Mitch, Kristie and Family

Pictures of the Alaska shirt and a cheesy smile

2010-07-30T22:25:00.002-06:00

So I was taking a picture of Brigham in his Alaska shirt so Aunt Wendy can see him in it. He has to have his scriptures (he likes to try all words so he can say scriptures.) After snapping this picture a very funny thing happened. You may get bored at the repetition, but I can't get enough of his face.

So here is the before...

and the after picture. I love this cheesy face!

before...

after

before...

after

before

after. He has never done this before and I thought it was so funny.

Random Brigham Pics

2010-07-30T22:04:00.002-06:00

I gave Brigham this container of Macaroni and Cheese and he devoured it. I was only about a third full, but he loved being able to feed it to himself.

See, he is so proud of himself.

He loves his blanket just like his sister. This is a sure sign that he is tired.

Just laying on the floor. I guess he needs a nap. He also sucks on his tongue and then touches his lips with the blanket. So cute.

These are his first pair of walking shoes. They were well loved and ready for the trash bin.

Happy 5 Years Anniversay!

2010-07-30T21:41:00.003-06:00

This is my 5th anniversary present this year. My dryer started burning a week or two before so the need was great. We didn't like to have a fire hazard in the house. Then with the $225 dollars in rebates we got a washer too. I love them. It used to take me up to two hours to dry some things and now it takes about a half hour for most things.

My kids love to help do the laundry. They will come in and start taking things out of one and put in the other. Even if I had just moved them:)

Such great helpers!

Happy 1st Birthday Brigham!

2010-07-21T21:43:00.004-06:00

Brigham opening presents. Savannah was so willing to help him open his presents. But he did pretty well remembering from Christmas.

Being cute in his ribbon.

The cake for everybody to eat.

Brigham's cake.

Brigham started by eating the m&m's off his cake.

When all the m&m's were gone he started in on the rest of the cake.

Then he spread the cake on his face.

And two handfuls of cake to finish off the cake.

First Hair Cut

2010-05-12T23:04:00.003-06:00

Here is a before shot of the wings on the side of his head.

Here is the loft on top. Don't you love his expression. Why torture me mom?

Here is the happy kid when he was all done. He even gave a great smile. Now he is handsome and not shaggy.

New Family Picture

2010-05-12T23:02:00.003-06:00

I needed an updated picture of all of us. Our last was when Brigham was a few weeks old. Here we are. Aren't we cute?

Geode Hunting

2010-05-12T22:48:00.004-06:00

Can you tell he is happy to be here? This was the start of geode hunting.

Here are a bunch of us down in the pit digging (or at this point trying to find) geodes.

Savannah and I starting digging over on the side while the track hoe dug some more dirt out. At this point we didn't know what we were looking for or should I say where the sweet spot for finding geodes was.

See the track hoe? It made finding the geodes so easy. That guy was really nice to come and dig holes for people.

Ahh. Finally on our way home. These girls were asleep up until the point I was going to take the picture. Savannah was still asleep though. It is tiring work being out in the sun.

Brigham was ready for his nap too.

I am hiding from the dust Mitch let in the car when he rolled down his window on the dirt roads. I can't remember why he rolled down his window, but I wasn't going to let dust in my contacts. Silly me I know.

I'm a big kid look what i can do

2010-05-12T22:37:00.003-06:00

I put Brigham in Savannah's chair just to see what he would do. I think he looks right at home.

My son seems to think since he has managed to climb the stairs and all the things that I put in the way to keep him off the stairs, he can now climb anything he can get his knee up on. I found him here after I had been in the kitchen and yes he can get himself down as well.

Savannah likes to sit on the car as her brother pushes it about the house. They both actually have a lot of fun doing this.

Mitch caught Brigham playing with Savannah's play kitchen phone. He was actually holding it up to his ear and jabbering. You would think I talked on the phone all day or something. I really don't talk on the phone much at all. Kids are so observant.

Apology

2010-04-30T22:55:00.002-06:00

I apologize for posting so many things at once. But now I am caught up. Hopefully you will be able to get a gist for what we have been up to. Thanks to the encouragement of my sister you all have a lot to look at:)

Random April Events

2010-04-30T22:46:00.002-06:00

Miranda was able to take Savannah to the Zoo for her class. I was a chaperone. Savannah had fun because she had Miranda all to herself. She didn't have to share her with anyone. A 3 year olds dream.

Liam and Savannah playing in the leaves Jana and Grandma raked. I can't believe how much fun they had being tossed into the leaves.

Super Savannah! Can you tell we have been watching Super Why! Savannah uses her Snow White cape as her super hero cape. She is getting to be quite creative in her imagination.

Brigham

2010-04-30T22:39:00.002-06:00

Brigham love to thumb through books. He goes over to the bookshelf and starts pulling out books and just sits there and 'reads' them. So cute. He will sit on the couch behind him, or on the books under him, or...

on the v-tech book. Wherever he is comfortable.

Just reading.

Laughing

2010-04-30T22:31:00.002-06:00

Ok we finally made it to April. Brigham is almost 10 months in this picture. I was in the kitchen doing something and I hear laughing in the living room. I come in to find Mitch bulldozing/tickling Brigham with his head and Brigham was laughing really hard. It was so funny. I had tears in my eyes.

The smiles. He enjoyed the playing.

More cute faces

2010-04-30T22:26:00.002-06:00

Here is my cute Savannah. She is holding her 'roses'. They are actually nerf footballs that have the stick or tail or 'rose stems' or whatever you call them. Her brother just chews on them.

