Some Pictures

The days are counting down when we will be on our way to Rexburg. We are trying to get ready as much as possible. Hopefully we can get everything ready in time and give maya some get ready time! We are excited to move, but saddened to leave our new friends.
Here are some pictures. Maya now has two teeth, and if you look at the pictures of her smiling closely you can kinda see them! We are excited for her first christmas and itll be such a happy time!
Maya is obsessed with her pink bunny. Its fluffy and she will smother her face in it and giggle really loudly.BUnny again....Tackle the bunny!!!!!

I found this tonight while putting her to bed.. apparently we have "termites" (or a teething baby) hehehe oh maya your a hoot!



Soda Santa came by and left us these as a surprise!!! So cute!


Maya loves fruit. She carries around her little fruit thing in her mouth while doing everything else... like climbing!
And Smiling haha


Decorated house!
Its snowing!

Daddy showing Maya the tree
Maya "Helping" with the tree

Hope all is well and we cant wait to see many of you this season! We love you all!!

BLAH

Ok so, quick funny post.
Maya and Mommy have a new game. When i bob up and down and laugh, she will bounce (while sitting) and laugh too. She also has this thing where she sticks out her tongue... all the time. Its so funny. She does it especially when concentrating, or thinks your doing something funny.So Josh is feeding her today. Mommy was on the couch, playing our game - just to make it harder for daddy to feed Maya. Of course, while bouncing she is sticking her tongue out laughing. Josh was getting frustrated (in a playful way of course), and it made me laugh even harder, which Made maya giggle even more! So After i filmed this little snippet, Josh gets mad at me and says "youre gonna get it when I'm done!" and looks back at maya. Maya looks at him, smiles, sticks out her tongue and goes "BLAH!!!!" We laughed so hard!!! Oh Maya - you take after mommy! Poor daddy is in for years of Mommy-Daughter bugging! Hehe!

Teeth!!! (And some other stuff)

Maya has a tooth!! Its just starting to poke through. Poor girl had a hard time these past three weeks. She got an ear infection, then a cold came on, then we went back to the dr and the eat infection was worse we were on new medication for it for another 10 days. She was just getting over her cold when we discovered... A TOOTH!! Its been a tough week for her with the tooth, but she seems to be doing alot better today! I just feel so bad because there isnt much you can do. Teething tablets, teething rings, a little teething gel, some tylenol if it gets too bad. My sister in law Brittney told me she used to let her kids chew on cold fruit, so I went out and got this and put come cold fruit in it and she tends to stay interested in it longer than she does a cold teething ring (probably cause it tastes nummy!)

So here is her first baby tooth! Hurray! Its in the front of course and is a little hard to see, but its there! (I'm sure she's not hurraying right now but still... hurray!)

Maya also found her new favorite thing - something that she stole from Daddy. We pulled out his really warm fuzzy blanket while we were washing our bedding. Well now that the bedding was back on, we put the blanket on the floor - and now cannot put it away due to Maya's love for it. She will crawl over to it and giggle at it, and roll and just giggle the entire time shes playing on it. Its so funny.

Maya's new thing is that she hates laying down (during the day that is.. she does fine at bed time). Trying to change her diaper has been a challenge, as is getting her dressed and drinking a bottle because she refuses to be on her back. She will scream and arch her back and try and roll away and just screams being on her back. Once we're done changing her and she sits up shes fine. No idea why, but thats how it is. So having her lay down in her baby bath during bath time was not going to happy according to her. So We finally had to put away her baby bath (after a few tears from mommy), and now Maya sits up in the bath and plays. We had to get a non slip mat though because she will try and even reach for something and slip hehe.

Here is a wreath I did for Christmas. It was so easy! I found the Idea here. So easy and turned out really cute i think! I like it hehe!

Only 5 more weeks until we go to Rexburg (December 27th). We are very excited to be going Home to our friends, but we will definitely miss the friends we made here, and the family we have here. But i miss the snow! Weird right?!

Well I should go and get something done Today. Love you all!

On your Marks....

So November has started off great so far! Josh's birthday was last weekend, we've gotten tons done around the house, we've made final arrangements for moving to idaho (Well not final, but we've finalized plans, found a place to move in, planned for Christmas and New Years), Maya has learned some new tricks, and we're so excited!


Maya was extremely cranky when she woke up from her nap - so i wanted to take a picture of it. But as soon as she saw the camera she smile haha!


This is one of Maya's newly learned things. All of a sudden one day I look over and see her standing up on the baskets, trying to dig through to find something to chew on (as you can see, she on the floor, she had already gotten into everything else, she needed something new hehe).
My baby is standing up!!! Look at her!!! Shes getting so big!!!
Dang it! I'm caught in the act!!!

So this next picture has a story. Maya LOVES velcro. Alot. Anything velcro she chews on and loves it. She'll giggle and lick it and chew it, and seperate the velcro because she loves the sound. Well some of her cloth diapers have velcro, which she discovered the other day. So I look over to find her looking into her carseat - with one side of her diaper undone. A new phase which I am not excited for hehehe.


As soon as I saw this I said her name laughing - but I must has startled her because she started crying haha.


This week I worked on Maya's hat and gloves for when we move. It was cheaper to make them and I had so much fun doing it. So here they are!






Some Family Pictures at the Park!



Hope everyone in the US has a great thanksgiving coming up! Love you all! Dont forget to order some jewelry for your loved ones for Christmas!

October Adventures

We went to a pumpkin patch that had a petting zoo, and a corn maze! It was so much fun (until someone got sick and had to go home because she was throwing up - poor baby)

Looking at the turkeys. Maya laughed everytime they gobbled hehe.
We learned to lift weights! Hehehe

We tried to drink out of big people bottles hehe.

We found out new favorite place to crawl under. Sometimes we get stuck.

We carved a pumpkin.

He's supposed to be jack skelington. Turned out ok didnt it?

We loved our costume.... oops.. i mean........

We LOVED our costume!!!
Fairy God Mother (in training). Mommy was turned into a princess (but since we're just learning, Maya only gave mommy gloves, a tiara, and a necklace. We're still learning the dress part hehe)

Yay Fairy God Mothers!!!!

We played with friends!! This is Aubrey. She was a Giraffe. Maya loves Aubrey and thought she was so fun in her Giraffe costume!

Amazing book!

So if anyone is looking for a great book to read, read this:
This book is amazing. I couldnt put it down. My mom recommended it to me. Also, Stephenie Meyer (author of the Twilight Sega) highly recommends this book (though I didnt know that until mom lent me the book). Seriously amazing. I'm onto the next book "Enna Burning".

Maya (almost) CRAWLING!!!

Cute pictures, and videos.