Happy Thankgiving

We went to Tucson, Arizona to spend Thanksgiving with my family. We had a lot of fun spending time with family and eating yummy food. Lucas had attention 24/7 from aunts and uncles and cousins. His older cousin absolutely loved him and spent most of her day playing with him and keeping him entertained. Here she is reading him a book.


Doing a puppet show for him.


And crawling around on the floor.


We went to the Pima air and space museum. We ate lots of food for Thanksgiving dinner, but I forgot to take pictures of that. After dinner we went on a hike to work up an appetite for pie. We went to Madera Canyon. It was really pretty there and Lucas enjoyed being outside.

We borrowed this back pack carrier from my brother. Lucas loved it.

Then we woke up early the next morning to fly home. Lucas did better on this flight.

We had so much fun visiting family. Thanks for entertaining us. Happy Thanksgiving!

First Flight

How to take your first flight in style.

Step 1: Take a 3 1/2 hour nap right before the flight so you can make sure to be wide awake so you don't miss anything.

Step 2: Make your parents pack EVERYTHING you own. That way you can watch and laugh as they lug it all through the airport.

Step 3: Look around frantically at everything in the airplane. Refuse to sit still and scream if your parents try to make you. Try to nose dive to the floor if at all possible.

Step 4: Try to grab and spill the drinks that get served. Scream till you get your way.

Step 5: Scream some more.

Step 6: Have your parents walk you up and down the aisles so you can show yourself off to all the other passengers... just in case they didn't already know there was a baby on the plane.

Step 7: Terrorize the Sky Mall magazine.

Step 8: Arrive at destination and play with doting cousins.

My New Hat

Three Years

Ryan and I celebrated our three year anniversary yesterday. I can't believe it's been three years since we got married. It feels like time has flown by. And yet at the same time I feel like I've known Ryan for a lot longer than that. The last three years have been the happiest of my life. Ryan is so perfect for me in every way and I'm so grateful for him.

Since our anniversary was on a Wednesday, we didn't really get to start the celebrations till the evening after school and work were over. My mom is in town so we got to have her babysit for us. After I dropped Lucas off with his grandma Crapo, we came back to our apartment and watched Up. I really liked this movie. It was so cute and perfect for an anniversary. We sipped some sparkling pomegranate juice and filled in a crossword puzzle that I made with clues and answers from things that happened when we were dating and first married. It was so romantic. :)

Then Ryan took me out to dinner at Chef's table. He didn't tell me where we were going, only what time I needed to be ready and that I needed to dress up. I was so surprised. I thought maybe he was trying to trick me and we were going to show up at Wendy's in our nice clothes.

Dinner was delicious! I got shrimp and sea scallops, Ryan got a New York strip with blue cheese crumbled on top. Probably the most amazing part, though, was the salad. All they asked was what dressing we wanted, and when it came out, the salads were entirely different and both perfectly suited for the dressing we had ordered. Ryan said his salad was possibly the best salad he had ever had. Ryan told them it was our anniversary when he made the reservations so they had a private table in it's own little room reserved for us. It was such an amazing atmosphere. We had a lot of fun. Afterwards, we tried to get a picture of ourselves in front of the restaurant but after a few tries we gave up cause it was freezing cold. Here's one of the attempts.

And here is a good picture of the restaurant that I got off the internet.

Thank you Ryan for the wonderful night, and for the wonderful last three years.

Attempting to Crawl

I'm not sure if you could call this crawling, or maybe scootching? Whatever it is, Lucas is learning how to get what he wants. Unfortunately, he really only wants the HD video camera and daddy's other expensive toys.

I've got a feeling that this is just the beginning of his obsession with electronics.

Here's a video of him and Katie as he tries to get her camera:

I Made This

So, a month or two ago my ward had a sewing night and I met this girl in the ward that loves to sew. We talked about different projects that would be fun to do and we decided to make skirts. I had never followed a pattern before so she helped me out a lot. It was a lot of fun to learn a new skill and I'm so excited to have something new to wear. Here's the skirt I made. Ignore the pasty white legs.


I forgot to document the making of the skirt, but I have another idea for a new skirt so I'll document the making of that skirt and post it for you guys.

Playing with my Friend

Here are a few pictures I took a while ago when the weather was still warm. We just went to hang out at the park with Dallin. Lucas likes to hug/attack other babies.

Look at how sweet his face is. He's just giving him some love. :)