The BatCave - aka The Devil's Lair - aka River's Room

Welcome to the Cave of Wonders. This is were the mysterious R. White spends the majority of her time; dabbling in paints, building spectacular block towers, playing ring-around-the-rosie, feeding her baby doll and the like.

Here we have the re-cycled toy box. This used to be mine when I was a little girl, ya all! My dad and grandpa made it. With their own two hands. Er, four hands.... I painted it pink and added velcro animals.

Will You Survive Niagara's FURY?

Niagara Falls was absolutely breathtaking. Did you know it's one of the 7 Wonders of the World? It is. We even got to don blue ponchos and ride the Maid of the Mist, a boat that takes you to the base of the falls to get sprayed with massive amounts of water vapor. It was great! We also went to the famous Butterfly Conservatory. Cameron became instantly famous when a huge butterfly landed right on his forehead. I must admit, I would have freaked out if it landed on me! Check out the woman in the background. She is thinking, "Man, that guy is cool. He's like the butterfly whisperer or something."

We even saw a street performer on stilts. He's the guy circled in yellow. Not the best picture, eh? And I'm smirking, cuz I wanted a picture with the guy, but Cameron didn't want to go any closer.

Also, River is getting her canines in, so she's chewing on everything.

Palmyra / Pagent/ Big Bum

So today River hit my bum and said 'Big bum!' What a proud moment. I was in tears, for laughing. There may have been real tears too. But forget all that. Pretend that she said 'small bum' just to make me happy. I may have a big bum, but I smile better than River in pictures. Just look at these in Palmyra. This is how River smiles if you tell her to smile. You have to catch her smiling, but you can't actually ask her to smile. My brother Tyrell has at least a years worth of pictures, when he was this age, with the same face. You can't see their eyes at all, it's so cute! A couple of weeks ago we went with our stake to the Hill Cumorah Pagent in Palmyra, NY. It was pretty impressive. We went early to see the Palmyra Temple (the temple we use), and to hike Hill Cumorah and the Sacred Grove.

My favorite part was the Sacred Grove. It was absolutly peaceful with the sun filtering lazily through the trees. I want to go back. River's favorite part was the car keys. She loves keys all of a sudden. She has to 'unlock' the back door everytime we go out, and 'unlock' the trunk and car door. If Cameron or I unlock the car before she has chance to try it, she is furious. The upside is that, in the first video, the keys entertained her for at least 30 minutes while we were waiting for the pagent to start.

We Did It, We Did It, We Did It, Yay!

We now live in an undisclosed city in New York! Can you believe it? We miss everyone more just imagining the vast miles between us. Uggh! We've been here about a month and have already seen a lot of fun stuff. Stay tuned for posts on Palmyra, Niagara Falls and Tyrell's wedding! Now, on to our apartment.



This is our new apartment. Brick, lots of flowers.



These are the signs around our apartment. It may be my favorite thing about our new place. It shows character. Don't Feed Rats? What rats? EEEk!

River is definitely adjusting to the move. The first video is of our parking lot, wherein River and Cameron are playing airplane. The second video is Rivers' new favorite past time of kissing things. Stuffed animals, lawn mowers. You name it, she's kissed it. And she has to have all of her owies kissed better now too. "Kiss better, mommy?"

pop quiz: does anyone knoe where I got the title for this post?