Mommy's little helper! And silly pictures :)

Our past week has been pretty uneventful. It's been a nice break from our extremely busy summer! I have decided to start selling my bows and some other items that I make on a website called Etsy. I have always kind of wanted to do it, but for the past couple of years I haven't gotten up enough nerves up to actually do it. Scott finally gave me the boost I really needed to start. I couldn't ask for a more supportive husband. He is always wanting me to do the most I can with my talents and encourage me to grow and develop them. So, I finally did it! I am so excited, but a little nervous... I hope that I don't get too sad if it turns out to be a dud :) But, in Scott's words "How are you ever going to know if you don't even try?" And hopefully, it will give us a little bit of "fun" money if it does OK. Anyway, that's just a little about what's going on with us... Now for the fun part, PAIGE!

Oh, what a personality our little Paige is developing! She is so busy... always into everything and wanting to be in everything that she can't! She imitates just about everything that we do. She loves to fold her arms, not for long, but when you ask her to fold her arms she does. She loves to hold our fingers as she walks, won't do it on her own yet. Oh well, they all grow at their own pace don't they? :) She loves to sing along with the primary songs in the car, so cute! She now knows where her nose and tummy are. Although, when she points to her nose it goes straight in her nostril and she thinks that it is hilarious! She also thinks every animal is Moo. We have been trying to work on animals and their sounds, so she points to anything that is an animal and says Moo. We are working on that one. She does know the difference between an elephant though. She LOVES the sound an elephant makes. She tries to imitate us doing it (sadly, Paige does a better job at it than Scott does, Sorry Scott!:) ) We were sitting in church today and she actually pointed to an elephant that was in her Noah's Ark book and made the sound. So cute, I smiled all over! I was a proud mom!

As far as eating goes, we have finally found a meat that she will always eat, no matter her mood. Turkey sausage links... Thanks for leaving those Emily! And she absolutely loves frozen peas. I know frozen, kinda weird. It's probably feels really good on her little teething gums. Here's a pic that we caught of her this past week. Pea on her nose! She was sticking them to her face. Always doing something silly! :) What a girl

So, the other morning I heard Paige making some noise on the baby monitor. It was a little early for her so I laid there hoping she might fall back asleep. She did get very quiet and I just felt like it was a little to quiet, for those of you who are parents you know what I mean. They are up to something, so I went to go check on her. And of course, what do I find...

We have a canopy above her bed and she somehow got her little fingers through the two slats in the back of her crib and fished the tulle back through the two holes, pulling it all off the ceiling. I knew she was being too quiet! But what could I do but smile and think these are the moments that I love and will always remember!

The other day I was cleaning the kitchen and was wiping down the fridge. It's incredible how much your children truly watch every little thing you do. Paige was sitting on the floor watching me and as I finished she approached me and reached for the towel. So I gave it to her. I turned my back to start on the dishes and I turn around and she is "cleaning" the fridge. What a fun moment!

She did this for about 20 minutes. That is a long, and I mean LONG, time for Paige to do sit and do anything. After she got tired of wiping down the fridge, which she did a mighty good job I might add, with the exception of the hand prints from her left hand :) she proceeded to play with the towel putting it over her head. She was chasing me around the kitchen looking for me with the towel over her head. When she would find me she would LAUGH so hard! She even ran into the cupboards a couple of times, which made us laugh even harder!

Mommy's little helper!

Paige loves her whole grain pancakes... I don't know if I have ever mentioned, but if Paige likes something she says Mmmm after taking every bite. That is a very usual occurrence around our house and I love it! So cute!

Silly girl, posing for the camera

We don't have cable, so we only get the public stations. And one of the stations that we get is PBS, I absolutely love it! It has so many awesome learning programs for kids. Paige loves Sesame Street! It comes on every weekday at 10 am. If she is not already all down for her nap, she loves to sit and watch it. This, surprisingly, is about one of the only things that I can get her to sit and do for longer than a few minutes at a time. She will literally sit there for almost the entire show, until Elmo's World at the end. And sometimes she will even watch all of it. Here is a picture that we got of her a few days ago... she was sitting there on the floor looking very uncomfortable and so I got her some pillows. Awww... these are the moments!

