Free Giveaway!!

I never do anything like this but I would really want to win this one so I am posting about it. There is a photographer up here in Logan that is giving away three photo sessions along with a CD of all your pictures ready to print. I would love this for Aspyn for her 2 year pictures so I decided to do it. All you have to do is go to her blog (http://sweetshotsphoto.blogspot.com) and leave a comment and then post about it on your blog.

Aspyn at 21 Months!!

Time flies by when your having fun!! I can't believe that Aspyn will be two soon, it's crazy! She is getting so big and doing so many fun (and funny) things these days that I decided to write down some of the things that she loves to do.

• She loves to dance around the house. The other day I asked her if she wanted to take ballet and she started to dance. I didn't even think she knew what ballet meant.
• She loves to play with balls, any kind of ball. Daddy brought her a little baseball and bat home from Chicago a couple of weeks ago and she loves to try to hit the ball.
• She is starting to talk a lot more. She now says please (so nice) and her new word is cheeeese (she says it like you are going to take a picture of her). In fact she loves the camera so much that I can't ever take pictures of her because she starts to throw a fit if I don't give it to her (hence, why I don't blog often).
• She loves to read books and will actually sit and listen to a whole book. Her favorite is Brown Bear, Brown Bear and when I say "What do you see?" she will say, "I see a bear." and that is what every animal sees.
• She loves to watch her Winnie the Pooh movie and will walk around saying "Pooh, pooh, pooh". Very funny!
• She is starting to act like a two year old by throwing tantrums. The kind where she throws herself on the floor, screaming at the top of her lungs. So much fun!
• She is a really big helper. Loves to help us cook, clean, and anything else that we are doing. When I clean the house I have to make sure that she has a rag and a water bottle so that she can follow me around. And she has to pull a chair over to the counter to help with anything we are doing there whether it's cooking or washing dishes.
• She actually knows who our President is. One day we were watching the news and she kept saying Mama over and over and I kept asking her what and when I looked at her she was pointing to the TV at Obama and that's when I realized she was saying his name, not mine. She does this every time she sees him on TV.
• She loves her stuffed animals and baby's. Duckie or one of her babies now comes with us every where. She also has to show them everything, the snow outside, the movie on TV or her pretty hair that I just got done doing.
• She is really into coloring. Every day right after she finishes breakfast she goes and gets her crayons and coloring books and off she goes. I have to convince her to stop so that I can get her dress.

Here are a few of pictures of her doing some of her favorite things.Here she is helping me make bread. If you look close you can see that she is saying cheese.

Aspyn coloring in her Winnie the Pooh book, two of her favorites in one activity.

And her she is dancing with her doll. Unfortantly I didn't get an action shot because she saw the camera and stopped.

Hardware Ranch

There is this place up here in Cache Valley that all the Elk winter at called Hardware Ranch and we finally made it up there (our 4th winter living here). We took Cecilee and Brandon when they came up in January. It was so much fun and Aspyn loved it!

Here is Aspyn at the Visitor Center. They had a bunch of stuffed animals that she thought were the coolest things ever!

Here we are waiting in line to get on a sleigh that takes you out into the middle of all the Elk.
This was on the sleigh, the horses names are Belle and Beauty, they are sisters. Aspyn had so much fun riding with the horses.

In the summer they grow all the feed for the Elk in this same field. There are so many of them and they just sit and stare at you as you move past them. It's so amazing to see them so close. Here are some more pictures for you to enjoy!!

I wish that we would have gone up all the other winters we were here but at least we made it once!!

Blog Slacker!!

I have been a really big slacker lately in doing new blogs. So for your viewing enjoyment there are a lot of new blogs today. I really will try to do better and keep up to date from now on.

Christmas!!

We had a great Christmas, it was actually the first Christmas that we spent in Logan. We decided to come back since we had been gone so long before going to San Fransisco and family Christmas parties so we came home Christmas Eve. Here are some pictures of our Christmas.

