Summer has begun!

Yay for summer!! So far we have had a great beginning to summer. Makayla and I have spent a lot of time in the water, from the tiny pool in our backyard, to the public pool that she LOVES, to the splash pad at the mall. Outside is where this little girl loves to be and now that it is getting extremely hot we pretty much can only go outside if there is water.

Roberts sister Tonya came out to visit us for Memorial weekend. It took a while for Makayla to warm up to her, but once she did she had lots of fun with Tonya. Thanks so much for coming here to spend time with us we had such a great time!

my sister surprised me and came here too the same weekend Tonya came out and we all had such a good time. My sister and I took Makayla to the public pool and she got to see how much kayla loves playing in the water. My brother came over and we all had a BBQ, we went to the mall and played in the splash pad and overall just had a great time. Thanks Lacey for coming out here it was such a great surprise and one I definitely needed.

we have so much going on this summer. Makayla and I are going to Cali next week to spend some time at the beach. Also we have my family reunion in July along with Robs reunion in San Diego and we want to go visit family and friends in utah sometime so we have a great summer ahead of us. Makayla is really at such a fun age she is learning so much. She can finally really communicate with us by sign language. She knows how to say please, more, drink, eat and all done all in sign language. She has really turned into such a fun little girl. She loves to play hide and seek (I hide and she seeks) its the best when I scare her it cracks her up. She will randomly say words like please, Ayden (the kid I nanny) of course mommy and daddy. Mainly daddy all day unless she is crying for me to hold her or when she had food poisoning all I heard was mom..mommy while she was snuggling me, poor girl! and will randomly copy things we say and do. Lets just say she keeps us entertained constantly!

unstoppable

This song unstoppable is almost like a soundtrack to my life. I made some wrong turns in life, but with the love from my heavenly father I turned it around and now have such an amazing life. I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful husband and daughter. My love for them and my Heavenly Father is unstoppable.

Here are some pictures of my greatest blessing in life. Makayla is growing up so fast and she is learning so much. I love her!

Jamaica!

okay so get ready for a serious amount of pictures! We had such an amazing time in Jamaica! It was way too short of a trip, but we were sure happy to come home and see Makayla. We stayed in an all inclusive resort, so we got EVERYTHING and anything we wanted whenever we wanted it. No wallet, it was so great. We had a virgin strawberry daiquiri, pina colada, and the BEST fruit punch in the world at all times.

Here's us at the swim up bar with our awesome drinks! Life could not be better!

eating at the Italian restaurant, and the best part, no wallet no tip. All tips and taxes were included in our trip. =)

When we first arrived to the airport there were these cool guys playing Jamaican music. It really got our vacation on the roll

they upgraded our room to a beach front ocean view. It was pretty nice waking up to the crystal clear ocean

This is the view from our balcony

I actually got Robert to dance with me!

We'd race down the waterslides, but I'd always get stuck. I think I was too light for the water to pull me as fast as Robert. It was funny!

There was a minature golf course so we played a little.

I could get used to this sunset everyday! I'm so sad we're not at the beach anymore

We hung out on this cute bungalow watching the sunset almost every night it was perfect

mommy dearest....

Dearest Mom,

I am so glad that I chose you to be my mother before coming to earth. Being my mom was not an easy job especially in my teenage years and I look up to you so much for having the patience you had to raise 5 kids. Thank you for not giving up on me when all hope was lost . You've been my rock since having Makayla. I'm so glad I have a mom to call anytime I have questions about how to soothe my cranky baby. Thank you for letting me cry to you when I was in desperate need of assurance that I was doing all I could do to be a good mom myself. I will never forget the time I was in walmart sobbing because my newborn would not sleep, eat or stop crying and you came out a few days later just because you knew I needed you here. I love you so much, words just cant express it.

I am so happy to have 2 wonderful parents who have been together for many many years. I couldn't imagine what life would be like if my parents were divorced and am so grateful to have you both stay strong through all the trials and tribulations that came throughout the years

Makayla has such an amazing grandma. She loves you so much, she has always felt so comfortable when you were holding her. I'm so excited to have you come watch her while we go on our trip so you and her can build a stronger relationship. I love you so much mom! Thank you for everything you do for me and my family. Your seriously amazing and it may sound cliche, but I really couldn't have asked for a better mom. Happy Mothers Day!!!!

Birthday Celebration!

Ok so I'm not doing very well at keeping our blog updated as much as I'd like, but hey we don't do very many interesting things. So last week was my 24th birthday. Normally I don't fuss much about it or get very excited, but for some reason this year I was just well...excited. and I'm so glad it was just as good as I hoped it would be. When I woke up Rob was cooking me breakfast (he was planning on surprising me with breakfast in bed, but...for some reason I actually woke up and went downstairs) and he had blown up balloons and scattered them throughout the kitchen. It was very cute! Well he had to go to work and after that it was just a normal day.

the weather has been so nice out lately and I've been dying for a patio set to actually enjoy sitting outside watching Makayla and Smalls play, so for my birthday I got my patio set! =) we also got a grill to go with it as an early fathers day gift! hehe so ever since, we've spend almost every night grilling and relaxing on our patio. I still have a lot more to do to spruce up the patio like some pots with flowers and just cute things, but all in due time. I absolutely am loving the set though. I looks so much better in person.

When Rob got home from work he had surprised me with edible arrangements. The chocolate covered strawberry's and they were so good! mmmm oh yeah and my friend had brought over a cake so we had so many treats in the house (perfect timing right? while we're trying to eat healthy are exercise regularly) but who cares everyone needs some sweets once in a while. Then we went on a date to Red Lobster of course which was so stinking good, then went to see The Last Song. It was such a good day! I'm so lucky I have the greatest husband in the world! I love you honey thank you so much for making my birthday so special.

here are some random pictures of Makayla. She's growing up so much. I asked her yesterday morning if she was hungry and she shook her head yes and said uh huh, and I asked her again and she said "yeah" and shook her head yes again, then proceeded to go to her cabinet that has all her snacks in it. Also I was doing something and I said oh shoot and she tried to imitate me and kept saying "oh shoot", but it wasn't sounding like shoot it sounded more like sh**. haha it was funny. Its just so crazy how much she is learning and how more and more she's becoming this beautiful little girl. Finally she's starting to listen more. She isn't disobeying as much as she has this past month. She's a kid of course and wont always listen, but its fun watching her understand and try to make mommy happy.

Last is a picture of her sleeping. Every night Rob and I go check on her before we go to bed and we find her in the funniest positions. This isn't so crazy, her leg is just hanging out of the bed, but we couldn't help snap a picture, there is nothing like watching a baby sleep. They have the most sweetest faces while they're dreaming. Ugh just makes me want to squeeze her to pieces! =) Love this girl!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter

We got lots of fun goodies for Easter! okay well Makayla got lots of fun goodies =)

Last year we took our first family photo's on Easter after Makayla was just born, so this year we decided to do another little photo shoot.

We've had so much fun today! Kayla went on her first Easter egg hunt and it was so cute! She's just growing up so much.

Hope everyone had as great of an Easter as we did!