Home Sweet Home!!!

We are finally home for awhile after being gone for nearly a month. Casey worked in the emergency department at Maricopa County Hospital in Phoenix for four weeks. It is so good to be home. We stayed with my oldest sister and her family. They are so great. Paige got sick and had a few rough nights and then towards the end of our stay had some even crazier nights. She was ready to get home and went right back to her normal schedule. I think she was just as glad as we were to be sleeping in her own bed. Casey is now working in the ICU at the University Medical Center here in Tucson.

Unfortunately, while we were gone, Casey's beloved car broke down. What a tradgedy. So now we are trying to decide what we want to do since we were planning on buying a car in March when we find out if and where we will be moving. He has an interview in Texas next week for his residency so that should be interesting. We'll see how it goes. Other than that, we are just getting back into the swing of things. I'll have to post some pics next time. Until then....

New Pics

We went to the park the other day with some friends from out ward. Afterwards, my friend Karla took some pics of Paige and I together. They turned out pretty well. Thanks Karla.

Paige is quite active these days...as most babies are. I found a jumperoo on Craigs list for her to use for awhile. It is huge and takes up way too much space, but I figure when we are done with it, I will just sell it for the same price I bought it. She LOVES the thing. Here is a short video of her pure excitement. She gets some serious air. So cute!

We're Alive!!

I know that I haven't updated my blog in ages, but no worries, we are still alive. There is way too much to catch up on so I am just going to pretend that July and August never happened (for now anyway).

Paige and I just took a trip to Utah to visit Casey. He has been working this month at the ER at the University of Utah. My parents have a condo right next to Temple Square in Salt Lake City so we stayed there. We had a lot of fun. Casey only had to work three shifts while I was there which was nice because we were able to spend quite a bit of time together. Here are some pics from our trip.

My parents have been at the MTC for the past couple weeks so they came up on Thursday and babysat Paige while we went out and on Friday we were able to go to the Temple. They left Friday morning for thier mission in San Jose, CA. This is the view from the street where we stayed. You can see the temple from the window at the condo where we stayed...so pretty.
We went for a walk along a trail next to a creek. Paige was practically crawling out of her stroller trying to see the running water. It was a new sight for her.

We went hiking one day-apparently it was naptime. Paige fell asleep while we were still hiking.

Here is Paige and her second cousin Paje. She was born exactly a month after our Paige. Ours is definitely more chubby...no question there.
It was a great trip. We sure do miss Casey a lot and we can't wait for him to come home. This single mom gig got old weeks ago. I don't know how all those military wives in our ward deal with thier husbands being gone. Yuck!!!

Paige's first 6 months

Paige made it to six months this past week and thankfully we made it too. She is doing well and is still quite a happy baby until she realizes how incredibly tired she is. This girl sleeps great throughout the night, but will not take a good nap during the day...ever. I have finally gotten her into a regular morning nap (which generally only lasts fro30-45min) and then she will not take an afternoon nap for the life of me. This would be fine except that she gets super cranky from about 4pm on. DRIVES ME NUTS!!!! Here are some pics from her first six months.

Here she is the day she was born...

One Week...One Month...Two Months...Three Months...Four Months...Five Months...Six Months...

And many more to come!!!!!

Road Trip

Two weekends ago we drove to St. George for Curtis (my brother) and Sharri's wedding. I was not looking forward to the drive with a baby and rightly so...it ended up being over 11 hours each way for us. Yuck.

Here we are in Taunya's van - we carpooled, which made it a bit easier.

And here are some other random pics:

Paige swimming with Grandma Balls

This past weekend, Paige and I went up to Gilbert for their reception. Paige got a new dress (as we were supposed to wear red, black or white). She was supposed to look like this...

Instead of being a cute baby to show off, she decided to sleep during half of the reception at Aunt Taunya's house and cry for the other half. Little stinker. So instead she looked like this...

Weekend Trips

This past weekend, me and Paige took a little trip up to Casa Grande and Mesa to visit our extended families. On Friday, we went to see Indiana Jones with Casey's family. She has been a little crabby about loud noises lately (see below) so I thought it would be interesting to see how she dealt with the movie. My dad and KJ came up a couple weekends ago to install a new door for us. This is the reaction Paige had everytime she heard the drill. I thought it was hilarious. This girl hardly ever cries and she was hysterical about the drill. (sorry, I couldn't figure out how to turn it the right way)

Paige and I also went to Flagstaff a couple weeks ago for Amber's graduation. Here we are in the Sky Dome. I haven't been back to Flag since we moved to Tucson three years ago. I forgot what trees and forests looked like. It was a beautiful day and I got to see Kisha (one of my old roomies) so it was a good time.

A day in the life of Paige (and Tamra)

We have been working on getting a good routine going. It has not been very successful considering that my baby does not sleep. Don't get me wrong, she sleeps the whole night, but she does not believe in sleeping during the day. If she does sleep, it is for the shortest amounts of time imaginable. Seriously, I always joke because if she falls asleep and then wakes up 10 minutes later, I consider that to be her morning nap - I'm lucky if I get a similar one in the afternoon. So to remedy the sleep issue, I try my best to make her sleep in with me. Casey has been getting up for work around 5am, very close to the time that Paige gets up...so I just bring her in to keep me company. Here she is in my bed (not sleeping, obviously.)
The remainder of her day consists of...

Sitting:Eating: would you call that a milk mustache? more likely a milk beard!!

Playing with Elizabeth (although it does not always consist of sucking on each others toes):
Dinner time: The only way we can eat dinner uninterrupted is if she is sitting on the table with us. I am sure that this will not work forever, but for the time being, it allows us to eat in peace.

Bath time:

And on Sundays, reading the paper with Daddy to find some "hot deals":

All this equals one happy girl (don't mind the slobber):