A Few Firsts

Since Seren has reached her 6 month mark, we decided to start treating her like a BIG girl. This includes:

her First hair cut, her First solid foods, her First sushi party:), her First BIG girl bath, her First dancing gig and her First Easter Sunday (aka family pictures....again).

FIRST HAIR CUT

BEFORE

AFTER


FIRST SOLIDS (RICE CEREAL)


MMmmmmmmmmm

FIRST SUSHI PARTY

Notice Seren's skills with the chop sticks (lower left hand corner).

Happy Birthday Ryan

Thanks Rhi for the food!



FIRST BIG GIRL BATH!




FIRST DANCING GIG





FIRST EASTER SUNDAY

California Here We Come!

While Brennen was driving thousands of miles from Texas back to Utah, Seren and I decided to take a detour to California. It had been sooooo long since we had seen the cousins, and we wanted to show them how big Seren was. Also, we couldn't let the cousins have their ONE year birthday party with out us. Especially if a swimming pool was involved. I am pleased to announce that Seren might be a whole 6 months younger, but she's the fastest swimmer of them ALL!
Grandma Mel and Papa Roy, again were so nice as to let us stay at their place. Seren and I went on walks around Balboa Island, and shopping trips at Fashion Island.

Balboa Island

This was one of our walks around Balboa Island


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Seren only travles with the fast, and the furious.

MARCH MADDNESS
Pre-game show

POOL PARTY

Getting ready to go to the pool

Who is this guy!?$#@

Seren's First Swim

Hot Tub Hotties!?!

End of first day in the pool.

Seren's Second Attempt
(by the way this was the day Seren won the swimming race)

Party Goers

Happy Birthday Olivia, Brady and Violet

Papa Roy and Mama Mel

All Smiles! Thanks to our wonderful hosts!

Great-Grandma Eppie

Seren was so excited to meet her great-grandma. Even though Eppie had to be told four times that they were related (maybe she just didn't believe it, because of Seren's skin color) we still love grandma Eppie with all our hearts! I was excited to meet her too, for the first time. She told me her favorite color is light blue, that her favorite food is rice, that her dog's name is Ginger, that she likes to go shopping when she has money, and her favorite thing to do is sew.

Year -to-Date

Sooooooo, I really have a lot to catch up on. Here are some pictures that sum up our lives from Utahns, to Texans, to Utahns again.

Utah

Utah "Folk"

Arizona "High Class Livin"

First encounter with a... "Roy"

We had to watch where we were walking. Seems as though we weren't the only ones "squatting" at the Henderson's residence.

PAUVI

We were thankful that Pauvi let us share the Texas house with him. He helped to scare away deer, skunks, and stray cats. He was a great guard dog, except when there was a lightning storm :)

His favorite movies were: The Sound of Music, and Kungfu Panda.... (same as Seren oddly enough).

DANCING SEREN (texas style)

My birthday cake

Melody Irish made this cake for me. It was a double decker, and was delicious.


Austin Texas

We decided to take a trip to see Brennen's friend Jeff Paul and his wife Courtney and their two kids. They showed us what it was like to be a real Texan. We had Texas bar-b-que at a 5 Star place, that I don't remember the name of. But we got meat on construction paper, and white bread and plastic knives. It was tasty and messy. Brennen surprised me by buying me some oreo ice cream to wash it all down. Thanks to the Paul's hospitality and influence, and also Grandma Mels generosity, Seren decided to start sporting her cowgirl boots!

PERKS OF PECAN

There were a lot of perks for living in Texas. There was a nice club house, where we ate dinner. There was also a tennis court. I had a friend Daniela, from Mexico, come an visit the last week we were in Texas. We played tennis, took her around in the golf cart, and showed her around Granbury Town Square.

PECAN PLANTATION

One of Seren's most favorite things to do was to go on walks and runs at the Pecan Plantation. (even though she fell asleep most of the time). There was hardly any traffic, perfect 80 degree weather, and beautiful scenery. There were always deer and wild turkeys running around. Birds of all colors, like vultures, crows, hawks, blue birds, red birds, yellow birds. Once Me, Brennen and Seren went for a walk, and we were talking about all the animals that lived in pecan (including the skunks and possums) and we wished we could see a fox. When we got home we looked out our back window, and two foxes ran across the lawn. They were so pretty, and sleek. We do miss our walks in Pecan.

Texas Family

Patti and her boys were great! We sure miss having dinner with them. And we couldn't have survived with out the help of Patti. She saved Brennen's life, literally. And she taught Seren how to speak Spanish. Thanks to her, we have a bi-lingual daughter :)