Happy Girl!

Callie is all smiles! For some reason these pictures just remind me of myself when I was her age.

This picture is a funny looking pucker for a kiss. It makes me laugh everytime I look at it.

Holy Mushroom!!!

I just had to take a picture of these mushrooms! I saw them a few days ago when I was getting into my car. There is a grassy area right in front of my parking space at our apartments and this just grew naturally there....only in the northwest!

Callie chillin' at home!

Here are some pictures of Callie around the house. She likes to sit in her old infant car seat and read books!


When I took the car seat away she adopted the toy basket as her seat.


We just got a computer desk and she spent all day playing in the little cupboard! She would get all the way in and close the door. Then when I said, "Where's Callie?" She'd pop out and laugh!


Here she is after a long day of play with her Elmo slippers.


And here is the cutest duck ever! We went to our ward Halloween party and she had a blast. Callie loves ducks and sleeps with a duck snugly for bed. When ever she sees a duck she'll say,"Quack, quack!"

Cousin's!

Emma and Dottie came to play! Here's Callie and Dots playing on the computer.



Emma wanted to play dress up. She loves being a princess and she loves poseing for pictures!


Callie had fun dressing up too!

Back to school!

BYU-I has just started a Bachelor of University Studies online. I applied and was accepted along with 14 other students. I started class yesterday and am looking forward to seeing how this process will work. It's definitely different having all my classes online, but I'm excited to be back in school and hopefully it won't take me too long to get my bachelors.
Also, I accepted a new calling at church. I'm now the 2nd counselor in the primary presidency. It seems like in the last 2 weeks things have gotten really busy for me. Plus, I didn't realize the primary presidency is in charge of so much. But, I have some friends in the presidency so I think this will be a good experience. And I love singing primary songs!!!

New York! New York!

Andrew has a sister that lives out in New York. We both have never been there so we planned a two week vacation to go see them. It was so much fun. Our first day we went and saw Niagara Falls. That was probably the most humid day I have ever experienced. It was about 90 degrees and I swear 100% humid.

We also visited Erie, Pennsylvania and took a boat out on Erie Lake. They have a big indoor water park in Erie so we spent a couple of days there.

Palmyra isn't too far away either. We spent a day there checking out all the Joseph Smith sites.

This is the Palmyra Temple.

The Sacred Grove

Hill Cumorah

Andrew's sister lives in Wellsville, New York. Which is very close to Pennsylvania. The country out there is amazing. On our last hurrah we went four wheeling out there. We also were able to see a few Amish towns. We even stopped at an amish store. I'm very much in awe of those people.

Callie's One Year Photos!

We had a professional photo shoot for Callie's one year pictures. There is a couple in our ward that has a photography business and instead of going to Wal-mart we decided to try them out. Thank goodness we did!!! The pictures turned out great. We took the photos at the Rose Garden's and Pittock Mansion. Callie loved it! We were able to catch her more in her element, which I love. I would recommend our photographer friends to anyone wanting some good photos. Here's a link to there blog, http://www.reversedlensphotography.blogspot.com/.

We had a lot of fun!

Downtown activity!

Downtown Portland had a sand contest in Pioneer Square. We thought it would be fun to see! Callie was oblivious to what was going on, but enjoyed watching the people down there. Andrew and I thought it was pretty cool. We saw these before they were finished. They had a hour more to go before their time was up.

Camping at the Beach

Last weekend we went camping with Andrew's sister and her kids at the washington coast. We had a lot of fun. I was worried it would be hard with Callie, but she loved every minute! We made it easier by staying in a cabin. The cabin was pretty small so we sent the boys out to sleep in a tent.

We have camped here before and was expecting it to be cloudy and possible rainy. We were surprised to have a beautiful sunny day. Especially at the beach! Callie spent a good hour playing in the water. She kept wanting to sit down and play in the sand too.



Notice her sandy bottom!

We will definately be making this trip again!

Spaghetti Face!

We had spaghetti the other night for dinner. It's one of Callie's favorites to eat...can you tell! I just had to take a few pics of her cute messy face!

Happy Anniversary!

Andrew and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary of wedding bliss yesterday! Since Andrew's been working a lot lately (Yesterday 12 hours) we were only able to see each other over dinner. We went to a nice place in downtown Portland. One of our favorite spots, 'Rock Bottom Brewery'. I asked Andrew if its wierd that we go to a brewery and not order any beer. But the food is fantastic!!! We had a great time.

It's Official!!!

I can't believe it! Callie is officially one year old! We had a great family party at the park. We had BBQ and birthday cake.

She enjoyed eating her cake at first, but as it turns out she doesn't like the feel of frosting on her hands. Once she realized she couldn't shake the frosting off she freaked out.

You can see her screaming while everyone is enjoying their cake.

Once we got her all cleaned up we started opening presents! She loves her new toys and clothes!