So I keep waiting for pictures to post but obviously that hasnt happened or I would have posted sooner. We are winding down our summer now that Darin is heading back into the busy season for work. My mom and youngest brother Cory came out to visit and play with Ivy. She loves having new friends around. Just more people to read her books over and over. Forget the basket of toys she just wants to sit on someones lap and read books. Well mostly she likes to turn the pages and occasionally kiss the page. I can't complain though. I can only hope that her love of books continues. She is turning into quite the talker with her vocabulary growing every day it seems. She now can say hi, dada, mama, hot, hat, car, dog, light,uh oh and my favorite-ouch. Its fun to see her try and say words, she is VERY expressive. Some other fun things are her dancing, and her love of dogs. Every time Ivy sees or hears a dog she sticks out her tongue and starts panting like one. Its so cute but of course I think just about everything she does is cute. Besides Ivy nothing much is going on with me. I'm excited for fall, so I am having a hard time not pulling out the fall decor. It has to be the right day when I can feel it in the air! I am starting to learn that I have to do my projects before a season starts so I can actually have them out and enjoy them. Well I'll try and get some pictures taken this week so you can see how big my baby girl is getting.

Ivy's Big Day

Its true. Time flies when you have kids. The last year has flown by and now my baby is one. She is definitely the light of our lives. Its like we didn't know what we were doing with our lives before she came along. On Saturday Ivy had her first birthday. We invited some friends over for cupcakes and root beer floats. Now that she is walking Ivy can keep up with the older kids a whole lot better. She was in heaven with all the kids and people around. Her favorite part was probably eating her cupcake though. She dug right in and I think ate the whole thing in about 2 minutes. Ivy can't ever imagine how much we love her. We thank Heavenly Father every day for bringing her into our lives. Here are some pictures of her big day. The blue dress is from her Grandma Warnick, along with the hair bow. The other pictures are from Ivy's party. So here is to my big girl. We love you!

Ivy's Tricks

Ivy can walk! She took off last Friday and is getting better and better every day. It helped to be around all of those older kids in Utah. She also started clicking her tongue and the spitting is her .driving a truck. What a silly girl. She lights up our life every second of the day!

Amber's Wedding

Amber's wedding was so much fun. It was a lot of work but I had a good time with my best girl friends. Its amazing how you can go months without seeing or in some cases talking to someone and pick up right where you left off with out any awkwardness. These girls are the very best! And I will even wear my bridesmaid outfit again. I'm so happy for you Amber, I love you! Good luck with that whole married thing.=0)

July is good so far...

We went to the zoo the other day, as you can see by the pictures Darin put up. We had to be over that way for a Dr.'s appointment and thought we would make a day of it. Ivy was definitely more interested in all of the kids at the zoo but seemed to have a good time. She is such a little social butterfly. She is at that hard stage where she is so squirmy and wants to be let free everywhere we go. But she takes off like a shot and gets really dirty crawling on the ground. She is walking farther and farther every day and it looks like she might be pro by her first birthday.
Ivy and I also went up to Summit County with Darin for the last couple days and got to spend time with our good friends the Allens. Ivy was in heaven playing with the two cutest boys around. Taggart and Jack treated Ivy like a queen and she even rewarded them with her cutest baby doll laugh and even hugs when we left! She isn't very affectionate so that was a big deal. Every time I see Ivy having so much fun with other little kids it makes me hope that someday we will be able to give her a little brother or sister. But that is in the Dr.'s hands so we'll see...

Denver Zoo

Ivy's Tails and Cottage Cheese

Ivy's hair has finally gotten long enough to put ponies in. Today we tried the pigtail approach. Although it is pretty cute, she does resemble a bug or a martian the way they stick straight up. So we will be sticking with the one pony. The biggest bonus of having her hair done is we no longer hear "Oh what a cute little boy you have!" Ivy tends to try and pull them out when Mom isn't looking though so I am always worried she is going to choke on a rubber band. I'm pretty sure she has swallowed at least one.
As for the cottage cheese face, its cuz I don't like to sit there and feed her, so I just plopped some cottage cheese on her tray and she went to town. She loved it and just so you know cottage cheese is not the easiest to clean up. It just kind of smears around, meaning we found cottage cheese everywhere.