Randomness

Just for the sake of documenting these little things, be warned, this post may be a little random. :)

We love cookies. Especially oatmeal chocolate chip ones. mmm. We decided to make some the other night and Claire did not want to miss out on the fun! She's been pretty clingy lately and wants to be held a lot. :)

She's gotten tired of all her old toys so one day I busted out my old playing cards. She had a blast scattering them all around and knocking down the houses that I was trying to build with them.


Claire figured out how to get out of her bumbo so we had to finally get her a highchair. Scott was hiding behind me and she was looking for him in this picture. She'd bust out laughing when he'd poke his head out. She really does love the peek a boo game. :)


Finally a beautiful day off! The three of us went for a picnic. :) I think Claire was more interested in the grass than her food.

She loves walking around.

There was a beautiful view!And because we always like to show off her progress...

She pulled herself up to the bathtub the first time while I was getting it ready for one of her baths. This was her second time pulling herself up. I loved seeing how happy she was with herself and how she suddenly got independent and pushed me away cuz she didn't want me to hold her at all. :) Sadly she fell over a second after this video.

She's growing up so quickly and moving around more and more. We love it! :)

diamondbacks 2011

another football season has begun. yeah, i pretty much get to play football year round with all those flag football leagues and just playing with friends, but this is the real deal. getting to put on the pads, hitting each other, getting bloody, and getting dirty. and oh, how dirty we got. it had been such beautiful weather the month leading up to our first game. that however changed the day before as snow began to fall.
i thought we were going to be lucky. it stopped snowing pretty quickly, and our game was later in the day so i thought for sure all the snow would have cleared up. but the morning of game day there still lay a nice blanket of snow on our field, and by the third game, that snow was turned into a nice big mud puddle. this did not play to our strengths, but it worked great for our opponents.
for the most part, my team is pretty small, but we're pretty quick. we excel in the skill positions and we have a nice balance between passing and running. well that balance is lost in the mud. the advantage usually goes to the bigger team that can control the offensive line. that was not us on this day. it was an ugly and sloppy game. there was probably close to 15 fumbles between the two teams. and i, being forced to play quarterback this season, often found myself being slammed into the mud. it was a rough game all around. in the end we came up just a play short, losing 12 to 9.
the second game was the complete opposite. we were blessed with a beautiful 70 degree day. this meant we could actually pass the ball as well as run. on my first pass of the day, i found my little brother kyle (who is driving down 2 hours every morning to play with us) for a nice 30 yard touchdown. i also later ran in a touchdown, threw 2 extra points, and intercepted a pass. we ended up winning the second game 33 to 0.
despite the miserable first game, the second game gets me so excited for the season. we have a good team. our biggest weakness will be quarterback (me). we've got half of the guys back from last year, plus some new studs, including my little bro kyle. we also may or may not have a certain former byu running back who now may play for the bears. i feel a little bad about having a nfl player on our team, but i want to win so i think i'll get over it. thank you stalled nfl labor talks.

March C's

Create: So I see people getting things from D.I. all the time and fixing them up to look like new, and I'm always so amazed. When I look around D.I. I usually always walk back out disappointed cuz I don't see anything useful. I guess I'm just not good at seeing the potential things have. Early this month though I finally walked out of D.I. actually purchasing something! I found this desk for only $30. We had been looking for a desk for my sewing machine and for all the craft stuff I've slowly been accumulating, but never found anything we liked for a decent price. When we found this one, it actually had a very very ancient sewing machine still inside that little compartment you see on top. Scott was able to take it out though with no problem. It was a bit scratched up and dirty, but the wood is very sturdy and it was just what we were looking for. :)


So I've discovered refinishing wood is definitely not my favorite thing to do. I sanded the whole thing and Scott helped me put the primer on (which was a huge pain to clean up). The primer was so goopy and thick in some places I had to sand the whole thing again before I could paint it. Anyway, the whole thing took forever and I'm not wanting to refinish anything else anytime soon, but I'm pretty happy with how my desk turned out. :)


Cook: Scott and I love cinnamon rolls. I found this recipe and decided to try my hand at homemade ones. I thought they turned out really good...mmm. :)


Capture: Well, I actually had a couple photoshoots planned for the month, but first they got sick and then Claire got sick and then I got sick and so every time I ended up canceling. And then the last week we've had pretty yucky weather so no actual photoshoots were done this month. I did take pictures at Scott's tackle football game and entered this picture in a photo contest this week so I'm counting it. :) The theme of the contest was "Slice of Life". It was supposed to be a candid shot.

