February 2018

February was a good month!  Rowan had her first birthday and we got to go to her party!  My mom and Jayce came out for a quick weekend visit!  My grandparents were traveling through and stopped for a visit!  Valentines Day happened!  Colby explored and got better and better at crawling and pulling herself up on anything and everything.  

 The basket of scorpions was at the OdySea aquarium.  My mom took us all there while she was visiting and ended up getting us a membership!  We love going to the aquarium.

 Billy was a champ and fixed our sink drain!  Haha doesn't seem like a big deal but it was just open before and stuff kept falling down in there.

This is how Colby ate most of her meals for many months, straight off the floor

Billy always loves it when Jayce is around to play NBA Hangtime with him.  The both love it and literally play for hours.

LOVE this photo!

 At Rowan's birthday party at the park by the temple.  Pizza, donuts, cake, couldn't ask for anything more!

 Creepy in her bed and reading books with Daddy

 Bruised up baby legs and peeking around the corner

Went to visit our Phoenix ward one Sunday and the youth were going gaga for Colby!  She actually loved the attention and was so cute with all of them!  She passed out hard on the way home, probably from being so loved on!

Loving her visit from great-grandma and grandpa!

 Standing up!

 For Valentine's Day I took Colby on a girlie date to Chick-fil-A.  She's a chicken nugget lover!

 Had a rainy day one day and Colby was just longing to go outside!

Fun times all around!  For Valentine's Day this year I surprised Billy with 14 days of Valentine's gifts.  It was mostly candy and a few small random things.  I tried to get his guitar fixed for his "real" gift, but it ended up being way more expensive than I thought and the shop I went to didn't treat me very nicely either.  So that was a bust.  But Billy and I got to go out to see Jumanji for Valentine's which was super fun.  Also this month I got invited to a Galentine's party that a few ladies in the ward threw and it was so fun getting to know some of the ladies in my ward and neighborhood!  It was a very girly evening that I look forward to next year!

Jamin's baby blessing--Las Vegas

Derek and Mariah scheduled Jamin's baby blessing for January 21 in Vegas before they moved to Texas like the next day.  We drove out on the 20th and the drive was pretty rough with a busy busy baby!  We made it though.  Saturday we helped them pack their moving truck while Colby napped in the closet.  Went to Costco and Olive Garden for dinner with everyone.  Both sets of grandparents were there, Ken and Diane, and a few people the Barrows know from Texas.  It was a fun night but we turned into the hotel early to get Colby to bed after a long day.

The next day was Sunday and blessing day!  Church was at 9 (I think) and we made it there in the nick of time.  The blessing was wonderful (I think, I can't remember) and it was very sweet to be there.  We left right after the Sacrament so Colby could get a nap in before all the afternoon festivities.  We had lunch and chatted in Derek and Mariah's apartment clubhouse.  Colby was a good girl and enjoyed the chicken salad sandwiches.

Letting great-grandma hold her, so sweet!

 Billy helping to show off her awesome top teeth!

It was a whirlwind weekend!  We drove home that night after bathing Colby.  She slept in the car on the drive back.  It was a crazy weekend but I'm so glad we were able to be there.

January 2018

January was a big month for Colby!  She started crawling officially on Jan 15th, with a couple strong attempts a few days before!  Too bad I can't figure out how to put videos in here.  And I don't have any good pictures of her crawling!  So sad.  We had a fun month!

Attempting a picnic in the backyard

Looking so cute and goofy in her sleepy sack

Colby has always loved bath time and Daddy!

Happy girlie!

We attempted a lot of new meals in January using the Six Sisters meal plan.  This one was Asian chicken with zoodles.  It made me gag but I wanted to document that we were cooking haha.

Sorry for the risqué shot but Colby is seriously the cutest at bath time!!

We went on a hike one day with Kara and her family in Papago park.

 Big crowd that I didn't know anyone in!  Ha!

Being a mischievous cutie pie

 We went to the zoo with Helen and Cian one day and Colby loved it!

 More bath time cuteness

Billy and I attempted a hike one day with her.  It did not go over very well, she didn't make it far but at least we tried!

 9 months in, 9 months out on January 25th!

She got this food on her head, ha!  She's never eaten tortellini weirdly, so we had to give her yogurt instead and she turned into Santa.

 Such a big girl getting into lots of trouble!

There's your January photo dump haha!