Great Quote

I just read the best quotes from Pres. Hinckley and his wife, and wanted to share them. Okay, truthfully, I didn't have anywhere to write them down and thought this was as good a place as any!:)

“You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley.

"Yes, let her fly! Let her develop her own talents. Let her do things her way. Get out of her way, and marvel at what she does."
Gordon B. Hinckley

Annie's 1st Birthday

The doctor confirmed it...we survived a year with a baby! I knew we could do it! Annie celebrated her first birthday this week. I took the day off work so we could go to the doctor and then play all day. Annie is weighing in at 22 lbs. 13 oz. and is 30 1/2 in. tall. She's in the 75th percentile for her weight and the 90th percentile for her height. She'll tower over all the kids in nursery when she starts going this summer!

Annie's got crawling down to a T! She's so fast, sometimes I'm surprised I can catch her! She is cruising all over the furniture, and stands up at the walls and doors (especially if she's been shut out!). She laughs at lots of different things: her glowworm, Dad, being tickled on her belly, Bobo, being forward-facing in her carseat. She says "Mama," "Dad" and "Baby." Sometimes if you catch her in the right mood, she'll even say "Don't." She's working on lots of different consonants and one of these days will probably just start saying all kinds of words!

To celebrate, we had cake and ice cream at our house, with Grandpa.

For her birthday, Annie got some new clothes, books and toys. Her favorites so far have been the bath mitts Grandma Karryn sent to her. She's hauled them all over the house in her mouth, in her fist and under her arm. She also got a balloon from Grandma Vesta that is just the bane of her existence! She loves the ribbon, but yells at the balloon. And if the balloon comes near her...she screams!

We did a little photo shoot at Craig & Bethany's house when we were there a couple weeks ago. These are some of my favorites.

S is for Silly

With the exception of teething and sippy-cup drama, our house has been pretty mellow since Christmas. I don't even have much to blog about, but Annie has been hilarious the past week (since she got over some teething issues and made a stand about sippy-cups!), so I wanted to post some pictures and a couple videos of her.

She has two paci's and one day, she got ahold of both of them. Apparently, she couldn't decide which one was the right one...

Her new favorite thing to do is to run around the house with Kris. She giggles every time...and it's the surest way to make her stop crying!

And my favorite pictures of the week...

Fish Face

One day we were eating lunch when Annie - all on her own, with no encouragement from anybody - started making fish faces. She does it spontaneously, while she's playing and toddling around the furniture. It's hysterical and she's so proud of herself. We got video of the first time she was doing it (sorry its wobbly...I was cracking up!) She still won't do it long enough for me to take a picture of her, though!

Christmas, Part 2

We had a great Christmas at our house! I was the only one to get up early (I was too excited to sleep any longer!) so I had to lounge around and wait for Kris and Annie to get up. Kris had to work till late the night before, so he was pretty tired. And Annie...well, she didn't know there was anything different about Christmas day, than any other day.:)
Here's Annie in her (last-minute) Christmas jammies. I had a hard time finding her size...so these are about 2 sizes too big. She can't crawl in them, or her legs end up coming out of the leg of the pajamas.

Annie got lots of fun things. She got a Ball Popper from Santa, and then some Little People, a V-Tech ball (it's crazy...it rolls by itself), and another ball (she LOVES balls!). Grandma Hunter sent her a Winnie the Pooh Christmas ornament. Of course, the wrapping paper and bows were the greatest part of Christmas for Miss Annie...but that's to be expected!

Kris got a Boise State Football shirt, which he has proudly worn just about every day since Christmas. Bring on the Fiesta Bowl!

Christmas, Part 1

Since we got our tree out of the box and ready to put up, I'm suprised at how helpful Annie is! She wanted to help put up the tree with Mom and Dad. Okay, maybe not help. But she was right in the middle of it all!


She does love to help wrap presents. I'm really looking forward to Christmas morning when I don't have to take the wrapping paper away from her. Guess how many rolls of it she's destroyed...:)



We had our Ward Christmas Party 2 weekends ago. Unfortunately, Kris had to work, so Annie and I were flying solo! Annie was excited to go. She got to play at Grandma Vesta's house while I went to the church to help set up (Hail the Conquering Activities Committee!). She had lots of fun there, she helped to un-decorate the Christmas tree (okay, maybe that wasn't so much "help" as just being a nuisance), taking out the trash (again with the nuisance...), and folding laundry (that's help!).


This year, we had a soup dinner (yum!) and a short program, followed by Santa, of course! Annie loved to watch the Primary kids up on the stage. I was suprised at how well-behaved she was for the whole program! Unfortunately...she did not love Santa.

One of our favorite Christmas activities is to decorate cookies and take plates of treats to our neighbors. Annie helped with that, too!

This is my favorite picture...after a long afternoon of frosting cookies (note that we had to change her shirt...pink frosting on yellow? Thank you Oxyclean!), Annie was exhausted.

9 Months

Annie had her 9 month visit to the doctor this month. She weighed in at 21 lbs. 8 oz. and is 28 inches long. She's in the 80th percentile for her height and 90th for her weight. She's going to be tall just like her Dad (6'4", thank you)! So far, she's got 4 teeth and she's doing lots of fun tricks now, like crawling and rolling around and laughing and she's even started pulling herself up on the furniture.

Annie is such a happy baby...we're really lucky. Oh, and she's freakin' adorable...