Kamryn-our 1 year old!

Yesterday Kamryn turned one year old! I cannot believe how fast it has gone!

We had 4 parties for her this year...I'll have to post about them soon. But I just wanted to do an overall 1-year post!

Kamryn, here are some things you can do now that you are one:

-You are getting more confident with walking. You have taken 10 steps by yourself at one time.
-You can crawl fast enough to trip over your own hands
-You love to feed yourself finger foods
-You Still LOVE to eat!!! (and eat ANYTHING that is offered to you)
-You Love to read and play with your toys
-You love to do puzzles. you're getting better each day at putting the pieces in their correct spot.
-You love to play with other kids--older and younger! Any other kid around, you're ready to play with them!
-You love balloons! We had balloon bday parties because you love them. I think "Balloon" may be your first word.
-You love to play with daddy! Tickling and rolling around on the bed!
-You love to swim.
-You love to brush your 2 teeth.
-You aren't easily frustrated when something doesn't work right.
-You ARE impatient when it comes to food!
-You make LOUD sounds all of the time---no English words quite yet! (We're working on mama and dada still!)
-You can play pretend on your own. You love to play with dishes and silverware--feeding yourself, baby-dolls, and others.
-You enjoy getting into kitchen cupboards, bathroom cupboards and drawers, and the toilet!
-You have the cutest laugh (when it is real and fake) that just makes my heart lift when I hear it!
-You are friendly! You'll wave to perfect strangers as you pass them in the store or outside.
-You love music. You can get grumpy during church, but as soon as music starts playing and we sing hymns, you are alert and quiet.
-You can sing with the radio in the car!
-You are an excellent traveler.
-You are easy-going when change happens. (food, carseat, etc.)
-Your wave is a princess wave...very elegant and circular.
-You've learned to play peek-a-boo on your own. (you cover your face and then uncover it on your own)

Here are some things you have done in your first year:

-Haven't had one ear infection...although you have had many colds.
-Flown on an airplane to Hawaii and Ohio.
-Been to Disneyland 4 times
-Grown 2 teeth
-Grown a little bit of hair (no haircuts yet)
-Gained about 15 pounds
-Grown about 8 inches
-Slept over at both Grandparents' house without mom and dad a few times.
-Been to the water park and LOVED the waterslides.
-Overcome stranger anxiety! Now getting into separation anxiety! :)
-Been up to Northern Idaho twice

Nicknames: Kami, Kamry, Sweetheart, munchkin, punkin, little one

You've been a busy girl, little one! You are a wonderful baby--very happy and excited about life!
We love you!

Blogger's dream come true!

Do you ever wish your internet could be THAT much faster?!! So that uploading pictures and especially videos onto your blog could be THAT much easier?!?!

Well, it has happened for me! And It is WONDERFUL!! It takes like 5 seconds to upload 5 pictures...not 5 minutes anymore!! I used to sit and write the whole post while the pictures were uploading and I would beat the pictures. Now I can't type more than 2 words before the pictures are uploaded! :)

Our complex has spent the past 3 months wiring for a new internet company in all the buildings and we just got hooked up to it this last week. It is SO SO SO fast to post now! :) I'm SO SO SO excited!! (Maybe this will mean that I'll post more often!!?!? :) haha...don't hold your breath!) :)

Home Sweet home

So, a while back (like beginning of May!) we moved to a bigger apartment and I started trying to "decorate" a bit to make it feel more like a home than a student apartment! I never posted again about it, however, because it is an ongoing process. But I got a bunch done last week and I'm excited about it so I thought I'd post about it!

My Living Room:
Colors: Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, Cream, Mahogany Brown
Found the pillows at Walmart. Loved them! :)
Middle frame is a mirror (you can see the pictures on the other side of the room in it though)
Kamryn gets framed twice because she is the only one (and I'm working on doing nice family pictures in the next couple of weeks) :)




Kamryn's Bathroom:
Colors: Bright Pink, Yellow and Orange; Beach Theme
Found the beach theme at Target! Love it!
Found frames at Ikea for cheap. Printed pictures at Costco.




My Disney Kitchen!
Disneyland kitchen...multiple characters and colors.
Frames have Disney scrapbooked pages in them. All Black frames.
Still looking for fabric to make curtains and tablecloth because right now the room is bare! But I was happy to finally find 12x 12 frames for some of the pages I had made!





