Chase and Amy

Sunday, June 27

Camping

My sister and brother-in-law invited us to go camping this weekend with them and we had a blast! Between playing in the water, riding four wheelers and playing with my nephews, we had a great time. :)

Thursday, June 24

New Fun Blog

So while I was reading Kristin's blog, I found this fun blog!
I like this picture lots.

And this one...

And this one...

Wednesday, June 23

More Temple Pictures

Now we were able to get some of the Idaho Falls Temple. So we think we might have changed our minds as to which ones are our favorites! :) We had a great time with Chase's family this last weekend.

Thursday, June 17

Temple Pictures

Chase has really gotten into this whole photography thing! It's been fun to learn how to use this new camera together. Here are some of the ones we took of the temple for family night this week. I think they're our favorite ones so far.

Wednesday, June 16

Rain

The rain this summer has been pretty interesting. I've never seen it rain like this before. And we actually kind of like it. It's allowed some great picture taking opportunities, we don't have to worry about watering our tomato plants and they're growing like crazy, and we don't have to turn on the air conditioner. But one of the funnest things was playing softball last night with my work team in a downpour.

Apparently the City League doesn't cancel a game when lightning and downpours occur!(yeah holding a metal bat in the middle of a big field, usually not the smartest idea) It made for one soggy game but it was really fun! Chase was a good sport and sat in the rain through the whole thing. :)

Monday, June 7

Sunshine after the Rain

There are some good things that come along with rain. This is one of them. :) We went out in search of some pictures to take with our new lens (we gave in) and we were delighted with the brightest rainbow we have ever seen in our lives! No photo-shopping here, we promise! We were able to catch both ends of the rainbow at both ends of town. It was pretty neat. :)

Sunday, June 6

Memorial Day

We were able to go with my family on Memorial Day up to North Fork and cook breakfast. It's been a tradition for awhile that my grandma, aunts and uncles, and cousins come to make breakfast with us in the canyon. Dutch oven breakfast has to be one of the best things in the world.

My grandpa let us use his zoom lens while we were there. BAD idea. Now we want one. But it helps take really great pictures!

We played a rousing game of cricket/softball. Really we were just trying to see how far we could hit the ball. It was pretty fun. :)

Lauren Funnies

9/12/2012

- Every time she hears the dryer open Lauren runs in and holds her arms up ready for me to hand her laundry from the washer. I hand her every little piece and she throws it into the dryer making sure nothing is hanging out.

- Lauren sits on the counter while I get ready in the mornings. She picked up the bottle of hairspray and started "spraying" her hair. While fixing dinner she sat on the counter and grabbed the PAM bottle and "sprayed" her hair.

-She does not like doors or drawers left open. If she sees one open she will close it. If there is something poking out of a closed drawer she will try and tuck it back into the drawer.

-When I dust she needs a rag too and follows right behind me and mimics every move I make.

-Lauren loves taking baths. She gave her baby doll a bath in the sink today complete with rubbing her head and cleaning out her ears.

- She likes to take all her stuffed animals and babies and take turns wrapping them up and rocking them. Then she sets them in a row on her bench and gives them all a drink from her sippy cup.

- When she's trying to get my attention and I'm standing at the kitchen counter, she will wiggle in between me and the cupboard, push with all her might against the cupboard and stick out her bum against my legs to push me away from the counter.

- Lauren waves at every car and person that drives or walks in front of our house.

- She knows how to rock out to music BIG TIME. Driving the other day she fell asleep. A while later I looked back at her and she was awake head-banging and wiggling in her car seat to the radio which is a common occurrence.

- Chase gets her out of her crib in the morning and she comes to wake me up. She gives me a kiss and climbs in bed with me and has to be tucked in. That lasts about five seconds and then we go have breakfast.

10/3/2012

-She fell out of her crib last week. Down another wrung the mattress went!

- She's started carrying her baby around even more. I catch her giving her kisses on the head, feeding her crackers, taking turns eating a cookie, wrapping her up and rocking her, walking with her around the house and pointing things out, patting her on the back, putting her in the chair at the table and tucking her into bed.

10/11/12

-Lauren tried going potty today! Wasn't quite sure what to think and was nervous about falling in. But she really liked the flushing part. :)

11/15/12

-Lauren succeeded in dumping 18 eggs into the shopping cart last week without breaking a single one!

- When she's getting dressed she likes to run around naked for a few minutes, throw her diaper away, and then lay down to get dressed.

-She found an old purse and carries it around all day on her shoulder with her baby in the other arm. She waves to me and heads to the door and gets a little upset when I won't let her leave.

-She learned how to climb on her rocking horse and spends hours a day rocking and climbing on and off.

11/18/12

-Lauren spilled some water on the carpet. I told her to go get a towel to clean it up. She walked to the kitchen to grab what I thought was a towel hanging on the oven that wasn't there, and instead grabbed the rug and dragged it over and started trying to furiously mop up the water.

12/10/12

- Like Father-Like Daughter. Lauren can find our phones, open Netflix, find Curious George and turn it on. All by herself. She will pull the laptop up on her lap and pretend to type and turn it off and on. She's more tech literate than I am!

-We didn't realize just how much she understands. Looking at books the other day, I asked her questions and she would point and find things that I had no idea she knew.

- She's started singing Old MacDonald. The only part she knows is eee-i, eee-i!

2/22/13

- Getting ready the other day, Lauren walks in with her hands on her hips and yells "Hey guys!"

- She's into counting, but everything is "two." One, two, two, two, two...

-Walking is not an option...run-hop-skipping is a must!

- Lately she likes us to sing to her before bedtime. Her favorite song is "Do" (Old MacDonald) and gets mad if we try to sing something else.

- She plays possum all the time and closes her eyes when she doesn't want to do something, or in the last few days-pretend to be asleep with fake snoring and all!

3/2/13

-She's quite concerned about everyone's well-being. If you cough or say ouch, she'll come over by you and ask, "ew awight?" (You alright?)

4/22/13

- The other day after being sick I was sitting on the bathroom floor. Lauren came in and asked "ew awight?" then pulled the brush out of the drawer and brushed my hair for me. She did a pretty good job and didn't even pull!

- She got her "big girl bed" a few weeks ago. In the morning she comes in our room and peeks over the edge of the mattress to see if we're awake. The she either wacks us awake with her George or Bear or pounds on the mattress, then grins and says hi mom!