I always try to take videos of her doing really cute things, and usually she stops doing them when I turn on the camera. But I caught a few cute things this past week.
Sometimes I put her binkie on this clip, and she is figuring out that her binkie is at the end of the string. She doesn't quite have the coordination to get it into her mouth yet though. :)
This is a really short one, but I caught her playing with her toes and I thought it was so cute. I think she found them on accident, because she hasn't really done it since then.
And this video isn't really about anything... But it's cute.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
News Flash!
Clara learned how to drive... 16 years early! She's so advanced for her age.
Oh, and we bought a new car! New to us anyway. It is a Mitsubishi Outlander. It's not really our dream car, but it worked with our budget, is in great shape, will keep us safe in the snow, and gets us from point A to point B perfectly. We are now a two car family!
Oh, and we bought a new car! New to us anyway. It is a Mitsubishi Outlander. It's not really our dream car, but it worked with our budget, is in great shape, will keep us safe in the snow, and gets us from point A to point B perfectly. We are now a two car family!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Clara's New Ball
Clara is learning how to do all sorts of things, like holding on to things with her hands! She does better with things that are easier to hold on to than a mini basketball, but it sure was fun watching her try anyway! Mostly she was just interested in putting it in her mouth, which is not surprising. Most of her toys are covered in Clara slobber by now, but they don't seem to mind!
Another new skill she has mastered within the last few days is the push-up. She's getting stronger and stronger every day, and I have a feeling she might be an early crawler. Yikes! Better baby-proof our house.
Also, I think she started to miss our midnight parties, because she has started to wake up again in the night. She's been so hungry lately, I feel like she is constantly eating. She must be going through a growth spurt. Speaking of eating, we started to feed her rice cereal at dinner time. She hasn't quite mastered that skill yet, but we're working on it. I think she would like it if she could figure out how to swallow.
Anyway, she's still cuter than ever and keeps me busy and tired and blessed beyond measure. See my last post for a few more cute videos. :-)
Another new skill she has mastered within the last few days is the push-up. She's getting stronger and stronger every day, and I have a feeling she might be an early crawler. Yikes! Better baby-proof our house.
Also, I think she started to miss our midnight parties, because she has started to wake up again in the night. She's been so hungry lately, I feel like she is constantly eating. She must be going through a growth spurt. Speaking of eating, we started to feed her rice cereal at dinner time. She hasn't quite mastered that skill yet, but we're working on it. I think she would like it if she could figure out how to swallow.
Anyway, she's still cuter than ever and keeps me busy and tired and blessed beyond measure. See my last post for a few more cute videos. :-)
Friday, October 18, 2013
Some Fun Videos
These are just a few fun videos of Clara being cute. She LOVES bath time! She usually gets mad at us when we take her out.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Vacation Time!
Back in 2010, before Sam and I even knew we would be friends let alone eternal companions, we found ourselves watching a BYU football game together with the same group of friends. I noticed that Sam had his laptop out and figured he was doing homework or something. Upon further inspection snooping however, I saw that he was actually watching the US Open tennis tournament that was going on at the time. This is when I fell in love. Actually it was NOT that easy, but it did catch my attention! Ever since then we have talked about how cool it would be to go to a Grand Slam, and since getting married, we have made it a financial goal to be able to do so.
There were a lot of reasons for us to decide this WASN'T the year to do it. For example, having a two month old baby, spending most of our savings, and being in the midst moving to a different state. Not to mention, Wimbledon was a disaster and half of the top players either injured themselves or lost in the first few rounds!
There were also a lot reasons for us to decide this WAS the year to do it. For example, Tom and Sarita (Sam's brother and his wife) live in Boston, Sam's job didn't actually begin until September 11th and when would we ever be able to make this trip without taking time off from work? (answer: NEVER), and finally traveling with a two month old is probably easier than traveling with two kids under two (not an announcement) or three kids or four kids (or arranging to get a babysitter for an extended period of time).
Well folks, we did it! And that's what this post is really about- our awesome vacation to Boston and New York! (Told mostly through pictures because this prelude is longer than it was supposed to be but I keep reading it trying to cut it down and it all seems important plus I'm kinda proud of it).
Here are a list of our vacation shenanigans, in sequential order for the most part.
1. We flew on an airplane to Boston, and were picked up by Tom and Sarita. Special shout-out to them for picking us up, giving us a place to stay, driving us around everywhere, being tour guides, and being overall great hosts. Oh and by the way, Clara was an angel on the airplane both there and back. Thank goodness!
2. We went to a Boston Red Sox game, and they won!
3. Tom and Sarita babysat for us so we could go to the Boston temple. That was very nice. Thanks so much! We tried multiple times to do a timer picture with us and the temple in it... this is the best we could get.
4. We went to Concord
5. We walked along the Freedom Trail and saw many cool sites such as: The Boston Common, The Old State House, Granary burying grounds (James Otis, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams buried here), site of the Boston Massacre, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere's House, and Old North Church just to name a few.
6. After seeing all the sites, we wandered around the North End (Little Italy) and found a nice Italian restaurant to eat at. It was fancy and delicious! Then we got gelato.
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7. We took a bunch of cute pictures of Clara.
8. We had a BBQ, ate delicious shishkabobs, and dipped our feet in the pool at Tom and Sarita's apartment complex.
9. We drove to New York with Tom and Sarita! That first night we rode the train around and stopped at Grand Central Station, wandered around town for a bit, then went to the US Open! That first night we saw Rafael Nadal (so cool!) vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber and the Bryan brothers play doubles.