I love this little, sweet innocent face. I love those eyes. You need to click on the picture and make it bigger and then you will see the eyes I look at every day. Love them!

Happy Birthday!

2010-04-30T22:22:00.001-06:00

Yep you guessed it. I am another year older. Yeah. This was good practice for Brigham. He has been learning how to blow so maybe he will be able to blow out his own candle. Maybe.

Easter

2010-04-30T22:19:00.002-06:00

So I don't have any pictures of my kids doing the Easter egg hunt, but I do have cute pictures of them in bunny ears. Savannah is such a cutie!

Brigham is also sooooo adorable in these ears!

Rare Opportunity

2010-04-30T22:14:00.002-06:00

It is a rare opportunity that I get to be in a picture with my kids. It isn't a great picture of me, but it is a picture with me and them. Just got to love those cute kids.

Guitar Hero

2010-04-30T22:07:00.002-06:00

Mitch, Mackay, John, and Sabrina, and Miranda played some Guitar Hero on Mackay's Birthday. I think they enjoyed themselves. I think they played until 2 am.

Savannah just chillin and watch them play. Grandma Net has a cool wall in the background.

Brigham is hanging out watching with his dad.

Our little crawler...

2010-04-30T21:51:00.002-06:00

Here is Brigham just after he started crawling. He was 8 months old then. He was off on a mission to find something.

He was often seen crawling with his head down until he got to where he was going. I thought it was funny. Savannah probably did it too I just don't remember.

The day he started crawling was also the day he started furniture walking. By the time Savannah was this age she was walking. But she didn't have as big a head to carry around either. So he just goes by leaps once he has figured it out.

He is so proud of himself. He got the game! He is now 10 months old and this week he has started taking steps on his own to get to places. Now I have a walker! He is also quite the stair climber. I don't think I have any pictures, but he will get up the stairs no matter what. We haven't had a gate because since we moved here we really haven't needed one. When we watched Liam we just barricaded the stairs with the banana chair. That was all I needed. With Brigham we have used the banana chair - he figured out how to go around - we added the hot wheels at the end to block - he figured out how to lift it up and push it out of the way - so we added a kitchen chair to hold the hot wheels - he just climbed over the banana chair at first and then he figured out how to tip the kitchen chair (made of wood-heavy) so that he could shinny behind the chair, yes he kept shuffling his hands across the back of the chair while he shinnied, and then he pushed over the hot wheels and then up the stairs he went. So we bought a gate today. I think he took down the gate 3 times before Mitch found a spot and made it so tight that he had yet been able to take it down. So maybe tomorrow I won' t have to chase him up the stairs every 5 minutes.

Savannah

2010-04-30T21:38:00.002-06:00

We got Savannah some 'school' books a little while ago. She was so excited to do them. One of her favorites has been learning to cut. She love to try to cut things . The book has large black lines for her to cut along. She has improved lots since we started. We also have dry erase board book that she practices, tracing for now, her letters and numbers. We also recently have started writing her name. She is even getting to the point she can spell it all by herself. Yeah. This took a little bit because at first she had no interest in trying to write. And then one day she just writes and 'A' ! I couldn't believe it. Now we just have to get her interested in writing numbers. At least she is starting to visually recognize them.

Can we say blackmail material?

2010-04-30T21:34:00.002-06:00

Savannah and Liam were playing 'dress' up a couple months ago. I guess he really didn't have many clothing options. We don't have boys play clothes. He didn't seem to mind.

Cute face

2010-04-30T21:21:00.002-06:00

Check out this cute face. He is excited about something. He is showing off two of his pearly whites. He now has eight of them.

I think he was excited about this balloon. I would be too:)

How can you not love those little chubby cheeks? We love that little face.

No more teasing here are some pictures of the kids

2010-04-30T21:13:00.003-06:00

These pictures were taken back in January. Brigham was 7 months old then. He was now able to sit on the little couch with Savannah. So I took a few pictures of them. Then I started noticing something...

I started getting this face after every picture I took. So I hurried to take a second picture just to capture the look. I was laughing so hard I was crying. I guess he was trying to figure out what that flash was doing.

This is a teaser...

2010-04-17T22:35:00.003-06:00

Well I haven't blogged for a while. I guess it is just one more thing some days. So I am going to try again. Here are some pictures of our van we got in November. It only has taken me 5 months to get pictures of it. Enjoy.

Our Toyota Sienna.

The front seats.

The view from the front.

The middle and back seats.

And last but not least my amazing trunk. I love that the seats can fold down into the floor when needed. We love it.

3rd Christmas - South Dakota Brrrrrrrrrrr!

2010-01-20T23:57:00.001-07:00

Savannah, Wendy, and Brigham looking all cute.

Two crazy sisters!

Savannah had to try to stick out her tongue too.

Grandma Pat and Brigham.

Savannah is sporting Grandma's reading glasses. So adorable!

Smile big for the camera! This is a great smile from Brigham.

Savannah gearing up for the frigid outdoors. I think this day it was above zero. The night before we left it was 30 below zero without the windchill factor. It was still 9 below when we left South Dakota at 2pm.

Savannah is king or should I say queen of the snow pile!

Wendy and Savannah made snow angels.

Kristie and Brigham braving the cold.

Here we go sliding down the hill!. We didn't last very long in the cold. We were done after going down the hill once. Pansies, I know.

Savannah stuck out the cold. She and Wendy made a snow tunnel and had a blast. Shortly after this picture Savannah had had enough cold and came in crying.

Princess Savannah and her royal guard Brigham (or maybe he is her prince. It depends on the day).

