Just Kickin' It With My Bestie
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Super Solids
January 7, 2013
Hannah Kaye
5 1/2 Months
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| "BLUCK!" This is NOT Mama's Delicious Milk |
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| Gettin The Hang Of This Thang |
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| Not so Jazzed |
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| Overflowing with Deliciousness |
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| Fast Learner--Pleased as Punch-..."Ya, I'm cool like that!"-YUM! |
Hannah started off pretty skeptical about her Oatmeal Goulash. But she quickly got the hang of the new tastes and textures and has become an expert solids eater. She's loved everything she's tried so far--peaches, pears, prunes and green beans mixed in with her oatmeal cereal. We love the way she flings out her big tongue like a lizard snatching a fly--an explosive propulsion. She greets the yummy spoonful with a fast flick and guides it expertly to her eager mouth. She gulps down her goo at lightening speed with happy moans of delight all the while. Her little bowels are still trying to figure out this trickier digestive process but we're sure she'll adjust soon. Bon appetit, little cutie!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Hannah Kaye--6 Months
We are going to be without internet for a few days (sigh) and I was making a desperate attempt to catch up the ole blog, but alas, it will be awhile yet. I am a little obsessive compulsive about journaling chronologically, but due to my extreme love and excitement for these pics, I am jumping ahead to share a sneak peak of Hannah's six month photoshoot with Grandma Black. Words can't express how much I love these pictures. PURE JOY! So as I sign off for awhile, I'll leave you with a little taste of something DELICIOUS...creamy, sugar-sweet, heavenly Hannah Kaye. MMMmmmmmm!
Hannah Kaye
January 2013
6 Months of Creamy Deliciousness
San Diego
Well, this was truly a family vacation for the record books. We hard-headed Houghs are just stubborn enough to plow ahead with a long roadtrip regardless of puking kids, exploding diarreah diapers, a mini-blizzard in Cedar City, ear infections, sickness, sickness, and more sickness, etc, etc. After all, what doesn't kill you...only makes you want to die!?! I will now attempt to accentuate the postive and elimate my bellyachin' to share the many, many wonderful highlights of our trip to gorgeous, sunny Cali at the first of this year.
Things we LOVED about San Diego:
1. The Story Family: Ooooooh, how I love my big sister, Kellie. She is the bestest little Mommy. She loves her beautiful kiddos fiercely. She masterfully nourishes their growth, builds their confidence, supports and strengthens each child individually in the unique/tailormade way they need, all while loving them for who they are and helping them be their best! She is bubbly, energetic, cheerful, loving, generous, hardworking, fun, adventursome and unflappable (so much like our Dearest Ma, World's Greatest)! I love her very much. I have missed her too, too much. Her husband, Scott, is a doctor with the Navy and they have lived in some fabulous places, all of which are simply too far away! Words can't express how wonderful it was just to be with her, observe her in action, visit with her and spend some much needed time together. Kellie is just sweet enough to overlook the fact that we nearly decimated her entire family with the extremely violent and contagious plague we so generously lavished on all we came in contact with (one by one, everyone came down with a nasty case of the stomach cramps, pukes, and squirts...YUCK). She sent us home with thousands of dollars worth of gorgeous little girl clothes and shoes for Madi and Hannah, not to mention her prized Kitchen Aid, handpainted mixer she won from her favorite blog, Pioneer Woman (such a treasure....it doesn't get any more generous than that)! She is smart. She is kind. She is important. Plus she is the hostess with the mostess. She is an incredible tour guide, cooked amazing, delicious food for us, made us so comfortable in her beautiful home and was soooo much fun. Love that girl!
2. The weather. We thought we'd died and gone to heaven. Leaving the blizzards and blistering cold of Utah was so nice. We decided we'd like to live somewhere warm. San Diego is so gorgeous. I love its rolling hills and beautiful beaches. The Story's home is beautiful. We enjoyed the fun backyard and hot tub.
3. Playing football on the beach at Mission Bay.
4. The Point Loma Lighthouse and beach views.
5. La Jolla Cove: seals and beaches, sunshine and happiness. Madi loved the sand and STINKY seals. When she sees a picture of a seal now in a book or plays with a seal toy she loudly proclaims, "Seal...STINKEEEEEE!"
