Happy Valentine's Day

From our little Valentine! She had fun opening her Valentine books from Grandma and Grandpa Scott, she especially liked the tissue paper!

Dressed in her Sunday Valentine's skirt

I am so grateful for my two Valentine's this year!

Off to China

No, not me (I wish)! My little sis Crystal left for China on Wednesday night and arrived there sometime this morning! She will be there until the end of June teaching English. I am so excited for her and all the adventures she is going to have...but i sure hope these next 4 1/2 months fly by, I am sure going to miss her. We have grown a lot closer over the years and she truly has become one of my best friends. Addie loves her so much too and I am praying she doesn't forget who Crys is, thanks to Skype! She will do amazing things for the children she works with, I just know it! We went to the airport to see her off.

Proud Parents

Addie had fun hanging out and people watching. I thought this was so cute she held her bottle for the first time!

I just love Crystal's new brown hair! She has been blonde her whole life so it was quite a change! We love you Crystal and hope you have a blast!

Just Because...

Addie is so dang cute and funny! Me and Crys got a good laugh out of this...sure do love those chubby legs!

P.S. Adds is into EVERYTHING these days and she isn't even crawling yet. Seriously she is so grabby I look away for one second and somehow she has something headed for her mouth. She wants everything BUT her baby toys. She could care less about her rattles and musical toys, she wants wrappers, papers, and pretty much anything else she can get her fingers on. Not to mention she screams when I take those things away from her. I am going to have my hands full once she is mobile!

{six}

My baby is halfway to a year. That is so crazy to me. She is getting so big and changes so much every day! Six months certainly didn't go by this quick when I was pregnant! Here are some things about Addie at 6 months:

-she is 25.7 inches (49%)

-she weighs 17lbs 10.5 oz (81%)

-her head is 43.1 cm (69%)

-she started solids (she loves rice cereal and squash but isn't loving her fruits)

-she loves the view from restaurant high chairs instead of her carseat (and started sitting in her stroller without her carseat)

-she finally fits into this adorable hat

-she smiles for the camera all the time now

-she lets me snap picture after picture of her (I am a little bit obsessed but with those rosy, chubby cheeks and a new camera I just can't resist!)

-she loves when her daddy comes home from work (big smiles everytime)

-she has become a pro at sitting

-she is so grabby, especially when it comes to my hair and face

-she can see an object she wants and reach out and grab it

-she still only rolls from her belly to her back

-she loves to stand

-she loves to yell...all the time...she is quite possibly the loudest baby ever

-she loves to blow bubbles with her mouth

-she loves to stick out her tongue

-she LOVES looking in the mirror

-she has a lot of nicknames: adds, sweet pea, baby, munchkin, deedee, missy

I hope the next six months don't go quite so fast, love you baby girl!

Year in Review

So I have been working on a post with pictures and a recap of the last twelve months for about a week now and after all my hard work I decided not to post it. I was slightly depressed by the lack of exciting things to recap on the first half of the year and had almost no pics to show for anything, plus I realized everything I would be recaping I had already posted about so no need to do it again.

I was so sick/uncomfortable/exhausted/overworked the first half of the year that I have very little to show for it other than pregnancy progression pics. Of course come July I had a plethora of pictures and exciting things (to me) to post about, almost completely revolving around a certain very cute, tiny human! We had a lost of firsts in our family this year-first time I quit my job to be a stay-at-home mom, first time I delivered a baby, first time we became parents, first time we moved out of Cache valley, first time Nephi went on a business trip, first time celebrating the holidays as a family of 3, first time we are both done being students (Nephi graduated in December....yay!!!!), and many other great firsts. We have made a lot of memories this year and have grown so much closer together as a family.

Along with so many firsts, I find myself realizing a lot of things that we didn't do this year and a lot of things that can be improved upon in 2010. I realized that we didn't take one single vacation in 2010...how sad is that?! I am determined to get our little family on AT LEAST one vacation this year. I think if I could pinpoint one new years resolution I have it is to "cease to be idle". I have been thinking about this a lot lately and it is something I really want to improve on. I find myself at the end of the day wondering where the time has gone and what I have done all day. I will admit with a baby it can be hard to use my free time productively because I just want to take a break myself when Addie naps, but I am sick of feeling like I accomplish nothing in a whole day at home. If I use my spare time to keep my home clean, exercise, plan healthy meals, read my scriptures longer, serve others, plan my YW lessons, play on the floor with Addie, and visit with friends and family I know i will feel much more accomplished and happier. Basically I need to use my time for wholesome, uplifting activities and turn off the computer and tv. Wish me luck!

Ringing in 2011

We rang in the New Year bowling at Sparetime fun center with Phi's family. Addie was a spectator in her bumbo and loved all the people watching. I was hesitant to play at first because I am terrible bowler. Aside from Wii bowling, I always come in dead last and am lucky to break like 50...seriously. Well I finally decided to play one game and somehow I bowled the best game of my life. Not only did I break 100 for my first time ever (I bowled a 109) i won the game. I was ecstatic to say the least, looks like 2011 is going to be a lucky year for me!

We did the earlier time slot for bowling that went until 8 and then they did a mini countdown and new years celebration. Addie was done around 7:30 so we didn't make it to the countdown, but we sure had a lot of fun.

I think this pic is so stinkin funny. This is our little party girl, i love that it looks like she is blowing the noise maker!

Addie was asleep before we were out the door. After she went to bed we rang in the new year with Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark.

On New Year's day we headed up to good ol' logan for a rose bowl party with some of our good friends. It was a lot of fun to catch up with them. Addie got to play with her friend Jace who is six weeks older than her!
(the pic wouldn't upload right so you can see Addie and Jace sideways)

We are excited for what 2011 has in store for our family!

Christmas 2010

I am getting so far behind on blogging. My internet/computer has been being dumb lately and I haven't been able to upload pics on blogger forev, but tonight it finally decided to let me! Our Christmas was fantastic this year. Having a baby to celebrate the holidays with is so much better, even if she had no idea what was going on. It was nice living closer to our families this year because we were able to have Christmas morning at home with just our little fam. We had our traditional Christmas Eve prime rib dinner at the Scott's and it was scrumptious. We ate a lot of yummy food, exchanged gifts, and spent time together as a family.

Here is Addie on Christmas morning. After we opened up our presents we headed over to my parents to celebrate Christmas morning with them!
Cute Jace getting ready to open his present from us

Addie getting in on the action

After opening up presents and having a yummy breakfast, we ran home and got ready for the day and went back over to my parents to hang out. We tried out my new wii game, Donkey Kong Returns, which is pretty much incredible. Later on we had Christmas dinner with all the fam. Addie did so great all day and loved all the action going on!

We finally made it down to temple square Christmas night and it did not disappoint! It was pretty cold but we bundled up! Addie loved looking at all the lights...but by the end of the day she was done and pretty much screamed the whole way home from Salt Lake!

Addie wanted out of her car seat so Uncle Kev carried her for a little bit

I went a little bit overboard with pics of Addie over Christmas cuz I was trying to figure out my sweet new camera. Hopefully I can take better pictures now!

Having Addie with us this year just really made me appreciate the true meaning of Christmas. It wasn't about the presents, it was about celebrating the birth of our Savior with our sweet baby girl and our wonderful families!