Presents! Brigham wants to open or should I say eat everyones presents. He is sporting Bryan's hat.

Savannah is diving in to her presents while Brigham is secretly eating his.

The Deer

2010-01-20T23:51:00.003-07:00

Mitch is very proud of the deer he got this year. I don't remember what the score was, but it scored higher than his dad's deer.

Mitch standing next to his prized deer. He needs a name anyone have any ideas?

Russ, Harvey (Russ's Deer), The Deer, Mitch and Brigham. If you look at the deer really close, Russ's deer is wider and Mitch's deer is taller (the antlers I mean).

Christmas Outfits

2010-01-20T23:48:00.002-07:00

Aren't they a couple of cute kids?

2nd Christmas

2010-01-20T23:38:00.005-07:00

Our 2nd Christmas was with the Moore's. We ran up there right after opening presents so we could talk with the missionaries.

Savannah opening a presents with Brigham watching.

Ooh! More paper!!!

I think she likes princesses. What do you think?

Tools! Yes!!!!

1st Christmas

2010-01-20T23:29:00.003-07:00

Our first Christmas was at our own house! It has never happened. It may not happen again for awhile but who knows. Brigham and Savannah enjoyed opening presents.

Brigham loved opening presents. It meant paper he could eat.

Savannah was a machine. She opened one present and then was on to another. She enjoyed them when she was done opening.

Ripping the paper. YUM! YUM!

Santa brought Savannah a play kitchen. I has been a big hit.

A Unique Decoration

2010-01-20T23:14:00.002-07:00

Savannah had to add her own personal touch to our christmas sleigh. If you look really close Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, Polly Pocket, and I think Snow White are riding in the sleigh. There is another Ariel sitting in front of the sleigh because she didn't fit inside.

Mom wasn't paying attention

2010-01-20T23:06:00.003-07:00

So this was back before Christmas and just before Brigham was 6 months old. We got a few candy canes to put on our tree. Well Savannah had been playing with them for a day or two and hadn't gotten any of them open. So she gives one to her brother to play with. I figured if she didn't get it open he wouldn't either. The next thing I know is I'm looking at this cute face.

He's so proud of himself. The pure joy of a blue candy cane!

Savannah of course had to have her picture taken with a candy cane in her mouth too.

January Already!

2010-01-05T22:34:00.002-07:00

I promise to have pictures posted soon. Hopefully tomorrow. An update in our world - we bought a van just before Thanksgiving, we love it. Brigham is in the 97th percentile for weight, 99th for head size and length, so he is a big kid to lug around. We had a wonderful Christmas with Kristie's family. Mitch barely made his connecting flight coming to South Dakota, and we all barely made our connecting flight back to Utah. Brigham can say 'mama' and has finally decided he can roll from back to front. Crawling here we come. That is us in a nutshell.

Adendum to September and October

2009-11-22T17:56:00.003-07:00

My husband has found something new to keep himself busy for a little while. He went to enjoy some beautiful fall colors,

See some spectacular animals (aka a tiny moose, and heard a cougar),

and shot a big deer!

Savannah was very excited. She says when she gets older she is going to buy and gun and shoot herself a deer and hang it in grandma and grandpa's tree. Then she is going to skin it and put it in the oven and make steaks. You have to love little kids.

November, so far

2009-11-22T17:44:00.002-07:00

I took some pictures of the kids in the leaves by our apartment. I think they are cute. Brigham is munching on the leaves.

Savannah is running back and forth to me and won't really hold still to take a picture.

I think this one of Brigham is so cute. It is like he posed perfectly.

One of the few actual pictures with both of them.

Brigham is getting really good at pulling his feet up and trying to put them in his mouth. Brigham was giving free lesson so daddy and Savannah thought they would try it out.

October

2009-11-22T16:42:00.003-07:00

Here is Brigham eating his first food at 3 months old. He is now 5 months old and he eats a whole container of baby food in one sitting. I think it is safe to say he eats a lot:)

Savannah is eating a gigantic apple that my sister's friend gave us while she stayed here with us. It is a Washington Honeycrisp. Delicious!

Brigham is 4 months old here and very tired. Savannah demanded I take a picture of them.

This is my first try at fondant. This is one of the classes we did at Super Saturday. Isn't the cupcake cute:)

Christmas Trees were another super saturday craft. These were actually finished after super saturday because when you are in charge there isn't a lot of time to do your own crafts.

Here is Savannah and Clarissa. We are working on some of our super saturday stuff we didn't get done.

Mitch wanted to go camping so bad he and Savannah had a campout in the living room. It was a little cold at night for a 3 year old and a 4 month old.

Brigham the happy jumping 4 month old. He really fits the saying 'a bouncing baby boy'.

Brigham has learned to blow raspberries.

Savannah and Brigham modeling their Halloween outfits from Grandma Pat.

Savannah's Princess Halloween costume.

Brigham in his Tigger Costume.

Random September Pictures

2009-11-22T16:08:00.004-07:00

Here is our happy little boy back when he was 3 months old.

He does like his jumperoo.

Mitchell gets quite bored some days so I bought his some puzzles to keep him occupied.

As you can see these were done in a matter of a week or so. So it didn't keep him busy for long.

Here are our cute kids. Brigham is 3 months old and Savannah is 3 years old.

Here is Savannah and Liam having breakfast. They love having tables and chairs their size.

Aunt Wendy came for a visit this month too. Here are Savannah and Wendy making zucchini bread.

