Grocery store fun

So I found what can keep Mya entertained while I shop...The kid car cart thing:) She was so good the entire time. Most of the time she had one hand on the steering wheel and one on the arm rest so it looked like she was driving. What a cutie!!

Before she went to bed  she grabbed her tutu skirt and gave it to me then lifted her leg up so she could get in them. It was so funny! Dean said, "what a little girly girl"

USU football season!!!

We love USU football!!! That is the main perk to Utah state is their athletics. We took Mya to a couple last year but of course she is a lot more mobile now than last fall so we left the game a little early but it was still fun. It was so so hot during the 1st quarter. Dean was so hot he stripped off his socks and shoes:) We got to spend time at the game with some of our good friends, Nate and Chelsee, they moved to California today I'm really gonna miss them!

 Mya has been doing this a lot lately. When she is upset, she drops something, there is a loud noise, etc. she covers her mouth with her hand. It is actually really cute.

Thanks to all the smoke the sunsets are gorgeous here in Cache Valley

Sensory activity=nope :)

One morning I was at work and Dean was letting her eat oatmeal and he said she ate it so fast-she was hungry-and then would tip the bowl up and tilt her head back to get as much of it as she can (he tried to get a pic but she didn't do it when he got the camera out). I just love her hair! it was from her pony tails the night before.

So I decided before it gets too cold that Mya and I should try the sensory activity with shaving cream she sat down and I put her hands in it (to help her figure out what to do with it) she wiped her hands off on her tummy and legs then that was it. I even gave some to her in the tub but nope she didn't like it at all. So maybe we will try playdough or something next time.

 My little skinny minny :)

She kept handing me her clothes-she hates being naked. My little modest girl.

That's my little buddy Mya-she is her mama and daddy's world! 

I love when she says, "cheese" with those pearly white chicklets :)

Dean's nightmares

I just want to record something that happened a week or so ago. Dean is a sleep talker and he likes to flap and swing his arms too-I know because I wake up to getting punched or something. In the middle of the night Dean shoots up in bed and his arms swing around then he whistles really loud!!!! The kind of whistling he does when he would whistle for Rusty to come back from a long ways away. He did it twice and said something like, "he's getting away" I kept nudging him and saying, "Dean, Dean, Dean it's ok. Stop." then he just sat there in bed then laid back down on his back and went to sleep. Of course he doesn't remember it but when I told him about it and how funny it was he was like, " oh yeah I think I did dream of a guy getting away from me" hahahaha oh dean! I love him!!

watching the boys and Brigham City temple

We stayed at my parents house with my 2 brothers, Dustin and Jaxon, for a few days while my parents took their 1923 model T on a "Model T tour" with a bunch of other people who own model Ts around Colorado and New Mexico. I was glad that they were getting away just the 2 of them and it was fun to hang out, watch tv (we've decided that we like tv for only an hour or so and then we hate it. We are so glad we don't have it at our house), we played outside, Jaxon started 7th grade, Dustin went to work, Jaxon, maxee and I went running but it was so smoky from the fires that we didn't run for very long, we went to the Brigham City Temple open house just Jaxon, Mya and I since Dean and Dustin were working, and that was about it.

 Mya is so tiny (she is 10th percentile) she fits right in the tonka truck and she loves uncle Jaxon (Uncle Daggon)

 At the open house-it was such a strikingly beautiful very white temple

Summer update

Dean starts school in a couple of days and it made me reflect on our summer. I am going to miss the activities, the family reunions, the camping trips, etc..but surprisingly i'm not really gonnna miss the weather. It has been so HOT here in Logan! I love the fall crisp weather and I'm excited not to be sweating all day everyday. Even Mya's hair was always curly with sweat:)

this is some of the things we did this past summer:
-Softball games (about 3 a week)
-swimming ( Dean got me a 10x pass for mothers day and Mya is free so we went a lot)
-camping
-floating the Oneida Narrows
-4 wheeler rides (Mya absolutely LOVES to ride the 4 wheeler. She will look up at me with her big blue eyes, smile, then look around then rest her head against my chest and close her eyes. This is the best way to make her happy and relaxed.)
-Dean had one class online so that took up some of our summer
-Family reunions (we had 3 one after another in the month of July. I love our families!!)
-I ran a 5k, 10k, and a half marathon!!!
-game nights with friends
-batting practice
-gardening (we had a garden at  my parents place)
-working (Dean works so much and so hard and I got to work a couple days a month-the perfect amount)
-redbox movie nights
-shooting skeet
-and Dean's dog Rusty passed away

I'm sure we did more things but that's all I could think of right now. Well, goodbye summer and Hello last year of school for Dean!!!! Yahoo!!!

Mya's first fat lip

Mya's first fat lip!!! (i took this picture a couple days after so it isn't swollen really) We went to visit dad at work at IFA and the flooring there is hard cement so she was just cruising around like she always does but I think her sandals that she was wearing were hard to walk in and then smack she fell and hit her mouth. Her upper lip was bleeding and it swelled up pretty good the next day. This picture really doesn't do justice and she wouldn't let me get a good picture, we were watching daddy play softball. I'm surprised it has taken this long for her to get a fat lip because she has been walking since 9 and a half months.

Mya's first Rodeo!!

Mya's first rodeo at the Cache County Fair in Logan! She did so good! I was thinking for the last hour I would have to walk around with her outside the arena but nope she smiled, clapped when they played country music, and she neighed when the horses came out. I can't wait til we can put her in mutton butston! The bull riding was exciting 2 guys had to be taken in ambulances (I don't like people getting hurt but it was good riding and the bulls were very aggressive) We went with our friends chelsee and nate Neighbergall. They are moving next month and we are so sad. Chelsee is Mya's favorite babysitter and we love dog sitting their great dane. But one plus is that we can go visit them in Cali where there is a beach only minutes away.

Family pics 2012

I'm so excited that our family pics are here!! A friend of mine, Chelsea Lehman, who used to be in our ward takes pictures and my goal is to have family pics taken 1x a year and so I called her and she was so good! I love how they turned out. (I'm just glad you can't see how bad we were sweating-it was pretty hot)

 Dean had to keep his arm on Mya so she wouldn't escape:)

 this one is my Favorite!!-I'm so blessed to have these 2 in my life!

 My one year old!!!

and of course you need at least one crying photo to show them when they are older :)

Camping and Mya turns 1!!!

So let me explain why I haven't kept up on this blog... well, I wasn't sure how I wanted to keep track of our memories and pictures so I've tried different things and honestly i really don't like spending a lot of time on the computer I would rather clean, make crafts, play sports, workout, be with my family, but I need an easier cheaper way of keeping a family album so now I am just starting over with this blog and my goal is to make a blog book for every year and then keep an album seperate for special things just for mya in her album. 

This past week Dean went on a fishing trip with his dad, brother and cousins to the Uintahs and I am too scared to stay home alone so I went camping with my family to Palasades Lake and Jackson Hole. It was Mya's first trip and she did pretty good. She didn't sleep that great the first night-she woke up a few times because she was cold and then her diaper couldn't hold anymore pee so it was all over her-and each time she woke up. My brother Dustin was asleep on the floor next to us and he would whisper "Oh my gosh!" it was pretty funny when I retold it to my parents. The next day his head kept bobbing in the truck he was so tired. Poor guy.

Mya had her first ride on a ski lift-she was in a carseat attached to the lift chair. She just sucked her thumb and looked around. We went to Bar J wranglers and played horse shoes and Jaxon and I went for a run up the beautiful dirt road by the lake. I love living by the mountains! We have it so good here. Dean and I can go hunting just about anywhere, we can fish, ride motorcycles, I can go running anywhere (dean hates running). I'm just so grateful we live here and I hope one day whereever we build a house I just hope the mtns will be our children's back yard.

While camping we heard a bear, Jaxon and I floated the Salt Creek River, and we just relaxed.

Dean had fun at the Uintahs-he didn't take a camera but he said that they caught over 200 fish!! wow!! and the weather was perfect and the horses didn't run away the whole trip (that is rare). I just loved it when he got home though, I slept the last night he was gone alone at our apartment. I had a hard time getting to sleep until I got the 12-gauge loaded and put it next to our bed:) haha then I slept like a baby! I'm so grateful I took hunter's ed and I really have confidence with our shotgun- so beware anybody who comes to my place in the middle of the night! :)

Mya's birthday was fun. we had it at my parents and almost everyone made it except my sister and her fam. Mya was kind of ornery but she liked her presents and cousins. She could have cared less about her cake:) that's what I was most excited about, oh well. I just can't believe my baby is 1!!! where has the time gone?

 on our way to camping-Mya put food in her hair then ran her fingers through it

 rock-a-bying her baby

 cuddling with gma smith while looking at the moon and stars

 overlooking Palasades-this is where we heard the baby bear cub (dustin is howling like a coyote)

 Mya and mommy

 Our big girl riding the ski lift

 made it to the top of the mtn! Gpa still kinda scares Mya

 A park at Soda Springs

 BIRTHDAY GIRL!! gettting ready for church

 Mya's favorite babysitter-Chelsee and Nate Niebergall

 It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!-Mya missed her afternoon nap and she let us know that she was not happy

 My little healthy girl! she doesn't really like sweets and she wouldn't eat any of her cake, not even the next day-so we ate it:)

 Most all of her cousins!! we love family!

 Her new chair! she loves getting in and out of this thing

She LOVES corn on the cob!