The Stevens Family: Sunday at Temple Square

Monday, July 21, 2008

Sunday at Temple Square

My little angel face

Yesterday we went to temple square to see the beautiful flowers. I had these great intentions of getting some fabulous pictures, professional-quality pictures in an hour with a cooperative little 15-month old, but that wasn't quite the case. She normally just jabbers and jabbers and I can't get her to stop talking to me and giggling and making cute faces, but she decided she wanted to ignore me when the camera came out. She was much more intersted in, shocker, getting in the fountains. Once she spotted it it was just a fun game of trying to keep her from crawling right on in. But the grounds were beautiful so here's what we got.

I don't know how we got a decent family photo--Cecily had had it, and was crying and arching, the whole bit, but I set up the timer anyway, and when I was running over to my spot, I went to tickle her, and it made her smile just long enough to take it. She's even looking at the camera! Talk about lucky!

"Ewww, gross mom"

Fun with Daddy

11 comments:

Nagels said...: cute pictures. You look so beautiful :) I love the flowers at Temple Square. It is always so beautiful there.; July 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Tiff and Rand said...: What a fun family activity. Those pictures are adorable and look so professional with the colors of the flowers and all! Sorry we missed you today, I saw further down your blog that you went to the "other" splash park last week. So when I said we were going to the "other" splash park today, you thought I meant the one you went to last week, when really I meant the "other, other" one...CONFUSING! Atleast you kind of know which one I mean now!...right?; July 22, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Jenny said...: Beautiful pictures! You have such an adorable little family!; July 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Anonymous said...: you guys look like you are having so much fun! great pictures! i really like the colors!; July 22, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Miranda Whitney said...: unszlmgYour little girl is beatiful, you take really good pictures.; July 23, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Unknown said...: Katherine,
I tagged you. Go to my blog for instructions and then tag 5 others.; July 27, 2008 at 4:46 PM
the gray gang said...: Wow KAT! She is growing up!!! I cannot believe how beautiful she just keeps on getting! I think we need to have a play date! Call me when you have a free day!; July 28, 2008 at 12:35 AM
Alicia said...: your daughter is beautiful. I just got back to DC, and saw your comment. It will be fun to keep up on each other's lives this way!; July 31, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Martha said...: Fun, Fun! You have such a lovely little girl! :)

Hey, just to let you know, my sister-in-law is doing a cool "Favorite Things Swap" and I'm inviting you to join in. Visit my site to get more details: jamesnmartha.com.

Also, I am longing for more comments, so take a moment and share a fun memory you have of me on my site under the post Memories! Then I'll share a memory with you! Thanks and take care!; August 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM
opanani said...: Kathryn, When Maxine wrote to me after you had been to the baby blessing she said Cecily has the cutest face she has ever seen!. She wanted to give her a big hug but she was afraid she would scare her. That picture is so beautiful!!! Lots of Love, Opanani; August 8, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Bree said...: She got Addi's jellies to bad we are not there so they can be little twins. Will you call me when you have time to teach me how to do an amzing header my lamo hubby never has time or patience to show me. If not that alrigth I'll figure it out some how... Let's be honest Im a beauty school drop out minus the drop out; August 8, 2008 at 7:55 PM

Ceci Says.....

Our little Cecily has got the funniest personality and surprises us everyday by the things she says. I think that's one of the best and funniest things to look back on when you're older. So here are some of the cute things she says every day.

10/20/10
We were making pumpkin cookies, and when cecily tasted the batter she says " Mmm! Impwessive!"

2/21/10

As I was putting Ceci to bed, she kept being a little bugger and asking for drinks, and doing all kinds of things to stall going to sleep. So after I had gone in and sang her yet another song and was about to leave for the hundredth time, she reached out her hands and said, "I can't bear to lose you!" She knows how to work me, cuz I totally stayed longer!!!

2/18/10

Tonight has been a rough night--Max is so sick with the worst cough, and Cecily is also sick and has an ear infection. I've been up a lot of the night with Max, and Ryan has had to get up with Cecily. He was lying with her to help her fall back asleep, and then came in to switch me because she asked to see Mommy. So I go in and lay with her. I'd been in there for 5-10 minutes, and I almost thought she was asleep, but then I feel this sweet little hand softly brush my cheek and her tiny voice whispers, "I love you very much" and she has the sweetest little smile on her face. If that doesn't make it all worth it, I don't know what does!!!

A few weeks after Max was born, he was laying in his swing and, out of the blue, she came up to him and said, "Heavenly Father loves me and you!" What a good big sister!!!

