Lorelai

Here is our little cutie! She will be turning 2 on May 24th! I can't believe how time has just flown by. She amazes me with all the things she does everyday. She talks so much, and is a little parrot that will repeat any and everything that you say. I love her!!!! She is very shy though. People don't seem to believe me that she has a very extensive vocabulary because they don't hear her say very much. But I assure you, she talks and talks, and is hilarious!! I just am so in love with my little girl. She is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.

Lorelai loves to draw. Sometimes its on the couch....but she will just draw and draw all day long. She loves pens the most though, she will use crayons and colored pencils(we haven't introduced markers yet...and don't think we will anytime soon), but she will always find a pend and just go to town. One of my favorite things she does is lay on her stomach and draw with her little feet up in the air. I haven't taken a picture of that yet, but I will soon! So cute.

She still uses a bottle. People say that it is bad for her and everything, but ya know what? I remember filling up my own bottle(I would add some Hershey's syrup too), and I turned out just fine! I know she will get sick of it one day, so I don't think it is that big of deal. It is mostly just when she wakes up and when she is getting tired. The rest of the day she drinks from a cup. And a lot of the time not even a sippy cup, a regular cup, and she does really well. So, I'm not going to feel bad about giving her a bottle!

Steve and I have been working out lately, and Lorelai mocks us! Ok, so she is just trying to do what we do, but it sometimes feels like she is mocking. She is cute though. She jumps up and down, and even finds this little 3 pound weights we have and lifts those up. So cute!

Our new home.

Ok, so I keep saying I'm going to start doing this and I just never seem to do it, so I'm starting right here, right now! So, it happened. I never thought it would, I said it would never happen to me, but it happened. I live in Utah!!! Steve got a job with the church after his internship, so we will be staying in Utah for awhile. Long enough that we decided to buy a house. It is in Saratoga Springs. Steve's office is moving to Riverton soon(they keep pushing back the date though, it was supposed to be the beginning of this year, then march, then July, then September, now they say for sure by the end of the year) and he will be about 15 minutes away from work, so not too bad. I just feel bad for him because we will be moving into our home mid-May so he will have to commute all the way to Salt Lake still. But we are happy and we feel good about the move. We got a really good deal with government grants and things, pretty much we were given a total of $20,000 by the government(federal and state) and the builder to buy this home. It is 2600sq feet, 5 bed, 3 full bath, 3 car garage(you can't see that with my lovely photography skills). It is beautiful!!!! It is RIGHT down the street from a nice big park that I'm sure Lorelai is going to love. And also right across from the park is a new elementary school, which is where Lorelai will go in just 3 short years. Crazy!