Our visit with "Goose"

On Tuesday we went and visited Great Gran up in Ogden. We took her to lunch and then we just kind of played with Savannah.

Playing ball.

My Mom would pull Savannah away from Gran and then bring her back in and she was just giggling away.

She liked her phone too.
So out of no where while we were hanging out this poodle comes running down the hall. Savannah got all excited. You could tell she wanted to pet it, but was too afraid/excited. I'd put her hand up there and he'd lick her and she'd just giggle and pull away.

As we were leaving we told Savannah to say goodbye to Granny Goose (what my Mom calls her), and she goes, "Goose". First off, it was cute that she said it and secondly, she's never said that word.

L.O.V.E.

I took these pictures a couple of days ago while Savannah was looking out the window. She was fascinated with the gardeners mowing the lawn. I love how she's leaning her chin on the window seal and puckering those lips.

We had a funny experience with her last night. We got some Netflix movies in the mail, and she saw them and was like "Mowie, Mowie!", like she wanted to watch one. We said no, and it was time for her to go to bed anyway. So she goes over to the entertainment center, opens it and is trying to reach her Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. The new one, not the 80's one. She LOVES this movie. It is the only one she will watch. So it was on a higher shelf and she was on her tippy toes reaching and reaching. Carter said that she did it earlier so he knew she could do it again. She didn't get to it the way she did earlier though, she just decided to step up on a part of the center and then she could grab it. So after a few minutes of REALLY trying to get her favorite Mowie, Carter says, "Well, we've got to reward her now for trying to so hard." Meaning, let her watch a little. I knew it was a bad idea, cause she loves this movie and would want to watch all of it. So, we skip through a bunch of parts and just let her watch the main singing and dancing parts. During these parts, she will just start dancing all over the place. She watched for maybe 5 minutes and then I turned it off. (why do i have to be the bad guy?) She was so upset. Carter tried getting her ready for bed and she just kept crying and saying "mowie". We tried to brush her teeth, not a chance! I'll just say we learned (or Carter learned, because I already knew this might happen) to not pull out the Chipmunks right before bedtime unless she can watch the entire mowie.

Last Friday we went and saw Kung Fu Panda and ever sense then whenever she sees the poster for it, she says "Mowie". I can't believe she even remembers that. That has been amazing me all week.

36 Years!

36 years my hubby has been on this earth....

today is Carter's birthday and we had a fun filled, eventful day. This morning he went to breakfast with his dad and then came home and we took Savannah over to my Mom to watch her for the day. Then we headed over to the movies to see Iron Man. It was pretty good. I actually enjoy the superhero movies when they've got the good humor. Then we grabbed a REALLY quick lunch, like, down your food in 10 minutes!, and headed back to see Indiana Jones. This was the first Indiana Jones movie I've seen, so I didn't know any back story. It was good though. Then we headed down to Orem to go to Outback for dinner, but had some time to kill, so we walked around the mall (and of course bought Savannah something) and then met up with Carter's Mom for a few minutes. We then headed to Outback and stuffed ourselves good. We always share food wherever we go, but today we didn't and we both just ate way to much. It was yummy though. Then we went and picked up our sweet baby who was so excited to see us. She was insanely hyper while we visited with my Mom for a few minutes. We came home and looked at pictures, etc, that his Mom gave him today from when he was a kid. There were definitely some pictures that looked so much like Savannah around the same age. We had brownies and ice cream for dessert and now I'm heading off to bed, while Carter stays up and watches an episode of 24!! He's got the day off tomorrow and is going to be with Savannah while I go to work! He He. Then tomorrow night we're going to go see Kung Fu Panda! Movie mania! Carter wanted to see movies on his birthday, so we saw movies! I think he had a good day and it was fun spending it together! We love him!

New and fun things

On Saturday Carter and I decided that Savannah needed some new toys. She has a ton, but she gets bored with them lately or some aren't really age appropriate anymore, so off we went. We wanted to get puzzles and mega blocks and I was so excited when we found both at Target! We also got a cute little golf set for $2.50! As much as I go into Target, I rarely go to the toy department, it's always clothes. I'm sure when she gets older she'll be begging me to take her to the toy department. She seemed to just love playing with her new toys yesterday.



Carter's sister Caren brought up this play center probably about a year ago for Savannah and we just got it up on Thursday, but Sunday was the first time she got to play on it. She had fun letting Carter help her slide down the slide, but after awhile, I just stood at the bottom of the slide and encouraged her to do it by herself. She had the cutest "scared, but excited" look when she finally went down by herself. She was laughing and giggling and wanted to do it again. Then she started climbing up the slide to get back up, otherwise we had to lift her up. She really enjoyed it and is going to enjoy it all summer. Thanks again Caren!

Wearing Daddy's headphones!
Going to McDonald's and then to my parents last Monday.


These were two Sundays ago at the park down the road from us.

Savannah did not want to sit on this and Carter was having the hardest time getting her to.
1,2,3.....
This was her exact face as she came off the slide. So cute!

So this picture is posted mainly to the fact that I wanted to show just how blonde Savannah's hair is, AND that she totally has a baby mullet.


