Happy Father's Day

My father was amazing. The best dad I could have asked for. He taught us by his example. I remember him playing hot box with us in the front yard and taking us on camping trips. He made sure we had family scripture study every morning and family prayers morning and night. I remember one family home evening when he had us all pretend like we were walking up to greet him and shake his hand. He made sure we all knew how to give a good handshake and good greeting. This is a pic of me and my dad.
My husband is also an amazing father. He watches Anna when I work, plays with her, bathes her and even makes her laugh. I remember him coming home from the library one day with a bunch of kid books and I asked him what they were for. He said "to read to Anna of course." I am grateful for the wonderful father's in my life.

The Amazing Aunt Teresa

So I have this aunt who is pretty amazing, her name is aunt Teresa. Though she has no grandchildren of her own, she is trying to get a lot of practice with all the children of her nieces and nephews. Yep, she is amazing.

3 Months Old

Anna turned 3 months old on Sunday! Yea; we are done with the "4th trimester," done with the challenging newborn stage. Now she is attentive and interactive. She laughs, and is learning to grab things and hold things, she smiles and coos. She can support her body a little better. She is a cute, silly, little munchkin.

Her hair still looks like a old man's though.
She watches whatever we do.
Check out the thigh rolls! She likes to put everything in her mouth now. Especially her hands and likes her toys a whole lot more now.
She is a funny little girl and has to be with people. If we are in the kitchen she has to be in the kitchen, if we are hanging out in the living room she must be hanging out there too.
This picture is a snapshot into our lives. This is a temporary swing made with blanket and clothes pins Kent rigged up while we washed her swing cover after a major blow out. We also use the poles of her swing to hang toys she can play with when we put her on her back. And you can see on the little table is all the Dr. Suess and other kid books we checked out of the library to read to Anna. She keeps us busy.

The Day I Forgot my Diaper Bag

I had just realized that I had left my diaper bag at home as I walked into target with Anna. "Oh well," I thought,"I will just be here for a few minutes;" Bad Idea! Five minutes later in the middle of the house ware isle Anna started coughing so I picked her up pat her back. She coughed again and that triggered the gagging effect. Oh no, I saw it coming, Anna opened her mouth and from thence came out all the the milk she had just eaten. It was like slow motion, the vomit came out of her mouth and landed all over her onesie, all over my shirt, poured all over my arm, into and on my purse, and all over the floor, and this was no small amount! We were both covered with white milky smelly vomit with no diaper bag rags or anything to clean up with in the middle of Target. Yep, as I headed out I got a lot of strange looks, baby and I all covered with grossness.

Piano Lessons

I took piano lessons when I was little and never practiced. Why? I don't know. Now I kick myself and vow that as soon as we move out of an apt and have room for a piano I am going to take piano lessons again. I also will have all my children take piano lessons too. Anna, you will be a great piano player one day.

Anna's First Piano Piece

San Francisco, Reno, and Beyond

We were both free, Kent finished the semester and I still had a few weeks of maternity leave left so....ROAD TRIP TIME!

We first passed through Rancho Cucamonga to get my parents then all 5 of us headed up to the Bay Area to visit my grandmother and dad's side of the family. Anna did great in the car. We stayed at Mina's house for a few very enjoyable days and spent Mother's day and aunt Diane's house. It was a great feast there and a lot of fun. We even got to visit with the extended family of the Ivanciches.

I love being with and visiting family. Mina is especially fun and enjoyable to be with, she is a wonderful grandmother and great grandmother . I wish we all lived closer.

We also took a four generation pic with my grandmother, dad, me and Anna.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two of my cousin's wives have babies also. Looking at the three babies, 2 weeks, 2 months and 7 months you can really see how fast babies grow.

While my mom and dad babysat Anna, yes we love them for that, we headed to out San Francisco for a day, walked across the windy golden gate and peered over the black heads of the Chinese in China town. China town is crazy if you have never been there. It is like you enter Asia, there is no sign you are even in the US. We bought fortune cookies and had to try the food, and let me tell you roasted duck is not very good. And of course, heading out of the weird smelling Chinese restaurant it started pouring on us. Were we surprised? NO. It has rained on Kent and I on every vacation, trip, or special event we have taken since we were married so we were just expecting it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next we headed to Reno, to visit Kent’s parents and little brother, stopping on the way by Sacramento to visit Larry and Lisa Ivancich for a few hours which was fun.

We had a nice stay in Reno with Anna getting a lot of attention from everyone. What a spoiled little girl! Kent got to go on the Father Son’s campout with his dad and brother, a rare opportunity. We did some geo caching, bike riding, four square, chest tournaments,and had some dynamite games and obstacle course challenges at the park near by. And Chris almost taught Anna to say “Mom”. Fun stuff.

While going through the bins of all of his old stuff Kent happily found his bear claw slippers. Exciting day.Six days later we headed home.

 

 

Mono lake is a cold windy place but it is near a great volcano which we climbed with Anna.  Then we stopped in Bishop where we stayed over night at a cute hotel an ordered pizza.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool rocks huh! Yep they are at the base of Mt. Whitney.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have always wanted to go to Death Valley, I mean it is a National Park so it must be a pretty cool place, right? Wrong! It is not a cool place, it is HOT and like Death. Don’t go there. All it is, is a big fat dry hot deathly desert. We tried to get out of there as fast as we could, and to think we paid to get in.

 

 

 

 

 

After escaping Death Valley we stayed in another death valley for the night called Las Vegas, we got out of there as fast as we could also and made it safely home.

I made it home just in time for the Wednesday night Young Women activity.What a vacation!

Showing Off the Tongue

Anna is very proud of her tongue, she likes to show it off. Probably because it is the only part of her body that she has complete control of. So here is Anna showing it off again for all to see.