Posing like Dinos

The outside part of the park was really neat. Most of the dinosaurs looked too real!

(I love that Zachy looks like he's yawing in this one.)

The kids had a great time posing like the dinos (that includes the "oldest" kids: me & Lindsey).

Who did it best?

Zachy

Rebecca

Ashleigh

Elizabeth

Lindsey

Hungry little birdies.

Dino-style girl-fight! (over a designer purse, of course)

Who knew there were human remains in the dino ages? (Must be setting up for Halloween.)

But the biggest hit was the wood cutout photo-places.

Lizzy & Zachy

Ash & Bec

Happy 8 months Lizzy!

Golf & Flowers

We finished up the day hitting golf balls with Zachy (forgot the camera then), making hair flowers (Zachy picked one for Linds to make for his mom)...

(Ashleigh's flowers)

(Rebecca's flowers)
and painting nails with Bec & Ash.

It was a very fun day!

Elizabeth at eight months

We love you so much!!

09/09/09

Happy Birthday Jen. Today is my 33rd birthday. And if you multiply 3x3, you get 9! And it's on 9/9/9 (or 09/09/09, if you rather).

It was a great birthday! On Tuesday we went to lunch with my sister Lindsey & her husband Chris. And Zach's parents & two younger sisters, Patrice & Melissa, took us to Windy Suki Yaki (I think that's what it was called) for sushi dinner and it was YUMMY! AND they got a cheesecake for dessert - MY FAVORITE!

I have the best husband. He got me an ergonomic keyboard. I LOVE IT! It is heaven for my wrists. And I'm excited to pick some new music from iTunes. The Crunch 'n Munch didn't last 30 minutes.

WHOO! 33 rocks!

Sleep Tight

When Elizabeth started to learn to roll, we took the bumpers off her crib so she wouldn't roll into it & suffocate. Then, once she'd learned to roll, we left them off because she loved putting her feet on the crib bars.

However, the bumpers are back on because I found her hysterical after a nap last week. She'd gotten her leg stuck up to the middle of her thigh! Now she's not quite sure how to sleep since she can't stick her feet out.

I'm not a big fan of her sleeping face-down, but it's the way we find her most of the time now.

You are lost and gone forever

Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling baby pictures
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, memories.

The Mac experts weren't able to recover anything off our hard drive.
There may be another way to get our pics, docs, ect. off, but it will
most likely be costly. So, for now I'm resigned to just learn from the
experience and be grateful we did get a few pictures printed of 
Elizabeth up to her 3 month birthday.

But, the good news is that we have the computer back with a new and bigger hard drive for me to fill with more pictures (that will have a nightly back up).

A word from the unwise

A few weeks ago we were talking about how we should back up all our photos to our external hard drive.

"How sad would we be if we lost all our baby pictures of Elizabeth?"

"SO SO SO sad."

But, of course, I forgot.

And OF COURSE, our iMac went mental this last Sunday. All our documents and all our pictures from the last 3 years are trapped on the malfunctioning hard-drive. Zach did his best to get it working, but nothing worked. SO SO SO sad.

We're hoping the Mac experts can recover all our special memories. They'll give us their "assessment" in a few days.

So, people...back up, back up, back up! Don't be a nerd like me.

7 Months Old

Elizabeth turned 7 months old August 10th. And here's what's new:

TEETH!

Her first two teeth came in a day apart from each other. She's figured out that if she wants to chew on her fingers, off to the side is less painful.

DRESS!

She loves her new dress Grandma Trena made...

and flower Aunt Linds made.

FOOD!

She can't get enough sweet potatoes, squash, and green beans (and adding peas this week).

This Munchkin Fresh Food Feeder is awesome! Elizabeth chews forever on whatever we put in it (frozen grapes are the favorite). Now we can actually eat dinner without having to holding her.

We totally recommend it!

MOVIES!

She's already a Harry Potter fan!

SLEEPING!

OK, so this isn't new, but it's cute. She still loves sticking her foot on her "music box" (as we call it) or out of her crib while she sleeps. These pics are from the same day. The first pics are from the morning...

and this one is from nap time. I can't imagine it being comfortable.

Happy 7 Months Lizzy! WE LOVE YOU!

Happy 2nd Anniversary!

We celebrated our 2nd Anniversary on 08/08/09. It's been two amazing years! Here's to many, many, many...infinity more.

We LOVED our photographer!

and I loved my bouquet.

This was us right before we got married...

And this is us now...

(We were in Bear Lake for our anniversary with some of Zach's friends and forgot to get pics of us together.)

Yet another example of how much Elizabeth loves to use her toes as fingers.

Nap Time

Elizabeth loves this Taggies Ball. The funny thing is, although it's covered in fun tags for her to play with, she ends up with the actual "tag" the most. And she won't let go, even in her sleep.

Thanks Joan & Val for the awesome ball!

http://www.taggies.com/home_us.html

6 months

Elizabeth is 6 months old! The months have gone too quickly. She LOVES the Elephant from the ExerSaucer we're borrowing. Thanks Aunt Stacie & Uncle Mark!

(It's a little fuzzy, but too cute not to post.)

Here's her social update:

• She can roll from front to back, back to front, and all over the living room.
• Her bottom two front teeth are coming in.
• She's excited to start eating baby food. (We tried earlier but had a few too many horrible allergic reactions. Now we've determined she's allergic to formula so no more mixing rice cereal with that.) Bring on the Sweet Potatoes!
• She loves to babble, talk, and laugh with/at us, especially early in the morning when we'd like a little more sleep.

Here's her physical update:

• Age: 6 mo. Length: 27 in (87%) Weight: 16 lbs. (47%)
  Head: 16.7 in (48%)
• Age: 4 mo. Length: 26 in (94%) Weight: 13 lbs 9 oz (50%) Head: 16.1 in (44%)
• Age: 2 mo. Length: 22 in (75%) Weight: 10 lbs 10 oz (75%) Head: 30%
• Age: Birth Length: 20 in Weight: 6 lbs 15 oz Head: ?

Another first: Fireworks!

Lindsey and Chris invited us over to watch the Weber State University 31st Annual Lindquist Family Symphony Pops and Fireworks. They live close enough to the university that we just sat outside their apartment and had a fantastic view.

We wondered if Elizabeth would have issues with the noise, but she LOVED them.

We had a hard time getting her to face forward for a good picture because she was trying to see all the lights in the sky.

I love the dirty look she's giving because she's not facing the way she wants.

Aunt Val and cousin Ethan (the other boys were too busy playing to be in a picture). He loved the fireworks as much as Lizzy.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Jim!

4th of July Festivities

On the 3rd of July we went to Uncle Chris & Aunt Lindsey's for some fun in the pool! Thanks for the cute swimmer Aunt Linds.

Elizabeth's first time in a swimming pool was perfect because it's heated.