Ahh, Memories

When I was at my parent's house I found a lot of my pictures from high school and the first year in college. I thought some of them were pretty funny, and some of them are just fun memories, but either way I wanted to blog them. I hope no one is offended if I put a funny picture of you on!! Enjoy!This is Chels, me, and Steph on Memorial Day weekend in 2000. Remember this?

My sister Sarah and I at her graduation in 2000

I doubt Melanie will ever see this, but it's funny for all of us who know Melanie Davis. I think this is from girls camp.

Do you remember this Steph? This is from when we went to your grandparent's house in Idaho. Good times.

The classic underwear on the head.

This is from our prom in 2001. Chels was dressed up in a "western" theme. It wasn't just weird taste in prom dresses.

The morning of Chelsea's 18th birthday. I love it.

Chels, remember our trip to Hawaii with the fam?

Grad night 2002. Brittany, I miss you!

This is Halloween 2002 at BYU Idaho. I think Amy was supposed to be blind and I was a mouse.
Ames, you are looking good!!

Thanks for sharing memories with me!

Kaiya Looks Cute in a Swimsuit

The other day Patrick decided that it was now okay for Kaiya to go in the hot tub (apparently my opinion wasn't that important). So yesterday it was finally nice enough to go in and she loved it! she splashed around and kicked her legs. It was adorable. But I thought she looked so cute in her swimsuit I had to take her picture. She's showing off her newfound ability to point as well, which is something she loves to do becuase then mommy will give her what she wants!

Patrick's New Look

So here's the new look Patrick is sporting these days. It looks a little Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff-y, but I kind of like it.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Patrick is at school all day today, so Kaiya and I will be celebrating her first Valentine's day together at home. I made some V-day cookies last night (thanks for the recipe Steph!), and I'll probably eat them all today... well, maybe I'll save some for Patrick. I tried to take a Valentines picture of Kai all dressed up in her V-day outfit and with the new stuffed animal Grandma Ginger gave her this morning, but of course she wouldn't sit still when I had her in front of a cute background holding the animal. So this is all I could get, but she's still pretty cute:) We hope you all have a fabulous Valentine's Day too!!

Tejas Amigos!!

Last week Kaiya and I flew out to Texas to surprise my parents and spend a week with them. My sister Sarah is there right now also with her family, so it was really fun for the babies to be able to play together. They got along really well and had a lot of fun, aside from Kaiya trying to beat Miles up in the bathtub. We had a really good trip and were able to spend a lot of time outside, which was nice becuase the weather here has been so cold we haven't been outside in months. Here is a picture overload of our trip. We hope you enjoy!

We dressed the babies up in coordinating outfits to take pictures on our last day there (the pictures are in reverse order)

One day we went to the beach and Kaiya enjoyed trying to eat the sand, while I enjoyed trying to keep the sand out of her mouth.
My parents and their grandbabies

Kaiya and Miles enjoying a meal together

The babies fighting over who got to pull up the grass first

We took the kids to the park one day and they had tons of fun. Kaiya liked the swings the best and was a little afraid of the slide

The babies had so much fun playing together and we all had a great time. We can't wait to go back again!

Another new favorite

I got this cookbook a few weeks ago and have been trying the recipes all month. It's called Deceptively Delicious and it's by Jessica Seinfeld. The premise of the book is to trick your kids into eating their fruits and vegetables by pureeing them and putting them into foods they will eat. I bought it to get more nutrition into our foods; Kaiya is a little young to be tricked yet. I thought it would be a great way to add fiber and vitamins into the stuff we were going to eat anyway. So basically, I like this book. It's not just a cookbook, it has tips and ideas for eating healthier and goes through the whole process of how to puree the foods and store them and whatnot. Not all of the recipes are great (what cookbook can say that all of its recipes are great?) but after reading the book and trying her recipes I have figured out what kinds of purees will work in other recipes that I already love. So if you happen to be in the market for a new cookbook, I highly recommend this one. You can also find the recipes online at: http://www.oprah.com/foodhome/food/jseinfeld/recipes/jseinfeld_recipes_main.jhtml

A Funny Video

This is Kaiya's new thing when eating. She puts up her hand and waves it as if to say "hurry up, I'm hungry!". We think it's pretty cute.

G diapers

I recently started using these diapers and I love them! They're biodegradable and you can flush them, so no more stinky diaper pails and no more feeling guilty about filling the landfills with Kaiya's dirty diapers. The covers are so cute on too! If you have time, check out the website. They aren't much more expensive than regular diapers and you can get them at a lot of organic type stores.

gDiapers - Home

Today's nap

So today I put Kaiya down for her first nap and could hear that after about 15 minutes she still hadn't gone to sleep. So I went in to check on her to make sure she was okay and this is what I found:

She has been sitting up in her crib lately (that's why I went to check on her), but this time she was grabbing and licking the bars and had also grabbed some things from her diaper changing station, which is right by her crib, and pulled them through the bars and was playing with them in her crib. So I guess I have some rearranging to do. Needless to say, it was pretty funny. Kai didn't think so though when after taking this photo I laid her back down and left her to go to sleep.

She's Crawling!

She started crawling about a week and a half ago, and our Internet is finally fixed so I can blog about it! I have taken probably too many videos of her doing this, but here's one of the better ones. She's just so cute!

Patrick's Birthday

Although it was well over three weeks ago, I thought I would share some pictures from Patrick's birthday dinner. We went to a Japanese restaurant in Boise that was surprisingly really good. Patrick got his favorite, sukiyaki, and the waitress wasn't even shocked that he asked for a raw egg to dip it in. At that point, we knew it was authentic. The best part was that Kaiya got to eat her Cheerios from chopsticks. I didn't want them on the table because then she would be able to reach the food, and I thought it might make it a little cleaner. I was wrong about second one though.

Cheerios!

We started giving Kai Cheerios a few days ago and she loves them! I thought it would be difficult for her to pick them up and get them into her mouth, but she didn't have any problem with it. It's so cute to see her eating them and get really excited when she gets them from her tray to her mouth in one shot. The best is when they fall out though and she doesn't seem to have any idea where the little thing could have gone. Too cute!

Our Christmas

Our Christmas was pretty traditional this year. We had a nice Christmas at home and it was pretty mellow for Kaiya's first Christmas, just the way we had hoped it would be. Kaiya wasn't all that into it; I thought she would be really excited for all of the wrapping paper and bows and ribbons all over the place, but I think in the end it was just a little too much for her. She got tired and had to take a nap half way through our gift opening. But she did get some really cute and fun things. She really likes her new shopping cart from Santa and her new ride on car from her Grandma and Grandpa Grover. I made a turkey dinner and pies, and Kaiya enjoyed eating turkey for the first time. Overall, we had a really good Christmas and were so grateful for all that we were able to give and to receive. Most of all, we were grateful to remember the birth of Christ and the gift that He gave to all of us.

Her New Favorite

This is Kaiya's absolute favorite thing to do lately. When I set her down on the floor to play, she immediately finds her toy basket and gets to it, then proceeds to pull out every single toy. She sometimes glances at it, sometimes puts it in her mouth for a second or two, sometimes just throws it out of her way. I wonder if she's looking for something, or just trying to see if anything is new. It's so funny though. She can empty the basket in about two minutes and she has so much fun doing it. Once all of the toys are out she can relax and look at each one and play with it for a while. I can't believe how big she is getting already and how much personality she has. It seems like only a few weeks ago she was just eating, sleeping, and crying, and now she's definitely got a will of her own!

Hmm, what's in here?

I think I see something new!

She has to make sure she's gettng everything

Mommy, don't bother me with pictures!

She got it all!