Never been so scared!!

We had the scariest thing happen today. Rob, Makayla and I were shopping at Costco, we normally put Makayla in the front of the shopping cart so she can move (cuz we all know how much of a busy body she is and hates being strapped down) so like normal we put her in. During our shopping I was in the front near her looking at a movie and while she was trying to reach me to have me hold her she falls over and lands directly on her head onto the cold hard floor. I screamed so loud that everyone was staring at us and both rob and I raced to her. I just barely saw her hit her head and I thought for sure she had split her head open and there would be blood everywhere, but thankfully there wasn't. We decided to take her to the hospital just to be on the safe side. The doctors monitored her for a while and she is luckily okay, but I have never been more scared in my whole life

As I sit here crying as I'm writing all this I cant help but feel so incredibly blessed. Blessed that this perfect little girl is in my life and blessed that she is okay. I talk a lot about how crazy and active she is. I complain about how she throws the most craziest tantrums every second of everyday, I complain when she's teething and grumpy, and through out all that complaining of mine I dont meantion how much I LOVE this little girl. How stinking adorable every tiny little thing she does is. How sweet and loving she is. She is my best friend and she is only one. I feel so stupid for complaining about all the things I'm actually proud of. She's active and healthy and I love that. She wouldst be Makayla if she weren't. I know being a mom gets so hard and I get stressed, but I love this girl more than anything in the world. I'm so lucky to be her mommy. I just hope that she feels the same way about me.

TAG YOUR IT...

PICTURE TAG:

Our friends Kristen and Russ tagged me to do a photo tag.

Here are the rules:

1. Open your first folder.

2. Scroll to the tenth photo.

3. Post the photo and the story behind it.

4. Tag 5 more people

This is our dog Smalls when we first got him as a puppy. I begged Rob forever to get a puppy and one of our good friends told us they had friends giving away puppy's for free I asked Rob if we could just go look at them. Well we ended up falling in love! We didn't just get one but we got two. We gave the other puppy to my mom for her birthday and kept smalls for us. He has been such a sweet dog. Before we had Makayla, Smalls was our baby and he was definitely treated like one too. We just love him so much. He may not be as tiny as he was in the picture but we still think he's the cutest dog.

Now the fun part...I tag

1. Katie Miller

2. Lori Jones

3. Tara Patience

4. Sarah Salmon

5. Tera Dick

Our Big Girl

Our little girl isn't so little anymore! She turned 1! I cant even believe whole year has gone by since I first laid my eyes on her. She has brought more joy to our lives than we could have possibly ever imagined. We love her so much
My mom and sister drove up for Makayla's big day. We threw a party for her and she had the best of time. She didn't even want to open her presents cuz she was having way to much fun with all the other kids.

Her cake turned out pretty cute. The brown was supposed to be a dark chocolate brown, and we tried everything to get it darker, but it wouldn't change, but overall I really loved how it turned out. It was a white cake with raspberry filling and whipped cream cheese frosting. It tasted pretty dang good I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself. =)

I also made a separate little cake just for the birthday girl so she could dig into.

We thought she was going to put her whole fist into it and go crazy but she actually ate it pretty dainty. Rob was messing it up so she could take bigger pieces instead of putting two fingers in the frosting and licking it. she's so cute

had to put in this goofy pic of her. This shows her true silly self. You gotta love those funny teeth

Aunt Lacey got her this huge stuffed animal. She runs up to it and hugs it all day

blowing out the candle

Can you say Curly?

Okay so its official Makayla has curly hair. This is what happens when we don't brush her hair after her bath. I scrunched it up a bit and let it dry and this is what happened. The girls in my family have ringlet curls and Robert and I have wavy hair and little miss Makayla has it too! =) I would love it if her hair grows out and it turns into ringlets. It looks a little silly with it being so short but she's going to be a doll! Its been a while since we've had a mommy baby picture. I don't like taking pictures of me these days with my crazy teeth and braces, but I couldn't pass up a picture of Makayla laying on me.
The other night Rob had turned on boys 2 men and whenever he does that he wants everyone to dance with him. (he's very passionate about their music) so he picked up smalls and Makayla and started dancing. Smalls was loving it cuz we used to hold him like a baby ALL the time before Makayla was born and now he doesn't get treated like a baby, he gets treated like a dog.

update....

