A Visit

Between February, March, and April there's been a lot of visiting going on around here.  I'm happy to say it's actually not quite over yet.  :)  The first of these visits was in February when Jer and Gido stopped here for a couple days.  (They were headed to Utah, in case you were wondering.)

We did a lot of hanging out at home.  A little shopping.  And about half an hour in a park.  Most of the pictures I have are at the park, which was what we spent the least amount of time doing.  It's just so hard to remember to take pictures sometimes.  We really enjoyed having visitors and hope we'll have more sometime in the future.

Gido used chocolate to try and get Vidalia to like him.

Vidalia liked Jer's computer.

 

So Gido bribed her with keys.

I think he succeeded.

 

I love her swing faces.  She just gets so excited.

She loves to play Where's Vidalia.

Man!  I still can't figure out where Vidalia is in that picture.

Jer and Gido liked the teeter totter.

Vidalia does too.

Thanks again for visiting.  It's always good to see you!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTvtvZv83Ps&feature=youtu.be

15 Months

Today Vidalia had her 15 month appointment.  These are her stats:

Height: 31.75 inches (84 percentile)

Weight: 22 lbs. 8.75 oz. (43 percentile)

Head: 18.75 cm (90 percentile)

It seems that her body type has changed some.  Now she is tall and thin instead of tall and chunk.  She still has a baby belly though.

She does lots of cool things.  I'll let you keep reading other posts I write if you care to know about them.  I'm sure I'll share just about everything.

We love Vidalia SO much!  She's one of the greatest blessings that ever was.  I bet that will never change.

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day, I made Ryan this card.

I combined a few different things I saw on pinterest.  It's one where you scratch off to see what's under.  It took forever to paint though.  That was one thing I wasn't expecting.

Ryan gave me this balloon.

Vidalia was feeling an assortment of emotions.

Then these arrived.

It was the most interesting thing Vidalia saw the whole day.

Truth is, we didn't actually celebrate at all.

Porridge Papers

We found out about this cute little paper store downtown that does a "service of love" the weekend before Valentine's.  Everything about this activity is free and I think I have already thoroughly covered (in past posts) how I like things that are free.  They set up a bunch of type writers and then you come and write a love note to someone.  They stick it in a bottle and stick the bottle in a bag with a polaroid picture of you.  You write the name and address of the person to deliver the note to.  Then on Valentine's Day they deliver it to the person.

I was going to take Vidalia and go do it for Ryan as a surprise, but they just made it sound like so much fun that I told him about it and we all went instead.  I told them we could take ours so they don't have to deliver them, but they wouldn't let me.  They had rose petals scattering the sidewalk entering the store and upon leaving, they requested you sign their book of love and write your name on their "wall of love" aka glass windows on the outside of the store.  Cute!  And so much fun for us.  Oh and there were random cats running around the store, does anyone else find that strange?

She really really liked packing too.

Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGNP2SCZaE&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X617NYX-xmw&feature=youtu.be

She really likes dolls.

She's also a super girly girl.  Where did that come from?

At 14 Months

Vidalia really is this cute.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKpJ-fXKB30&feature=youtu.be

Update

So...there's a good chance I will do a lot of blogging for a while.  I have stuff I want to post from February and March and a tiny bit from April.  It may take me forever to actually get to it though, so the point is, I will start updating the blog again.  (More for me than you really.)

So the last month has felt crazy to me.  On my birthday we found out we could move the next day.  We spent that week packing like crazy.  We had intended to go to our ward temple night that week, but when the babysitter came over, we told her that we were actually going to go finish packing our apartment and not going to the temple (since we were supposed to move the next morning).  

Then that Saturday (St. Patrick's Day), we moved.  The Elder's Quorum came around 8 in the morning and they were all home to babysit their kids for the relief society activity at 10.

Sunday we did enough unpacking that I could locate mine and Vidalia's clothes (I thought).  Monday I did everything as fast as I could and learned that the airport (and the temple) are actually 1.5 hours away from us, no 1.  I ended up missing my flight.  :(  Eventually I got over that.  Ryan and I did some fun stuff in some part of Iowa and then Vidalia and I caught an evening flight quite a few hours later.

Then Vidalia and I were in Utah for 2 weeks.  During this time I purchased a new computer (yay!).  It works SO MUCH BETTER!

Then this last week we had visitors.  They left yesterday morning.  And now it is time to organize our lives again.  I think it might take forever, but that is okay.

And that is my mostly broad update.  Oh and Happy Easter!