most boring writer ever- and a point to this post

When I read over my past blog posts I feel for everyone who reads my blog. I am not a good writer. I'm glad I didn't pursue my childhood dream of writing books because I don't think that would work out very well for me. I never quite know what to say- like take my last post, Sophie's birthday, I knew I needed to post something so I picked a couple pictures I liked and then had no idea what to say with them. Maybe I should have just said "Sophie turned 1" because in all actuality it doesn't really matter to very many people what we actually did on her birthday. So I'm sorry for always being such a boring author of this blog but unless I can convince Josh to ever submit input to this blog you will just have to bear with me and hopefully the pictures make up for it.

Anyway, I did have a reason for writing today. I just had such a relaxing day today. Sophie was sick and so Josh and I did a switch and church so he went to the first part and then came home and I went to the latter part where I taught my primary class of 4 year-olds, which actually went better than usual. I came home and Josh had done the dishes and folded the laundry. Then we just hung out, Josh and I took a nap, gave Sophie a bath, cuddled with her, and we ended off our night watching a Sesame Street video she got for her birthday. This seemed like one of her favorite parts, despite feeling awful she waved her arms around and tried to sing along. That girl loves to sing.

Someone had a birthday

Last week Sophie celebrated her 1st birthday. We had a great time. We celebrated a little the weekend before when we were with Sophie's Aunt Krista who shares a birthday with her. On Sophie's actual birthday we just had a good dinner and a cupcake. We took her out to a frozen yogurt place and she got a wonderful dairy-free pineapple sorbet and walked around the place like a little queen. She defiantly got spoiled from all her friends and family. We so enjoy having Sophie around. She makes us so happy.


Last night we took her out to Red Robin because both Sophie and I had free coupons for our birthdays. Sophie had her first time drinking from a straw and she did great. Also, she got a balloon on our way out and this morning she was reaching for it saying "ba-oon" it was soo soo cute.

crazy here

sorry I have been slow with posting but we have been pretty crazy here. A couple weeks ago my mom, brother, and sister came to visit for their spring break and we had a great time. The over last weekend we went down to Utah for General Conference and to see the rest of my family. We had a great time going to a conference session and having a little birthday party for Sophie and her birthday sharing aunt, but it was still a little bit stressful of a weekend because our car died and rather than try and figure a way to get it home and get it fixed we sold it and found other ways home. So now we are down to one car but that's ok, spring is almost here so hopefully I won't get too antsy here at home.

Sophie's Swimming

Here are some pictures from the last day at Sophie's swimming class. She totally loved it and I had a great time taking her to it every week. I am so glad we live somewhere that we have opportunities to do things like this with Sophie. In her class we worked on floating, kicking, blowing bubbles, and getting in the water. I think she got best at kicking, I even think she got the concept that kicking moves you forward. We would put a toy in front of her and she would start kicking to get at it.

I haven't been so great at posting on this blog lately, not sure why, but I think it's because our lives seem kind of slow. I tell the days of the week by what show I turn on while I am doing things around the house. I tell the passing of weeks by which member of Josh's family has a birthday that week. It is defiantly feeling like Hazy Days around here.


We are enjoying this sweet girl though. She loves her stuffed dog and she loves music. She can walk a few steps at a time and does great, she'll be walking so soon. She also talks quite a bit. The words we understand are "dad," "mama," "this," and "hey." She's also been into making roar sounds, which we will need to get a video of soon.

wish I was here

can I just make a huge copy and put it over my window to block out the awful snow that's coming down?

Random

-I think that we have Sophie's first words. I say I think because she's been saying things that sound like dad and mom for awhile but we didn't think she knew what they meant because she would say them whenever. But the last few days Sophie has taken to saying "hey dad" (or "ey da") everytime she comes into a room where Josh is, but I never hear her say it when he's not around. Funny thing is according to my baby book "hey dad" were the first things I said too. I hope this means she will grow up with the same adoration for her dad as I had.

- Lately I've had a hard time getting anything done around here because Sophie likes to 'help'. As you can see from these pictures her helping really is just taking things out.

- I've been doing some sewing which is really fun for me, I've never really done much. I turned a men's shirt into a shirt for me that I wore yesterday and last night I made a circle skirt that I need to hem today. I love doing creative and crafty things but I'm not a perfectionist and so usually the results are things that would make my sister cringe, but I'm having fun.

- Sophie's hair is turning red! Big suprise there...

- I'm reading a great book "Getting the Pretty Back" by Molly Ringwald. Probably the first non-fiction book that I have ever reccomended. It basically just makes me feel good. I'm almost done and I started yesterday. I also just finished "The Mysterious Benidict Society" series and highly reccomend it, especially for those with kids who like to read. It is a great adventure story that is very kid friendly. The kids battle the bad guys with smarts not violence and the bad guys don't die, they just go to jail. When I was growing up my mom always read up books before bed and I'm sure this will be one I read to my kids.

- Love the weather today, it's been raining and it reminds me of Oregon.

Now I'd better get off and finish the homemade hot pockets I am making today (so excited!)