just some pictures.

The first picture is of savannah thinking about crawling. We are pretty sure that any day now she will start. She has figured out how to go from her belly to sitting up. The second picture is last sunday when she was all ready for church.

The last two are from our walk last week. We finally took a picture in front of our house ( grassless and all) and sweet savannah is wearing her stylish new coat from grandma d. What a sweetie.

I have also been working on Savannah's baby book. I am going to figure out how to post some of my layouts and stuff.

Oh aunt becca if you read this... thanks for the great package. Savannah's head is too big for the pumpkin but i make her wear it anyway...

a good weekend

This past weekend was an especially good weekend at our house, for starters no one had the stomach flu and everyone was happy.
On saturday, nate helped his dad finish siding their house, while savannah and I cleaned the house and then spent the rest of the day in the craft room. It was gloriou, my baby and all my scrapbooking supplies. I finally got savannah's book started and I am way excited to keep it going. Savannah loves it of course, because she can look at pictures of herself.
Sunday we went for a long ride, we haven't been up to Palasades in almost a year, and we decided to take the banana and load up for a long sunday drive. It was beautiful and peaceful. Savannah and Nate threw rocks in the water. Talk about exciting and I got some great photos of the two of them.
We then decided to continue up to Star Valley Cheese.. a place my family and I used to go when we were little, but they were closed. Bummer...
All in all it was a glorious weekend.
I love my little family.
pictures to come tomorrow... my camera is at home!

ahh the joys of a teething infant

well I believe the time has finally come that savannah is actually teething.. .cross your fingers. She is almost nine and a half months and doesn't have a single tooth. super cute toothless smile, but none the less.. we would like some teeth around here. She has been extremely fussy.. especially at about 3 am. delightful. regardless of the fact I am getting less sleep, I somewhat enjoy sitting up with her and rocking her. She has gotten so big and has such a personality.

At her nine month check up her stats were:

29 1/2 inches tall

22 lbs.

in the 90% percentile for both height and weight.

saying da da

and grandma swears she says izzie( grandma's dogs name)

trying to crawl

just plain happy ( except at three in the morning)

so if anyone has any good teething ideas.... we could use them..

Love

Happy Anniversary Aunt Becca and Uncle TJ.

We love you and miss you.

Have a wonderful day together.

so blessed

On Sept 20 we celebrated a wedding day. Nates little brother Jon got married. He married Jamie who we love and adore. They are expecting a baby in March. We are so excited for them. We went to their wedding at the church house and then up to the reception at the big red barn. It was a wonderful day. Miss Savannah stuck it out pretty good considering she had 2, 20 minute naps. But as I was at their wedding, it reminded me of my own wedding day and how lucky and blessed I was to marry Nate and to know that we are together for eternity with our sweet little banana cakes.

Since then we have:

• planted the rest of our grass in the backyard


• got put into a new ward. We are now in the 16th ward (with my mom ;o))


• got Savannah some great new fall clothes.. dang she is cute.


• canned cinnamon pickles


• canned salsa


• went to a gigantic farmers market and picked our own corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and cantalope.


• cleaned the craft(crap) room.


• cleaned out all the summer clothes from Savannah's room.

Life is good in Idaho, the trees are changing and fall is in the air... I am sooo happy. I love fall.

just thinking

Today as I was reading http://blog.cjanerun.com/ and learning the latest updates on the sweet family who's lives have been interrupted by a tragedy, (some of you may have seen them on the today show last week) I began to think about my own life and the kind of mother I want to be and I remember a talk by Russell M. Ballard at conference a few years ago, and it reminded me of how important simple moments are and that I need to enjoy every second I have with my sweet family. I do not know what I would do if something tragic happened but I do hope that I would face it with the same courage, dedication, faith and hope that Steph and Christian's family have.

The Quote:
Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: “The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11).

I hope that I will never let those "fleeting moments" pass without some recognition, and I hope that I will find delight in the little things and that I can teach Savannah the same. For truly life is made up of small simple moments. They are the moments that should take our breath away.

My challenge: enjoy the little moments today. document them. savor them.

daily life

not much has gone on since the last time I blogged. I successfully pulled off Jamies bridal shower. It was a great day. I was excited to do it, and I'm excited it's over. :0) The wedding is this weekend. I am happy for Jon and Jamie and wish them the best, and I'm excited to have a new sister in law.

Savannah is down with a cold. Sinus infection to be exact and so all she wants is to be held, day and night. She cries when I leave the room. (that makes me feel good, like she knows that I will always make her feel better, and i hope I always do. ) She went with grandma to the doctor yesterday, and got to have a bubble gum dum-dum. She LOVED it. My sweet girl is so funny. She also is way into bath time. If I take her out of the tub (which I have to at some point) she throws the biggest fit you can imagine, arches her back, screams the whole nine yards.

I am busy teaching school. I love it. At times working in the educational system is hard, but so worth it when a student lights up because they understand something.

Just a few pictures I thought I would share.