(ignore the messy table!) :) haha

And my VERY FAVORITE and what I have been searching and searching for! (the perfect theme for my bedroom...)

Theme: Hawaii Beach
I found the bedding for our new large bed online at Domestications.com. It was on sale too so I HAD to get it! (Then I splurged for wall art and curtains!!) :) haha


I LOVE it though! It makes my heart and spirit just lift every time I walk into the room! I need to get an actual curtain rod still and I think we're going to paint one wall just to make it feel that much more "exotic" :) But for now, I have a great reason to make my bed every day! :)

Pictures I am missing: My bathroom and Kamryn's room.
My bathroom is still in the making. Nothing to show yet.

Kamryn's room, however, I am surprised I dont have a picture yet because it has been done the longest! In fact, I thought I had posted about it already. But it is also Hibiscus flowers and bright colors (like her bathroom). Bright green, yellow, blue, and pink. And I found a border that I put up around the ceiling. It is very cute! :) I need to take a picture ASAP!

It has been so fun decorating and creating rooms. Now the challenge is keeping them clean and adding little bits here and there that I find as time goes on! :)

New Posts!

I posted 5 new posts yesterday! One has the funnest video in it! So don't miss them all!! :)

(I know 5 is a lot...I had to catch up!!) :)

Kamryn's First 1st Birthday party!

This little girl is spoiled! (and very loved!) I think she is going to have 3 1st Birthday parties this year! What a life! :)

For the 4th, we got together with extended family for a BBQ and swimming and movies and just visiting, AND to celebrate all of the summer bdays within the family. Kamryn is the youngest this summer, so everyone sang to her first! She wasn't quite sure what was going on, but liked all the attention.




And then she got to open 6 presents! She was so excited about each of them too, so thank you everyone who gave her something! :)

Bubbles and a Water toy from Aunt Donelle.



Card from Great Grandma (G.G.)


Box of Board Books from Aunt Janice! (Kamryn LOVES these!!)




What is this next one, Kamryn?



Look Kamryn, it's a baby doll!



And some PJ's! (She didn't care too much about these...what 1-year-old would! These were definitely more for Mommy!!) :)


I don't want to put the baby down, but what's this next big one?!


It's a stroller for your baby!


Let's let Daddy put it together for you!! :)

Enjoying Ice Cream while Daddy puts together her stroller! :)


Look at me! I'm a big girl!

I can walk and push the stroller! (Since she's still just a little unsure of walking without holding onto something! This is wonderful for her right now!)

All cleaned up from swimming--wearing my new PJ's. My pants are a little too long though :(


Aunt Kelsey to the rescue! (Kamryn doesn't think to stop at all for Kelsey to fix them though!) :)

Thanks Kelsey! That's much better!


Kamryn...enjoying bubbles (from Aunt Bev) for the first time! She was so funny--belly laughing everytime she popped a bubble! :)


When it got dark, we all went outside to watch fireworks. Kamryn liked them at first...but then was just too exhausted! Sweet baby!



My sisters and cousin, watching fireworks (and being strange...like usual! :) haha)



Sorry it's blurry...but mommy and daddy watching fireworks!


Happy 1st 4th of July, Kamryn! We love you, sleepy girl!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy....umm...Kamryn! Look over here!




Ok...Happy 4th.... smile Kamryn! Smile!!




Kamryn...the camera is right here!

No...don't cry! Smile!


There's a happy girl!

Happy 4th of July!! :)

Fun Summer Times!

It is officially Summertime! (July...it better be!!) It is about 90 degrees everyday now and I just got my Seven Peaks pass last week! Yay! Now Kamryn and I can go play in the water whenever we want! My goal is to go at least once a week...and last week was our first time! We go with my friend Nicole and her little girl, Sammie.

Here are the girls playing before we went. All ready to go! (We had to postpone going for a little bit because it was raining at the time we were going to go!) They didn't mind though! (In a couple years they will!) :)

They had fun playing with eachother...



Reading books with eachother...


And going after the camera!



I didn't get any pictures at Seven Peaks because I forgot my camera and it isn't waterproof...(I really need a water digital camera! That should be next on my list of big purchases!!) :) Anyway, so you'll have to imagine fun pictures in the water for now! :)