Part 1 of Arizona Trip Summer 2009

We went to Arizona to spend time with the family for over a week! We had a blast playing games and watching the cousins play! Here is the first installment of Arizona pictures! We miss you already!

Make a Smilebox photobook

Katie Turns 2... let the good times roll!

So considering it is August and Katie's b-day was in JUNE I am behind. Better Late than never. We had Katie's party at an inflatable bounce place called Bounce U. It was really fun to have all of the family come and celebrate with us. Katie was lucky to get many fun gifts. Among her favorites were a homemade stuffed animal frog from Mandy and a kid size broom, vacuum, and dustpan from Aunt Amber. She is definitely two but in all honesty she is still a pretty amazing toddler. Katie loves to sing songs, jump, dance and play all day. She knows the words to so many songs I can't even count them. Currently she loves to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" and "How Much Is That Doggy In the Window". (Please don't mind all of my rambles on here it is mainly for me because this is basically the only time I write stuff down about Katie's development.) Anyway it has been a great two years and I am blessed to be her mommy. I wouldn't trade these last two years for anything!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Katie's first time at the beach~

My whole family went to the beach a while ago. We went for memorial day weekend and we had a great time! We found a perfect spot on the beach with swings and a slide and it wasn't that crowded. The water was cold so katie didn't really play in it that much but she loved to dig in the sand! We buried her in the sand but she got out before I could get a good picture of it. In the last picture katie is flying a kite with Uncle John.

Grandpa came to California!

Pat came to CA for a job interview and so we went to go and spend a few hours with him. We went out to dinner at Chevys and I was telling Stephen and Pat how my old friend Stephen Scholle used to come here for his birthday every year to get the free birthday hat. Well our waitress overheard us and she surprised all of us by bringing Katie a hat and some fried ice cream as well as half of the staff to sing a version of "Happy Birthday"! The look on Katie's face when they placed this huge hat on her head and all of these people gathered around her unexpectedly and started to clap and sing was priceless. Sadly I didn't have my camera with me to capture the moment. The funny part was that our waitress told me later that to bring out the hat she had to lie to all of her co-workers. she told them that it was Katie's one year old birthday. Needless to say this was right before Katie's second birthday so I really doubt that any one believed her! Why our waitress decided that Katie needed to have the FULL Chevys experience I don't know but it sure made it a fun and memorable event! Now every time Katie plays with her hat she talks about Grandpa Smith!

Three generations


Katie and Grandpa


The infamous hat!

I know Easter was.... four months ago!

Here is My Katie Bug at Easter... She had a blast looking and finding Easter Eggs. The looking for them went on and on because as she put them back we (Stephen and I and Grandpa) would hide them again! This Easter was really a blast because she understood (for the most part) that the "Easter Bunny" came and brought her toys and candy! We also tried to talk a little bit about the true meaning of Easter but that part of Easter was a little more difficult for her to grasp.

This is Katie with her Easter baskets- One (her real easter basket) had some candy, crayons, coloring book, a stuffed bunny and a chocolate bunny which we have decided is Katie's Easter tradition to always get a stuffed animal bunny and a chocolate easter bunny in her basket because both years she has! The other basket was just what she used to find easter eggs outside!




Here is Katie posing with her basket after she found it. It was hiding in Nylah and Miranda's room under a chair. We had to give her some hints about finding it but she did a good job


The rest of these are of Katie finding Easter Eggs. We had such a wonderful Easter (four months ago!)




here is Katie in her Easter dress with her super cute cousins!.

HORRAY!!

Ok so I am finally back into the blogging world. BYU-I finally discovered that I am not a student anymore and so they deleted my e-mail account with them which was the same account I was using to blog with. So I went and created a new e-mail account and then whenever I tried to log into my blog it wouldn't let me. I had changed my e-mail address with blogger but it still wouldn't let me. So i have finally figured out how to fix the confusion so I can blog again! I will be going back in time to blog past events to try and catch up! Soon more will be coming!