Happy Birthday Franny!

Our little Franny is one! This year has been so much fun. We don't know what we did (or talked about) before she came along. Here's a Franny update: She is a really happy baby. She walks everywhere now. She can understand and sign back: food, water, tubby(bath), brush teeth and book. She can say Duck, Hi, Wow, Uh-Oh and Daddy. She loves to fake laugh whenever she hears anyone else laughing. She loves to dance. I haven't gotten any great footage yet, but man, can she move! Most of all, she is really social. She recognizes all of her cousins now and gets so excited when she sees them. I won't bore anyone with all of the other stuff she's doing. Just read "What to expect the first year" to find out.

Waiting for Franny

Francesca Pilar Gutke
Sept. 21, 2007
1:37 am

She sure growed up fast, didn't she!

She's been blowing her candle out all week. When it came time to show the masses...no cigar

Thanks everyone for the cute presents!

Here is some footage of her walking (for those of you who haven't seen her yet)
and one of her first words


Here are a couple of her signs...and more walking

Reunions and Jake's home and Franny is Funny

August was just as busy as July, and I'm glad because as the summer closes, I can look back and know that I didn't waste the golden sun by staying in. I love the summer. I hate the winter. So why do I love Logan??

We had our second annual Gutke Bear lake Reunion at the beginning of August. It was so fun
not being pregnant this year. We went way faster on the wave runner than last year.

Franny was cracking up at what? Oh, just her cousins walking in a circle.

Cousins forever!

This picture sums up what was REALLY going on between takes

Paul's stellar golf moves

No, Paul is not wearing a tee-shirt on the wave-runner



I had a lot of fun with Noodles' new camera

Maybe not as much fun as John
I can't believe this shot was captured. Her squinty smile only lasts a second, and it kills me every time!

Steven really outdid himself with the GREAT shots of my little sweetie

Some of us stopped by Tony Grove on the way home. I forget how lovely it is.

On Aug 14, my little brother Jake arrived home from his mission and got to meet Franny (and 3 other neiphlings) for the first time. On the way to the Airport, Julia taught Franny how an ipod works.

Is this okay with the TSA?

Elder Spencer...who is this guy??

This is random, but I was so excited when Franny actually cared about the TV for the first time. I can now do my hair in the morning without her pulling on my leg and trying to eat the lotion and hairspray.

I didn't take a lot of pictures at the Spencer Family reunion at camp Lomia in Logan Canyon, but here's a keeper of Paul helping Fran play ping-pong. She was smiling so big the whole time. It was so funny.

Franny figured this doggy sound out by herself. Now she won't stop.

The End
Oh, and Franny now walks, but I somehow forgot to document it. I'll get around to it hopefully before the next season passes us by.

Summer Fun

Hi all! Let me warn you, July has been a BUSY month. So busy in fact, that I haven't made time to post, so this post is like 4 posts in one. It's a little unorganized. I just posted chonologically. We've had some fun times! Check it out...

The forth of July with cousins Lucy and Hailey. Hailey is the oldest cousin... Adria's daughter.

Forth of July fun at the aquatic center

What the? How'd you get in there?

At first I just thought it was cute that she was opening and closing this cupboard...

Then she totally got in! This picture was not staged.

Here we are boating In Burley, Id with the cousins...Franny's first time on a boat!

I was eating breakfast one morning and Franny was being eerily quiet. I found her going NUTS on a sucker I had accidentally dropped. She was in heaven.

I am a good mom, so I took it away.

Playing with Uncle Noods

Cousin Ada

Second cousin Gabby. Are they second cousins if Franny's dad is first cousins with Gabby's mom??

I love this picture because this is where she usually is every morning after her breakfast while I'm having mine. Her little toy and book corner.

My girls and me the night before our 10-year class reunion. Yes, I really am that old.

Highschool friends at good old LHS

Franny's first Bear Lake experience

Loving it!

Looks like Franny got my skin...thank goodness

Fran always has so much fun with her cousins

Davis and Franny had a fun time bothering Grandpa John during his nap

This was about the first time Franny stood up for more than 3 seconds. Sorry the video flips, but I frook out when she was actually standing, and this was the best footage.

This was so cute. Fran was playing with Zach's new dog, Rusty, when all of the sudden, she stood up on her own! It was the first time I had seen her do that, even though Paul says he had seen it earlier that week.

Okay, I know this is overboard, but I love this video.

Okay, bye