Our little Honey Bee

Visiting Dad for the Office Trick-or-Treat
That's a cute bee!

We went up to Rexburg to go Trick-or-Treating with Cami's cousins

Paisley and Cami= BFF :) (Paisley doesn't seem too interested yet)

..and I don't know how I talked Bryan into this, but we were the "Beekeepers". Probably our first and last time dressing up for Halloween! :) (or at least for Bryan)

Favorite Recent Pics

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Cami over the last couple of months. She is the best!

Typical attire before our daily stroll. Typical smile too :)

She has kind of a funny look on her face here ;). She loves this jumper!
Bundled up to watch the HS football game and to see cousin Alyssa get crowned Homecoming Queen! Go Alyssa!!
Sucking on toys with cousin Paisley.

With her friend, Ty Ludlow at our Halloween Party

She loves a good swing :)

Our little chunky baby! :)

Grabbing for the camera

Playing before meal time

Biting her bottom lip. She has two teeth now on the bottom!

Summery

So, I haven't posted in forever so we're doing a quick "summery" of all that happened this summer! Months 4 through 6 just flew by! Cami has grown by leaps and bounds lately. Here's what we've been up to:

4th of July in New Mexico is always a blast! Cami slept right through all the fireworks shows, but she didn't miss meeting her Uncle Brandon and Uncle Brett who came from Florida and Texas to meet her...and spend time with the rest of the Jones Family :)
She met her cousin Kaitlyn who was born about a month and a half before her. Cami weighs more and is taller than her, along with all her other cousins who are older than her!

Picnics in the Park have been fun for her. She loves to sit up now and is a super star at it! She also loved feeling the grass and was very curious.

Our little girl isn't so little! For her 6 month appt she weighed a whopping 19 lbs 4 oz. which is over 100% for her age group. Her height was also off the charts. Needless to say, she's in 12 month old clothing!

I lost my Mammaw this summer due to a lot of different illnesses that hit her all at once. Bryan, Cami and I flew out to Knoxville, Tennessee to attend her funeral. It was sad to lose my grandma, but good to see all our family together in one place as we celebrated her life.
Cami did great on the plane ride and was the little sunshine during all the sadness of the funeral. She smiled really big at everyone who came to say hello to her and really lightened the mood. She met my Pappaw (below), who is her great grandpa, or great Pappaw as they would say in the South! The only thing she didn't love here was the humidity!! 95 degrees plus 90 % humidity is not fun for anyone!

It was great to see all of my brothers and sisters at the funeral. Here's a family pic (Brady style) of all the Jones kids in order from youngest to oldest. Good looking bunch! :)

Cami loves to hold onto her feet when she's on her back. All we see in the crib when we come to pick her up are two little feet sticking up in the air!

We also sent two grandparents on a LDS mission this summer. Bryan's parents, Bryce and Cristie, were called to the Alpine German speaking mission which covers all of Austria, Southern Germany, and parts of Switzerland. We met them at the airport to say goodbye as they left for Austria, where they are now serving. The next time Cami sees them she will be 2 years old! Crazy!

Cami did a lot of swimming this summer too. We went as often as possible the last few months of summer. She loved to sit in the floaty boat and then proceeded to lick every toy on the boat the whole time we were in the water. She fell asleep on me twice as we were swimming around in the water!

Cami also met another cousin, Kenzie, who was born on July 10th. She's the youngest of 4 girls that were born from December to July. She'll have plenty of buddies to play with when we're with family!

She played hard this summer! I was making dinner one night and looked over at her playing on her blanket to find her passed out on the ground!

Here's a picture with all the Jones side cousins this summer! This is the best picture we could get with all the kids! Hilarious!

We did a lot of traveling this summer to Price and back (A LOT!), to Scofield to visit Grandma and Grandpa Bryner before they left on the mission, to New Mexico to see my family, to Tennessee for the funeral. Cami is a great little traveler. She falls asleep like this pretty much every time I stick her in the car.

She's been keeping up with her correspondences this summer too! She loves to type on our computers.

She's eating lots of baby foods too now. She hates veggies and acts like she's going to throw up and dry heaves after each bite of any veggie. We'll just have to keep giving it a try. She's fine with cereals and fruits and even sweet potatoes. Peas? Carrots? Squash? Disgusting!

Cami just seems to be growing so fast now. She does new things each day and is learning super quickly. It was a fun and fast summer!

Look What Cami Found!

That's right, Cami. It was your own hand all along that's been attacking your face for the past three months. Not your parents afterall!

Final Catch Up: The Cam-ster

Here are some of my favorite images of Cami in her 3rd month with us! Fun times with our Camster!

I get such kick out of this kid. I wrapped Cami up in this towel after a good bath and dried her off. I don't remember what I did, but she started laughing hysterically. It always reassuring to know that someone appreciates my goofy sense of humor :)

She is such a smiley, happy girl. I propped her up in the chair and she just smiled and talked to me the whole time. She goes along with whatever I put her through :)

We have a rotation of toy/play stations that we do every day. I was getting bored with it so I pulled out the Baby Pod to see if she could sit in it yet. She mostly leans to the side like in this pic (so I stuff cloths around each side of her). She loves sitting up though and concentrates hard to get the toys I put in front of her. She gets better at it every day!

Leaning a little bit ;)

She looks so tiny in the baby pod! She loves it though :)

This is one of my favorite up close shots. Those eyes follow me wherever I go and watch my every action. It's a great incentive for me to be a good example to her. She seems to have the expression of "why are you not holding me?" every time I lay her down to play with toys

We went over to Great Grandma and Grandpa Bryner's house so they could meet Cami. Grandpa is in his mid 90's and every time we pull up to his house he's working in the yard. This time he was raking weeds; last time he was shoveling snow and wheel barreling it away :). I hope I'm that agile when I'm 90 (and hope I'm still living at my own home too!!)

Another one of my favorite Cami poses. She stares at me like this whenever I stroll her around stores, parks, etc. She waits until I look at her and then she gives me a huge smile. Cami is the best!

Catch up #3--Day Trip to Antelope Island

Bry and I made a goal this year to start doing "day trips" to local Utah sites. My family did this when we first moved to Georgia and we loved getting to know the area, history, sites, etc. So, we decided to do the same thing. Our first day trip was, well, spur of the moment. We went up to see our lot in Farmington, UT and decided that we'd go to Antelope Island and see the Great Salt Lake. I learned two things about the Great Salt Lake that day: 1. It is GREAT and expansive and 2. It is SUPER BUGG-Y. Whenever we stepped outside of the car we were bombarded with gnats and mosquitoes. I can't handle bugs too well so we pretty much stayed in the truck the whole time and did a sight-seeing tour inside :).
Bryan and the Great Salt Lake behind him. I think he got five bug bites in the ten seconds we were outside taking this picture :)

There's a lot of random wild life on this one little island. This is a prong-horned antelope that we spotted just off the road.

There was a high point that seemed safe to take a hike so we covered Cami with her jacket, socks, and hat. We made it about five minutes out before we turned around :).

More random wild life behind us. These are a huge herd of Buffalo. Crazy! They were all over the island just grazing and hanging out. :)

See, they really are Buffalo :). Day trip number one was a lot of fun (minus the bugs it would've been great!). We're hoping to hit up quite a few places in UT this summer (when we stop going out of town every weekend! :). More to come!