I love Wednesdays!

I know it's an odd day to love but this is why, first of all because it is Jason's day off and second since he is home it allows me to take a nice long shower and have the bathroom to myself to get ready!

So today we went up to Thanksgiving Point. We decided to get a pass this year, so we went and got that taken care of. Then headed over to the Deli for lunch and what do you know, my sandwhich came with a pickle! As you can see Claire loved it again (she actually was screaming when we tried to get it out of her hands) Then we headed over to look through the shops. Then the sun decided to peak through so we went down to see the farm animals. I wasn't sure how Claire would react but she did pretty good for her first interaction with theses animals.

She was "Oooohhhh"ing at everything and pointing alot but never cried

We love it when daddy is home with us (Jason and I actually get alot accomplished in the house) and Claire is happy that it's daddy coming to get her out of her crib in the morning for a change. I am also very excited to use our pass this year- Claire and I can go on lots of walks when we get bored here at home

I LOVE this laugh

I sure hope Claire never looses her laugh because I absolutley LOVE it. Claire loves to shovel everything we put in front of her into her mouth, so tonight I was trying to slow her down a bit and she thought I was being so funny- so out came the video camera and this is what she was doing...

Yummy toes!

This is for Grandma Diane...

She remembers what you taught her, and started doing it again one night at dinner!

11 Months Old

So I missed Claire's actual 11 Months birthday post (8th) because I was at work so here it is now...

She is not walking yet, but still loves to walk with her little walking toy, she has gotten better at it where now when she gets stuck in a corner she can wiggle it around and turn the other way (which has been very helpful to us since she gets stuck quite often in our little apartment).

She loves music- even on silly tv commercials she'll start to bounce up and down.

She loves her food- in fact I don't think we've found anything that she doesn't like yet. I've had to teach her to say Ahhhh and open her mouth to show me what she still has in there before I give her anymore food, she's really good at shoveling 10 cheerios in her mouth and still wanting more.

Claire has never been one that likes the pacifier (which is good and bad for me) Anyways I found a bowl full of them and gave them to her to see what she would do. She had fun with them for about 15 minutes or so, biting them, banging them together, or throwing them across the kitchen.

Pickles

I have always loved watching kids faces when you give them something new to eat, especially pickles! They make the funniest faces... but not Claire she loved them!!! Here's a short video of her enjoying these sour treats
(Papa Vern would be so proud!)

Some of Claire's favorites

Since Claire is almost 11 months old, I thought I would post some of her favorite activities she likes to do around the house.. Of course peek-a-boo, she loves pulling the laundry off the couch and pull it over her head, keeps her entertained for quite a while... it's really funny when she starts laughing at herself

She loves climbing under our table and play there for a while, then she'll go under out chairs and climb over the rails over and over again.

She LOVES her new walking toy that Grandma Diane got for her

And I just had to post these pictures because she is wearing her cute bows that I loved so much. I can only get her to wear them for a few minutes before she pulls them off so as you can see from the bottom picture I distracted her with things to put in her hands so it took her a while to pull them off. She looks like a little Alice in Wonderland!

Jason's Anniversary surprise

For our anniversary I told Jason that I was taking care of it and that he didn't need to get me anything. I have heard alot about this B&B called Johnson Mill, in Midway City, UT. So I booked a room and kept it a surprise from Jason. I already had our bag in the car so when he got home from work Saturday afternoon, he changed his clothes and we were off. Now I had this whole story planned of what to say if he were to ask me where we were going BUT he never did (must be very trusting of me) He was busy talking about work and other things going on in our lives, and soon enough we arrived at our destination... and he still wasn't asking where we were even when we got out of the car and walked up to the front door. So I finally just told him, this is where we are staying tonight! And he casually says, "oh okay!" Silly boy!

How cute! They put your names up by which room you are staying in, although they did spell my name wrong- I guess it's the thought that counts, right?

We were in the Presidential Suite, here's some pictures of the room...

living room

Master bedroom & Kitchen

Dining Room

Here's a little video of the view from our room- it was gorgeous!!

I brought food to make for dinner that night- Good thing too since right after we got there the storm rolled in. So it was nice to be inside and not outside scrounging for a place to eat

Some deer that wandered near our front door

(It's funny on there website it lists some animals that have been spotted near there hotel but it does NOT guarantee you will see them all the time) I wanted to see a Moose, but these deer were nice enought to come out.

This is me standing in the front walkways of the hotel

but right now its covered in about 3-4 feet of snow!

Jason in front of Johnson Mill

Ahhh the happy couple

Here's us as we departed the wonderful B&B, that we will have to come back and visit when the snow has all melted

We then drove up to Park City to do some shopping at the outlets (it all ended up being for Claire- lucky girl) It was such a beautiful day up there, COLD 20º!!!!









We had a quick bite to eat a Ruby Tuesdays-YUM

Jason enjoying his avocado burger

This is just a picture of the bright blue sky as we were leaving. I can't belive how much snow they have up there. I wanted to take more pictures of all the snow but it was too cold and I didn't plan enough clothes for that type of weather.

(Thank you to my family who watched Claire for the night, we missed her alot but knew she was in good hands!)

7 years

Today is our 7 year anniversary! Wow did that go by fast, here's some pictures from our

special day (03-02-01) And then some pictures from the last 7 years...

(pictures to follow soon with Jason's surprsie, I took him away for the night...)