My absolute favorite little thing she does right now is how she mixes up her pronouns. She hasn't quite settled on using 'his' and 'her'. Especially when referring to Max, she'll say, "Here's he binky," or "is this he seat? (she was asking about his little tub)" Or talking about her princess dolls, "this is she dress," etc. It is so funny, I love it. I'll be so sad when she grows out of this one.

2-4-10

While Cecily was at her grandma's house, Ryan's sister, Amberlee called their mom. She heard Cecily in the background and asked to talk to her, so Grandma asked her " do you want to talk to Amberlee?" Usually she loves to talk to anyone and everyone on the phone, and, quite often, holds extensive conversations, but this time, she thought for a minute and said, "No, we have a phone at home." No offense, Amberlee, I guess she jsut wasn't in a chatty mood, and that was the most gentle way she could think of to decline the offer.

Back in June, we were doing lots of yard work, and Ceci was playing with some water balloons. One dropped and popped, and completely to herself, she muttered "oh cwap (crap)!!" I've never heard her say it since, and it cracked us up to hear her sweet little girl voice say a vile little word. We need to watch what we say around her!!

8/02/09

Her favorite thing to do when we're driving is to point out all the cars that are the same as our family's. It started out with mini-vans. Every time she saw a mini-van, she said "look Denise!!" (my sister-in-law). She went on to point out every Corolla as mommy's car, every big black truck as Adam or Mike's (my brother and bro-in-law have the same truck). She finds Daddy's car with any ford fusions, and Nani/Opa's car is hit or miss. She calls all Mazdas "ovals" but as of today, it is now Steph's car becasue she just bought a Mazda 3. The most amazing on to me is she pointed to an intrepid yesterday and said "Bishop. " Which is correct, but I disn't know how she would have known that, I've never pointed it out, and we rarely see them driving or go to their house. Today she did it again to two other intrepids, so I know she didn't make a mistake. I think I have a very observant daughter!

My favorite part of this little obsession right now is one day, after pointing out "Denises" several times, she started to chant, "De-nise, de-nise". It was hilarious. Another time, we were driving her home and she hadn't wanted to get in her car seat and was throwing the tantrum of the century--absolutely hysterical, and I'm not exaggerating, she was literally mid-scream and went straight into her high-pitched, excited little voice: "Denise car!" Then went right back into screaming. Ryan and I about died laughing. What a character! She couldn't miss an opportunity to point out something she recognized!

8/02/09

Cecily is starting to prounounce things correctly, which is great, but a little sad. "mee-mee-mee-la" is now a perfect "ciderella", and "lellaly" is a very articulated "cecily". Most of her words are quite perfect now, so I thought I should write down some of my favorites of the very few things she still says in a little girl way:

Snake: "slink"

Flip Flips: "sthlip sthops"

Broke, brake, bread: "bloke, blake, blead"

Open it: "Opendint"

7/15/09

Yesterday we got to go to the Oquirhh mountain temple open house, and I told her about it a couple hours before we went so she would know she was going to the temple. As we were driving there, in her sweet little voice, and scrunching up her shoulders, she says "I so happy to go to the temple, I so escited!!!" For sure melted her mommy's heart!!

6/28/09

In sacrament meeting yesterday, I accompanied the youth as they sang a musical number. The second it was finished, and it was completely silent, Cecily literally yells, "Yay Mommy!!!" and starts clapping. The whole congregation chuckles, and afterwards a woman sitting at the opposite corner of the room said how funny it was!

6/27/09

We saw the fireworks show at taylorsville dayzz Saturday night. We seriously considered leaving before they started because it was gonna make for such a late night, but decided to wait it out, hoping Cec would enjoy them. Well, enjoy them she did! After seriously every single firework she would yell something, "Oh Sparkles!!" " Oh purple purple!!" Oh Big one"!!! And on and on. Then she'd go up to Ryan, or my brother or sis-in-law, "Did you hear dat?" Yep, we heard it!!!

6/09

Whenever her shoe falls off she says "Oh no, I locka shoe!" (I lost a shoe)

Blog Address Explanation

Ok, for all of you that think I'm an abusive wife, I want to explain the address of our blog. First of all, it was Ryan's idea. Second of all, he and his friends have been calling each other "fat" and "fatso" for who knows how long. It is really a term of endearment for them. Ya, I don't get it either. But if you knew half the inside jokes they have it would kind of explain a little more. Anyway, we have a few friends that call us fat and kat, for obvious reasons (....it rhymes....). Either way, I've become numb to it, but to every woman in the universe, they hear the word fat and immediately feel offended and think that I am calling my husband mean names. Just to set the record straight: I think he is a hotty!!!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Sunday at Temple Square

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