On Dec. 22, 2008 Leyna turned 7 months old. In the last month Leyna has been learning a lot. She has discovered that she can climb up things. This was pretty funny, but also scary, seeing her try to climb on everything. She still isn't crawling though. She gets up on all fours and rocks then just plops right back down and does the army crawl. She has tried crawling a couple times on her own but won't keep doing it. I thought babies usually crawl before they start climbing on things. She seems to have that backwards. =) She is also learning some sign language. She knows how to say more and we are working on learning how to do please and nurse/milk. We will start others as time goes on. She has started getting very opinionated and vocal. She use to be so mellow and calm, but has shown us a different side now. This is not a bad thing though. It shows that she is learning and getting a mind of her own. She loved trying to "figure things out". She is always getting into something and making messes too. She is just learning so much each day and we are enjoying watching all the new thing she is learning and doing.
As soon as we got home from Utah we put up our Christmas tree. Leyna loved it! Especially the beads. I couldn't keep them on the tree for more than a few minutes. It was fun watching her play with them though.
Here she is with her new favorite toy that Mamma let her have when we left Utah. Thanks mom, she loves it!
With Grandma eating a teething biscuit for the first time. She really liked it!
Trying to figure out how to get up...
Climbing on her Bumbo
She looked like she was trying get in it.
I thought she was gonna end up doing a head stand in it...
Trying to figure out how this box works. I think she eventually ended up biting a piece off. She loves paper or boxes. I have a difficult keeping them away from her. She will find them anywhere.
Here she is doing "more" in sign language. I was feeding her cereal puffs because that was the only way I could keep her happy while I was taking these pictures.
See that cute smile
I'm so bummed this picture with her looking at Santa turned out blurry... =(
If you look close you can see all the red drool in the candy
Climbing on her Bumbo
I thought she was gonna end up doing a head stand in it...
Not very happy
She loves driving the car!
This was probably one of the only times we got some kind of a reaction from the food we fed her. Can you guess what it is? PEAS. She wasn't very interest at the time, but has ate them since. She is a very good eater, not picky at all...I better knock on wood. =)
Happy 7 months baby girl!
This year for Thanksgiving we got to go to Utah to visit my family and some of our friends. We had a lot of fun and got to see a lot of family and friends. We had planned on being there for a little over a week, but things didn't quite go as planned. My sister Brooke got a huge kidney stone that she wasn't able to pass. She was 7 months pregnant so they couldn't blast it. They had to do a surgical procedure to put in a stint so that the fluids could pass through. She was in the hospital for a few days and then couldn't really get around too easy after that. All of this happened at the end of our visit so we had to figure out how to get our husbands back to work and not put Brooke into labor. Our husbands ended up leaving the night after Brooke had surgery and all of us girls stayed behind so that Brooke would have some time to recover. We were there for almost another week. Then we embarked on a LONG drive home through the night with a pregnant woman who was in lots of pain, a 2 year old, and a 6 month old baby. We drove through the night cus we figured the kiddos would sleep most of the way. It ended up being Brooke that had to stop most of the time because of her being and pain and having to go to the bathroom. Well, 16 hours and numberous stops later we were finally home. On the bright side of everything that happened with Brooke we got to spend more time in Utah and see everyone more. It was hard leaving, but our family will be coming here to California to visit for Sydney's blessing in March. Here's lots of pics of all the fun things we got to do. It was fun seeing all of you, hopefully someday we won't just be there visiting, but living there...that is our hope, even more now after seeing everyone.
While we were out walking the strip Juan saw Josh Blue. If any of you watch Last Comic Standing he was the winner a few seasons ago. He is probably the funniest guy I've ever seen, and so sweet to talk to. Apparently Leyna thought so too she was all talking to him, and she is staring at him in the pic. This was one of our highlights of Vegas.
In front of the Belagio
Just something funny we saw in front of a store on the strip. It's a bubble machine....sorry if some of you find it offensive.
Me and Grammy. Love you!
With Grandpa 
My sister Lyndsey got her driving permit the day before and went driving for the first time on Thanksgiving day.
Leyna figuered if they're gonna Lyndsey drive, why can't she?
At the park
Juan got to see a lot of his old companions from his mission. Here's him with one of his old companions and a convert from his mission who will be going on his own mission soon.
I love seeing her all bundled up
How the night started...
How it ended...
Since we stayed longer we got to go out to lunch with some of our counsins. It was a lot of fun!
It's really short, but I really like it. Thanks Ash for cutting it
Going Home
