Latest Videos

Blogger's giving me trouble with uploading the HD videos.... maybe it has to do with the size... Click on the link to watch the latest videos!! Sadly, you can't watch them in HD quality anymore...


Knocking off blocks with uncle Jamie
Alden was playing with Jamie, knocking down blocks with a ball. He got really good at it and was able to hit the blocks almost everytime he threw the ball!
http://www.facebook.com/v/762709541979

Laughing at himself while watching the above video
Alden LOVES to watch videos or pictures of himself.

This day, we spent an hour looking at his pictures and watching videos. He was cracking up so hard while watching the video of him knocking down the blocks with a ball, I had to take a video to remember the moment. What an awesome kid....
http://www.facebook.com/v/763675366459

Where's A?
Alden's learning the alphabet and can recognize a lot of the alphabet. He can point out A, B, D, E, L, M, N, O, and R. He can also say A, D, and O (he call B "Dee" as well). His favorite alphabet is A, and everywhere we go, he'll point out A's on billboards, t-shirts, signs, etc. It's soooooooooo cute. If you have a shirt on with the letter A on, he'll most likely point it out and say "AAAAaaaaaaaaayyyyy." :D

http://www.facebook.com/v/764437613909

Blowing bubbles with milk
This morning during breakfast, Alden realized that he can blow bubbles out of his milk! Lol. My camera ran out of space, as well as batteries.... :P But you can hear him blow bubbles in the cup. lol.
http://www.facebook.com/v/764438382369

Grandma's house

Grandma and Grandpa Rigby has a little bird familiy join their neighborhood. The birds built a nest under their roof and i got to take pictures of them. Grandma and Grandpa also have really beautiful garden and I HAD to get some pictures of their flowers!! Enjoy!!

DSLR + Photoshop

I'm having a lot of fun taking pictures with my awesome new camera, but I'm having even more fun rendering the pictures with photoshop. The pictures turn out great with the camera, but they turn out even better after I get through them with Photoshop. :D  Here are some examples!

These are pictures from the picnic, but after photoshop, the colors are more vivid and stand out.

I was asked to take wedding pictures for my friends, so here are some examples from that day.

Bestest Friends

Alden got to hang out with Sophie a lot this weekend. We went over to Sophie's house Friday night and played with her for an hour. They were running around and chasing each other. They were also throwing a football at each other and having so much fun.

On Saturday, we got to go on a picnic with Joe's family. Sophie's parents, Laura and Tom, were working but Sophie came and played with Alden.

Chipmunk Al

Alden loves fruit.  I guess it's a good thing, except when there's a choking hazard from shoving grapes in his small mouth, or he has three wet and dirty diapers a day from eating too much..... (Blueberries are the worst)  He's been eating a lot of grapes lately, and he loves to store them in his mouth for as long as he can. He doesn't usually chew them up until I offer them more, which sometimes can be a while because either he walks away and starts playing with toys or those were the last that I offered for the time being.  Yesterday, we went to pick Joe up at work, and I gave them some grapes before we left the house. He had those grapes in his cheeks for over 40 minutes!!!  What a weird kid....

This is a video that demonstrates what went on for those 40 minutes.

YY: Hey Al, where are your grapes?

Al: (Points at his mouth)

YY: You need to chew them up and eat them.

Al: (Pretends to chew)

Campfires and s'mores!

Last Friday we went to Wal-Mart and saw corn on sale for 10 cents a piece! So we decided to make some fire and grill some corn. On Saturday, we packed out left over dinner from Friday (fried sweet and spicy chicken - Korean style) and got stuff ready to make a campfire. Our friends, Cody and Kyra, brought potato salad, rolls, and s'more stuff. We drove to Provo Canyon, only to find that all the parks had fire restriction signs up. We tried the Rock Canyon Park next to the Provo temple and found it full. We decided to try one more park, and found a vacant fire pit at the Kiwanis Park next to BYU. The dinner was soooooo good, and Alden had so much fun walking around the fire and helping daddy build the fire by throwing pine cones into the fire pit. Alden enjoyed roasting the marshmellow and hanging out around the fire.

Alden's roasting his marshmellow. He thought he was supposed to put it in the smoke and not over the fire. :D He didn't really get to eat any of his because he kept dragging it on the ground and getting gravel all over it. Ha ha. We put the corn in some aluminum foil with butter but I forgot to take salt with us. But it tasted great!

I sold my hair!!

I've been meaning to cut my hair for a while since I will be having a baby in December and will be losing a whole bunch of hair. Last time when I had Alden, it was such a headache to deal with 20+ inch long hair all over the house and in the shower... So I wanted to do something special if I was gonna cut it anyway and decided to sell my hair. I ended up having to cut more than I planned to but now it's nice and short, and I don't have to spend more than 10 minutes just to wash my hair... Joe and I decided to buy a nice DSLR camera to make it more special since I've been wanting a professional camera for a while. We used the money to get a Canon Rebel T1i from CostCo.

Right before the haircut. The guy that bought my hair was from Odgen area and he drove down to cut my hair in person.

Right after the haircut. It's really short, huh?

These pictures were taken with my new camera. It takes really nice pictures. I will have to practice more before I can really use the camera to its full capacity and take even more awesome pictures. :D Joe says with my new camera and the new Adobe CS5, I will be unstoppable. lol.