Lake Powell 2009

Nothing better than a few tatoos from Hanksville to get things started in our trailer park!

Swimming with dad...loving the warm water!
Watching off the back of the boat.

Tubing

Driving the boat with Grandpa. (Doesn't she look like she is enjoying herself?)

Hangin' with Dad

We left the regular diaper on while she swam for a while in the lake...I think it got a bit too full...What do you think?

But who needs diapers anyway?! Swimming and almost sleeping.

Good morning Lake Powell. Our 5:30am run. The water was amazing and so was the sunrise! (Sorry the picture is not rotated. It is rotated in my photos and everytime I upload it...it turns. Oh well...you get the idea. Gorgeous.)
Thank you water!

And thanks mom and dad for the fun trip! We loved being with you!

ONE

Nina Had her first Birthday and it was a riot!

Bill at the BBQ
Nina and all of her gifts...I could not believe there were so many gifts for one little girl...than again, she is pretty awesome!

Our present opening helpers!
Nina getting ready to dive in. It was hillarious...she ate all of the little pink dots around the top of her cake and then went at the chocolate.

Nina and cousin Ava

All done!

Kiddie pool bath time
Happy first birhtday Nina! We love having you in our family! Thanks for a great first year sweetie girl!

Swimming!

I have lots of fun pictures to post of our great fourth of July weekend...but I just had to get these videos up of Nina swimming. We have been taking Mom and Me lessons with Bill's Mom and Nina is learning a ton and loving it! Enjoy!

Life is good!

What could be better than brushing your teeth before church?

A family camp out in the backyard!

What could be better than a family camp out in the backyard?

Watching dad get ready for the camp out in the kitchen. (Yes I came down the stairs and Bill was trying out or new camping mattresses. He just couldn't wait!)
And what could be better than seeing silly dad on the kitchen floor? Me in my own sleeping bag on the floor!

And what could possibly be better than getting ready to sleep on the floor?
Sleeping in my Mom's grocery cart at walmart of course! Life does not get better than this.
So Nina was literally falling asleep sitting up in the cart. (Some of you are thinking...why didn't you give your child a nap BEFORE going to the store? She was in bed for two hours this morning...talking, chatting...and of course not sleeping. It would get quiet and I would think...oh there she goes...and then I would hear "roooooaaar." That is what a bear says.) So she started to fall asleep sitting up, and so I laid her down...with a diaper for a pillow...and let her sleep while I shopped. I got a lot done, and she got her nap. Do we work well together or what?!

Thanksgiving Point...and more adventures

So we took Nina to Thanksgiving Point to see the animals. I think she liked it...but it was as much a date night for us to get out of the house as it was to show her the animals. (All of which she called dogs.) Here are a few pictures of the experience.

Nina looking at the baby chicks

Bill helping Nina ride her first horse
Me and Nina looking at the horse

Nina in the Slammer
Lets talk about another favorite pastime...pulling everything out of any cupboard she can reach and making a mess. You can see the evidence of open drawers behind her.
Crazy hair day. Nina loves to pull the rubber bands out of her hair and then she looks like a little vagabond...but we love her.

Did I mention she loves food? And I love this new cheesy smile!

She can stand!
Here she is saying,"I am so excited to try my first popsickle!"

"Oh, wait a sec. Nobody told me it would be cold!"

And last but not least...we love watching Nina smear her face on our sliding glass door. Ha!

I am alive and well...and cast-free!!

I know that all of you avid readers are very disappointed that my mom has not updated our blog...but I am here to let you know that life with a cast is over! It was quite an adventure...as you will see.

This is me the day after I got my cast on. The drugs were amazing!

I had to focus on other things...so I got creative with my hair and figured out it could fit in a ponytail right on top of my head!

Thank goodness the hospital sent me home with so many pillows because I had to use them all the time. I was situated neither sitting up nor laying down... but I got used to it.

My friend Eden could not let me have all of the pink cast fun...so she burned her hand on the fireplace and joined the pink cast fan club. (I don't recommend it.)

The hospital also gave me this ghetto fabulous car seat because my legs were casted too wide to fit into any normal car seat. I loved this because my mom had to take me out to get anything done...like grocery shopping. She would either carry me, or lay me in the bottom of the cart to gnaw on anything that got within reach.

Bedtime! You see? More pillows always do the trick...and why is my mom taking pictures of me in bed? It is like she wanted to remember every single thing...weird!
This was the bath routine. On the counter in mom's bathroom as many times a day as possible. Did I mention that my diapers leaked alot inside my cast. Yep. I smelled pretty darn nasty by week two...and I was only less than half way done. I waited until half way into week three to get poop on the inside of my cast. I thought mom was going to lose it.
But the day finally came to get my cast off...and we were all kind of attached. Check out my mom holding me by my bar. I think she thought that was pretty convenient.
And here is my handsome dad bidding farewell to my pink legs. Did I mention I also had an ear infection this day? Lovely!!

Me on the car ride up to primary Children's Hospital thinking..."Such a shame I have to give this car seat back...it matches my eyes so nicely."
No one told me the saw would be so loud...I kind of grew fond of my cast and did not want it to leave. I would no longer have that hot pink accent to go with every outfit.
Inside my cast. Yes that yellow cotton used to be white...and I got the back of my cast a whole lot better than that...thank you very much.
Chicken legs...I did not even know they were my own, and I certainly did not know how to use them. I am starting to figure it out now. I can scoot around again...but am still working on my crawl on all fours. Sitting up was a little challenge...but I have it down pat now.This is me on my first Sunday cast less...and I have had a full and complete bath. I was real happy I did not grow out of these shoes...I might have that hot pink accent with every outfit after all.
Oh, and I forgot to tell you...Happy St. Patty's Day! I celebrated in true style!
Thanks for loving me and praying for me. I love you all too! I better go--I think my mom is waking up from her nap. Can you believe she needs one of those every day?