Family Pictures!!!

My amazing friend Beka Lowe (lowephotos.info) did some pictures for us about a month ago and here are a few of our favorites!!!

Catching Up Again

So...I've been bad about blogging...again!!! But I blame it on the fact that we were out of town last weekend for a mountain bike race that Tyler did in Prescott and I'm sticking to that.

So we had a birthday part for Lowe about 2 weeks ago. It was loads of fun and thanks to everyone who came to share in the good times. We had a Lightning McQueen pull string pinata (thanks Kathie for that idea), hot dogs, cake and presents. Lowe really liked his cake! He got it all over himself and wasn't too happy when Grandma and I cleaned him up.

Tyler did the Whiskey Row mountain bike race/ride last weekend. It took place in lovely Prescott Arizona. We left Tucson and it's almost 90 degree weather and headed straight into 34 degrees and snow on Thursday the 22nd. Thankfully it got warmer over the few days we were there (high 60s, low 70s on race day, saturday). I even managed to get a little bit of a sunburn! Tyler rode the 25 mile portion of this particular race. It took him about 4 hours. I guess most of the course was uphill and not too user friendly! But he made it!! Go Tyler!

Lowe giving daddy some love after the race.

Other than that...nothing much exciting has been going on in the Goodrich household...well, Lowe is on his way to walking everywhere instead of crawling. I guess that can be taken as exciting. He'll walk half the time and crawl the other half. It's fun to watch him walk every where though because he hold his little arms up and away from his body and it's way funny. I don't think he can walk around without chattering the entire time either. If he's walking he's talking.

One Year of Little Lowe

This last Wednesday, our little bundle of joy turned one. Lowe Wendell Goodrich is now a one year old toddler instead of our little baby boy. Of course, he's still our little baby boy and will be forever!!! At his dr's appointment, he weighed 22 lbs 2 oz and was 31 1/4 inches long. So he's tall and skinny! (90th percentile for height and between the 25th and 50th for weight). But here's a photo montage of little Lowe; one picture from each month of his little life so far! Enjoy.


April 14th, 2009

May 2009

June 2009

July 2009

August 2009

September 2009

October 2009

November 2009

December 2009

January 2010

February 2010

March 2010

April 14th, 2010

We had a little car shaped cake that I had made for him for his birthday. We had chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes, some of his favorite foods. As you can see, he enjoyed the cake. We had a little party for him yesterday. Although I kept telling people not to worry about getting him presents but somehow he ended up receiving tons of presents. Most of them were cars which is awesome since he absolutely loves cars!!! Thanks to everyone who helped make his first birthday a very special one.

I just wanted to say to little Lowe that I love you soo very much and you've brought so much joy into our lives that I cannot imagine life without you! Love you Lowe!!! You're the best baby any mom and dad could ask for.

Such A Bad Blogger!!!

So my friend Holly (we used to play together as kids) totally called me out on my failure at a New Year's Resolution. I have not been blogging every week like I had said I wanted to at the beginning of the year. True, I did well for a while but have falled back into my old ways of just doing it when I felt like it (or when Tyler begged me to) instead of every week. I need to get better at it and am going to re-committ (how do you spell that anyways...) to blogging every week (at least)!!!

So this first picture doesn't have anything to do with current events in the Goodrich Household...but it brought back good memories of my childhood. We used to go to Laramie, Wyoming every summer around the 4th of July and visit my grandparents. They had a bunch of cool toys for us to play with and my oldest brother Nathan always used to grab these beat up old owls and take them everywhere with him. In old home videos, he can be seen shoving them in the camera. So when Tyler, Lowe and I were at Target the other night looking for toys for Lowe's birthday, I ran into this:

So of course I couldn't help from laughing a lot (with Tyler looking at me like I was a weirdo) and snapping a picture of it on my phone which I then sent to my three oldest brothers. They all appreciated it. So Nathan...maybe a Target near you has some of these owls there too!!!

