Videos of Leah

I know I promised these videos a lot sooner, so forgive me for the delay. Here they are. The first one is of Leah eating yogurt by yourself. She doesn't make a total mess, but she does put her spoon upside down so she can eat it off and sometimes the yogurt falls down. But we're trying to work with her to hold her spoon right side up. You can also hear her say Ma, Ma and Da, Da at the very first.




While Leah was brushing her teeth the other day, I managed to get her hair into pigtails for the first time. She didn't keep them in after the video was shot, but I at least I have proof the first time her hair was put into pig tails. I hope it continues to grow so I can do more hairstyle in the future. Also, her hair looks a little red in the videos, but I think it's just the lighting. Her hair color is a light brown with maybe some hints of red in it.

Leah's first hairstyle

Today while Leah was playing at the sink and brushing her teeth, I put her hair in pig tails for the first time. Usually she doesn't like me playing with her hair. Sometimes I can distract her long enough to get a clip in her hair, but she will take it out soon after. So I was pretty proud when I got those rubber bands in her hair, and they stayed in her hair for about 30 minutes until she tried putting something on her head. I need to get smaller rubber bands for her so it doesn't take so long to wrap around her little strands of hair.

Logan and I both agreed that this hairstyle made her look much older. I have a video of her brushing her teeth, and I have finally posted it and along with the yogurt one.

More snow pictures

We got another winter storm last weekend, and it came with piles of snow. We also had some more today before Logan came home from work. It was really fun to wake up and see snow last Saturday covering everything and then see snow start to fall and fall and fall. It didn't stop all day. Our ward had a Christmas breakfast on Saturday, and Leah kept only eating the grapes at the party. She also wanted to run around and watch all the kids run around. Our primary kids put on a lovely program of the Nativity story, and it was fun to watch them all dressed up in their costumes.

Later that day we drove up Salt Lake to spend some time with Logan's parents. We got to visit my Grandpa while we were in Salt Lake, who is my only grandparent still living. He was very delighted that we came to visit him and insisted that he show us lots of pictures of family. It was fun to spend time with him and hear the stories of he and my grandma when they were first married.

We also attended Logan's parents' ward Christmas party and afterwards, we watched a barbershop choir concert until we had to leave to get Leah home to bed.

I had fun taking pictures of the snow and here are two of the ones I took. Even though I don't like the snow to stay all winter, I do love to see it covering all the trees and the ground. It makes everything seem so fresh and clean.

Let it Snow!

Sorry I'm a little slow about posting our pictures of the snow we got last weekend. It was quite exciting to wake up in the morning and see the ground, trees, and everything outside covered in snow. And it's been warmer this season than I expected so getting snow was fun and has made it feel more like Christmas.

I got up early with Leah that morning and didn't even notice there was snow until about an hour after I woke up. I was so excited I had to go wake up Logan immediately (even though I usually let him sleep in on weekends) so he could see it too.

Leah went outside to experience the snow for her first time, and she didn't really like standing in it because she couldn't really walk unless we helped. So we carried her around for the most part. And we didn't really have a lot of snow gear to put her in so she just wore lots of layers.

It didn't only snow overnight, but it continued to snow throughout the whole day until late in the afternoon. We had plans to drive up to Sandy for the Festival of Trees that day, but we didn't feel like driving through the snow and dragging Leah along. So we stayed home and made Christmas sugar cookies with red and green frosting. We also picked up Logan's sister Kelcy to hang out for the day, watched the spectacular game BYU played against San Diego State and ordered pizza for dinner.

I think we're supposed to have snow again this weekend so I hope our plans of going up to Salt Lake woke be canceled again. We''ll just have to brave and very careful while traveling.

Celebrating our anniversary and Thanksgiving

Once again, I have gotten behind in my blogging. I guess my desire to blog has gone down now that I've been finding really great books to read. I must get you all caught up on what's been going on with us. I forgot to mention earlier that Logan and I spent the first weekend in November in Park City for a early anniversary celebration. We knew that the holidays would be busy and going somewhere for our anniversary in December would be hard.

So we dropped Leah off at Logan's parents in Salt Lake and headed over to Park City. It was quiet this time of year so we enjoyed shopping at the Outlet mall, going to the movies, and going out to eat. We didn't have to worry about Leah's nap schedule or how to keep her entertained. It was so great to relax and sleep in (even though the bed wasn't as comfortable as our bed at home, but we did have another T.V. in our bedroom). We stayed in a nice condo with a big screen T.V. and a newly furnished kitchen.

Although I missed Leah terribly by the second day we were gone, I knew she was in good hands and sleeping well at her grandparents' house. On our way back home, we stopped at the Provo Temple and did a session since it had been several weeks since our last temple visit. Then Logan's parents brought Leah back in time for us all to watch the BYU football game. It was a great weekend.

Our Thanksgiving was also relaxing even though Logan only got one day off. We stuffed ourselves at his parents' house and let Leah follow around their three cats until they ran away from her. His parents once again stepped up for us and kept Leah that Friday and part of Saturday. Logan had to work some on Friday, but we were able to go out for lunch and see a movie (The Bourne Ultimatum, sooo good) that night. I was also able to get our Christmas tree up without Leah getting into everything. Haley and I watched the What Not to Wear marathon while I put up the tree. It was great to be child free for a day.

So far Leah has been careful with the tree. She did try to rip open some presents I set underneath it, but we had a talk and she hasn't bothered them since. I'm so glad I don't have to be worried all the time about it. And in honor of the Christmas season, I put Santa hats on Leah and myself and attempted to get a good picture but she never sits still long enough for the camera to take. So here's the best one I got. Maybe I'll try again later.

I put some pictures of Leah on our Flickr page so please check them out.