do my best to get pictures on the blog of Paisley for family and friends in the West.