Game Day!!!

We had lots of fun this morning at Uncle Matt's Soccer game!


The only problem was that the game was at 8:00 am!!! ON A SATURDAY!!!

A few pictures of Rachel and Tori at our ward picnic dinner last night. Rachel liked the slide!!

Rachel has finally earned her own seat at the table, thanks to her new portable high chair. We had been looking at these for a while, and found one at a good price at Target, so we finally bought it for her. Its pretty nifty; it just hooks onto the edge of the table and is portable for Sunday dinner at grandma and grandpa's. It even has cupholders!!
As you can see, she loves her new seat at the big kids table!

It's a Regalo Easy Diner portable high chair.

Since we gave a recommendation about the high chair, we'll balance it out with a warning about the following product:

They were giving free samples of these out at Wal-Mart the other day, and I had the misfortune of taking one. It was awful!!! From now on, I'll try and avoid anything that has ''freeze-dried hamburger bits'' on the ingredients list.

We've got Green Thumbs....

Well, after last year's failed attempt at gardening, we were a bit nervous about trying again this year but decided we'd give it a go. We have a bit more room at the new place and considerably more sunlight, which, as we discovered last summer, plants apparantly need in order to live.

We planted two boxes of flowers on the railing, and two pots of flowers, as well as a tomato plant and some herbs, both in pots on the balcony:

We also thought that it would be cute to pose Rachel and take a nice picture of her with the new flowers. As soon as she saw them, she reached out and pulled one of the freshly planted Snapdragons right out of the ground:

You're so vain......

Rachel has so much fun playing with her new friend-her reflection. She gives herself kisses and laughs. She has a great time enjoying herself infront of the mirror.
She does a new trick with her tongue which she loves to see in the mirror too. I think she thinks that she is so cool with all her new tricks and discoveries.

Wiggle Worm

Rachel still can't crawl, but she is getting to where she moves, wriggles, and squirms a lot. We usually ind her in a position like this when we wake her up in the morning:

This morning, I sat her up in the chair in the den while I was working at the computer. A few minutes later, she had moved into a more comfortable position and found the TV remote, which is quickly becoming one of her favorite toys:

Happy April Fools Day!

We have been quite busy lately, and thought it was about time we updated this thing and shared some new pictures with everyone.

Rachel keeps growing and growing! With General Conference this weekend and the Young Women's Meeting last weekend, Tori has been quite busy with her translating. Rachel and I listened to the Papiamento live stream on the internet this morning. Tori did great.... I think. I didn't actually understand anything that she said but it sounded terrific. Rachel kept looking around the room because she could hear her mommy's voice on the computer but couldn't find her anywhere. It was cute, but I think we thoroughly confused her!

Rachel is getting to where she can sit up on her own longer and longer without falling over and can even stand up (with help):

She will put anything that she can get her hands on in her mouth:

Rachel liked her cousin Corbin's "Johhny Jump-Up" so much that we bought her one of her own:

Rachel loves it because she can stand, spin, jump and play in it all by herself, and Mommy and Daddy love it because we can keep her happy without having to hold her all the time.


Today, against Daddy's advice Tori and Grandma Lloyd decided it would be a good idea to let her suck on a piece of black licorice. Rachel loved it but was quite a mess afterward:

Last week our Oldsmobile died. The 2007 Volvo S-80 Daddy wanted was a bit out of our price range, so we replaced it with this beauty instead:

It's a 1996 Chevy Corsica, and its main feature is that it runs and doesn't stall in the middle of I-15 like its predecessor did. Its a nice little car and should be good enough to get me to Murray and back for work each day.



In other news, I found out this week that I was accepted into Weber State University's Construction Management Program. I'll start school again part-time this fall. I'll still work at Hamlet full-time, and it will be nice because the company will pay for my schooling.

I think that about does it for now. We'll try and take more pictures and update the blog more often in the future. Until then...