Taiya Belle {8 months old}

Where did the time go? I swear it was just yesterday that I was holding this little girl in my arms for the first time. And now she is 8 1/2 months old! Don't get me wrong, I am loving this stage she is in, she is absolutely hilarious and keeps us laughing constantly. She is so mischievious, and smart, and active, and smiley... to say I love her doesn't even describe it.  But time just keeps going by... that's just part of life. I want to make sure to treasure every little moment with her, and taking pictures is one of the ways I do that. Taiya has started doing so many new things since we got back from Seattle. So please bear with me, here are some things that have happened since then...

8 months old

Happy Birthday Carter! Playing with my aunts and cousins!

Playing with Grandpa Andy

First band aid. Poor little baby. I accidentally scratched her and made her bleed. I felt terrible.

Uncle Brenan can always get a gigle out of her!

Practicing walking with Aunt Lex

Standing up so big!

Yes that's right!! She crawled!! It wasn't far but at least she got the idea!

So my friend Jess is super crafty and always has the cutest ideas! Well we had a craft night and made these darling skirts for our little girls.. this is mine. And the flower can be safety pinned on the skirt but its also on an alligator clip so it can go on a headband too. I am so proud of myself! Ha. The tutorial can be found at freshlypicked.blogspot.com.

Easter Fun

We had lots of fun this year preparing for all the funstuff Easter brings. We had a blast dying Easter Eggs and dipping rice krispie eggs into chocolate (have you seen the commercial?? the credit goes to pennie for wanting to give it a try) with our Thompson side of the family.

Yes, I'm letting Taiya eat a rice krispie treat. She wanted a taste SOOO BAD. So I caved :)

Notice: See the top left pic where I'm holding an egg dipped in chocolate? Well I wasn't really paying attention and I accidentally dipped my egg instead of my rice krispie into the chocolate. OOPS! But hey I still got to lick the chocolate off!

A week later we had tons of fun dying easter eggs with Grandma Judy and Tessa.

Easter morning at Gma & Gpa Feld's. Thanks Easter Bunny for spoiling us!

Aunt Lexi helped Taiya find her Easter basket at Gma & Gpa Thompson's. The Easter bunny spoiled her there too!

Travis was out of town and we really missed him, but thankfully we stayed really busy all day long. Later that afternoon, we headed over to the Newbolds for dinner and an easter egg hunt. We had a great Easter, we are so thankful to have such wonderful family!!

Seattle, March Madness, & 7 month milestones

We spent a few weeks in Seattle during March for Trav's work and fell in love with this beautiful city. Trav has been working 60+ hour weeks and so we didn't get to explore much but here is what we did do...

Taiya turned 7 months old on the day we flew out to Seattle.

Famous fish market

Walking to the market

Inside Pike's Market... They have fresh fish, fresh flowers, and lots of fresh seafood everywhere!!

The streets outside the market are also lined with lots of cute little stores that sell everything from fresh fish and chips to cheesecake and homeade cookies.

View looking out over the Puget Sound

We ate dinner on the pier a couple times

One of the best dinners was at the Crab Pot

This is the first time Taiya figured out how to get up from her belly onto her knees!

She loves having her back, her belly, her face, and her arms tickled!

While we were in Seattle I had plenty of extra time on my hands and so I decided to read and practice more photography and photoshop... so excuse the bizillion pictures of Taiya... I'm practicing ;)

Tie Chair. Love this thing. Fits in the diaper bag and saves us from having to haul a high chair around. Buy one at http://www.tiechair.com/

Favorite spot. To watch the rain... every day.

Taiya loves helping with the laundry... especially unfolding it!

We also took a ferry out to Bainbridge Island. The view of the city from the water was stunning!

Bainbridge is the cutest little town! Its just tiny but it looks like something out of a storybook.

The very best part of the island though was Mora's Creamery. They had the best (homeade) ice cream either of us have ever had. Mmmmm... amazing! Their Swiss Chocolate ice cream is to die for- and I don't even like chocolate ice cream!!!

The ride back on the ferry.

More practice :)

Taiya is so into drawstrings, buttons, zippers, and especially jewelry!!

This little girl still loves playing peek-a-boo... she never wants to stop. She kept playing with her pj shirt so I finally tied it around her head to distract her. She sure thought that was funny!

Trav drove home and Taiya and I flew home on the 18th. This is flight #4 for this little girl... good thing she is such a good little passenger!

Trav got to go to the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games that were in Salt Lake this year. He had a great time!! Sorry no pics... boys don't think about that kind of stuff usually.