Out picking peaches.

She is getting around so fast.

Isn't she so cute sleeping.

Her first pair of shoes.

Out watching a parade.

She's asleep again.

She will crawl on top of anything.

Her new toy.

One of the many stops on our move from Wyoming to St. George.

She found herself.

Dad and E. enjoying the outdoors.

Us at the Des Moines zoo.

This is the coolest picture. No she is not really touching the alligator. There is glass between the two.

She is too cute.

First time swimming

Devils Gate in the back ground

Up at Martins Cove

The upper part where Martin Cove Company camped.

picnic area in Martins Cove.

I think she is still small for this carrier.

It is amazing how time flies. Two weekend ago I said that I was going to update my blog and then I said the same thing this last weekend. So finally I am doing it. We are doing great. Bry has started his last rotation for 3rd year, I am making plans for us to move and E. is growing so fast.
Bry has four weeks left and then we make a trip back to Iowa for him to do a week of schooling there. E and I have decided to join him, So if anyone is around let me know I would love to see you. It will be the second week in July.
E. has reached many milestones since I have last written. We have started her on rice cereal. She has had a bunch of nights that she slept from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. She has also started to army crawl. We have to keep an eye on her. I remember there was a time she hated being on her stomach. She would cry every time I put her on it and now when I put her down on her back she goes straight to her stomach. She also laughs a lot more. It is so much fun to watch her and play with her. She also went swimming for the first time. They had a free swimming morning for kids 5 years and younger. So I broke down and bought her a bathing suit. I went in with her and Bry took pictures. I thought she would only last 15 -20min. but she last longer than an hour. She loved it. I will post pictures in my next post.
I think this is the best part of being a mom is seeing all the first she does. It is so fun to watch her experience the world and see her just stare and want to learn of new things. One of the funniest things, I think she does is blow zubbers or some call them raspberries. Bry and I do it to her all the time and one day she decided to copy us. At first I thought she was just trying to blow bubbles then one day when I was nursing her she was drinking then she would blow and then start drinking and then she would blow again. I couldn't help but laugh. She also does it on her hand and sometimes on our faces. It is just so cute.
As for me I love staying at home and loving it more when Bry has time to go and do things with us. We are trying to do last min. fun things before we go. We decided to go out to Martins Cove one last time. We took E up in her stroller. I love my stroller. It was quiet the walk on dirt but my stroller has no problems. It was nice to go one more time. We went to a fall that is up against the mountain. We tried out her caring pack but I think she is a little small for it still. We picked a good time to go to the fall because all the snow was melting. Now that the weather is getting nicer we try to go on as many walks as we can.
We are only going to be in Casper for two more months and then we are off again. I will let everyone know where when we are ready to move and have some place to move into. Until then we will be continuing to be busy.

Miniature golf

if those containers weren't there she would be under the couch.

Practicing sitting up.

She is learning to feed herself

Got her a new high chair so she can join us for meal time.

We are working on sitting up. She doesn't last long.

She ran out of room to roll over.

Flying our first kite.

There has been a lot going on. I will try to go in order of events but I may stray.

Well the month of April started out with us visiting Bry's family. It was E's first long car ride and she did wonderful. It was a tad long and she started getting tired of always being in the car seat but she did it. It was an 11 hour drive. It was well worth it because she had the whole family (minus one uncle) there to play with.(well play the best she could at 3 months.) She had dad help her roll Easter eggs down the hill, he helped her pick up her Easter at Grandma O. and of course he helped her eat all the candy. OK I guess I had some to but it was rationed. Can't tell if she really liked to do the outdoor stuff because we had to be bundled but I know she loved being held by everyone. We spent 4 days there and came home for a small break Bry going back to work/school and us getting ready for our next trip.

E. had her first airplane ride. She did great, was only fussy once and had to nurse but other than that I tried to keep her binky in her mouth as much as possible to compensate for the air pressure of taking off and landing. We spent most of our time in Carson. We saw many of Grandma's tennis friends and did a lot of shopping. On nice days we would go up to Tahoe and visit some friends that I grew up with. Many have moved out of town but I still have some very good friends still there. It was a great time because they got to witness one of E's many milestones. She rolled for the first time from her back to her front. They were very excited to see it but we were all sad that Bry didn't get to see it in person so I did my best to video tape it and post it so he could see it. Of course now we can't keep her on her back she always rolls to her front which I find funny because I use to do belly time with her and she would just cry until she learned to roll off her belly then bye bye to belly time. Now she cracks me up because she will roll to her stomach, play for a little bit and then would cry. Its almost like she forgot how to roll off. Anyways, it was still cold there in Tahoe so we didn't stay outside for long periods of time, just enough to get pictures so I can show her first trip to beautiful Lake Tahoe. Also because when ever I am in town I like to get pictures. Its funny you would think I was a tourist, not someone who grew up there. The great thing I love is the nature part of Tahoe it hasn't changed and it is always beautiful. The town itself has changed so much it is hardly recognizable. Well the ten days went by so fast before we knew it, we were back on the plane heading back to Casper.

Since we have been back our main goal is to get back onto a schedule. I think we are finally there. She has been such a great baby. So content on going anywhere I go. I thought she wouldn't like coming home because there isn't as many people here to hold her and give her around the clock attention, but she does well and actually loves being on the ground now that she can roll around. She is now 4 months and it is hard to believe it has been that long since I had her. Dad is glad to have us back even though I think secretly he loved getting a good night sleep with out any interruptions, but he has had a great time holding her whenever he can.

I am looking forward to summer coming because obviously spring doesn't want to warm up. I want to go outside and take walks. But for now we will take advantage of our down time and enjoy our little girl non-mobile because time will be going fast and she will be crawling before we know it.

1st vacations

Emerald Bay

We were lucky that the road up to Emerald Bay was open. There still was alot of snow on the mountains.

Emerald Bay

We had fun visiting all our friends.

Grandpa having fun playing with E.

Grandma having fun with E.

One of many kiss from Divot.

Lake Tahoe

Taken at a rest stop coming into Tahoe.

Just landed into Salt Lake. She did a great job flying on her first plane ride. One more still to go. On to Reno.

First airplane ride.

4 generations

Easter at Great Grandma's house.

All bundled up waiting to do to annual Oldroyd easter hunt.

I think she liked rolling easter egg but I am not sure because it was cold and she fell asleep.

She got many new outfits because the easter bunny couldn't decide on what outfit was cutier. To bad it is still cold and she can't wear some of them yet.