10 MONTHS

Well here are some 10 month old pictures of Hannah. I can't believe in two months she'll already be 1 year old. It has just gone by way too fast. She finally started crawling and pulling herself up onto things on her 10 month birthday!! She's still trying to master it, though, which could take a week or two. Here are a few things she's learned this month:
1. How to wave hello and goodbye (and she actually knows that "hello" and "goodbye" go with the hand movements).
2. How to roll her hands like she's doing "The wheels on the bus"
3. How to disobey- yesterday she picked up a crumb off the floor and I told her "no" (she knows what that means) and she smiled at me and stuck it right in her mouth.
4. How to roll a ball towards me (she drops it off the tip of her hands).

I know I always say this but she is growing up so fast and it makes me sad. I guess it's time to have another baby-----Just Kidding! It is fun to see her learn new things, though.

Vacation #2

I realize that no one is probably going to comment on this because those who do comment are still on vacation in California. However, I know that there are a couple of you who check this who were not in Sacramento this past week. I don't have very many pictures because our camera's batteries died while we were there. Hopefully I can get some good ones from the rest of you who took pictures. We did some really fun stuff while we were there.
Scott turned the big 2-6. We had a nice dinner put on by my mom and some yummy ice cream cake afterwards. The next night Scott's parents took us out to Mikuni, a delicious Sushi restaurant.

Later that week we went boating with Scott's parents and most of my nieces and nephews and all of my sisters and brother. It was a lot of fun, but my muscles were aching for days after riding the tubes. I guess I'm not as strong as I thought I was.

Hannah at the lake with some food on her face, as usual.

Hannah at Grandma Julia's house.

We did a lot of other things this week and I wish I could have gotten more pictures. We went to Stinsen (sp) Beach on Friday with my dad and Vickie and had a wonderful lunch with them. It was Hannah's first time to the beach. Unfortunately she was a bit grumpy during a lot of this vacation because there were days she did not get good naps and bed time was different every night. The ride home to Utah wasn't bad but Scott had a piece of sand in his eye from the beach which we think might have scratched his cornea. He could barely see out of it so I had to drive the whole way home. It really wasn't bad but I was nervous because I saw 4 or 5 cops during our trip who were just waiting to pull me over. One I drove past while doing 85 mph (it just happened to be the one minute I was trying to pass a semi) but luckily he spotted someone ahead of me going faster and pulled them over. Scared me have to death, though because I have never been pulled over before. Anyway, now we are home and Scott's mom is staying with us this week. Tomorrow I have my final for my class and then I get a three week break until my next classes start. Only 5 more months of school!!!!!!

Do you have the Harry Potter fever?

Well this last week I have heard more about Harry Potter on the news than I have about anything else. It's huge here in Utah (as I'm sure it is in most of the country). On Friday night, Scott and I went to Borders around 6:00pm and saw some kids already dressed up in Harry Potter outfits for the 12am book party (in case you didn't know, the last book came out on Saturday). On Saturday, Scott and I went to see the new Harry Potter movie that also recently came out. It was the first time we have seen a movie alone together since Hannah has been born. Thanks to Hollie, we were able to spend some time alone together and enjoy a great movie! On Sunday morning I talked to a girl at church who had gotten the book on Saturday afternoon and was already 400 pages into it. Some people go crazy for this stuff!! We have all the books and Scott might be getting the last one for his birthday ;) but I have not read any of them. I really want to read them all, especially since the last book came out but it's really hard to find time with going to school. I guess the movies will have to do for now. Anyway, this is the last time I will write before we go to California. It will be so nice to be on vacation!!!!!!!!!!!

Too Good To Be True

About 8 months ago, Scott and I were using Vonage, which is a home telephone service that gives you 500 minutes a month anywhere in the US, call waiting, Caller ID, and voicemail for only 15 bucks a month. The reason it's so cheap is because the phone is connected to our internet, so we always have to have internet for it to work. We thought that was a pretty good deal. Soon after, we found SunRocket, which is basically the same type of service as Vonage but only 8 dollars a month. We thought, 'Wow, that's pretty awesome.' The only catch was that we had to prepay for 2 years worth of service. We thought it was worth it. To our luck, we found out this week that SunRocket has now gone bankrupt and we might not get our money back. Luckily, it's not a whole lot of money that we are losing out on. We've decided to switch back to Vonage, which is still a good deal and if they happen to go bankrupt, at least we aren't prepaying (by the way, if for some reason you are planning on calling our house phone tomorrow it will not be working so call our cell phones). Since I've been an adult and have had to make decisions on my own, I've realized that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Another example of this would have to be some baby wipes I bought the other day. Only 79 cents for 80 wipes seems like a good deal, right? Well the wipes are about as thin as a piece of hair so I have to use about 10 of them on Hannah's bottom each time and their smell will haunt me forever. Once again, too good to be true. Why do I buy into these cheap, no good products? Sometimes it's just better to pay a little extra to get good quality. So anyway, the moral of the story is, as already stated, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.

