What an amazing child!

Attention all grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousin, close friends, acquaintances, and random people who lurk on my blog, I would like to announce another astounding accomplishment by my adorable offspring. Julia has taken calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals to form...a tooth! Such talent!

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween my cousin Katrina and her family came up from San Diego to celebrate with us. We had a BBQ (that's right, we ate outside, because it was 80 degrees!), and went Trick-or-Treating for twenty minutes in Claremont's little shopping area, The Village. Every time someone would put a candy in Ali's bucket she would take it out and want to eat it. Then we went to our ward Halloween party, then came home and and handed out candy (we had a good stream of trick-or-treaters come by), put the kiddos to sleep and played games. That's probably the most we have done to celebrate Halloween since Rob and I have been married!

ESPN College Gameday

Last week Robert spent all week reading on the Cougarboard about ESPN's College Gameday coming to BYU and wishing he could go. So when his uncle let him know on Wenesday he might have an extra ticket to the game for him Robert started making plans to go to Utah. He still didn't let me know for sure we were even going until a few hours before we left on Friday though. We drove half the night Friday, got to Utah at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Robert didn't even sleep and left for College Gameday at 5:00 a.m. Meanwhile Julia and I slept until 9:30 a.m., woke up and watched the Tivo'd version of Robert on ESPN! He made it onto the front row and had a great time.
Turns out his uncle did give him a ticket and he got to go to the game too. Thanks Jerry!
Julia and I spent the day with my family, and Sunday we headed back to California.

All About Me- Julia 6 Months Stats

Weight-19.6 lbs (95 per.)
Height-26 " (50 per.)
Head Circ.- 17 1/4 (75 per.)

Favorite Activities: going for walks, sticking my feet in my mouth, blowing raspberries, rolling around, creeping backwards until I get stuck halfway under the couch.

Favorite Food: Sweet Potatoes (so far, she only has a diet of six foods)

Favorite Toy: Rubber Pretzel Teether

6 months

Hard to believe this cutie is six months old today! Happy half-Birthday Julia!

Thanksgiving Point

On Friday we went out to Thanksgiving Point to check out the corn maze and whatever other stuff they had there. Julia fell asleep during the corn maze, I guess walking around seeing only rows and rows of corn wasn't that interesting to her. The corn maze this year was in the shape of Larry H. Miller's head, and I thought it was a pretty good maze. I was lost, but then, I wasn't really paying much attention to where we were going. I mostly just followed my brother's as they tried to figure out where to go. I think it also helped that we went during the day, so there weren't very many people there and most of the time in the maze there wasn't another person in sight.

We also took pictures with the pumpkins, went on a hay ride, saw pig races (they were cute little piglets, so it was cute), and went through some fun houses they had there. I think the target age group for almost everything besides the maze was like 4-12 years old, but we had fun and it kept us entertained for a couple hours. Then it got dark...and cold...so we went home.

Julia didn't want to look at the camera, she was way more interested in trying to get the hay (unsuccessfully) and corn husks (successfully) in her mouth.

Ramiro Pictures

Four Generation Picture- Me, My Mom, My Grandmother, and Julia

On Sunday after the first session of general conference a lot of my mom's family came over to eat lunch, watch the last session, and hang out together. Julia had good two hour nap during the last session and woke up ready to play with the houseful of people who came to visit.

Cousins with grandpa and grandma

Cascade Springs

Julia and I are in Utah this week visiting my family. On Saturday we went up American Fork Canyon to see the fall leaves. We stopped at an outlook to take pictures and it was cool, but mostly it was WINDY! When we got back in the car Julia was like "what was that?" These photos are from when we stopped. Afterwards we headed a little lower to Cascade Springs to walk around and take pictures with the colorful leaves. I had left our baby carrier at my grandparent's house a few days ago when we visited them, so we all took turns carrying Julia. She is one heavy baby now.

Havasupai and San Diego

Last weekend Robert went with some of his friends to Havasu Falls near the Grand Canyon, so Julia and I took off for the weekend too and visited my cousin in San Diego. We had so much fun with my cousin Katrina and her husband Bret and little one year old girl Ali. Ali was especially excited to see us every morning. She loved looking at Julia and figuring out what Julia was all about. I guess that's a good thing since she is going to have a little brother in a couple months. Anyway, so we visited the temple grounds, saw the beach at Torrey Pines, saw the beach at La Jolla Cove, went to the beach at Coronado Island (cool jets), ate lunch and flew a kite at the beach at Mission Bay (all on different days)...sensing a theme ? It was awesome!
All Robert's pictures were so beautiful, I had a hard time picking which ones to post. I don't think it's possible to take a bad picture at Havasupai. Sounds like they had a great time hiking all over the canyon. There is no road down to the bottom of the canyon, so you either have to backpack or ride horses in for ten miles to the campground, or pay for a helicopter ride in. After you get to the campground you hike around to see all the waterfalls too. It looks like it's worth it though. I hope I can go and see it all someday too!