Friday, July 16, 2010

Happy 8 Month's Baby

So our sweet baby girl is officially 8 months old, wow, that went so dang fast.  Too fast.  Our little peanut is getting so big. 

She is still not sitting up yet, the lazy little turkey.  It is more like she always wants her legs straight.  She would much rather stand than sit.  It makes keeping her curls cute more of a chore but, whatever, I mostly don't mind.  It makes me pretend she is still little. 
She does roll over and pushes her self up so that's a relief, otherwise I might be worried :) 

She offically got her first two teeth (bottom) just after Independence Day.  Her way of celebrating her independence I suppose.  They are very cute.

And this is her next big milestone, eating like a big girl.  She will now sit in the high chairs at restaurants (and in shopping carts at the grocery store - woohoo, I don't have to lug that car seat in with me anymore!), although she still likes to shlump since she is not really sitting up - she can, she just "can't want to" as Ty used to say when he was little.

The third picture is of her on attack because she ran out of cracker.  What a cutie pie she is.  Oh so speaking of deserts, I called her a funny little cookie the other day, Braiden specified "chocolate chip cookie" because she is a little chocolate chip.  I love the things kids say!

Happy Birthday sweety pie.  Before you know it she will be 1 (eek)

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Happy Independence Day!

I love the 4th of July.  What a fun Holiday.  You get to celebrate your patriotic side and dress your kids in red white and blue - seriously what could be cuter?  Isn't she just the ultimate poster child for America :)  This year it seems to mean even more to me with both my brothers in the military.  I am so happy that Brandon was able to make it home to celebrate this holiday with his family. 

This year we celebrated at our annual block party.  We all roll out the BBQ grills and eat yummy food, enjoy each other's company and of course let the kiddos light fireworks - with supervision of course!  This year one of our neighbors set up their intlatable bounce/waterslide thing.  The kids loooved that one.  Good addition.  It was unseasonably cold that day though so by nighfall we were all in jackets - weird.
I was there in all my 4th of July princess flair.  Everyone was jealous - just admit it
Cute Daddy - I had to point him out since all everyone ever sees is the very gorgeous Addie (hehe)
The kiddos lighting fireworks.  They were in hog heaven
I don't know what was happening here but it makes me say "ooh ooh, pick me pick me!"
What a cute little cheeser

Happy Independence Day America!!!

Ragnar Wasatch Back

This year at the last minute I was lucky enough to sub for someone who ended up getting injured.  Yea for me, sad face for them.  If anyone has ever done one of these Ragnar relays, they are a complete party.  A group of 12 runners take turns running 188 mile.  The Wasatch Back goes from Logan to Park City.  Our team took 30 hours to run it.  So much dang fun.  I was a little nervous because I did not know a single soul.  If our personalities clashed, that is a long time in a van with a group of people that you only get a break from when it is your turn to run.  At 3 in the morning I told everyone "I am so glad I don't hate you guys"  Of course we laughed and they all said "likewise!"  I wish I had more pictures.  I am trying to steam some from some of my team mates but it has been unsuccessful so far.

This is the normal team before everyon starts getting a little loopy from exahustion
And this would be the team at 3 am :)  Slightly psycho
Road kills refers to the number of people you pass while running.  I tried to get 10 at every leg (each person runs 3)  The first time I did get 10, leg 2 - 12 and leg 3 a measly 4
This is the boy side of the van
and the much more awesome girl side.
Thanks team Wolfpack for letting a total stranger into your team