Sweet Kisses

Just sharing a video of Aubriana actually walking. I know my fam hasn't seen her walk yet. She started walking at 10 1/2 months (for my records). She decided to be cute and share a kiss at the end of the video. She is so sweet!



I had to share one more video. Bumble pants just couldn't quite reach the toy at the bottom of her toy box. Good thing I had my camera handy. Too funny!

Pictures Are Priceless

Aubriana and I flew out to Washington this past week to visit family. We had so much fun! We really miss not being around family and makes it all the more fun when we get to see them. Unfortunately Tim was not able to come with us again. We missed him terribly :(

We celebrated two Birthdays while there. Aubriana's cousin Leify just turned 1! I can't believe it! Lurlyn made an adorable cake for him. Tim's sister Dana also had a birthday the day after. Jim bought her a delicious cake which I had wished I got more then 1 slice of. :) For Dana's birthday all us girls went to Time Out For Women in Portland. It was a really good time.

Below are some fun pictures I took of the trip. We went to a pumpkin farm on Leify's birthday and they had all sorts of things to do there. So... I got a million pictures and I'm posting quite a few of my favorites.

tractor ride to the pumpkin patch

The sky looked awesome that night

Aubriana and her cousin Cam playing peek-a-boo

They loved playing in my suitcase when I was trying to pack

New Twilight Trailer

Saw the new trailer on TV tonight and thought it was good... just incase you haven't seen it, I thought I'd share. I was talked into reading the book and couldn't put it down, then read the rest of the series in a week. Crazy, I know... but they're that good. Excited for the movie

I Can't Help It!

I'm a photo-aholic! Is there such a thing? I should start a photo-aholic anonymous club, except it wouldn't be anonymous with all the sharing on the blogs we do.

Aubriana is full of personality and not many of you get to see it because A.) we don't live by you B.) when we visit she becomes shy and ... C.) It's usually first thing in the morning. So, I'm taking it upon myself to show you what I get to enjoy during the day.

Being oh so charming!

Now she's pooped for the day.

Going for Walks...

Going for walks now is a whole new thing. She loves to hold our finger and just go for it. She can actually walk on her own now... but she doesn't trust herself to go very far. She'll take 5 or 6 steps and then get down and crawl the rest of the way. It might have something to do with her lack of walking and just wanting to run... then slamming into the side of furniture because she lost her balance. :)

We take her down to the end of the lane and back. She loves it. She holds both of our fingers and talks the whole way.

Tim was taking her for a walk a little ahead of me so I could take her picture and she stumbled over her shoe and bit the dust. She feels all the more better faster when mom does the comforting ;)

Then she decided she would eat less dirt if she walked with me... lol!

She still loves you dadda. :)

Tim and I still look at each other with huge eyes when ever we catch her walking by herself. Its so fun to watch them discover something new they can do... besides the falling and hitting the head parts.

Idaho Trip

Aubriana and I took a flight out to visit my family in Idaho a week ago. My brother Tyler and Marilyn were up from California visiting and we had to make the trip to see them considering its been almost 2 years! :) The trip went really smooth... lots of laughing and volleyball tournaments and family! I'll just share a few of the pics I took below, the rest are on my Flickr account... CLICK HERE if you would like to see them or copy any of them to your computer. (Make sure you are viewing the full size of the picture before saving to your computer or else you'll just be stuck with a little thumbnail. Enjoy!)

Aubriana has changed dramatically in the past couple of weeks. During the whole trip to Idaho, she decided it was appropriate to GLARE at all the men. If you were a guy, you were getting glared at. It was quite humorous. She also has like 7 teeth now, the eighth tooth is starting to break through now. She loves to walk around if you are holding one of her hands. Tim and I have caught her a couple of times walking from one place to the next but then she gets down on all fours and decides that its faster that way... we don't think we really want to rush the walking. She has also discovered how to climb onto the couch, yikes.

My Mom took Tyler up on the Butte with the 4 wheeler and Lynlee and I decided to follow with Aubriana. We followed way behind due to the dust my mom would kick up and because I had to drive quite slow with my baby on tow. We had fun and Aubri loved it, she was singing on the way back and the scenery was just gorgeous!

These are about the only pictures I got of Desi the whole trip... well, this is mostly when we got to see her. She had her Volleyball tournaments all weekend long. We were there, however, to cheer her on...

Desi's cheer squad looking cute! Tyler (holding Aubri) Lynlee, me and Marilyn.

Desi's cheer squad in action! We had a lot of fun embarrassing ourselves and my mom. Marilyn even made up a cheer: BUMP, SET, SPIKE IT.... THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE IT, UH! GO RIG-BY!

Here's the cheer squad after our own little family game of Volleyball, cut short due to Marilyn's wedding ring flying off her "pinkie" finger. Luckily we found it and all was good.

All of my mom's side of the family got together and we had Dutch-oven yummy goodness. Above is a cute pic of my cousin Krissa and Jenna with their nephew Dylan and Aubriana.

My cousin Justin and my brother Tyler.

The boys "trying" to shoot the skeet.

The girls "actually" shooting skeet. My brother and I had a shoot off before I left Idaho and he shot 1 more than me. ugh! But then we taught Lyn to shoot and she beat us both. ha ha!

Here's a pic of Lynlee and her boyfriend Brett... no Chett, Terret, Rhett. One of those names. It's really Rhett. :) He's new to the fam so we have to give him a hard time. It's the rules.

Andrea and her cute little girl Jaci.

Cute little Jackson on the left, Emily and Samuel in the middle and Krissa holding Aubri.

Aunty Paula in action and Justin pigging out.

Finally I had to share a picture of Aubriana and Bear. Bear is the sweetest dog. He loved Aubri. He went and laid next to her and licked her hand and loved on her. It was so sweet!