6. Meeting Matt's Marvelous Uncle Steve and visiting his beautiful home on the beach.
7. Fun times with my adorable neices and nephews.
8. Jodi being a sport through her strep-throat/pneumonia like illness (plus a nice, big cold sore...kind of like the icing on the cake).
9. Watching Pitch Perfect repeatedly on Jodi's ipad...HILARIOUS!
10. The stories of Matt at Knotts Berry Farm with the pukes (I was home sick with the babes). :)
and one more for good measure:
11. New Year's Eve--Delicious dinner, snacks and fun birthday party for Claire Bear (best birthday cake ever)!
We'll have to go back and redeem ourselves...when we are all 100% healthy! But we still had tons of fun and treasured our time with fabulous family in beautiful, sunny San Diego.
The best pictures from this trip are yet to come. Kellie, a master photographer, took lots of fabulous pictures with her amazing new Christmas camera. Can't wait to see them...will add later!
Things we LOVED about San Diego:
1. The Story Family: Ooooooh, how I love my big sister, Kellie. She is the bestest little Mommy. She loves her beautiful kiddos fiercely. She masterfully nourishes their growth, builds their confidence, supports and strengthens each child individually in the unique/tailormade way they need, all while loving them for who they are and helping them be their best! She is bubbly, energetic, cheerful, loving, generous, hardworking, fun, adventursome and unflappable (so much like our Dearest Ma, World's Greatest)! I love her very much. I have missed her too, too much. Her husband, Scott, is a doctor with the Navy and they have lived in some fabulous places, all of which are simply too far away! Words can't express how wonderful it was just to be with her, observe her in action, visit with her and spend some much needed time together. Kellie is just sweet enough to overlook the fact that we nearly decimated her entire family with the extremely violent and contagious plague we so generously lavished on all we came in contact with (one by one, everyone came down with a nasty case of the stomach cramps, pukes, and squirts...YUCK). She sent us home with thousands of dollars worth of gorgeous little girl clothes and shoes for Madi and Hannah, not to mention her prized Kitchen Aid, handpainted mixer she won from her favorite blog, Pioneer Woman (such a treasure....it doesn't get any more generous than that)! She is smart. She is kind. She is important. Plus she is the hostess with the mostess. She is an incredible tour guide, cooked amazing, delicious food for us, made us so comfortable in her beautiful home and was soooo much fun. Love that girl!
2. The weather. We thought we'd died and gone to heaven. Leaving the blizzards and blistering cold of Utah was so nice. We decided we'd like to live somewhere warm. San Diego is so gorgeous. I love its rolling hills and beautiful beaches. The Story's home is beautiful. We enjoyed the fun backyard and hot tub.
3. Playing football on the beach at Mission Bay.
4. The Point Loma Lighthouse and beach views.
5. La Jolla Cove: seals and beaches, sunshine and happiness. Madi loved the sand and STINKY seals. When she sees a picture of a seal now in a book or plays with a seal toy she loudly proclaims, "Seal...STINKEEEEEE!"
6. Meeting Matt's Marvelous Uncle Steve and visiting his beautiful home on the beach.
7. Fun times with my adorable neices and nephews.
8. Jodi being a sport through her strep-throat/pneumonia like illness (plus a nice, big cold sore...kind of like the icing on the cake).
9. Watching Pitch Perfect repeatedly on Jodi's ipad...HILARIOUS!
10. The stories of Matt at Knotts Berry Farm with the pukes (I was home sick with the babes). :)
and one more for good measure:
11. New Year's Eve--Delicious dinner, snacks and fun birthday party for Claire Bear (best birthday cake ever)!
We'll have to go back and redeem ourselves...when we are all 100% healthy! But we still had tons of fun and treasured our time with fabulous family in beautiful, sunny San Diego.
The best pictures from this trip are yet to come. Kellie, a master photographer, took lots of fabulous pictures with her amazing new Christmas camera. Can't wait to see them...will add later!