I've decided I need to start running again more regularly...well, I should just say start running again! Since the Ragnar Relay at the end of February I think I've only run like 4 times, two of which were in the last week! So Lowe doesn't have much hair and the stuff he's got is pretty blonde and just being a baby, he's got pale, sun sensitive skin. We got this hat at this bike thing we went to and we've never really used it because Lowe just tugs it off. This time though, I was able to distract him with a toy train and get it snapped under his chin so he couldn't get it off!!! Ahahahahaha! So his little head was protected while we ran the 3 mile loop around Reid Park (half ran/half walked I should say). Lowe loves being outside and is starting to look more and more like his daddy with a little farmer's tan line on his arms!!!

We're one of those sets of parents who have not invested in any sort of childproofing things for our home aside from outlet covers. So Lowe is constantly getting into the cupboards, climbing up and down the stairs and playing with all the dvds. I don't remember what I was doing, other than obviously not paying enough attention to what Lowe was doing but I looked around to see what he was doing and this is what I found:

Baby in the crock pot base!!! He had pulled it out of the cupboard and climbed inside!!! I think he's starting to understand that objects can be placed inside other objects. I was organizing his toys the other day and couldn't find one of the pieces to a stacking toy and didn't think much of it until I went to make dinner a few days later and found the toy inside one of my big pots. The pots and pans cupboard is his favorite one to play in because they all make so much noise.

Lowe is fast approaching One Year of age. Crazy hard to believe!!! He'll be one on wednesday!!! So he's started to try out his legs for walking. He'll take a few steps here and there on his own and will stand unsupported all over the place. He loves to cruise on everything and if he's got a hold of any supporting finger, he'll walk all over the place. We went to one of the parks down the street from our house and he wanted to help me push the stroller back home.

In other news, my just younger than me brother got home from his mission for our church to Germany last weekend. We were able to go up to my parents house in Tempe to see him the night he got home. We stayed through Easter dinner on Sunday. It was great to get to see him and introduce him to Lowe. Yeah Abram for making it home!!!

Lowe liked finding Easter eggs. He was playing with some cars right before it was his turn to try to find an egg. I should have waited a few minutes for my dad to get out with his camera but I told Lowe to go find an egg. He looked at me, dropped his car and crawled right over to one of the eggs and grabbed it!!! So we're not sure if he just happened to see this bright orange thing on top of a toy car and wanted it at the same time I told him to go find one or what but it was way cute!

And just to finish out this blog post, these three awesome fathers just happened to be standing together like this and we as the wives, couldn't help ourselves and made them stay there so we could take pictures. So from left to right: Mike and Caleb Joslin, Dave and Sophie Joslin and Tyler and Lowe Goodrich. Such good fathers and such good little cousins!!!

Wedding Over The Weekend

So I can't really think of anything exciting that actually happened during this last week...but my friend Heather got married up in Sedona. It was really pretty, a little cool and so much fun!

The Happy Couple!!!

I swear, Heather and Joey are going to take a look at their wedding pics and there's going to be as many pictures of Tyler and Lowe as there are of the two of them!!! The photographers loved taking pictures of Lowe and since Tyler was holding him most of the time...lots of pictures of Tyler too!!!

Lowe is not being cute and trying to give me a kiss...he like to try to eat me!

Little Lowe hanging out infront of the red rocks

Lowe's hair has been getting a little unruly and Tyler's beard trimmers haven't been able to do the job lately so when we stopped at my parents house on the way home from Sedona, I took the chance to use their brand new clippers to give Lowe his first real haircut. His hair is now even and it looks sooo much better! I might need to do this again before we get our family pictures done in a few weeks...Speaking of mom and dad...HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the both of you! I thought of putting some awesome pictures of the two of you on here but than decided you two wouldn't think they were as awesome as I did so be thankful!

