J's work party

We drove up American Fork Canyon to Mutual Dell for Jason's work party. On the way, Claire found something to get in to (even as she is buckled in her car seat). As you can tell she was quite pleased with herself, that she got to try the wheat bread that mommy and daddy eat right in front of her, but never let her try... gotta love this silly girl!

Claire's usual sticking straight up, Pebbles hairdo, is curly in the humid atmosphere

During the BBQing, it started to pour down rain, and all the guys had to help put up a shelter so they could finish cooking the hamburgers... as you can see some guys are still soaked. And we ended the night with an always entertaining, Chubby Bunny Contest. Jason got 3rd place with 9 marshmallows in his mouth!

Swimming with J's fam

Cutie Matthew

Claire trying to grab the camera

Our little fishy

Slowly But Surely

Good thing dad is so patient!

Here is a time-lapse video that takes a picture every 2 seconds... and yes she got her purple sippy...but not before the battery life on the camera ended. :)

And a few random pics... She loves looking inside her fish tank- maybe because of the shiny paper inside

Grandpa Bassett's Birthday Dinner

After the parade, Claire got to meet some of my extended family...

She had fun playing with great-grandma's scarf,

being adored by my cousins,

and giggling with my Aunt Janet (who has almost as much energy as Claire)

Art City Days Parade

We got this bike carrier from some friends in our ward. It needed a few repairs...
Before picture:

It was easy enough to fix. I repaired the large hole and Jason removed all the rust. And ta da, it works great! So we biked to the parade...
'Wee'

Talking along the way...

She smiled all big, even though it was naptime.

Nestle 5K

Jason ran in the Nestle 5K and did awesome! He guessed it would take him 35 minutes to finish, and it only end up taking him...

And I even got so excited that I actually saw Jason and got to cheer him on, that I forgot to take the pic right away. Its funny, I was sitting on bottom row in the stands, bent over, feeding Claire rice cereal, thinking how am I gonna see Jason with this big rod in the way. Then amazingly enough, I saw a little grey shirt on the opposite side of the track and it was him!

7 months

Jason often has Claire pretend walk from place to place, and now she is taking steps on her own... Jason's 'Clairezilla' comment is very timely, as you will see.

(Luckily I caught it)

Claire says "mum" and "mama" alot this week!

Fun times with her ball

I finished a cute dress for Claire.

'Help mom, I fell and my legs went in opposite directions!'

A favorite pose of Claire- arms out to side :)