WOW!!

Can you believe what is going on right now? WOW things sure are changing. I took this picture over the fourth of July. We were heading up to Boise and stopped to fill up. I died at the gas prices. For sure I thought we would hit the $5/gallon mark. Now less then 6 months later some places are at $1.20/gallon. I hope friends and family are doing well through these tough times.

Climber

Sophia has found a new love, climbing. It does not matter what it is, she will climb it. Not only are we climing thing we have figured out that everything moves and we can climb on one thing to reach up to the next

Halloween

The weekend was great! Sophia was able to go trick or treating twice. The sitter took her to the mall to trick and treat and then Luke and I took her in the evening. She LOVED it!! I am sure she ate enough candy for the year. She looked adorable in her flower costume. On Sat Luke and I went to the Jazz game. It was nice to go out on a "date" Thanks to Jill for babysitting and coming home to a sleeping baby and a clean house.

Lately Sophia has been gaining more of a girly girl personality. She has started to love to play dress up. It all started when I bought her a winter coat. It has the fake fur around the hood. She just laughs and laughs when she is wearing it. Now we have moved on to the hat of her Halloween costume. She will wear it and run around the house, also the same applies to her tutu. I know the pictures are blurry but try taking a picture of a hyper 1 year old with your camera phone :)

Petting Zoo

On Sat we went to the petting zoo at Garder Village. Sophia LOVED it. The whole time she kept walking around saying "Oooooo" I was surprised how melow the animals are. Kids were just pulling on their fur (at least Sophia was) and they would just lay there. Poor animals everyday they are subjsct to tiny fingers grabbing at them.

Tag your it!

So I was tagged to blog about the fourth picture on my computer. Which is funny because I was just talking to my brother about this picture today at dinner.
This picture is of my brother Shane and Sophia. She is probably 9 weeks old. Shane lives just a couple streets away from us and we hang out with him frequently. He is a great uncle to Sophia and was one of the first people up at the hospital to meet her. Sophia adores Shane, and even more so after he told her that she should be nice to him because he is the uncle that will let her break all our rules.
The funny thing is that early today I was telling Shane about how I have only one picture of him with Sophia and to be honest I do not think it is that great of a picture. Which makes me wonder on how many people are tagged and REALLY put up the picture they are suppose to, or lie because they do not look the best in that picture?
Anyways sorry Shane that this pic is on the Internet, but for what it is worth you are the best uncle. I can see it in Sophia every time she reaches out to you wanting you to hold her.

Birthday pictures

Here are some pictures
from the BIG birthday! Sophia enjoyed her cake, but I think she was more excited about the cardboard it came on!

The birthday princesses!
Swinging! Don't you
just love the crown.
Sophia and Nana Aldrich
A wonderful day at the park.