Savannah's Birthday - September

2009-11-22T15:50:00.002-07:00

This is Savannah's first birthday cake for this year. She got to celebrate her birthday twice - once with Kristie's Parents and then again with Mitch's family.

Here is her second cake. Does it look familiar? Well she wanted an Ariel cake again and then a week or two before her birthday she decided she wanted Cinderella. Well there were no more cake pans at the stores nearby so I improvised.

Here she is blowing out her candles. Can I just tell you she loves birthdays. It doesn't matter if it is hers or not.

It was pretty warm on her birthday this year so as you can see I let her get out the pool one last time.

Savannah was really good at opening presents this year. She didn't try to play with each one as she opened them this time, she just ripped into each one and then she was off to the next one.

August

2009-08-31T22:00:00.003-06:00

Well we started off the month with Brigham's 2 month checkup. I don't know if he looks like a big boy in this picture, but after his doctor's appointment he is officially a big boy. The doctor told me to start lifting weights now. He weighed in at 16.15 pounds which puts him in the 99.5% for his age and he was 25.25 inches tall which puts him in the 98% for his height. And I thought his sister was big when she was a baby!

We officially got a smile on camera. Isn't he cute? The outfit he is in is 6-9 months. It isn't any too big for him!

I just love those eyes!

Can you tell Savannah loves her brother.

Who new that the best toy in the world was a box. This is a cardboard box from our dishwasher last year. It has been Savannah and Liam's favorite.

Here is Savannah kind of enjoying her pool...

And the pool next door. If you can see here on the right she is drinking from one of the sprinklers on the pool. This is our summer fun each week lately. We have a few great kids next door to play with.

Precious Moments

2009-07-22T16:38:00.002-06:00

There is nothing like being so tired wishing you little baby would just go to sleep and then you look and him and he gives you a big smile. You just can't help but smile back and talk to him. Brigham smiled for the first time last Friday night. It is amazing how the little things make such a difference.

We are alive!!!!

2009-07-12T19:19:00.005-06:00

So it has been awhile since we have posted anything. We'll just say when I have 5 minutes for myself posting pictures hasn't been at the top of the list. Sorry to those who have been waiting for more pictures. I now have a new calling. Instead of RS Secretary I am now the RS Enrichment Counselor. So now I have more to do and especially more meetings. Yay. It will be fun though. My brain has now finally started functioning again so I think maybe I will be able to get things accomplished. So here are a few pictures from June and July.

Here is Brigham about 3 days old.

You can't see it very well but Savannah is posing with her shiner on her eyebrow.

Savannah tucked her carebear into Brigham's bed and then she fell asleep. So Cute.

4th of July outfits

Brigham chillin with his dad. He is about 10 days old here.

We were on our way to Mitch's parents house for the 4th and Savannah fell asleep with her foot up on her brother's car seat. You would think it was a long trip or something instead of 30 minutes.

Savannah got a new bed over the 4th weekend. She loves it and is sleeping much better.

Brigham and Savannah on his blessing day.

Brigham in his blessing outfit.

Cute kid in a cute outfit.

Savannah and Brigham. She loves her little brother. He is about a month old here and already weighs over 13 lbs! So he isn't so little.

He's here!!!

2009-06-11T15:31:00.007-06:00

On Tuesday morning at about 1 AM Kristie went into labor and later that morning we had a little boy. Kristie and Brigham were pleased as punch to be done with the whole labor thing by 7 AM and all they had to do for the rest of the day was relax and recuperate. Sleep would have been nice but that just doesn't happen for a new mother.
Brigham was 8 lbs and 13 oz as well as 20 inches long and had a good head of black hair. Mom was really happy about the hair and Dad was just happy.
It took Savannah a little while to warm up to the hospital and wasn't quite sure what to think of Mom in the bed with a tube in her arm. She took her brother pretty quickly and wanted to hold him all by herself for the rest of the next day.
She even sported her newest favorite shirt to let everyone know the good news. And don't mess with her bro because she'll come get you.
We are grateful everyone is doing well and the Lord has blessed our home with a new baby boy.

Still Pregnant

2009-06-05T13:53:00.002-06:00

Here I am at 40 weeks. We are 1 day overdue. I have a doctors appointment today and maybe we will find out more. So we are still pregnant:( Hopefully our next post will be of our baby.

Memorial Weekend

2009-05-26T14:36:00.004-06:00

We had a fun weekend hiking, playing, and decorating a cake. Yes I did go hiking at 38 weeks. I had hiked Donut Falls before so I knew it was a short easy hike. Too bad it didn't make me go into labor. Here are a few pictures.

Donut Falls are behind us. Savannah didn't want to pose for the picture.

Daddy and Savannah posing. Savannah wouldn't smile.

Donut Falls - there is a round hole if you look close where the water disappears into and then appears again further down the rocks.

This is the tinkerbell cake I made for Sabrina's birthday. It was inspired by Sophie's cake.

Cute Girl

2009-05-21T21:28:00.002-06:00

So Savannah doesn't usually take naps at all any more. Just on rare occasion. We this is the sight I came home to on Sunday after doing visiting teaching interviews. Her dad had gone into the spare bedroom and laid down on the air mattress (we had set it up for a visitor a couple of weeks ago and they didn't end up staying with us and we haven't put it down) to read because it is cooler in that room than in the master bedroom and Savannah brought her dried pears into the room and crawled up on the bed and ate some dried pears and ended up falling asleep while eating pears beside her dad. Sometimes I wish she would still take a nap because she gets aweful cranky, but then we suffer because she won't go to bed until 11pm. So there are trade offs.

