Apologize

I just want to apologize to everyone about making this site a "lets mock my family" website! I hope i have not seriously hurt anyone's feelings.

Merry Go Round

Park City and the Alpine Slides

This Last weekend Dad and Veniece made a trip up here to celebrate Katherine's Graduation from BYU. (Go Graduate! Good thing the divinity school is out of her system or it would have called for more mocking.)

For part of the celebration we went to Chef's Table here in Orem. Very good and very expensive. I loved the food. Now I do have one problem with the whole night. I thought everyone knew that rare, medium and well done mean totally different things in a fancy restaurant compared to a Chili's or a Mimi's. But apparently Michelle does not understand this concept. Because she decided that her medium stake was too rare. (Come on patrick even ate his "well done" pink meat with no complaint) and she sent it back. Well the Chef happened to over hear this and was not happy. I seriously thought that the man was going to throw all of us out. I was afraid for my life and was trying to imagine audrey growing up parentless. I was so scared that i did not make eye contact with the wait staff for the rest of the night. I stared blankly at my food. I kept imagining the little chef from Ratatouille. I wouldn't want to cross that guys path and he was a cartoon. Whatever I'm just not going to go to a fancy restaurant with Michelle ever again. (sorry dude, you blew it!)

Anyway, She sent it back. And like i said he was not happy. But for some wonderful reason Veniece has a way with people and made the whole thing blow over. Snaps for Veniece. But i swear that man was giving our table to evil eye for the remainder of the evening and I'm sure the wait staff was not excited about us. I can guarantee the chef had some choice words for all of them even if it wasn't their fault.

The next day we headed up to Park City to play on the Alpine Slides. It was loads of fun. i just wish that audrey was old enough to go up the lift. You have to be 2 to ride the lift and 3 to ride the slide. but the little monster would have wiggled out and fallen to her death if she had ridden it. I know that sounds morbid and it is but she would have. She can not hold still for that long. We'll have to wait a few more years before she rides that thing. and i'm sure by then we'll have another terror of a child and have to wait even longer. (Patrick and I have a theory as to why god gave us such a rambunctious child. I think he looked at the two of us planning our family and said "you know what you're not going to be the most awesome at this parenting thing so i'll send you this little spirit that is like 3 kids in one and you'll feel like you have a complete family. "guess what it worked. We have no plans for any more child rearing. at least for now. Now i don't want to hear anyone saying "Awe liz that's not true." because it totally is!)

I digress.

So since the monster could not go up the lift dad bought her a pack of tickets to all the kiddy rides. I know.....right! you have to pay for a one and half year old to ride a ride! She loved them. At first she was afraid of them but since there were three and we had ten tickets she got to ride everything several times. She loved the merry go round and she also enjoyed the planes. I have pictures of her on the plane and a video on the merry go round but the battery died while we were there and didn't get anymore pictures.


i haven't been to the slides in so many years. When we went it was not the thing to do. and it didn't cost an arm and a leg to do it. But the old slides are still there and they have added 2 new ones. But the old ones are still the best because they are tin and not plastic and the thing slides down them much much faster. Plus their old and old things are always more dangerous and that's what makes them fun.

They have added 2 new attractions the zip line (which patrick and i did not go on because it was over and hour and half wait.) and a roller coaster. Matthew and few others seemed to like the coaster better. But i'm stuck in my ways and love the slides. Too bad they slowed down the lift. I think we would have gone more but it took so long to get up there for a 2 minute ride. Oh well I still loved it.



Thank you dad and Venice for an awesome weekend.

Love,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey.

Man Hole Cover

So i realized that i didn't tell everyone about this. A few weeks ago patrick and i were driving across the freeway on university parkway toward the lake.


Someone had gone into the middle lane and hit a man hole cover that popped up and came flying at us. It bounced off the pavement a few time and then hit the car on the driver side back door. thank goodness the cover was on it's way down or it would have crashed through the window and hit Audrey. Scary!



