One Love, One Word

1. Where is your cell phone? Bed
2. Your significant other? Skiing
3. Your hair? Dirty
4. Your mother? Hanging
5. Your father? Working
6. Your favorite? Family
7. Your dream last night? Craaaaaazy
8. Your favorite drink? H20
9. Your dream/goal? Translation
10. What room you are in? Living
11. Your hobby? Music
12. Your fear? Dark
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Pregnant
14. Where were you last night? Home
15. Something that you aren't? Negative
16. Muffins? Tops
17. Wish list item? Basement
18. Where you grew up? Paradise
19. Last thing you did? Watched
20. What are you wearing? Scrubs
21. Your TV? Sad
22. Your pets? None
23. Friends? Wonderful
24. Your life? Perfect
25. Your mood? Motivated
26. Missing someone? Julia
27. Car? Niiiiice
28. Something you're not wearing? Nailpolish
29. Your favorite store? Web
30. Your favorite color? Verde
33. When is the last time you laughed? 9:00AM
34. Last time you cried? 10:00AM
35. Who will resend this? Nerds
36. One place that I go to over and over? Closet
37. One person who emails me regularly? Dictionary.com
38. My favorite place to eat? Sushi
39. Where are you right now? Couch
40. Where should you be right now? Reading

I tag Shannon, Andrea, and Stacey

I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home...

Baby gets so excited when Robbie comes home from being gone all weekend. Last time he came home we went up and played with her in her room and this is some of the footage we got.

Little Monkey...babies got skills.

Baby clapping congratulations to her newly acquired skill. Yay baby!

It was seriously cute. I've been trying to get her to clap for a while now, then suddenly while we were at the volleyball game something clicked and she figured it out! No there is no stopping her, she does it all day long. Monkey see, monkey do I suppose. Now if we can only work on her focus...her feet seem to be a distraction in almost all situations. :)

Baby Beluga

Baby was being so cute the other day. She kept looking up at us then just laying down like this. Arch her back up, then plop down looking at us like...I'm so tired, do something. She is getting to be so beautiful and I just thought I'd share. :)

Nieces, Nephews, Friends, and Cousins

A couple weeks ago my sister in law christy had the fun opportunity to go to disneyworld with her mom and sisters. She took her two oldest kids with her leaving their two youngest and my brother here in Utah. As a result my brother needed a little help watching his kids while he was at work. So Elizabeth and I had a fun time with family all week. Etta loved being with her cousins. Lexi always playing the mother and michael as wanting to jump in and help. If she cried Lexi would say, "shhh it's ok" and michael would say BABY, then run and get her pacifier or bottle. (they're 4 and 2) It was pretty entertaining, Etta just laughed at them running around all week. We also got over to visit Kamber, Ryan, and Callan. Callan is so cute. Etta and I definitely had a busy week of friends and family. Thanks for having us!

Ladies Night

So my wonderful friends Beth, Danielle, and I decided to have a girls night. Girls nights usually seem to consist of gossip and food, but seeing as we are all trying to work out and get in shape it seemed a little counter productive. So we thought we'd do something that got us out and about doing something fun, new, and active. So we went rock climbing at Momentum in Sandy. It was a blast. I was so soar, got a great work out, bonded with some girl friends, and had a great night. I was so proud of Danielle for conquering a slight fear of heights and Beth for just going after it with enthusiasm. Thanks for the fun night girls.

Crawling Chicky

So she's been doing this for a while and is even better at it now but I thought I'd post these from January 3rd. Crazy how far she's come since then.

More and More Christmas Pics

So I still have more Christmas pics, we just had so much fun! I can't get my video to upload again so keep holdin your breath.

TaggerPants

Name and Meaning: Elizabeth meaning "my God is an oath," "my God is abundance," "God's promise," or "oath of God." Avery meaning "elf" or "magical counsel."

Age: 7 months

Nicknames: Etta, Lark, Baby, Anything-Pants (ie poopy-pants, sweetie-pants, etc), Bitsie, Booger, Lil Stinker, E

Favorite Activities: Singing and dancing with me around the house, watching "your baby can read," crinkling paper, eating, skyping family and friends, putting everything in her mouth.

Favorite Foods: Sweet potatoes, Apples, Peas, Pears, and still loving the bottle.

Least Favorite Foods: Avocado, Carrots

Favorite Music: No matter what's wrong if you put on Baby Beluga she'll silence immediately and start crying again when it's over, Bare Necessities, she pretty much just LOVES music, anything I sing, and anything on her kids songs cd's we made.

