Leah's First Birthday Photo Shoot

This one is my FAVORITE. It's SO Leah!

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August

Natalie starts first grade!Leah turns 1!!!

July

Just trying to catch up. Here are a few pictures from July.

Kindergarten Graduation

This school year has flown by! I know Natalie is hoping the summer passes quickly too, she's very excited to be starting 1st grade soon. We are so proud of all that she has done this year. She's learned many new things and has been a good example to her friends at school. One thing that she is especially excelling with is her writing. She has a great imagination and makes up some of the most creative stories. It was fun to read her writing journal at the end of the school year and see how she has progressed over the course of the year. Good job Nat!

The toothless graduate

Natalie and her teacher


And a couple pictures of Leah from that night, she's getting so big!

Easter Pictures

Our Cowgirl

Another fun photo shoot by Rachel!
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Heard at our house.....

While doing Natalie's hair one morning:


Natalie: Mom, I think I have a urine problem.

Me:............What?

Natalie: I think I have a urine problem.

Me: A urine problem???

Natalie: No, a hearing problem.

Me: Oh, I guess that makes two of us.

Yesterday I kept Natalie home from school because she was having breathing problems. Since my Natalie LOVES school, she gets very sad when she has to miss it. So I told her we'd make it a fun day. It was very nice to spend the day with my girls. Natalie's favorite part was decorating a "doll cake". I remember doing this when I was little and I thought it was the coolest. She had a blast decorating the dress of her doll and specifically asked me to put it on our blog so grandma could see it. I think it turned out very pretty. Watch out Vera Wang.

Hello 2010

This blog post is way overdue. Rather than write lots of separate posts about what our little family has been up to I'll just do a quick overview:

-Celebrated Thanksgiving with my family(poor Kyle had to work)
-Found out Kim and Ryan are having a girl and that Xan and Jason are expecting as well!
-We got to meet Elder Cook when he came to set apart Kyle's dad as our Stake President. Very cool for Natalie to meet an apostle.
-Leah started laughing and rolling over.
-Kyle turned 31 and we did NOT have a party ;)
-Grandma Bailey's annual Christmas party.
-Decorating gingerbread houses that my dad made(poor Kyle missed this one too)
-Celebrated Christmas with family(poor Kyle had to work)

-We got a new addition to our family: Rainbow, Natalie's fish, our first pet ever and possibly the only animal she's not allergic to.

-Hartley's developmental evaluations came back showing she qualifies for assistance, we're excited to get that started and hopefully get her talking.

-Natalie lost another tooth(I pulled it out so she'd stop whining and eat her dinner haha)
-Kept busy with our church callings.
-Rang in the new year(poor Kyle had to work and we missed the big party in Safford, sad)
-Church time changed to 3PM(not sure how we'll do with this!)
-Celebrated our 3rd anniversary(poor Kyle had to work-are you seeing a kinda rotten trend here?)
-Threw a baby shower for Kim while she and Ryan were in town.
-Took a nap.
And now we are so happy to slow down now that the holidays are over. Hopefully this year brings lots of fun and new things to our family(except new babies, no babies this year). We have plans for home improvements and maybe a trip or two but mostly just enjoying time with our little family while we're still little.

Firsts for Natalie

Natalie has had a couple big things happening lately. Kyle and I went to our first ever parent-teacher conference for Natalie not long ago. Natalie's teacher told us she is doing awesome(duh)! Natalie is such a good reader that she goes to one of the first grade classes every day for reading and her first grade teacher has said that she is one of the best readers in his class as well. Her teacher also told us that she's putting Nat into a gifted program for math. She catches onto things very quickly and has a very very good memory, it's crazy. Her teacher also told us she appreciates that Natalie helps other kids in the class who are struggling and teaches them without doing the work for them. Way to go Natalie!

Nat has also been taking piano lessons and loves it. She has an awesome teacher and looks forward to her lessons and even practices without being asked! Last Friday she had her first piano recital. She played "Ode to Joy" and "Jolly Old St. Nicholas"(if you've been to our house in the past month she's probably played them for you too haha).

This is Natalie on the night of her recital. If you look really close you can see another first for her.

Natalie lost her first tooth!

She had been wiggling that tooth forever! Friday morning she had a dentist appointment and I told her that if she wanted the dentist to pull it out he probably would. Well before we left for the appointment she was brushing her teeth and it popped right out! She has been so very very excited about this and is showing off her new smile to everyone.