Our Adorable Daughter!

Mike was getting lonely with me and Abby up in Spirit Lake, ID so he made this cute little video to cheer himself up. Yea for Abby! We just absolutely adore our little Bug!

I've been tagged

1) My favorite food is grilled shrimp from Baytown Seafood – so good!

2) I love to sleep! My family always makes fun of me for it, but I can’t help it, I love to sleep, sleep, sleep! Now that I have a baby I don’t get as much, but that’s okay, she’s worth it :)

3) Favorite tv shows – American Idol, the Office, and Biggest Loser

4) I love to get my husband’s belly button lint, I know it sounds gross, but I thoroughly enjoy it!

5) I have a degree in Exercise Science, although I haven’t put it to much use.

6) I love little baby bums – they are so fun to pinch!

7) I’m afraid of undercooked meat.

8) Places I’ve lived – Provo, Jerusalem, Illinois, France, Texas.

9) Favorite vacations – family reunions at Spirit Lake ID, and visting France and Italy with my hubby.

10) I wish I could do magic like Harry Potter…. (seriously wouldn’t it be cool to go to school at Hogwarts? I mean I know it would be a drag having Snape as a potions teacher, but having Hagrid as a friend would be sooo cool, and Quidditch matches – so awesome!!) o.k. I’m kind of a Harry Potter freak…..

Southern Utah

On our way back from Texas we stopped at a couple places in southern utah. Abby loved visiting new places!!

Dead Horse Point


Abby's cute hat :)


Balanced Rock in Arches


4 corners


Goblin Valley

Abby at the beach

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My Big Fat Foot

Last Friday I had just come home from the library. I scuttled quickly across the grass, anxious to start the two Harry Potter books I had in my hand. The prospect of reacquainting myself with the magical adventures of Harry and friends was more delightful than a fresh pack of fizzing whizbees or a frothy mug of butter beer. As I neared the grass's edge my elation was unexpectedly cut short as I felt something sting my foot. At first I was unsure as to what had struck my foot. From the sharp pain and almost immediate burning sensation I thought perhaps a grindylow or small hippogriff nursling had bit me. But as my foot almost straight away started to swell my thoughts turned to a hinckypunk. Yes, I was rather sure at that point that it was a hinckypunk. I took some meds and thanks to my husband's finely engineered duct tape ice pack the pain temporarily subsided. As the pain came back, however, a terrifying thought entered my mind. What if what had struck me wasn't a hinckypunk? What if it was a flobber worm! I know. Can you imagine how scared I was? A flobber worm. Even Mike started to get a little bit worried. I mean I had already breast fed Abby after I got bit! My worst fear was coming true... then I realized that that was it. My worst fear. It wasn't actually a flobber worm at all, but a boggart in the form of a flobber worm. Whew! Needless to say we were all relieved and after a couple of days my big fat foot started to return to normal.
So I've learned my lesson - never walk in Texas grass wearing flip flops, you never know what's lurking around...


The duct tape compress that my engineer husband concocted . Worked like a charm.

Happy Birthday Mikey!

Daddy is 23 today!!



In honor of Mike's birthday I thought I'd share some of his likes and dislikes...

Mike does not like...

Miss Finch


traffic


and german chocolate cake


Mike does like...

guitar hero


x-men


and oreos...


Happy Birthday Mike, We love you!

Texas Vacations

Since we've been in Texas this summer we've decided that we might as well "see the sights." Here are some photos of our Texas trips :)

The Alamo in San Antonio


NASA Space Center in Houston





U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus Christi


Texas State Aquarium