Ten Months.

I'm a day late on this post. But as of yesterday, our little miss is ten months old.

she....

Is such an easy baby.

I took her to State Wrestling this last weekend and her nap schedule was basically non-existent.

She was still just happy and sweet like she always is. 

Takes two naps in the day. The morning nap usually lasts an hour to an hour and a half, and her afternoon nap is usually an hour and a half to two hours.

Is eating a lot better now. The little Fruitie packets and bread are her favorites.

Still only has two teeth.

Has officially grown out of all of her nine month clothes.

Is impossible to take a picture of. She is either moving so the pictures are blurry, or right up on my lap trying to get the camera.

Loves to throw things behind her. If she is playing with something she usually just throws it/them behind her and then turns around and does it again. Cracks me up.

Loves to play with remotes. She usually gets one in each hand and clomps them all over the house.

The first thing she does when I put her in her carseat is pull her socks off. Then she usually tries to eat them.

Has started doing a fake laugh. It is so cute.

Does this new smile where she covers her teeth/gums up. It is kinda funny.

Is a total flirt! We can't go anywhere without her eyeing someone down and giving them a big ol' grin.

She has her own little flirt smile that she does too. She totally cracks me up!

VDay.

Hope everyone is having a Happy Valentines Day.

Our V-Day's are pretty chill around here. As I think they should be.

Valentine's wraps up what I like to call our "Holiday Season"...

we have our anniversary in September, Ray's birthday in October, my birthday in November.
Then comes Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentines Day.

I think you get the point.

I did, however, get some gorgeous pink roses, and a Reese's peanut butter heart. My favorite.

And these AWESOME long johns arrived in the mail this morning from my parents.

Addie has been in them all day. We even took her out to dinner in them. That is how much we love them.

Ray got a ten-second homemade Valentine's card. Poor guy.

And yes, it is 6 o'clock and we have already gone to dinner. We went at 4 and got seated right away. We may or may not have been surrounded by a bunch of old people. But by the time we left there was a buttload of people waiting to be seated. Haha suckers!

Sundays.

Today at church, we gave Addie the little plastic water cup to play with.

Apparently she thought it was her binky....

After church we usually spend the rest of the day just playing around.

Addie sure does love playtime with her dad.

But I kinda think he maybe loves it more.

(These pictures are actually from January. I don't know why I haven't put them on here yet.)

Oh yes we did.

We FINALLY went to the Idaho Potato Museum.

That's right, a museum all about potatoes!

We pass the sign all the time on our way to Idaho Falls, but this time we actually took the plunge.

And we learned so many interesting things.

For instance... Did you know that Bingham county harvests 2 Billion pounds of potatoes a year?

Yup, that is Billion with a B.

Making it the potato capital of the WORLD!

What?? Pretty crazy if you ask me... or Ray. 

He mentioned this little statistic about three more times since we left the museum.

We also learned that the little ol' state of Idaho produces 30% of the country's potatoes.

And the area we live in produces half of that thirty percent.

(I live about 20 miles south of the star in the yellow area)

Pretty neat.

But not nearly as cool as what we saw next.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we saw the world's largest potato crisp.

Crisp, not chip. There is a difference, but I can't remember what it was.

Anyways, it was made by the people that make Pringles.

And we can't forget the very large collection of Mr. Potato Heads...

It was kinda fun.

We decided it was good for Addie to get to know her roots.

After all she is an honest to goodness Idaho Spud.

Kinda weird to think that her whole life when people ask where she was born she will say

Pocatello, Idaho.

Yeah, Baby.

Oh, and yes, Ray did try to eat the giant potato.

Attractive, right?

I sure thought so....

Tuesday Tidbits.

1. Addie is still sick. She has been for like two weeks now. She can barely hold her head up most the time. She just drops and lays on the floor for a second and then she's right back up and going again. She does still manage to smile quite a bit, though. Such a sweet girl.

2. Because she is sick, I don't really want to take her very many places, so we have resorted to lots of cuddling and lounging around the house. I got really sick of Bubble Guppies so we watched Tangled instead. Addie would just start laughing at the most random parts. She is obviously too small to understand what was going on so it really makes me wonder what is going on in her cute little head.

3. Addie loves to walk. Not by herself. We have a coffee table and she has a block toy and she just circles around them nonstop. 

4. Addie's hair is finally long enough that it sort of lays down instead of just sticking straight up. She still looks bald though because she is such a little toe head.

5. Addie is absolutely in love with her blanket. I never really noticed because I always just kept her blanket in her crib. But I took it down to Cedar with me and holy cow. If it is anywhere close she will either lay on it, or just hold it up to her face. Funny girl.

6. She hates kisses. Ray always says she looks like she just got shot after we give her a kiss.

A plane ride and the superbowl.

We decided to fly home after our trip to Cedar. Allegiant air offers some pretty cheap tickets from Las Vegas to Idaho Falls so we went for it. I figured it was better than a nine hour car ride. And it was. 

This was Addie's first time on a plane, and my first time flying with a little one. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. If it wasn't for the nice lady behind me, I probably would have broken into tears. But I did learn a lot of things and I think it will be easier next time.

The plane ride itself wasn't bad at all. It was only about an hour and a half and Addie slept most of the way. The only reason she didn't sleep the whole way is because I woke her up. Let's just say she was in desperate need of a diaper change. And let's also say that they certainly don't make those airplane bathrooms diaper changing friendly. 

Anyways, here are my sad attempts at getting pictures of her first plane ride...

I kept shoving the binky in her mouth because I didn't want it to hurt her ears. And she kept spitting it out. I'm sure it looked quite comical. Yes, we are rookies.

eating some snacks.... haha.

Anyways, Ray was there to pick us up at the airport. And boy were we glad to see him.

And I just have to mention that I have the best husband. Ever.

He drove us home from Idaho Falls and I walked into a clean house (we're talking floors vacuumed, dishes done, bed made, all that fun stuff) with dinner in the oven.

Are you kidding me? How did I get so lucky! Love that guy!

We sat down and ate dinner, watched the superbowl, I whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and it was perfect. Love my life!

George Strait.

Addie and I headed town south last week to spend a little time with family. It was fabulous, as always. But the most fabulous part was that I got to end the weekend with a George Strait concert. Addie ended her week with a sleepover at her cousins' house in Mesquite. Yes, this was the first time I had ever left her overnight, and she wasn't feeling great the whole week before so I was really nervous to leave her. Not because I had any doubts about Dan and Mindi's babysitting abilities, but because I was afraid she was going to keep them up all night long. But she absolutely adores her cousins and from what I was told, she was a little angel. Hallelujah!

Anyways, back to the concert. This is sort of an annual thing for us. It is just for the girls, and let me tell you what... we were kickin' up our boots all night long! I absolutely love these ladies and all the fun times we have together. And yes... we had a party bus.

My new boots. I can now officially check these off the pinterest wish list. These babies walked me all the way down the Las Vegas strip without even a blister. Wahoo! Thanks, mom!

Martina McBride opened for George and she was SO GOOD. All of her songs make you proud to be a woman/girl/whatever I am. Am I the only one that feels weird calling myself a woman?

And of course, George was Amazing!