Zoey is 18 Months

I can't believe Zoey is 18 months already. On Sunday we tried to have a mini photo shoot with Zoey. She doesn't sit still very long so at one point we put the camera on action shot just get a few pictures! Anyways, here are some of my favorites and some of the things Zoey's doing.

We've been teaching her how to say 'cheese' when we take her picture. She's getting pretty good at it!
Zoey loves books. I have some from when I was growing up. One has a little mouse on each page and without me ever showing her she figured it out and points it out every time we read.
We also have this fish puzzle where you match colors and Zoey can put each one in the right color! She'll put it in the wrong one and then look and move it to the right one. Now if I can just get her to say the right colors!!!
I had to switch out her clothes because she's been growing so much. She's in 24 mo and 2T's. She's wearing a size 6 shoe already too!!!
She's saying a lot of words now too. She is so much more a little girl now then a baby. It makes me sad some days but I'm loving the stages she's going through.
Yes, we had to bribe her with marshmallows to stay on the chair while we took pictures! Hey, gotta do what works right! She loves giving and getting kisses. She likes to be tickled too. She has the cutest laugh ever!
We live on the second floor and I haven't had to carry her up or down the stairs in a while now. She's getting much better at the steps. She isn't very careful when I'm holding her hand to go down, she thinks she can jump and be silly. But if I don't hold her hand then she's really careful to hold the edge and go down one step at a time!
She had her 18 mo check up last Wed. She's 34 1/4 inches tall (she's off the charts!!!), and 25 lbs. She has 12 teeth and is a picky eater most of the time.

The other crazy thing with her being 18 mo is she started Nursery at church. She's been in two weeks now and is doing pretty well they say. I guess she has a little issue with hitting but she's doing better! I can't believe my baby is growing up so fast. It's not always easy having a toddler in the house but I wouldn't change it for the world (even with her trouble going to sleep the last few days).

Well, I'm off to play with my little angel. Enjoy -

Playing at the Park

Zoey loves to play outside. When it's nice weather (not like it's been the last week or so), we try and go to the park. I've found one by the house that we like. We went the other day with Daddy and, since we'd just lost our pictures, we made sure to take the camera.

Zoey loves the slide. I like the one at this park because I can go down next to her.


This park doesn't have the baby swings but Zoey doesn't care! Once we figured out fun and, somewhat, safe ways for her to swing, I've enjoyed it too...Don't you just love the pig tails!!!

This last time I was even brave enough to let Zoey try and sit up to swing. I didn't push her high at all and kept my hands on the chains at all times cause I kept thinking she might fall!! But she did great and loved every minute of it. I can't wait till the rain eases up and we can go back.

I can't remember if I blogged about the first time we went to the duck park as we call it. We thought it would be fun so we took bread to feed the ducks. When we got there these geese came up to us and surrounded us! Then all the other ducks came over and lets just say, we were scared!! These ducks have no fear and will get really close. The hardest part is Zoey kept trying to run right up to them and pet them. She didn't understand 'no' that day. This time was a little better, they didn't surround us but they still got close and Zoey tried to run to them a lot more, she has NO fear!

Zoeys Hair and Table

So, we got the computer back. Luckly I had some pictures still on the camera so I'm going to try and catch up on some of my blogging. Because of my recent picture loss experience, I might have a few more pictures on some posts and some might be silly posts. But, this blog is all about the highlights of my life...

Zoey's hair is really growing. It's pretty crazy in the mornings after she's slept on it...


But daddy's getting really good at putting it up each day!

Zoey loves her bath times. I can't believe how she's grow though. I just thought she looked too cute all wrapped up in the towel.


Awhile ago I bought a little table at Ikea for Zoey. What I didn't realize till I got home was that the wood edges of the tables were unfinished. So, we decided to paint the trim of the table this bright red. It took us a few weeks to complete the whole project but I think it turned out great. Zoey loves her table! (She especially loves climbing on it and standing on the chairs!!!) One of the things I really like about the table is if she marks all over the top while she coloring it wipes right off!
Enjoy -

Welcome Home Wade!!!

A few weeks ago we went up to Tulsa to welcome Wade home from his mission. He just spent two years in Brazil teaching others the gospel. We are so happy to have him home but are so proud of all the work he did. Clay made this great sign at work and so we had to get a picture of everyone in front of it. Wade was only home for a few days in between his mission and heading off to BYU for school. He left for the airport on Sunday before we even packed up and left!

Wade did bring gifts home for everyone. Zoey got a beanie hat that she looks really cute in. Clay and I got a lacquered piranha. Yeah, it's a real piranha turned statue!!! We like it though, we'll always remember Wade by it!
Just to finish it off here's a great picture of Zoey on the way home. She didn't sleep AT ALL on the way home. I'm really not exited for any long car trip with Zoey any time soon!

They're Officially Gone...

Well, Apple said the hard drive was shot so they are going to install a new one but we wanted to see if we could take it somewhere to save the pictures. We took it to a data recovery place and they are 99.9% sure they can save all of our pictures, but it will cost us $1,800.00!!! I know pictures are priceless but there is no way we can come up with that kind of money any time soon. So, unfortunately, our pictures for the last 6 months are gone :( ... A Moment of Silence for the lost pictures... I'm glad I blogged during that time so that all my memories aren't lost. Now I just need to be better about blogging and scrap booking so that all my pictures aren't only on the computer. Anyways, I do have a few posts to do, but I need to figure out how to either hook up my camera here at work or wait till the new hard drive comes in for Clay's computer at home. We'll see how it goes...Until next time.

* I guess I should have mentioned that we have 3 back up hard drives that are all full of pictures and videos. We take WAY too many pictures! We just haven't had the money for another hard drive yet (Clay has to get a certain kind to be happy), we had it in the budget to get the end of this month though!! Timing really is everything! Don't worry, now we're going to get two hard drives, one for him and one for me so I can keep them in two additional places!

Oh No....

Clay's computer won't turn on. This is a big deal becasue that's where all the pictures are, and the cute videos of Zoey doing the itsy bitsy spider and other adorable things! He's taking it in today to have it looked at. I really hope we haven't lost everything, I'd be so sad. I won't be posting for a little bit because I can't without a computer (right now I'm at work). So, wish us luck and hope that he can atleast save what's on the hard drive!