Zuki!!!

Sitting in Mommies pan. She did this for five minutes. Don't know what she was expecting to happen.

Grabbed her monkey, rolled over, and took a nap.

Waiting for the prayer to be over. (Grandmama Luan made the bib...isn't it CUTE?)

Grinning in Grandmama's favorite color.

Okay, So I know a lot of you (mostly family) have been waiting for pictures of Zuki's birthday. It was sunday the 5th of April, and we had a family party. We made a homemade Cookie Monster which is our favorite dessert at Craigo's pizza restaurant. Sadly, I am not sure where the photos got downloaded. Still looking. (and sooooooo frustrated).

Happy St. Pats!!!

So, I decided to try my hand at documenting an event. Yesterday was soooo crazy. I'll try to keep my story short. OK. First of all, St. Patrick's day has become a tradition in our little family. I make corned beef, cooked cabbage, and cooked carrots for dinner. When I went shopping for the corned beef, I discovered that none of the local grocery stores had any! So...I had to drive to Idaho Falls which is a 30 minute drive. When I got to Winco (whom I KNOW carries corned beef), I didn't have my wallet. Well, I didn't want to make anything else for dinner (plus we were having company), so I drove all the way back home, got my wallet, and drove all the way back (did I mention that Zuki is not used to long car rides and was upset the whole time?). When we got home, I put the beef in my big pot, and commenced to make sugar cookies for the first time. These turned out great. Then I started to peel the carrots, and chop the cabbage, and realized my pot wasn't big enough, and I would need another big pot, so I ran over to my friends apartment to borrow a pot, and just as I shut the door, my heart sank as I realized I had locked myself out (thank goodness Zuki was sleeping). So, I ran and got the pot, and also borrowed one of her credit cards so that I could pick my lock. By the time I got into the apartment, I was way behind schedule. Then I realized that I had a meeting later on that I wouldn't be able to make, so I called the girl I was supposed to meet with and asked her if she wouldn't mind coming over so that I could explain her calling to her (she was called to my calling), she told me she would be over in ten minutes. Mo called right after I hung up, and said he was ready to be picked up. AHHH! So, I woke Zuki up, and we rushed to get Mo, and got back just as the girl was coming to see me. Then our guests came, and THEN...our Home Teachers came over. Mo had made and appointment, and totally forgot about it. I didn't even know. I had to laugh. After all this, I forgot to take pictures of the food and our guests. Grrr. I will do better next time.

Teeth

Here are her top teeth!!! She's figuring out how to bite, I mean, not people, but food and stuff like that. I hope she doesn't start biting other people.

Look at her eyelashes!!! I wish mine were that long.

This is after a VERY long day at church. I had early morning meetings starting at 7:45, and then church from 9-12, and then a presidency meeting right after, and then a meeting with the Bishop. We didn't get back until 2:30, and she hadn't slept at all at church. She crashed for three hours. That was nice.

New things with Zuki

Discovering toilet paper was such a joy.

Peeking in on Daddy!

Playtime!

This is the first pizza I ever made from scratch! Soooo yummy!

Loves helping out in the kitchen!

Okay, so we were watching American Idol, and we realized it was too quiet, so we looked to see what Zuki was up to, and she was eating this piece of chocolate...not only the chocolate, but the wrapper too!!!

Ahem...

Where do FLIES come from???? I do not like that annoying little buzzing sound of a fly on the inside of my window. I have shrink-wrapped my windows, so they aren't coming from the outside of the windows, and my door is NEVER open, mainly because I have a sweet little one who would take a tumble down the stairs, AND the flies come one at a time. I chase one around the apartment, and by the time I have broken a knick-knack, and my hair is out of whack, the fly is dead and flushed down the toilet. Two days later, there is another one and it starts all over again!!! You'd think if they are being hatched inside my apartment, there would be more than one at a time. So...Where are they coming from? Maybe its a slow invasion. Maybe they think I'll get tired of chasing their little soldiers down, and let them live...then they might send two the next time. OR!!! They could be cameras...little flying robots...does anyone else have any ideas??? I am running out of knick-knacks!

Ummmm

Okay, so I know I am a little late getting back to the real world. Mo and I have had a very weird few weeks, from our car trouble in Elko, to my Grampa passing away, and lost keys in the snow (talk about a needle in a haystack). On top of that, Mo got a new computer this semester, and thus all the pictures have been going onto his computer, and not mine. This will complicate blog matters. Don't worry, I am determined to get all these stories out one at a time, They don't have pictures to go with them, but, I'll post some you haven't seen. What a weird year we have started.

Just some cutes

Babysitting my friends baby, Tom.

So exhausted. I was doing my makeup at the mirror with my back to her, and all of a sudden she wasn't making noise, and I turned around, and this is what I saw!

Lookin' good in the hood.

This is her first time eating peas. She just kind of sat there with them on her tongue, mouth wide open for a few seconds before swallowing every bite. And then...

She gagged. Mo and I were laughing so hard the whole time this was going on. She never threw up, but kept making gagging noises. So funny. she kept eating though. Little trouper.