Have I mentioned how much I love being a Mom!?!? :)

Our Summer So Far...

We have had a pretty busy summer so far. We have had lots of visitors...

Over the 4th of July Scott's brother, Chad, and his family came to visit. Scott's dad lives up in Washington and wanted to surprise Chad and come for a visit while they were here. So we had a full house :) Here's a few pictures from their trip:

Paige had a ball with all the attention that she got. She was a spoiled little girl for a couple of days! Here's the girls jumping on the tramp with her.

Uncle Chad and Aunt Emily were so fun! And I know what some of you are thinking... no, that is not an alcoholic beverage that Chad is drinking. It's a Root Beer :)

All the grandkids with Grandpa and Connie (Scott's dad's wife).

Here we are on 4th of July Sunday! I forgot to take any pictures of the little firework show that we had at our house. Scott and Chad went and bought a bunch of fun fireworks on Saturday and we lit them off on the 4th. We thought that Paige was going to LOVE all the fireworks... cause she loves lights of any kind, but oh were we wrong!!!! Paige was not to excited at all about the noise they made and it really scared her. It didn't really help that everyone else in our neighborhood was letting off fireworks too. So needless to say, Paige and I spent most of the show in the house.

K... so I don't know how well you can see this picture, but it was so funny I just had to post it! A few days after everyone left we finally recieved our new bedroom furniture, I know bad timing huh! We now have our old furniture in the guest room so that when we have family and friends visit they can sleep on a bed instead of an air mattress. Sorry everybody that came to visit in the past couple of months that you weren't able to sleep in a bed :( Oh, well we have one now... so all are welcome to come stay with us anytime and you have your very own comfortable place to sleep! Anyhow... Paige was sitting in the room with us while we were moving furniture and this is how we found her. She was blowing bubbles and she got a whole beard full! Man, it was way bigger than this before we were able to get the camera, about half of the bubbles popped! Kinda gross but CUTE!

A few weeks ago my Mom's side of the family had a family reunion. So Paige and I were able to car pool down to Pocatello with some of our friends (THANK YOU Zach and Kimberly!) and stay with my family while Scott had to stay in Boise and work. While I was busy doing something, Paige hung out with my Mom while she was getting ready. Paige was watching my Mom put curlers in her hair and she wanted to have some too. So, my Mom put her hair in curlers!

While I was visiting with my family my brother, Seth, took us boating! They have a SWEET boat! We had so much fun! I hadn't been since before Paige was born, and let me tell you, It isn't as easy after you've had a baby! :)

Here is a pic with my brother, Jared, a few of the cousins, Skyler and Mason, and my sister in-law, Tara (Seth's wife), surfing in the background.

I wasn't so sure that Paige would like wearing a life jacket, but she did great! Just sat and enjoyed the ride! Here's a picture with Me, Paige, Tara, and Mason just chillin' in the boat!

It was absolutely beautiful when we were out... Here's the kids out on the tube.

When I got back to Boise Scott and I took Paige to the Zoo... unfortunetly she had a little bit of an allergy attack when we first got there. We where just walking around and I looked down at her and her face was covered in red bloches and her eyes were watering and her nose was running like crazy! We hurried and moved from the location that we where standing in and within a matter of minutes she was just fine. We have found that if she sits in the grass too long that she has the same reaction. Poor thing! We hope that she won't have to deal with allergies for her whole life and that she will grow out of it, we'll see.

Lookin' at the giraffes with Daddy!

I think that this was her favorite part of the Zoo... Paige loves anything involving water. They had these misting things that blew out of elephant trunks on the sidewalks. Paige absolutely loved them!!!

We also took her to the waterpark that is just a few miles away from our house. Paige loved it! We went with a few of our friends, Mike and Barb and their girls. We had so much fun!

Paige and Mommy going down the slide.

Paige and Mommy waiting at the bottom of the racing slides. We couldn't go down most of the slides with Paige, she's still too little. And Barb couldn't go either, she was expecting. But we had lots of fun watching the boys and the little girls race together!

