Sunday, May 1, 2011

Easter 2011

Easter 2011 was spent gathered at Jacob and Beth's house.  Thankfully they were able to change the family dinner to a family brunch Sunday morning so we could make it down!  Fiona and I hadn't seen the gang for almost 6 months (since the cousins' 1st birthday) due to crazy schedules and sickness so we were so excited to see everyone.  I wasn't able to get very many photos since the weather decided to keep us inside and I suck at indoor pics but here's what I got :)

The Easter bunny...sort of :)

 some more bunnies

 Fiona with an Easter present in preparation for Hawaii!

 Mr. Blue Eyes 

 Abbott made an appearance

 Fiona and Ryder 

 Another Mr. Blue eyes, Ryder Gage

 Uncle Bryce brought Peeps for the kiddos

 Tad wanted to share

 Fiona examining her Peep

 Where did all the Peeps go?

 Smiley Cash (so happy to finally see him, at 5.5 months it was about time!)

 Opa, Fiona and Oma

 Fiona and Tad didn't care that it was raining

 Matt and Jacob playing disc golf...sort of!

Tad chill'n with his mamma

It was great to see everyone and we promise it won't be so long until the next time.  And a big Congrats to the Iltis Family :) so excited for another cousin in the mix!


Sunday, April 3, 2011

Spring pics continued....

....from a few different days.  It's been pretty rainy here, all I can say is we better have some awesome flowers coming our way from all the spring showers!!!!









Had to put this one in since Bozo snuck into this photo






Sunday, March 27, 2011

Spring Pics

Well at least 1 preview picture until I get the rest processed :)

Happy Spring everyone!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

And we're back :)

Not that we were really anywhere....and that was the problem, I think, with my lack of posts these last few months.  It wasn't because we were too busy and I didn't have time to sit and write but because I really didn't have a whole lot to write about let alone any photos to share.  The last month or so has actually been pretty nice, getting back into a routine and slowly working on little projects around the house.  The weather has been crazy (as I know most of you have experienced, in fact it is hailing right now as I type!), so photos haven't really been on my "to do" list.  I much prefer to shoot outdoors and between the rain and my general lack of creativity lately I just don't have any to share.  I do have a few i-phone pics I will post to try and make this entry a little more interesting :) 

Monkey has been growing fast, like they all do.  Has the walking thing down, working on her speed.  Loves to climb on everything...it's like she thinks she isn't tall enough!  In fact, we just had her 16 month appointment today and all Dr. M could say is "well she's really tall isn't she?".  She is currently 35 inches tall (which is the average height of a 28 month old girl), but on the lighter side at 23 lbs.  I think she would have been a little heavier but has been fighting a cold the last couple of weeks and hasn't been to interested in food.  So as you can imagine, it is very difficult to find clothes!

As anyone with a little one will tell you, they amaze you every day.  Matt and I have to remind each other that she understands way more than we sometimes think and have to be careful what we say.  Something had spilled on the floor and I casually said, "Fiona, go grab a towel and wipe that up".  She disappeared and came back with a wash cloth from the hall closet and started to wipe the floor.  I didn't even know she knew what was in that closet! And the other day I was in the kitchen and she had wandered off to her room and came back in a few minutes later with her trash sack from her room and brought it over to the kitchen can and put it in.  She loves having little jobs to do.  After I change her diaper she grabs the dirty diaper and takes it to the diaper trash.  It has been so much fun to see her figure things out and how pleased she is with herself when she does :)

We have a trip to Hawaii planned for May.  It seems so far off, I have had the travel bug lately and am so excited to go somewhere.  We are staying at a place right on the beach, which will be great for Fiona to play in the sand.  The only thing I am not looking forward to is the flight.  We are taking advantage of the under 2 yrs lap child policy which means we will have a squirmy little kid on our laps for 5+ hours....yippy.  Other than that, not much else planned.  I am hoping to get down to Salt Lake City to visit my friend who just had twins and see them, and possibly a trip down to SD to see family with my mom. 

Well, I guess that is about it for now.  I have promised myself the next nice day out I will pull out my camera...hope that it will be sooner than later but the forecast doesn't look too good.  Until then, here are a couple random photos I took with my i-phone of the munchkin....

 my knees hurt looking at this
 Chill'n

 waiting for me to get dinner done

 she likes to climb into things herself...it doesn't always work out



 she loves seafood, especially crab



 her hair is growing as fast as she is

 our little helper

 giving Tasha her "no" (snow)

my little snot nosed girl...I told her to say cheese, oh well :)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Christmas 2010

It's only been about 2 weeks since Christmas but it is already a distant memory.  It seems the holiday season sneaks up so quickly but also disappears just as fast.  This year the holiday weekend was surprisingly mellow.  My parents came up Thursday to help us with some yard work and Pam's boyfriend George had come up from Mexico the week before and that was it for company.  Christmas morning was definitely more fun this year with Fiona....she had a great time opening presents, and not just hers either :)  Of course at this age the opening and playing with the boxes are so much more fun than the actual gifts!  Even though there wasn't a huge house full of people we cooked like there was and ate way too much.  I was able to take some Christmas photos of Fiona and I'm also dubbing them 14 month pics too.  I don't plan on doing monthly photos anymore, maybe every couple of months to keep my sanity :)

Hope everyone had a great time with family and friends and looking forward to seeing as many of you this year as possible!


What a great stocking stuffer!


Gotta love winter hats :)


Fiona loved her Kitchen that Oma and Opa got her



Yummy pumpkin mousse


Christmas Photos



love her expression here!

Mexico 2006

Mexico 2006
Although this was the end of our trip, I thought this would be a good picture for the beginning of this website