Good news and bad news!

We got the toxicology report back on our Suby and there was so much Meth in the car they totalled it. We are happy about that I just didn't want the car back after those freaks had been in it smoking who knows what. But we are sad too, we loved that car. It was the first car we had bought together and we had just payed it off. It was a beautiful car. Hopefully we will be able to get a new one soon.

Curtis Look-alike Meter

I don't know I think she looks more like Stu!

Caught em'

At 4:30 this morning we got a phone call from the Utah Highway Patrol asking if our car was still stolen, and of course Mark said yes then they call again at 5:30 am and said that the car was towed to Springville and that they arrested the two people that stole it. We are so happy they are behind bars!!! So we got are Suby back, but they had trashed the inside. They were smoking a crack pipe so it reeks inside, they put out their cigarettes on the back seat and burned it, they slashed three of the seat belts, cut our moon roof cover and bent it (it looks like they punched it). There where little cuts in the dashboard and center console and small chips in the paint all over the outside of the car. It is absolutely disgusting, stains, wrappers and stuff spilled everywhere. The way they were caught was they cut someone off down by Springville and hit them so the people in the other car call the cops. So the back bumper needs some work done to it also. Our poor Subaru that we have had for 11 months that didn't even have a door ding. Why are people so inconsiderate and stupid. Well, at least we got it back, hopefully they can and will fix everything and that they can get the smell out. There was no baby stuff in it, thank goodness, I wouldn't want it after that, I want all new. There were some nice golf clubs that were not ours, a camera, that may be ours that they used to take pictures of the girl behind the wheel of our stolen car (smart), and an ipod that they claim was the third persons, that some how got away, but I think it might be mine by the way the officer described it. Everything else is gone. There was also a curling iron, a check and a note written to an inmate with very poor grammar. Sounds like they were quite the couple. The girl that they arrested is the same girl they got on the security tapes using LaFaunda's credit card at Target. She is really busted! Thanks to everyone who was looking out for our car!

Our Mystery

My cute six year old niece Addie prayed last night that our mystery would be solved.

So cute! Thanks Addie!

Grrrrrrrr!!!

What a first Fathers day for Stuart! We woke up this morning to find that someone had broken in to our house while we were asleep in the basement, stolen my purse, my phone (so don't try to call me) 4 ipods, our camera, Lafaunda wallet, Mark's gold watch and worst of all OUR CAR! Yes our Subaru that is not even a year old yet! I hate thieves. Grrrrr! So we spent our morning with the Cottonwood Heights Police and all the credit card companys canceling our credit cards.

So, if any one happens to see a White Subaru Outback with a Tan Britax carseat in the back with the license plate number
B95 6BB
...please call the police. Thanks!

Happy Father's Day Stu! Thanks for being a wonderful husband and father. Sorry about the crappy Father's day! We love you!

11 months old!

Abby is 11 months old now! Once again I can't believe how fast time is flying bye! She is such a doll. I love my little shadow that follows me around and copies everything I do and every sound I make. When I cough she coughs, when I make any noise with my mouth or lips she tries to imitate it. I love it, she keeps a smile on my face. She is such a helper too. When I am loading the dishes in the dish washer she is right there standing next to the dish washer helping me, or if I am folding laundry she is right there pulling clothes out of the laundry basket faster than I can fold them. Yesterday I needed to wash her bedding so I pulled off the bumpers mattress pad and sheet and put it all in a laundry basket to take up stairs. I knew I couldn't leave her down stairs by her self so I loaded her up in the basket too. She just laid on all the bedding thinking she was a queen as we went up the stairs. It was pretty cute. To night we were putting her to bed, as we were going down stairs Stu was holding her and I was following pretending to get her and she was just giggling and squealing. We couldn't stop laughing ourselves. Her laugh is so contagious! Life would be so boring with out that little upside down beaver grin and those big blue eyes.

Things Abby likes at 11 months...

• Still LOVES her daddy!
• to be outside!
  
• the bike trailer, wagon and the swing (which she easily falls asleep in.)
• all music - still Josh the best.
• showers (with Daddy), Baths (with Mommy)
• TO EAT! She is such a social eater. If others are eating she needs to be also.
• OREO Cookies and Nilla Wafers

• to have some one read to her, also to take my finger and point at things in the book and have me say what it is.
• to unload her drawers - really likes to get out her swimming suit.
• to unload the Tupperware drawer
• to sleep on her tummy with her bum up in the air.
• Dolls
• meat of any kind
• watermelon!!!
• my brush
  
• Just being out and about!
  

New things she has learned this month...

• to clap when we say Yeeeeaaaaa!
• getting better at waving bye, bye.
• She has a new interest in stairs and tries to go up them. (She doesn't get very far - up the first step)
  
• sometimes she will stand on her own for a few seconds.
  
• She stands up and walks around everything and has finally learned how to sit back down.
  
• I still think she says dog when she sees a dog put it is still not totally consistent.
• to unroll the toilet paper
• she tries to put her bows in her hair when she finds them on the floor, but pulls them out the second I put one in.
• tries to put her shoes on her feet
• she understands NO and is pretty obedient.
  

I'm Stuck!

Need I say more!

