Nothing is Safe Now!!

We took Aspyn to the doctor's for her one year check-up this week and here are her stats:
Weight - 18 lbs. 6 oz. (20th percentile)
Height - 30 inches (85th percentile)
She is one skinny but tall girl. This means that now nothing is safe. She can now reach up and get things off of the kitchen table that she wants, I now have to make sure that anything is away from the edge. She also has gotten good at letting us know exactly what she wants, if she wants a drink she goes to the fridge, if she wants to eat she goes to her high chair, and if she wants to go outside she walks to the front door and knocks. She's pretty funny. One funny story about her is our prayers. She knows how to fold her arms and when she is suppose to do it. She will fold them when we all sit down at the table, when we are done reading scriptures, or when the song in church ends. She's pretty much figured it out. But if you watch her during the prayer she will play around and as soon as you start to end the prayer she will fold her arms again so that it looks like she had them folded the whole time. I think that we are in for trouble with this smart girl!
I just thought that I would add this picture of her chasing a poor unfortunate duck who decided to take a rest on our front lawn. It obviously didn't know that we had a little girl that loves to chase things in our house. Like I said, nothing is safe now!!

Catch Up!!

A couple of weeks ago we went down to see family and have some fun. I have been meaning to post these pictures for a while but Aspyn has been sick for the last week and a half and so most of my time has been devoted to holding a crying baby, wiping a runny nose, and sitting in front of a vaporizer. But now that she is feeling better I can now post all of the fun things we did.

THE CABIN
We went down to Josh's family cabin with Jon, Emily, Sarah, and Ben. We stopped at the Fairview Museum (a nice break from the car for the kids), we rode the 4-wheelers, and just had lots of fun being up in the mountains. Here are a few pictures of our adventures in Sanpete County!

The big mammoth!! It's HUGE!!

Aspyn in the old phone booth, she loves to talk on the phone.

Riding the 4-wheeler with Daddy!!

Aspyn loved to ride with Daddy and watch Mommy ride in front of them. She just kept laughing.

Out on the deck, watching the sunset.

The view from the deck.

Aspyn loved being outside (nothing new there)!


THE PARK
We went to the park that Josh used to work at and Roller bladed around the trail and played on the playground. Aspyn had a blast, as you can tell.

Riding around the trail, this is the life!

Playing on the playground with Daddy!

Going down the slide. She can now do it all by herself, what a big girl!

Swinging, her favorite part! She always cries when we leave.


THE WEDDING
Josh's cousin got married on the Saturday when we were there. We went to the reception and they had a dancing and a band (the funny part was the band was The Fat Old Professors from Snow and I got to see one of the institute teachers that helped with the accompanist in LD's, lots of fun). Aspyn loves music and loves to dance. She had so much fun.

Dancing with Daddy!

By her face she doesn't look like she is having fun but she really was!

We would put her down in the circle and she would dance for everyone. She was a hit!! I even saw one of the band members pointing at her and smiling. Such a cute little girl.

I didn't get any more pictures of the rest of our weekend because Aspyn got sick and we didn't have much fun after that. But we did go and talk to my little brother and parents on Mother's Day (Terry is in Kentucky and my parents are in Indonesia on their missions) and if Aspyn would have been feeling better she would have had so much fun with her cousins. But for the few days she was feeling good we still had fun.

Aspyn's First Birthday!!

We celebrated Aspyn's First Birthday this week. I can't believe that it's already been a whole year, time flies by fast sometimes. But we had a fun day. We waited to do any celebrating until Daddy came home from work and Aspyn woke up from her nap but we managed to fit everything in. We went to the Logan Zoo, to the park, opened presents, and had cake. Here are some pictures of everything (I tried to narrow it down but there are still a lot, sorry).Aspyn's Presents

Aspyn coming out and seeing everything (she really was only excited about the balloons)

Playing with her balloons

Opening presents

Stacking cups

New and bigger clothes

A big red ball

Baby dolls

She loves to carry them around and feed them their bottles

At the Zoo, looking at all the animals

She loved looking at this little duck

It was fun to see her eyes go so big when she saw something new. She loved all the animals.

Her own cake

Her birthday outfit

Eating the cake

She just destroyed her cake and wasn't really interested in eating it

One messy girl