Glorious rat-tail

I've had to come to terms with the fact that my daughter has a rat-tail. Looking at it during church today, I actually felt a little embarrassed by it. I really want to cut it, but every time I mention it, Ashton makes sure to let me know that the tail is NOT to be cut. He's incredibly proud of the fact that his daughter has a rat-tail, and he shows it off to anyone he can. He loves it so much that he describes it as "glorious." I don't know how much longer it will be around, though. He might come home to find it gone one day...

Corn-grats!

My mom got me a cupcake decorating book for Christmas, and I was looking for any excuse to try any of the ideas from the book. Well, my mom is graduating with her Master's in May, but finished her last class in January. So there we go, my first reason to make some crazy cupcakes. There were no graduation related ideas in the book, but I did find ears of corn. So I decided to make those and tell my mom corn-gratulations. A little "corny", I know.

Where's Lucy?

The other day I put Lucy on her play mat, and a minute later, she's trying to roll down the hall! That girl will not stay put! (I'm noticing in this picture that she looks like she only has one arm...she does have two, I promise.)

Mmmmmm!

Lately, Lucy has been SO interested in our food whenever we eat. So we decided it was time to start her on baby cereal. It took a while for her to figure out what to do with her tongue when eating, but she's figured it out. She LOVES eating, and grunts at me when I don't get her food to her fast enough! She's a funny girl.

*Note: The last 2 posts did not do our Christmas justice! I was trying to type one-handed while holding a crying Lucy. So it was a lot better than I was able to show!

Christmas #2

We got to go to Indiana for Christmas, and we had a great time. It was fun to see everyone and to relax. When we got there, we found that Lucy and her Uncle Dustin both had rat-tails. Very nice. We also got to go to the zoo one day, and we ate wonderful food for two weeks straight. We had a blast.

We got a video camera for Christmas, and I'm realizing now that I took a bunch of videos and not actual pictures. I guess I need to learn how to download the videos to the computer now. So we have no actual pictures of Lucy's first Christmas morning...whoops.

Christmas #1

Before we went to Indiana for Christmas, we celebrated Christmas here with my mom. Here's Lucy enjoying some of her new toys. We had fun, and we all got some good stuff!

Halloween

I was really excited for Halloween this year. Actually, it doesn't take much to get me excited these days, since I spend so much time at home, now that Lucy is here. I found a recipe online for Halloween calzones, so one night we tried those (there wasn't anything spooky inside, they were just in the shape of witches hats). They didn't really taste that great, but they looked good! And for the ward Halloween party, I made some fun festive cupcakes.

And then of course, there was Lucy. I got her a costume a while ago, and was so excited to actually be able to put it on her. She was a flower, and she looked adorable!