Happy Birthday to Paige

March 18, 2005

March 18, 2009
Its hard to believe that baby girl is FOUR! What an amazing four years its been!
Our little Lou-bear is just an absolute joy! We are SO blessed to have her in our family.
I thought I'd share a few my favorites and a few of her's. For some of you, its been a while since you've seen her and for others, its never!

My Paige favorites...
1. She loves to hug and kiss. She even has a kissing routine, seriously. A kiss on each cheek, right then left. A kiss on my lips. A kiss on my forehead and a kiss on the top of my head. Then a TIGHT hug. This happens at bed time, in the morning, before school, when I go to workout...you get the idea.
2. Whenever Chris or I leave the house, she stands at the front door and says, "Love you, love you!" Until we say, "Love you, love you" back to her. Only after we ping-pong back and forth a couple times, will she happily close the door.
3. Her singing is one of my favorite sounds on earth-it warms my heart and makes me smile!
4. Her double-eye flip. I should post a picture of this sometime. It is so creepy-its awesome. She LOVES to flip her eye-lids and freak people out. She's been flipping her lids since she was 18 months. Crazy.
Her favorites...
1. Coloring, painting...anything that involves creating. She could do it for hours.
2. Disney Princesses. Sleeping Beauty is the favorite.
3. Her family, especially her older brother Eli. There's nobody she'd rather be with.
4. Singing. She sings everything from Primary songs to Backyardigans to Paige originals (which are MY favorites)
5. Peanut Butter and Chocolate. She's a smart girl.
6. Bath time
7. Bolt
Paige was queen for the day on her birthday. We had breakfast chosen specially by her. We bounced our socks off at Bouncing of the Walls. We went to Red Robin (yummmmm) for dinner. Then we opened presents and had a Bolt cake and cookies and cream ice cream with the McMahan's. She got to stay up and party way too late that night! But if you can't stay up late on your birthday, when can you??

A girl and her dog. Bolt was the prized present! Apparently, I could have spent just $15 and spared myself the damage pictured below.

Next time, somebody please shoot me with a tranquilizer dart! This was the scene the morning after. It was then I realized I might have gone a little overboard. Oops!

March 11 = Nine Years!

Being married has warped my sense of time. Its hard for me to believe that we've been married for 9 years, that sounds like a long time! But, as I look back on our married life and my life in general, I feel like we've been married for a lot longer than that. And no, I don't mean it feels looonnng because its been boring...those of you who know my husband know that boring is not in his vocabulary. I guess I mean that once we were married, we really did join our lives together forever, in both directions. He's such a part of my happiness that I have a hard time remembering he hasn't always been my life and my happiness. And I wonder how in the world I got along without him!

So I thought I'd include these two pictures in our Anniversary post because they show that a lot can happen in 9 years! The first picture was taken NINE years ago, along the Deschutes River Trail, when Chris and I were dating. We were in Bend mountain biking and Chris was driving what I thought was a sexy red Jeep. The second picture was taken this last fall 2008 along the same Deschutes River Trail with the same now not-so-sexy red Jeep. If you look closely, you'll notice a few major differences. I'm talking about Eli & Paige, NOT how much older Chris and I look!

It's been a great nine years, I can't wait to see what our next nine look like!

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2008

Waitin' on the toothfairy

Eli lost his first two teeth this morning! These teeth were so loose it was a little ridiculous. Everytime you looked in Eli's mouth they were in a different position, I swear they moved when he breathed. Well, he finally gave his dad the green light to pull them right on out.

Here's a pretty cool X-ray (okay maybe because I'm the wife of dentist I think its cool) of Eli's loose teeth about a month ago. It amazes me how the big teeth fit in such a little mouth!