Swimming

Its starting to get warm...too bad its just the beginning and it will most likly get almost 30 degrees hotter than it was today (85*) in the dead of Phoenix summer. Luckily we have a few vacations planned to locations with cooler weather (well, relatively cooler).

We went swimming in our little baby pool today--Aliyah had a ton of fun and I got a chance to get a little sun.

As you can tell by the pics, Aliyah wouldn't look at me and smile. She was either too busy playing or looking at the camera crying to "see the baby." (If she sees the camera, she wants to look at all the pictures we have taken of her.)

"The Office" Party

Aftin's sister and her husband were in town last week so we decided to throw a fun little sibling party. The theme: "The Office". We watched the latest episode (for all those fellow fans...The Dinner Party) We had a trivia game and played a few fun games like "Dunderball", "Find whats missing off of Dwights desk", and "Guess how many M&Ms in Pam's candy bowl." It was a good time. Here are the pics...we all dressed up as different characters (one character is repeated), can you guess?

She's not a baby any longer...

It is amazing what putting on "big girl" clothes and a ponytail will do to the way she looks. It made us realize that she really isn't a baby anymore.

She was being so cute and happy on the stairs, we decided to do a little photoshoot up the stairs.

More on the stairs

Oakland A's Spring Training

A few weeks ago we went to an A's Spring Training game. Although we were sitting in the outfield seats, we were in the second row back and about 10 feet away from all the players that were warming up in the bullpen. We were so close we could hear them talking...it was pretty cool.

Although Bill is far from the Oakland area, at least he can see them play a bit each spring during spring training.
Huston Street and some other pitchers
This is Rich Harden warming up.
Huston Street again.

Easter

Aftin's mom was out of town for Easter, so we put on Easter dinner for her dad and two sisters. Although she didn't like it at first, Aliyah wore her pretty Easter dress to church. We changed right when we got home, we didn't want to get Easter dinner all over the dress. We had a little Easter egg hunt for Aliyah--we put a bunch of brightly colored eggs in plain view in the backyard and she went around and collected them, it was so cute.

The little scratch on her nose is from a face plant in the rocks. :(

Our New Home

After the long and stressful process, we finally bought the house. We moved in Saturday the 15th and are pretty close to being unpacked. Well, if you don't count the wild mess of random boxes and other items shut into the extra bedroom and the big under-the-stairs closet. but that can wait until another week.

So far we love it...no noisy neighbors above us, lots of extra room everywhere, a garage, a backyard... There are a few things here and there that need to be worked on and fixed, but that's the fun of a house, right?

We will post some more pics soon!