Jump Jump

The past week Payten has been jumping ALL day long. It is her favorite thing to do. Look at the air she got at the beginning of this video! She is just sooooo talented, just ask her!

Swim Suit Model

Summer is just around the corner so we decided to try on her new swimsuit. She looked Fabulous in it. Don't you wish you felt as comfortable in yours?! And YES she loves her sunglasses and did not want to take them off!

EASTER

Here is Payten stuffing her face with m&m's. Daddy opened them for her and let her have at them! Needless to say she could not control herself. (See the video below)

Payten in her Easter dress

Payten not too happy she cant have m&m's and play outside in her white Easter dress before church!

I love her in this video. She is uncontrollably stuffing m&m's in to her face. I have only given her 1 piece of candy every now and then because she loves to eat so much. But daddy let her have at it!! (Sorry for the shaky video)

Our new Baby Nellie!

Here is our new baby that we adopted. She is 3 years old and we love her!! She sits so well with Payten and is adjusting great. I also love that now I have a little girl that I can play with her hair!! She has more than Payten:)

Here is before the hair do. SHAGGY!

After!!

The first night she was hiding all of the time! Here she is behind Linus. As soon as we got her we bathed her and dried and did their hair!!

I SCREAM!!

After the airport we met at the Keg by San Tan Mall for dinner. Payten got ice cream AKA "I SCREAM" for dessert with her dinner. Payten loved that I did not try to feed it to her. She thought she was a big girl with a big girl cup, she refused to use a spoon so she just drank it!! I love that she got it all over her face. Sorry the video is dark, the restaurant was really dark, but I just love it so I had to share!

Worlds best play house

Saturday Linus Payten and I visited Poppy at the airport. Payten always gets spoiled when she is there. Poppy lets her do pretty much whatever she wants and she know it. He took her around all the planes in the hanger and let her touch everything. Then he opened this one up and let her play in it. It was big and roomy so she could walk around and everything. Then she wanted the door closed so she could play by herself. She had a blast in her new playhouse!!

Smelling the Flowers

I took these pictures a week ago. We were in the back yard and I told Payten to smell the flowers. To my surprise she sniffed them again and again and again. I love the first picture with the sun rays. I think she looks like an angel. Don't get me wrong, she is a little stinker. Today at the play ground all she would do is go up to the kids on the swing and YELL "NO" at them. Because all she wants to do is swing and nothing else and they were all taken. She must think they are all hers:D

Trip to California for Abby's sweet 16!

The last night we were there Nate got home at 9pm from coaching volleyball and was sad that Payten was already in bed. He had not been able to see her too much because of volleyball tournaments. So I told him to go get her out of bed. We do it all the time and she is usually happy and then goes back to bed again right when we put her down.

As you can see she was happy. She brought Nate books for him to read to her. Nate however did think the books were quite boring, none the less read them to her! Oh and yes, she went back to bed and fell right to sleep!

Payten cam down one time from Abby's room wearing all of thins fun Jewelry that Abby had put on her. Payten had so much fun. All she wanted to do was go in Abby's room and explore!! Abby was so good to her and the 2 of them had lots of fun!

Ok, here is a picture of me. If you know me you know I am not one to post a picture of just myself. BUT I wanted to have record of my haircut. I got it the night before I left for California. It was actually a trim to get it back to the haircut I had 4 weeks before. Anyway I LOVE it. It takes me 1 minute to dry and style it LITERALLY!! But that is not why I like it, that is just an awesome bonus!! And Linus likes it too. He is always bugging me to cut my hair!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Abby. Payten and I Flew with Mike over to California to spend the weekend with Abby for her birthday. We all went to Black Angus for Dinner. It was YUMMY! Happy Birthday Abby.

Bubble Mania

Yesterday I bought a bubble machine at Target. When I got it out she said "bubble". I guess she saw bubbles on the box and just knew. So today Payten and I went outside to play with it. She had a ton of fun running after the bubbles. There was a slight breeze so sometimes they would go far. They even sat on top of the grass and then she would poke them with her fingers!! She LOVES bubbles.

You can hear Payten at the very beginning of this video barking (a very high pitched bark) because she hears Tippy barking at the front door. Then she decides to say bubble for me on video!!! She said it all the time but wouldn't say it while I was filming.

