Celeste Said Her First word! Oct 2, 2009

She looked up at Bill with this sweet admiration and cocked her head shyly, then looked right at him again and from underneath those long eye lashes said, "Dad." bill and I were like, "whoa, did you just hear that?" It was her first word ! So sweet!

Adventure Dome!

"Hi Baby!"


"My Mom and Dad are crazy!"


Beth And Amie Posing with Pirates!

Bill finds an old friend ;]

Celeste's first pony ride!

Man I am a binge blogger!

So here's the catch up for the last little bit, to the present! Celeste is so awesome and does something new and cute each day...thus no time to blog about it! ;]

So here's the highlights:

Celeste LOVES the water! She loved swimming any chance she gets, or even to just be in the tubby. She's a water baby.

We visited Kanab for the women's forum and some of my brothers had just gotten back from their lastest adventure, this time in New York. They all won these HUGE dogs and packed 3 of them in the car and drove cross country back home with them!! AAAH! It's licking Celeste! Dog slobber! ;] She doesn't seem to mind.

Other highlights from the women's forum:

On September 20, 2009, we went to this Italian festival with our friends, the Miltons.

Here is Bill and "mini me"

Sweet Potato Anyone?

Celeste Thoroughly enjoyed her sweet potatoes :]

She is kind of going through a nursing strike right now. Maybe it's teething? I've read that happens a lot when babies teeth...anyway, so she will drink very well from a bottle though, so I have been pumping a lot. she is learning to hold the bottle and that is pretty cute. :]

She likes to try everything we try! Haha, and look at her getting her feet involved too! I love it!

And here is what happens when she eats too much: Oops!!

Oops!!


We LoVe this GIRL!!

Celeste's First Booboo

I was cutting Celeste's TINY fingernails and somehow nipped a little of her thumb!! It bled a little. :( I thought I was gonna cry! She didn't really seem to notice too much, thank Heaven, but I felt terrible! We gave her her first bandaide.

She's like, "what is this funny thing on my finger?"

Bill snuggling our girl

Me snuggling our girl. she's ok!! Yay!

Shark Reef Adventure

Here we are at the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay
Emma, James, Me, Celeste, Bill and Luke.


Look at those crazy jellyfish!



Me, Luke and James by the komodo dragon!


Look out for the Shark!

ooooew slimy, yet fun!

James put sand on him!

Celeste tried to get her hand in there when daddy wasn't looking!

Celeste grabbed for everything

ooo shark!

Turtle!

Luke and I gave each other piggyback rides back to the car :] well, Luke gave me more of a wild raptor ride...he has more muscle than I do! ;]

Fun with the Family at the MGM Grand pool!

Whoa! Luke, what are you doing in just a towel??
It looked so funny to see us walking around the casino in our towels after we swam in the pool. And Luke really did have a suit on under this towel, but it sure didn't look like he did! He played it up well too and it was funny to see people's expressions.

Emma Garrett, James, Luke, me, and sleepy Celeste

Swim in the fountain? It's ok? A little chilly!

Too much!! Ahh!! (haha, this picture was purely accidental! Luke was adjusting his slipping towel just as I snapped the picture. The crazy thing is you STILL can't see any of his swimsuit!...so it just looks like he is about to go streaking in his tennies through the casino!) Especially by the mischievous look on his face!

We had fun in the lazy river and they created a thrown for Emma

James, Emma, Luke, Celeste, and Amie. Let's go SWIMMING!

Update on the Cuteness!

It's been a while since I've given an update, so here is a long one:

Here we are before church one morning. Notice my hair is curly, that's what happens when you're a mom and find you don't have much time in the mornings anymore! ;] haha

This is us at the park. We had a fun picnic and played around.

This is one of the first times Celeste ate babyfood for the first time! See that smile! I think she liked the pears! :] she also likes to grab the spoon.

I LOVe this picture! just look at Celeste's BEAUTIFUL Celeste eyes!

I took this one while we were in the office and I was sewing a project. It looks like Celeste is taking the bear's measurements! I laughed so hard! Oh she's fun!!

This is Celeste's room. There's my little girl, learning to stand in her crib!

Gotta love the Peter Cottontail mobile in the background. I think I and all of my siblings have spent time staring at it when we were kids, now Celeste loves it :]

This is Daddy and Celeste dancing it out to Frankie! As Ben Stiller looks on in the corner.

Oops!! This looks pretty nasty...good thing it wasn't another inch to the right, right? ;]

Celeste LOVES tubby time with dad! And she has discovered that splashing is her new life calling! she splashes so much we have to pull the shower curtain to cover us or we may as well be in the tub with her cuz we'll get that wet! :]

Bill and I like to brush our teeth in the car. Well, one trip she was eyeing me and eyeing me, so finally I got out this baby toothbrush that I keep in her bag and gave it to her. Her expression was priceless! It's kinda like, "weird...and WHY do you and daddy do this again?...am I doing this right??" hilarious!

Till next time! Happy brushing!