We Like the Beach

We just returned from a trip with some of Jorg's family (the Wolferts, Birgit, and Jim) . We went to St. George for a couple of nights. I didn't get any pictures there! But we swam, mini-golfed, ate frozen custard, relaxed. My dad was able to get us the condo in Green Valley. Thanks, dad! Then we were off to San Diego for four nights. Jorg found us an awesome hotel on Priceline. We took trips to the beach, temple, Sea Life (at Lego Land), Mexico, Seaport Villiage, Old Town, In 'N Out, Outlet mall, picnic on the beach with Jim's daughter & her cute family. We have all been planning this trip for months now and it did not disappoint. I'm just sad it's over! Thank you so much, Birgit, for the trip. We had a blast. Rebecca was absolutely in love with the beach and the ocean (same as last year) and can't stop talking about it.

Happy Birthday!

One of Jorg's best friends had a birthday today. Norbert (to the right of Jorg) flew all the way from Germany for our wedding and was Jorg's best man. I've enjoyed getting to know him these past few years.

March 2006
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Norbert!

Lagoon

We went to Lagoon with my fam last month. Rebecca was a daredevil and had a great time! Aunt Steph wanted in on all of the action. We like it!

Where in the World

is Jorgi Smorgi?

He emailed this to his two favorite girls this week :)

Lane + Kim = Forever

Thursday was the big day! It was a happy, wonderful, fun, beautiful, spiritual day.
And here's the fam (minus napping Natalie) at the temple.
The rest are pictures from the temple grounds and reception.

It's always fun to hang with my wonderful immediate and extended family. Lane and Kim, I am so grateful that you two found each other. Congratulations to you both and I love ya!

It has happened...

The potty train came to town a couple of months ago but didn't say long. Well, it's back!
This time without the bells and whistles. She rejected my efforts at bribery.
This time Rebecca issued the invitation. That's our stubborn girl!
This time we're hoping it's here to stay. With occasional visitation rights to the land of accidents.
She insists upon putting her panties on all by herself. Can you tell?

I just don't know how she could get any cuter!

A Project

Aubrey and Nicole came to play with us last week! This is one of the projects we did. It was awesome because it kept them busy for a long time.

These girls were really patient with Rebecca. She was so happy to have playmates!
Ummm...note the hat worn by Aubrey. She wore it....to protect herself from our girl!!
You see, the last time Aubrey was over, our little angel could not keep her hands off Aubrey's silky locks. And a very large chunk of said hair was plucked form her lovely head! Aubrey was a good sport about it, but was sure to wear protection this time. Smart girl ;)

Celebration Continues

We spent last Saturday in Brigham City being spoiled by Birgit and Jim.

Birgit's cake topper had little people: I am the one holding the "camera". Jorg is sitting with Rebecca on the couch with a "laptop" on his lap. So cute!

Rebecca's baby doll got in on the action too:

The following Tuesday, Jorg's good friend Mattius came into town for ONE day! He brought his girlfriend, Stephanie. We were so glad to meet her, she's just wonderful.
We ate lunch at Tucano's and headed to Park City for some shopping. Thanks for babysitting, mom :)
And thanks for having a birthday, Jorg! We like to party.

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!