Botanical Garden Lights

We took the girls the the Bellevue Botanical Garden to see the Christmas lights last weekend.

Rachel loved all the lights. She kept saying "oooooohhh"

A few new photos

I got a new camera for Christmas! Yea! I've only taken a few pictures--and am still figuring it all out. But here are just a few new photos. Hopefully I'll have more to post soon!

Hope you all have a happy new year!

Dinner Time

Just a little video of the girls--(cause it's been a while)--for the grandmas.

Girls Night In

A few weeks ago Hannah and I had a girls night while Dan was working late and Rachel was sleeping. We had popcorn and watched a movie together. Thanks Hannah! I had so much fun with you!

New Do

Rachel has this funny habit of pulling her own hair while eating. It often results in a very stylish hair-do...and at least one bath a day.

Family Photo Shoot

Here is our attempt at a family photo. For some reason I was unable to post the slideshow on Blogger. But I did post the "winner" here for you.

Thanks Grandma for the CUTE dresses!

Dancing Hannah

This girl cracks me up!

Rachel is 9 months!

plus a few weeks (but hey--who's counting?)

Rachel weighs 15 lbs. 11oz. (3rd%) and is 27 3/4" long (75th%)

She is a crawling machine. She pulls herself to stand. She creeps along the furniture. She wants to be a big girl and only eats "real" food. She STILL hasn't said "mama." She LOVES to play with Hannah. She has the cutest smile I've ever seen. I love her. Happy 9 month's Rachel. We love you!

Pumpkin Carving

Grrrr. I wanna complain about blogger. I hate that it no long allows me to edit the order of the photos! I hope someone out there is doing something about it. Because it makes me mad.
So here are the photos from our pumpkin carving this year (in reverse order).


Hannah wanted to wear the witches hat and insisted on holding the rat.


Poor little Rachel didn't enjoy pumpkin carving very much.

She did try to play along for a while.

Hannah was a little unsure at first. But then she really had fun. She didn't want to touch the guts, but she did a great job with her spoon.

Hooray for pumpkins!

Halloween 09

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a great time with the girls on Halloween this year.
We started out the day by going trick-or-treating at a local shopping center, Gillman Village.

Blogger is being difficult still, so the pictures are out of order. Sorry for the confusion.

at the ward trunk-or-treating party.

McDonalds for lunch. Rachel really liked the McNuggets

Gillman Village was perfect for Hannah.

Tiger Rachel

Hannah found a dog-and just had to kiss him. "Hannah really loves dogs."

Her first piece of candy--she was pretty excited.

Hope you all had as much fun as we did!

Pool Time with Nana

It was really hot when we were in LA. The girls (and Jake the dog) went in the pool to cool down.

mmmmm.....popsicle.....

Thanks Nana for taking such good care of our girls!

Long Beach Aquarium

Once again I am unable to arrange the orders of the photos (anyone know why??). But here are the photos from our trip to the Long Beach Aquarium..

I thought it was so funny how Rachel was relaxing in the stroller. She cracks me up.

Did you know that fish like lettuce? Apparently they do. That's what this diver was carrying and all the fish were swarming to get some.

Hannah petting the sharks

Hannah really wanted to hold a bird. But the sign's said no touching. She was really good and didn't touch.

She kept holding out her hand hoping one would fly to her.

They had a little stage for a children's theatre. Hannah got called up out of the audience to play the turtle. It's funny watching a 2 year old on stage. She kept dissappearing. All the other kids were just as distracted, but it was fun to watch.

Rachel watching Hannah on the stage.

I love to go to the aquarium. :)

Angels Game

Dan and I left the girls with my parents and went to an Angels game. Thanks Mom and Dad :)

It was Dan's first time to Angels Stadium and it was hat night. Hooray! Sadly, they lost. But we had a great time anyway. Go Angels!

LA Zoo

Here we are at the LA Zoo. It turned out to be 107 degrees there that day. Needless to say we didn't stay for very long. We saw a few animals and then headed home.

For some reason I am unable to change the order of the photos....so here they are in no particular order....

Hannah not sharing the hippo.

Trying to find relief from the heat.

Rachel got her first sno-cone. She LOVED it. Hannah liked getting to feed it to her.

Family photo by the giraffe's. Hannah didn't want to be held. Even for a picture with the lion.

The Beach

Who can go to So Cal without making a trip to the beach? Well, me. I like to drive by. Smell the air. And then go to El Paso for some salsa. But this doesn't satisfy Dan. So we "went to the beach." He talked me into it with promises of El Burrito Jr (which didn't dissappoint bytheway. We even got to eat most of it before the birds got ahold of the bag. Darn Seagulls).

I kept Rachel's binki in the whole time so she wouldn't eat the sand. Worked like a charm.

Hannah was excited to go into the water. But after one wave, she thought it was too cold.

Rachel's first trip to the beach!

One of the reasons I love Dan is his enthusiasm. He sure does make things fun.
All in all it was a fun day. Thanks Dan, for making me go to the beach.