Favorite Toys: Hugo, my phone (which is NOT a toy), and anything that lights up.

Favorite Books: Very Hungry Caterpillar, Dancing with Degas, A Magical Day with Matisse, Goodnight Moon, Winnie the Pooh, A Picnic with Monet, In the Garden with Van Gogh, her flashcards, and pretty much anything I'm reading I read out loud and she loves it.

Favorite Item of Clothing: Her silver sparkly shoes.

What makes her happy: Baby Beluga, BATH TIME, Hugo, kids and other babies, when you look at her and pretty much do anything at all:).

What makes her sad: When she's hungry and you're not feeding her or when she's tired and you're not putting her to sleep.

Funny words or phrases: blowing raspberries, da da da da, really high pitched squeals, a low grunting yelling noise that is impossible to describe...ahhhh!

So this is a hat that a sweet women from our branch named Dorothy made for her. She also made hats for every other baby and child in our branch. That's amazing!

Little Bunny Foo Foo

So baby had her 6 month appointment on December 19, 2008 and these are the results.

Weight-16lbs 3oz

Height-26in

She LOVED the butcher paper on the doctors table as well as the mirror. She was in heaven making loud crunchy noises and looking at the cute smiling baby in front of her. She was being so funny and I didn't catch it on camera. I'm always a little to slow on draw but here's a little something that I did catch.

Now that I can upload videos lots will be coming. I know I said that before but it's true this time! We've been having a blast watching her sit up, start talking, do breakdancing stalls while she rocks up on her knees (she'll be crawling any second now), and eating all her solids. We made her a bunch of healthy baby foods that she loves, namely sweet potatoes and apples. What I love most has to be the many faces she makes when she loves and/or hates different foods. I also love that she's an incredibly clean eater...I don't know that I could handle the squishy food everywhere so it's much appreciated. :) Anyway, we're having a blast watching her learn and grow! Come visit and see for yourself!

Winter Wonderland

My pictures are building up waiting to be published. I was laggin over the holidays so I've got tons to share. These are just a few fun and random pictures from a lazy day at home. Anyone in the area knows how much snow we got in the last month and this was just one of the days decided to enjoy it.

When we looked out the window in the morning we couldn't resist throwing on some warm clothes and running around singing christmas songs!

I threw baby in the snow to make a snow angel!
Then we came back in to warm up those red cheeks! And baby lounged big time while she chilled out watching her beloved reading video.

Seriously? Seriously.

Please go to this website immediately if not sooner. http://mmike.com/#top

The artists name is Michael Murphy. He started making amazing works of art during the election process and gained a bit of fame. I don't know the whole story but it led to him trying to sell one of his works of art for something like 60,000 dollars in order to pay for the surgery of Ed Port. Very cool. You can now go to this website to do your part and donate. www.edneedsamiracle.com

So check it out and check out his art, it's unreal. Make sure you look at it all. This one is made out of 2500 twisted wires. Yeah. The craziest one has to be one that's made only of nails on the canvas. Seriously, you have to see. I cannot believe that people are this amazing...it blows me away.

This or That?

High chairs anyone? I don't know what to do!!!! Help, my head is going to explode. So...I've looked at so many and read so many reviews and it just keeps making me more and more confused. So i'm asking you for what you've heard and used. My mom was generous enough to expand our high chair budget a bit at christmas time so I've been looking at the Tripp Trapp, Svan, Kinderzeat, Kee Karoo, One Step Ahead blah blah blah. I love the idea of the chair being able to sit right up to the table so they can be apart of the family interaction, I also like they adjust and grow with the child. What I don't like is the lack of tray with some of them...is that a big deal? Should I just go buy the cheapest thing with four legs? So please someone just tell me what to do.

Christmas Has Come and Our Goose is Definitely Fat

Christmas was fun this year as we celebrated with family for Etta's first big Holiday. James moved out here this year and since Jacqueline and I already live here my parents and Julia made the trek out to make it easier on all of us. Andrew was very missed but otherwise we were all together. We had all sorts of fun outings, family activities, and Christmas craziness. Pretty much everything we had planned didn't happen but because we were together it was still a blast. The snow made it interesting for us to go to salt lake everyday but what is Christmas when it's not white. Margaret threw a fun little pre-Christmas party on Monday where we enjoyed of course good food and Christmas carols somewhat drowned out by crying and sleigh bells. :) We had so much fun helping with the homeless dinner at Magleby's then having everyone at our house for Christmas Eve dinner. The next day we opened presents at James' where Etta got a couple fun toys and a couple cute outfits, Rob got an Ipod along with some other man gear, I got some beautiful clothing items and namely a sewing machine, and we played Rock band all day. We are so grateful to our generous loving families for all our gifts and cash donations alike. :)

Our Adorable little fattypants.

