Happy Birthday, Jorg!

This is a picture from February that I hadn't yet posted. We are with the Rockwoods. They were members in Idaho Falls where Jorg served his mission. Now they are serving a mission on temple square.

Jorg's birthday is today! We spent most of the weekend in Brigham City celebrating.
I hope anyone reading this also has a great day in honor of Jorgi Smorgi!

Jorg,

Thanks for blessing my life every day. And for being such a fun, wonderful, caring father. xoxoxo

Eternal Love,
your girls

"Have Tea Pawtee?"

That's what Rebecca says every time she sees my mom lately. And Mimi very willingly obliges :) Yum, yum!

Gateway Discovery

We went up to Salt Lake with some fun neighbor friends & visited the Children's Museum. I think her favorite was the little play kitchen.

Thanks for inviting us Jen, Liz and adorable children! We will definitely be going there again.

Some Silly

She had a new hair-do and the cutest pink dress made by Omi & flower bow from Mimi. So I couldn't resist some pictures and a movie.

She's into classifying everything. Whether she likes it or doesn't like it, whether it's yummy or yucky, etc. Oh and "schlange" is German for snake.

Sleeping Beauty

Jorg's mom made these beds, dolls & blankets for Rebecca. She got the blueprints for these in her HEAD. I have no idea how she does it, but here is the result of her genius. One happy little girl :)

Swiped

Aunt Emily took these photos in St. George and I swiped them from her blog. So cute!

I swiped this one from Uncle Laner's iphone. Here's our gal at the Lynnwood pool:

And this was swiped from Abby's blog. It was Stella's garden birthday party:

The Mckay's

Rob and Linae both served their missions in Germany. That is where they met each other and Jorg's family! Jorg was just 16 when Rob (Elder Mckay) was living in his parent's missionary apartment, which was in the attic of their house. Last week they were in town from D.C. with their 4 kids & we had them to dinner. We all chatted away like old friends. And their kids did a marvelous job of entertaining our girl. It was fun to hear stories about Jorg and especially interesting to hear Rob's version of the day his companion started a large, damaging fire in the Bachmann house!! They're a fun family. Hopefully we'll meet up with them in D.C. sometime.

Little Nicole?

Our sweetheart got her photo taken the other day.

She was so grumpy! It was just hilarious. This is how she looked at the guy who was practically standing on his head to get her attention. She was a tough one to crack.

He managed to get this cute smile out of her while she was telling him about Maleficent (from Sleeping Beauty)...go figure...
When I brought the pictures home, Jorg immediately went to the computer to find a picture of Nicole Kidman. He thinks Rebecca could make a lot of money playing her role as a child or as one of her kids. What do you think?

Summer Art

One day we gathered rocks on a walk and then came home to paint them.

Thank you Crayola, for the washable paint.
...it's the simple things, right?
And here's her special little lunch:
She ate aaaall the meat (meat's her favorite), maybe 1 green bean, and 1 stawberry.
At least she was excited and it looks pretty.

St. George

Aldrich Family Togatholy 2009

at the condo:

It was especially adorable to watch Rebecca and Natalie
they both talk now and say funny things
Rebecca was a bully to her at times
but other times they were hugging and dancing while holding hands!
definitely entertaining
and Natalie was such a great sport

Visiting the temple grounds:
Rebecca found a little friend (Abby) and they ran up and down the steps together.

Spa Day for the Ladies:

4th of July
barbecue
swimming and
watching the fireworks!

the whole gang:

Our little familyWe also: played a lot of Wii Fit, did a little shopping, ate really good food!, went to Zion's, took a four wheeling day trip (scary fun), went to a movie, read, talked and talked, and got to know our cute new sister-to-be (Kim) better.
Thanks for a great time everyone. We loved bonding with ya'll! And a special thanks to mom and dad for all of the planning. We love you mucho!

Camping at Strawberry

We met Omi and Grandpa at Strawberry Lake for a night of camping! They had everything set up so nice. They took their camper and cooked delicious meals. Rebecca was in heaven there, spending time with her grandparents and chasing squirrels. Jim took us out on the lake. It was just perfect weather. So relaxing and enjoyable. Thank you so much, Jim and Birgit! We can't wait to go again sometime!

Summertime

Swinging with the Reckling kids, summer sausages from the grill, the carousel in Midway, a tea party with Mimi and Uncle Lane...

As I recall, we had a few leftovers from this meal...

We Like It!