Introducing

Ok...this is long overdue but my sweet friend Sarah took newborn pictures of Colton and made an announcement. But we were out of town..and so now here is the announcement.

Gma and Gpa Bradshaw Visit!

Two days after we got back from Utah, Matt's parents came to Williamsburg to visit us. We did all the touristy stuff, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement, Yorktown Victory Center, Yankee Candle (got to love their fudge). Karlee loved having her grandparents here. It was fun to have them here and show them where we have been living for the last year.

 Colonial Williamsburg

Karlee loved building castles with Grandma. Grandma hardly got to rest with Karlee around. She'd constantly say, "Grandma please you play with me?"

Yorktown Victory Center

Jamestown Settlement

Karlee was so excited about the boats. She was getting very anxious because it was taking us so long to get to the boats.

Love this picture! Karlee enjoyed all the attention!!

And of course lots of stories with Grandma and Grandpa

Love this picture too! (Do you have this book memorized Grandma?)

And of course we celebrated this silly girl's birthday!

Colton's Blessing Day

Our last day in Utah we blessed Colton. It was conference Sunday so we had the blessing up at the Belcher Cabin. It was a pretty neat experience having him blessed at the cabin and just being surrounded by family members and close friends. Matt gave Colton a very sweet blessing. We felt very blessed to have so many family members come.

The Grandpas with Matt and Colton

4 Generations

4 Generations

Matt's sister Kayla and I with our babies

All the men

The whole group

Colton was blessed in the same outfit that Matt was blessed in.

Colton and his cousin Ajay that was born two weeks before Colton.

Utah/Idaho Trek

We flew back to Utah with my mom. Karlee is always excited to ride on an airplane! Or even just going to the airport makes her excited.

Colton's 1st airplane ride

We spent the majority of our time in Heber at my parents house. The weather was perfect and it was nice to have a fenced yard so Karlee could go out and play as much as she wanted.

My Aunt Judie passes away the day before Colton was born and we all inherited a few of her things. Karlee loved going through all the ornaments, dolls, bears, and other little things that my mom got from Judie. One day we went and visited my Aunt Gaylene and her family. Karlee loved the doll house my cousin Kristy got from Judie. It kept her entertained for a long time.

Karlee and Kristy playing with the doll house.

Colton and Melisa. They share a birthday!

My two burrito babies.

We went up to the Belcher cabin and had dinner and roasted marshmallows! YUM!

Eating and yummy s'more

We went and saw my uncle Dave's animals. Karlee loved the little dogs the best. She wasn't too impressed with the zebra, buffalo, or donkey.

We also spent a couple of days at Matt's brother Justin's house. Colton loved Kinley. She could get him to stop crying when no one else could.

Karlee and Crew

Kinley and Tanner with Colton. They both informed me that they wished they had one of these at their house ;)

Matt had a couple of interviews in Boise so we made a trek up to Idaho to Mountain Home to see my sister Lisa (forgot to take pictures) and then stayed a night in Meridian at Matt's brother Danny's.

Cute Ellie. I was trying to get Karlee to stand by her, but she wouldn't let me take her picture.

When we got back from Idaho my Grandma came to Utah so Colton got to meet his Great Grandma Ballard. It was so good to see her!