Popcorn popping....

Hooray!! Spring is here! This is the tree outside of our bedroom window. Just a little reminder that winter is drawing an end and warmer weather really is on its way. David and I have gone out to play soccer a few times, just the two of us kicking around, nothing official. We take Stella with us and put her out on the lawn and she LOVES being outside! She'll play on her own or follow the ball with her eyes. Usually she has a perma-grin.

She has also graduated into the 'big tub'. The transition was easy, she didn't seem to have a problem, in fact the baths last longer and she can fit more toys in with her. I like to teach her how to splash... maybe I'll regret it someday but right now I think it's cute.

Davids mission companion Jesse Garley came up for General Conference and spent a night with us. It was so good to see him, you are welcome here any time Jesse!!

Stella warmed right up to him... or maybe it was his phone

So I finally finished Stella's crib bedding set. I know, I know, she's almost eight months old but It took a while to find the fabric I wanted and it took a while to sew it and put it all together. So I made the bumper pads which have cute little scooters on them, and I made her baby duvet cover with little bird fabric.

Here's a closer view...

I was going to make her sheet too, but it was cheaper to just buy it =p

Random cute pics

So here's my favorite video of Stella laughing. I don't think she's ever laughed this hard. This is one of those times we went to the park to play soccer, I sat down to prepare her bottle and a mosquito kept landing on my face so I started shaking my head and tried to blow it off... well... this was what followed.

GOOOAAAAL!!!!!

We got to go to a Salt Lake Real soccer game last saturday. It was Stella's first game and she loved it too...well, mostly. It was a free game and we got to choose our seats. We were one of the first people there and David decided to get us seats right behind the goal. This was scarey during warm-up, soccer balls were flying everywhere, hitting everyone in the stand...also very funny. During the second half of the game, Real scored two goals on the goal closest to us and everyone stood up and started screaming, yelling and cheering and Stella's fun ended, she got so scared! Michelle was holding her and she dove into her arms and started bawling. Poor thing, scared her to death. Other than that she loved being outside. Before the game there was a small carnival and she loved looking at everyone and scoping everything out.

David and Steven got their pic taken with the guy that made the last goal. Steven said after he made the goal he looked up at him as he was running by and Steven, holding up "number 1", the guy saw him and did it back. Yes, the little things that get us excited.

Stella and MommyWe got our picture taken with the mascot during the carnival

Giggles

I love it when Stella giggles, something about the sweetness and the innosence. Luckily this time I caught her giggles on camera so I could show you all.... Enjoy!

In the snow

Here's another home made snowboarding video of David doing the rails. Notice I didn't take part in this one... I'll leave that to the pro's and just take pictures. Good job honey!

In case you wonder what we did with Stella....

The snow has been great this year. We had a chance to go night boarding at Powder Mountain about a half hour away from here, it was a fun date and the pow pow was amazing. Thanks Brad and Kacie for babysitting!!


We always get to see how cute Stella is during her bathtime but no one else does, so we thought we'd give you all a little taste.

She's such a sweetheart, she loves her bathtime, it's always her favorite part of the day.

Thank you Garley for the New Mexico Lobos shirt=)

Stella and Addie

Getting dressed with daddy

And yes, David's hair is staight, we had fun with a straightener one day=)

Saving the best for last, we don't know what exactly was happening at this point... we caught her doing something maybe? don't know, but we think its so funny.

Stella is growing so quickly, we're amazed at how smart she is too. She pulls her pacifier out of her mouth to play with it, then, when she gets bored she'll pop it back in. She's sitting up all by herself too, toppling over here and there and she still loves her 'stand up drop a toy, bend over, pick it up, stand up and drop it again' game. That game could go on for hours if our arms didn't get so tired. She adores the baby in the mirror and she's also a lot better about riding in the car. She loves eating her solids too, her favorite is still sweet potatoes although she'll eat what ever we put in her mouth. David and I teach CTR 7 and she loves to sing with the kids during singing time. She still sleeps all through the night, usually about 10 hours and when she wakes up she talks so sweetly in the monitor until I go in and get her, she waits with a huge smile. She giggles at random and also when we tickle her...anywhere. She loves her mommy but gets so excited when daddy gets home. She squeels and kicks her legs and smiles and smiles and smiles. In fact, that's all she ever does... our smiley baby.

Hello everyone!! We have been having fun lately with all the new snow. We visited our grandparents in Cascade and went boarding at Tamarak, that's my new favorite spot, too bad it's so far away!! This last weekend we went boarding but since we've got the babe it's hard to go to a resort so we went to a local park that had some hills and David set up a box slide and some jumps for us to hit. He's a good coach, this year is the first year I've tried jumps and he said I "got like three feet of air that time" =) I thought that was pretty good for a beginner. Enjoy the videos.

Our Beautiful baby is growing so quickly, she has her fingers and toes discovered and all figured out. She prefers standing over sitting and the smiling never ends. She's also found her laugh, although sometimes she'll be laughing and screaming then follows the crying and screaming, I don't think she knows the difference yet. We went to her Dr appointment last week, she's under 12lbs and she's 25 inches long. She's in the 4th % for her weight but she's setting her own healthy steady curve so we're not worried. David and I have a new calling teaching CTR 7 class in primary, she loves singing time and sings and squeels right along with the rest of them.

Daddy has a kagaroo pouch! Stella was helping take the trash out so daddy put her in the bjorn. She absolutely loves being in the bjorn, that's when she does the majority of her singing. Top that with putting her in front of the mirror and she's in 7th heaven.

Back off... these are my sweet taters

She also loves watching and listening to daddy play guitar and sing songs. She usually helps him sing too.

Just beautiful, healthy and happy, who could ask for anything more?

Here's one more video. She does okay with rice cereal, she'll tolerate it anyway. But once those lips touch sweet potatoes she's all over them. Thank you Nick, Jessica and Colton for letting us borrow your high chair, it makes eating a lot easier!!

Christmas at Papa and Nana's House

We were able to fly out to California for Christmas this year. Stella's first plane ride and she did alright. Our flight was suppose to leave at 3:00 but we weren't in the air until 7:00 because we didn't have a pilot! I still think David could have flown, but once we got there we had a lot of fun. One of Nana's traditions is making tamales so she prepared the meat as we spread the masa in the corn husks. They were the best tamales we have ever had. She made so much good food we mostly ate and hung out in our jammies the whole time.

Stella in her christmas dress


Penguin Christmas


Stella loves her Papa

We made our own portrait studio at home. Stella LOVED be a stocking stuffer.

She ate a lot of the fuzz.

The day after Christmas we went to Columbia, a cute little old fashioned town with horse and buggy and all sorts of fun stuff to look at. David's favorite was the black smith.
We stopped in at a saloon and had Sarsaparilla

We got to pan for gold and we actually found some. We also found turqoise and other gems

Thanks Papa and Nana and Jessy for a wonderful Christmas!!!

This is the tail end of her rolling over, I didn't get the camera out fast enough. And even though it's 'so last month' and she's moved onto more interesting things, I thought I would post it anyway.