Wondering what Makayla has been up to these days?? Throwing Tantrums!! =) I had to get one of these pictures, she has really turned into a little girl no more baby. Makayla is definitely one of a kind, but she has also become so sweet. She is much more snugly than she ever has been. Her personality has really become to shine, she keeps Rob and I entertained for hours. She makes us laugh constantly. Her and Smalls (our dog) play all day long, they are best of buds and she has two little teeth on top and bottom and looks pretty silly when she laughs, which makes me laugh even more. Makayla always gives us kisses and has become very attached to both of us. She runs to us when we enter the room and she's been talking up a storm. Even though she's been doing more of what's in the picture, she's also been more fun and sweet. This past month I have been looking at her in amazement at how much she's grown and how smart she is becoming. I don't think we could love this little girl any more!

We also took a little trip to California to visit friends and family, and I didn't take many pictures, but I did get some of Makayla and her uncle Nick playing with her at the arcade. She had a blast on the motorcycle and racing the cars. (can you say Sorensen) We live for speed! I cant believe how much I can tell she will LOVE roller coasters. Makayla is my total mini me from her crazy personality to her girlyness. I absolutely LOVE IT and so does Rob.

We also celebrated Roberts 29th birthday! I was sick that day so he didn't get to wake up to balloons and streamers, but when he came home from work I had everything out for him. He had a great day at work, and ended the day going out to dinner just him and I. We have been very blessed with great neighbors and they took makayla while we went to Texas Roadhouse. Then we picked up Kayla and hung out with them for a little bit and came home had cake, opened presents and laughed at makayla, then we put her down for bed and had mommy daddy time. Overall Robert kept saying he had a great birthday

and instead of celebrating valentines day today, since its sunday we did it yesterday. I woke up went downstairs and the house was clean, and there were pink roses with balloons, my favorite valentines cookies, and doughnuts waiting for me. Then some other great neighbors of ours watched makayla so we could go visit good friends of ours that just had a baby, so we went to the hospital, then we picked makayla up and hung out with our neighbors for a while, relaxed, then went to the park where everyone was out and had more fun being with friends, then we went out to dinner at Red Lobster my favorite restaurant. I originally wanted the dinner to be romantic since I never get romanced, but we decided to bring Makayla along and she was in the funniest mood. She kept us laughing the entire night. She is so silly, so then we went home put baby to bed and enjoyed the night to ourselves =).

We got a call today from friends in our ward to have dinner with them tonight, and the fun keeps coming. I feel extremely blessed to have such an amazing husband and a great relationship. Our marriage has been almost perfect and I couldn't be luckier. I also cant believe the joy Makayla has brought to our lives. She is so perfect and she is a definite gift from our heavenly father.

Before and After...

This is Makayla's ceiling fan before... and this is her ceiling fan after!

I've been having too much fun doing new projects. I am obsessed with mod podge and I keep thinking of new things to do with it and here is one. I actually did a whole different design with scrapbook paper, but when I put it up the lines of where I matched it up didn't look great so I tore it off and did a new one with wrapping paper so there were no lines. For the future I will never mod podge wrapping paper again, its way too thin and bubbles like crazy. but the finish product looks really cute I think!

I went even further and did her light switches

and electrical outlet. It was so much fun. I have to thank Sarah for all your help. Even though I ended up switching the paper.

I've also been doing other little projects like making canvases for our bedroom and painting coat racks and other little things here and there. Rob told me I have to put all my new ideas on hold for a while so we can save some money. all these "cheap" projects end up adding up!

Makayla's First Christmas!

This year we spent Christmas with Robs family in Colorado where it was nice and snowy! We had a great time. Before we went to Colorado we had our own little family Christmas with just the 3 of us. Makayla loved opening her gifts it was fun.

The 3 granddaughters got to be together for the first time in a long time! They are all so cute!

Makayla's first time in snow. She even got to be pulled on the back of the four wheeler. She didn't make much expression, but she didn't cry either so I think she liked it =)

Grandma and Grandpa Miller spending time with Kayla

hahaha and I had to put these up. She was fascinated with bubbles. We have adopted the name bubbles for her nickname, since mnm doesn't flow anymore. Bubbles fits her in so many ways. That was our Christmas of 2009. We had the best year of our lives with our beautiful baby with us. We are ready to see what surprises are waiting for us in 2010