Tons of randomness!!!

So I havn't posted in forever I know so here is a ton of random pics from adventures we have had from this summer. Hopefully this updates you a little on what we have been doing. Hope everyone is doing well!

McKenna got a haircut! Her hair was a million different layers and the end was all scraggely so I cut it off a couple weeks ago and it looks so much better and thicker. It was fun.

Travis got to go to Alaska this summer with my dad and my brother to go King Salmon fishing! He loved it and had tons of fun. Here are just a few pics from that. Thanks for taking him dad he loved it! (And I love the fish!)

So for my birthday this year Travis got me a 4 wheeler so now we have two so we can go with the whole family. It's tons of fun and the girls love it! I think McKenna looks like a motorcycle cop in her helmet and glasses. I love it. We just strap Maddie in the backpack with her little helmet and go all over. Every once in a while Maddie lets out a little "woo hoo" it's hilarious. We can go for miles and they both just think it's the funnest thing ever. So we have gone a quite a few times this summer. Here are just a few pics. McKenna loves riding with her cousin Grace on Grace's little 50.

My dad has been wanting me to put some pictures on here of how my lawn is doing and I finally am! So here you go dad. It's doing pretty good. Hopefully it just keeps getting better! It seems like all I ever do when I am home is work on my yard. Moving water, weeding, picking beans, not to mention I have 52 trees that I have to water by hand every day. Oh well, it is sure paying off!

My garden! I love the corn it's so yummy!

Hope everyone enjoyed the little update. I will try to do better!

Girls!

So a couple of weeks ago my friend Erica and her kids got to come and visit. It was tons of fun. It's really fun because Erica and I have pictures of us at the same age that our girls are. It's really fun that we have girls that can play and have fun together. They got to go to Build a Bear and shopping and played in McKenna's pool and play with toys and all kinds of stuff. McKenna loved having a friend (most of the time). We miss them tons!



Hopefully Hailey and McKenna will still be friends when they are as old as me and Erica! Thanks for coming guys!

Little Miss Maddie.....

So my sister Stacey said that I always post about McKenna and not very many things about Madison. So here is a post just for Maddie. She will be 10 months old on the 2nd and is growing like a weed! She weighs over 20 pounds (you can't tell by the cheeks can ya), has two teeth on the bottom and is getting two more on top. Her hair is super curly and I love it! I hope it stays tha way. So far it just keeps getting curlier and curlier.

She sits up really well and is trying really hard to crawl. She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth and can scoot backwards, but she has yet to perfect the forward motion.

Madison is saying a few words these days. She says Dad and Mom and thank you and stop and baba and she calls McKenna Nnna. It's pretty cute.

She loves playing with her toes. They are the best toy that we have. And if you put socks on her you can bet in two seconds she will have them off so she can play with her toes.

This face cracks me up. When she thinks something is funny she crinkles up her nose and laughs. She is hilarious. She has a really fun personality. She is very easy going and just likes to hang out. McKenna always had a real high pitched girly voice and Madison has kind of a smoker voice. It's a little lower and raspy. I love it!
But she definitely loves her sister. They have so much fun together. I'm glad they both like each other. McKenna can make Maddie laugh like no one else. They are way fun to watch together.

My big opportunity!

So last weekend while we were in Utah, I had an amazing opportunity. I went to a LDS music workshop. Most of you know that I had written country songs and had the opportunity to sing back in the day and passed it up to go on a mission. Well since I have been home I have written quite a few church songs and now want to really get into that. So I went to this workshop that was put on by Jenny Phillips and Tyler Castleton (both very prominent in LDS music industry) and tons of other prominent people such as Hilary Weeks, Peter Breinholt, Mercy River, Staci Peters, and more. Anywho, while I was there I got to talk to Bob Ahlander who is the head of Deseret Book Music. He is the head of there label and manager for some artists. I was able to give him a demo CD and in the process he gave me a way to get a hold of him directly and said to follow up with him in a month. Also at this workshop they talked about having an e-mail fan club and that labels look to see how many people you have when they are looking to sign you. So I guess I need everyone's help to sign up for my new little fan club. Hopefully I will have a website realatively soon, but for now please just send a response to stephaniehillman@gmail.com. Once you join I will send you a free song and you will get monthly updates on what is going on. Also if you are interested in booking a fireside with me also just send a request to that address. Thanks for everyone's help and tell all your friends!

Long time no post!

WARNING! This is a long post!

So it's been forever since I have posted anything so for that I apologize! Between being a mom, taking McKenna here and there for all her activities, doing the books for our company, coaching volleyball, trying to get my music going, keeping the house up to par, and occasionally finding a minute to myself to blog, my life gets a little busy. But I will try to do better.

This last weekend the girls and I and my sister-in-law Krista got to go to Utah. The main reason we went was for a music thing I went to (which I will post about in the future) but after that was over we got to see the sights.

We went to Hogle Zoo just for McKenna. She had tons of fun. I had bought her and Maddie these cute matching outfits and McKenna called them her "jungle pants' so we had to find the jungle at the zoo. They saw lots of animals and even got to ride the merry go round.

McKenna had so much fun having Aunt Krista along! Thanks for coming Kisy!

We found the jungle!

Then we went to the Joseph Smith movie. I have to tell you about a little moment McKenna had during that movie. At one point people are getting sick and dying and Joseph's friend brings his son to get healed. I looked over at McKenna and she was wiping tears away from her little cheeks. So after I asked her, "Did you like the movie?" She replies, "It was a little scary, but it made me feel really good." That was about the cutest thing I have ever heard! So when we walked out of the movie she saw the temple and all she wanted to do was go and touch it. So we did. It was a pretty neat experience.

Trying to get these two to look at the camera and smile at the same time is IMPOSSIBLE!

I love those cheeks!

McKenna just loved being able to be by the temple. It was sure great to see her there.

All in all it was a GREAT weekend!

McKenna's Special Day

Friday McKenna and I got to have a "special day". I think she was in desperate need of some one on one attention with her mom being that alot of mom's time is now devoted to Maddie. So Friday morning we hopped into the car and started off at Target where McKenna got to pick out any toy she wanted. Of course she chooses Play Doh. I hate play doh. It's such a mess. Oh, well at least it's cheap. As we are walking out of the store she says "Mom, we are having a great time!" She makes me laugh. Then it was off to a little salon in Boise called Monkey Dooz. It is just for kids and is adorable. McKenna got to have a little makeover where they did her hair....

...they did her nails......
.....and her makeup. She was in seventh heaven! If anyone has a little girl you have to go do this at least once. I am sure McKenna will talk me into taking her there again.
Finished product!
Then we went to the Discovery Center in Boise where there were a lot of fun things. She really liked blowing giant bubbles with this fun contraption.

There was a little pretend grocery store which she absolutely loved. She could have shopped all day.

Then we went over to the park where she went on the slides and chased geese and ducks. It was such a fun day and I was so glad to get to spend it with McKenna. I just love her so much. She is the funniest little girl and brightens my day. Thanks for the great day McKenna!

It's Raining It's Pouring!

So last Thursday there was the biggest most random huge rain storm. It only lasted about an hour but it did some serious damage. McKenna wanted to go out and stand in it. That lasted about two seconds.
This is what was left of our driveway after an hour.

These were huge rivenes dug by the water coming off the hill. Those are about a foot deep.
This is what happened in our backyard that we just barely planted and we hadn't got a chance to get our rock wall up yet and this is what happened. Some of those cuts in the dirt are like three feet in.
It was a sad day. Friday Travis and his dad ended up rebuilding a whole new road. Not fun!