I just realized that Savannah is wearing blue in every one of these pictures! No one can say she only wears pink!

I know, I know

I know, I've posted a billion pictures, but these are a few off my parents camera.

At the Ruth's Chris Steak House.

I just love my hair in this picture! : )

Savannah's cherry outfit!
Now, I'm sorry, but this is just the cutest picture of all! To be framed...

Austin being I don't know what...
Sierra & Savannah....You don't have to growl Savannah, she's nice.

60 years!!
I love this picture. When it's blown up it looks really cool. It's so in the moment; like FREEZE! This was us walking back from the pool on our last night there and my parents drove by and took this picture.
This was on Oahu. Their were more pictures but I decided to just post this one. They look tired.

Noises and Smacks

After Carter got home from work today, we were just hanging out on the couch and Savannah brought up her new book that Grandma B brought over. It has tons of pictures of animals in it. So Carter and Savannah start looking at it and he starts making noises of different animals. I can't make animal noises worth a darn, so it's good that he does them pretty well. So they're going along and she's laughing at some of them and then Carter gets to the owl and makes the noise. Savannah smacks his mouth while he's doing it! Anytime he'd do the owl and even another one that I can't remember, she'd smack his mouth. We don't know whether she didn't like the sound or just thought it'd be funny to smack him. We we're laughing though.

Later I decided that I wanted to get out the video camera and get some footage cause I don't do it that often anymore. Before she was mobile, I had hours of footage of her just trying to scoot an inch. Don't all new moms? Anyway, so whenever I've gotten the video camera out in the last 6 months, she's all about it and messing with it and getting way to close. So I'm getting some not so good stuff, when all the sudden, Savannah just rips off her diaper (she only had a diaper on) and starts running around. Carter and I were both just like "What the...?" Of course this was great footage! It took awhile to get the diaper back on her, and then she took it off not 1 minute later. Once again we had to wrangle her to put it back on. Luckily she didn't do it again, but it was so hard not to laugh at it. She is one silly girl.

She is saying so many new words lately. She just picks up on them. A few are: dirty, rock, Where are you?, get, Carter, apples (any fruit is apples we believe), cherree (for cereal), Where go?, Where binky?, carseat, etc. "Carter" comes from me saying his name and her now copying me. She did this a few weeks back when we were gardening at my families and my mom was yelling for "Ron!" Savannah starting yelling, "Ron! Ron!" She is just picking so much up it's so cool.

She has started to show a few signs of getting upset when she doesn't get what she wants. She likes to just plop down wherever she is and pout. Sometimes she'll roll around or swing her feet. It's funny to watch.

Hawaii Pt.1

PRE-HAWAII: I started packing for our trip, probably about a week and a half before we left. That was actually starting late for me. I always pack early, which I'm learning, means I bring more stuff and now I really realize, I don't need to bring so much STUFF! Anyway, so about 2 days before leaving my throat starts to feel scratchy and it hurts. I hope it's not anything. Then the next day I wake up with a full on cold. I don't ever get sick!! I was mad. Then around 4:30 (the day before we leave) when Carter gets home, all the sudden I feel as if I'm getting a cold sore. Out of nowhere, I just feel that I have a cold sore. For those of you who know me pretty well, I've been blessed with getting cold sores from a young age. What perfect timing, huh? Well, I was right. So immediately I put some Abreva on and just pray that it goes away or stays really small. (I've been known to get huge ones that also make my face tingle. : ) So in the morning of course it wasn't gone, just bigger and got bigger over the next two days. I don't think theirs anything that makes me more self conscious. So off I go to Hawaii with a cold and a cold sore. I have never flown with a cold, but now I know that it sucks. I was getting shooting pains over my right eyebrow as we landed in San Francisco and my head was seriously hurting. Carter says, "Didn't you take a DayQuil?" "NO." "Well, that's why." Didn't know I needed to take a DayQuil so that I wouldn't feel as though my head was going to blow off. Huh. Needless to say, I took a DayQuil on the 5 hour flight to Hawaii. It was not the best start to a vacation.

Thursday we got to the resort by about 3pm. We were pretty tired so we just went to the store and bought some dinner and hung out in the condo. Carter and Savannah sacked out by 7pm and I stayed awake. Good thing cause my family called at 8pm and couldn't find the resort check in. It was hard to find in daylight, let alone night. So they came and got me and I took all of them over there. By the time I got back I caught the last hour of the Grey's Anatomy finale and then called it a night. Savannah and Carter woke up around 4:30 am, 8:30 am Utah time, so we were pretty much up early.
The view out of our condo. Right out to the gold course.
Silly goose.

On Friday morning everyone went over to say hello to my Grandparents at there condo. The view from there condo was amazing. Signature hole, ocean front.

Grandpa; living it up.
I'm ready for the beach! Friday afternoon the family headed over to the beach.

The little cove beach at our resort.

Austin up on the black rocks.
Beach bums.

Savannah and Carter.

Keith, Savannah, Carter






Sweet glasses!

Wasted!
Friday night Keith took our family out to Ruth's Chris Steak House in the resort shopping area. It was yummy food, but absolutely insane prices! Thanks again Keith!