Scott, Rylie, Cloe, and Mike finishing their race down the slide!

I'm sure that most of you Mom's out there know what these are! They have these cool miniture water fountains at most splash parks, well the kiddy pool is lined with a bunch of these! Paige LoVeS lOvEs LoVeS them! She could spend all day just feeling the water.

Because Paige liked them so much a few days later we took her to the free splash park near our house to play in some. She sat there and played with them for almost an hour, I'm sure that she would have played all day if Mommy and Daddy hadn't been melting away in the heat!

So this past week Scott and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. We really wanted to go to Hawaii for our 5th, but with finances (buying a new house) we decided that we would wait until next year too to that. We still had fun though! We dropped Paige off in Pocatello and my brothers and their wives took turns watching her for us while we went on a little get-away to Salt Lake. We stayed at a nice hotel, went out to eat, went to a session at the temple, watched a few movies (at the theater no less! Haven't done that in a while! You know how it is with babies) enjoyed the temple grounds, and went to Lion King on Broadway. It was a wonderful little trip for us the only thing that I regret is that we didn't take any pictures. Everytime we went out we forgot the camera. And the one picture that we did manage to take didn't even have either of us in it! Oh well, what can I do about it now.

So here is the one and only picture that was taken the view from our seats at the Lion King we did have pretty good seats if I do say so myself! We were in the grand balcony in the front row, it was awesome!

When we got back Scott's Dad was at our house to meet us! He took a 2 week vacation to visit all of his kids. He drove his motorcycle the entire way! We took him to the water park while he was here, played games, went to Tucanos, and did a few other fun things. Here's a picture of the boys just relaxin' in the sun:

Sadly... Paige is not much of a cuddler. I am, so it's kinda hard for me :( She is always going, going, going! And has other things on her mind. But, we have found that after we go swimming and she is a little cold and you wrap her all up in a towel, she will cuddle with you for a few minutes... Here is Mommy's moment of bliss :)

Now for a little update on Paige. She is growing and changing like crazy! She now has 5 teeth, lots of hair, sleeps for like 12 hours at a time... ahhhh can you say awesome!?! Talks all the time (in "baby talk" of course- it's really cute! We love it!), pulls herself up onto anything and everything and walks along. No walking yet but we have a feeling it will be anyday now. She does stand for a few seconds at a time. She has completely mastered the stairs, she can climb up or down. She goes down on her tummy and most of the time she just slides down from stair to stair as fast as she can! She loves to play in the tub, and is getting more and more picky about food all the time... oh, what a pain! She used to eat anything that we gave her. One day she will love something and the next nevermind!

Now for the fun part... PICTURES!

When we got home from our trip in Salt Lake we were getting Paige ready for bed and I pulled her hair bands out and this is how crazy her hair was! FUNNY!

Like I said she climbs up on anything that she possibly can... Here she is on our coffee table that she climbed all by herself. We have since moved it out of our family room, more room and safer for Paige.

Paige in her toy bin! I walked out of the room and she was standing next to the bin and when I walked back in this is how I found her!

She gets into everything!!!!! This is a common ocurrance at our house, unloading the cupboards.

Playin' with the salt and cooking spray. Man, I can barely keep up with her now days. As much as we would love for her to walk, I just can't imagine that she will start off walking... running is more like it! :)

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY PAIGE!!!

Paige turned 1 on June 27th!!! Almost 1 month ago... Paige's birthday happened to land on a Sunday, so we did her party on Saturday, June 26th. We had some visitors and it turned out great and we had so much fun!!!! My brother Jared and his family came down from Pocatello and stayed the weekend with us. They arrived on Friday, June 25th and they stayed until Sunday night, June 27th. And my parents came on Saturday and stayed a few days too! It was so fun!!!!

Here's a few pictures of the event:

We did a BBQ out on our back patio... my wonderful sister in-law, Carrie, made all of the sides! She is AWESOME! Couldn't have done it without her!

Opening presents...

She wanted to play with each thing that she opened and couldn't figure out why we were taking them away. She got a little upset with us. "What are you doin' to me... you just gave me that and now you are taking it away, so not cool!!!"

