Niah and Daddy Play Time

It would be so unlike Kyle to let his daughter grow up without giving her a hard time. The other day we were just laying on the floor watching Niah play so peacefully. Kyle decides she needs to be decorated in toys and have a "toy belt." He covered her in toys and laughed as she struggled to move around the room. She had no clue and actually, found her toy covered self very amusing. When she was done with one toy she could pull another from her person and keep on playing!

Come on Dad, really?

Updates

I am going to try to be better at posting regularly. We have been busy lately with a lot of exciting activities. I have a lot to catch up on so here goes!

I know Halloween seems so long ago, but I didn't get to post pictures of Niah in her costume. So here's one for ya!
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I've started feeding Niah some foods beyond fruits, veggies and cereals. A few weeks ago we gave her a slice of sourdough bread to chew on. She was so happy with it! By the end of dinner it was EVERYWHERE...even in her hair!

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Kyle and I have taken Niah to the park a couple of times here at my parents' house. It's right down the street and she LOVES swinging! Here are a few pictures of that.

Niah in her stroller on the way to the park
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This last weekend I went on a Middle School Girl's Conference with our church. It was so much fun getting to know the girls in our youth group. I found 25 new babysitters here too! The conference was a great time of worship and getting to learn more about our Savior. I led two seminars on the characteristics of the Bible and did a prayer activity with the girls called Lectio Divina. Everything went really well.

Voting

Being that Kyle and I just moved out of our county, we hadn't reregistered to vote. So I applied for a vote by mail ballot for us and thought we were good to go. Well, having a PO Box, we didn't get it until Monday morning. That was not enough time to send it in. I thought we could turn it in to any polling place, only to find out you have to turn it in in the county it came from. So, Kyle and I drove back to Placer County (1.5 hours) just to turn it in. We debated on it, but came to the conclusion that this was a really important election and we didn't want Niah one day learning about it and asking, "Who did you vote for?" only to have us say, "We didn't." We got up there at 7:15, 45 minutes before the polls closed, dropped it off and were on our way. At least we got to have dinner with Molly and Eric...that part was good. And now we can say we voted in this "historic election." One cool thing is one of the things we voted for was literally at 50/50 with only about 400 votes in favor...so our vote did count :).