Claire Rolls Over!!!

Well, she did it!!! Last saturday, as we were getting Claire up for the morning, Hill walked in and mentioned that she had found Claire in her crib on her stomach. But we never put her to sleep on her stomach. So we brought her in to the room, placed her on her blanket, and sure enough, she repeated the feat. Currently, she can only go from back to front (we hear that is the more difficult maneuver). We have been trying to capture it on video, but she has been quite elusive . Needless to say, papa was very pleased with his little girl.

Claire post roll-over. She couldn't be happier with herself.

Papa and Claire love to read the mail together. Claire always asks if anyone sends her mail. Instead of disappointing her day after day, we decided to hand her some junk mail and tell her it was from loving friends and family. She is only going to believe that for so long. She is going to start thinking that grandma and grandpa run a credit card company. Papa loves mail time with his girl.

Playing with the girls! The young women came over on Sunday morning for waffles and conference. Claire had a great time. Her favorite talk was President Eyring. She has been talking about it all week. What a wonderful conference weekend. We truly felt the blessings of the gospel in our lives.

I keep hearing from the Carter family that Hill sucked on her two fingers for a very long time. We find her all the time with her fingers in her mouth. She even tries to put our fingers in her mouth. I always pull those fingers out. Every once in a while I find Hill sucking on her fingers. Like mother like daughter - but that's not such a bad thing.

Tonight we went to the stake picnic and had a great time. One of the members has a farm in the rolling hills of central Virginia. It was seriously the most beautiful place. The kind of place that dreams are made of. The only thing more beautiful was my two girls. Hill got a new haircut and we love it. Doesn't she look great?

After a grueling game of horseshoes, we took a family hay ride. We had so much fun riding through the hills of central Virginia. We live in such a beautiful part of the country.

Love them!!!! Sunset on the farm. It was so peaceful and so beautiful.
Claire slept through the hay ride. She was wrapped up snug as a bug in a rug. But here she is obviously awake tucked away safely in papa's arms.

Papa at times has dreams of becoming a photographer. This is a pretty sweet picture of our baby girl. I wish we could know what our sweet Claire Bear was thinking (probably "if I could just get both these hands in my mouth, then I'd be happy."

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