Almost Done

2009-05-21T21:25:00.002-06:00

We are now actually 38 weeks but this was the last picture I took. So close enough. We have two weeks until our due date and we hope he doesn't wait that long to make his appearance. But family history is not on our side. He will probably be late, but I can keep hoping.

Victory!

2009-05-10T18:25:00.002-06:00

On Friday Mitchell took his second actuarial exam (FM). Well half way through his exam he wasn't feeling so good about the test. Three hours after he began he still didn't feel good about the test, the test ended and up popped on the screen "Congratulations!" Yeah he passed! He was thoroughly surprised. The test was very hard. He has taken it before and he said this one was harder. But he was actually prepared this time and good thing he was. We are very proud of him and very excited for the possibilities this opens up for us.

Potty Training

2009-04-19T16:11:00.002-06:00

Well about a month and a half ago we got serious about potty training. Someone game us some pullups they didn't need and we were tired of changing diapers on a child who was too stuborn to go on the potty. Well the pullups worked very well for Savannah and encouraging her to go on the potty. She did very well right off peeing in the potty. Going #2 was a different story. She has been dry all night long since she was 18 months old so I knew she could hold it. She has has trouble with constipation for the past 10 months. But a couple of weeks ago over conference weekend her daddy took her to the potty and made her go #2 on the potty a couple of times and then something must have clicked in her head because it has been two weeks now and we have had no accidents! Yeah for us! I just hope we don't have a set back when the baby comes. For now she is doing great and hopefully it will continue to be so.

April so far....

2009-04-13T14:29:00.003-06:00

Well April is half over and I can't believe it. It has been a really busy month. We have been to a bridal shower, an easter party, made Mitch a fleece blanket because he liked Savannah's, helped take out a fence, fixed our car (yet again), going to a baby shower, been to the dentist, been to the doctor and have to go again at the end of the month and we manage to watch Liam a couple of times a week. I haven't felt this busy in a long time. I think it all started when my mom came out the end of March for my birthday. We went a lot of places and did lots of things and enjoyed our time together. But life hasn't slowed down yet. And I don't know if it will before June. Oh well. Keeps me happy and not bored. Here are a couple of pictures from this month.

This is me at about 33 weeks.

Savannah is copying her Aunt Jana.

Savannah is being a princess in mom's skirt.

Savannah on Easter Morning. She wouldn't stand up or smile. Oh well.

Savannah and Liam sitting on the little couch. Liam loves this couch. It is just his height.

Where has the time gone?

2009-04-13T14:04:00.005-06:00

Apparently it has been nearly two months since my last post. I don't know where the time has gone. I will do my best to recap what my brain can remember. March ended up having some pretty nice days in it so we went and flew kites with Mitch's family.

Sabrina and Savannah are flying kites. As you can see Savannah isn't too excited about flying them. She would rather be sitting in someones lap where it is safe and the kites won't get her. I thinks the kites were bigger than her so they were a little scary.

The butterfly kite.

Lynette, Jana, and Liam flying kites. Jana and Liam did fly kites even though it doesn't look like it from this picture.

The Dragon Kite.

Mitchell enjoying the day with the kites.

March also found us outside playing with chalk. On one particular occasion Liam was here playing too and by the time we went in the house we couldn't find the chalk lid. So our chalk box sat by the stairs for a couple of days without a lid. Well on one of those days I was upstairs for something like a shower or to check my email and Savannah decided to get creative. She found her blue chalk and decided the wall needed a mural. So she drew all over the wall! Thank goodness it was only chalk and it washes off. I am glad I don't leave the markers where she can reach them! Well needless to say the next day when Liam came to visit again the lid to the chalk had conveniently made it into his diaper bag and so our chalk box is again protected from adventurous children. (Liam likes to but things in boxes or bags so if one is nearby he is sure to put something in it. He has put his bottle in the garbage can and the toybox!)

I guess the last little tidbit for March is I just celebrated my 30th birthday! It is a little unnerving to realize that I am now in my 30's and I am really expected to be a responisble adult (not that I lack maturity or anything). I am really not a kid anymore!

We're back up and running

2009-02-18T19:04:00.002-07:00

Our computer has been getting fixed for two and a half weeks so we have been detached from the world. So now I am now connected to the outside world again. On a side note, I so have cabin fever. I can't wait until it is warm enough to be outside. I am done with winter. Spring please come soon!!!

Cabellas

2009-01-23T21:20:00.003-07:00

We went on a trip to Cabellas with some of our neighbors. Our kids needed a place they could go and be outside the house. Reed, Savannah, and Dallas were so good about letting us take their picture in the museum. Dallas even enjoyed shooting the guns in the shooting range while Savannah covered her ears. The highlight for Savannah was the airplane, of course, and feeding the fish. They had some food you could feed the fish and she remembered feeding the animals at Hee Haws for Halloween so as soon as she saw the dispenser she was really excited. And those fish were excited too. They tackled each other for it!

Playing in Strange Places

2009-01-21T14:16:00.003-07:00

Savannah has taken to wanting to sit in the toy box. Today she even got into our hamper probably because it was empty for a change.

Yes there is make-up on her face in this picture. I have a box of old make-up I don't use and save it for play or Halloween. She found where it was the other day and put some on today.

Swimming

2009-01-21T14:06:00.002-07:00

Savannah has taken to wanting to go swimming lately. So the only place we have to go swimming is our bathtub. So she was able to talk her daddy into going "swimming" with her.

