Home Home on the Range

Thanks to the Jones Family Lizzie is able to ride the Red Flyer Rocking Horse. Lizzie absolutely loves this horse especially since her Papa is way into horses. She has a great time bouncing up and down on her horse. She named her horse Lighting since it is fast like the wind! Now Lizzie is able to ride like the wind as she babbles... "Home home on the range where the deer and the antelope play..."

Where's Lizzie?

Today has been one of those days when you just want to smile and realize how special your baby is. The past couple of days Lizzie has had a really hard time sleep due to her runny nose mixed with her deep raspy cough. Even though some moments when she is screaming and I have no idea what to do to help calm her down and I want to pull out my hair. My sweet baby does this and it melts my heart.

Last weekend Shauna & the kids, Violet, Jay, Devyn & Irelynn came with Lizzie and I to Garage Sale in the great city of Moreno Valley. Jay and I came upon this house that was having a sale and we started talking to the owner and her sister. Well we were there for over an hour chatting and they kept telling up how cute Lizzie and Irelynn were. I WOULD NEVER buy stuffed animals from a garage sale since you don't know where they have been and that is just gross. After getting to know these ladies I knew that their stuffed animals were washed prior to selling them and I knew they were clean. Lizzie LOVES them. As you can tell in the picture. She loves to snuggle them close to her face and just have enough room for her bottle to poke out. Thanks Angel for the simple things that make each day sweeter than the day before, and realize how precious each moment is.

Dress-up 101

Thanks to my wonderful sister Lizzie has amazing dress up clothes. I know what you are thinking... "She is too little for dress up" But serious people all kids like to dress up even if they are only 4 months old. I really hope the butterfly costume fits her for Halloween, cause she is the cutest thing ever! Well I know it isn't Christmas but the Santa outfit won't fit her when Christmas rolls around again so I hope Lizzie brings you happy thoughts that Christmas is only 8 months and 2 days away.

Lizzie's new trick!

This is beginning of Lizzie's trick. She loves her feet and playing with them. Each day she tries to eat her toes, but finally it happened.. and here is the picture capturing the moment...
She is so flexible! One day I hope to be as flexible as she is.

I am on the Ellen Show! Today @ 4 pm

So yesterday Ashley Patterson, Katie Nielsen, Wendy Mellen, and I attended the taping of the Ellen Degeneres Show in Burbank, California. We had a great time! no kids... no husbands or boyfriends... just the girls :) We don't get a lot of opportunities to go out and have girl time, but yesterday was just that... time to visit with one another.

So we all had a great time and Ashley almost won tickets to meet David Beckam... oh how fun that would have been. The taping was a lot of fun, and we all had a great time dancing with Ellen. If you go to her website for her show @ http://ellen.warnerbros.com/ Then check out the video of who's on Ellen this week (click on Tuesday) You will see Ashley, Wendy, Katie, and myself on the snippet of video. So check it out!!!! My mouth is wide open you won't miss me... I promise!

During her monologue in the beginning of the show she talks about friends who talk WAY TOO Much... so we start point to Ashley, then Ellen starts talking to Ashley... So if you want to see us on TV you better watch Ellen today @ 4 pm

Thanks Ashley for the tickets I had a great time!

Hot Spring Days!!!

So on Friday Shauna and the kids came over to play in the pool. For people living outside Southern California you are probably thinking... it is only April and there is snow outside my window, but here it has been in the low 90's and beautiful. The kiddos especially loved being in the water. Lizzie loved sitting on the step and splashing around... I think she thought it was a big bathtub. I can't wait for more fun in the sun.

Cereal Here We Come!!!!

The day finally approached and I was a little weary... the last time we tried cereal we lost the fight, and by the end of the meal Lizzie and I were both COVERED in watery rice cereal. I prepared Lizzie and I for the fight this time. I wasn't going to let the rice cereal win again. I placed Lizzie in the Bumbo chair and prepared for a victorious win. As I started to shovel the cereal into her mouth it went better than I had hoped...She was enjoying it and wanted more... could this be the same child? or was fate going to collapse my lovely dreams?

By the end of the meal we were tied...

RICE cereal 1 Lizzie 1

P.s. Lizzie is continuing to love her new food choice... I think we have conquered!

Our Trip To Utah

We left for Utah on Thursday April 3, 2008. We were so excited since we were finally going to meet parts of each others families. This is a picture of David and Lizzie as we were waiting to get on the plane in Long Beach. Lizzie was prepared for cold weather doesn't she look so cute? Lizzie did really well on the plane. The best part of the whole flight was when Lizzie pooped her jammies. It was all over the backside and smelled so gross. As we deplaned David had his arms stretched out wide with Lizzie and walking quickly to the restroom. David and Lizzie were in the family restroom for about 20 mins. cleaning her up. Then we were on our way to the Ray's. It was so good to see them. Their house is beautiful and we had such a great time visiting with them. As you notice there are only a couple pictures since my battery was dead the entire trip. We visited so many friends and family members while we were in Utah. It was tons of fun to see everyone and for them to all meet Lizzie. Everyone loved her. She got so much attention where ever we went it is hard for her to not be in anyone's arms now. Friday we went to David's mission reunion with the Cottle's. We were 1 of 2 missionaries who had a baby. It was great to meet so many of the missionaries David served with. On our way back to West Jordan to stay with David's Aunt and Uncle we saw Bekah and her boyfriend Spencer! We love him. He is so good for her. We met them in Cabella's parking lot late on Friday night. They were coming back from Spencer's reunion and we were coming from Provo. We had a great short visit with them. Then we were off to Aunt Judy's and Uncle Carmi's... It was so great to meet them. We had such a great time with them. David helped Uncle Carmi with the water pump for their backyard while Lizzie and I visited with Aunt Judy and talked about family history and getting to know us better. We were sad to leave but we had to leave and go to Park City and visit with Amanda and stay up at Marriott's Summit Watch Resort. It started to snow Sunday morning as we drove to conference. It was beautiful! Sunday morning Conference was absolutely AMAZING!!!! Music and the Spoken Word was my favorite part of Conference. The Mormon Tabernacle sang all of my favorite hymns. The Spirit was so strong, and made the session of Conference so remarkable. It was so neat to be there with the new 1st presidency and to hear everyone talk about our beloved prophet Gordon B. Hinckley. As we left conference the sisters on Temple Square were singing hymns and made the end of that session of conference so great. Then we met up with Amanda and had lunch with her, and then headed to a family party. It was great to see the family again since it had been about 6 years since I had seen any of them and everyone got to meet David and Lizzie. After the party we headed to Layton to visit an old friend of mine, Abby Smith and her family. We had such a great visit. I wish she lived closer. Then we headed back to Park City and all crashed. Lizzie slept the whole night and woke up at 8:45 am. When I woke up to get her a bottle I looked out the window and it was snowing! It was so beautiful. The whole morning we watched the snow fall and relax before we headed for the airport. We got some Cafe Rio and that made my tummy feel so happy.
Here are the few pictures I took at the end of our trip at the airport. Lizzie and her Grammy and David and Lizzie before boarding the plane to come back home to California.

We had such a great vacation in Utah. We crammed a lot of visits in during our 4 day adventure but it was so worth it. Thanks to our families and friends who made our trip so enjoyable.

Now we need to prepare for our Trip to Hawaii....