Happy 1st Birthday Kimbri!

I can't believe my little baby girl is 1 year old! The time just seems to be flying by. This past year has been so so so amazing having Kimbri in our lives. She is such a joy! I mean, come on, how can you not just adore this face? :)

Her facial expressions have always been so funny and unique, ever since she was a newborn. And her smile is so contagious. Whenever she smiles at me my heart just melts. 

She is our little princess!

Some things that Kimbri likes to do lately:

-First of all, Kimbri finally walked! She took 4 steps just a couple of days ago on Sunday, July 22, 2012. She's been cruising all over the place along furniture, cabinets and walls but we've never gotten her to walk freely by herself. She also loves to push the stroller around and she also likes to push her little walking toy. She's only taken a few more steps since yesterday morning but I think now that she's done it a few times she'll get the hang of it pretty fast! Yay Kimbri!

-She loves to rip things up into tiny little pieces, really. For example, the two pictures below, a piece of foil had blown off the kitchen counter from the air of our swamp cooler and Kimbri of course found it. What did she do? She started to rip it up. And she kept ripping until the whole piece of foil was shredded into itsy bitsy pieces. After she was done, she lay down on the floor to rest because obviously ripping foil is hard work!

-She also loves to pretend talking on the phone; however, it doesn't have to be a phone to pretend to talk. She puts cheerios up to her ear, fake fruit like the banana at my parents house, toys, really anything and she starts to babble. It's really quite funny :) Also, notice the cell phone in the above pictures...that is one of Rick's previous old phones that still makes noises and such when you push buttons, which Kimbri likes, so that is now Kimbri's phone. And she loves it.

-Kimbri also loves bath time! I haven't snapped any pictures of her in the bath lately but her most recent thing to do in the bath is when I sit her down in her bath water she immediately flops over to her belly and starts pushing herself backward until she reaches one end of the tub. Then she turns around, still on her belly, and pushes herself to the opposite end. She repeats this over and over and over all while I'm trying to wash her body and what little hair that she has :) It makes bath time a bit more difficult but it's really cute and funny at the same time. 

-Another thing Kimbri loves to do, as I'm sure any little child loves, is to play with bowls, pots and pans and measuring cups. I captured a few pictures below of Kimbri playing with our awesome colored bowls that my cousin Maryella gave us for our wedding! She likes to use a spoon or some other sort of utensil to play and tap on or in the bowls. 

-Kimbri also likes to get in things and on top of things...like boxes, laundry baskets, etc. She loves to climb up on things. She's constantly on the go trying to climb inside her toy drawer and carseat. She's definitely  quite the mover! She 's all over the place all the time and she loves it. 

Kimbri has such a crazy and fun personality and is really the life of my day every day. I'm so so so grateful to have her in my life. I honestly can't imagine my life without her. We love you Kimbri Stone!

Old Fashioned Mowing

Recently our grass has been needing a haircut and when we got home from camping we decided that it really really needed to be mowed. The only problem? Well, the lawn mower has been out of gas for quite some time and we keep forgetting to buy more. So, last night Kimbri and I sat on the front lawn while Rick mowed the lawn the old fashioned way with an old lawn mower that he found in the back shed that I guess belongs to our landlords. Haha. 

Anyway, Kimbri and I enjoyed him watching him mow such a thick, grassy, tall lawn. He had to go over it multiple times for it to actually cut.  

See how excited Kimbri is about the whole thing?!

Well, we sure are grateful to you, Rick, for mowing our lawn...

even if it does mean mowing it with an old mower! 

For watering and mowing the lawn and just keeping up with the yard in general we get $100 off our rent during the summer months so that is a huge blessing. We love where we live and are grateful to be able to live here. We'll probably be living here for another year - maybe a little more or a little less, who knows. I'll have to take some pictures of our fun little house for memory's sake and do a post about it sometime :)

Camping - July 2012

We just got home from camping around 11pm on Wednesday night. It was such a fun trip! We got up Monday morning and Kimbri and I dropped Rick off at work at the MTC and ran to a couple stores to get a few of food items for the trip. After our errands we went and picked up Rick and all came home to continue packing. Wow. I didn't realize how much we needed to pack just for a few days of camping. I think it was mostly because we have never gone camping with a baby and so we had a lot of things for her... food, pajamas, jackets/sweaters, diapers, an extra binky, a hat, a ton of blakets, and extra clothes, just in case. We decided to even pack her highchair because it folds up and easily fits in the car. My parents even brought her swing that she has at their house that my little sister, Olivia, bought at a yard sale. Kimbri LOVES to swing. And it often puts her to sleep like the picture below. 

