Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

Hannah's newborn clothes were mostly boring pajamas, but her 0-3 month clothes feature outfits. She looks especially good in red, I think. I have been putting things in Hannah's hands and sometimes she grips them and sometimes she doesn't. This is bottom picture is from Christmas day. We were playing under the tree, looking at the blinking lights and she gripped this toy bear for a good minute or two.

We went to the lights on Temple Square with my husband's parents, but it was too cold for Hannah. We waited downstairs in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building while everyone else strode through the lights.

Hannah has figured out that if she is uncomfortable and she sucks, milk will come and discomfort will subside. She has also figured out how to hold onto her mom's fingers to help her go to sleep and that her dad is complete and total pushover. I am going back to work on Wednesday. Grandmom and Granddad Rice are watching her at our house until Christmas.

Hannah was born at the end of October. She is a very sweet little baby. I am gone from work on Maternity leave until December.

Brian came closer to finishing his 4th decade on September 10. His cake was lemon with cream cheese frosting, which is the only kind of cake he will eat. For his birthday, he asked to be able to sleep in, eat lunch at In-N-Out and have chili dogs for dinner. All wishes were granted.

My birthday was Monday. I got a lot of phone calls on my birthday from good friends. That was nice. Brian gave me this little Smurfette figurine for my birthday cake, but it never really made it to the cake. The cake was very good though. Baskin-Robins Ice Cream!

Glacier in Alaska. My friend Ramona took this. Here is a moose in Alaska. You can't go to Alaska without seeing moose AND photographing it. Here are my nephews. Lori had the baby about a year ago and I had never met him. The older one I hadn't seen in two years. Cincinnati golden arch bridge. School got out on Thursday the 27th of May. I flew to Alaska the 28th. I came home June 1st. I flew to Kentucky on June 2nd. It was a real whirlwind of traveling. Brian couldn't come with me because he had internship hours to do for his master's degree. So in Kentucky/Ohio, it was me, and a rental car versus the road and the summer storms. Very scary, but I think I became even tougher. The purpose of the Alaska trip was to participate in a works in progress research consortium. The purpose of the midwest trip was to present my almost 2 year master's thesis at a major conference before it got too old to be good research. I barely made it. And I was delighted that ever...

Since Brian and I teach at the same school, we get to be in the yearbook together. Here is us this year.

My students didn't get to have a Christmas party because we had a snow day, so I said we would do it after the break. In mid-January we had a concert put on by the students where the performed original works and old favorites.