Crawling and 9 Month Appointment

I took another video today and got it to load! So here is Celeste crawling. (Sorry the quality is so poor.)

Celeste also had her 9 month well baby check today. Here are her stats:

17 lbs 14 ounces (40th percentile)
28 in tall (60th percentile)

Daddy's Girl

Just a couple random pictures of Celeste with Ryan. She loves her daddy!

What are you doing Daddy?

Reading Books Saturday Morning

An Update: Celeste is crawling! This past Thursday she started. It's amazing how much she improves at it daily. I have a video I've been trying to post but it won't let me for some reason. I'll get it up soon, though!

1st Hair Cut

Celeste got her first hair cut today! She had a serious rats tail and many people have been making fun of it so I decided to cut it off.

Of course, I did save some of it! She did great and just sat there and played.

Lake Havasu City, AZ

Warning: Long post ahead!

Yesterday Ryan and I returned from a week long vacation to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. We went with Ryan's dad and his wife, and all of Ryan's siblings and their families. I have posted a ton of pictures. I took over 300 so I had a hard time deciding which to post, sorry! Here are pictures to document what we did during the week (in no particular order.)

Visited the London Bridge. This is the waterfall outside visitors center.

The London Bridge

Chased birds by the bridge.

Rented a Pontoon Boat and took a ride around the lake.

We stopped at a beach at the north end of the lake.

Golfed in the back yard of the house we rented on the putting green.

Played a game of golf at a local course. (I'm really no good at golf)

Played Wii

Played pool in the back yard. Isn't that sunset beautiful?

The crazy ones jumped into the freezing cold swimming pool. (I only stuck my feet in!) They were having a really cold winter (60 degrees!) and so the pool was too cold to swim in.

After freezing in the pool, we warmed up in the hot tub!

We ate non stop, and a ton of it!

Relaxed and enjoyed the vacation

And drank Pepsi. (I have never seen a family drink so much Pepsi as Ryan's family does!)

From right to left: Ryan, Lori, Dad, Amy, and Damon

Our Happy Family!

Scrapbook Challenges

I haven't had time to scrapbook for a while but finally found the time during Christmas break and have been loving it! I did my friend, Jena's, scrapbooking challenges this month and have to post them on my blog. So here they are!

Cherish ChallengeAll the hearts are on 3-D foam circles

Reflections Challenge

Click on the pictures to make them bigger and you can see them much better.

Christmas

I hope you all had a great Christmas! Here are a couple pictures from our holiday.

Christmas morning with her stocking

We opened a few gifts at our own house in the morning I surprised Ryan this year! He always figures out his gifts and I can never surprise him. I was so excited this year that he had no idea!! :) We then went to my parents house for breakfast, more gifts, dinner, and to hang out as a family. We actually ended up taking Celeste's stocking over there. So here she is opening her stocking.

Opening more gifts

She enjoyed the handle on the car seat!

The only things I bought Celeste for Christmas was a new car seat, 2 toys, and her stocking stuffers. I think my little sister and my mom had way too much fun at the Park City, UT outlet mall! But thanks a ton, gals, she was in much need of clothes and they are all darling! And a big thanks to all of Ryan's family for the gifts. We had a great Christmas.

Her Loot (a ton, I know!)

Family Pet

This is my familys pet. It is a jackalope. Only in Wyoming will you find jackalopes. It was actually my Grandpas and we inherited it when he passed away. It has created an ongoing joke in my family when my dad and little brother put in on the wall in our living room. My mother insists that it does not go in her living room and it goes back and forth for a few days. On my parents wall she also has all of us children's senior pictures or most recent school picture and under those pictures are our wedding or the grandchildrens pictures. This jackalope has even ended up taking the place of some of those pictures. However, I think my mom got tired of the fights (they are all in fun) so this jackalope is on the wall in my parents living room and the first thing you see when you walk in the front door! (We're a pretty laid back family!) Well, on Christmas Day, my dad decided it was time to introduce Celeste to our pet jackalope.

Getting a good look

Using all senses to examine it (disgusting, I know!)

I think she likes it!