Olivia brought her hammock and Kimbri sure enjoyed being in that too.

So after packing all the necessities for camping, and probably more than needed, we went on our way up to Washington Lake in the Wasatch Mountains. It was beautiful! We went to the same camp ground this year as we did 2 years ago and it's really the perfect spot. We camped just a short distance away from this beauty:

It was so relaxing just to be up in the mountains away from everything and just enjoy the time to be with family. I was so happy to get to spend a few days with Rick and Kimbri along with several other family members and relatives. My parents and all my siblings except Dawson were able to come. Nolan and Zach had to leave a little early for work and such but they were still able to be there for part of the time which was awesome. My aunt Carla and her son Eric also were able to come for one night and a day and it was great to see them too. Uncle Doug and Aunt Kathy came over from Colorado with Bevan and Camille and Janelle and Brandon came all the way down from Montana! Wahoo! Jeralyn and Spencer are serving missions and Catherine is currently in the Dominican Republic for a couple more weeks so they obviously weren't able to make it. My aunt Margaret came up with her three kids, Ben, Dan and Jenna.  Landon and Rachel got to come too and Lincoln, Megan and their little boy Bevan made it there for part of it too! It was so so so fun. we need to do this kind of get together thing more!

Kimbri loved going over to the lake and really enjoyed getting her feet and legs wet but I think what she really wanted was to get all the way in! She loves being in the water so much.

Here is Olivia fishing and Rick and Kimbri in front of Washington Lake:

Now for a daddy/daughter picture! 

Except for some rain on the first day we were there, the weather was beautiful!

Zach and one of his dogs, Timber.

Olivia spent a ton of time fishing! 

Zach decided to get in the freezing cold water and to not get 

his shirt wet he made a sort of turban or something...

And here are a couple other pictures taken down by the lake:

As I mentioned before, it was SO handy to have a collapsible highchair to take with us camping. She's been doing this squinty smile face a ton lately and it is just so hilarious to me! Her eyes are nearly all the way shut when she smiles like this! She was pulling these faces all day long while up in the mountains:)

On Wednesday a bunch of the campers decided that it was necessary to go on a hike up to Haystack Lake because we are Haycock's. Haha :) Just kidding. Not necessary but it really was a great idea! For those of you who don't know, "Haycock" means, "stack of hay".  It was such a great hike and I'm really glad we went on it! Rick carried Kimbri in a pack on his back that we borrowed from his parents and it worked great. We took a blanket for her so she could prop her head on it and she went to sleep soon after we started the hike and slept the whole way there. It took us almost one hour to get there. 

Kimbri was a great hiker.
She slept almost the whole way there:)

Here is a picture of Haystack lake. My uncle estimated it was probably somewhere between 2.5 to 3 miles each way so it turned out to be a pretty decent hike! 

We got there and discovered that someone had made a raft and of course the some of the boys had to try it out ;) 

Enoch and Landon out on the raft.

Enoch decided to get in the freezing cold water.

Enoch out on the raft.

Brandon & Janelle

Enoch and Dan trying to row over
to the dock that someone made.

The Hikers: Margaret, Kathy, Camille, Rick, Kimbri, Alina, Brandon, Janelle, Landon, Rachel,
Ben  and Enoch and Dan in the front. Plus Uncle Doug who was the one taking the pictures.

 A few more pictures from the hike:

Kimbri gnawing on one of her favorite things...carrots, while sitting on her Great-grandmother's lap.

Going on walks was another fun activity we did quite a bit up in the mountains!

Wyatt sweeping the campground area with a broom made out of a stick and some pine tree branches.

Kimbri playing with Grandpa Haycock :)

Wednesday night we ate a meal that Enoch requested in honor of his birthday that is actually next week on July 26. He wanted nothing more than to go camping for his birthday so we did an early celebration. We ate spaghetti with red meat sauce and homemade alfredo sauce that my mom made and my dad grilled chicken. And as almost every other Enoch birthday we had cheesecake for dessert! Yum :)

Happy 8th Birthday Enoch!