This is what Santa left for Aspyn.

Here what Santa left the whole family.

Aspyn walking out on Christmas morning.

She was a little confused on why she was getting so many new toys, not that she was complaining she just didn't quite understand it.

Here is her cheese face, she doesn't do it very often because she usually wants to take the camera away from me. This is a very rare picture.

Here she is with her new crayons and color books, she loves to color and loved it even more that it was Winnie the Pooh.

Here she is with her vacuum, she loves to help me clean and now vacuums the house all day long.

With her new train and little people. She loves this one too.

Aspyn is a real girly-girl but she also loves cars. So we her some Cars cars and her favorite the helicopter.

And here she is opening presents. It was during this time that she decided she had enough of me taking pictures and wanted the camera so we put it away for the day.

San Fransisco!!

We were able to take a little vacation last month to San Fransisco because Josh went for a Conference. It was a lot of fun and we did a lot while we were there. One of the things we did that I didn't get any pictures of was Phantom of the Opera. It was amazing and I wish that I had taken my camera to get a picture of the theater. Below is a lot of pictures of things that we did (and I mean a lot).

During the day while Josh was at the conference I would go window shopping. Our hotel was right downtown so we were close to so much. This is a picture of the shopping center that was 7 levels (this is from the top level looking down). It was so big that I am sure I didn't even see most of it.

On Wednesday night we went with Chris Tressler (Josh's friend who was also there for the conference) to Fisherman's Wharf. Chris was nice enough to snap this picture of us on the Cable Car.

Here is the Cable Car on the turntable.

The Fisherman's Wharf sign.

This is Alcatraz Island from the Pier at night.

If you look really close (and I mean really close) you can see the sea lions that live at Pier 39. We couldn't really see them but we could here them, it was really cool.

The Christmas lights that you can see there are on a boat not a house. The boats along the Pier were all decked out. This is were we had dinner that night and it was a very cool experience with fish (for Josh and Chris) and sourdough bread, the full San Fransisco experience.

Here is Ghirardelli Square, the old chocolate factory. We had to go there and buy chocolate of course.

Here we are on the beach. This was the first time that Josh had seen the Pacific Ocean.

This is Alcatraz Island during the day from the other side.

The Golden Gate Bridge. We took this right before we started walking across.

It is really big up close, it's really amazing.

Yep, it started raining while we were on the bridge. It did make for a cold walk.

Looking back at the city.

The Christmas Tree at Union Square.

Macy's all decked out in Christmas Decorations.

The view from our hotel room.

Yerba Buena Gardens, I was so amazed that the flowers were still in bloom.

Very pretty waterfall in the Gardens.

The Gate to Chinatown.

The buildings in Chinatown.

Josh in front of Willie Mays statue at Giants Stadium.

This is the place that everyone sits in kayaks and boats and wait for home run and foul balls.

The inside of AT&T Park.

The whole reason we went to San Fransisco. Josh in front of his poster of his research for his Master's project.

And of course Aspyn, she stayed with Grandma and Grandpa and had lots of fun. This is one of the things we brought back for her. We saw it in Chinatown and thought it would be so cute on her and we were right.

Playing in the Snow!!

Aspyn loves the snow and loves to watch it from the living room. This was her first time out in it this year. She wasn't very happy that day and lately we have been having a hard time taking pictures of her because she just wants to play with the camera. So here are a couple of pictures from that day.Her and Daddy in the middle of all the snow.

In this picture she is trying to get to me to get the camera, you can see behind her Josh's attempt at a snowman, it wasn't the best snow for that.

Workout with Aspyn!

Tonight Josh decided to show Aspyn some workout moves. It was too funny not to take pictures of. So, here is a Workout with Aspyn!

First, she had to pose for a picture, she is such a show off.

Then a few sit-ups,

After that a couple of push-ups,

Then to finish off some stretching.