Sit-ups and Pull-ups

Eventide is learning how to pull herself to stand. We've only caught it a couple of times, but it's only a matter of time before it becomes a regular thing!







Since Eventide has figured out how to sit up really good, she's made a habit of doing it when we put her to bed. A couple nights ago I went in to check on Eventide before going to bed and this is what we found:
Sometime between putting her to bed and checking on her, she had sat up, then flopped down and fell asleep...with her cute little butt in the air.

Christmas in Las Vegas/Henderson

So this is REALLY late, but I still want to post some pictures from Christmas with my family in Las Vegas. :)

Mitch and Eventide playing in the family room:


My mom (or Nana) pushing Eventide around the house in her stroller (which Eventide LOVED). My mom did this a lot which was nice because Eventide liked it and it gave me a break. thanks Mom for being so awesome!


Eventide playing with her Uncle Roy's (Mitchell's brother) game pieces.


Eventide and Braylee playing:



Notice there aren't any pictures of me and Mitchell. Eventide is just more interesting.


We also got family pictures done (I have a bunch of them on facebook)




My mom and dad










It's weird to see how much Eventide has changed from then until now! For some reasons, we don't have very many pictures from our trip to Vegas on our own camera. We must have taken most of the pictures with my Mom's camera. Anyhow, hope you have a good night!

Christmas in Spokane

Christmas holidays, we spent a couple days before and the Christmas morning with my sister-in-law Jessica'a (Mitchell's sister) family. We spent the time playing games, doing puzzles, relaxing and having a good time. :) On Christmas Eve, we went to Mitchell's parent's family where several of Mitchell's siblings and their families were and we opened some presents and sang Christmas songs, which was so fun! We started with the youngest person in the family and they got to choose a Christmas song, which we all sang together, then from youngest to oldest, every single person in the family got to choose a song which we all sang together. We originally did it to pass the time, waiting for every one to be ready, but once we got going, we stuck to it. It's something that I would love to do on all my future Christmas Eves. :)On Christmas, afternoon, we went to Mitchell's parents again and had Christmas lunch/dinner and then headed to the airport to fly to Las Vegas to visit with my family.

Christmas Eve at Mitchell's parents. All that singing put her to sleep!:

Eventide got a new book from Grandma & Grandpa Colver...of course the wrapping paper was WAY more interesting.

Playing with her new toy (a rainstick):

Christmas morning at Jessica's house. I'm showing off the groovy pajama pants that Mitchell made me for Christmas. :)

I made the graham cracker structure at my friend's house, but once I got the house together, I was sick of it and didn't decorate, so Mitchell did. He even made a little car and little wreaths! :)

On Christmas Eve, we put together this 3D puzzle of Notre Dame. We wanted to take a picture with it before we took it apart. I think Eventide makes this picture cute.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, we went to Seattle and stayed at Mitchell's brother's (Justin) family's home. His brother Forest (and his family) and his parents were there to. It was really fun and relaxing and great to see Justin, his wife Nina, and their 7 kids (one of them just a couple weeks old) and to play with all my nieces and nephews! Mitchell brined the turkey and it was SO delicious. He followed Alton Brown's recipe and he did an EXCELLENT job. Overall, Thanksgiving was fun and we had a good time over all.

Eventide just after a bath:

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving (still in Seattle) we went this State Park where that had this fun little beach. We didn't go swimming (too cold for that!), but it was fun to play around anyway and skip rocks. And there was a really pretty sunset.

Five of our nieces at the beach:

Mitchell & Eventide looking at the Sunset. And no, I do not know who the girl (skipping rocks/dancing) is in the back round.

Our niece, Cordy, and a cool painted driftwood:

Our niece Lani carrying around her brother, J, in her backpack. :)

Update x 100

Obviously, it has been a REALLY long time since I last blogged. So here you go, our life updates:

Eventide:
*Can sit up on her own.
*Can say Mama and Dada. At first she just Mama when she was upset, and she would do it when she wanted both mine or Mitchell's attention, but not Mama has been more focused to me. :) Dada is a new development.
*More baby babble! I love hearing her talk!
*She is almost crawling. Almost! She kind of just rolls and flops around to get when she wants to go. It's pretty cute, but I can see how frustrated she is sometimes when she can't get around more effectively.
*She puts EVERYTHING in her mouth.
*Her two bottom teeth came in!
*She has figured out how to get from laying down to sitting up on her own.
*She turned 8 months on January 19th.
*She is so social and fun and smart. We love our little girl!

