Hallie's 1st trip to the Library

5.27.09
We've been trying to be better about going to the library, especially during the summer when we have no reason not too. It has been fun to go almost every week. We try to make it to story time, but only have gone a couple times, but Hallie loves to go sing and read stories and watch the puppet show.
These pictures are from her very first trip to the library though, when we discovered she loves Daisy duck books! We checked out Come Along Daisy! and she laughs and giggles every time we read it, still, so we had to renew it the other day. That's one we probably just need to buy.

It's fun to see her love for books, we often find her laying on the floor by her books, just "reading" them. Her shelf with books on it is often the one that is empty first, she loves to pull them out and look at them. I hope it stays that way.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

Today we got to go tour the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It is a very beautiful temple, inside and out. We loved being able to go through it and see all the gorgeous rooms. What a good day.

With all the storms we've had recently, Moroni got struck by lightning
Us, at the temple

Our 10 Month Old

Hallie at 10 months...

-has enough hair for pigtails, and we call her our little horned owl with them in
-has 3 teeth, and at least 4 more coming in
-sticks her finger up her nose, gross!
-pulls up on her own
-is very talkative, but no definite words
-waves
-claps, A LOT...she loves to clap
-crawls everywhere, and is quite adventurous
-saw UP in the movie theater (her first movie)
-loves to go to the library, and picks her own books
-likes to yell to get every ones attention when it is very quiet, especially at church
-doesn't really like to walk, with help of course
-is still such a water baby
-is outgrowing her car seat
-toss & turns a lot in her sleep, and sleeps just like her dad
-loves to be tossed in the air, and she frog kicks when you do it
-takes books off her shelf to read on her own, and LOVES to be read too
-grinds her new teeth, and it drives us CRAZY!!!
-thinks the laundry room , and the bathroom is a great novelty, the rugs are her favorite
-lays on the kitchen floor and licks the tile
-hates to have her finger nails clipped
-loves to play with other kids
-definitely keeps us on our toes

After a Sunday Nap

6.18.2009

Comfy?

6.14.2009

...I think not.

Swimming at Legacy Pool

5.23.09
After a fun day of planting, we headed to our new favorite swimming pool, Lehi Legacy Aquatic Center. They keep the water a little bit warmer, and Hallie does so much better there. They also, have some fun water play toys, a baby play area, a splash pad, and a lazy river. It is super fun. That has been our pool of choice lately. Hallie is such a little water baby.

Garden 2009

5.22.09
We went to the garden center to pick out our plants for our garden this year. We went with the intent of only getting two or three different plants, and being done. Last year was a little out of control, so we thought we'd scale back. :)...well, our plan didn't exactly work so well. We just couldn't decide on a few, and we both get so excited about plants (okay mostly me). So, we ended up with: Moscow tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, both red and green peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, a watermelon plant, yellow daisies, and French Lavender. Wow! Hallie wanted to touch all the plants, so we had to put them out of reach....We had a wedding to go to that night, so unfortunately planting had to wait for the next day.
5.23.09
Here we are planting our new garden. It was a beautiful day for planting, it had cooled off and stayed really nice.

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Though we did have to design a cage to surround our strawberries, so the birds don't eat them, everything is growing well. The last week or so of rain has been rather helpful in that way too. :)