Sunday's are the Best!!

After we got home from church, took a sunday nap, and Luke got back from doing his home teaching, we decided to go to Claire's Grandma and Grandpa's house to see the new baby ducks and the chicks. She loved them but kept trying to poke them in the eyes. I told her that later this summer Quackers (her duck) and JP (her chick) would chase her around and peck at her little feet to get back at her for poking at their eyes.

The best part of the day was watching Sam, Luke, and Claire play basketball. Claire would go chasing after the ball whenever the boys would lose it. The ball is almost as big as she is.

My Favorite Easter Pics

Happy Easter!!

We just got back from Stansbury Island. It has been a tradition for as long as I can remember. Luckily it didn't start raining until after we got home.

Claire loved playing in the sand with her new sandpail and she loved eating the sand too. I almosted gagged when I saw her drop her sucker in the the sand and put in back in her mouth before anyone could stop her.
But my favorite part was watching Claire hunt for eggs with her daddy during the easter egg hunt. She had figured out earlier in the day that there was candy inside the eggs so during the hunt she kept stopping to try to open up the egg she just found.

Claire and her daddy did pretty good for an 'almost one year old.' She got about ten eggs in her basket.

My brother and some of my cousins climbed the mountain with an old tire just to see if the tire would make it all the way to the bottom of the mountain without getting stopped by a big boulder. I don't have a clue how that tradition started. And of course we came home covered in raw egg from the egg toss. It was a great day!!

Is she walking yet??

Well, it depends on the day. Some days all she will do is walk...everywhere she goes, she has to walk. And then the next day she will only crawl. Today was a walking day until her dad came home and then she was running around the house. She always gets so excited when he gets home.

What Happens in Vegas...

This last weekend Luke and I went down to Las Vegas. It is our anniversary next week and we had been wanting to get away, so when one of my good friends invited us to her wedding, we decided to go. We really only had one full day in Vegas but it was still nice to get away. We went to the wedding in the Las Vegas Temple in the morning, visited Hoover Dam (Luke had never been there) in the afternoon, and went to a hypnotist show at night. It was great getting away just the two of us but we were so excited get back and see Claire.

Doesn't she look BEAUTIFUL!!
I met Joanna about five years ago when we attended a BYU travel study program in Nauvoo. We became good friends when I wanted to go home to my brother's wedding (actually I was going crazy being away from Luke and my brother's wedding was the perfect excuse to go home) and Joanna and Chelsea needed to go home for something too. I was the only one old enough to rent a car so we split the cost of the rental and drove the three hours to the airport. When we weren't on a bus traveling around to see historic sights, I was usually found in Joanna and Chelsea's room hanging out. I can't even remember how many times we stayed up all night watching the 'Santa Clause' movie while doing homework and sneaking into the cafeteria to eat the leftover pie that was kept in the fridge.
We love you Joanna and are so happy for you.

Here's my hot hubby!!! Makes me want to get grandpa's record player fixed so we can play the Elvis records we have packed away.

Playin' Outside

Claire absolutely loves being outside. For the last month or so, she will head for the front door and try to get out whenever someone comes over. So we were both excited when the weather was good today. I got to work in my garden and Claire tagged along. She had so much fun!!

Claire is 10 months old

We can't believe how fast time has gone by since Claire has joined our family. Life is so much fun with her in it.

What she says:
Dada
Mum
Wha Sa - What's that, we think??
And just today I asked her if she wanted an animal cookie and she said "cook"

Her favorite songs:
Popcorn popping on the apricot tree
You are my sunshine

What she has done lately:
Threw a package of toilet paper in the bathtub while it was filling with water.
Got stuck under our bed.
She takes four steps all the time now.

Luke's Birthday

Luke's birthday was last week and I had so much fun making his birthday cake. (Birthday cake ideas on parenting.com) He didn't really want to do anything for his birthday but we did get tickets to a play in Salt Lake at the Desert Star Theater. We went and saw 'Home School Musical' and laughed so hard.

Valentines Day!!

The night before Valentines Day Luke was wanting to give me my Valentines present...He is like a little kid that can't wait. Every holiday is like this and I never give in to him but this time I did. Okay, so maybe the only reason I gave in was because I wanted to start reading the book that I knew he was giving me. He also gave me some beautiful red roses. Then for Luke I had made a scavenger hunt and he had to follow the clues in order to get his present....another series of Friends.

While Luke and Claire were out buying my roses, Luke found a fake rose for Claire. He also got her 'The Little Mermaid' for Valentines Day.

My newest hobby....even though I'm not very good at it

I have always wanted to take a cake decorating class but would talk myself out of it. Then for my New Years resolution I decided that I was going to start doing all the things that I keep putting off and just go for it. The class has been so much fun even though I am really bad at it. I just hope to get good enough to make Claire and other kids we may have cute birthday cakes. The heart cake was week two, cupcakes were week three, and the flower cake was week four.