Splashing in the pool

I hope this video posting works. If it doesn't I'll try it again. If it does work then notice how cute she is when she splashes herself in the face with the water and how her breathe is taken away for a brief moment. Isn't she so cute?

This past weekend we used a certificate that we have had for nearly a year to the Zermatt Resort in Midway, UT. We had a fabulous time, but the highlight of the trip was putting Sophia in the swimming pool for the first time. First of all, just look at how cute she is in her little brown mosaic tankini with sunhat. At first she wasn't quite sure what to do in the water but she was soon splashing with her hands in the pool the kicking her legs out behind her. Cody and I enjoyed stuffing out faces at the delicious restaraunt called Schneitter's. They have a gourmet buffet (an upgrade from the Chuck-A-Rama style) and we also viewed the movie Vantage Point (still in theatre's) from the privacy of the flat screen in our hotel room. How cool is that? I didn't even know you could view movies that are still in the theatre like that. We also went on a beautiful walk and saw deer and a den of fox cubs tumbling and playing around. What a getaway.

Mother's Day

For our moms for Mother's Day we took some pictures of Sophia at Cody's Aunt and Uncle's home in Holladay. It's a rare occassion to get her smiling on cue so these actually turned out quite perfect. We had tried to create one of those hand/foot prints that you press into a mold like a circular plate, but that whole situation was rather entertaining. We had the bright idea of mixing up 2 batches of the mold at the same time so that we could just quickly press her hand and foot into each of them. Little did we know that each minute that passed as the mold was setting was like a ticking bomb to utter and complete mold solidification. In the 3-4 minutes that we had the mold ready for Sophia to put her impressions into we could hardly make a mark into them; they were nearly hard as stone already. Not to mention that Sophia had decided at that moment that she was going to have a meltdown any time we so as much touched her hand, let alone try to flatten it out to make her mark. So then we had the brilliant idea that we would just add water and make the mold more malleable again. The harder Cody was mixing and stirring the compound mixed with water the more solidified it became, but being the man that he is he just kept on stirring, putting all his might and strenght into each turn of the spatula. Finally when the mold had basically solidified itself into my baking mixing bowl I said, "Uh, I think you can stop now, it's probably ruined." Whelp, there you have it; 12 precious $$'s waisted on a memorobilia of Sophia's hand and foot impression. We resorted to using an ink pad for her hand and foot print.