Kevin, Martilyn, Rachel, and Adalyn

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Elmer the puppet

Rachel was super cute when she was hugging this puppet that Kevin had as a kid. If you look closely at her hands you can see her grasping as tight as she can... so cute!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Whoops! What about Christmas, Rachel's Birthday, Moving...

I think Halloween was the last post...

Right now we are doing really good. I must say we are a bit boring and don't do too much exploring, but we haven't been bored. We have Colby (my bro) and Michelle (his wife) just south of us, so we get to see them more. We love it :) We just had Kevin's parents come to see us Easter weekend, which was way fun. We finally got out and did some Denver stuff, went to the Museum and an ice cream place that looks like a milk can (Little Man's Ice Cream). Way fun weekend.

Rachel has been walking for a few weeks now. Now she is mastering speed and shoes. She just keeps getting better and better at it. Today when I asked her where her nose was she pointed to it and said "No". That surprised me, since she really doesn't mimic or repeat too much. She talks and jabbers all the time, but they are her own words. I think mom's are suppose to know what it means, but I don't have that talent. She says "Uh-oh!" when she drops something, ya know, when they drop food off the side of their high chair on purpose. I'm sure Rachel didn't come up with that. She likes to give open mouth kisses on our cheeks, she hasn't got the puckering thing down quite yet. In the last month or two she has started hugging real tight around the neck, and holding herself up better when she is sitting on my hip. I love the hugs she gives, she can almost choke ya. She understands more than I realize sometimes. Some things she knows is to shut a door or cupboard if you ask. Whether she does it or not is a different story. Most everything that she does know how to do, she won't do unless she wants to. So if you get her in the right mood she will give a good kiss and hug :)

Kevin's family Easter weekend.

Rachel got a giant pink hippo for Easter. She kept tackling it and got pretty possessive for a while. She didn't want anyone touching it.

Pretty Easter outfit from Nana

We got to visit the temple with Kevin's family. Got some fun pics.

This park is in walking distance from our house using the awesome trails here.

We went on a walk on the trails right behind our house with Colby, Michelle, Jayden, and Kylie.

We got to have a taste of what life would be like with five kids when we stayed with Shelly and Russel's kids. This is Brianna taking Rachel for a ride. She love being around all the kids. Too bad she's going to have to be the oldest in her family.

We bought a second vehicle. Kevin still takes the car to work most days, but at least I'm not stranded.

We would take all the junk mail and play in it, at least it was useful, eh?

Rachel would not touch her birthday cake. This really surprised me since she is always smearing things around on her high chair tray whenever she gets the opportunity. In fact she kind of got upset because we were trying so hard to convince her that it would be fun.

Jayden was obviously explaining to Rachel something important.

Now we are getting into some older pictures from before we were actually in Colorado. For a few weeks we stayed at both our parents houses. They were kind enough to have us while we were in between homes. It made for a nice long holiday.

Rachel really enjoyed this, she like it enough that we got her one too. Even now she is crawling into everything she can fit in. We have some plastic dressers and she pulls the drawers out and empties them so she can sit in them. So naturally she likes the tent and tunnel too.

These were some devil horn she got after we took her pig tails out. She was pretty tired too, so it made for a good picture :)

Now we are into pictures when we were still our apartment in Logan. So she is less than 11 months.

First pig tails.

Reading is so fun!!! As you can see.

Friday, April 15, 2011

New Place!

This is the place we are living in right now. It is a town home that belongs to Kevin's Mission President. They were moving to their St. George home about the same time that we moved to Denver, so it worked out well. We actually live in Littleton not Denver (same city as the Temple), and Kevin works in Centennial.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Summer is gone, but...

Great NEWS!

Kevin got a job in Denver!! He starts the first of January. We are really excited about it too. So as soon as he is done with class in December and after the holidays, we'll be moving to Colorado. People would ask what's after school and we would just shrug our shoulders, so its nice to know what is going to happen after school now.

Today Rachel is 9 months old. She had an appointment today, and the doc said she's looking good and healthy. She is light, but her hight is average. Almost 16 lbs. She's quite the traveler, loves to try to eat paper. I think that is her goal in life right now. She's also pretty handy with standing up and sitting back down. She still just has those two bottom teeth, so we still have some teething fun ahead of us. She's my little shadow, I love it. When Dad opens the door, she knows he's home from work and she is always excited to see him. She's our little punk'in (sometimes without the "in")!

It's dark in our house, so pictures aren't always the best, but this is Rachel today and she is playing with her favorite toys. She travels with them and then leaves them there for mom and dad to step on.