Ba-Ba-Ba Babble!

I love this video for a few reasons:

1. I love how before he starts babbling that he moves his mouth up and down...warming up?
2. I also love how he whispers the first few babbles.
3. I love that he cruises along the couch as he's talking.
4. I love how he pops up from behind the couch when I say his name
5. I love how his hair is in a mohawk, not because it looks cute but because I wanted to show how long it's getting (and how blonde it is!)
6. I love that after I uploaded this, Ryan came up to the computer and babbled at the video, and whenever it ended looked at me and pulled my hand to the computer so i'd restart it. Smart baby. :)

Morning Routine

One of my favorite things about the fact that Ryan can crawl is that he crawls to me (or Seth) before anything else :)

So in the mornings when I'm getting ready, he sits at my feet and crawls around me.

And looks up so I'll blow the hairdryer toward him.

And stands up on my feet!

It is the best looking down at those pretty blue eyes.

Patriotic Dessert

I love Pavlova. I find any excuse to make it. So even though it was an Australian dessert, I Americanized it and made it for the 4th of July!

I know I'm a little nerdy, but I was SO excited about this. Growing up we usually spent the 4th in Logan with the Mackays celebrating Jolene's birthday along with the USA's, and they often made sheet cakes with the flag in berries, so this was a little trip down memory lane.

Ryan's Gunna Drive the Car...

Ever since Ryan was a month old, one of the few ways to calm him down in the car was for Seth to sing the Beatles "Drive my Car" song to him. Not only did it help him stop crying, but usually he'd cheer up and giggle and smile for us, too. Seriously, this kid knows what he likes!

This is a pit stop we took on the way home from Arizona for the 4th. Baby, you can drive my car in about 17 years, but we'll let you pretend for now!

Happy Birthday Baby Shelby!

Or, I guess we might have to say Toddler Shelby now! This girl has such a special place in my heart. I just LOVE her--she's so dainty and girly, and takes after her sweet mother in so many ways!

Ryan can't get enough of her, either.

Who gets such an amazing 1 year old baby cake? Shelby does! And we LOVED watching her daintily dig in.

Happy 1 year Shelby, we sure like you!

Anniversary Date!

For our big #2 we decided to celebrate like it was 2008! (Meaning, when we splurged on restaurant week and went on dates sans baby!)

Meghan was nice and watched Ryan sleeping (providing me with periodic updates) and took this lovely picture of us before we headed out on the town.
We had a lovely booth at Ruth's Chris, where we savored (I mean, SAVORED every bite....mmmm I'm still thinking about it) lovely filets. Seth saved a few bites to take home so we could savor it some more....I ate the entire 11 oz. (with extra butter) and then polished off my potatoes au gratin (from Idaho!). While Seth was away from the table, the waiter came up and told me not to go anywhere so fast....because they were bringing us dessert on the house! (Note: ALWAYS tell Ruth's Chris the occasion you're going for--they go all out :) ).

Thanks for the Lovely Anniversary Date, Seth, and thanks for the delicious Dessert, Ruth's! I really feel so so so so lucky.

Two

Or 5, if you want to count that way.
July 2010
July 2009
July 2008
July 2007


July 2006
July 2005

Happy 2/5, Sethalicious! Here's to bazillions more. I wubba you.