Twirling

2009-01-21T13:59:00.001-07:00

Savannah loves to wear dresses all the time. She also loves to dance. Above is a picture of her in action. Below is a very quick video of her twirling as she did not dance very long once she saw me put the camera up. I think I tried at least 4 times to get a good video, but I eventually gave up and this is as good as it is going to get. Sorry it is sideways. It was upright when I previewed it.

Baby Update

2009-01-14T22:32:00.002-07:00

We had our ultrasound on Monday and drum roll......we are having a boy! He is due in June so we shall keep you all posted.

December Update

2009-01-02T15:01:00.006-07:00

December has been one busy month for us. I don't know if we have been home for a whole week since Thanksgiving. We started off the month with a trip to visit my brother in Minnesota (pictured below).

Then we continued on to South Dakota to visit Kristie's Parents and their puppy Bebe, whom Savannah thoroughly enjoyed.

When we came home it seems we brought the cold weather with us and we got a lot of snow to play with. I didn't think Savannah would like having to put on her snow pants and boots all the time to play in it, but she is completely willing. Thank goodness! So on our first substantial snowfall the snow was perfect for snowmen. Here is Savannah squatting next to our little snow men. She wasn't patient enough to build really big ones.

Some kids decided it would be fun to smash our snowmen on the way home from school that day so Mitch and Savannah went out and build another miniature snowman (the snow was crunchy by this point so it was too hard to make too many).

We decided to make sugar cookies for Christmas this year since it was a family tradition of mine. Savannah was all for it. She loves anything to do with stirring or making anything we will let her. So of course she has to cut out the sugar cookies.

We were at the Moore's for Christmas this year and they decided it would be fun to rein act the nativity. The only picture of us doing this seems to be the only one I took of Savannah in her angel outfit. I thought she looked so cute. She loves to dress up.

Then came Christmas where we were finally able to open to open gifts (Savannah wanted to open her gift for two weeks since she found it under the tree). She was very good at opening her gifts this year. She didn't need any help. She even helped her dad open his. Kristie's family also made it out to Utah for New Year's so we had Christmas again when they got here.

Nelson Family New Year's Day

Painting and Sleeping

2008-11-24T13:40:00.004-07:00

Savannah finally decided it was ok to get her fingers all dirty while finger painting. I know her eyes are closed but she wouldn't smile in the other picture.

Here is the newest of Savannah's random places to fall asleep. She first started going there as refuge from where her cousin Liam could reach her. But later after he went home she went back to the steps and fell asleep. I think she had dinner this time before she went to sleep.

The Book of Mormon

2008-11-05T19:20:00.004-07:00

Savannah has a thing for her dad's Book of Mormon. Here is a video talking about the Book of Mormon.

Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

2008-11-05T19:11:00.002-07:00

Another season is done for ultimate frisbee. This year I got Mitch to play with me and he played in the first four games and then he went hunting for the next four weeks. So he played a little bit. Last saturday was our season ending tournament. Our team had almost won all of our games (meaning we lost most of them by only 2 points.) We did actually win a few. So we were down in the bracket. Well we ended up winning our first three games and losing the championship game by you guessed it 2 points. It was a good game and we had fun. Here are a few pictures of a game. I am the one in the blue had and green shirt.

Halloween Pictures

2008-11-05T19:01:00.002-07:00

Savannah wanted to be Ariel for Halloween. There was no talking her out of it once she saw it. I tried to get her to be a princess with a shorter skirt so she wouldn't trip but it didn't work. So I had to shorten the skirt a little.

We went to Hee Haws Corn Maze this year with the Moore's. They also had a petting zoo, a hay slide, other slides, a corn cannon, and more things I can't remember. This is a picture of Miranda and Savannah after they went down the 20 ft hay slide. Savannah loved it. I went down it and it was very fast.

Savannah insisted on mopping the floor. So here she is in her dress up shoes mopping the floor.

This is one of Savannah's Halloween outfits from Grandma Pat. She was just a little cheeseball. Too bad she wasn't so smiley for her 2yr pictures.

I don't want to nap anymore!

2008-11-05T18:56:00.002-07:00

Savannah hasn't wanted to take naps lately and sometimes it is ok. But other time you can see what happens about 6pm if she doesn't take a nap. And that means mom is up till midnight trying to get someone to go to bed!

Here I was making dinner and she went in the living room and crawled up on the couch and fell asleep.
We sat down for dinner and she pulled her blanket up and it wasn't two minutes and she was asleep. We've tried waking her up but it just doesn't work with her. When she is that tired she's gone.

Here is what we have been up to

2008-10-22T14:59:00.004-06:00

First we had Mitch's Birthday. Happy 27!

Then Savannah decided she had a pouty face. So this is it. Isn't she cute!

We tried to get her to open up the umbrella because she has so much fun with it, but instead she opened her mouth.

She is getting really good at saying cheese for the camera. Can you tell?

I wish she was this good at saying cheese when we got her two year pictures taken. She just doesn't like unfamiliar people I guess.

In this picture we went to This is the Place Heritage Park for their Haunted Village. This is a picture of Savannah while we waited in line for an hour in the cold barn.

Here Savannah, Miranda, and I are dancing ring-around-the-rosie at Miya's Wedding.

And here we all fell down.

Happy Birthday Savannah!

2008-09-29T15:52:00.006-06:00

Savannah just had her second birthday! I can't believe it. I feel like we just celebrated her first birthday. My parents came out from South Dakota to visit and the rest of the Moore's came up for Savannah's birthday. We had a full house and Savannah had fun. Ariel is her favorite princess, so I made her an Ariel cake for her birthday. When she got up in the morning she saw it on the table she got an excited look on her face and said "Ariel!". I was glad she liked it because it took some time. She kept asking all day if she could eat the ariel cake and was unhappy each time I told her she would have to wait. Here are some picture of the day.