10. Tom and Sarita drove home that night. The next we spent all day at the US Open, just soaking it all in! We watched five or so different matches. People we saw that day include Djokovic, Azarenka, Ivanovic, Leyton Hewitt, Berdych, and Wawrinka. We also saw some mens and womens doubles matches on the outer courts up pretty close! Being at the US Open was probably the highlight of our entire trip. The atmosphere was so much fun and the tennis was just amazing! Those of you who don't care for tennis might not realize how cool this was for us. Seriously, it is like paradise for tennis lovers!
11. We ate some really good falafel and some really good Polish food in honor of our respective experiences abroad.
12. We wandered around downtown Brooklyn (at night) (both scary and fun) in search of Grimaldi's pizza. I must say it was sooo worth it. That was the best pizza I've ever had. I don't know if it was because I was starving, but it was very satisfying.
13. We saw the statue of liberty from the Staten Island Ferry, which was free, and was totally good enough for us!
14. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge.
15. We went to Times Square
16. We walked through Central Park
17. We saw the Manhattan Temple
And that was our trip! We had a great time.
There were a lot of reasons for us to decide this WASN'T the year to do it. For example, having a two month old baby, spending most of our savings, and being in the midst moving to a different state. Not to mention, Wimbledon was a disaster and half of the top players either injured themselves or lost in the first few rounds!
There were also a lot reasons for us to decide this WAS the year to do it. For example, Tom and Sarita (Sam's brother and his wife) live in Boston, Sam's job didn't actually begin until September 11th and when would we ever be able to make this trip without taking time off from work? (answer: NEVER), and finally traveling with a two month old is probably easier than traveling with two kids under two (not an announcement) or three kids or four kids (or arranging to get a babysitter for an extended period of time).
Well folks, we did it! And that's what this post is really about- our awesome vacation to Boston and New York! (Told mostly through pictures because this prelude is longer than it was supposed to be but I keep reading it trying to cut it down and it all seems important plus I'm kinda proud of it).
Here are a list of our vacation shenanigans, in sequential order for the most part.
1. We flew on an airplane to Boston, and were picked up by Tom and Sarita. Special shout-out to them for picking us up, giving us a place to stay, driving us around everywhere, being tour guides, and being overall great hosts. Oh and by the way, Clara was an angel on the airplane both there and back. Thank goodness!
2. We went to a Boston Red Sox game, and they won!
3. Tom and Sarita babysat for us so we could go to the Boston temple. That was very nice. Thanks so much! We tried multiple times to do a timer picture with us and the temple in it... this is the best we could get.
5. We walked along the Freedom Trail and saw many cool sites such as: The Boston Common, The Old State House, Granary burying grounds (James Otis, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams buried here), site of the Boston Massacre, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere's House, and Old North Church just to name a few.
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| Counterclockwise: James Otis, John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams |
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7. We took a bunch of cute pictures of Clara.
8. We had a BBQ, ate delicious shishkabobs, and dipped our feet in the pool at Tom and Sarita's apartment complex.
9. We drove to New York with Tom and Sarita! That first night we rode the train around and stopped at Grand Central Station, wandered around town for a bit, then went to the US Open! That first night we saw Rafael Nadal (so cool!) vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber and the Bryan brothers play doubles.
10. Tom and Sarita drove home that night. The next we spent all day at the US Open, just soaking it all in! We watched five or so different matches. People we saw that day include Djokovic, Azarenka, Ivanovic, Leyton Hewitt, Berdych, and Wawrinka. We also saw some mens and womens doubles matches on the outer courts up pretty close! Being at the US Open was probably the highlight of our entire trip. The atmosphere was so much fun and the tennis was just amazing! Those of you who don't care for tennis might not realize how cool this was for us. Seriously, it is like paradise for tennis lovers!
11. We ate some really good falafel and some really good Polish food in honor of our respective experiences abroad.
12. We wandered around downtown Brooklyn (at night) (both scary and fun) in search of Grimaldi's pizza. I must say it was sooo worth it. That was the best pizza I've ever had. I don't know if it was because I was starving, but it was very satisfying.
13. We saw the statue of liberty from the Staten Island Ferry, which was free, and was totally good enough for us!
14. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge.
15. We went to Times Square
16. We walked through Central Park
17. We saw the Manhattan Temple
And that was our trip! We had a great time.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Clara's New Trick
Well, I have a lot of good things to blog about from the past few weeks. But I'm not going to write about them all right now, so to tide you all over, here is a little video displaying Clara's new trick. :-)
She has rolled from her stomach to her back before, but she rarely does that as she really prefers to be on her belly. She's been pretty close to rolling over from her back to her front without any help for the past few weeks, but she's finally got it down. Her favorite time to do it is when she is getting a diaper change.
She has rolled from her stomach to her back before, but she rarely does that as she really prefers to be on her belly. She's been pretty close to rolling over from her back to her front without any help for the past few weeks, but she's finally got it down. Her favorite time to do it is when she is getting a diaper change.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Clara loves her Daddy!
Sam has been studying for and taking the CPA exam all summer. This means he has been studying a LOT! There are four parts to the exam and he has taken three of them. He already knows that he passed the first two parts that he has taken, and is waiting to hear about the third. He takes the fourth and final part on Aug. 15th.
Even though he is studying a lot of the time, he still loves to hold Clara while he is working. Sometimes I find her in some pretty funny positions. :) She is going to be one smart baby by the end of this summer!
Oh, and when Clara is not studying with her dad, they can be found doing other fun things like playing the piano. :)
Even though he is studying a lot of the time, he still loves to hold Clara while he is working. Sometimes I find her in some pretty funny positions. :) She is going to be one smart baby by the end of this summer!
Oh, and when Clara is not studying with her dad, they can be found doing other fun things like playing the piano. :)
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