Rachael Videos

Here is a plethora of videos for your enjoyment. Enjoy!!

This is Rachael and her cute cousin Joshua, they're less than a month apart and are so cute now that they can interact with each other. Rachael has a hard time keeping up with him, he can book it!


This is Rachael crawling at the park today, I think its so funny how she walks like a stinkbug when she is wearing a dress or on grass. This was both.

First time crawling up the stairs! Now it will be a never ending task to keep her away from them...

She started doing this headbanging thing last week. One morning she was just acting like her head was too big to hold, but now she bobs her head like this all the time. She also says "Ma Ma" a lot, but not in reference to me, just to have something to say. It usually comes out "ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma". She is going to be one next month. I refuse to believe it.

Friends...

Well my parents just pulled away and once again I'm left alone after three weeks of fun playing. Here is my dilemma... since Nate and I have done so much moving around I havent had a good opportunity to make any friends. Those of you who know me pretty well know that I am a fairly social person and this lifestyle I have is SO different from anything I've had before. I don't only want friends, I need friends. I have plenty of friends who live in St. George, but it is quite a different kind of friendship. I cannot be satisfied by phone calls, I need face to face. I need to be able to make her cookies and drop them off. I need to go to a movie with her while Nate watches the baby. I love Nate and he truly is my best friend, but I need a common estrogen bond. Between the moves and all of the excuses I make (when I get this box unpacked, at the end of next week I definately will, well she doesn't have a baby so that won't work out, etc...) I haven't really felt the Spirit too much in my life. That is one huge adjustment to having a baby that I haven't really worked the kinks out yet. Again with the excuses (I'm so exhausted, the baby is crying, the baby is climbing all over everything, on monday I'll start reading my scriptures again...). I feel like this is the biggest change I need to make because even if I don't find a kindred spirit (where is Anne Shirley when I need her?) I will always have the Savior there to be my friend. Any tips or suggestions for making good friends or talks on how to keep the Spirit with you while still keeping up on your busy 10 month old, let me know please!

One more thought... how on earth am I going to stay close to the Spirit when I have more kids?? This is insanity... and no, I am not pregnant.

This won't be a very long post, just to let you know what's going on in my life. My mom and sister surprised me in Rexburg on tuesday night after some very sneaky stalking techniques (my dad calling and telling me his tax guy needed my address... right... but I fell for it) so we had a blast this week in the 'Burg just bargain shopping and heading to Idaho Falls. Just fun. And then today we all drove down here for two weeks until my parents head up to Canada and me and Rachael will be catching a ride back. I love Nate because he is so understanding of my need to be with my family. My mom is a teacher so she works ALL year so even when I do come down I can only play with her for a few hours at night so summer is our chance to chill by the pool and do nothing together. Amazing!
This picture is one that my sister-in-law Heidi took when we were in N.C. I know I promised more pics from there, but I left the CD at home so it will be a while still. I just entered this picture in a baby magazine cover contest. We'll know by June 16 if we'll be flying to NYC on August 12 for a photo shoot, then if we make it past the photo shoot we'll be on Good Morning America in October and then America votes for who will be on the cover so watch for us! No really, I just watched "The Secret" and I know this is going to happen.
If you're in STG over the next two weeks let me know and we'll hang out!

Random thankfulness

This is a picture taken in North Carolina. Life is still crazy so more to post later.

So Rachael hasn't been feeling too fantastic the last little while, just a runny nose and slight fever, and I am so grateful that my husband is letting me fulfill my dream of being a stay at home mom. I can't imagine what it would be like having to give my beautiful baby girl to someone else during the day, or on days when she is sick having to call someone to get permission to take care of her. I'm grateful that Nate is as understanding of the importance of being a mother as I am. Sure, its hard some days (a lot of days) and I truly do miss doing hair and taking a shower every day (haha), but in reality, I wouldn't change this. Now I just need to work on finding some friends for me and Rachael and life will be just peachy, minus the sickness and lack of sleep.

Moving, again...

Well we are back in Rexburg after a long day of traveling on Saturday (it feels like that was a month ago!) and only 2 days in STG. Our apartment is... bigger than NYC. But not a whole lot. I'm already loving the dishwasher and washer and dryer. It was the first time since we've been married that we haven't had a furnished apartment so we bought some couches yesterday and they are BEAUTIFUL! Pictures to come when our internet works (I'm currently at my in-laws house). Rachael is almost crawling and just went to the Dr. today. Get this: she is 20 pounds, in the 72 percentile, and is 30 inches, in the 99th percentile! Love that! Well I'll get back to this once life calms down. Bye!

NC

Short post: We are having a total blast here in North Carolina. Today we went on a canoe ride and bowling and currently Nate and his brother Matt are setting up a trampoline. Top it off with Heidi's amazing food and its basically the best vacation EVER!! Rachael is loving the wide open spaces and fun cousins, Nate is loving the great outdoors and building stuff, I love having someone to talk to and be silly with. Pictures later, probably next week.

We're outa here!

I know it might sound crazy to some, but I am so done with this whole city living. Some people were meant for it and some werent. I'm one who is not. Don't get me wrong, its been fun and a great experience but I'm over it. I don't know quite what it is, probably a lot of things. I'll list them here:

• The gazillions of people who are everywhere except in my apartment
• Having to use the stroller to get everywhere among those gazillions of people (I don't mind the walking though)
• Being in the fashion capital of the country and not being able to find any clothes that I like
• Living in a ridiculously small apartment
• Having a child right on the verge of crawling but not having enough room to do it so she fusses because she is bored and wants something to do
• Our mattress that sinks in the middle
• Wondering if I'm getting a foot disease every time I take a shower
• Wondering if cockroaches have been running all over it
• (This new, smaller apartment is the starting place of most of my woes)

I'm not sitting around moping and crying about all this stuff, its just stuff I've been thinking about. Now I'm in the last stage of my packing which is the most stressful, so I'm gonna just do it. We're on our way to North Carolina tomorrow for a week filled of fun!! Then STG for a few days, then back to Rexburg. I never thought I'd be so excited about it but I've got big plans for the next 8 months. See you soon!!

Here are some pics from our last weekend trip to the Central Park Zoo (Nothing like Madagasgar, I was ticked). It was a beautiful day and Rachael was soooo cute! (as usual)

She's been doing this head tilt lately, and she knows shes being adorable.