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| Jodi gives this brief non-puking van moment a big THUMBS-UP! |
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| The Lovely Ladies: Madison, Jodi, and Carseat Hannah |
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| Point Loma: Windblown Seth (that awesome hairdo actually requires NO wind...just wake up and go) & Squinty Madi and Mama |
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| Little Adventurer |
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| Madi would trade the snow for sun ANY DAY! California Girl |
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| Daddy and Madi peer at the STINKY seals at the La Jolla Cove |
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| Living the Good Life--Basking in the Sunshine |
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| Weston, Kelsey, and Madi breathing in the STINKY seals |
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| Lovin' their loud barks and strange slippery silly bodies |
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| Daddy and Hannah Basking in the Sunshine |
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| Pure Joy! I wish we all could be California girls! |
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Christmas 2012
With Matt's crazy UPS holiday work schedule, we were soooooooo grateful to luck out and be able to leave town for Christmas. We spent some much needed time with his fabulous family in Price. We treasure our moments with the Houghs/Naylors/Colosimos. There's nothing like time spent with those you love. We enjoyed lots of good family fun (not to mention tons of DELICIOUS food). Hannah met Kaleb, Kennedy & Kanyon for the first time and bonded quickly with her cute cousins (she is still missing Kenn's doting and loving attention dearly). Christmas is a truly magical time of the year and we enjoyed every second of this special holiday season together.
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| Hannah's 1st Christmas |
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| Just kickin' it with Jolly Old Saint Nick |
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| Get-Together Feast at the Colosimo and Co. Party House in Price: Brenten and Bunny with Cousins Madison and Kennedy |
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| WOW! |
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| SOOOOOOOOO SOFT! |
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| Hannah meets her first bunny...soft as silk! |
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| Love this Little Kan Man: Kanyon Colosimo |
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| Exploring Cousin Kaleb's Bedroom Downstairs...Getting Up-Close & Personal with a SSSPOOKY SSSSSSNAKE! |
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| Kaleb's Ball Python...AAAAA! Captivating! |
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| Madi is MUCH braver than her Papa. |
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| Too cool |
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| This was the first time little Hannah was able to meet Aunt Jenn's cute crew. Hannah and Kennedy: Cousin Love |
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| Kaleb, Hannah, Kennedy & Aunt Jenn (Paul is busy in the kitchen...DINNER WAS AMAZING) |
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| Cuddling cousins, books, games, family, hugs & kisses = HAPPINESS |
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| Brenten, Madi & Grandma Patsy play a game. |
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| Christmas Eve--Kenn and Hannah |
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| Sharp and Snazzy Cuz's--Kenn, Hannah & Brenten |
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| Hannah and Aunt Jenn |
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| Christmas Eve: This picture perfectly captures a sleep-deprived witto family enjoying some Holiday happiness. |
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| The Happy Houghs--Christmas 2012 |
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| Christmas Morning: CHOOO CHOOO! |
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| Our witto tomboy LOVED her train, horsies, puzzle, blocks, toys, |
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| Behold the Christmas Wonders |
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| Horsies... |
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| ...horsies.... |
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| ...and more horsies! |
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| Happy Cousins enjoying their Christmas Loot |
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| Oh, ya...and Hannah got some new jammies and pacis! |
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| Doesn't take much to make this witto angel happy! Pleased as punch with her perfect pink pacis. |
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| Aunt Jodi spoiled us ROTTEN for Christmas. She totally nailed it with Madi's favorite movie...SPIRIT! (Now we can quit renting, and re-renting, and re-re-renting it from the library) She showered us ALL with many wonderful, thoughtful gifts and even surprised Kaye with a Spa Massage Gift Certficiate which I recently enjoyed with Jill and Jodi...FUN! THANK YOU, JODI! WE LOVE YOU. |
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| "When will I ever figure this out?" Sheer exhaustion after an exciting Christmas morning. (And to Madi's credit, it only took a frustrating week to master that tricky shape puzzle) :) |
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| That's a wrap! Back home in Logan putting away the Christmas decorations (Hannah's exersaucer is wrapped in Christmas lights) |
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