Chuck E. Cheese's and a tooth!!

Had to throw in a picture of Hannah watching the Laurie Berkner band! She loves it!!

Last Friday Hannah and I went to Chuck E. Cheese's with Hollie and Jennifer and their kids. I think Hannah had a lot of fun riding some of the free rides!! I don't remember if I've ever been to Chuck E Cheese before. It didn't really look familiar to me but it is a fun little place where kids can run wild. I was really sad to see the plastic balls gone. Even if I haven't been to Chuck E. Cheese's before I did know that they had a big thing of balls to jump into. On Saturday I was able to hang out with Hollie and Jennifer and their families for a little bit at the park. It was really fun to watch the kids play one of my favorite child hood games, Steal the Bacon. We had to say goodbye to Jen and her family, but luckily we will see them again in just a couple of weeks.

Onto some news......Hannah's first tooth broke through yesterday. I actually couldn't believe it because she hasn't even shown any sign of getting a tooth. She doesn't have a runny nose or fever and she's been sleeping well again through the night. Our little girl is growing up so fast!!!

Happy 9 months!!

Here are some 9 month old pictures I took yesterday in front of our huge bush. I didn't realize until after I took them that Hannah has food crusted on her face.



Hannah turned 9 months yesterday! She is growing up so fast. We went to the Doctor's appointment again and here are her stats.

16 lbs 8 oz which is only 12th%
26 and 3/4 inches tall which is 21st%

She was 26 inches at her 6 month appointment so she only grew 3/4 of an inch in 3 months and a pound and a half. The doctor didn't seem too worried about it, though. It's funny because she looks chubby in a lot of her pictures but she's actually quite little. She still doesn't have any teeth or crawl yet, but she is getting close to both. She can definitely get around the room if she wants to. One thing we found out yesterday after they took her blood is that she's anemic. We have to feed her some drops of iron with orange juice for the next six weeks. I am also loading on the meat in her diet so she can get her iron levels back up to normal. Overall, she's a wonderful baby to have and I think she is at a very cute stage in her life.

On to a new subject, this past week was a fun one for us. Scott's dad came into town last Thursday and was able to stay with us until Sunday morning. We went to 7 Peaks with him, (a water park, in case you didn't know) out to dinner a few times, and shopping. It was really great to have him in town. Scott's mom, step-dad, and brother all drove in on Saturday to be here on Sunday for church. They weren't even here for 24 hours before they had to turn around and drive back home again. It really meant a lot to us for them to drive all the way out here. On Sunday we went to our new ward. Scott got sustained to be in the Bishopric. There aren't very many kids in the ward because it's summer time, but fall should be pretty busy. Something interesting that happened during Sacrament meeting was that an old man fell off the platform he was sitting on during someone's talk because his chair was too close to the edge. It scared us all half to death, but luckily he was okay. This week has been hard for us to get back into school and work. Only a couple of more weeks until our next vacation!!!

Happy Independence Day!!!

We had a great 4th of July. On Tuesday night, Hollie and Jarin and their kids came over and watched Harry Potter while Hollie and I got some ice cream together. After the movie, Jarin and the kids slept on our front lawn in a tent so they could get up bright and early for the parade. At about 3am I got up to go the bathroom only to hear the sound of the sprinklers on our front lawn going off. Whoops....luckily, Jarin was able to turn them off without getting completely soaked (sorry about that again). Yesterday morning we got up early to go to the parade. It's a huge deal around here, but to be honest, I don't really know why. It's basically the same thing every year and half the time the kids aren't even watching it. I guess it's fun for the experience and memories, though. I love that everyone around here is so patriotic. Here are some pictures from the parade.

Hannah and Kamrie

Sienna and Hannah smooching

Jennifer making Hannah laugh

The girls! Too bad we were missing Allie and Sam.

Most of the kids at the parade.

Family pic

This was the day before the parade but I thought it was really cute of Ella and Hannah.

Last night we went over to Aunt Jo's for a BBQ. The boys played Guitar Hero most of the time, which happens to be Scott's current favorite video game. Normally it's the young kids that are waiting their turn to play, but in this case it was mostly the big boys. It was kind of funny to watch. We came home pretty early because Hannah needed to go to bed, so we didn't get to watch any fire works.....hopefully next year, though, because that is usually my favorite part of the 4th. I hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday!!

