Happy 2nd Anniversary!

Today is our 2nd Anniversary. Two years ago today Daniel and I were married in the LA Temple. It was the BEST day ever!!

Yay for us!!

Standing to Walk

Today is the first day John has figured out how to go from a sitting position to a standing position in order to walk around. YAY! He took his first steps back in August and since then he has been walking but always holding onto something. Just last week (I don't have an exact date because it was kind of over the space of a few days) he started to let go of whatever he is holding and walking much longer distances than ever before. After a few days of this he finally decided on Friday Sept 25th that walking was the cool thing to do and he stopped holding onto things and started walking everywhere that he could. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen to see him put his arms out in front of him like Frankenstein and walk around just for the sake of walking!!

Today I am watching Eli (John's BFF) and they have been chasing each other around the room ALL DAY LONG screaming and giggling their heads off! I looked over at one point after hearing a thud (they're both sporting bruises from falling repeatedly!) and saw John land on the floor then stood up and started going again. I was so excited I kept my little phone camera on him until he did it again!! I'm such a dork :)



11 months 3 weeks and 5 days old.

I love "Firsts". I know I probablly won't be as thorough recording all my other kids "Firsts" but at least John will have an accurate record of his life...hehehehe! Poor future children of mine!!

1 Year old Pictures!

John did pretty good considering the fact I put him in a hot Tigger costume in a hot little room forcing him to sit still while trying to make him smile! We got a couple of good ones before he just had enough and we finally decided to stop torturing him!!

Watch the progression of the photos....

Happy...

Ok mom enough of this hot costume already...

Cool a motorcycle...

Still happy...

Ok this is starting to get boring...

I'm tired of doing this...

I hate you for making me do this...

I'm so finished. Lets go home...




I thought they turned out pretty cute! Especially the last pictures. I figure later on in life when I look back at all the pictures I have of him if they're all big cheesy grins then I'll miss out on remembering those times when he put on those super crying faces that happen periodically. Life isn't always big smiles and that's what makes it worth remembering.

SUCCESS!!

Ok ok so it's been over a week since I've updated everyone on my exciting life (sorry) and I know you all have been sitting on pins and needles waiting for an update on our rodent infestation. Well I'm happy to announce that...

WE CAUGHT ONE!!

I woke up and was in the middle of feeding the baby when I heard squeaking coming from the kitchen. I called Daniel into the room and told him to take care of it because I just couldn't handle it. As much as I wanted to get rid of it, it broke my heart to hear it squeaking like that!

Daniel ended up dropping it into a bucket of water in order to finally kill the poor thing. I called my sister and mom in triumph and my mom chewed me out for killing it "in such an inhumane way". She was devastated and almost in tears! What the? She wasn't even around for it!!! I sent my sister a picture of the culprit and my mom vowed never to look at it because she was just traumatized by the whole thing.........whatever!!!

So far we haven't had any problems since. No more scratching, scurrying, or squeaking...lets keep our fingers crossed!

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...

If the only thing we have to fear is fear itself then why does a mouse scurrying across my kitchen floor make me jump?

Yes oh yes I have mice. I have been hearing scratching coming from my kitchen for almost 2 weeks now but we've never seen any signs of them. No droppings, no weird smells (besides the "normal" weird smells that comes with living in an old and breaking down apartment!), no nothing! Just scratching every now and then from the walls. Then last night Daniel walked into the kitchen saw one run from under the stove to under the fridge. EEWWWW! We put in a work request order immediately after that ( which they still haven't come and I waited all day!) and I scrubbed the kitchen clean. This morning while I was getting dressed the baby was playing with an empty box by our bedroom door. A mouse came running up inches from the baby, stopped, then turned around and headed back to its cozy little nook under my stove. The baby saw it and started after it as fast as he could. AAAHHHH! It's bad enough it's coming out and showing itself in broad daylight let alone having my kid try and befriend it!!

So my question is...why am I so freaked out? If I was able to deal with THIS in Indonesia....





... then why am I so scared of THIS???





Perhaps I'll just train them to be like the little mice on Cinderella and make them do my chores for me! It would be nice to have some extra hands (or in this case paws) to help out sometimes.


P.S Does anyone have a clothing pattern for these little guys??



......just kidding!

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