2 Months!

ooooo are my parents in for it! i am too months old now and moving like crazy! my arms and legs wiggle wiggle WIGGLE all the time. i like to grab onto things on accident and my mom & daddy have to PRY my little clenched hand apart to get me to let it go! i can hold a rattle in my hand, but i don't care for it much. my favorite thing to do is sit on someone's lap & talk. mostly i talk to daddy, but anyone can get me to jabber jabber if i'm in the right mood! i still scowl a lot of the time, but the other times i'm quietly observing or smiling. i HATE being faced to someone's shoulder because i want to LOOK OUT and SEE everything.

my favorite person in the whole world is daddy; i smile HUGE and start to wiggelwiggle & talk immediately when he gets home! it's so stinkin' cute!

i'm getting so cute now!!
my 2 month stats are:
16 cm head - 87%
23.5 inches long - 88%
11 lbs 10 ounces - 76%

i am fat & happy!

Easter!

this year we traveled to Vegas to spend a big weekend with ALL my family. it was a blast. We had a BBQ for nate & lauren & celebrated kayleigh's 6th birthday with a bouncy house & RAPUNZEL! we got to meet our little viking cousin, aksel, and spent time with "aunt" kelli and took family pictures. we visited friends, played with all the cousins, sang in the choir at church, & ate a delicious easter dinner. we even got delicious cupcakes for anna's 2nd birthday & drove home in record time- 4 hours & 15 min! it was an awesome weekend. i confess i teared up a bit as we were driving home because it was so nice to be with EVERYONE. everyone played and ate and sang & laughed. it made me sad to leave all the babies. i love my family. they are my friends & i miss them in CA. poor faye does not live close enough to her cousins!
HOORAY for a wonderful weekend! what a wonderful happy weekend to remember our Savior and the message of his life. happy easter!

sadly my camera died after the first day so we'll have to wait til kevin gets me copies of the rest of the weekend! :)

The Easter Bunny

Look what the Easter Bunny left in our basket!! A little fat baby girl!

Don't you just love her jammies?? They look just like an egg- so fitting :)

Get me outta this stinkin' basket! haha

I Gotta Have You- The Weepies

This song came on my Pandora Radio today. Immediately I was overcome with sweet memories of back when I was dating Brad. I was so head over heels and so twitterpated. Dating Brad was the life experience equivalent of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies, huge brightly colored pinatas, and warm sand between your toes. His presence in my life made all things that were awesome before even MORE awesome. Listening to this song made me smile and get all warm & fuzzy inside.

We are a kinda far away from hating to say goodnight, dreaming about building our life together, and thinking making dinner together is fun- haha; but I'm happy to take a moment and realize that, indeed, the actual building of a life is entertaining, challenging, and at moments full of absolute bliss. We've created a home, a baby, and a nest egg together. We live in the lap of luxury: our baby sleeps 6-8 hours a night, we drive a civic with a brand new clutch, and we watch The Biggest Loser and Parks and Recreation without commercials. I might not be dating the most eligible bachelor in HB anymore, but I traded him in for a faithful, happy, devoted father and willing dish-dryer. And that, my friends, keeps me smiling and warm & fuzzy inside. :)

I love you, Brad.

"No, no, no, no, no- nothing else will do- I gotta have you."

fat, clean baby!

watching general conference at the barttels home...

they are going to be such buddies as she grows up, i love it :)