And I'm not sure if you can see this of not but Lowe's got a tan line on his little arm!!! He got to go to the 4th Avenue Street Fair last week with our friend Laura (thanks for watching him again!!!) and he's been outside with me and Tyler lately too so when we noticed it in the bath we had to take a picture of it!

Lowe's talking all the time now. He says car, daddy, doggie and asks what's that occasionally. Tyler and I are not the only ones who have heard him say these things. People whom I have not told that he says these things have told me he's said them around them! Smart little baby! Well...that's all I can think of for today!

In Other News

Lowe is 11 months old today...11 months old!!!!!!!! Craziness!!!

So trying to think back on what we've done for the last three weeks is sooo hard!!! So here are the few highlights that I can think of. Lowe finally has teeth!!! And three of them...I know, three? That's weird...but his two bottom teeth came in at the same time and now one of his top teeth has come in but not the other one. It's on it's way but not here yet...So this is the best picture we've got at the moment of his silly little teeth! The top one is on his right side or if you're looking at the picture, your left.


Mike...I finally got around to getting some fabric and making pillow cases for those huge throw pillows you gave me probably 4-5 years ago...And tada!!! Here they are!!!

Rebecca came to play with us this last friday and saturday. It was loads of fun. Lowe found the Abram bear and was having loads of fun with him. They were wrestling, Lowe was eating him, shaking him around and using him as a pillow. It was way cute.

And Lowe has finally decided it's alright to be a big boy and hold his own bottle. This has only happened with in the last month. 10 months it took him to do this and pretty soon I'll be trying to take that bottle away from him...what a mean mommy!!!

So there...not much too exciting going on here in the Goodrich household. My brother Abram gets home from his mission in 19 days I think. I'm seriously going to try to get Lowe to say Gumby in the next 3 weeks so we'll see how that goes.

And here's a really cute picture of Lowe getting to see snow. He wasn't really interested in playing with it seeing as how it was cold and he doesn't like cold things. We went to Mt Lemmon with Rebecca when she was here and it was loads of fun.

Ragnar Relay

So a few weeks back (Feb 26th and 27th) Tyler and I participated in the Ragnar Relay...a friend of mine from nursing school and church somehow talked me into this crazy race last year in like August! Thanks Eevi...actually it went more like "If anyone's interested in running let me know!" (from her blog) So I responded with an emphatic YES!!! Since running was something I wanted to do to get back in shape after having Lowe and my distance that I ran added up to a half marathon which was something I wanted to do by Lowe's one year birthday...so there...it's done!!!

But this relay was from Prescott to Mesa, AZ. A 202.4 mile run consisting of 36 legs. 12 runners running 3 legs each. It was a pretty cool experience. I mean, how many people can say they've done something this outrageous, oops, I mean fun. Tyler was running number 1 and I was runner number 4. I talked my dad into lending us his 12 seater van and himself as our driver. My older brother Nathan came along for the fun also.

It was all sorts of fun trying to be comfortable being in the van for long long periods of time without really getting a chance to get out and move around. And than when you could, it was all sorts of cold outside!!! But all was going well until Exchange Point 18. This was a major exchange point where we switched from being active and having runners from our van run to the other van for our team being active. But there was a really bad accident where a runner got hit by a car and the race officials shut down 6 legs of the race. The entire race got re-routed to Exchange Point 24 and so that left us trying to figure out how the get 3 legs of running in for each runner on the team. We doubled up on our van's 3rd legs, having runners from our other van run with us. This way, we were done when we thought our van was going to be done on Saturday and the other van's runners got to run 3 times each as well.

It was pretty fun to get to run outside and in such a cool event. My longest leg was 5 miles and I made it!!! Woo hoo to that!!! I just can't believe how hard it was to move after doing this race...Literally it hurt to move at all!!! Thanks again to dad and Nathan for being there for our team and to Eevi for organizing all the fun. Can't wait to do it again next year!!! Hopefully I can be better on the training thing though...