Ice Skating

Last Saturday Kira, Stew and Kylee and Colleen and Andrew decided to come up to Salt Lake to go ice skating and invited us to go along. We went to the Gallivan Center and had a blast!

Getting ready for fun!

Surprise!

Awww, what a cute couple!

Waving at the zamboni as it drove around and around.

Cute Kylee. The little ladies snacked and played while we took turns skating until...

...Grace had had enough of just watching. So we got her a pair of way-too-big skates so she could get in on the action.

It was a little tougher than she thought, but she did an okay job when she tried to "walk" in the skates.

Skater family

Grace was looking like she had so much fun that when she was done, Kylee threw the skates on and jumped into the rink. She was such a good skater.

All done! Time to go home for hot chocolate and chocolate cake! Whoo hoo!

The Smile

I've been trying to work with Grace on her smiling skills for photographs. I realized the other day that she probably didn't know what I meant when I keep saying "SMILE!!!!" from behind the camera. So now when I say smile I point to my mouth and give her a big smile - I think it's working. My favorite smile is the "scrunch face" - which I can't seem to find a picture of. It's just so cute and full of joy it can't but make me happy.

Pointing to her mouth while trying to smile.

Snack Time

As I was cleaning the kitchen and finding us a snack, Grace was busy feeding DeDe a snack.

Put the bib on.

A bite of food.

A sip of milk.

Wipe the face off.

All done!

Animal Friends

Every year for Christmas Grandpa and Grandma Gwilliam give everyone some money for our annual Books and Breakfast. So this morning we went to Barnes & Noble to pick out our gifts from them. While Grace loves books, she loves stuffed animals even more. We had a hard time keeping Grace focused on the books and keeping the stuffed animals on the shelf. At one point she had all the animals she could hold in her little arms. Pretty amazing, eh?

Buddies

My good friend Kristen comes over every morning to exercise with me and brings along a little playmate (ha!) for Grace, her daughter Madison. They are almost exactly one year apart in age, and Grace loves to help "take care" of Madison when she comes over.

Sometimes Grace likes to pretend that she's still a baby too, and gets a binky out. It was pretty traumatic this morning when I hid them and wouldn't get one out for her...oops!

One of these things is not like the others...

Can you spy my little helper's work here?

Here's the sweet culprit herself (refusing to smile)...but hey, I'm grateful for any help I can get!

Wedding!

On Saturday, Rob's sister, Katie, married Scott Price in the Salt Lake Temple.

Happy (and cold!) bride and groom.

Sweet girl.

Sweet family.

"I'm going there someday..."

Girl cousins

Boy cousins

Of course Grace found the vents for a little Marilyn moment while we were waiting for the luncheon.

Grace loves her Uncle Mike

And this is only part of Katie's side.

Grace was stylin', thanks to the Easton girls for helping out with the accessories.

Katie and her daddy

We saw a lot of this... :)


After a fun day, the bride and groom took off in their oh-so-fashionably decorated car.

And Grace played with, I mean, helped clean up the balloons...

...and then we had a dance party!

What a great day! Congrats Scott & Katie!

Happy Birthday Amanda!

Happy birthday to the most beautiful girl, perfect wife and best friend I could ever have.

Love,
Rob

Super Girl!

The other day for dinner we were having beans, so we decided to take her shirt off so it wouldn't get all beany and nasty. It was a good thing we did, because she decided that the bib was too much of a nuisance in the front and that rubbing bean juice all over your belly feels good! Who would've thought?!

Cowboy Boots

Grace loves to wear anyone and everyone's shoes that she finds around the house. She was really frustrated when she couldn't figure out how to put on my cowboy boots, so I helped her.

Doesn't my cowgirl look pretty darn cute in those boots?

It was pretty hard to figure out how to walk in them, but as soon as she does, you'd better believe we're going to start working on the country dancing skills :)