Dinner

On Sunday we had our friends Cody and Breaelle over for dinner. I'm not a great cook, but things were going alright in the kitchen...

until I decided to make some garlic bread.

Within 90 seconds of placing it in the oven, thick black smoke was spewing through the oven vent. We opened the oven to discover both halves of the loaf covered in flames.

Cody saved the day. He grabbed the flaming bread and ran it out to the snow.

The worst part (besides a house filled with smoke, a blaring smoke detector, and near death by bread fire)? Christian and Cody still ate the rock-hard, pitch-black, charred-to-bits bread!

Who knew bread could be so dangerous?

DOH!

Yesterday at the museum I leaned in to get a closer look at a ship replica. I could almost see down into the ship's holds when I heard a loud 'THUD' followed instantly by a sharp pain in my forehead.
Yep, the ship was behind glass.
Nope, I was not alone in the museum.

My, how he has grown

1 week old

5 1/2 months old

6 weeks old

5 1/2 months old

We love Dr. Seuss!

Noah and I checked a bunch of Dr. Seuss books out from the library last week. They are HILARIOUS!! I didn't realize there were so many that I hadn't read before! Some of my favorites that were new to me include:

The Glunk That Got Thunk
Did I Ever Tell You? (About Mrs. McCave)
What was I Scared of?
and Horton Hatches the Egg

They are so silly! I could read them over and over and still laugh every time! Dr. Seuss wrote about 50 children's books in all, and I want to read every one! I hope our library has most of them!

In other literary news:
I finally read the Twilight books. I finished the 4th one last week. My mom was right...it was worth wading through some cheese to get to the last book!

Noah's newest silly face...

Yum yum!

Food Time!

Crawling...backwards

Noah's been moving around quite a bit lately, only backwards though. He does a big push up and gets on his hands and knees, but when he pushes with his arms, he scoots himself back. He can travel backwards across our living room in a matter of minutes, but he always ends up frustrated because he was trying to go forward. Poor little guy...try as he might, his toys keep getting farther and farther away. Hopefully he'll be able to get out of reverse and put it in forward one of these days! :)

ROAR!!

Noah has been "growling" since we got back from Christmas...we suspect cousin Will helped teach him this one :)

Jump Jump Jumperoo!

Santa brought Noah a Jumperoo for Christmas, and he's been jumping like crazy ever since:

Oh snow

I've always thought snow was so beautiful and wondered what it would be like to live in it...now I know. I love watching it fall outside, and I suppose it would be absolutely perfect...if I were a HERMIT!

Last week Noah had a check-up at the doctor. It was snowing. I typically don't drive when it's snowing. I always wait for Christian to come home and let him handle it, but Christian was at work and I'd already canceled 2 appointments because of snow, so I had to do it.

It usually takes me 20 minutes to get to the doctor. This time it took me 60. The drive home was even worse. It was snowing harder, so I was just creeping along. Cars whizzed past me honking their horns. I wanted to pull over and wait for someone to come get me, but I was too afraid to leave the only clear path carved by the tires of the car ahead of me. So I kept going straight. It was the only thing I could do.

I considered just stopping, turning on my hazard lights and calling 911. I would have been happy to let the police drive me home. I knew this would only get me rear-ended, so I kept driving that straight line.

Eventually I got to the street I needed to turn left on to go home. There was NO way I was going to make it across 3 lanes and into the left turn lane! Instead, I slowly turned right into a grocery store parking lot. I parked and called Christian to come get me.

I was in tears by this point (hysterical according to Christian) and so grateful that my little car-hater Noah was asleep. I don't think I could have handled the both of us crying!
Noah and I waited at the grocery until Christian got off work and got a ride to come get us.

I'm pretty much done with driving in the snow. I think I'll just hitch a ride on a snowplow next time.

If you have any tips for driving in the snow or for not being such a scaredy-pants, please share!

2 months...

that's how long it's been since I posted last. Noah was almost 4 months old then and now he's almost 6 months! Wow how the time has flown! If I don't recap it now, I won't remember a thing! So...

Highlights from November and December include:

1. My sisters Liz and Katie and my cousin Sarah came to visit from California! 2. All three of us go the swine flu (not so much a highlight)
3. We went to 2 Jazz games and a BYU game (for free!) 4. We got to go home to California for Thanksgiving! 5. We celebrated Christian's 25th birthday! 6. We got to go to California for Christmas! Yay! 7. I discovered that snow, while very pretty, is also yucky! 8. Noah has been smiling and laughing like crazy and has recently started "growling"!
9. And, finally, we rang in the new year at home in jammies...quiet but cozy!