It's Pretty Fun to be One!

Sophie ate her ice cream like such a big girl!


Sophie's cute birthday cake!


Sophie enjoying a new package of toothbrushes to play with.


Isaac and Emma were so excited for Sophie's birthday, when Isaac woke up in the morning he wanted to see Sophie right away. He looked at her and said "she looks the same." I guess he was expecting her to have grown a foot or be talking in sentences!


She looks like such a big girl eating and drinking at Emma's Dora table.


The kids had fun making towers out of cans during Sophie's party.


Putting fruit loops into canisters and eating a few in between!


Peek-a-boo! One of Sophie's favorite things playing in the kitchen cupboards.


Our sweet little baby!


Yum yum!


Having fun with a birthday ball.


Big girl toys are so much fun!


Fun finger painting on Sophie's birthday!


Birthday breakfast Mickey Mouse pancakes with a whip cream smile that Sophie devoured!


A couple of days ago we went to the Children's Museum for Sophie's birthday she had a great time roaming around discovering new things.


Happy Happy 1st Birthday Sophie!

I can't believe my sweet little baby turned one. This year has gone by so fast, Sophie was born in Milwaukee right before we moved here. She has been a great baby and goes with the flow. She soothes herself by sucking on her little fist and she will still actually fall asleep on my shoulder. It is so nice to hold and cuddle with her, I have really enjoyed her first year and I am almost sad to see her grow so fast. Some of Sophie's favorite things are playing with tooth brushes, waving bye bye, pulling pots and pans out of the kitchen cupboards, blowing kisses, watching Isaac and Emma do silly things that make her laugh so hard she falls over, being outside, watching birds, being held by Mommy:), and eating ice cream. We all love Sophie so much and so glad she is a part of our family. Happy Birthday Sophie!

Quick Trips

Over the past month we have gone on a couple of short weekend trips. One to Las Vegas to visit Dusty's brother Craig and his family and another weekend we met Dusty's parents in Flagstaff. It is always great to see family and nice to get away. We had fun on both trips and wanted to post a few pics.

Craig Dusty's brother is an attorney in Las Vegas, he graduated from BYU law school a while back and is not the type of person who would ever put a frame around his license plate showing pride from the school he attended, on the other hand he is one that plays jokes. Dusty has had this idea for a while but he finally did it on our recent visit. He ordered the frame from BYU book store and placed it on Craig's car with out him knowing. We totally thought Craig would catch on and realize Dusty had done it, but he didn't notice for a few days. When he did see it on the car, he was walking to it after work saw the license plate frame, turned around went back into work and emailed all of his colleagues to find out who played the joke! Then everyone had his work got a good laugh and not just us.

Reduce Reuse Recycle . . .

Isaac enjoyed learning about Earth Week at preschool this year. He has always been good about turning off the lights when he leaves the room, not littering, and recycling. But he picked up a few new ideas at school. He found this yellow star button one day when we were on a walk, he immediately picked it up and came up with the idea to REUSE it by gluing it to a magnet. Another day I drove him and Emma down the road about a half a mile for a quick swim while Dusty had Sophie at home. On the way home he told me we should have walked. . . he said "MOM THERE IS A BIG PROBLEM" and preceded to tell me about the North Pole, ice melting and animals dying. He is very concerned about our earth and taking care of it. He is also good about encouraging us to ride our bikes on those short distances. A couple of other times when we have been on bike rides he has stopped to pick up garbage that we have taken home to recycle. He has begun to look at things before throwing them away to see if they have the recycle arrows on them. In fact he has become so aware of the recycle arrows that he thinks the 3 arrow circle traffic sign for a round-a-bout is to remind us to recycle. I think it will start to remind me to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE too. Thanks for your good example Isaac.