yellowstone

a sneak preview from our trip:


sunset with the grand tetons in the backgroud.



view from the resort where we are staying.



more of the grand tetons from the horseback ride

Fun Stuff

We'll do a little catch up post and share a a few of Ari's words. Ari's vocab includes:
Milk
See Ya
Cheese
Light
Din-Din
Elmi (Elmo)
Moon
Mickey
Minnie
Cereal
She also does this funny counting thing when we start counting and pause between numbers she will say one. She also holds up one finger and throws it back and forth to emphasize the fact that she means one.
It seems like there are two or three words every day she is picking up.

Here are a few recent pics

Still showing the basketball skills



She doesn't like anything on her feet and we managed to get a pic of her ripping her sock off.



Tilting her head to match what the person with the camera was just doing.



She's also still a little sketched out by grass.

Busy Weeks

The past few weeks have been filled with a lot of excitement and very little time for pictures. Last weekend we moved into our new house after staying with Grammy and Grandpa for a month. We had lots of help and got all of our furniture in the door, but we haven't had much time to unpack and  We'll have more to come as we get our lives reorganized. 

When we were in Salem last weekend for Aunt Meg's baby shower, we had my college roommate, a good friend of ours, Megan (www.meganmjones.com) take some pictures. She's so incredibly talented, it was a ton of fun to wander around near her house. Here are some fun ones: 

New House

Here is your virtual tour of our new house.

Master Bedroom

Master Bath

Master Bath

S' Closet

Upstairs Bath

Bedroom #1

Bedroom #2

Bedroom #2

Stairway

Formal Living Room

Entry

Dining Room

Casual Eating Area

KItchen

Family Room

Living Room

Guest Bedroom

Main Floor Bath

Laundry

Downstairs Fun Room

Downstairs Fun Room

Garage

Outside

Outside

The Walker

In Between

As most of you know we bought a new house and are currently in the middle of leaving the old house and getting into the new house.  We're hoping to get some pics of the new house up soon.  We're staying at Grammy and Grandpa's house until our new house closes.  While we were packing up our old house Ari decided she wanted to help.  Mommy had packed up a big plastic storage bin of Ari's clothes but hadn't put the lid on yet.  She made a b-line for the bin and promptly removed all the contents.

On Mother's day we went to visit Great Grammy and got this picture of all the Moms

Ari loves to move her feet out of restraining devices, shopping carts, highchairs, anything.  Here she is in her highchair.

Derek and Reese celebrated their birthday's at Chuck E. Cheese last week.  Ari enjoyed her first experience at Chuck's.  She wasn't too keen on going down the slide and held on for as long as she possibly could before sliding down and realizing it wasn't too bad after all.

Here she is with Chuck.