Kind of fun, these are some of the pictures from my phone. I finally connected it to the computer and downloaded them.

Elise being propped up with marshmallows, darn I had to buy them, might as well get those rice crispies and make something yummy.

Cute Panda outfit and one of her first smiles

me holding her for the second time ever.

Ryan holding her for one of the first times, he got to help hold her up occasionally in the NICU

mommy and baby doing well!

Her moving up to her oxygen chamber in the NICU

She just never really liked her binki when she was little, when she truned a year old they became inseperable

eating my first sandwich at Quizno's on the way to Utah

Slides are so fun!

The first time she sat up unsupported!

walking a friends dog and elise at the same time.

If Ryan were in there it would be four generations

I love when she wakes up happy, it makes the early mornings easier

Out and about at a fountain

So happy to see the water splashing

her first halloween

Newborn and daddy

she was sweet asleep we took tons of pictures.

Beach Day!

My ipad jimmy rigged up in our car for the long journey to Utah. Elise loved it so that's all I care about.

Elise's crib in her room/closet

I think is the only pic we got of her in this hat my sister made, are  you ever sad to realize you didn't get pictures of things you wanted to?

I think she stayed like this most days for like the first four months of her life.

I caught her just after she gave ryan a kiss. So sweet.

BBQ brownies complete with hotdogs and hamburgers.

I'm really proud of the deals I got on his gifts.

Father's Day tie

Elise being so "helpful" in opening presents.

Happy Daddy's Day card! We love you mostest Ryan!

We had a lot of fun at the beach yesterday. Elise was a little wary of the sand, she wouldn't walk on it without holding my hand and the water was no fun. So we just sat on our sand mat and played in the sand filling up a bucket slowly with sand. Elise didn't want to sit in the sand, so she had to be on the mat. That was just fine with me.
    Elise was the only girl toddler but she was content to just sit there. There was a little boy, Henry, that was very interested in being next to Elise so he would sit in my lap. Yeah, that was cool. He didn't know me at all, he's visiting a friend with his parents. That was pretty hilarious.
     William is almost a year old and he liked to stick just about anything in his mouth.
     August is at least two I think. He liked running around with the big kids.
     There was another boy, Wesley, twenty months old that was fun. His most entertaining thing at the beach I think was all the snacks everyone brought.
      I got a picture of Emma, she's  been the only babysitter Elise has ever had that wasn't family.
     Then there is Mandy, Annabeth and Dejah who are friends in the ward. Stephanie is Henry's mom who is visiting Dejah.

Wow, thanks for the love guys. It makes me feel good that sitting here waiting for pictures to upload to the blog isn't worthless. I guess if I start feeling like no one cares what I'm saying I'll beg for comments again. It took five years to get to the first time, so hopefully it'll be five more before I get frustrated with the time it takes to get a tiny ten second movie to upload.
Like I briefly mentioned in my last post, I'm having trouble getting motivated to clean and put lots of work into certain things. I think it's lots more fun to read then to clean my ANNOYING black stovetop, or to play with Elise and Ryan rather than clean the dishes from dinner, to read Elise extra bedtime stories than to clean her spill mat on the floor under her highchair for the eighty eighth time (it's disgusting under there). Don't even get me started on my stupid apartment stainless steel sink. I swear that as soon as I have my own place that will be one of the first things to go.

I've discovered a couple things about myself and done some research into different techniques other people use. I thought I would share.
One: I hate cleaning by myself, but I also get annoyed when I have to put the dishes in the dishwasher three to four times because Elise has been *helping*. I told Ryan that there will always be toys on the floor when she's going to bed and there will always be dishes in the sink after dinner. He's gotta help me instead of just entertaining Elise because that just makes me jealous.
Two: I can stand things at a certain level of uncleanliness unless someone is going to come over. So I'll need to get over this because our place is just too small for guests and visiting teachers just come once a month.
Three: I'm getting trunkie. We've gone month to month in our contract so I know the end for cleaning this apartment is near. So my thought is always "How many more time do I want to deep clean the carpet? Won't I just have to clean the oven again once we've found somewhere to move to?"

