Roar if You're a COUGAR!!!!!!

Go BYU!!! The BYU Cougars had their first football game of the season and beat the #3 team, Oklahoma. We were SO excited that it came on ESPN so we could watch it. This is Anna practicing her growl for the game. We sang her the fight song several times throughout the day.

If you know us, you know that we only go a few days without wearing some kind of BYU attire. Game day requires all family members to be dressed in blue, (or pink if you're Anna).

We made some yummy cougar cupcakes in blue and white. They were very festive!

We had some of our friends over to watch the game with us. It made it way more fun having them there. The game was awesome!

So, my birthday was this week and it was a GREAT day. Josh made me breakfast in bed and bought me some beautiful corning ware dishes. We had a great set but lost it in one of our moves. I was, to say the least, very upset about losing them. So, he surprised me and got me a gorgeous new set. It's really nice to have nice dishes to serve dinner in.

That afternoon, I was at my friend's house doing some crafting with all of the girls and they surprised me and had brownies and ice-cream and sang happy birthday to me. It was great. Those girls are just amazing.

Finally, that night, we went to The Cheesecake Factory and enjoyed a delicious meal together as a family. It was wonderful. The food there is just great and I really love the atmosphere. All in all, it was a great birthday!

Unfortunately, this has become quite the tradition. She is impossible to pry off the table. We just laughed.

Josh also got me a breadmaker, which I love. It's great and makes having homemade bread so easy. We love it! I love the aroma of homemade bread. It makes me feel domestic without having to do all the work.

Happy Birthday Diana!

I just wanted everyone to know that today is my beautiful wife's birthday! I am so grateful for such a wonderful, thoughtful, considerate person to spend my life and eternity with. She is my best friend and I love her so much! So everyone, wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Climbing on Up

Sorry for all of the videos but I couldn't resist. Anna has learned to crawl up the stairs! I guess it's time for a gate. She really does seem to do something new everyday. Life is much busier now and much more fun!

Anna is Crawling!

Anna has been crawling around for a little over a month now but we have yet to get a good video of her. Every time we turn the camera on, she freezes. So this is the best one we have. She's really growing up.

Blackberries

We went to Eckert's today and had so much fun! It's this place in Illinois where you can go and pick fruit and pay by the pound. Unfortunately we just missed the peaches but we did get some delicious blackberries!! It was really fun.
I was really surprised when I looked down at my hands after only picking a few berries and they were stained red. Throughout the day, they just kept getting darker and darker. Then I look over at my husband and his hands were glistening clean!! I couldn't quite figure out how he became such and expert berry picker. Who knows, maybe this is a good career for him. His bucket had the most perfect round blackberries while mine were kind of falling apart and such. I guess he's really got a knack for it.
We're going to make homemade ice-cream tonight with the berries, blackberry jam, and freeze some for smoothies. It was really fun. We're really glad we went.

We just had to eat some! They were delicious.

Funny Faces

So, no one takes a perfect picture all of the time. In Anna's case, we seem to take about 20 pictures to get the perfect one. She's only about six and a half months old, but we've got quite a collection of funny pictures. We thought it would be fun for you to see them. You can just really see her little personality shining through. Check it out.

These are her sneezing pictures. She seems to do that a lot.

We Just Love this Girl!