the month of june! san antonio status

well, jon drove from arizona to san antonio straight through. we didn't get home until 5am the next day. he literally drove for like 20 hours straight. we knew our drive would require lots of stops with this little baby. she'd sleep, wake up and cry so we'd pull over, feed her and let her get fresh air for awhile then get back in the car. she did so good!! our final stop was to feed her and put her in her jammies around 8, her normal bedtime. that's about when i fell asleep too and jon drove solo until we got home. i would not recommend that, my friends. sketchy, but hey-we made it.

this was the day after our long drive. hard to believe you'd be tired after sleeping for almost two days straight!!! when we got home she started to say "bah bah bah". she went to sleep not knowing how to say it, and when she woke up that's all she was saying. it is so amazing to see this child literally learn something new every day. 

this was also around the time that she really seemed like she was going to crawl. i recorded her so much thinking i'd see her just get up and go. little did i know, it would be weeks before she actually did.

i stare at her while she sleeps. this little thing is going to break my heart. 

see what i mean?

started getting more hair than we knew what to do with!!!!!!

swimming with daddy at nobu. this pool is pretty cool, but she always did really well. it would take her a minute to get used to the temperature then she'd be fine for awhile until she started to shiver and we'd go home!!! she and i spent quite a few days there sitting on the ledge behind jon. it wasn't really hot enough to get in every time. 

here she is playing with ice in her bumbo on the deck. she loved doing that. 

she started doing this weird fake smile/grimace and it was so funny! this is the best picture i got of it. i swear she would do this when i would be trying to make her laugh and it simply wasn't funny. she would do it a lot to people she didn't see very often as well. it was like a sympathy smile for at least trying to get her to laugh. 

you guys, i can't. this is when she was still sleeping with us in the mornings and napping probably once a day in our bed. this was before we sleep trained her, so i would have a hard time getting her to fall asleep. she would almost always fall asleep if i cuddled up next to her and pulled the comforter up by our faces. this is also around the time i posted a photo of her on her photo stream wrapped up in lots of blankets. i got a firm talking to not only from my father in law, but from my step mother in law the next day. sometimes she wouldn't fall asleep until i bundled her up in blankets! she'd almost always fall asleep within minutes, then i'd go in and take all the blankets off of her (mostly so she wouldn't sweat to death) and let her sleep next to pillows so she wouldn't roll. needless to say, she stopped sleeping in our bed pretty soon after this :( 

jon got primmy a little jacket to match his. he's really into patches right now and jackets that have velvro areas to attach the patches! it looks so cute on her and the little kid patches are smaller and have brighter colors. she doesn't appreciate them yet, but she will. 

the draper temple where we got married. the middle is an image i bought for us before we got married ."love you so so so much" and the one on the end i bought for her a few days before she was born. "and baby makes three". 

wow, i can't even explain how much it rained this month. it just rained. and rained. and rained. fortunately, there was no damage done to our house or property. a lot of other people northwest of us were not so lucky. 

our little 7 month old angel baby!

lizzie got this dress in Vanuatu. how cute??? it looked amazing on her and was unfortunately the only time she got to wear it. it was so stuck on her that i had to cut the underarm seam in order to get it off of her. that was traumatizing. if teeny is a girl, i'll put this on her when she's much smaller to avoid what we all went through.

we worked so hard on this! we painted over it probably ten times. jon liked it!

father's day twinnies.

LOOK AT THIS!!! i was getting ready while she was at my feet, and she grabbed my leg and started licking it. i am so obsessed with her.

at the end of june we went out to Jacob's well with our friends, the vinton's. it was so cool! in the last picture you can see the well, the middle spot where i think it's about 25 feet deep. people would cliff jump from the top. the rest of it was around 4 or 5 feet, really slippery with moss and pretty cool water. prim baby liked it, she was good in the water and out of the water. also, jon got braces!! his retainer broke while he was in the MTC and his teeth have been shifting ever since. rachel (pictured above) has a brother in law orthodontist here and he is pretty inexpensive so she referred us there. i'd been wanting jon to get braces for awhile because he was self conscious of their shift and why not while he's in school? the ortho said he'd have them on for 4-6 months, hopefully he was being truthful.........

hurr.

remember when my hair looked like this?

for some crazy reason, i dyed it for the wedding.

i've been regretting it since, and waiting for my hair to grow out.

because of that, lately, my hair has been looking like this:

 i have no idear why the dark brown dye turned so much lighter than my real hair. but there was a solid blah line where you could tell that my previous color was growing out.

i actually liked it somewhat. i liked that it gave some interest. but not enough interest.......

since i'm growing my hair out anyway, i thought i'd have some fun with it while i can. 

i called up my hair dresser and asked if she could dye my hair in the ombre style we've been hearing so much about. (lc)

she said yes....with some hesitation.
 yesterday, i went in and took my hair from this:

 to this.

 i liked it......it looked natural and i liked how the highlights were lighter. but it wasn't as drastic as i was hoping for. 

 you actually couldn't tell much of a difference at all. 

so i called my hair gal up for a re-do. 

she was really sweet, and this time i came with more of an explanation and a super cute photo as an example. (more lc.)

so here i am...."under" the dryer. (first time, ever!)

i think she understood that i wanted it pretty light at the bottom.

so she lightened it quite a bit....and this is what i saw when i got home:

 so light!!!! i had a slight panic attack...but after i styled it, i really like it. i've never done anything fun with my hair before. (okay...maybe i DID have a mohawk in 10th grade...and maybe i did dye my hair with box dyes a lot when i was going through weird a "emo" stage, but thats not what we are here to discuss).

i'm pretty happy with the end result. i hope it still looks good on days when i don't do my hair. as in, when i straighten it or put it in a pony tail. i guess we'll find out tomorrow. ha!

here it is: