Updates

I took Abby to the doctor for her 9 month check up yestereday. She's back on the charts. She is 18lbs 45%, and 29in long 90%. Tall and skinny as ever! She is pulling herself up on anything and everything. It wont be too long before she can stand on her own, which means we have to really baby proof our house now. She has just started to discover cabinents and drawers. Keeping a clean house gets harder and harder every day. She's also starting to get an attitude. If she doesn't get what she wants she throws herself back and screams, and she has quite a loud scream. I didn't expect that for a couple months at least, but maybe she is getting a head start on the terrible twos. I hope not! Besides that she is sweet as ever, and we love her to pieces!

Abby got her first official black eye a couple weeks ago! She was pulling herself up on an end table, and when she fell on her bottom she hit the edge of the table, it lasted for weeks, but she finally looks better!

First day

A few days later

We took Abby swiming for the first time in tucson. She's not the biggest fan of the water, but she does ok if the water is warm and she doesn't get splashed. Hopefully she's get a little more into it, by the end of the summer!

Here is a cute picture of Abby and Grandpa Anderson. She was helping him with his golfball collection.

And now for some bitter-sweet news. Nate finally got a new job!! He has been looking for something for years now and I think he is really going to love it! He is installing security alarms for APX Alarms. I'm so excited to be back in Queen Creek, in our house. But I miss Tucson already. We had the best time while we were there, and it was great for Abby to spend so much time with Grandparents and cousins. She really got to know everyone better, and now that we are home she is bored out of her mind! (that might have something to do with her tantrums!) I got so used to our lifestyle down there, it will be hard to get back into our routine. But Nate is so happy and so are we. The other reason Nate's new job is bitter-sweet is because he took this job from our best friends, because they are moving to Utah. We are all so sad to see the Johnsons go. They are such good people and we loved hanging out with them. Abby and Finley had such a love-hate relationship but I know Abby will be sad she is gone. We love you guys, good luck in Utah!!
Abby, and Finley

Graduation

My baby brother Seth graduated from High School! I can't believe he is an adult and getting ready to go to college and serve a mission. Seth is one of a kind, he is more loved than I think anyone else in our family. His kind, considerate, fun, sweet, and he LOVES Abby, and Abby loves him. I'm so grateful that he is a part of our family, and I am sooo proud of the person he is. Love you Seth!

Mom, Dad and Seth

The girls and Seth


Abby and her favorite uncle (sorry no competition about that!)

To celebrate the next night all the adults (except Nolan and Keree who were about to have a baby) went to the Gaslight Theater. We loved the show, it was hillarious and it was so nice to have almost everyone together without the kids!

Nate, me, Gabi, Bryan, Seth, Dad, Mom, Lamar, Chelsea, Sam, Sunny Will and Sandy(Sorry Sandy, whoever took the picture cut you out!!!)

Jacob, my oldest nephew also promoted to middle school! Wow, it makes me feel so old when I can remember the day he was born. Good luck in middle school Jake, we love you!

(I had a picture of him but it was too dark to see!)

Memorial Day!

On memorial day Chelsea and Lamar were styaing with us and we spent the day with our friends Ryan, Lacey and Finley. We had so much fun bbq-ing and playing in the pool. Abby and Finley enjoyed eating rocks together. But the greatest accomplishment of the day was the boys passing the football to eachother 6 times. See video: They did this at least 20 or 30 times. And all three of them were sore and beat up from it!

I love to see the temple!

This post is long overdue! Nate had the special blessing to help with the construction of the Gila Valley Temple. He worked on the lights outside the temple and some of the fixtures inside as well. It made it that much more special to walk through and to go to the dedication.

It was such a neat feeling to be in the celestial room with Abby. I'm so grateful that our family can be together forever, I love the temple!

I also celebrated my 24th birthday last month. It was very low-key, just the way I like it. My parents made a delicious dinner for me, and my favorite spumoni cake!

I'm back!

Wow, I have been so bad at blogging reciently.... but I do have an excuse. Nate is working down in Tucson now, so monday thru thursday we are living at my parents house down there. It's been a little crazy traveling so much but we are so grateful for our families, and the fact that we can still be together during the week! We're trying to find a new job for Nate in town, but like I said at least I can go with him and I get to spend quality time with family!

During conference weekend we took Abby on her first long roadtrip. We went up to Utah to visit our friends and so she could meet her great grandparents for the first time. She did so good in the car. We drove through the night on the way up and she slept the whole time! We had such a good time visiting with our buddies Curtis and Courtney, and it was a much needed break from work! We did crafts and ate lots of yummy food, and cursed Utah for having such nasty weather, but it was still fun! I'm still kicking myslef because we took zero pictures, except on the way home we had to get a shot of Abby going over the Hoover Dam for the first (actually 2nd) time. We woke the poor girl up for the picture and she has a binki ring on her mouth, but it was worth the picture!

We've been very busy with our house. Nate installed some can lights in our kitchen (finally better lighting!), and even more exiting, we installed new carpet! It's the best feeling in the world to lay down on some nice new carpet (not to mention our house smells so new and clean!) But it was a nesecity for us because Abby started crawling!!! She crawled for the first time on Mar. 29th, and has been exploring ever since! She has even started pulling herself up on furniture.
Here's a few cute pictures of Abby, and a video of her crawling.

This is what happens when Nate feeds Abby.... I must say, he's pretty talented to be able to manage getting it all in her hair, and even her ear. I think he needs a little more practice!

Sleepy girl!


It makes me so sad that this precious little girl is growing so fast. She's 8 months old now, and I know I say this in every post, but my baby is changing so much, and learning so fast! Her baby smell is slowly leaving as she explores new things and makes messes. She's going through a very clingly stage, and I know I complain so much about not being able to get anything done, but secretly I love that all she wants is to be held or that she just wants me to watch her play. She fits into 12month size clothes, and she's just as tall as ever. She is such an observer, she loves to watch people. It's hard to get her to laugh most of the time (although she does laugh for little kids!) But she is still a happy, content little baby. She has 4 teeth (2 on top and 2 on bottom) and is exploring them. Nate and I have both been bitten a few times (not while nursing though, she knows better than that!). And she is finally starting to sleep and nap better (most of that is my fault, we drag that poor girl around so much as soon as she gets used to something, we go on a road trip, or live in 2 different places!) She has also learned how to say no, thanks to her cousins who tell her "no, no baby". Abby says "na na na na", and shakes her head no. It's the cutest thing, I just wish she would learn "yes" instead. She also knows how to wave, I need to take more videos of these things! I am seriously loving being her mom. I don't know what I would do without my Abby, I am so grateful for her sweet little spirit, and although I don't want her to grow up, I'm excited that I get to watch her grow and learn new things!

Happy Valentines Day!

This is what Abby and I made Nate for Valentines Day this year. We had Abby's 6 month photo shoot a last week with Tania, and with her genious idea of making a valentine photo shoot, this is what we came up with. Abby had a BLAST eating the valentine we made, and the pictures turned out sooo cute/funny. We printed up a bunch of wallet size pictures and I made a collage with the original valentine in it. Nate hasn't seen it yet, we are having a very romantic valentines day this year..... not! He's camping with the boys from church.

I'm so glad we had her photo shoot a little early because since then she got

RSV. Luckily it isn't too bad, but it's so hard seeing her sick. Especially because I have had asthma in the past and I know what the poor girl feels like. She's getting better though, I'm just anxious to get out of the house again!

Oh, and there are more pictues to come.

What just happened.....

Holy smokes the last month just flew by! We have been busy busy busy. My baby turned 5 months old yesterday. I didn't even realize it till 8:00 last night so I took a picture of her in her pj's. And today I discovered her first tooth starting to come through. It hasn't broken the skin yet, but it's getting close! She's growing way too fast!

She has started eating rice cereal. She made some awesome faces when we gave it to her the first time! But she's starting to get used to it, and I think she likes it.

We celebrated Abby's first Christmas with both families this year, it was so nice to see almost everyone. We missed a couple brothers.

Of course Abby's favorite part was the paper... but it's still so much fun to watch her get excited about it!

Nate's sister Carli got married on January 2nd to Roger. I wasn't thinking and forgot our camera, and when we did remember to bring our camera to the reception we didn't take very many pictures. It was so much fun anyway!

Us and our friends Justin and Makenzie.
(I yanked this picture from Makenzie thanks!)

Nate has been in and out all month long. He's been working on the temple in Safford so I spent one week in Tucson with my family, while we were there I got Abby's ears pierced! She did so good. She cried for a couple minutes mostly because she was scared and wanted the piercing lady out of her face! Here are a couple pics my friend Tania took for me.

Also while we were in Tucson Abby and her cousin Daniel became best friends!!! When we got there Daniel was sleeping and the second his eyes opened he said "Abby", and jumped off the couch to come see her (he was so sleepy he tripped on the way!) And anything he did was the most hillarious thing in the world to Abby. She has never laughed this hard in her life! Nate and I stand on our heads to try and make this girl laugh, and all Daniel had to do was look at her and she cracked up! They just love eachother so much!

Nate has been gone all this week as well, so I've been trying to keep busy and get some things done around here. Tania came and stayed with me one night and we made a mile long list of the projects I need to get done around here. My first priority is Abbys' room. As soon as we get that done I'll post pictures but until then I have some serious work to do!!!