Loving Life

I really love my life! I am blessed beyond what I deserve. Things have been going great the past few weeks. I love the fall season, and although it doesn't really LOOK like fall here (the leaves seem to stay the same color all year long), the temperature has cooled down a bit and it has been really nice. I have so many long-sleeved shirts that I rarely get to wear --I jump at any opportunity to wear them, even if the temperature only drops to the low 80's.

Nothing really exciting has happened. It's been fun because Elizabeth finally started walking at 13 1/2 months! :) I was expecting her to start walking at about that time, seeming that she didn't start crawling until about 9 months. I wonder if any of my kids are going to beat my record...I didn't start walking until I was 16 months!

Anyway, here are just a few pictures of the random happenings in our house...


Here's Lizzie, just being Lizzie.

She likes dancing to the music that this toy plays.

She loves playing on the stairs...and it scares me to pieces.

She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES rubber duckies!!! She could play with them all day and she is never happier than when she is looking at one. She points to the duckies in all of her books and she gets so excited to see them! They are her friends...or something. She even has a stuffed ducky that she sleeps with. In the morning, she talks to it until I come and get her out of her crib. It's really cute!

Recently, Lizzie has really loved phones. She always grabs her toy phones (or real phones) and says, "hewo?" and then she gives the phone to me so that I can say "hello" too.

For General Conference, Jon brought home his projector from work and we moved our furniture around a bit so that we could watch conference on a big screen. It was really neat!! It worked out great until the Sunday afternoon session when we started having internet problems and we couldn't get it to work until almost half-way through the session.

Lizzie has also recently started to enjoy wearing Jon's hat's. It's really funny! :)

Lizzie is going through this phase where she loves to put these bunny ears on her head. She is always bringing them to me to help her put them on her head. It's almost like she's a different person with them on...

Yeah, she's still getting really messy at meal times and I am still having a difficult time with it. AHHHH!!! It wouldn't be so bad if she didn't rub it all over her hair and in her eyes...

When I don't do what she wants me to do (like give her my undivided attention AT ALL TIMES), then she complains and looks at me like this...

You can't really tell what she's sucking on in this picture, but it's a cardboard tongue. She has this "Reverent Book" and there is a page talking about tithing with a picture of a girl licking a tithing envelope. The cardboard tongue is SUPPOSED to stay in the book and simply be moved back and forth to represent licking the envelope. But Lizzie was obsessed with that page for some reason and she eventually tore out the tongue and started carrying it around with her and sucking on it. It has pretty much disintegrated by now...it's time for me to give it a new home in the trash can.

Here she is with a phone, again. :) "Hewo?"

I just about die laughing whenever Elizabeth puts these glasses on. She looks like a drunk pilot or something. :)