Happy Birthday!

We celebrated Officer's 28th birthday yesterday(a little belated). I can't believe he's so old - just kidding.

Grins and Giggles

Peanut giggled at me today, I have no clue why. It was the cutest thing. She has been almost giggling for a few weeks - kind of a courtesy laugh. Then of course we made all sorts of retarded faces and sounds to make her do it again- but to no avail. I guess we aren't that funny. Anyway when I catch it on video I'll add it to the blog.

It was 5 years ago this week that we got ourselves engaged. We sat up late last night just laughing about the whole thing. We had been good friends for a while and he took me to an aquabats concert in Salt Lake - we've always decided that that was the turning point for our relationship. Who knew that the aquabats could affect you like that - bah ha. After that, we were retarded - we had talked and joke about getting married and one day it was kind of like - uh what do you really think about it? I brought him home to meet the folks. He wanted to talk to my dads, he was pretty nervous even though it wasn't really an asking permission thing. My dad ended up in the ER that night from some kind of food poisoning before he had a chance to him talk about it - not a good sign - it just made him more nervous. Once that was over he wanted to make it official and took me to the Temple grounds on our way out of town. As he got down on one knee to ask me, I could see a security guard in the background walking up toward us. It kind of ruined it for me, I was triying not to laugh or cry - I hate getting in trouble. I think he was disappointed that I didn't cry. It was late and long story short - we got kicked off the temple grounds. We joked after that that they probably had photos hanging up somewhere with instructions not to let us come back, of course we knew that wasn't the case. It didn't go as he had planned, but it was a memorable proposal anyway. I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Here are some recent pictures. She's 12 weeks this week!

Fish face

Just out of the bath

So tired

I just have way too much time on my hands I guess. Officer has been working swings the last few weeks and I've become an insomniac. It is so hard to fall asleep without him. So...what have I been doing with all that time you ask - well our whole blog page has a new look! Sad isn't it. That's not really all I've been doing - I can get so much accomplished once Peanut is asleep - the only problem is that morning still comes and then I realize that staying up late it ridiculous.

I was asked to talk in Sacrament meeting this past weekend. I use to teach, talk, whatever pretty regularly, but it has been at least four years since I've been asked to speak in a Sacrament meeting. The longer its been the more nervous I seem to get. And of course the topic I was asked to speak on was "Mothers who Know," based on Sister Julie Beck's talk last conference. Sure, I thought, ask the new mom to speak about mothers who know. Anyway, all in all it went pretty well, I think. I just want all of you moms out there to know that I love and admire you - I'm learning to be a mother because of the example of each of you! What an adventure. I love being a mom!

Our computer's been down and we've had a sick baby, and a sick mommy. Babie's and Mommy's aren't supposed to get sick I tell you. So anyway we're finally getting back on our feet. We were able to bless peanut last sunday. Thanks to everyone that came - it was great to see everyone and show off our super cute girl.

She loves to talk - in her language. She definately has a temper, but that last few days she only pulls that out when she's really ticked. Now she tries to tell us other things I just haven't quite figured out what all of it means, but she definately tries to talk her way out of going to bed by being so cute. It's really hard to resist, but she has done so good with sleeping all night we don't want to do anything to mess that up. Here is just a few seconds of her really talking, but she does it for a few minutes - I love it!