At the Zoo

A few weeks ago we went to the Zoo in Salt Lake with our play group. Eden had been to the Zoo before, but this time she knew some animals and could imitate some animal sounds.

Eden had to get a picture with the giraffe, both Eden's and Daddy's favorite animal.

We also took a ride on the carousel. This had to be by far Eden's favorite experience. She smiled the entire time as she rode her little tiger.

I tried to take video as much as possible of Eden at the zoo, but she was so excited that I couldn't get her to hold still. She saw the ducks, birds, turtles, and just about anything else you could find. By the end of the day she was exhusted and had a good nap for the long ride home.

Pucker fish

Eden has a talent she would like to show everyone...it is the pucker fish! She started doing this a few months ago, but only randomly, and she couldn't do it on command. She has now figured out how to do it on her own and will pucker up when you do it to her! It's so cute to see this little girl grow up and learn how to use her little body.

Are we ready for this?

For Eden's 1st birthday, great-grandma Smith gave her a cell phone. Of course it is a play princess cell phone, but she loves it. The phones Aaron and I have are not as nice as this one. Her phone is a flip phone and it even simulates taking pictures (accessories that we don't have on ours). She walks around with it and pushes the buttons and takes pretend pictures.

As you can see, she is much more knowledgeable with cell phones than I am...

she can already text message better than me.
What is this world coming to when a one-year-old can text better than her mom?

One o'clock church

We've been at 1 o'clock church for a while now, sometimes it seems as if it will never end. My goal has been to try and keep Eden awake until church starts. My reasoning is that she usually takes a 3 hour nap around 11am, so if I keep her up until 1pm, she should sleep through all of church. Sometimes it works, and other times it doesn't.

This was at about 11:30, I sat her down to eat lunch and keep her awake, she ate a little bit and couldn't take it any more. Sleep over came her and I lost the battle. I tried to revive her by taking away her tray and even cleaning her up (which she HATES the most) but to no avail, sleep was the winner.

Let it Snow!!

So one day it started to snow, it was nice to see it come down...and down...and down...and it never stopped that whole day!! We just couldn't resist taking a chance to enjoy the new fallen snow. We all put on some warm clothes and ventured outside to see how well mother nature did.

Well, as you see the snow was deeper than we thought. Eden here is up to her hips in the snow, and she's about half way through the snow! All she could do was stand in it, she couldn't move!

Here is Karla and Eden standing in the snow in our front yard with matching hats that tie under the chin, they are so warm, we recommend all to get one.

Here is Aaron and Eden in the snow, as you see, even as it go dark that night, the snow continued to fall, it was just amazing.


We were happy to come in and warm up, but it was an experience we all enjoyed, even Eden who couldn't move through the snow.
Since then the snow has melted and come back, melted and come back again, but nothing beats that wonderful day that it snowed all day and all night, it's good to have a Utah winter again.

Naps are a good thing

I think we all agree that we need a good nap every once in a while, but when someone wakes you up unexpectedly, usually we're not too happy. Well, this afternoon, mommy and Eden took a little nap together and daddy wanted to take some pictures and wake us up. Well, because it was daddy, Eden didn't wake-up grumpy, instead she woke-up as happy as could be.

If only all of us could wake-up this happy from our naps!

Christmas...a month later

Merry Christmas from the Smiths...in January. I know I'm a month behind, but we just had to share these memories. This year Eden was actually awake for Christmas (unlike last year when she was a week old, and all she did was sleep all day, and cry all night). So we took her to meet Santa for the first time, as you see, it was a very enjoyable experience:(Give me back to mommy!)

We then decided that Christmas wouldn't be Christmas if we didn't go up to Temple Square and look at all of the lights. It was cold, but very pretty:

Christmas morning was fun. When Eden woke up Christmas morning she could see a big difference under our Christmas tree...and she walked right to the presents and began touching them. She then woke-up daddy and Christmas began!

It was truly a fun and very blessed Christmas for us. Eden had a birthday the week before so it was presents for her right and left. One of her favorite gifts was her Bob and Larry book, once that present was opened, nothing else really mattered (I'm sure all parents can understand that effect of one good present for a child):