Monday, July 14, 2008

And I am back!

I told y'all I am can't do it all and I would be bad at this. Funny how that happens when you are a mommy.

What has been going on here? Seeing as Audrey is almost 7 months I will do a little updating. We are all absolutely fabulous! Except that I can knock this up to one more summer of dillusion on my part in still living here. Haven't figured it out yet why we keep staying. There can be NO way that the saints passed through here in July to settle, I just can't imagine someone walking through our quaint little valley and saying, "oh great idea lets settle, and build homes out of clay, and try and survive in a furnace!!!"

ok. sorry for that. So of course as new parents our lives revolve around our darling little one. And she is doing so great. She has two full blown teeth on the bottom. She did really well during the teething process. The only off was that she wouldn't sleep as long for her naps. She is eating a little bit of grown up food. She loves Cuban squash, but not carrots- go figure. She LOVES peaches and gets really excited when she sees me eating one.

Audrey has fully decided that she wants to skip the crawling phase and go right into walking. She is really secure in sitting and playing and even really secure on her hands and knees but the concept of her legs moving with her arms totally evades her. She can pull herself up onto thing already and just stands there hanging out. Guess it is time to move the mattress down.

She is always full of smiles and wants to be on the go exploring all the time. This is cause for much frustration in her life (and her mommy's right now) because she thinks she can go and then she ends up on her tummy and gets mad and man do we hear about it. So, I predict that she will be crawling within the month and then probably walking not too long after that.

We had a big family party for the 4th and had the most massive slipnslide down the ramp to our basement outside. It was much fun. Charles has decided on a public administration degree at UNLV in the fall. It should take him 3 semesters more or so and then maybe onto a risk management masters and working for FEMA. At least that was the last thing he got excited about. So we will see.

I am moving along with some photography projects and have some great contacts here in town that are going to help out with some ideas I have been brewing up. So, I will let you all in when that is going down. But it is all very exciting.

Not much else to report. Life is busy and completely enjoyable and we love it. We are hoping to get into a house sometime this year so we will keep you updated. Enjoy the mother load of pictures.



PONDERING TOGETHER


AUDREY DISCOVERS RAIN


HAPPY FOURTH!



HERE ARE OUR FAMILY PICS FROM WHEN AUDREY WAS 6 MONTHS OLD







I TOLD MYSELF I WAS SWEARING OFF SEWING MATCHING OUTFITS FOR US, BUT THIS FABRIC WAS TOO CUTE TO PASS UP!



SOME OF AUDREY'S LATEST STUDIO MODELING!



THIS IS A FUNNY THING SHE DOES WHEN SHE IS TRYING TO SIT UP-STRAIGHT FROM HER BACK! HEHE


HER AND ONE OF HER LITTLE FRIENDS SWIMMING



I SWEAR I AM BIG ENOUGH!!!



TOO CUTE NOT TO TAKE A PICTURE! SHE ACTUALLY KEPT THE HAT ON FOR SOME TIME




THESE TWO ARE RIDICULOUS TOGETHER. I ALSO HAVE A PICTURE OF MIA EATING AUDREY'S HAND AND MY DAUGHTER EVER THE LITTLE POSER IS SMILING DILLIGENTLY AT THE CAMERA!

8 comments:

Mitch and Holly said...

What adorable pictures. Audrey is the cutest little girl, and her clothes are darling. I can't believe you are sewing clothes. You are so incredibly talented. Guess you'll have to teach me.

Unknown said...

Little Audrey is too cute! I guess it's been a long while since we've seen you since she's almost 7 months! We suck...sorry! That's unacceptable, though and we should get together =) I LOVE that picture of her with the rain! Totally awesome...love ya!

Jen@eighteen25 said...

cute pictures!

you two looked so cute at church in your matching outfits!!

your family pictures turned out great!

Josh and Gnickie said...

Becky, your family looks so cute. I love the pictures. Audrey looks like an Austin, for sure. I am glad to see you guys are doing well. Miss you!

deveney said...

love all the pictures! There are some really cute family ones in there and I just love the matching outfits! so glad that life is treating you well, take care!

Emily said...

What great family pictures. She is too cute!

Blissful & Domestic said...

Oh my gosh all of your pictures are so beautiful you are so talented! Jason and I were actually wondering if you could take our family pictures while he is home with us on leave? What do you think? We are obviously poor and couldn't really afford to much, but I really want some cute professional looking family pics...so e-mail me and let me know if it could work out. You could just take the pics and then put them on a CD and then I will print out the ones I want. Thanks Becky and I can't wait to finally get to hangout again.

Cassidy said...

The matching outfits are adorable! I love it. Some super cute pictures!