I love that she is so excited about ALL the bubbles!!

Valentines Weekend

Payten was so happy when we were flying to Payson because we put a headset on her so she could hear us(her other headset is pink but only blocks the loud sound), but did not plug in the mike so we did not have to hear her!!!!! PERFECT!!

About 5 or so minutes before we landed (only a 1/2 hr flight total) she fell asleep. SOOOOO cute!

We were surprised that Payson still had snow on the ground. Here is a picture of the airport. It was very pretty to fly over! Unfortunately we forgot to take pictures when we got there. Next time I promise I will take pictures!!! We went out to dinner with Linus' parents for Valentines Dinner. We left Payten at home with Troy and Christian. She was napping and woke up only 5 minutes before we got home. I have to say that I missed her terribly. It was the first time we went to dinner without her. Not as fabulous as everyone says!! But then again we loooooove spending time with her. I am very attached! Then Sunday we went to church with them, that was very nice having extra people to entertain Payten during sacrament.

We flew back Sunday afternoon and saw Grandpa at the airport. Payten LOVES her grandpa and LOVES airplanes. I truly think she thinks she owns the place. She certainly walks around like she does, it's really cute to watch. And everyone is so nice to her.

Grandpa pulled up to the plane we flew in a golf cart, needless to say Payten thought it was hers. Sorry Abby, she got to drive it before you!!!! She sure is spoiled!! (OHHHH forgive my screeching voice in this video)

Family Weekend

Weekend before last my brother Jacob blessed his son Jaxon so we got to have family come into town!!
Tippy had a hard time decided whose lap to sit on. But it turns out she always liked Grandmas lap best.

Payten had fun in the back yard coloring with chalk and running around in circles!! Believe it or not she kept her sun glasses on the whole time. I think she knows she looked good in them!!! Yah I know white trash baby in a white onsie and a truck in the back yard, what can I say!!

That Saturday the weekend before we had a pick nick at freestone park with my siblings here in Az and my dad and step mom Debbie. It was lots of fun. Unfortunately no pictures turned out of my little family and i still need to get pics of the whole family from other people!! But I do have this cute pic of Linus helping Payten climb a tree!! Needless to say I was shocked when I turned and saw this. Shortly after that Payten took a bad fall off of where one of the retaining walls are. Scared us half to death. Luckily just a bloody mouth and a few scratches on her face and head!! After that pics were out of the question!!

This was taken before everyone even got there. I wish I would have had my sun glasses on too!!

Nooooo noooooo

This past week Payten finally decided she could say NO! I don't know how it took so long. Like most moms it was something I told her SEVERAL times a day!!! Anyway I think she is sooo cute when she says it and I love the way she shakes her head too:)!!

Backwards!!

So Sunday night we were playing and enjoying Payten and I noticed something. Her dress was on backwards. All day, all through church. And she has worn this dress several times before (the right way!). I don't know what was wrong with me and why I did this. I guess I was just in a hurry!! I guess no one noticed or at least no one commented! Oh do you like her shoes?? And what about her crazy hair. I took her pony tail out so she had her crazy hair going on!!

Day trip to Payson

Sitting in a chair that her daddy made in high school!

She was so tired and needed a nap so i decided to put her down in a BIG GIRL bed. I laid her down on a PILLOW under the covers with her new pink turtle and a binki (Thanks to Nonnie who had one!). I left and closed the door. I completely expected to hear her at the door crying to get out. After all this is the first time ever not in a crib or pack n play. After a few minutes I checked on her and she was fast asleep in the EXACT position I left her in. After an hour and a half I checked on her again and when I opened the door she saw/heard me and held her binki out and got our of bed!! I could not believe it. She is such a good little girl. Don't get me wrong I am sure when we make the switch she will test me!! I can hope though!!

She found a house just perfect for her. Dally's cage (the dog!!)

INDIAN DANCE

Nonnie got these bells out to play with and started chanting and dancing around like an Indian. Payten loved it!! Too CUTE!!

After Christmas Christmas Cookies

Apparently Payten would rather eat the cookie dough than make the cookies. But then again who doesn't??

She was not too happy that I would no let her help herself to all the dough she wanted.

She was much more messy than she appears in this picture. She had tons of fun though!!!