New Calling, New Sleep Schedule

Well a couple of months ago Scott got released from his calling in the ward and hasn't had one since. I kept having this feeling he was going to get called into the Bishopric (which is a pretty time consuming calling, for those of you who might not know what that is) but didn't tell him because my feelings are usually wrong. Last week we got called into our Bishop's office and were called to be Family History Consultants. I thought to myself 'well, I guess my feeling was wrong again' but was excited we weren't called to be Gospel Doctrine teachers, which was another thought that crossed through my mind. Then, this past Wednesday we got a call from the BYU 2nd stake to come in for an interview and yesterday Scott was called to be the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric of a BYU singles ward. We will have to be released from our Family History calling that we just got last week, but we are excited to go to a new ward. It will be weird to be with a bunch of single people, but I think it will be fun, too. I'm sure Hannah will have a lot of babysitters if she wants them. Scott will be sustained next Sunday and the Stake President asked us to just keep this between family right now, but I figured pretty much everyone that checks this is family so I think it's OK.

On to a new topic....just when you think you have your baby trained, something happens and she starts waking up again at night. We've had Hannah sleeping a good 10-12 straight hours almost every night for the past two months but recently she has been waking up screaming at the top of her lungs. Sometimes it's because she's rolled over into a position that looks really uncomfortable, but other times I'm just not sure. She still has no teeth, so I'm wondering if that's the problem. Her gums don't look swollen to me, though, but she did have a fever this weekend but no runny nose. Anyway, sometimes I just feel like I never know what is going on with her. I just hope she doesn't make a habit of waking up in the middle of the night again.

Well, I am excited for this week to come. I love July 4th! We have Jennifer in town for two weeks and Scott's dad coming in town at the end of this week for a couple of days. It's always fun to see family! We hope ya'll have a great week!

The big 2-4

My birthday was really fun yesterday! It started with rolling out of bed at 7:50am for my 8:15am class and almost missing my quiz. Luckily, I didn't miss it and got a 9 out of 10, which started off the day well. When I came home from class, Scott had a delicious Slurpy (sp) waiting for me because they are my favorite. Then he bought me some Quiznos for lunch, another favorite. After that I decided I just wanted to do something low key that we could do with Hannah, so we went to the Dinosaur Museum in Lehi. It's been years since I've been to a museum like that. The cost was $9.50 a person and I must admit, it really was not worth the cost but I'm still grateful we were able to do it just this once (and probably never again until our kids are older). We were only there for about an hour, but it was amazing to see the different fossils. I can't believe these things actually lived on the earth. I've got to be honest with you, I don't know how the whole dinosaur thing fit in with the Earth's creation. Were they here when humans were? Science has it's theories, but who really knows for sure?

Scott getting eaten by a raptor.

Hannah hanging out with a dino.

If you look closely, you can see the T-Rex in the background. I definitely wouldn't want that thing running at me. It has huge teeth.

Hannah and I are scared of Jaws(thank goodness that's not a real fossil because those things actually still exist, which is why I get scared sometimes to swim in the ocean). They had some extremely scary fossils of sea creatures, though, that were real. I've never seen anything like it. If I saw something like those in the ocean, I think I would faint.

Something that's actually alive!! Hannah really liked looking at the fish.

After the museum, we took Hannah home for a nap. For dinner, we went to P.F. Changs, which made my stomach ache, but it was still delicious. Then we walked around the mall for a little bit and looked for a swim suit for me, but no luck. We came home after that and put Hannah to bed, got some ice cream, and watched a movie. It was a great birthday and I'm lucky to have such a wonderful husband who would take a day off of work for me and do the things that I wanted to do.

Had to throw in a Father's Day picture as well, especially since they match.

Today we went to the little water park down the road with Hannah for the first time (I can't remember what it's called). We only stayed for an hour and a half but I think she really enjoyed it. She loved playing in the kiddie pool and getting squirted with water. It was an incredibly hot day, too....perfect for swimming. I hope that we can go more this summer. I really enjoy getting out and doing fun things like that. If you're wondering what the big scratch on Hannah's face is from, she got her first big owie yesterday when she fell from a sitting position onto a book. It's most likely the first of many wounds to come.

Here are some more pictures of Hannah! She loves to sleep on her tummy now. We lay her down on her back and find her on her tummy a few minutes later.