Happy Memorial Day

Four years ago today, Stu proposed to me in a little parade in Cambridge, NY.

This is us celebrating today, with my family, and Stu's family, and our darling baby girl!

Abby's first time going swimming...

This month for play group we went swimming. I have been dying to take Abbers swimming ever since we got her swinging suit in March. Finally we got to go! We all met up at Cottonwood Heights, but for some reason it was closed until the evening so we drove on over to Murry Rec Center. It was really nice and really warm. Thank goodness. Abby was not sure at first, she just wanted me to hold her, but then she realized she could crawl around and splash.

Enjoying a beautiful Sunday afternoon

Abby does not like to be in the grass!

The blanket was a little fence, she wouldn't crawl off of it onto the grass.

I'm free!!! If you look really close there is a piece of grass on her bum! Sorry about the baby porn!
She hated the grass until I took her diaper off then she sat right on it???

Abby 9 month photo shoot!

I know that Abby is 10 1/2 months now but it took me forever to scan these in! She was darling during this photo shoot. She loved all the attention. I think the pictures turned out pretty cute.

Diaper Changes!

I dread changing Abby's diapers. Not because they are gross, because the second I lay her down she flips over and crawls away. She loves to be naked! She won't hold still for longer than one second. I undo her diaper and I have to be very careful that the poop doesn't go flying when she quickly rolls over. Trying to put a diaper on while she is crawling or standing can be very difficult. I don't understand why she can't just lay there for one minute, that is all it would take if she would hold still, but instead it take at least five minutes of me chasing her or me being a mean mom and putting my legs on her arms so she can't roll. Then she gets really mad!

Any suggestions?

Where's the baby?

So tonight Stu and I and Grandpa Mark were eating dinner while we watched the basketball game, Abby was just crawling around under the table eating a chip. My phone rang so I left the room for a minute to answer it and when I returned a couple minutes later I said to the two men, "It's too quiet, where is the baby?" Stu looked under the table and said, "I thought she was still under the table." So, we started looking for the Abby. Stu found her in the bathroom VERY QUIETLY playing in the toilet. This was her first time discovering the toilet. YUMMY! I has to wash her hands and arms and wipe down the toilet seat. New adventures everyday!

Enjoying the moments

Abby always sleeps through the night these days, but for some reason last night she decided to wake up at 4:00 a.m. I was not to thrilled about that and it took me a while to decided if I was going to let her cry herself back to sleep or if I was going to go in and rescue her. I finally pulled myself out of bed to go rescue her. By the time I got there she had pulled herself up to standing position, which she has never done in her crib before, usually she pulls down the bumper pads and is kneeling. So I am glad I didn't let her cry because once she gets into the standing position she can get back down. She hasn't figured out how to sit yet. She likes to pull herself up all day long, but then she gets mad after she has been standing for a while and can't get down. Back to my story, so I picked her up, grabbed her blanket and sat in the rocking chair to nurse her. I just sat there rocking with my sweet baby snuggling in next to me. It was quiet no distractions, even though I was dreadfully tired and just sat there enjoying the moment. She fell asleep after about five minutes, but I continued rocking her and thinking, moment like this don't happen very often and they are not going to last much longer. So, I just sat there and enjoyed every minute of it.

Wait for me!

Today I was watching Annie and Eva, while Dan and Michele went to Dan's brother's wedding. Abby just loves kids, the problem is she just thinks she is one of them. She doesn't understand why she can't do everything that the older kids are doing. It is so fun to watch her. Well, while I was tending them, Annie went running through the kitchen and ran up stairs, Eva slowly followed, then trailing behind as fast and she could crawl was Abby. But, when she got to the stairs she pulled herself up to a standing position and just started yelling up the stairs. I think she was trying to say "Hey guys, wait for me," I felt so bad for her she just wanted to go run up those stairs like the other two did. It was pretty cute she just kept screaming and hollering.

Life after Tubes!

It has been a little over a week since Abby had her Tubes placed and cyst removed. Abby is doing great. She has had no problems or infections since her surgery. I am sure that is partly because she has been on two antibiotics. On Wednesday she had the stitches taken out from the cyst that was removed, she was not a fan of that. Dr. Meads did a great job there is very little scaring. The only problem we have had since the tubes being placed is that she can hear really well now. Before she had so much fluid behind her ear drum that her ear drum wasn't vibrating like it should so she couldn't hear all that well. Now she can hear too well. Every night I always go in and check on her before I go to bed or while she is napping to make sure she is covered and now that she can hear so well, she wakes up when I open the door. The door creaks just a little, I don't know if it would wake me up, but it wake her up every dang time! It is so frustrating!

Sunday Swingin'

Last Sunday we spent some time a Grandma and Grandpa Jensen's. Grandma got out her baby swing to see if Abby would like to swing in it... and did she ever. Once we put her in she didn't want to get out. She sat it and swung in daze for at least an hour. You can see by the pictures it was making her a little sleepy.

Two New Teeth!

Two teeth broke through today. They are the upper lateral incisors (the ones next to the middle teeth that have not come in yet). We knew they we coming, but she didn't get a runny nose, cough and an ear infection like she usually does. Thank goodness!