Becky and Jon and Mary

Mary's birthday was a lot of fun. She had a good time and Becky made a really cute "Aristocats" themed cake. Part of Mary's birthday present was a year pass to Hogle Zoo, and we got some other things including a Zhu Zhu pet. She has wanted to take her Zhu Zhu pet to bed, and we can tell when she's awake because the toy squeals when she pushes the buttons on it. Here are some pictures of the event, and some shots that I took at Hogle Zoo. --Jon

Blowing out the candles.

It was really hard to hold the camera above our heads and gets us framed properly.


This peafowl was screaming at me.

Looks hazy because it was shot through a chain-link fence.

She had more fun than it looks like she had.
Both of us making stupid expressions. I'm saying something to Becky.
The Jon glare must be hereditary.
She didn't fit in the kiddie pool very well.

This needs no explanation.

We visited our friend Paul in southern Nevada one evening while we were down in St. George for my Fall Break. Here are some photos of the pizza oven he built in the backyard. The food was amazing.

I had a fun Halloween party with some of the girls in my complex. We had home made chili and took photos of our babies in their Halloween costumes. It was a lot of fun. It was more work than I had anticipated but a couple good friends helped out and we pulled it off. Thanks everybody who came!

So lately my sister has been stealing photos from my photo blog http://ravenbergphotography.blogspot.com/
So I called her on and it turns out that not only did she put it up on her blog, but she published them too. So this little photo of Mary down bellow is in a magazine being circulated to every scrap book store across Europe. I didn't even know that my little girl was so famous! Oh, and the paper is the latest from cosmo cricket check them out here http://cosmocricket.com/

This video was taken a while ago, but it was so cute I made Jon post it. Since it's been a while since we last wrote. Hope you like it!

Mary still hasn't taken her first unassisted steps, she can however climb.  She loves to climb up onto the computer chair and then play with the computer.  Apparently this is what she thinks grown ups do all day long.  

Mary made this book for her grandmas for mother's day.  They loved it!

For her birthday we bought her a used doll, and she loves it.  I first knew that we had to get her a doll when she stole a little girl's doll during sacrament meeting and refused to give it back.  And I must say I am a very proud mommy that Mary is taking such very good care of her little baby.  She loves to hold it and pat it's back.  I find it to be the cutest thing ever.  And just yesterday I caught her feeding it from her sippy cup.  I just had to grab the camera and get it on video!