President's Day Weekend

Over the President's Day weekend we headed to Yuma for a weekend of playing Wii and hiking with our favorite Lochridge's.

Kadri was happy to be riding face first for the trip! She loves this pink car seat, a hand-me-down from one of her cousins.
Some photos of our hike at the slot canyons:




Howie, the Wonder-Wimp dog, kept up like a trooper, but when we all paused for a little break, he didn't curl up on the ground like any normal dog would do. Nope, our pampered pup picked the softest place he could find and curled up in the Lochridge's backpack. What a nerd face!
After all the fun of the weekend, and a LONG ride home for Miss Kadri, she was overjoyed to finally be reunited with her Pooh Bear. She picked him up on a visit to a second hand store with Daddy, and made sure that Daddy knew she was not leaving that store without him. She LOVES that Pooh Bear!

Cute clothes

For play:

For church:
For surfing on Daddy:
A girl can never have too many clothes!

Curls!

One Year Photos

Christmas 2010

A late-ish post, and a lazy post. Not many words. Just pictures. Enjoy!

Kadri in her Christmas pajamas. Where is my baby disappearing to?


Kadri with her Nerf-dart cigar.

Kadri sitting in and playing with her cousins' Christmas toys.

How can you call it Christmas without croquet and salad?

Such a cute girl, but again, where's my baby?


Patty-cakes with Mommy.

So much attitude!

And so beautiful!

Howie showing off his super-athleticism.

Kadri's First Birthday!

Yup. It's true. Kadri's first birthday was yesterday. Where did the year go?

We had a small birthday party for her at our house, and my sister and her family came for dinner, presents and her first birthday cake. Here are a few photos of the festivities.

Birthday Dinner - Spaghetti! It was a hit, as you can see.


One big pile of presents (they multiplied when the Shannon crew showed up) and the cute birthday girl (with spagetti remnants on her nose).




Opening presents



Presents received: 2 baby dolls, a bottle for the babies, a "CD Player", a book (The party pretty much stopped when she opened the book. We had to work really hard after that to get Kadri to finish opening presents.), and a new outfit.

What could possibly be more exciting than such presents?

Well, Howie's nasty, dirty rope toy for one!


And birthday cake for two! (It's supposed to be a daisy. Please forgive my botched first attempt at a cute birthday cake.)


Finally, a photo of Kadri with her first balloon. Which we found in the card from her Grandma, which we forgot to open until the day after her birthday. Oops!

Family Photos

Earlier this month we went and had our first professional family photos done. This was inspired by my brother and sister-in-law's very effective use of the free portrait and no sitting fees deals that are going on at Sears all the time. I jumped on-line and found a coupon for this photo collage...



Then this picture was so cute I just had to pay the $10 it cost to have it printed for forever. I haven't had a moment of buyer's remorse!



And I have a coupon for a free 10x13 with no sitting fee. I'm thinking that for Kadri's first birthday we may have to do something with that...