Friday, May 21, 2010

hello pearly whites

a few days ago ainsley's top teeth finally cut through her gums. poor thing. she's been so good through it all. she just drools a lot and chews on whatever she can.
she's got both coming in together, so that's 4 teeth already. then today i noticed....she's got 2 more moving in right next to the top ones.

i can't believe how fast she's growing. six teeth at seven months!
i'll miss her gummy grin.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

let the games begin

its finally happened. i knew it would happen sooner than i'd like. but its just so cute i dont care.
ainsley has been on the verge of crawling for the past few weeks. she's been sitting up for a while and progressed to go from sitting to leaning forward and getting on all fours. she's been able to move from side to side and then backwards, but never quite mastered forward.
then today it happened.
she saw something she liked, and just went for it. it was amazing, there was no army crawling, no scooting, no falling over. it was like she already knew how to do it and just did it.
i'm realizing how unprepared i was for this. she's already getting my cell phone, the remote, and poor little oscar. sorry buddy, life is quickly changing.
another milestone...and so fast! a few days shy of being 7 months old! i was thinking i had at least another month before she should be crawling. so cute though. she just gets the biggest smile on
her face when she crawls and gets to where she wanted to go. i'm so proud.


Thursday, May 13, 2010

first family vacation

to celebrate 5 fabulous years we decided we should take a trip. we didn't know where.
we thought about everything.
maybe go back and visit NYC again
maybe paris again and eat all of our favorite foods
we thought a cruise could be fun

we had lists and lists and to shorten it we decided we should go somewhere we hadn't been yet...and somewhere we wouldn't have to fly over 7 hours to arrive.
we decided on seattle/vancouver. i think a lot of it had to do with the fact the olympics had just ended and we had seen all the cool places vancouver had to offer.

so april 30 - may 9th we saw and ate as much as we could.
a few highlights....
we got to see matt and mel and their adorable children for a few days in seattle. probably my favorite part.
then we traveled up and spent a day in gorgeous victoria with corrina and family. it was wonderful seeing her and her cute family.

last stop was vancouver where duben's family joined us.
vancouver was beautiful. it was amazing having the coast and mountains all together. for our anniversary we went on a seaplane around the city and up in the mountains. it was beautiful.
ainsley did fantastic and loved getting out and seeing so many fun places and people. and the people just loved her everywhere we went. we joked that we went to the mall which should have taken 30 minutes, but ended up over an hour because of all the people who wanted to stop and talk to her.

it was a wonderful trip. fun to see new places and be with friends and family.


Wednesday, May 5, 2010

the first 5 years



may 5th was our five year anniversary. amazing.

in 5 years we have:
lived in 8 states (CA,AZ,NV,UT,ID,VA,NY,AR)
moved 13 times
visited 14 countries
owned 3 cars
graduated college together
both got jobs at walmart
bought our first home
had a beautiful baby girl

not too shabby.

thank you duben for an amazing 5 years. it has truly been the best years of my life. i can't wait to see what the future holds for us.