Summer is so fun!

I'm so glad that it's summer and time to be outside. Nyah has decided she would like to be outside all of the ten hours she is awake during the day if at all possible. It's fun to watch her explore outside.

The trip to Idaho went well even though it included dropping Jana off at the MTC. I already miss her and what I miss the most is being able to pick up my phone and give her a call. Waiting for weekly letters is a killer. I am very excited that she can email. When I first saw that I had an email from "Jana Pincock", I thought somebody was planning a mean joke. When I saw that it was really from her I cried. I'm weird. Anyway, it sounds like she's doing great though. It was fun to see all of you in Idaho and I'll put in a bunch of pictures from the trip in the slideshow.

Nyah started saying "hello" which is lots of fun. I'll have to add a video another time of her saying hello (you can just pause the music). It's cute.

Nyah was sick this last week. She acted normal enough (maybe a teeny bit lethargic) but had the "runs". Some of the other kids have been sick at daycare so I'm sure she picked something up. She's doing better though now and has been in daycare so far this week. Hopefully that will continue...

We bought her a little swimming pool so she went swimming on Saturday. I put her feet in and she stepped right back out because it was too cold. So then I asked Ryan to run a hose from the kitchen sink and he said, "Great, we are teaching her that pools are the temperature of bath water". I told him that I'll only do it while she's little! She had fun though and liked trying to drink out of the sprayer that goes out of the front of it.

Everything is going well and I'm excited to have a normal work week with Friday off again this week. I'm adicted to having that extra day off even though it means longer work days the other days. Ryan's job is going well and isn't as hectic now that "month end" is over. We have different busy times of the month so that's helpful with family life.

It has been gorgeous weather this week and I hope it continues through the weekend. I have been getting serious about running and will hopefully be ready in just over a week. Ryan has a doctor appointment tomorrow so they can look at his knee and see what's going on.

Well have a good rest of the week and I'll try to post another time before we come for the Ragnar Relay. We love you!

Time Flies!

I can't believe it's been another 3 weeks since we've posted. Everything is going well here. We've decided to start going on little mini adventures once a month to some place here in Colorado. Yesterday we went to the Garden of the Gods and that was fun. It really is a beautiful place and we enjoyed walking around and watching Nyah explore.

Everything else is going well. We are just getting ready for our trip to Idaho this next weekend. I still don't think it has hit me that Jana is taking off to Argentina for 18 months. We are really going to miss her...

Here is response to the questions and the game of "tag" from Shari:Five things on my to do list...
1. Laundry (always)
2. Clean my house
3. Visiting Teaching
4. Get ready for trip to Idaho
5. Read a good book

Five places I've worked...
1. Cannery in Alaska
2. Wal-Mart as a management intern
3. Idaho Farm Bureau
4. Idaho Central Credit Union
5. Public Service Credit Union

Five favorite foods...
1. Potatoes
2. Fruit
3. Peanut butter M&M's
4. Ice cream (that should have been #1)
5. Orange chicken at Panda Express

Five places I've lived...
1. Chubbuck, ID
2. Logan, UT
3. Navarrete, Dominican Republic
4. Santiago, Dominican Republic
5. Highlands Ranch, CO

Five things you may not know about me...
1. I’m going to start studying for the GMAT
2. I’m almost done creating a list of 101 things I want to do
3. I love surprises (good ones)
4. I have the best husband ever.
5. I have the cutest little girt ever (okay you might know that one)!

Five things I would do if I was a billionaire...
1. Pay off all debt
2. Be a stay at home mom
3. Go on lots of vacations
4. ?
5. ?

I tag. (now you're supposed to answer all of these questions on your blog)...
Alyssa Wilson
2. Cari Williams

I hope all is going well and we're looking forward to seeing a bunch of you in less than a week! Well, I better go, I think Nyah and I are going to go for a wagon ride.

Experimenting with Slide Shows and Music

I'm experimenting a bit on slide shows and music. If you don't like the music you can scroll down to the bottom of the blog and change songs (Aaron - the Denver trip song is on the list). I got this idea from Jana and Mark Mayfield's blog (I saw that they posted on Lisa and Jordan's blog). This is a slide show of some pictures from Nyah's birthday as well as the visit from Aaron, Jana, Lisa, Jordan and Hallie.

You'll have to let me know if the slide show works for you or if it bogs down your computers.

Here's a quick thing. This evening Nyah and I were upstairs and her shoes were across the room. I said, "Where are your shoes?" "Go get your shoes" and she seriously walked straight over to them, picked them up and brought them over to me. :) Also, Miss Gail at day care reported that Nyah went six hours without her "lovie" (sp?) today.

Take care and I'll do another update this weeekend.

Quick Update

I don't have any new pictures but will have to get some taken in the next few days. Nyah is going crazy with her walking. She is loving it.

She is full of smiles and is enjoying her new room at daycare. She is in the Hippo I room now. This new room brought lots of adjustments - only one nap and no more bottles are the big ones. She's been in that room for 3 weeks now and it's going well. The fact that she's walking now helps because on a more even "playing field" with the other kids. They said they are going to take pictures during the day and e-mail them sometimes so we will forward those on when we get them.

The big news is Nyah chipped her front tooth (top). We aren't sure when it happened but think it must have happened at daycare on Friday. We noticed Saturday morning. It isn't really bad but hey, what do you do anyway? I know with the walking stuff she gets going too fast and loses her balance. I'm sure she fell and they didnt' notice her tooth so they didn't say anything. We had our dentist look at it today (he's in our ward) and he said not to worry about it. It didn't hit the nerve or anything. If she/we wanted to do something about it someday, they could rebuild it. I'm just glad it isn't any worse than it is. :)

Anyway, we hope all is going well for all of you and we'll blog again soon!

Uh-Oh and Signing

Well I'm taking Monday off this week instead of Friday so I thought I would take a minute and update the blog. Nyah is doing great with walking these days. She's getting more confident each day and is really enjoying the additional freedom.

She looked so cute when I went to wake her up from her nap the other day that I had to take this picture.

She is saying "uh-oh" (when she throws things on the floor especially) and she just said "baby" yesterday. She is also learning more signs. On the video she is signing more but has also mastered "eat" and "milk" and is getting the hang of "please". It's so nice to know what she wants!

There isn't much else going on other than the fact that I need to get serious about the training for the relay. I counted today and it is less than 10 weeks away! :)

Have a great day and take care.