Helena's 9 month pictures

Helena is 9 months old already!

James' Baptism Pictures

James was baptized on December 15, 2010 but we waited to get his pictures done. I should have just done it right away, but 3 months later, this is what we got.

Grandma Packer made this 'comforter' for him and gave it to him while she did her talk on the Holy Ghost. He loves it!

So handsome!

We are very proud of you James for deciding to be baptized!

PCC with Brittany!

March 16, 2011

PCC with Brittany

Although we have been to the PCC more than 10 times we are still finding things that we have never done before! This time we found spear throwing. It was a lot of fun. One of the funnest parts was that everyone, including Sophia, could participate. We loved it!

There were different lines for each age group to shoot from.

A little funny story: These 20 something year old guys came and were in the group behind us waiting for their turn. While they were waiting they were smack talking. One of the guys says to the group, if any of you get it into the ring I will give you ANYTHING you want. He was sure that no one could do it. Well my turn came and I did it. I got a dead bulls eye. I turned around and asked him if the deal was for me too, if I could have whatever I wanted. He assured me one of his friends would be glad to give me whatever I wanted. It was kind of funny. I didn't stick around to see if any of their group was able to do it. It is nice to be the "old lady" who showed them up!

One of the other things we had never done before was fishing. Okay, it really isn't fishing it is feeding the fish, but James turned it into fishing by catching this little fish. The coconut bread is attached to the string with a paper clip, but James the fisherman was able to snag a fish with it! HE was SO EXCITED! He wanted to stay at the fishing hut the rest of the day! He was so cute!

This is the cute fishing hut! If you look closely the Tahitian lady sitting in the hut has some coconut bread next to her that the kids kept coming back for more and more of to feed the fish. It was actually pretty cool! The Tahitian lady looked pretty shocked when James caught the fish. She told him to feed them, not to catch them. He wanted to try to catch another one!

This is a Cap. He is what makes the PCC so great I think.

My kids were so funny: Sophia has to play shy, Daniel was in Heaven, Helena was very curious about Cap, and James was delighted with Helena.

I took the picture with my kids because I have several of the paintings that Cap has done in our bathroom and I thought it would be fun to have his picture with my kids.

We had a great time with Brittany at the PCC. Everyone wants to go back. We will have to wait until we all recover from to big outings back to back! We are having lots of fun with Brittany staying with us! We will miss Sterling, but it sure is fun having Britt here!

First Solid Foods

Honolulu Zoo

March 15th, 2011

We had a fun trip to the zoo during Spring Break. I packed everything and got it loaded up, or so I thought. I got everything but the diaper bag. It was full of everything we needed for the day for Helena. We did our best to wing it for her and she was a trooper. Luckily we had some Ritz crackers that I started her with. She hasn't ever had anything solid up until today so it was a whole new adventure. When I first gave them to her I ground them into powder in my hand then put the crumbs in her mouth, I was afraid she would choke on anything bigger. She didn't like it at first, but as the day grew on and she got hungrier and hungrier she liked it more and more. It didn't take long and she was holding the whole cracker taking small bites of it. She liked them! She did get a bit too much a few times but did pretty well for the most part. I now have bought her actual baby treats to get her going! She is growing up so fast!
She could do it on her own in no time!

Happy Baby, even at the end of our day at the zoo.

I went to the gift shop and bought a small water bottle and put water in it for her. She survived the day on water and crackers! Luckily, no messy diaper so we survived the whole day without the diaper bag!

Helena is 9 months old!

March 1, 2011

Helena is 9 months old! Time has gone by so quickly!

She can sit on her own and can do the Army crawl!

She is cutting more teeth. She is a droolly mess most of the time!

She can stand for very short periods of time if we stand her up. She gets very excited to be up so it doesn't last long.

I love her eyes!

Here her eye's look as big as the puppy's do.

Helena is getting bigger. The puppy is still huge but she loves it!

Such a cute girl!

So much has happened in only 9 months!
She weighs 18 lbs, wears size 6-9 clothes, and is in the 31% for her age.

She is doing great!

Beach Family Pictures

February 21 , 2011

I know I posted a ton of pictures, your job is to help me choose which are the best! I narrowed it down from over 600 to these but still need a bit more help. Leave a comment with the pictures that you chose (the numbers are below each picture)!

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I know that is a lot of pictures..There were over 600 just at the beach, not counting all the temple pictures and blessing shots. Lots of cute pictures but tricky to narrow down, so chose the ones that are your favorite and post a comment, facebook me or e-mail me with the ones you like the best!

Thanks for your help!