End of Summer

Well, we haven't blogged in a long time. This is our attempt at catch up. Joslyn moved back down to Provo at the beginning of August while Devin finished up his internship in Idaho. By the end of August we were both back in Provo. Just enough time to enjoy the last little bit of summer in Utah. We headed up to the mountains to see the beauty.

Cambry loves being outside. She also loves mom's hair.

Cambry also loves her dad.

On the way back down, we found this moose right in the middle of the trail. We were literally only 15 feet away from the moose. Joslyn got all mom bear and put arm out in front of Cambry and stared the moose down (as if that would stop this moose). We just back up slowly and waited. Eventually, the moose scampered off.

Summer experiment

This summer I decided that I would throw myself into the kitchen and try 3 new recipes a week. I never loved cooking, just did it out of necessity. Now that I'm a stay at home mom, I have time to plan, prepare, and create meals. Turns out i really like cooking... and eating good food that came from my kitchen! My poor neighbors graciously came over to try my experiments every week. Devin was incredibly patient with me- never knowing if dinner was going to be delectable or a disaster. I learned a few things in the trenches:

1. When cooking from the ward cookbook, don't judge the quality of a recipe by how much I like the person.

2. When I don't know what an ingredient is, ask someone instead of guessing! Who knew that shallots aren't anything close to sugar snap peas (It looked like it would work from the picture in the cook book).

3. Plan on 10 or more extra minutes of prepare time. The cook book writers must have 4 hands!

4. It's not the smartest thing to substitute ingredients that I have never cooked with before. I had a first class disaster when I substituted curry powder instead of using curry paste. NOT the same thing apparently ;)

Pineapple Chicken Curry: one of my favorite meals (recipe from allrecipes.com)

July excitement

Cambry was blessed in our Provo ward. We've been priding in the fact that it isn't a typical Provo ward where there are 3 baby blessings every week. I should've counted on 3 other baby blessings though when there were so many of women in the ward due the same time as me though. It was still a special day for us.

The whole Airhart family together. First time in years!

The Blue Angels Air show came to Idaho Falls. We thought we would get tickets and go... Then they got here early practiced all week before the show. We didn't realize how LOUD a jet is only 200 feet above us at 200 MPH. Needless to say, I stayed home with Cambry blasting Classical music. Devin saw a lot of it. The show is 6 jets do really tight and dangerous formations- definite crowd pleasers.

We saw the fireworks Holladay Fireworks the 4th of July weekend with the Airhart fam.

We've visited the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone several times on weekends since we live so close to them. We've taken Cambry on a bunch of hikes in her carrier. She is such a dream.

We've traveled to Old faithful twice and I didn't see it erupt either time. The first time it was so cold and rainy I took Cambry in the lodge and tried to look out the steamy windows, but couldn't see much of anything. The second time we got ice cream cones and went down front and center minutes before it was going off. Cambry started screaming and decided she was hungry an hour early. I scampered off to feed her and got back just in time to see the last of the smoke and have melted ice cream. I'm just not destined to see the geyser do anything more than this!

Cambry on the boat for the first time. She was an awesome water skier ;)

Phelps Lake in the Tetons

Devin and our friend Sam being manly in the 50 degree water

Smiles

Our little lady has learned to smile and it is so cute. Here are a couple of our favorites.

...And this one, just because it's cute

2 updates in one month!

We are liking Idaho Falls. We have met some great people, visited some beautiful sights and are enjoying a change of scenery from Provo. We like to think of this as a practice run for when we leave Utah for graduate school hopefully in January.

Cambry and her cousin Crosby: Crosby the tank was born 5 weeks after Cambry and weighed 9 lbs 5 oz. That night he was born, we weighed Cambry and she weighed in at 8 lbs 9 oz.

At the Idaho Falls Temple Visitor Center they have murals of photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope. This is a picture of a spiral galaxy and my whole world.

Cambry falls asleep in a baby swing most nights because she seems to be most calm when she is moving... (Hmm sounds like both her parents) We tried out the swing at the park and it definitely didn't have the same calming effect.