This is one of the pictures that was taken when we got family pictures done with my family in Las Vegas. One of the reasons I love this picture so much is because you can see really well that she has two different eye colors. You can even see the little blue spot in her brown eye. :)

Isn't she a cutie?!

In this picture you can see her little teeth and that she is almost crawling! Unfortunately she has demon eyes...ha. I can never seem to take pictures of her face with out red eyes.


Mitchell:

*Switched from the Clinical Psychology graduate program to the Experimental Psychology graduate program.
*He is working on his thesis on frisson ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson ). He is researching the correlation between music and frisson.
*He will graduate in the spring. Yay!
*We have been looking at different schools/locations that Mitchell is considering applying to for his doctorates. It's fun and exciting to think about all our future adventures!



Courtney:

*I will graduate next fall! :)
*Mitchell has convinced me a few times to play my violin at church, twice with the choir and once in a piano/violin duet with Mitchell. This is quite a feat, as I wouldn't even play in front of my family when I was in high school.
* I am LOVING motherhood.

I don;t have any great pictures of Mitch and I to put on here...mostly we just focus on Eventide because, let's face it, she's way cuter than us. In any case, hopefully I can get on top of this blogging business. Until next time!

Eventide...cute as always

We just love this little girl!

Happy Belated Birthday, Kaitlin!

My sister Kaitlin's 18th birthday was on October 9th and I had intended to do a special post for her on her actual birthday, but I had been switching over to a new blog at the time and did not get to it. So, this is for you, Kait!

18 memories and reasons why I love Kaitlin!

1. When Kaitlin was really little, she would hum when she ate. At the time it was annoying and we used to bug her about it, but now that I think back on it, it was dang cute.

2. When my parents were driving us somewhere, if my mother didn't ask if we had our seat belts on, Kaitlin would. She would often even check to make sure we really did have them on...and if we didn't, she would tell on us (little stinker). Thanks for watching out for our safety, Kaitlin. :)

3. Kaitlin has, more times than I could ever count, been willing to do all kinds of little favors for us, like getting a drink for us, making lunch, getting something that we were perfectly capable of getting ourselves but were too lazy. She did it so much that we came to expect it of her. When she began telling us "no," we would often and wrongfully get annoyed with her. Now that I am older and *ahem* more mature, I am appreciative of her love for us and willingness to help us out.

4. I remember when mom got your hair cut really short for the first time and you came walking away from the hair stylist with a smile on your face. It was so short Aaron said "awwww, you're so handsome..." You just ignored him and kept on smiling anyway. :)

5. Kaitlin is so loyal to her friends and her family. She so easily befriends people. I admire her for it.


6. Every time I talk to Kaitlin on the phone, she tells me she loves and misses me and passes on her love to Eventide.

7. When Kaitlin was still sleeping in a crib, me, Kaitlin, and Jessica shared a room. It was time for bed and Kaitlin kept sticking her knee through the crib bars and it would get stuck. The first 2 or 3 times it was funny and me and Jessica would unstick her knee and go back to bed. But then she kept doing it. over and over and over! It got to the point where we couldn't even unstick it and we had to get our parents to help, and Kaitlin would just look at us and smile and as soon as mom or dad walked out the room, she'd stick her knee through the bars again.

8. Kaitlin is beautiful!


9. Kaitlin has good style! I sometimes wish I was her size so I could borrow her clothing.

10. No one riles Kaitlin up like Aaron does. Oh man. I admire Kaitlin even more just for withstanding that.

11. Kaitlin has a true appreciation of Twilight. :) Though I can't say I share her appreciation of the movie...ye-uck.

12. Kaitlin use to love wrapping "gifts." One year, for my dad's birthday, Kaitlin had to be around 5 or 6, and she wrapped up a single playing card in gift wrap and gave it to Dad.

13. I keep typing "Kaitling" instead of Kaitlin. Love you, Kaitling.

14. Kaitlin has incredible balance. I've never seen anyone bounce on a pogo stick as long as she has. The same goes for Hula hoops (she can get like 3 or 4 going).


15. Kaitlin is a kid at heart. I think if I asked her to play Barbies or "house" with me now, she'd give me a weird look, but would probably agree to play.

16. Kaitlin used to sneak things in to the grocery cart, like candy or koolaid, when we would go grocery shopping with our Mom and Mom never noticed. In fact...I think Kaitlin still does that.

17. When Kaitlin is excited or in a really great mood, she spreads her joy around like free candy. :)

18. Kaitlin is Kaitlin. I Miss and love you, Kait and I hope you had a FABULOUS 18th birthday!