I got jipped out of a sour face

So today me and Samantha went to Applebee's for lunch. While there Ally was grabbing at everything so we decided to give her a lemon to teach her a lesson. We thought when she finally put it in her mouth we would get a good laugh, anxiously awaiting the sour face...but nope! She LOVED the lemon kept it in her mouth licking it and gnawing on it for a good 15 mintues! Even though we didn't get to see a sour face, we had a good laugh at how much she just chomped and drooled all over herself working on that lemon! Samantha took a picture with her camera phone.

Ally's hair in the morning...

So the other morning when I got Ally up for the day, her hair was its normal crazy self...it made me laugh so I decided to take pictures of it in the tub....then I dumped water all over her to wash it...Ally is not the biggest fan of water in her face. LOL

7 MONTHS OLD!

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Recap/Lagoon!

So Saturday, Ally's G-pa and G-ma Young stopped by for a visit and brought with them Ally's newest favorite toy! Its a cute little boat that lights up and sings when you push it and Ally loves it!!
Then Monday, (which I don't have any pictures of) me and Samantha and one of Samantha's best friends went to Hollywood connection. We played miniature golf and went on some of the rides and saw the movie, "MAMA MIA". Then we went and played video games and went out to dinner later that night!



Tuesday was LAGOON!! G-ma Marianne watched Ally and Me, Samantha, and Isabella (Ally's paternal Aunt) went to Lagoon! We were so glad Isabella came because I don't like the rides that spin so Isabella was a good partner for the rides with Samantha
















On the Samari











The Jet Star









Then Marianne brought Preston and Ally to Lagoon to join us. I took Ally on the 2 rides she can go on: The train and the Merry-go-round. Thanks Marianne for the Lagoon passes and for watching and bringing Ally!






Here she is on the Merry-go-round

CATCH UP!!

Okay, so last week I was off of work for the WHOLE week...it was my vacation time. And since having little miss Ally, she has thrown a curve ball into my vacation plans. So due to finances, etc, we decided to take a "vacation" right here in good ol Utah and spent every day doing SOMETHING!

It started on Friday, July 18. We went and got Ally's 6 month pictures done (yeah, i know it was a week shy of 7 months...but hey it got done! We also got a family picture done too:


I'm also going to cheat by posting what we did for each day by posting that DAY on here...hehehe...more to come!

Bowling Fun

We went bowling on saturday! Ally had fun watching everyone...here she is in the black lighting!

She loved the bowling ball we let her play with for a bit! The colors were so bright in the black lighting!


I got a spare on the first frame and thought..woohoo! This is going to be a good game....NOPE! Gutter gutter gutter...many gutters later...67 was my score :( Oh well, at least we looked cute!

Here is Samantha bowling! Her score wasn't much better...she doesn't use the bumpers but maybe we should have!!

Ally's first 4th of July

We had a pretty chill 4th of July... No, Ally can't really stand on her own yet...I had to pose her against this flag that was in my sister's yard for the holiday and hurry and run and snap the picture before she fell over. (This was the 4th try pic)..hehe. We just lit off our own fireworks and watched the neighbors elaborate illegal WY fireworks! haha! Ally seemed to like them and wasn't afraid of the noises..(although I covered her ears just to be on the safe side if it seemed too loud).

6 MONTHS OLD!

Wow I can't believe it has been 6 months already! How time flies. Well, as I have mentioned, Ally is getting quite the personality. One of mine and Samantha's favorite things to do now, is make Ally laugh. I can always make her smile, but making her laugh...that is Samantha's department. Samantha is a pro at getting her to laugh. So here is a little clip of Ally laughing at Samantha while in her new favorite thing: her Jumperoo.

(This is only 40 seconds long)

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pigtails

So my sister put Ally's hair in pigtails and it was too cute! I didn't have my camera, so the good ol cell phone camera had to do...it is so cute....Ally's hair is getting lighter....and she is just getting more fun by the day!!!!

Oh I just love this sweet face!!!!! She has also developed this habit of sucking on her bottom lip...hopefully that doesn't make her get an overbite when she is older!

Happy Father's Day

For Father's Day, I have been making a little slideshow for Samantha's Dad, John. I did this for all the help he was to me during my pregnancy last summer. He helped fix quite a few things around the house and made my life less stressful during a stressful time. How many ex-husbands do that?? It took a long time to get to this point, but I'm so glad we are good friends now.
Anyway, the video started out to be a cute short one, but then as I have been getting baby pictures done of Ally, Samantha commented on how she wished I would have done pictures like that of her when she was a baby. Well, I literally make 5 times what I did when Samantha was a baby. Yes, I was THAT poor and couldn't get as many professional type pictures done, but we did take a lot with our little camera.
So my slide show to John also turned into a tribute to Samantha as well. I made this just as much for Samantha so she would know how much I have love her and how many people love her too. And although I couldn't put the HUNDREDS of pictures I do have of Samantha on it (the video would be way too long and boring for that) I put a few for each year of her life and all the people that have been in her life over the years.

It is 10 minutes long.....I put this on a DVD to give to her dad today. I hope he likes it! And now everyone who visits my blog will get a glimpse into Samantha's life over the years....(p.s. Samantha's dad is a redhead, and anytime you see a redhead in the slideshow, it's someone from HIS family...lol)

For Samantha and John:

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VEGAS!

We went to Vegas this past weekend for my friend's Jenny's and her daughters baptism. So Ally had her FIRST plane ride!! I thought Ally would do great since she is SUCH a good baby and never cries, I take her to movies ALL the time and she is fine. Well....she wasn't so happy on the plane ride. She wasn't screaming, but she got fussy towards the end of the flight. I didn't know about air pressure and babies...no one tells me these things. But I figured a 1 hr flight was better than a 6-7 hr car ride each way being trapped in a car seat.

We stayed with Jenny and her family and they have a pool so Ally had one more first while in Vegas. She wore her FIRST swimming suit and went in a swimming pool for the first time.

Jenny's and Kate's baptism went well and Ally did much better for the plane ride home.

Here is a little video of some of the trip....

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5 MONTHS (yesterday)

Okay, Ive been totally slacking here...and I don't even have the MOST pics scanned in yet...but here are most of the pro pics that were taken of Ally...from 5 weeks, and 3 months...so I'm going back in time a little..but at least they are getting posted....

Ally's developed some very cute quirks. Lately she has been sucking on her bottom lip, its making her look like a cabbage patch doll! And she will only do a poopy diaper in a DRY diaper. Yep, that means right after I change a wet one, minutes later I get a nice surprise...DOH!

She does NOT like rice cereal. She gets fussy everytime I try feeding it to her. I will have to post video on that one too.

She is one of the best babies, and I can still take her to movie's and card night at friends' house, and she is just as good as good can be! Me and Samantha love her so much!

Shiba Inu's!

My sister's dogs are Shiba Inu's. They recently had puppies and Ally just loves them! Here are some pics of the puppies and some with Ally...

a funny video for mom's/happy late Mother's day to everyone

Which one is which???

Can you guess which one is Ally and which one is Samantha?? How did I get so lucky to have 2 such beautiful babies???!!!!