today is my girl's birthday!

Navy is 3! holy cow, how did that happen. she has been resisting becoming three for like 6 months now. every time i ever mentioned her birthday she would tell me "i don't want to be 3 or 4." then i would tell her "but you will be a big girl." the she says "but look...i'm still little." well this morning we went through this whole thing again until i told her " well i have a barbie cake waiting for you and some presents..." navy then stands up and says "ok ok it's my birthday, i'm 3...but i'm still little." who ever heard of a kid who WANTS to stay little!

She saw some barbie cakes at albertsons a long time ago and asked me if she could have one. to appease her i said "maybe for your birthday." well for anyone who knows navy, you know she doesn't forget ANYTHING. over the last several months she has randomly talked about the barbie cake she would get for her birthday, soooo, i made her one.

I'm pretty proud of it! i think it turned out really well! and yes it does say happy birthday jasmine. Navy changes her name to a different princess name daily. i asked her yesterday what her name would be today so i could put it on her cake and she said jasmine. so there you go...jasmine is three!
Along with turning three and being a big girl comes going the big kids class a church. this her after church on her first day being a Sunbeam (that is what her primary class is called.) she is wearing one of my old outfits that my mom saved. the sailor outfit is so fitting for her!
snow angels with daddy. navy is still not sure if she likes the snow (neither am i). the first day after we moved to rexburg navy said "it's not cold in long beach. we shouldn't move here." she does like eating the snow though.
my mom came to visit us and we loved it. aiti is the only person that she will completely ignore for me. she chooses aiti over me every time.
her snowwoman. to her everything is a girl!
sledding! she's so brave!


random picture of navy crossing her eyes! shhhh...don't tell her she is not actually doing it. haha
temple square during christmas time. i have a few christmas pictures that i have been meaning to put up for awhile, so here they are.
the crazy crowd at papa's. it was sooooo fun and papa makes biscuits and gravy that are putting up a really good fight with my dad's for best and i have never had anyone even come close to that! navy got a barbie house from papa and grandma nancy an she looooooves it!

i got an apron from teijanavy with her ariel doll from santa and hello kitty bag from Dana!
she loves the puppies she got from sam and joe. she immediately named the brown one beyonce and the white one lady gaga.
coming upstairs to see all her presents on christmas morning!

so now i'm all caught up and hopefully i'll be a more regular blogger. i think i say that almost every time i post though. maybe i should make it a new years resolution since i have not actually resolved to do anything! haha

Last few weeks in long beach

So as many of you know, we moved back to Rexburg so Brian could finish school. We will be here until July and so far i'm loving it! but first i wanna share with you the last few weeks we had in long beach.

Beach photo shoot. i know my eyes are closed but what else is new, right!
i can't believe we were at the beach a few weeks ago! it's freezing here!
LA actually looks kind of heavenly!
at the griffith observatory.
Sierra and navy playing beauty salon. we miss her soooo much already. Sierra was navy's 11 year old best friend who lived across the hall from us and spent most of her waking hours with us when she wasn't at school. she was great! i miss my free babysitter. i am playing way too much barbies and ponies without sierra around.
down town long beach. no more bare feet. it's snow boots all day every day!
on the ferris wheel down town.
we went to disneyland!!! thanks so much morgan! it was amazing. navy loved every second of it. i was a little skeptical of disneyland cuz i only went once when i was like 8, but it really was great. i think seeing it through navy's eyes made even more magical! she LOVED the princesses!
Small World


Long Beach we'll miss you! but rexburg has been treating us pretty good. more on that later!

Fall 2009

I love the fall in southern california! the weather is perfect! we have been pretty busy the last few months. Brian toured with his friends' band, and Navy and i spent a month visiting family. first we went to salt lake, then to idaho, then portland. unfortunately i don't have any pictures cuz brian had our camera with him. i do however have lot's of pictures of what we have been up to since coming home. so here they are:

A beautiful fall evening at the lighthouse.
This is the first day we saw brian again after his tour and our trips. We met up with him in santa barbara at his friend tyler's wedding. Navy was so happy to have her dad again!
A family picture at the wedding.
Afternoon at the beach! it is october and we are at the beach!! life couldn't get better!
making "chocolate sand soup".
Beach babe

brian and i had a night off (thanks sal and shane) and bri took me to a concert in LA. it was so fun! we saw Mika and he was awesome.

date night!

Our tinkerbell. so there will be quite a few tinkerbell pictures. sorry. i just thought she was sooo cute!
Scary witch face

navy won cutest costume award at a church party. There were three wards worth of kids there.
Watching the kids hit a pinata.
She decided she wanted to be Belle for trick or treating.
Then we went to a street party downtown. As we were leaving a grabbed some of navy's crayola markers and painted brian and i up.
Navy loved the other princesses.

Life is good and we are looking forward to the holidays' and a time to give thanks. speaking of giving thanks, sally has started a thing called mom's morning off where she babysits kid's that she knows for super cheap, one day a week. it is WONDERFUL! navy loves it and i love it. thanks sal. we love you!

modeling

Brian made this the other day for me. the pics were taken at brian's aunt dana's house and sally took them. obviously navy is doing her best modeling poses.

An anchor for navy!

today navy brought me into the kitchen and says "look what i did! it's an anchor for Navy!" she made an anchor out of her letters on the fridge! she constantly amazes me.

so life is going good! we had so much fun with brian's family the last few weeks but i gotta get some pictures from sally then i'll do another post.

An artist

so i don't know if i am just a proud mom that thinks that her kid is the smartest, nicest, most creative 2 year old in the world, but i am just so impressed with her everyday! today she drew this, with zero help from me. i think she is amazing!!!

by the way, my finger feels great. i have no pain at all (even with no vicodin). everything is healing pretty well!

Franken-finger BEWARE: there's pictures!

so last night i was making brian and navy a cookie dough milkshake with my hand-held blender. i finished it and was trying to get every last bit into the cup, so with my index finger of my left hand i was scraping the icecream out from around the blade. my thumb on the other hand accidently hit the button on the blender and before i knew it, my finger was sliced up really well. thankfully brian was right by me and acted fast. we wrapped up my finger in a towel, got navy dressed and into the car and we were off to the ER. 6 hours, several stiches, and a broken finger later i was home. not fun. my finger is mess but luckily intact.