Peek - A - Boo

In case you couldn't tell, I think she's enjoying her new found mobility. :)

Sick Again?

So I heard somewhere that babies usually have up to 7 colds within the first year. If that is true I guess I can expect 4 more colds in the next 5 months! That's almost like a cold a month, not fun! I hope that's not the case, especially with summer coming up!
Claire has a cold again, but this time she has an ear infection and pink eye along with it, which has made night time not fun. We actually have resorted to the old trick of driving around town at midnight just in hopes that she'd fall asleep in her carseat. It works, until she wakes up a couple hours later anyway! Yesterday was probably one of her worst days. She wouldn't smile at all, she'd just sleep and want to be held constantly. She looked miserable. It was so sad seeing her like that and not being able to take it all away. :( Today has been much better. Still fussy, but smiling at least! She was playing with the humidifier and the air kept blowing into her face. She thought it was the funniest thing. :)

Hooray for Spring!

So usually with the cold weather outside we spend our days doing things like this...

(She was 'helping' me with laundry)

...basically, I try to do things that need to be done around the house and entertain her in any way I can, all at the same time. :)

This week however has been much more exciting. Besides getting a root canal this last Monday (super fun... NOT!), I had the opportunity to go to a photography workshop with my fabulous sister-in-law. The workshop was AWESOME and I felt like I learned a ton! :)

The next day was so nice and warm I just felt like I HAD to go outside and use what I had learned, to take pictures of everything. So Scott, Claire and I went for a walk up the canyon and although the weather was beautiful, the scenery was not. It wasn't really the best time of day for pictures, but the walk was fun, and despite the looks on both of their faces, they did enjoy being outside. :)

We can't wait for more sunny and warm days this summer. We will be going on many more of these walks I'm sure. :)

Root canal, photography workshop, warm weather, new phones, plus a couple intramural games for Scott (which he won both, I might add) make for a pretty intense week. But we have one more bit of news... It's pretty exciting and scary all at once! :)

You ready for this?! You'll have to just watch and see...



Claire has mastered the technique of scooting around! Oh the places she'll go! One more reason to love spring. With her new found ability to get around, she's going to be everywhere and getting into everything. :) Being able to play outside will be like freedom (for her and me)! Hooray for spring! :)

claire bear's hair

by writing this blog, i acknowledge that i risk my daughter one day hating me. i imagine, many years from now, our little girl wanting to read all about her first few years of life. i see her reading this entry, her mouth agape, and her yelling, "you said what?!" i see me, with my 5 olympic gold medals draped around my neck, pleading for forgiveness and trying to bribe claire with a brand new solid gold flying rocket car (cuz those will exist in the future) and a unicorn (those too). she'll storm off angry, jump in our private space shuttle, and take off to our cabin on mars to cool off for a few hours. with all this in mind, i write anyways.

our little girl was born a hairy beast. she had a nice full head of hair that the nurses promptly put up into a cute little fohawk. and on the not-as-cute side, her body was covered with little patches of hair. they were light patches, but they were noticeable if you really looked. she had them on her forehead, shoulders, lower back, and ankles. everyone couldn't help but remark on all her beautiful hair. those comments have since died down. while our little girl has grown, the one thing that hasn't grown with her is her hair.

in some cases, this is a good thing. her patches on her forehead, shoulders, and ankles have completely disappeared (though the one on her lower back is still there - at least it should keep her modest when she gets older :) ). but we're a little sad that the hair on her head hasn't grown much. i love the thought of amber doing cute stuff to our little girl's hair. but you can't do pigtails on a prematurely balding baby. her hair just won't grow. well, most of it.

amber has recently discovered that a few random hairs have sprouted up. we're not sure if you can see them in the picture, but they are there. a few have suggested that we shout cut these beautiful longer hairs to even them out with the rest, but we shun the idea! be shunned idea! these hairs represent hope in a world that needs more hope. they represent potential. little hairs from all over claire's head can look to these longer hairs as examples - as a light. they can stand tall and say, "i can do this! i can grow!"

and if we were to cut those standout strands of hair, the shorter hair would be scared to grow. we don't want to scare claire bear's hair. he he. scare claire bear's hair. i think i'll end on that little rhyme. :)