Friday, April 30, 2010

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!


Sunday, April 4, 2010

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!









Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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.

Friday, March 5, 2010

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


Friday, February 26, 2010

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
















Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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.