What have I found out?
Tip 1: Never go to bed with a dirty sink. Kitchen or bathroom. It doesn't take that long to do and you feel more prepared for the day when you wake up and it's clean.
Tip 2: If your floor is picked up you'll feel like your house is amazingly more clean instantly. I fullheartedly agree, I intend to add vacumming and cleaning the spill mat to our nightly routine of cleaning up toys off the ground. It is the only time toys are all the way off the ground all day long. Sorry about the late night vacumming downstairs neighbors, but if it doesn't happen now, chances are it will only happen once or twice a month as it stands now.
Tip 3: I like to do cleaning all together (probably comes from my reason number one of not liking to clean by myself). If the whole family works on the kitchen then everyone gets done at the same time. If everyone works on the bathroom then everyone has to deal with the gross stuff. The tip is to have a family work jar. You set a timer for fifteen minutes and everyone cleans the whole time. Everyone who worked on the project gets to put a marble in a jar, when the jar is full your family gets a reward. the jar can be as big or small as you want as could your reward. You could have a huge jar and have the rward be a cool trip or you could have a small jar you would fill weekly and have brownies or an ice cream parlor trip.
Tip 4: Clean your stove top drip pans by soaking them in a combination of vinegar and water for a couple hours and then use a cream of tartar paste made with water to scrub the black burnt stuff. 
Tip 5: Use baby oil and a soft rag to spiff up your stainless steel sink. A little will go a long way to make it shine like new.
Tip 6: 80% of dirt in your home walks in on your feet. Get the right kind of welcome mat (like the ones in front of retail/grocery stores). Be diligent about taking off your shoes first thing when you get in the door.

Here's a couple pictures of Elise jumping well trying to jump by our front door. Hoepfully these will make this long post worth while.

It was our second time to the Hollywood Bowl but it was Elise's first time ever being babysat by someone other that family (unless you count Nursery). We got to go see a Star Wars Symphony Concert with guy who played C3PO narrating it, and then clips playing during the music. It was pretty sweet and Ryan was super excited. There were lots of kids and they all brought their lightsabers and were swinging them at certain times. It was pretty cool to see. Then at the very end they brought out John Williams, the man beind all the Star Wars music as well as like Indiana Jones and Harry Potter. He lead a classic Star Wars music piece. That was a lot of fun. And best of all, Elise hardly creid at all and went to sleep pretty easy. YAY! It was nice to have a night out and now I don't think I will think about her as much next time we go out.

This our bench five minutes after the show was supposed to start, maybe that's why they started half an hour late.We eventually did fill up.

Guys, I've hit a wall. While it's fun to blog, and read friends blogs, I get no comments. That is seriously unmotivating. I feel like I should just email my parents and my in laws and call it good. I even added a one click comment bar at the end of posts and I'm the only one that has clicked any of them. In the end I feel extremely LAME. Maybe I will just post Easter and Christmas pictures and keep the blogging to a minumum.
Or maybe blogging is just one of the things that is getting severely unmotivating to me. I can't seem to find the motivation to clean my stove, to get up and do my hair, to take Elise somewhere (I dont have any reason to go anywhere, I'm that lame), to turn off the ipad and stop reading books I don't even like that much, to sew and of my like ten projects that I have going, to clean her spill mat for the seventieth time even though it's going to get distgusting in five more hours again, to cook, etc. I seriously lacking something in life. I'm so lazy that I'm worried about what I'm teaching Elise, but that still doesn't make me want to go move all the shoes back to their real homes or organize the fridge.

We tried to do something Memorable for Memorial Day. We took a trip over to the La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum. Wow, animals were huge thousands of years ago.

Here is a mammoth with tusks bigger than this animal is tall!

Look at the difference in foot print size.

I can't find the picture of the giant sloth, some really ugly ROUS looking thing. I think behind Elise and Ryan here is a horse or camel. I forget which.

This was Elise's favorite part. I swear she could watch those Fish all day.

This is for my friend Amy, who just posted on facebook that mom's in charge of family blogs never post pictures of themselves.

Here is Elise watching the turtles and the fish swim around.