The cake... This was only my second attempt at fondant, and I rolled the fondant a little too thin so it didn't turn out the way I hoped. You know perfect! But the cake itself was to die for... I did a chocolate cake and creamy oreo filling. Mmm.... I might have to make that again before the next big birthday rolls around. We gave Paige the top BIG cupcake for her to eat.

Singing "Happy Birthday!" and blowin' out the candle!

She really liked the cake!


Oh, the mess!

But oh, so fun!!!!! :)


Tonight as I was writing this post I was thinking about all the wonderful memories that we have had with Paige so far. I was looking back at all the posts that I have written since she was born and oh, how the memories started flowing back. Being pregnant with her and feeling her move, the day we brought her home from the hospital, giving her her first bath, the first time that she smiled at us, the first time that she really looked at us, holding her tiny little body in my arms for the first time. I could go on and on! Wow, what an impact she has made on our lives!!!! We absolutely love you Paige! Can't imagine life without you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAIGEY K!!!

In Loving Memory of Grandma Longmore

Wow, have we been busy! So much has happened in the past couple of months. Between lots of birthdays, a funeral, the 4th of July, and family visiting... I am going to break the updates into a few posts so it is not so long... so there will be a couple more in the next few days.

I will post where we left off last:

*For those of you who do not like to read long posts, I am sorry, well not that sorry;).

This is my journal... so this is where I record my feelings. And this will definitely be a LONG post :)

May 31st was my birthday. And I thought that I would be spending it alone. Scott was scheduled to work on that day and my family lives about 4 1/2 hours away. So needless to say I didn't think that I would be having a very eventful birthday this year. To my surprise, I was in the kitchen making some hot cocoa mix when there was a knock at our front door. I went to answer it and there was someone standing there with a bouquet of Happy Birthday balloons. It was my niece Madison!!! I couldn't believe it, I was so excited! I asked her how she got there and then my parents came around the corner, she had ridden down from Blackfoot with them. I wasn't going to celebrate my birthday alone after all! And it was wonderful to see my family. Scott needed to go to work at 2pm so we were discussing where we would be able to go to lunch so that we could get home in time for him to leave. Then he informed me that he had switched shifts with someone so that he could surprise me. SURPRISE!!! So we decided since we didn't have to be back at any certain time we could go to Tuscanos... Mmm... have I mentioned how much I love that place ;) Anyway, after we ate we came home and Scott had another surprise for me. He had purchased a cake and we had a little party! It was great. Unfortunately, my parents had to go home early that evening so that they could get back home. But it was a wonderful surprise! I had a great birthday! Thanks everybody for making it such a great one!!!!

The following weekend, June 11th-12th, my Dad drove back up to Boise because his brother, Rusty, had a truck show that he was involved in. It was nice to spend time with just me and my Dad while he was here. Scott was working most of the time, so my Dad and I and Paige went to see the trucks and we rented a movie to watch. My mother was planning on coming up but she had called me a few days before and wasn't sure whether she would be coming or not because her mom wasn't doing very well. She decided to stay home so that she could spend time with my grandmother and be there in case she passed away. I was going to drive back with my Dad but decided to stay in Boise. Later I regretted not going. I would have liked to have spent some time with my Mother and seen my Grandma. I kept calling my Mom all week to find out how my Grandma was doing. She called me on Wednesday morning, June 16th, telling me that my Grandma Longmore had passed away early that morning. She said that the funeral would be on Saturday, June 19th. I have included her obituary at the end of this post.

It was definitely a relief for her and our family. My Grandma Longmore hadn't been doing well for quite some time. For about the past 10 or so years my mother and her sisters had taken turns caring for her and for the past couple of years my cousin, RaeLyn, had been taking care of her. They just couldn't bear to put her in a nursing home. My Grandma Longmore is one of the sweetest, kind and most Christ-like people I have ever known. She just radiated with the spirit. She was about as close to perfect as a person can get. She loved her family with all her being. I always knew how much she loved me! There was never any question in my mind about that. She always treated each of her grandchildren like they were the most important thing to her. And they all were! Nothing was more important.