Happy Birthday Savannah!
She is sporting her new dress.

This year she new how to rip open the presents.

Savannah is unhappy she can't have her cake yet.

Yum cake and ice cream!

Here is the cake. This doesn't show all the detail, but you get the idea.

Here is a little video of Savannah riding her hot wheels.

Video Update

2008-09-10T13:50:00.002-06:00

Well I think we have all officially memorized Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium so that we all can point out the flaws and all the little things that you don't notice going on the first 10 times you watch it. So now we have moved on to Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I hope this fad won't last a month like the last. I find it harder to watch this movie end on end like Mr. Magorium because she wants to watch the same 25 min of the film. You know the part where they go to the Island of Naboomboo. She likes the lion and the bear. We have tried other movies with lions and bears like Robin Hood, but that isn't the one she wants to watch. She also like to sing "bobbing along on the bottom of the briny blue sea." I guess she likes singing and music. I think that is why she liked Mr. Magorium so much is because she liked the piano music so much.

Update

2008-09-07T17:54:00.003-06:00

Well as you can see I do fall behind in keeping you all updated. We have done things but I have no pictures. On the Saturday before Memorial Day we helped the Moores harvest about 250 pounds of honey. That project takes nearly all day. We have also started playing in an Ultimate Frisbee League in Orem, UT on saturday mornings. This year I actually convinced Mitch to play with me and I think he is going to enjoy it. I have also been engrossed in reading the book Eldest. It is the sequal to Eragon. Mitch and I both enjoyed reading these books and are now awaiting the release of the third book Brisingr. If you like dragons, elves, dwarves, magic and danger you will like these books. We have also been busy with helping Jana as she has aquired a second job so I help her by watching Liam for a few hours a couple of days a week. Mitch keeps busy with work and trying to study for his next actuarial exam. He did pass his first one the end of July. Savannah has hit the terrible two's even though she isn't two yet. She has recently become stubornly independent. She has to do everything herself. She says "I do!" so I let her try. And then she comes to me for help or just gets mad and throws it. She decided to pick out her dress today so she picked out the had made dress from Mexico her Grandma Net got for her in Cancun. She had never wanted to wear it before today so we were totally willing to let her wear it to church. She is funny she has even developed a favorite shirt she wants to wear all the time. So it isn't fun when it gets dirty and she has to pick something else to wear. She will be two in three weeks! My how the time flies.

Here is Savannah in her hand-made dress from Mexico.

Hair Cut

2008-09-07T17:51:00.003-06:00

A couple of weeks ago I cut Savannah's hair in the back for the first time. It was getting a little crazy and it was different lengths. So now her hair is mostly one length and we think she is cute. (You can compare her hair with the previous post.)

Painting

2008-09-07T17:46:00.003-06:00

I thought that maybe Savannah might have fun with fingerpaints since we had seen Sofie playing with finger paints. The only thing is I can't get her to use her fingers! She doesn't like to get them dirty so I got out some paint brushes so she paints with paint brushes instead.

Movies

2008-08-06T19:22:00.006-06:00

Savannah has taken to watching a few of the same movies over and over again. I don't know if she really likes them or if she just likes the blue cases but these are the same movies we watch all the time.

Savannah loves to watch Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium. She even can quote parts of the movie like "its magic" and "don't go." She is so cute.

The Sword and the stone is one we have watched frequently in spurts. We either watch it every day or take a break for a while.

Over the Hedge isn't one of my favorites but Savannah seems to be hot and cold about this one too. We go through periods where we watch it every day and then we will go for a few weeks without watching it.

I have got her to watch a princess movie or two, but the covers to those ones aren't as attractive I guess:)

Yellowstone Trip (An Overview)

2008-08-05T20:48:00.005-06:00

Well we have far too many pictures to post so here is an overview of what we did and saw on our trip.

First off we stopped by the Idaho Falls temple since we were in the area. It was closed while we were there but we were only stopping by to see it. You can see a little guy up on the spire working on it. It was beautiful and we enjoyed the stop. The River and the falls are right behind the temple so it makes the whole area beautiful and peaceful.

Next we stopped by the Rexburg Temple. By the way this was our first time to these cities. This temple was beautiful as well and I was amazed that it was pretty much located on BYU-Idaho's campus. So we got to look over the campus while we were there as well.

The next day we finally got to the park. The first wildlife we saw when we got to the park was a bald eagle, sorry I have no pictures. Then we spotted (Kristie spotted) two elk on the side of the road next to a picnic area so we pulled over for a closer picture. Here they are on the other side of the stream.

We stopped for lunch at a little picnic spot somewhere in the park and we had a few little friends that came to join us. Here is a picture of one.

We were traveling down the road headed toward old faithful and the hotpots when we encountered a traffic jam. I leaned out the window to see what the hold up was and as you can see we had a buffalo as a pace car. There was a Yellowstone tour bus at the front and he would not pass the buffalo for anything so for a half an hour we followed this buffalo down the road at his pace until he finally found a bit of grass that was adequate to wander into.

There were a great many hot pools to see at Yellowstone. But my favorite one was sapphire pool. It had the most brilliant color of any of the pools.

Here is old faithful in all its glory. I remember going to old faithful as a kid and couldn't understand why it was called old faithful because it was late and we had to wait for it. Well it didn't disappoint me this time it was 15 min late this time too.

