My baby is 1!

Uau! I can't believe that's been a year since I went to the hospital to have my little baby girl. I remember that I felt like that day was never going to come and I was going to stay pregnant forever! Now she is walking, starting to talk and growing everyday, and I just wish time would slow down!

We had her birthday party on the 25th, and I really got excited and went all out with the decorations! It took me a long time to do everything, but it was definitely worth it! She loved seeing Monica (the character in red, which is her favorite since she was little) all over the place and actually even enjoyed the party. She had no problem unwrapping her gifts and even shared them with her cousins.

Today she is actually sick, so we're probably not going to do anything special for her birthday, just make sure she gets plenty of rest and mommy and daddy's love! Plus it snowed for the first time this year, so it's too cold to go out and do anything else!

I took this picture this morning to show the snow on the back! She kinda looks sick poor thing!

catching up a little...

It's been a little while, but my computer's C disk is pretty much full (like 99%) so I'm having a hard time getting my pictures downloaded... We've been having a lot of fun this summer, and a couple of weeks ago we had another "last minute" family reunion with the Mecham side of the family. We thought nobody was going to come and then at the last minute pretty much everybody decided to come! It turned out really fun, except for the crazy change of weather, that made us freeze and not be able to go to the lake...so we decided to go Huckleberry picking. I was SO excited because my bags from last year are almost gone and nothing better than fresh huckleberries!

Here are Tiffany's babysitters...she didn't really warm up to anybody during the reunion but at least she would let some hold her every once in a while!Mommy was very busy the entire time. I found some pretty full patches with some huge huckleberries....it was heaven!
Kandace let Tiffany play with her sunglasses, and everybody laughed when we put it on her, so she would just let us do it and look at me with a huge smile on her face...it was adorable! Tiff hanging out with the girls. She thought she was pretty big!
Tiff learned how to give hugs...I have to say this is my FAVORITE thing she's done so far...she hugs me so hard and she loves to do it...she will hug me anytime I ask her so I keep asking because who knows how long it will last?!
Laura, Bryan's aunt, brought her dog with her and Tiffany loved to watch her, she just freaked out everytime the dog got too close. She kept trying to say au-au (baby word for dog in Portuguese).Since the weather never warmed up, we went up in the mountains again for some s'mores... Tiff doesn't have any warm clothes because it's been so hot so we had to improvise with some big boy's hat and gloves...I'm SO not looking forward to winter with her...having to bundle her up will be a pain!Her Great-grandpa Mecham gave her this doll and she just LOVED it... she keeps hugging it all the time now and will grabs it's arms and just walk around the house...SO CUTE!The week after the reunion we all got sick. I started and then got everybody else, so here Tiff is just tired laying on the floor (which she hardly ever does!)
Any ideas on how to cover and/or make Tiffany stop chewing on her crib? The right side of her crib is totally destroyed...and it's scary because it has pieces of wood poking out and I'm afraid she'll cut herself with it!Here is her new mama's hair! I really wanted a dark brown but on the box it had a Mahogany in the middle so it turned out like this....Bryan absolutely loves and I took some getting used to...maybe next time I'll get it right! Tiff is now obsessing with purses (starting early this one...) so I gave her this little purse I had and put a few things in it and gave it to her...she looked like a total babe!Another one of her obsessions...my wallet! Smart girl, huh?!

Tiff's first steps!

My little girl is already giving her first steps...I can't believe how fast she's learning things! Her first step was totally unexpected...I was talking to my mom on Skype and Tiffany was all excited to see vovo on the webcam. She was so focus on the computer that she didn't even realize she had stepped towards me. Bryan was here too so you can just imagine our faces! We have been working on her steps ever since. She does a lot better when her daddy is around and when she has something REALLY tempting to play with. This video has her giving the most steps we've seen so far...she kept going from me to Bryan and then decided to go play with her toys. We are so proud of our little girl and can't wait until she's off on her feet for good!

Flaming Gorge

Today Bryan, Tiffany and I went for a drive outside of Rock Springs. This is one of the very few times we didn't travel during Bryan's days off, so I wanted to go and visit some sightings around here. We drove to what's called Firehole and just hung out for a minute. It was super hot but the view was actually really pretty. It made me want to go camping and enjoy the outdoors a little more because I feel like summer is almost over and we're not really doing a whole lot of things outside. I really don't want this summer to end, I got too traumatized with the last winter and a new baby, seemed like we couldn't go out forever because it was always just cold enough to make her sick! Anywas, enjoy the pics!!

Another day at the Lake

So we finally found a way for Tiffany to enjoy the Lake. She didn't mind at all being that close to the water, she just played and played on this tube.
Finalmente achamos um jeito de fazer a Tiffany curtir o Lago. Foi soh colocar ela nessa baita boia rosa que ela esqueceu da vida!

Ateh com o primo Gage ela nao ligou. Alias, curtiu um monte! Os dois ficaram ali um tempao... tambem, estavam super cansados!
Not even with her cousin Gage did she mind the water. They hung out there for a long time, but I think the fact that they were super tired had something to do with it.
We finished off the day with a fire and some s'mores! Yumi!
Para terminar o dia, montamos uma fogueira e comemos uns S'mores (bolacha, com chocolate e marshmallow derretido no fogo!)