During the process of the funeral and viewing it was mentioned multiple times about how happy Grandma probably was that her family was just loving being with each other and the kids were just running around having fun.

Before my Grandma's health got to the point where she needed to be cared for, one of my sweetest memories of her was a time when she was babysitting for my parents. She taught me how to make a milkshake by hand without a blender, I will always remember that moment. And every time I make a milkshake by hand I think of her. :) I remember many trips to go visit Grandma, She loved chocolate and she always loved to share! Every year at Christmas Grandma always made sure that she gave each of her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren a gift. I remember the socks that she so painstakingly chose for each and everyone of her many grandchildren. Oh, how I looked forward to those socks every year. I loved to open them Christmas Eve, they were my Christmas socks and I always wore them to bed and woke with brand new socks to wear for Christmas morning. I even remember one year in particular that she gave all of the girls a baby doll, the kind that have soft bodies and the eyes that open and close. As her health deteriorated she was unable to continue this wonderful tradition, but I know that she would have loved to continue if she had been able. She gave so much more than just socks and presents... She taught us all what it means to be Christ-like. Through her example she taught my mother who in turn taught me how important the gospel is and how important family is. Next to my mother she is the greatest example of the woman that I hope I can become someday. We will miss you Grandma and WE LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH!

Here's a pic of Grandma with Paige... this was the very first time that they meet, shortly after Paige was born. The 4 generation Picture. Love this one!!!!!

It was such a beautiful service. It was the best funeral I have ever been to. My Mom gave a talk and some of her brothers also spoke along with a cousin. Every talk that was given was incredible and the spirit was so strong. There were two special musical numbers: one by the grandchildren and the other by the great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. It was a wonderful moment to stand up there and sing for my Grandmother. And what a neat experience to be sitting in that audience looking up at all of my extended family when the greats and great-greats standing up to sing. They filled the entire stage... Honestly, I had a hard time holding back tears during the entire service but that moment was WOW! What an impact my Grandma had on all of her children and grandchildren. My mom and I put together a map of all the places that her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have served LDS Missions. She truly has impacted the world through her example!

Since the funeral landed on the same weekend of Father's Day we were able to spend the day with my Dad and Scott was able to celebrate his very first Father's Day. Here's a pic of Daddy and his little girl on Father's Day morning. She is wearing "I love Daddy" jammies by the way, planned it perfectly so that she could wear them on Father's Day :)

Scott had to return to Boise for work on Monday so I decided that I would stay behind and spend some time with my family. We had a lot of fun! Here's a picture that we took while we were there. Paige with her cute piggie tails... she had just woken up from a nap so they are kinda crasy. We just started being able to put these in in the past month. SO CUTE!

We went bowling and just spent some needed family time together.

Paige has discovered the piano that sits in my parents front room. Here is a picture of her trying to play... so cute :)

Before we left for Blackfoot for the funeral, we had a short visit from Scott's brother, Chad, and his family. They were on their way up to Washington to visit family and stopped by our house and stayed the night to break-up their trip a little bit. It was Cooper's birthday on the day that they arrived so we had a little birthday party for him. It was so fun to see them. Although we were sad to see them go so fast, we knew that we would be seeing them in a few weeks for the 4th of July weekend, so that made it easier to say bye.

Over the past couple of months through the funerals of both of my Grandmothers I have grown a greater testimony of the Gospel and what a blessing it is in my life. I am so grateful for the plan of salvation and the opportunity that each of us have to be with our families forever! I have been truly blessed to have the wonderful family that I have and can't wait to be together with them again someday :)

The following is the obituary that appeared in the Friday, June 18th, 2010 Blackfoot Newspaper:

Estella May Longmore, 99

Estella May Anderson Longmore, 99, of Blackfoot, died at the home of a granddaughter in Pocatello on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, of causes incident to age. She was born Oct. 8, 1910 in Moreland, the only daughter of Ernest and Millie May Neel Anderson. When she was just two years old, her mother died in childbirth. She was raised in Moreland where she attended Moreland High School until 1928, and on her 18th birthday, Oct. 8, 1928, she married Lester George Longmore in Coltman, Idaho. She was sealed to him and their eight children in the Idaho Falls LDS Temople on June 24, 1947. Estella was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout her life, and served faithfully for many years as a teacher in the Sunday School, Primary, the Relief Society, and as a visiting teacher. She also was a long-time member of the choir in her ward. She enjoyed attending the temple. She was a lifelong homemaker, and her greatest love and concern was for her family and friends. Her entire life was spent showing that love to all of us. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother and example to all. For many years, an annual Christmas tradition was for her to purchase, wrap and give gifts and cookies to each of her numerous posterity and their spouses. Following the death of her husband on April 30, 1973, she resided for most of the remainder of her life with her children. As her health began to fail, she was lovingly cared for by them, and for the past year and a half, she has lived in the home of a granddaughter, RaeLyn and her husband, Rdale Price and family in Pocatello. Estella is survived by her children, Mardene Gough, Vonda (John) Fisher, Melba (Donald) Nilsson, Diane (Robert) Parkinson, and Carolyn (Don) Scott, all of Blackfoot; and by Gary (LaRae) Longmore of Pocatello; Dean (Connie) Longmore of Mapelton, Utah, currently serving an LDS church mission in the New Hampshire Manchester Mission; and Ronald (Jean) Longmore of Idaho Falls. Also surviving are 4o grandchildren, 138 great-grandchildren, and 28 great-great grandchildren. She has a total of 273 descendants, including spouses. Besides her husband, parents and stepmother, Iretta Anderson, she was preceded in death by her brothers Lloyd, Raymond, Arthur, Golden, Joseph, and Lawrence Anderson; a sister, Madlyn Lodefink; a son-in-low, Don Gough; a grandson-in-law, Gary DeGiulio; granddaughter-in-law, Winnie Fisher, and a great-grandson, Jeremy Stocking. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 19, 2010, at the Blackfoot 4th Ward LDS Chapel, 520 N. Shilling Ave., with Bishop Paul Yancey conducting. The family will meet with friends and relatives from 7-9 p.m. Friday, June 18, 2010, at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave. and from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the church prior to services. Interment will be in the Riverside-Thomas Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at: condolences@hawkerfuneralhome.com

Moving In and Birthday Time!

(*Pictures now added- July 22, 2010*)

OK SO WE PACKED OUR CAMERA CABLE... AND CAN'T FIND IT SO NO PICTURES! SORRY, I HAVE BEEN TAKING THEM AND I CAN'T EVEN POST THEM :( Oh well... as soon as we find it I will add the pictures.

Man, has the past week been full of stress and excitement... We moved all of our stuff from our apartment to our home these past couple of weeks. Man, we have a lot of stuff! Once again my wonderful father helped us move for the 7th time. We've been married 5 years and we have moved 7 times WOW! Hopefully it will be a while before we move again. ;) Since Scott works such long hours and consecutive days in a row we had to time our move in-between his scheduled work days. So it all started Tuesday May 18th. Scott had one of his buddies, Cameron, help us move almost all of our boxes (I thought... then came Thursday and Friday... think again!) on Tuesday. We loaded up his truck and trailer full and headed to the house to unload. We just put them all in the garage and headed back to the house to finish packing some more boxes.

Scott had to work on Wednesday, the 19th, and so I tried to do as much packing as possible with Paige trying to be right in the middle of it. It's a good thing that I didn't pack her in a box with as much as she got into :) My parents came up Wednesday night to come and help us move, they stayed until Sunday. It was wonderful to spend time with them. I swear, without them we wouldn't have been able to move! My mom watched Paige for us while we moved more boxes, furniture and cleaned our apartment which was a huge help! And my Dad helped carry box after box after box up and down a flight of stairs and cleaned most of our apartment with us. THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!!

Thursday, the 20th, we had a few of our friends help with the big stuff,

Thanks Cameron, Zach and Mike!

(Our kitchen packed to the hilt with boxes)

Then on Friday, the 21st, we cleaned the apartment and officially moved everything out. That night we went out to dinner with my Uncle Rusty and his wife and daughter and a few of his grand kids. They live about 15 minutes from us in Caldwell.