Anyway, Due to street bureaucrats we have been back and forth between orem city and Udot trying to figure out who's fault it is. turns out noone wants to take the blame. Annoying! we have to file a complaint with Udot and Orem city and hope that one finally takes the blame. Other wise it's our responsiblility. the repairs are at at total of $1100-$1200. But with insurance it will be a $500 dollar deductible. In other words if someone doesn't take the blame we'll be waiting a very long time to get the car fixed.

I'm annoyed about the whole thing.

Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey

walking around

Signs, Sounds and Words

Lately Patrick and I have noticed how easy it is to communicate with Audrey. She has learned lots of words. Most of them she can sort of speak but she knows a lot of them in sign language. And i just wanted to take the opportunity to tell you some of the words that she knows.

Here is a list of words that she knows how to say. (I know there are more but I can't think of anymore)

1. Mommy (very very clear)
   
2. Daddy (also very very clear)
   
3. Audrey
   
4. More
   
5. Milk
   
6. Juice
7. Shoes
8. Hi
9. Bye
10. Pinks (her stuffed animal)
11. puppy
    
12. Kitty
13. Outside
14. Soft
15. All done
16. Currently we are working on Amen
    

Here is a list of words that she knows in Sign Language. (again there are more but i can't think of them.)

1. Please
2. Hungry
3. More
4. Milk
5. candy
6. Apple
7. Shoes
8. Brush your teeth (this one is cute. This morning while patrick was brushing his teeth audrey came up to me and did the sign of brush your teeth to me and I brushed her teeth. Good that she is learning hygiene early.)

And finally here are some things that she does.

1. She loves to play peek a boo. And will mimic the inflection in my voice for the words peek a boo.
   
2. She will grab the brush and start to brush her hair.
3. she loves to sing. and Sings whenever the radio is on.
   
4. If she has soiled herself (and she notices) she will go and get a diaper and the wipes and will lay down with the two items in hand. If she doesn't notice she will go and get the diaper when asked to do so.
   
5. (I love this) Every morning after i pull her out of the crib she will walk into the living room and lay down next to the cubby that holds the diapers and wipes. First thing! I love it!
6. If you give her something and ask her to she will throw it away. I don't throw diapers away any longer. she is happy to run it over to the garbage and put it in. She will find trash and throw it away with out asking. And she even creates trash (a.k.a she will find a perfectly good piece of paper and rip it up just so she can throw it away.)
7. When she wants to go outside she will say shoes and then go find everyones shoes. then she will find our cell phones, give it to us and then she will say outside and go stand next to the door.
   
8. She will fold her arms and say a little prayer. Sometimes her prayer will be after family prayer. Sometimes it will be during. All that matters is she is learning to pray.
9. Her movies are on the lower shelf of the DVD stand. She will walk over to the stand and pick out one of her movies and bring it to us so that she can watch it. She really loves little mermaid.
   
10. She loves to jabber on our cell phone. She'll go and get them and act as though she is having a conversation with someone on the other line. I think it's cute.
11. If you ask she will show you where her belly button is and her head. We've been working on toes for a while but she hasn't caught on to that

I believe that is all that i can think of at this moment.

Loves,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey

Pictures....Finally

Finally I have pictures for you.

Asleep in her bed. Cute Huh?

about to go on walk with grandma

Audrey got to the grass from Easter

Tia with Audrey in Texas at the Bowling Ally

Isn't she cute?

Michelle in her Wedding dress

Audrey and Her Cousin Mckayla

Audrey, Mckayla, and Katherine

Annoyed

I've been trying to put pictures up from past events but every time i try and upload the pictures from my camera to iphoto, iphoto crashes. It happened 5 times last night. I had to turn the computer off once. I think we need to reinstall the program because it's been acting odd for the last little while.

So when i get pictures from my camera on to my computer i'll have pictures on the website.

Elizabeth :)