Here we are in the car on the way home. I think I was bored and thought I would take a picture of the three of us in the car. Savannah had had enough by this point and was fast asleep.There are many more things here at this park that are noteworthy and memorable, but we will leave them for you all to discover when you go to Yellowstone.

Singing

2008-07-16T14:14:00.003-06:00

Savannah was singing really loudly while I was cooking her and egg. So this is a video clip of her singing.

Picture Please

2008-07-16T14:08:00.002-06:00

Savannah has been getting out the camera lately and making me take pictures of her. She gets out the camera and cocks her head to the side while holding out the camera. These were just a few of the pictures she made me take.

Wendy this is for you

2008-06-27T16:14:00.004-06:00

Savannah loves to eat Honey Bunches of Oats. Random I know. She eats them sometimes three meals a day taking after her Aunt Wendy. I don't have a picture of it on the camera but she will even pick up the bowl or plate and drink the milk.

Our New Apartment

2008-06-27T16:00:00.005-06:00

Here is the master bedroom from the doorway and below is the view from the closets.

Savannah's bedroom has an odd shape to it. It has six walls. This view is from the end of Savannah's crib by the door. Below is a sleeping baby.

Below is a picture of her cute curtains.

Here is our kitchen from the doorway to the living room. On the right side are doorways that lead to the bathroom/laundry room and furnace closet. There is also a back door right beside the fridge.

This is the living room from the doorway to the kitchen. Below is the view of the living room from the couch.

Temple Square

2008-06-27T15:54:00.002-06:00

Way back in May we took a trip to temple square and all the spring flowers were in bloom. Here are some of the beautiful pictures Miranda took while we were there. The last one is of Savannah smelling the flowers. Isn't she cute with her eyes closed?

Playing Catch-up

2008-06-27T15:18:00.005-06:00

Sorry I haven't been updating lately but we moved to Pleasant Grove, unpacked, my mom came to visit and then I had to get my life organized. Now I think I have time to play catch-up.

Demarie and Savannah were sampling the cookie dough that I think Demarie had made (I can't remember who made the dough.)

Who is writing this blog?

2008-05-01T13:47:00.002-06:00

TV Reviews

Who is writing this blog? It must not be me.

Chillin with her cousin

2008-04-24T10:15:00.001-06:00

Savannah wanted her cousin Liam to sit by her on her little couch. He is almost 2 months old and she is almost 19 months old.

The "Adorable" Look

2008-03-28T19:54:00.003-06:00

When Savannah is asked the question "can you look adorable" she usually squints up her face and cocks her head to the side. So when she was asked this time this is what our camera caught. It is now one of my favorite pictures of Savannah.

Easter 2008

2008-03-26T15:01:00.001-06:00

Here is the little cupcake face.

Here we are teaching Savannah how to find the candy.

I think she gets the point of looking for candy.

Our little adventurer.

2008-03-07T14:06:00.004-07:00

Our little Savannah is a little adventurer. She demonstrated to her dad that she could climb to the top of the bunk beds. Her Aunt Sabrina wasn't too willing to really let her do it on her own again. But you get the idea. She never ceases to amaze us. Her previous stunt was to climb the bar stools in the kitchen which are at least 2 ft high and they swivel. You can imagine our surprise when we found her on top.

Playful Little Girl

2008-02-19T15:18:00.002-07:00

Savannah got a cute red dress for Valentine's Day from her Grandma Pat. She is so adorable.

Savannah decided to try on Sabrina's shoes and wear them around the house.

We got some balloons after the ward valentine's program and they have been alot of fun for Savannah.

Is this the fountain of youth? Well it is a fountain of hair. It is getting so long!

Sledding in Kamas

2008-02-06T11:31:00.000-07:00

Savannah and Mitch on the sled and Kristie is pushing.

Mommy and Savannah climbing the hill back to the top.

Mommy and Savannah sledding down the hill.

Mitch sledding down the hill.

Savior of the World

2008-02-01T14:06:00.000-07:00

See if you can find Mitch in this Picture of the Choir of Angels.

Mitch is in the Middle of the group of Priests. Their costumes were great and the detail was amazing.

Mitch and his cousin Brant in their Apostle costumes. Mitch was Andrew and Brant was Peter.

Here is Mitch next to the tomb he constructed.

Cute Pigtails

2008-01-25T14:12:00.002-07:00

We tricked Savannah into letting us put pigtails in her hair. She hasn't let us since.

Christmas 2007

2008-01-25T14:03:00.000-07:00

Savannah and Uncle Bryan at Christmas in South Dakota.

Savannah and Grandma Pat opening presents.

Savannah and Daddy opening presents.

Savannah wearing a santa hat with Grandma Pat.

I love my cheese!!!

2008-01-25T13:07:00.001-07:00

This is what Savannah does with her cheese everytime we give it to her.

Playing in the Leaves

2008-01-25T13:02:00.000-07:00

Savannah and Sabrina Playing in the leaves.

Savannah and Miranda playing in the leaves. (I know I am a little slow at posting these. They are from November before all the snow.)

Crossword Puzzle

2007-11-23T19:41:00.001-07:00

Savannah thought she would try her hand at the crossword puzzle sincer her aunt couldn't finish it.

Pretty Parasol

2007-11-23T19:39:00.000-07:00

Cute Curls

2007-11-19T21:58:00.000-07:00

Check out Savannah's cute curls.

Halloween Pictures

2007-11-19T21:53:00.000-07:00

Here are some Halloween pictures.

Our First Blog

2007-11-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

This is our first blog. We are hoping to better be able to let you all know what is going on in our lives. So this is the practice attempt.