On Saturday, the 22nd, my parents took Scott and I out for our birthdays. My parents have a tradition of taking out each of their kids and their families out to dinner for their birthdays (and even the spouses on theirs). Where Scott and my birthdays are just a few days apart, Scott's being on May 28th and mine on the 31st, we get a joint birthday dinner! We went to this super yummy restaurant here in Boise called Tucanos. It's an all you can eat Brazilian Grill. YUMMY!!! My favorite place to eat. They even brought us out ice cream Sundays and sang to us in Portuguese. And of course with all the moving I forgot to take the camera for pictures. I didn't really get any of the past couple of weeks with all the business and just slipped my mind. Other things to think about I guess, huh? :)

And speaking of birthdays... I can't believe in just a few weeks my baby girl is going to be 1 year old!!!! Where did the time go?

Sunday, the 23rd, we went to church and I swear my parents always know someone wherever they go. They knew at least 3 people that were in our ward either through someone else or they had a previous relationship of some kind with them in Blackfoot or Snake River. I guess that's what happens when you live somewhere your whole life and so did your parents. Anyway, fun to see connections with people, it really is a small world. After church we had dinner and they left for Blackfoot. I always feel like anytime we visit with family or friends it is never long enough. :)

Since Scott had to work on his birthday... we weren't able to do a party or anything. Here's a pic of Scott on his birthday enjoying his birthday cake (he loves fruit, so we had a lemon pound cake with strawberries and whipped cream)!!

Here's a pic of Paige being so good walkin around in her walker while we unpacked!

And this past week all we have done is unpack, unpack, unpack. So far we have the kitchen completely done, Paige's bedroom, our bedroom and the living room unpacked... No decorations up anywhere yet, so even though those rooms are unpacked they still aren't done :( I have a feeling that it's going to be a while yet before we are completely settled. Anyway, and Scott is going on his 4th day of 10 hour shifts in a row, really it turns out to be more like 12 hour shifts, cause he leaves the house 30 minutes before his shift starts and then when he leaves the hospital he has to discharge his patients so he always goes about a half hour over and then 30 minutes until home again... tomorrow will be his last consecutive day in a row for the a few days. YAY!! These 5 days in a row are the hardest cause we barely see him. When he gets home he sleeps and is up for about an hour or so, eats, gets dressed and goes again. Anyway, we are excited to have a couple of days to spend with him until he goes back to work!

Today, Scott was able to go to part of church with us. He left after sacrament meeting and Paige was not her most pleasant self to deal with at church today, trying to crawl everywhere and screaming if she doesn't get her way... man, I am hoping that she grows out of this stage pretty soon. She does have her moments though, she has quite the personality!

Something fun she has been doing... she loves to climb stairs. We have a small step down from our kitchen into our family room and she loves to climb up and down them. She's got the up figured out but the down is face first. We are working on that one but it usually turns into a some type of summer-sault face plant thing. Doesn't even face her. She just keeps going and going. We have to sit right there if she is going down to slow her down and help her cause it is just "GO FAST and NO TURNING BACK" for her. She has started crawling a little bit on her hands and knees. She just needs a little more practice and I think she will be crawling like a pro in no time. She has gotten so good at her army crawl I never thought that she would even normal crawl. She pulls herself up on anything and everything that she possibly can and even walks around while holding onto an object. Paige loves being outside. We go for walks in our neighborhood a few times a week and go to the park. After our walk today we sat outside on our front lawn this afternoon while I was talking to my mom on the phone and she just crawled around picking up everything and showing it to me... didn't even try to eat anything which was great! She is starting to be more choosy about what she eats, if she doesn't want it right then she throws it on the floor, we are working with this one but OH is it frustrating! She is also pretty much weaning herself off milk, she just is not interested past a few sips of her bottle. The rest of the bottle is like pulling teeth. I'm sure it's because she eats more now and it doesn't taste as good as everything else. I bought her her first toothbrush (I've been using one of those finger brushes up until now) and she loves it, so cute!

Anyway, that's what's been going on with us lately... :)