Likes and Dislikes of my 10 month old!

Likes: Goldfish crackers, swimming, frozen peas, climbing stairs...especially when mom's not watching, giving kisses to mom and dad, growling, looking at books, dogs, the vacuum, applesauce, pasta, music.

Dislikes: Having his face washed off, lotion, having "items" taken out of his mouth, being hot and sweaty, baby food- except applesauce, grass.

My baby turned TEN MONTHS on Sunday. I can't believe he will be one year in September. He has grown too fast. He is a big boy, I still need to weigh him, but I can tell you he is SO heavy. I want him to start walking but then again I don't! He is so much fun. He is starting to waive and if we need him to give us something he has, we just ask for it and he will hand it to us.

He is learning so fast! After he did so well on the airplane I bought him a little swimming pool, and we have been in it everyday since I bought it. Lance and I are having so much fun with him and we love him so much! We love you Baby Brody!

Lauren's Wedding and Roundtable "Campers"

On June 26Th Lauren and Charley got married!!! We were all so happy for them. The night before, Lauren, Kacey and I have a tradition of watching all of our hilarious home videos from when we were in elementary and junior high! Ok, so they are probably only funny to us! ha. Lauren's sealing was done by the temple pres. and it was amazing! Lauren looked so gorgeous!

me, Ren, and Katcey!

Right after Ren's wedding we headed to Mt. Graham for our annual round table camp out. Last year we missed because Brody was a new born, so we were so ready to go this year! It was so fun...until it decided to down pour for two hours. Which it was still fun after that...it's just I don't LOVE camping in the first place, so the humid wet weather didn't help much. But we all had a great time and can't wait for next year!

"Trying" to get Brody down for bed in the little camp trailer. It was so hard to get him down because he was having so much fun and it was so so freezing cold!

A Little Tired, Slow, Busy, And Tired.

Reasons for being...

A Little Tired, Slow, Busy, and Tired.

1. Got back from DC last night...three hours later than we were suppose to. Let me explain. Our flight was going great...until our plane from Dallas to Tucson left late, and we sat on the plane for at least an hour before we took off. Then we finally made it to Tucson and made a pretty little circle and then detoured to phoenix b/c there was a storm and we were out of fuel. GREAT! So we landed in Phoenix, began to refuel and surprisingly needed to change some tires...why not! haha. Any who, we flew back to Tucson and had an hour drive to Sierra Vista. Home Sweet Home. Nevertheless, we had an amazing, eventful trip in Washington DC!

2. Jet Lag- I woke up at three-thirty AM to Brody happily playing in his crib. I waited a good 30 min. before getting him out...I'm tired and his naps are totally screwed up. But not to worry we are working it out...sort of.

3. LAUNDRY, up the wazoo! nuff said.

4. House work...once again...nuff said.

5. Grocery shopping...we have absolutely NO food.

On a Happier note..

On Monday, I got a voice mail from a store at our mall....I got real excited. And I good reason too!

Well a new store in the mall opened, called Maurice's (never heard of it till now, and if you haven't I wouldn't be surprised, we get terrible low class stores in our mall) Well, the day they opened my sister and I were there and I filled out a paper to enter a drawing, whelp!

I WON A HUNDRED DOLLAR GIFT CARD!!!

K- nothing like this EVER happens to me, so I had to brag! BAH!

*And pictures and such to come about our awesome trip*

Attention!!!

*ADVICE PLEASE*

So Wednesday we are leaving for Washington DC!!! YEAH!!! I'm so dang excited, especially since I have never been to the east coast...I know I know. But I'm slightly concerned about flying with a 91/2 month old! Any suggestions on keeping them contained for that long of a flight. I've already heard the "drug them with benedryl" thing. Which I'm seriously considering...but Please leave some comments of advise!

MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

PS. I have so MANY pictures to come!!! yippee!

SYTYCD

I'm a fanatic of So You Think You Can Dance! And I know many of you are too. Most of you probably know that this cute girl is from AZ!!! I grew up with Ashley in Young Womens in Enrose Ward! Well, she was voted off last night. I am so mad, I voted so so many times too! Way to go Ashley, you did AWESOME!!!

Nine Months...

Brody is Nine Months...

He is so dang funny! He is always cracking us up with his growling voice and his sweet laugh.

Three days ago Brody started saying "Dada," and hasn't stopped since. It is so darn cute!

He can sometimes be a little dramatic when he doesn't get something he wants...I didn't know they started that already. It's pretty awesome how much he really understands.

A couple weeks ago he got to see his cousins. It's so funny how different him and his almost one year old cousin are. From the back they look basically identical!

Last Sunday we had to lower his bed. He learned to pull himself up about a week and half ago, but he had started throwing his binkie off the side of the crib. So Sunday we decided we needed to lower it, before he threw himself off.

He Loves the vacuum. And It takes me forever to finish cleaning a room. So if you remember Brody's fascination with the laundry baskets...Whelp, I just cage him up until I finish vacuuming and he doesn't mind at all!

Elder Standage

My little Brother, Craig is on his mission in Brazil. I am so proud of him and he is doing so well! He has been out for about seven months and I can't even tell you how many people he has brought the gospel to! He is loving it! He LOVES attending the temples there, and serving the people. Like all missionaries, he is so dang poor, but with the money he does have he spends it on the people and his less fortunate companions! He is such an example to me. I need to follow his path better. Many of the senior elders went home this last month, so Craig had to step and become a trainer and senior comp. Wow, he is doing so well! and even though things haven't been going all that great lately for him...he still is being positive! I love him so much and can't wait to see the way he grows the next year and a half! Way to go Little Bro!