Update

It seems I managed to get through the whole month of July without posting, so I figured I'd better get on in for August, while it's early!!!

Here are some pictures of Savannah since May.....

Here first pigtails on May 2nd. We had a Ward Chili cookoff that night, so I tried out her pigtails for that...She was very patient for me while I was combing and combing and pulling her hair. (She had a hayday sitting on the bathroom sink playing with stuff from the sliding mirror shelf)

Here's PROOF that I do clean my house!!! How else would Savannah pick up the sweeping action of the broom? It was so cute, every time I pulled it out, or she saw the broom, she wanted it to "sweep" and be my big helper!! It was adorable. I tried to get a video of it, but when she sees the camera, she knows there's pics and so she wants to come to the camera! 5.13.09This was a super sweet picture of Savannah with her daddy. It was taken with my new phone (since my other one got stolen). This is one of my favorite pics of my 2 favorite people!!!
5.19.09Here's another pic of Savannah when I did her hair (what little there is of it) in pigtails again. I think her smile here is sweet and candid.
6.1.09For Father's Day, after church, we drove out to my (Mandy's) parents house out in Buckeye. The last 2 miles or so is down a dirt road, that you can't go very fast on-unless of course you've got a 4x4 truck/SUV-so we put her on my lap and let her "drive"!! She LOVED IT!! And cried when we were there and had to get out!!!
6.21.09We were eating out and Savannah thinks EVERYTHING is a game. When we tell her not to do something, she does it and laughs, thinking it's a game. At times, I'll catch her picking her nose-rather she's fishing for some unknown in her nostrils-and tell her to stop, then pull her arm away, then she reaches for her nose and waits for me to "catch" her and she'll giggle!!! At first it was cute, but now I'm over the "cuteness" of it and it bugs me!!!
6.22.09Before we left my parents house, mom gave me an old ice cream maker, and so I wanted to try it out and thought the Griffins could be our guinea pigs!!! We went over there-since there place is bigger than ours-and played Settlers of Catan and had ice cream. It was Savannah's first time having homemade ice cream. The next time we made it (4th of July) we had friends, the Paynes, over and had Root Beer floats and it was YUMMY!!!
6.22.09Our new neighbors invited us to go to the Phx Zoo one morning-EARLY!!! She had passes and is allowed a guest. Since we wanted to get there early before it got too hot, it was decided to meet up at 6:30. YIKES!! That meant that I-me, Mandy-had to get up at the latest, 5:45 am!!! I try at all costs to not get up early, if possible!! Since this was free and I knew Savannah would LOVE the animals, I figured it would be worth it! She did enjoy it, though she wanted to be out of the stroller more than in it! The last thing we did at the zoo was the water park. Savannah liked playing in the water, and is getting braver and braver around it.
7.28.09

So these are some of the pictures of Savannah-though there are LOTS and LOTS more-and I'll find more to add another day.

Jason is still in school at UOP and is still working there too! Whew. He's been busy in the Elder's Quorum too. A few weeks ago, he started doing some Muay Thai. A guy in our ward is teaching it. I went last night and had fun! Though the first time Jason did it, he was sore for a couple of days. This time he's fared better and isn't hurting, hardly at all.

I am working on being a better stay at home mom. I've never been a homemaker. Hated cooking and cleaning and didn't do it until absolutely necessary. I've been working at a system to keep my kitchen cleaner more often and also, keeping up with laundry, and very soon, I'll be getting Savannah to sleep on her own-I hope. That is going to be VERY HARD, because I LOVE to hold her and she cuddles me and snuggles to me, and that is a wonderful feeling. But she's gotten accustomed to me holding her until she falls asleep-she doesn't know how to go to sleep by herself, nor how to soothe herself when she wakes up. We'll see how that goes!! Wish me luck!