Zoo Days

Last week we got to spend the day at the Zoo. My kids loved all the animals and seeing their cousins. Brody's favorite animal is the 'phants' (elephants) and mine is the Giraffe. So we made sure to see them and spend some time saying hi to them. I haven't seen the bird show since I was little so we went and it was AWESOME! Brody and Brooklyn were very entertained and we almost got hit by birds a few times. It was a great day! I can't wait to go again.

Raegan and Wyatt at going down the snake slide
The kids seeing how big they are getting

Brody of course has to play with everything,

he can't walk by something without touching it and seeing how it works.

Skylar hanging off the rhino

Skylar on the rhino,

Brody, Alayna, Raegan and Avery on the ground.

My darling babies!

Darling little Girls!

Remember that I have to always fight with Brody to get a picture with him.

All the kids LOVE the water ball in the front of the zoo.

our little mover

Miss Brooklyn is crawling all over the place. She has been army crawling for the past month, but finally got the real crawling down about a week ago. She is speedy too, I really have to watch her close, she gets over by the stairs in a matter of seconds. Way to go big girl!

Summer fun!

We went Camping up at Soldier Creek over the weekend. We use to go up there with our Grandpa alot when we were young and go fishing. So we decided to take our kiddos camping and fishing too. We had such a fun time together eating yummy food and especially loving our new invention of smores, a reeses instead of a piece of chocolate. It's pretty much delicious!!!

Slacker....

I really have been the worst blogger lately. Every day I want to get on and post all about the fun we have been having this summer, but having 2 little kids makes it a bit hard to do anything...much less get on the computer.

Brody is talking up a storm, he repeats everything we say which is so cute and a little scary, I guess that means I need to watch what I say. :) He wants to be outside all day long and doesn't seem to mind that it is blazing hot. He loves swimming so much and has been cruizing around the pool all summer with his lime green floaties on. Such a big boy! His is obsessed with police cars and fire trucks which he calls "we we cutch".


Brooklyn is jibber jabbering, she repeats "da da da" all day. She just starting sitting up like a big girl on Wednesday, she is so proud of herself and squeels with delight. She gets herself up on her hands and knees and rocks. What a big girl she is getting. She loves to eat peas and sweet potatoes and hates rice cereal, even if I mix in her favorites. So funny!

6 months

Our girl is 6 months old today.

She is rolling over and trying to figure out how to crawl, she wants to sooo bad, when she see's a toy in front of her she wiggles with all her might to move forward. Soon enough she will master it and be all over the place. I can't believe that my baby is so big.

She is the happiest baby I have ever known, when she wakes up in the morning, I go in to get her and peak my head over the crib she screams and smiles so big it makes me start laughing. All day long she giggles and smiles. She is thrilled to be around her brother.

Baby girl we LOVE you to pieces!!!!!!

Weight: 17lbs 2 0z. 74%

Height: 27 1/2 inches 96%

Head: 16.7 inches 52%

Finally...

We are on our own and loving doing our own weddings. My mom and I have been at Thanksgiving Point as designers and florists for the past 6 years. We loved it there and miss so many people, but we are more thrilled to be creating beauty on our own.

Drum roll please.................

Introducing Pretty Posies.

Sunny San Diego

We took the kiddos and headed to see my brother for his 30th Birthday. Neither one of the kids have been on a plane and since Brody isn't 2 yet we thought we would take advantage of not having to pay for him and take a plane ride. I don't know if that was such a good idea....as soon as we got to the airport we knew it was going to be crazy flying with 2 kids. Brody was running all over and behind the jetblue checkin counter while I was trying to hold Brooklyn and both our carryons...Austin was trying to get our bags and the carseats checked in while I ran after Brody...I am sure people were laughing thinking glad thats not us. I thought as soon as we can get through security and get on the plane I am sure Brody will be good, think again.....our plane was delayed so we had more chasing to do up and down the terminals, if one of us grabbed him and tried to make him sit by us and play with his toys he would scream and yell "done, done, done" People thought we were trying to kipnap the kid I am sure. Finally we got on the plane and there was no empty rows so I asked a guy if we could sit by him and was he ok sitting by kids, he didn't even answer us, he just got up and moved seats....I guess he wasn't really a kid kinda guy. haha Once we sat, Brody was wild as ever and wouldn't sit down, he wanted to bounce on the seats the whole time. All we could do was laugh and keep reminding eachother....lets not do this again.

Brody's little cheeks were as rosy as ever from all the running he had done. :)

As soon as we boarded Austin said "I get Brooklyn" haha I said that was fine because I am sure Brody would fall asleep anyway......... Lucky Dad!

Every now and then he would watch Toy Story, but for the most part he wanted to check everything out and see who was sitting behind and infront of us.

When we got to Cali, the cousins were so glad to see eachother. Sawyer and Brody were inseperable the whole time.

Brooklyn learned how to roll over and really enjoyed showing us all with a Huge smile on her face.

The 2 crazy boys were in everything, but as long as they were having fun and not getting hurt we just laughed and thought boys will be boys.

They rode these all day everyday, it was really cute.

Little Miss is obsessed with sucking her toes, I think it is hilarious so I had to show her off.

We went to the San Diego Zoo one day and it was AMAZING!!! They have very cool animals there, even this turtle that has been alive since 1908.

Brody was obsessed with the "onkeys" These Gorillas were huge and running around, there was probably 5 or 6 and 2 babies that were adorable.

Even Brooklyn liked checkin them out.

The Elephants

Brody, Sawyer and Kayla Starr

There was a huge life size statue of an elephant, so of course the 2 daredevils had to climb up it to show us how strong they are. Wow, good job boys!!!

They have the same bouncer as we do...Brooklyn was in heaven.

Brody turned into a little fish on this trip. He used to be kind of afraid of swimming pools but just watching his cousins jumping in and out of the pool, he decided that looked pretty fun and he would do everything they were doing, even if it scared mom.

Austin got to stay a few days and I stayed almost 2 weeks. He was really jealous of me. :) I loved being in California and seeing my Brother and his family. I miss them already and can't wait to go back and play with them again!!!!