Party ALL Day Long!

What a day we had for Charlotte's First Birthday! It was full of family, friends, sweets, and bubbles. The day started off with opening gifts from my parents with my parents via ichat. Isn't modern technology great!We then had friends over for a bubble party! We had a bubble gun, wands, and bubbles for all.

Cupcakes too!

I Love this picture! 

Later on in the evening we had family over for cake and treats. Everyone was extremely generous with gifts to Charlotte. 

Singing Happy Birthday with Grandpa and Grandma Fuhriman 
(again modern tech is great)

My attempt at a ladybug.

It was a wonderful day and emotional one.  This was the fastest year of my life, but by far the most rewarding. I love being a mom. I feel so blessed to have Charlotte in my life. She brings a different kind of joy that I've never experienced before. Thank you Charlotte, for picking us! Love,

Mom

Charlotte's Big ONE!!!

Well, as I'm sure all of our loyal readers already knew, today was Charlotte's first birthday! We are so excited and can hardly believe how fast time flies. Those of you who are parents know what we're talking about. It really is amazing that she's been with us for a full year already.

Here a few photos to take us through Charlotte's first 365 days with us.
















Obviously today was an exciting day and there is a ton of stuff to tell you about. But unfortunately, we're exhausted. After 2 parties, 38 guests, and 3 baths, we are all pooped out. We'll be filling you in on all the fun details another time--hopefully tomorrow.

Picture Perfect...well, not yet.

So the last time we posted anything it was after we had our family pictures taken by our cousin Kristina (who, by the way, just recetnly got accepted to the BYU Photograpy program!) Well Kristina's lovely photos (click here to see them) got us thinking that maybe we'd like to invest in a nicer camera and then spend some time trying to learn how to use it like she does. (Just to be clear, we don't ever expect to be able to take photos as great as Kristina's. She's obviously way talented.)

Then our friends Rob and Melissa came into town with their new baby girl Maya who is as cute as can be (click here to see little Maya) and they had a nice camera that took really good pitcures, too. So we figured in order to keep from coveting everyone else's nice cameras we'd have to just get our own.

So we did our taxes and took the plunge. We did our research and tried to get the best camera for the best deal. After getting advice from a lot of people and reading a ton on online reviews we settled on a Canon Rebel XS DSLR. We've both taken a few camera classes in high school and college so we wanted an SLR so that maybe at some point we can try to get really creative with it.

We're really excited about it and we've already taken a ton of photos just to try to get used to it. It's definitely different from just a normal point and shoot. We think the pictures come out really great despite the fact that we still don't know how to use it to it's full potential. Here's a few pictures that we've taken with it that we really like. Let us know what you think. And if you have any pointers for us (Kristina) please feel free to pass them on.






Nothing fancy, but we've had a lot of fun with it so far.

Picture Perfect

We took our family photo's on Thanksgiving and I'm finally putting them up. Here are some of our favorites...







Scott's cousin Kristin took them for us. Check out her blog on our friends and family list. Thanks Kristina!

Any advise?

I have a very sad and in pain baby at my home. Charlotte is teething! Two at once! What do I do to comfort my sweet girl?

Ring...Ring...Ring

"Haai!"



So about a month ago I noticed that Charlotte kept putting the remote by her head, but I didn't think much of it. Until one night she was freaking out about something and so, to distract her, I pretended to "answer " the remote. She grabbed the "phone" and had a full on conversation, all in a language I couldn't understand. So now you can catch little miss talking on the phone all the time. The best part is that everything gets turned into a phone - remote controls, Nintendo controllers, her stuffed animals, Cheerios, and even an orange peel. In fact, any time a phone rings on the television, Charlotte picks up whatever is closest to "answer" it. And every once in a while you will hear a tiny little voice say, "Haai"! 

Ms. Gets-Into-Everything, I mean Charlotte...

is keeping her dad and I very busy these days. She is now crawling very well, so she thinks the house is hers to explore. I have to remind myself to always close the bathroom door, and that I will be putting the DVDs back in their place at least five times that day. I'm okay with that, but I'm not okay with my baby falling as she tries to explore the house. Poor thing looks pretty disheveled at the end of the day.  






Even as she is pulling my side table down on top of herself (don't worry no one got hurt), I'm amazed at how fast she is growing. She keeps me busy, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love being her mom.