Fourth of July!

We had a great Fourth of July weekend! Bobby took off on Friday as well so it was nice to have Daddy home for 4 days! Majority of the weekend we did not do much, but on Monday, the 4th, we went over to the Grime's for a little grilling and water fun for the kids!

A little 4th of July photo shoot
This is her "happy face"

Brenley and Daddy

"Weeee"! She loved playing in the pools!

And you gotta have an ice cream sandwich!

She ate that whole thing!

What a fun, long weekend! Why can't every month have a holiday?? :)

30 and THRIVING!

So June 20th marked my 30th birthday! I still can't believe that my 20's are over and I am now in a new decade. I was a little uneasy about turning 30, but I am beginning to embrace it and I am excited about what my 30's will hold!

A few days before my birthday a group of my friends got together at Javier's for dinner. It was a fun night of celebrating!

The birthday girl!

Lindsey, me and Melissa

The girls side of the table :)

All of the girls! Thanks for coming out to celebrate!

A couple of days after my birthday we had a "family" celebration! I was lucky enough to have my parents come in for the week!

My two loves - wish Bren would have smiled. :)


Happy Birthday to me!

Something was really funny!

I am trying to look at 30 as a fresh start and change some things in my life. I started out small and have stopped biting my nails. This is a huge deal for me because I have been biting my nails literally as long as I can remember! My next change is with my health and my physical appearance. Lately I have felt very out of shape and still have some pounds hanging on after having Brenley, so I started running and excercising on my own, but then a bootcamp totally fell into my lap! It was definitely a God-send and I am loving it! It is H-A-R-D, but it is so good!

Here are a few pics of me at bootcamp (pics courtesy of our bootcamp trainer, Tanna)

Yep, we push, flip and run with TIRES!

We do pushups, situps, squats and lunges, galor!

This is just some of our group (we were missing some that day) trying to look mean. :)

I pray that my 30's are a time of change and growth in my marriage, motherhood and Spiritual life.

Goodbye 20's, HELLO 30's!!

18 Months!

HAPPY 18 MONTHS to my baby girl! Brenley turned 18 months this past Saturday and it is still so hard to wrap my mind around her being 1 1/2 years old! I decided to start just doing a birthday blog about her with her chair picture every 6 months now.

Here are a few of her accomplishments and things she is doing these days!

• The first thing she does in the morning when she wakes up is call roll while she points -- "Mama, PoPo (Polo), Dada (even though he is at work), and MEEE!" Sometimes the door, her bows and Elmo get thrown in there too. Gotta make sure everyone is accounted for!


• She loves to say "Hi" to everyone in the house -- it is more like "iiii mama"


• She is afraid of bubble baths and one bubble bath caused her to be deathly afraid of any bath for 2 weeks!


• She knows the color yellow and says it so cute!


• She has a little obsession with Elmo and all things Sesame Street. She can name Big Bird, Elmo, Ernie, Bert and Abby.


• She loves to eat eggs, cheese, oatmeal, peanut butter crackers and sandwiches, applesauce, fruit snacks, chips, crackers and most recently blueberries and blackberries! She also loves Ketchup and can dip almost anything into it!


• She can also name quite a few farm animals and say their sound!


• Some of my favorite words that she says are "turtle, wuv you, puppy, bear, big bird, door and of course Popo.


• She loves swimming and just today let me put her head under the water! She also loves the hose or sprinkler outside!


• She is telling us when she goes poopoo, so I will try and sit her on the potty when she tells me but it is just to get her used to it...she hasnt gone in it yet!


• She gives great hugs and kisses and will give lots of them when she is in the mood too!


• She loves to dance and can do the motions to "This little light of mine", "If you happy and you know it", and "He's got the whole world in his hands" -- Thank you to her school for most of these!


• Her favorite activity is to chase Polo and pull at her and hit her. Polo is such a good sport!


• She can name all of her facial features and Mama's and Daddy's too!


• She loves to take off her shoes and works really hard to put them back on. This keeps her busy for a while!


• She goes down around 7:30 and wakes up around 7:30 or sometimes can even sleep til 9! She usually takes 2 naps, but will chose to skip the afternoon one if she has the choice!

Here are some pics over the last month or so!

Can you believe this little girl started out looking like this...

and now she looks like this!!!!


And wants to pose like this instead of sitting down!

She loves her little pool!

Being a little ham with mommy! (taken from phone)

This stinker went and got in my parent's neighbor's sprinkler with her clothes on! (Video below)

Here she is reading on her potty! :)

Video of her sprinkler mischief!

This girl lights up our world and we can't imagine life without her! She is getting more and more fun with each day! Can't wait to see what she will be doing in the next 6 months!

Summer is here!!

Thursday wrapped up our first year of Pre-school! I finished my first year of teaching and Brenley finished her first year of learning. She had a blast and learned so much and I loved my kiddos and the ladies I worked with! We are ready and thankful for a few summer months off, but I know we will love going back in the Fall!

Here are a few pictures of her End of Year program! Her class did two songs and were so very cute!

(kinda blurry, but that is her in the middle waving her scarf)

The whole school

She was so excited when she saw that Daddy and Nanny were there!

Her little class

We have officially kicked off summer with an afternoon at the pool yesterday and fun with the waterhose tonight! She is so fun these days!

Her smiles and giggles were contagious!

Yes, I let her drink out of the hose! Hey, I turned out ok! :)

Looking forward to more fun this Summer!

What have we been up to??

Wow, it has been 2 months since I have last blogged so I feel like I have so much to catch up on! What better way to do that than with pictures!! Here we go...

Easter was forever ago, but we enjoyed celebrating our risen Savior and also loved watching our little girl with her goodies and in her dress!

Looks like they are plotting something!

Oh this cutie pie!

This girl is loving purses, cell phones and brushes! :)

Eating at her big girl table!

She loves to swing outside!

We have hung out with my Nanny! They love eachother so much!

We have fed the ducks at DBU!

Our sweet friends, Heather and Steve moved and we had a "See ya later" party for them!

College roomies (minus Rachel)

(The next few pictures are small cause they are from my phone and that is just they way that sent)

She had farmer day at school!

We celebrated my Nanny's 89th birthday!

We celebrated Mother's day!!

We hung out with our friend Jae!

We have enjoyed just being a kid outside!!

And we have danced and played in our playroom!

This girl is keeping me so busy these days and her little personality AND attitude is coming out! :) I will update everything on her in her 18 month post! Our last day of school is Thursday and we are ready for a break! No big plans for the summer but we are looking forward to sleeping in (hopefully), hanging out with family and hopefully lots of pool time!! Until next time...