Claire's first birthday, new backpack and the lake!

Once again, it has been a while since I've updated the blog. Tons went on in May so here are a TON of pictures to document it! First of all, for Mother's Day Claire got me a Kelty Kids backpack which I have to admit that Brandon wears it most of the time because the 23 lbs Claire weighs plus the 10lbs the pack weighs is pushin' it for me. It is AWESOME though and Claire loves to ride around it it.

Claire turned ONE one the 24th and to celebrate we went up to Bayview and took the boat out with my parents. She had so much fun and mostly liked picking up and trying to eat all the rocks=)

The next day we had a birthday party with family and friends. It was a blast and a great time was had by all. Claire absolutely demolished her cake and had a great time with all her friends. Here are the pics I promised!!

On her new Barbie hotwheels from Grams and Gramps

Her Lego wagon from Grandma Kari, she loves to get in and watch the people walk by!

Brandon and his brother Adam. Parker is one month younger than Claire

Claire loves to sit in the rocks in our yard and examine each one=)

This is one of my favorite pics! Claire fell asleep while Brandon was vaccuuming. So sweet.

Pre cake

Swimming with her boyfriend Jackson

Hanging out with one of her presents!

Really getting in there. She actually ripped open each one herself=)

Playing on the slide at Manito Park

The swings were her favorite...

The fam at Manito. If you look closely you can see Gracie in there too!

Playing rockband with Daddy, she loves this=)

Great pic. Summer time FINALLY!! The dog is in Heaven=)

Claire was so excited that Gramps let her drive the boat!

The water was cold but Claire could have cared less!

Hanging out on the beach checkin' out the rocks

Gracie was SO happy. The lake is her favorite place in the world.

Finally an update!!

I will be the first to admit that I have been a horrible blogger lately! I just looked up and realized that it has been exactly a month since my last post... Anywho, Claire will be turning ONE on the 24th! She has turned into such an amazing little person. We can't get enough of her and she does something new and exciting everyday. Brandon just taught her how to give a high five and to put her little pointer finger up when you ask her how old she is. It is the cutest thing ever. And everytime she does this she looks at him like she has just accomplished the coolest thing in the world. She is walking like crazy now and there is literally no stopping her. She figures a way over/under/around/through any sort of barricade we put up. People are not kidding when they say toddlers are exhausting! But SO much fun at the same time.

We are heading over to Seattle this weekend for Brandon's Crossfit Games. He has been training hard and I know he will do great. We get to stay with his brother Brad and wife Lisa and two little ones so I'm sure I will come back with some seriously cute cousin pics!!

I love this first pic of Claire. She has the sweetest most beautiful face. The rest are some great bath pics that I took of her and Gracie. It was all I could do to keep the dog OUT of the tub. She really wanted to get in there and play with Claire. They are so cute together. I put the last one on here for Brandon. He loves her hair in a mohawk like this (typical guy) and I love how she is looking up like 'what is my hair doing?'

Claire's first Easter

Well, Claire's first Easter was a hit. We had a busy but great day. She got to go to her first Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma Kari's house where she had a blast picking up and shaking the plastic eggs!! Then we had an amazing meal at my with my family where Lauren put together the cutest Easter basket for Claire!! She is so lucky to have such great God parents!! And isn't her dress the cutest thing ever?? My cousin Kelsey and her husband Don got it for her and it was the perfect Easter Dress!

Uncle Griff, Claire and Lauren with her Easter basket

Loving all her goodies!

She spotted the little books right away! This kid LOVES books

Searching for eggs at Grandma Kari's house, "look Mom, I found one!!"

Also, check out the dress!



Double fisting=)

I'm not ever letting go of these eggs! Happy Easter everyone!!

Round 2!!!

Hey all!!! Thanks to everyone who voted for Claire!! She made the top 100 and is moving on to round 2. Voting starts on Monday at the same site as before!! Here is a quick pic of her in her new swim suit. How cute is she? I wish I looked that cute in a swim suit!! Happy Easter and thanks again for voting!!

VOTE FOR CLAIRE!! =)

So 92.9 kzzu is doing their annual Baby Idol contest and we thought it would be fun to enter Claire. This is Brandon's all time favorite picture of her so this is what we went with. There are something like 300 babies entered and the top 100 move on to the next round. We are just doing it for fun but if you wouldn't mind taking a minute and voting for her that would be great!! She is number 20 and here is the link http://929zzu.com/BABY-IDOL-2009-/3987013. Hope everyone is enjoying what better be the LAST of the snow! Have a great weekend!!!

And Winter continues...

I just had to write a quick post (and I mean quick, as I type this Claire is literally tearing apart the office) about our lovely weather. What the heck?? It is April 2nd and we just got about 3 inches of new snow. How depressing. I am so ready for Spring that what usually is beautiful fluffy white stuff is now yucky. We have had CRAZY weather around here lately. Here are a couple pictures. There is also one of our resident deer who also don't know where teh heck Spring went. The first two are of the field across from our house pre-snow, and the next is this morning.

Finally Spring!!

I am SO glad Spring is here!! Even if this means the occasional snowfall... Anyway, life is flying by in our neck of the woods. Our little angel is going to turn one in May!! This is CRAZY to me. I really don't know where the past year has gone. She is such a funny girl and so much fun to be around. Here are a couple new pics of her as well as one of our dog, Gracie. I just realized I hadn't given her any blog time! She is 2 and Claire LOVES her. Gracie is great with Claire and lets her pull, poke and prod anytime she wants, poor dog=) Finally, this is Brandon squatting 455lbs (i think) and he did it like it was nothing. Pretty amazing!! Ok, the Little Angel is awake! Enjoy the pics!!!