Idaho Falls has their very own mirnor league baseball. The team name is Idaho Chuckars. If you're wondering what a chuckar is, the mascot is in the back ground... It's some sort of nappy bird. It was another wonderful event that our little lady slept through ;)

Isn't she a California dream?

I'm not sure why you have to be disabled to get a front row view of this sweet 12 foot high stall. Idaho can be a little strange.

The First Post of Cambry's Firsts

This last week has been a big week for us and Cambry. She had her first move. Devin got an internship working for Idaho National Lab for the summer. She did so well riding in the car for 5 hours up to Idaho Falls for a 3 week old baby. There was some road construction along the way and traffic was moving an inch a minute it seemed. Right after I passed an exit, Cambry started screaming for lunch. Of course the shoulder was closed and there was no where to pull off. Luckily, her lungs are much stronger than before.

Cambry also had her first vacation to Yellowstone.

The family on the road to Yellowstone

Cambry didn't talk much, but we think she was excited... Yippee!

Cambry's first visit to a waterfall. This is called Mesa Falls. We found it on a scenic byway on our way to Yellowstone. We thought the "white noise" of the falls would be relaxing to her, but apparently the sun in her eyes over rid any relaxing sound.

Cambry's first trip to Big Springs. Side note: This place was one of the stops Devin and I made on our first vacation together with the Airhart fam.

Flashback: February 2008, our first vacation together.

Cambry's First Swim. She was such a fish! We were a little nervous she would freak out in the water, but we gave it a whirl. We only got her lower legs in the water, but she was loving it. She especially loved her toes in the hot tub. A lady came and said how horrible the water was for her heart. Look at the pic with Devin... does that look like a baby in cardiac arrest?

Cambry's First Hike: Fairy Falls

Although Cambry didn't see much more than Devin's hoodie, this place is beautiful, and we had a good time. We had some unplanned obstacles along the way, and didn't get to finish the hike though...

Two buffaloes were standing guard on the trail and had a lot friends to back them up. We decided to call it quits at that point. Good thing, though, because it started to rain on the way back.

Top: The Guardians, Middle Left: Road-side Buffalo, Bottom Left: Joslyn in a buffalo herd, Right: Firehole falls

Overall, it was good trip. We can't wait to visit Yellowstone again.

Baby Cambry is here!

A few nights before Cambry was born, I was teaching Devin how to swaddle a baby using a stuffed animal. The next morning, I woke up to this. Classic!
I went to my OB appointment Friday morning May 14, and he said "You are dilated to a 5. You are in active labor." I looked at him surprised and said "Oh! I thought it would hurt at least a little bit!" Little did I know what was to come!
This was from a shower Cristy and Jessica threw for me in Salt Lake. It was so fun to see people I love and spend the afternoon celebrating the upcoming birth of Cambry. I got advice from current mothers ranging from "Don't trust anything the nurses tell you at the hospital- they have no idea what they're talking about" to "Go see a doctor immediately if you ever have thoughts of drowning your child." Good times.

Cambry Rappleye came May 14 at 8:43 pm after a pretty quick labor. She was 19 1/2 inches long, 6 pounds 11 ounces.

People told us to prepare ourselves for that first time we hold our baby as a new parent. There aren't any words to describe that overwhelming feeling of love we felt.

Siblings at the hospital.

she was a sucker for the binky her second day. The nurse took her to poke her with a needle and brought her back with that in her mouth. The lactation specialist had just been into my room saying, "Never EVER, for ANY reason give your baby a pacifier!" I took one look at my baby girl sucking away so contently and decided to take some of the advice from the baby shower.

Praying Mantis: her lounging position of choice. When she's not swaddled, she seems to always wiggle her way into this position.

Thankfully, one more person avoided the curse of cube feet, that has been plaguing Airharts for generations, probably tracing all the way back to Fred Flinstone himself.

Miniature babies have to do something big. This girl can yawn! She hasn't found her big voice yet, which Devin and I are especially grateful for at night.

Ok, One thing I've noticed is every time people come over to our house to meet Cambry, the men that don't have kids are always so stiff and awkward. A lot of them don't even want to chance "breaking" something so small. If they do hold her, it's because the wife makes them do it. A few days after we brought Cambry home, Devin said, "Babies aren't as scary and boring as I thought."

Precious family of 3