Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Mom's Makeup Bag
Sunday, March 13, 2011
The Anniversary / Valentines Gift
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Five Year Anniversary
We actually used this photo for our announcement. We did Photoshop out the faddish rip in Nathan's pants for the announcement though. We look so young and thin. Ha ha. I should probably mention we both had some bad food poisoning shortly before the engagement photos were taken Nathan looks extra thin and boyish both here and in our wedding photos.
These pictures were taken by our friend Lysle for our Christmas card. When he was taking this photo of us without Corinne I was joking that it was like getting our engagement photos done again so I thought it would be fun to stick a few of both up for comparison sake. I like my hair much better now longer and closer to my natural shade. I wouldn't mind if those other jeans still fit though. Grrr.
For our anniversary Nathan got us an overnight babysitter and booked us a night at the Hilton Americas down town. We went to a nice fish restaurant (my favorite), then swimming in the hotel pool followed by staying up way too late dancing at a club until the disco lights started to make me feel dizzy. It was fun, but if we go to a club again I think we should find a few friends to go too. He planned the whole night. It was a lot of fun. Thanks Nate.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Daddy Daughter Seattle Trip
Her diaper leaked on the plane and he had to change her pajama's in the airport. The first night they were gone he stayed in a Hotel with Dana and BJ in Olympia. Apparently there was a hotel fire before they got there. Kind of scary. Here she is looking cute in the hotel room the next morning.
My sister, Becky, also went into labor the night Nathan and Corinne flew up so they were able to see Becky with her new baby, Lucy in the hospital. Apparently, I look enough like Becky that Corinne really snuggled up to her. Becky's daughter Olivia would do that with me when she was Corinne's age too. I was extra sad I missed the trip when Lucy came just in time for it. Becky was scheduled to be induced the day after Nathan and Corinne came back home, so had Lucy not come on her own they would have just missed her.
Such a cutie playing at the mall with daddy and cousins. She had a fun time. Naps were a bit difficult during the whole trip though. Without her crib, Nathan said he tried laying her down on her cousin Desmond's kiddy bed, but she would just get off and bang on the wall until he came back to get her.
Nathan says the only morning on the trip that she slept in was the morning they needed to get up early to come back home. I am glad to have them back. I knew I would miss them and I did for sure, but I was surprised how emotional I got watching them leave me behind at the security gate. I actually broke down crying in front of the guards. It is good to have them back.
Daddy Time
Here she is helping him chat on the computer.
She likes to entertain herself with reading while he works. That map looks stimulating. I wonder sometimes if is she is mimicking us. We like to lay in bed and read with her.
She likes to chase Cali all around the house. They both seem to like it a lot under the kitchen table.
Corinne loves going for rides and running errands so long as it does not overlap nap time. I love her wild hair here.
Nathan has also discovered the joy of trying to take a shower with Corinne in the bedroom. The toys only distract her temporarily from looking into what you are doing. She likes to pull back the curtain and join you.
This is one Nathan sent me one day while I was at work. He says she pulled out her rocking chair and grabbed her snacks all on her own. I love her little frown. She looks like she is sad about the rain outside.
Here she went with Nate when he was meeting with the neuro surgeon. He had to take some steroids after messing his back up playing soccer and fixing the fence post in the back yard one Saturday. I guess you shouldn't jump on a shovel in flip flops. Three MRI's and an EMG later the Dr. says he is fine, though he does have an abnormal Babinski reflex.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
One Year Old
We have had a busy few weeks since my last blog post. Most exciting Corinne turned 1 year old!! Her birthday was on the 7th which was a Thursday and we had a costume birthday party for her on the following Saturday.
We figured with a birthday in October she may as well use her Halloween costume more than once. We dressed up with a theme in mind. We were Zapp Brannigan, Leela and Nibbler from the cartoon Futurama. Originally we were going to dress her up in either her Princess Aura costume we bought her or the Tinker Bell costume Marina bought her. We still have a few more chances before the end of the month though.
She started out by just picking at the pink icing with delicate and deliberate pinching before really getting into the cake.
That same weekend was also busy with Dana and BJ down here to help with some house repairs. I will take some pictures of everything we have worked on with Dana and make it a separate post.
She has a few other things that are new that came with turning one. We turned her car seat around forward facing, she loves it, she is drinking vitamin D milk now instead of formula, actually we started that a few weeks early and after the baby formula recall we were glad we did. She has also started walking. She took her first steps on September 13 and she has been getting more confident all the time. It is hard to believe that an entire year has gone by already. It is already hard to remember life without her. We love her very much.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Labor Day Adventure
After getting the tent up and using the little cove created by the cars and the tents as cover Nathan and John got a pretty good fire going. Here below is the Wirthlin family, Abby, John, Dallin and Ellice. Their youngest Conner was already asleep in the tent and missed out on the smores and Starburts.
Corinne was really good for pretty much the entire trip. For the most part she was content to just hang out, drink a bottle and be held. I was a bit worried about her with the sand and the fire but it ended up not being an issue.
After looking at the amazing stars for a bit we sat around the fire chatting until Corinne and I were dozing in the beach chair. I went and laid down with Corinne and she went right to sleep. Nathan stayed up chatting until around midnight or 1am. Cars were driving past us all night long and while laying there with the wind keeping us from really falling asleep that the cars changed from driving behind us closer to the water on the compact sand "road" to driving around in front of our tents in the really soft sand that you just get stuck in. We had parked as close to the soft sand as we thought we could go with out getting the cars stuck. There was a huge area of compacted sand that people had been driving and parking on all day so we thought it was weird that people started going around in the soft sand instead. Well around 3 or 3:30 Nathan decided to go out and check on the cars and the tide. I don't know if it was because he could see through the tent window that the tide had risen or just because I kept asking "are you sure the cars are ok," but when we got outside this is what we saw.
The tide had risen considerably and was already at the tires of the cars and the corner of our tent. Nathan woke up John and Ellice as their tent was also starting to get wet. Nathan debated just moving the tents further up the beach, but since we didn't know how high the water was going to go I was pushing for us to just pack up and get off the beach. So with us already parked in the soft sand this didn't leave us much of an exit route. We would have to either go in the soft sand and hope to not get stuck or the water. We got packed up pretty quick. Taking down the tents consisted of removing the tent poles and then rolling them up and stuffing them in the bed of the truck. We just put some stuff on to p of them to keep them from blowing away, contrary to the earlier prediction the wind never did die down.