We love LOVE you guys and are so grateful to have spent this time with you.

When in Rome...

You Belong in Rome

You're a big city soul with a small town heart Which is why you're attracted to the romance of Rome Strolling down picture perfect streets, cappuccino in hand And gorgeous Italian people - could life get any better?

What City Do You Belong In?

Miss Giggles.

So here is one of the many videos I've been trying to post. This is our friend Julie getting some giggles and squeals out of Elizabeth over thanksgiving. The object of the excitement is her much beloved dog Hugo. From what I hear she was laughing more than squealing while I was in the loo before whipping out the camera and catching the end of her delirium.

Thanksgiving, Good Living.

You know life's good when you're spending Thanksgiving at the beach. This year we decided to go down to San Diego and visit Rob's dad and sisters for the holiday luckily all his sisters decided to as well!

We had so much fun...let's see. We got to see the Rowleys (no picture, tear) in Vegas on our way out. Then Rob's Aunt and Uncle were kind enough to have us stay over in Corona to visit with them and Rob's Grandparents, Keith and Sally. It was so amazing to see them still trucking along, at 94, and loving every minute of it. Keith drove us, yep drove us to lunch, and I never once felt like I was going to die. That's impressive. :) We then went out to see Roy and Jenna. Two of the sweetest people we know. Rob lived with them his senior year of high school and they've been great family friends before that and since. We had a blast visiting other friends from Robbie's former life in the Palisades. After spending a couple days there we went through the oc to visit Russell, Julie and Sadie (sooo fun!) and Rob's good friends Josh and his wife heather. They were so sweet, cooked us a great meal and let us stay...we love those guys.

Russ and Julie

Roy and Jenna
Lastly we ended up at the final destination in SD...where katie cooked us a stellar thankgsiving, mindy and dan got everyone sick (we love you guys anyway :), Mya schooled me in the ways of modern technology, Owie woke us up every morning proclaiming at the top of his lungs, "Owie go peepee!" pretty much everyone had me laughing all weekend, and I became master to the extreme of all things Rock Band. Thanks Bob and family for showing us a good time.

The last day we were there the weather finally cleared up and we took baby to the beach for the very first time...

Mya and Abby...it wasn't exactly the best swim day but they braved the cold. As did Hannah, Ben, and Nate when Hannah accidentally dropped him in the water. :)

Cutest Baby Ever.

Awww...that hat is huge.

We've got spirit, yes we do!

BYU Alumni vs. Newbies Match.

I've done many a post parading Baby's BYU enthusiasm but this one just takes the cake. I mean come on...could she be any more adorable? I submit that she cannot.

(BTW-Baby is still mesmerized by the camera and stops smiling as soon as she sees it. And yes, I call her Baby...but to you she is Etta, "cause no one puts Baby in a corner.")

SLACKING!!!!

So my computer once again has been having issues of the worst kind which I'm afraid just might ruin me on Macs forever. That drama put aside I'm sure I could've found a way but I've been a totally and complete slacker. So here I am playing some major catch up as I re-enter the blogging world.

For Halloween Robbie and I stopped by our ward party, celebrated Robbie's bday, carved pumpkins and went over to the Parkinson's for fun and games. We being the debbie downers we are never dressed up. We did however borrow our neighbors costume from last year for Elizabeth. Needless to say it was hilarious. I love this girl.

Can't find the pictures of our pumpkins!! Sad day, maybe they'll pop up somewhere.

Till tomorrow...

Prop 8

A short paper by Morris Thurston, retired attorney, adjunct professor at BYU Law School, and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This paper addresses an anonymous flyer, “Six Consequences if Proposition 8 Fails” that has become the platform many Mormon and other church leaders are using to insist on anti-marriage equality votes on California's Proposition 8. He debunks the flyer and its arguments with sound law and out of his reverent LDS faith.

This doesn't change my opinion and support of Prop 8, however, it is very interesting and may bring changes to my reasoning. Check it out if you're interested.

http://www.sdakinship.org/data/Responses_to_Six_Consequences_if_Prop_8_Fails.pdf