Garrett's First Birthday

Garrett's first birthday was great. We had spaghetti for dinner--which is his favorite. I'm just sorry that I didn't get any pictures of that! We had cupcakes for dessert and we practiced blowing out the candle. I wanted him to be prepared for his party that was later in the week. Let's just say that we were going to need another practice session!

Yummy cupcakes!

Garrett knows this is a tasty treat. Look at that smile! He quickly tried to grab the candle and Meg and Davis were VERY WORRIED that he would get burned. Please rest assured that I did NOT let him touch the flame. He also did NOT blow out the candle.

Good thing we had more time to practice!

The Cake

I thought Garrett's cake turned out so cute! You know, your baby only turns 1 once, so I thought it would be okay to put a little more effort in to this cake. Once his cake was frosted and assembled, I panicked and thought, "What if this is not enough cake?" Well, I made some cupcakes and frosted them with all of the extra frosting. (You'll be able to find that recipe on our recipe blog--but I don't know when.)

The Leaning Tower of Pickett

My skewers didn't do a great job of holding my cake upright so by the time we were ready to have cake, we had a leaning tower. I'm really glad we made it to the kitchen before it toppled!

As you can see, Garrett enjoyed his cake. And no, he didn't blow out the candle.

It's great to be one!

Slacker Extraordinaire

Well, at the beginning of this whole blogging thing, I think I mentioned that my goal would be to post once a month. I think I may have fooled you all by posting several things that first week. I think I was a little over zealous. Mostly because I'm a slacker...please forgive me. :)

As you can see, there's no picture for this post. Maybe I'll add a picture later.

Oh, my baby!

Okay, he's not much of a baby anymore. Somehow he made it to one! I'm not sure where the time went, but I'm pretty sure I spent most of it just staring at him. I still do that--a lot! He's so darn cute and loveable!

I took a few pics at his birthday party and will get those posted later. How much later? I don't know. It's anyone's guess at the moment.

Hopefully I'll get them posted before May. :)

Garrett enjoying Davis's soccer game.

Green Dragons Soccer

Saturday was Davis's first soccer game of the Spring. True to Utah Spring weather, it was cold! Of course, at 9:00 a.m. in March, what did we expect? Most of us were bundled up while we watched the game. Meg, on the other hand, was moving at the speed of light! I think she was secretly trying to stay warm.) She ended up at the park before the game ended.

Davis is the green #3

Davis will say the Red Dragons won because they scored more goals, but I think the Green Dragons won because they had more fun! It's not always about the points...or is it?

Giggles

Tonight while I was making Rice Krispie treats, Davis decided to give Cocoa some marshmallows. This just may be one of Cocoa's favorite treats. She can hear a marshmallow bag crinkle from anywhere in the house. While you can't really see how happy Cocoa is, Garrett's reaction is quite entertaining. I'm going to try to attach a video. I hope it works!

Real Soccer

In a moment of, what do you call it...pure insanity...I decided to take the kiddos to the Real Salt Lake soccer game at Rio Tinto Stadium. Luckily for me, my cute niece, Erika, agreed to come with us. We had fantastic seats! We sat on the fourth row on the side where Real would score the only goal (that we would see). Leo the Lion even stopped by for a visit. Meg drew him a picture and we snapped a few photos. After a quick vote at half-time, we left and had a nice lunch at Wendy's before finally making it home.

We had a great time and really appreciated Erika coming with us.

It was nice to have an extra set of helping hands. Thanks Erika!

The Kids

Erika and Meg

See how close we are to the field!

Leo the Lion with Meg's Drawing

Self Portraits

I love to take pictures...of...um... myself.

I must confess, I've been self portrait-ing for a while.

At least now I can try to get my kids in the picture with me.

Garrett needs practice looking at the camera.

I think we better work on that.

Christie and Garrett

Apparently, I'm not the only one getting in a little self-portrait action.

Davis

Captain Huggy Face

Who knew Captain Huggy Face liked self portraits, too?

Red Rocks!

Last Friday I took the kids to the University of Utah's gymnastics meet at The "U". The kids had a great time! Meg's friend Gracie came with us. There was a special opening presentation of the athletes--complete with Top Gun music and fireworks. This was the last home meet of the season and the two seniors were honored. Nastia Liukin--the Olympic gold medalist-- was there to support her friend, Nina Kim, a U of U gymnast. How cool is that? I didn't get a picture of her, but I did see her with my own eyes. The kids didn't get too excited about her, but I felt pretty special. There were only 15,000 people there, surely she noticed me. :)

Gracie and Meg

We had to leave before dinner to get to the meet early, so I made sandwiches to eat before we left home. Well...Davis didn't want to eat his. Let's just say he got hungry...really hungry. Below is how he looked about 20 minutes after we got there.

"Mom, I'm starving...to death."

Don't worry, Gracie shared her snacks with us and Davis was able to survive. He made it through the meet. You can see in the next picture that he was feeling much better after the first rotation. I took this picture of us and I think it turned out okay.

Davis and Christie

Meg-a-rooski

This is a picture of my sweet Meg. She's an awesome big sister and will always help whenever I need. She loves to make things and draw pictures. She's becoming a great reader and likes to have "baby school" with Garrett.

Bob

For the longest time, all Garrett would say is, "Dada." It was Dada this and Dada that. Eventually he branched out to include Mama. We were proud parents. Now Garrett keeps saying "Bob." Scott will ask him to say "Dada" but all we get is "Bob." He has us all wondering, "Who is Bob?"