We like early morning walks, usually before the sun is out. It looks like this one might've been a little later since there is some light, unless it's the flash.

Natalia turned 6 months a couple weeks ago. It was difficult to get a good picture of her. Whenever we got a good pose, the picture would be blurry. I don't know what was up with our camera. It better not be going bad. It cost a pretty penny. Anyway, here is my 6 month dark-haired, blue-eyed beauty.

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Natalia does not seem to sit still for even a second.

So we tried moving the paper because she kept trying to grab it.

I didn't like the previous post so we tried sitting her up.Her attempts to grab the paper were successful.

Yummy. We are all about natural foods...paper comes from trees doesn't it?

Then we tried laying her down on this fabric...notice the chuck she had bitten out of the corner of the paper. Ha ha!

Flailing her arms and legs...LOOK at those rolls!

I love me some chunka bebe! I love those thighs!

 Natalia, you are already 6 months old! We love you so much! Your personality is growing too. You are such a happy baby (now that Mommy put you on a needed sleeping schedule). You don't cry much. Days go by without any crying. You love your mom and dad. You know daddy is home right from the sound of the door opening and if you are awake, you wait for him to come up. You still love to be sung to. You have started talking so much. Yesterday in church you talked and talked and talked! You love to go on outings. You love to be at the store where there lots of things to look at. You are sleeping so well now. Mommy felt your first tooth coming in last Monday. Hooray! You are growing so fast. I don't want to miss a moment. You are such a beautiful baby. People tell me often that you look like a doll. I love you Baby Girl! Happy 6 month birthday!

Pictures from Sunday, September 16, 2012

 

 My grandparents recently moved to Utah from Colorado so we paid them a visit.Their little dog Angel would bark a lot at Natalia when we would put her on the floor. Natalia seemed to like the dog and wasn't scared at all. She would smile back.Well, I'm behind on posting pictures so onto more posting.

Hey Natalia, remember that time when we broke into our house with a stick and a bobby pin because Mommy locked the keys in the house? That was fun.

Natalia,
Elder Holland recently gave a talk at a CES devotional last week. I cannot get over how inspirational it was. I keep raving about it to Daddy. I've been watching it over the past few days when I have down time. One of the things that I found extremely motivating to be better mother, spouse, and person,serve others, and everything about being a disciple of Christ is he said that when Christ comes, Elder Holland want to be caught in the act of doing something good. Elder Holland wants to be surprised by His coming while he is in the act of doing something good.

I love Elder Holland. It seems that I always get so much out of his talks. I remember when I was attending BYU and it was he gave another talk about Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail and I can still remember how I felt sitting in the Marriott Center listening. Natalia, I want you to always know that if we just try our best to live right, God will let us know He is there and that how we are living and what we are trying to do each day is right, we just have to recognize it. I love you and happy 6 month birthday! I'll post a picture later.

Here is one reason why I love my life. I love my adorable baby girl. She has such a goofy personality sometimes. She is turning into a momma's girl, and the smile she gives me melts me. Here is our week in pictures...Have you seen a cuter thing? I love you Baby Girl!!!

Natalia is on a bran' new schedule. During her awake times we like to go outside. I love schedules. I even have her awake times planned out somewhat so after a certain amount of time we do something else.

This day we went to the Splash Pad. We laid out on the grass and also played with the water a little. It was hard to get pictures around the water so I'm not posting any. I wish I had an older kid so we could go to other activities, like story time at the library or kangaroo zoo. Natalia loves to people watch. Maybe we'll go anyway.

She's wearing shoes. We don't put shoes on her often so I had to snap a picture to show Josh.

We laid out on a couple sheets behind our home before her afternoon nap.

After this I turned the flash off so she could keep her eyes open

She is so dang cute.

Of all the toys she had to play with, she chose the camera strap. She also loves to play with the wipes' package. Who needs toys?

Rollin' over

Ha ha she cracks me up

Reaching for the camera

It took me a couple tries, but I finally captured her sticking her tongue out.

Natalia wakes up around 6:30 in the morning. That stretch of time until her first nap is a hard one since I'm still tired. Going outside helps wake us both up. Our new thing is sit outside in the morning, read, and watch the cars go by.

Such a big bow, but she looks so cute. This day we ran errands with my grandma. Natalia liked being out of the house, I did too. After our first store. we went to my parents', made dinner, ran another errand with Josh, my mom, and grandma, and then we went out to Menchies. It was so good and my grandma treated which was so nice of her.

Yesterday we were ambitious and decided to jog and walk to Smith's. I love Natalia's exercise clothes. Here she is pulling on Daddy's ear.

Now with Mommy. Oh, and we also looked at a gym yesterday. I am so excited to start doing weights again. I have been yearning to do weight training for a few months and we're finally getting that crossed off our to do list.

Yesterday, Natalia tried avocado.

She did not like it.

And the mean parents we are, we kept giving her some so we could snap pictures...and see if she would get used to it.

Nope, she did not get used to it. I'm sorry my Baby Girl.

I can't believe how fast time goes by. Natalia will be 6 months tomorrow! I swear I blinked and time flew by.

Sitting outside at 8 in the morning trying to keep Natalia awake until Mommy wants her to take a nap at 9. Brr..it was cold.