Gettin' Jiggy in frog jammies

Munkey'd Christmas

We drove 9 hours strait through yesterday from California to Utah, to be home for Christmas today. Unfortunately we had already opened our presents before we left but we were happy to discover when we arrived home, a bevy of boxes on our doorstep. We had presents from Auntie Fara and Mom and an Auntie in HI to open. Then, after shoveling out of our driveway and taking some pics of the massive amount of snow, we went and spent Christmas morning with M&M and the G'ma's.

GG'ma visit

We got to visit Munkey's Great G'ma B. down in St. George this weekend. It was a wonderful stay and I'm thankful we got to go and that we got these great pics of Munkey and GG'ma. They became fast friends. Also it is blowing my mind how big Munkey looks in these pics!

FIRST CHRISTMAS AT 10 MONTHS

LITTLE MUNKEY IS THE

BEST PRESENT

OF ALL !!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, LITTLE MUNKEY

LOVE, NANNA

9 Months Antics

Here are some of the photos of her 9 monthness that I've been meaning to put up. She has changed so much this month it's been hard for me to keep up. It's a challenge having to re-adjust to her progressive mobility but we're surviving and she's having a blast.

Enjoying the last few days of fall out in the backyard :

Logs a lot of time in the highchair, eats finger food like a champ by herself :


Likes to read books several times a day :

Loves to sit and play with all the cousin's hand-me-down toys:

Looks cute in sweaters :

Practices walking with Daddy :

Can climb on things (especially us) and will pull herself up now unassisted :


Needs her own hydropack:

Loves snow:

Backblog

Munkey's blog is suffering from a back log of posts. So many things have happened in the last few weeks, it's been crazy. I haven't found much time at the computer since she has started crawling so fast. She races me to get to the computer room before I can get there. She climbs up everything in sight and the computer room is not childproof. So, very little time for me in that room now.

Here's a quick post to get caught up somewhat. A few weeks ago we hiked to the hot pots in Diamond Fork. I hadn't been in a long time, more than a year. It was great to see them again. It was cold when we started the hike, everything was covered with frost. Once we got to the hot pots, Munkey was sound asleep in her pack...

I took off my shoes and socks and rolled up my pants and dipped my legs into the warm water while Munkey snoozed. It was really relaxing but the rocks were slimy. After about fifteen minutes Munkey woke up and we looked around and took some photos. Munkey did not take a dip, it was too cold to get her wet that day.


I love the color of the water and that there is geothermal activity so close to our house (in
the form of a magma chamber close enough to the surface to heat ground water!).