Exciting News!!

I've been dying to post this exciting news...and it's not exactly our news.  My Uncle Marty and Aunt Hailey are pregnant!  And not just kinda pregnant...pregnant with TWINS!  She's not due until the first of April (so sometime mid March!) But we're already getting so excited although Aunt Angie and Mommy did seem to cry for Aunt Hailey at first.  Luckily they live here and all of us love holding babies.  Especially Cara and I.  We are great helpers!

And of course one photo of me at the lake new boarding with the proud soon to be papa!!

More Camping Pictures

These are a few pictures that Grandpa took from his camera!

And one picture of the most spoiled baby...we fight over who gets to hold her!

Camping 2012

We finally made it on our annually camping trip up to the Kolob Plateau.  This time Grandma and Grandpa were invited!  Grandma drove Mommy and us up Friday afternoon and Daddy stayed back with another truck until his work was finished.  Grandpa was doing a canyon in Zion and had his friends drop him at our camp site.

Unfortunately, Lava Point, our usual haunt, ended up being full of campers!  No open spots.  This created a problem since we were meeting Grandpa and Daddy at different times and would have no way to communicate with them!  A nice gentleman, named John, offered us his campsite for the night.  He sleeps in his truck and said we were welcome to the tent sites and use of the fire.  Well we hung around and waited until Grandpa got there.  John was very nice, but we decided to run up to Kolob Reservoir to find a camp up there.

Mommy and I stayed and talked with John since we were still waiting for Daddy.  John was very nice and let me help him start a fire! Just as Grandpa pulled back in to tell us they found a camp spot, one of the campers packed up and left...at dusk!  It was so rude! But Grandma and Cara had already started a fire and set up a tent at the Reservoir so instead we found a crappy cell connection and managed to meet Daddy on the road to Kolob.

It was fun with the fire and hot dogs and marshmallows, but it got cold and we all snuggled down into our tents.  The weather was perfect.  No wind, bright sunny skies, no campers next to us and a bathroom which we weren't sure the Reservoir would have and we were lucky too because Cara unfortunately spent a lot of time in there.

Forgotten pictures

What happens when Daddy takes pictures on HIS cell phone?  They stay on his cell phone and get forgotten.  He recently ran out of "picture space" on his iPhone which set Mommy into "erase picture mode" and what did she discover??? So many pictures and videos that never made it on to the computer.  Never got documented.  This is a crime in Mommy's world.  (Her iPhone recently started having issues with its camera and Mommy is now even more annoyed that Daddy won't simply switch phones with her.  Clearly he is not using his camera to its full capability or for the right purpose. She's not eligible for an upgrade on her phone until May of next year....and she doesn't have a cool $600 lying around to upgrade to the new iPhone 5 next week....boo!)

So here you go.  A myriad of pictures from throughout the year....with possible captions....

Camping with Daddy and Grandpa back in April...look at that face!

I am pretending to be a skeleton in a box with jail things over my hands....creepy.

Favorite sibling picture from WA

These grew wild in WA.  The color was so rich in person.

Daddy went to San Francisco for work last week.
He went on a run and took this gorgeous picture.

    

As it turns out, it was mostly videos that Daddy hadn't given to Mommy and guess what blogger is refusing to do?  Upload the videos from Daddy's phone.  Boo on blogger.  Maybe it has a personal vendetta against videos taken on an Apple product?  We'll see if it will upload the video of me trying kneeboarding for the first time last week.  I try and hang on to the rope myself but Mommy and Grandpa took turns dragging behind me.  

Apparently it was just the videos from Daddy's phone that it doesn't like...go figure...it's the newer model!

First Week of Preschool Down...

Well here we are at the end of the week and I was able to go to preschool three days.  I wish it was more! However, I have had a little tummy bug that randomly affects me at different times of day and causes my tummy to hurt this week.  I actually came running out of preschool on the second day bawling because it hurt so bad.  So basically my excitement has been kind of tempered by not feeling quite like myself.  Mommy wasn't even really sure that I liked it, but I was upset that I only got to go three days so she figured out that I love it.  Plus my daddy was in San Francisco all week and I missed him.  Hopefully next week I'll be bouncing off the walls to go!

We also got to spend lots more time with Lexi.  Cara has varied between ignoring Lexi, loving on Lexi, and out right expressing dislike for Lexi....maybe it is a good thing that Lexi's not OUR baby.  (That and we have discovered that a lot of our baby things are actually broken including our swing that had battery acid everywhere...)

Grandpa and I were fighting over who got to hold her!

A little hint of a smile, so precious

First Day of Preschool!

Finally!

Because I have a "late birthday", I have been watching all my friends go to their first days of school and I was a little bummed.  However, Labor Day finally came and I got to start preschool today!

Hurray, Hurray, Hurray!

We can't just pick just one picture...heaven forbid! Cara even got in on some!

Labor Day Weekend

It's been more than a month since we were able to head up to SLC and see my cousins and the zoo!  We were so excited to take off Thursday night and drive up to Oma and Apa's house.

Friday we, of course, started our day of with a trip to the zoo to enjoy the animals.  We just love it there.  And then Mommy took us to explore the new shopping center, City Creek.  It was overwhelming and Mommy felt ridiculously underdressed in shorts and flip flops (where were her heels and designer jeans?!! The horror) but it was amazing and such a pretty place and we enjoyed the play place that everyone has been raving about.

Saturday we took the time to jaunt up to Midway for Swiss Days!  Of course, we were supposed to jaunt up there crazy early at 5 am so Daddy could run a 10k but thunder and lightening and cold rain caused us to stay snug in our beds until 9 or so!  Wished Daddy could have run, but glad we still went later.  It was nice to see Double Grandma and Grandpa while watching the parade.  And of course we added to our iron Halloween decorations...they were just too perfect to pass up.  Afterward we hung out with Aunt Lisa and Adalee and played in the yard.  We didn't want to leave!

Once again, we ended up going to church with the Preslars (it's embarrassing when the RS knows your mom and they don't even sing Hello to you in Primary anymore!)  And we once again got talked into staying an extra night.  Well worth it though even if Cara had intestinal difficulties because of the antibiotic she had been on!

Photo Highlights:

She wouldn't pause to take a picture....

Swiss Days started out rainier and colder than two years ago!

Siena did this awesome ride that simulated a hot air ballon ride...

She loved of course!