A Million Photos Update

Kyri and her big cousin, Jacey. It was like torture getting either of them to smile, but Kyri finally gave in....sort of

Kyri loved all of Grandma Mecham's Christmas decorations....until she started getting stuck in them!

opening her Christmas Eve present....new pajamas!!

Christmas morning. Her favorite part was throwing all the wrapping paper away...

...and sitting on all the boxes

Kyri's cousin, Brody got a new "four lee-er" (as Brody calls it) for Christmas. I love that her arm is behind him....just chillin'

Kyri still talks about Brody's "jip"/jeep

Brody got a new baby brother, Zane, about a week before Christmas. Kyri LOVED him!! "Baby. Touch. Kiss. Hold." So cute. Hopefully that won't change in a few months time.

Our little angel girl....looking so not girly....just breaking in a few items for baby brother

Kyri and I got to go to Idaho for a week this month and babysit my brother's kids (while he and his wife were in Hawaii, I might add). Kyri loved all the things to do...she was never bored.

the perfect sized table for coloring....and eating crayons, of course

Rebecca and Caroline made Kyri her very own house in their playroom

the 3 girls in "Kyri's house" having so much fun

playing the piano

jumping on the tramp. Kyri loved this!! Even now when she sees the picture she'll say "jump?"

"helping" mama

wearin' daddy's shoes....

...cuz she's so big!!

Kyri did not want to get dressed. So we dressed her bear first, but she still wasn't about to put anything else on!! She's getting very good at fit throwing!

ok you have to click on this picture to enlarge it. It's too funny. This is the face Kyri makes when we tell her to smile. And the bottom of her feet will let you know what a great housekeeper I'm not

We let our friends borrow the exersaucer and when they returned it Kyri thought it was the coolest toy. She just had to get in!! It kept her entertained for some time....

She absolutely loves chapstick, and since she is oh so independent, this is what we end up with (you may need to click to enlarge to see just how accurate she is!)

Who doesn't love a nice bubble bath? Toys anyone?

"how's my do?"

Quick Kyri Update (minus the photos)

We will definitely have a lot of pictures to post when we get around to that! But for now here is a quick Kyri update: She is talking SO much!! We love it! She will try to say anything we ask her to, and then usually remembers that word and will use it in her daily conversations. She also loves to repeat at least one word from each sentence we say. Pretty much we just think she's the smartest baby EVER! Unfortunately she's been sick, puking all morning, but it sure beats the last time she was sick and throwing up. (Long story short: last time she was sick we were at a condo in Bear Lake and had no access to a washing machine, so she ended up sleeping with towels instead of blankets and all 3 of us were up ALL night long) So it could be worse.

Kyri and I just spent a week in Idaho babysitting her cousins Rebecca and Caroline. I think she really misses having her cousins around and having their toys to play with, but I don't think she misses being touched and held and told what to do constantly :) And I know she especially misses her grandma! She even woke up in the middle of the night once, asking for "papa" (which is how she says both grandpa and grandma). Can't say as though I blame her....if you ask Kyri if Grandma spoils her, she shakes her head in a definite "yes"!!

Yesterday Kyri was eating a cracker and I asked if she could share (I'm trying to teach her good behaviors) with her baby (meaning her new baby doll). She brought her cracker over to me, lifted up my shirt, and stuck her cracker in my belly button....she was sharing with her baby brother!! She is just SO sweet and SO cute! We love having her around, even if all we hear all day long is "hold" and we get nothing else accomplished. At least we know our time was well spent!

And So The Story Goes....

Well, thanks to Gary for the last post you have all been updated about the sad day when our computer crashed and we lost our pictures (thousands of them)....It still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. Every time the subject comes up I tell Gary we have to stop talking about it...it just makes me sick. The worst part is that we had been talking about how we needed to back up all of our photos, but just never took the time to do it, being so busy with the holiday rush and all (and even though we have a second hard drive we could have been saving them to)....and so the story continues. Many of you mentioned taking our computer to get all of our data recovered. I want to assure you we did that. You see, when our computer crashed we couldn't even turn it on! Well, we could, but nothing would boot up. So, a few phone calls later, several days later, and $300 later this guy "fixed" our computer. Sure enough, we can now boot it up and have access to the Internet!! Unfortunately he was not able to recover any of our data. So, my dad, being the hero that he is, came all the way down to our house, picked up our hard drive, and is trying to recover the data himself! (he does computer forensics for a living...we should have had him come in the first place and saved our $300) We don't know if he will be able to find anything, but it's definitely worth a shot. Thanks dad!! We will keep you updated...and will post some pictures (we have some really fabulous ones on our camera!!) as soon as I feel okay about putting them onto our computer. And I will now try to catch up on all your blogs too! :)

SAD DAY

Just after we got home from Christmas, our computer had a case of the flu..........a really bad one apparently. Our hard drive crashed, and we lost all our pictures, most of Kyri. We only have the ones that we have posted on our blog so we are pretty sad about it. I guess we learned our lesson to save our pictures in a different place than on the computer. Word to the Wise........don't save your pictures only on your computer!