Last night we went to Tucanos with Scott's Uncle Brian and Aunt Gail. They had a baby last November and Hannah seemed to make instant friends with her. I guess you would call her Hannah's second cousin (????). I'm not really sure about those cousin terms, like second cousin, first cousin once removed, etc but she is Scott's first cousin, so whatever that makes her to Hannah. Tucanos was delicious and it was nice to see some of Scott's family again. Well, I figured I would do some more random thoughts today, since we haven't had a whole lot going on this week.
1. Alias- As Scott mentioned, I like the show Alias. We've rented all of the seasons and I can't seem to get enough of it. I usually don't start watching until after Hannah has gone to bed and sometimes I stay up until 12:00am to watch it. The same guy that created Lost, created Alias. It's kind of like Lost in that some episodes are awesome and others are dumb and it's a bit unrealistic. It's also a little bit like 24 in that there is one main character that beats up the bad guys, but I like it because none of the main characters die like they do in 24 and there is actually a really great love story in it...(what can I say, I'm a sucker for happy endings).
2. Comparisons- It's hard, sometimes, not to compare your child to other children. For example, there is a baby in our ward that is the same age as Hannah and is already standing while holding on to things. Hannah still can't even crawl, yet...... but to be honest, I'm actually grateful for that. I'm not ready for her to crawl or stand on her own yet.
3. Blisters- What's up with my feet having several blisters on them all throughout the summer? Every single sandal I purchase gives me a blister.....except for one. I have some black Tommy flip flops from Scott's mom that don't give me blisters. I pretty much wear them everyday. I just have too wide of feet to wear with anything else.
4. I have finals again next week and a research paper due on Monday. I can't believe how fast it's gone by. Well, I don't have any more random thoughts at the moment, but here is a video of Hannah clapping with me. Enjoy!!!

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Well, Maran said that I needed to blog, but that I am not allowed to talk about the Kings, even though they were very close to signing a very good coach last week (click here). I can talk about, though, the fact that today Hannah is 8 months old. She is getting big too fast if you ask me. Her favorite thing to do now is clap her hands, which Maran mentioned last time. Other than that, our lives are pretty boring right now. Maran is finishing up her first class of the summer, only to start a new one as soon as she is done, and I am about half way through the two classes that I am taking. Work is work, not much new to report there, it has good days and not so good days, but hopefully I will be able to go to part time in the fall so that I can finish up school.
Lately, Maran and I have been watching Alias, which we have not seen before. In my opinion, it is not that great of a show, but I can't stop from watching it, so I guess I think it is pretty good. Maran likes it better than I do, and she is about 10 episodes ahead of me.
Other than that, there is nothing. Hannah went to go get some pictures taken at Wal-Mart yesterday, while I did some grocery shopping. Tonight Maran is making some Cafe Rio chicken salad, which I am extremely excited about. I promise our next post will be better.

Hannah is finally sitting in her high chair. We used to just feed her in her bouncer.

I think Hannah is going to be a dentist when she's older. She loves to play with my teeth and mouth. You know, to be honest, sometimes I feel like I have nothing to blog about....which is why it takes me awhile to post sometimes. Here's what's happened this week:

Yesterday Scott and I were able to go to the temple for the first time since Hannah has been born, which was really nice. Hollie and Jarin watched Hannah for 4 hours (I had no idea it would take that long) while Scott and I went to the temple together and enjoyed a delicious meal at Arby's afterwards. That's the longest I've ever left Hannah with someone. I'm really glad it was Hollie that was able to watch her, though, and not some random neighbor. We might have one of Scott's single guy friends from work come over our house this week after Hannah's already gone to bed and watch her late at night so we can go to a movie. The thought of having a guy who has never had a baby before watch her scares me a bit, but he said he would bring his sister with him and Hannah will be sleeping anyway. We've had many people offer to watch her, but it's hard to know who to trust.

Today I woke up to a small pain right beneath my left eye, and it has become really tender throughout the day. I'm not sure what the problem is. Anyone ever had that happen to them? It is very red and swollen (that's what she said...ok that's a dumb joke that was on The Office for Kerrie and Jake). I hope I don't wake up to a huge, puffy eye tomorrow.

On Tuesday I have my midterm in my spring term class. I can't believe the term is already more than half way over. I have no motivation for this class, though, because it's a pretty easy class and my teacher just uses power points that were taken directly from the text book. There really is no point in even going to class, but I do anyway.

Well, that's about the extent of my my exciting week. Scott's just been working all week, so I'm guessing his week hasn't been much more exciting. Hannah is more adorable than ever, and is learning how to clap her hands.

PS We got all our money back from those fraudulent charges. YIPPI!