Brian's new job!

Well it is official. Brian accepted an offer from a Company called Xactware in Orem. So in December we will be moving to Orem. (probably not Orem, but somewhere outside of there). We are going down on Saturday to start our house hunt! We are really excited. Just thought I would let you all know!

10 Months Old

Annika is 10 months old today. It's crazy. She is such a funny girl who is so busy all of the time. She loves getting into everything that she can. She loves unrolling the toilet paper, and pulling all of the books off her book shelf. She also loves pulling off all of the DVD's. She is walking all over the place. She rarely crawls now. She loves reading her books, especially her Pet's book that has a picture of a dog on the front.

She gives kisses, and she signs fish. (It is more like the sign for milk, but she does it when she sees fish. Oh well I guess it's something huh!) This morning I got a great Video of Annika she is making her bear noise. If you ask her what noise a bear makes she will growl. It is pretty cute. She says ma (not very often) and dad, and she also will say my parents dog's name (dusty). She says dusty when she is reading her pet's book that has a picture of a dog like my parents on the front. She loves animals, and gets excited whenever she sees them. She is such a fun little girl. I just can't believe that she is 10 months old!

And She's Off

Well It has happened, Annika is walking around. Okay, not necessarily all around the house. But a good amount of the time she is walking instead of crawling. On Sunday, she just started standing up in the middle of the floor, Monday she started taking more steps, and today whenever she wants to go somewhere she stands up, and starts walking. She normally only gets in about 7-8 steps and then crawls the rest of the way, but she is walking. I just thought you all might want to see so we recorded this tonight. (her hair looks wonderful but I just took out her ponytail so her hair is standing on end. Look At her walking not her hair!)

Weekend Fun

Brian's little brother Eric left Wednesday for the MTC. He is going on his mission to Chili Santiago North. We are really excited for him. Because he spoke in Church on Sunday, Brian's older brother and his family came down from Seattle. It was really fun to see them. Annika loves playing with Abe and Henry. Abe always make Annika laugh. It was such a fun weekend, and we are glad we got to spend time with all of our wonderful family. Annika also got to play in the irrigation water. She loved it. I just thought I would post a couple of pictures, and say Good Luck to Eric!

9 Months

Annika is 9 months old. Where does time go? I can't believe that she is already 9 months old. That means that we have had her as long as I was pregnant. It is just crazy. But she is such a fun little girl. We went to the Dr. yesterday for her 9 month check up, and I just thought I would give a little update on her. She weighs 20 lbs. which is the 72% and she is 28" tall which is the 67%. The Dr. said she is just a healthy little girl. (That is definitely eating well!) She just got her first tooth on her bottom right. She is into everything and she is getting ready to walk. She is such a brave girl and reaches for different pieces of furniture to walk back and forth between them. She pulls herself up to anything that she can, and climbs over everything. She also loves reading her books. She is such a blessing to us.

Lagoon

Last weekend we went to Lagoon. My dad's work has a day for their employees to go so, we went down. It was a lot of fun. It was nice to have my family there, because they watched Annika and Brian and I just had fun and rode as many rides as we could. Brian is a little bit more adventurous when it comes to rides than I am. I went along on most of them, and we had a great time.

Annika got to do a fish pond with Grandpa Jarrett. She got a little whistle. Thank goodness she doesn't know how to use it yet. (from the look on her face, I don't think she knows how to use the fishing pole yet either!)
Jen, Alli, Austin, Brian, My aunt Jenise, my mom, and my cousin Kaylee rode the scrambler. Doesn't it look like they are having fun?

Annika also got to ride the Carousal. I think she liked it. The whole time it was going she didn't really do a whole lot, but she smiled when it was over.

We all went on the Animal Train. Annika loves animals so she liked looking at all of them. I think that we wore her out, but we had a bunch of fun.

Annika loves standing up by the dishwasher when I am loading and unloading it, but Sunday morning Brian was unloading it, and I guess she decided she wanted to crawl in it.

This is just a cute picture of Annika chillin, in her rocking chair, reading her books.