we miss idaho

navy getting the dog and cat.
sitting in a tree.
on top of the dog house.
i have so many pictures still to share. we just had so much fun. everyday navy asks for the dog and cat and it has been 2 weeks since we were there. she has such a good memory, it seems like she should remember me telling her not to get in the toilet or garbage can but i still have to tell her not to about 50 times a day. she has a very selective memory! hey nicole, tell me what the food storage pamphlet is called again. i'm gonna go get it. i haven't been able to stop thinking about food storage since we talked. i layed awake in bed thinking about it for like an hour.

i couldn't love her more!

she is my world! her expressions are to die for and she is getting more and more animated everyday. my two new favorite things she says are "alright" when she means yes, and "oh B" her version of "oh baby" when she is sad or hurt. you have to hear her cute little voice saying them.

bonners ferry idaho

so i just got back yesterday from visiting my parents for 2 weeks and it was soooo fun. navy loved it. she played outside all day everyday. chased the dog and cats until they got mad at her and scratched her and then went right back to chasing and pulling tails. my dad cooked us awesome food the whole time, teija came to visit for the weekend, and brian even got to come up for a day when his tour came through spokane. navy was so cute when she saw him. she seriously didn't let go of him the whole time he was there. we went on some fun weekend trips around the area. we drove all around norhern montana and went to hot springs montana and stopped at some awesome waterfalls along the way. it is so beautiful up where my parents live. i'm very loyal to beautiful lake tahoe but i have got to say that northern idaho and montana are just as pretty, minus all the tourists. i loves it there. lifes is so simple. my parents have 20 acres of beautiful wooded property. you can go for a long walk/hike for hours all on their land. they have planted an awesome garden and i know that when the world comes to an end they we will easily be able to live off their land and the fruits of their labor. we took so many pictures that i can't decide which ones to post so i'm just gonna put a ton up and then more later (and probably even more later). i'm happy to be back though to a place where my computer doesn't take forever to load a page and my cell phone works!

little fashionista

i don't know how to flip pictures so you'll just have to turn your heads. so navy came out of my room wearing this this morning. she has on my shirt and brian's skateboarding helmet. she wore them for like 20 minutes just prancing around. she was quite proud of her little ensemble. so right now brian is driving home from san francisco. he just flew up there yesterday. it seems that our little honda with nearly 300,000 miles on it, has finally kick the bucket. luckily we found out about a month ago the brian's aunt was looking to get rid of a car and we just needed to get up there and get it. soooo lucky. she even gave brian $100 for gas money. a free car and gas money! so we'll be driving a white '96 oldsmobile for awhile. at least it has air conditioning cuz it is supposed to be almost 100 degrees for the next few days here. yuck! on monday i am on my way up to idaho to stay with my parents for a few weeks while brian is on tour. i'm so excited! my parents are even more excited. navy will get to play with all the farm animals my parents neighbors have and mom and dad's dog and cats. she'll we in heaven!

love you long time

so brian is in a band called love you long time and it takes up a lot of time in both of our lives. he started the band about 4 years ago and after several changes in the line-up of people, it is now brian (guitar,vocals, keyboard), his sister sally (keytar), her husband shane (bass), and our friend liam (drums). it's has taken awhile but they are doing so good now. they tour a ton, have some super legit managers and an entertainment lawyer and have played some pretty huge shows mostly in the utah and idaho area. they have played with colbie calet (sp?), dashboard confessional, the format, limbeck, aqua bats (twice), shiny toy guns and most recently eve six. it's so fun to be an (almost) rockstar's wife. their music is good and uplifting and they try hard to be good examples and share the gospel whenever possible. check them out at http://myspace.com/loveyoulongtime they just put up 3 new songs yesterday and they're getting tons of plays.
p.s. how hot is brian!!

happy mother's day

i have the best life!! i love being a mom. i have an awesome husband (who got me 7 2 liter coke zeros for mother's day) and the easiest, happiest little girl. i am so fortunate to be a stay at home mom. i love that i belong to a church that praises mother's and understands the importance of a mother staying at mom. i am so lucky to have a mom that raised in the church even without having my dad there with her. she was and is, so strong and patient and nonjudgemental. what a great example. here are a few new pictures. Brian made lasagna for us today and navy throughly enjoyed it. happy mother's day to a the beautiful mom's i know,

looking back

brian and i have been so blessed to be able to travel. we have so many memories and have done so many once in a lifetime things already. lately i have been thinking about life before navy, and even though i wouldn't change the way my life is with her in it, i do miss the freedom not having her allowed. i do count myself lucky though that we did do such awesome things before be had navy. all these pictures are of a trip bri and i took the summer after we got married while we were living in beijing. the first one is of us at about 14,000 feet at sunrise on a mountain in eastern china called Emei Shan. it took us all afternoon and most of the night to climb. we slept next to a buddist monastery and woke up to see the sunrise. so gorgeous.
the next picture in in tibet. we were just walking around the grounds of a monastery and ran in to these monks. they were on there way to bathe in a stream right behind us. we talked to them for a while. one of them knew a little chinese and we spoke a little chinese so we were able to communicate that way. while i tibet we stayed at monasteries, went to early morning chants (kinda like seminary for the young monks), rode yaks up a mountain, and saw enough buddist temples to last a lifetime. last year china opened a railway that goes from china to tibet. when we were there you could only fly in ( too expensive for mst chinese)or take a five day trip in a truck. for that reason there were very few people who visited tibet. now hundreds of people everyday go in. apparently now it is very touristy and nothing like what it was like when we visited. we went just in time.
the next picture is in thailand. heaven on earth! amazing food! so cheap! you can stay in a bungalow on the beach for less than $5 a day. the water is clean and beautiful and warm and you can mostly get by speaking english. everyone should go someday. we hiked around the islands with our backpacks and stayed at a different bungalow every night. we even stayed in a tree house with the water coming right up to the trunk when the tide came in. i felt like i was on the swiss family robinson. the next picture i didn't mean to put up and don't know how to take it off but it is Guilin in southern china. the mountains are like Dr. Seuss mountains. the next one is in thailand again eating dinner on the beach at little tables that were set up close to the water edge. i wish i remember what i was eating.
ok, well that's enough looking back. it's fun to remember. i wrote this post more for me then anyone else. i have never been good at keeping a journal, taking pictures, or blogging (obviously) but i just don't want to forget where i have been and what i have seen.