Rachel turned 1 !!!

I can't believe that a whole year has gone by - Rachel's first birthday was yesterday and it really seems like just a week ago, Gus and I were on our way to Logan to receive Rachel for a daughter. We had a great day!!! All day long, I just did what Rachel wanted to do, we played bouncy ball and patty cake. It was a great day. The night before we did a little practice cake ( you will see in the pictures) and then the real deal was the best. We had friends and family come to celebrate. We set up a bubble machine outside for Rachel to play with and for our friends to walk through. Rachel loved the dinner, eat a whole bowl of it (We had soup and rolls) and had a blast opening up her presents. Then she tour into her cake. Our guest made the night wonderful and Rachel was a complete angel. She is getting so big and grown up!!! (I forgot to mention that John and Betty came over the night before because John and Rachel share a birthday - they were so wonderful to her)

Britney Graduated from USU

This last weekend, May 7, Our Britney graduated from USU, with a MIS degree. We had a great time celebrating and being around her. The highlights from the trip are: Picnic from Maddox restaurant, bedtime with Britney (bath time, Britney reading to Rachel, Gus did scriptures, we all shared what we learned, and Rachel crawled into Britney's lap and fell asleep - it was priceless), the graduation itself (Gus and I both teared up when Britney walked in - we are so proud of her, her dad handed her the degree - he is the head of the department), visiting our friends Jeff and Heather Burnham, Also visiting Hiedi used to be Coombs and our other friends the Apezteguia's, and then the luncheon with Britney's family. I also loved watching Britney's mom, Heather, love and play with Rachel. What a great memory with Britney!!!

Trip to California

Gus had a business trip to CA and last minute asked if Rachel and I wanted to drive over and visit family (Danny, Lindi, Max, Elise and Baby Auble) so I thought it was a great opportunity so we hopped in the car and took off. The fun part is that when Beth figured out that we where going so decided to fly over and meet us. It was really good to see all the family. We had a great time just hanging out and being a family. Gus took off about half way through the trip and then Rachel and I flow home. Some of our highlights are finishing Lindi's Houston quilt, watching madagascar 2, visiting costco, playing games, jumping on the tramp, going the to Oakland zoo, and taking a walk with Beth. We had a great time!!!

Rachel's first Easter!

Here are some picture of Rachel in her Easter dress. Grandma gave her the dress and we love how it makes her eyes really blue. She is so Cute!

11 months....

I had a half a minute tonight and thought I would log on to the blog and realized that the last time I put pictures up was at Rachel's 10 month - now she is almost 1 and I forget to put up the 11 month. So here they are for what it is worth. Rachel is growing so fast. Today she crawled down the stairs without help. I stood there and thought - really!!! We have been doing lessons on this for several months (Ever since she crawled) and all of a sudden she can go. She amazes me. She learns fast! The other exciting news is that she held her bottle today for the first time. I guess I have loved being her mom and feeding her every minute that I can, that I haven't taught her how to feed herself a bottle (She will hold her own sippy cup but not her own bottle) so today she laid down on the floor of my bedroom and just drank her bottle like she always knew how to hold it. In fact, when I was so amazed she looked at me like, "Mom what is the big deal?!"

She is such a character and we just love it!!!