CATCH UP!!

Here are some random pictures just to catch up. They are actually in reverse from the most recent. Oh well!!
She decided to wear her sunglasses on the top of her head. I guess she has seen her daddy do it.

Tired after the zoo!

ZOO

Reagan and Payten at the zoo

Payten at the splash pad at the zoo

Payten at the slide outside the petting zoo

Payten petting the goat at the zoo. She did not want to leave! She loved them!

Me and Payten at the zoo. We had fun together along with Reagan and Summer!

My cute little girl right when we got to the zoo!

Payten and daddy right after her first day of swimming lessons:)

First day of swimming lessons. She had a blast!!

Payten and her pig tails

More pig tails and of course her binky!

Odd I know. One day she asked for Tippy's colar so Linus put it on her. She LOVED it!! We even got her to bark like a dog and she tried to drink out of Tippy's water bowl. She cried when we took it off. She loves her dog!

Mother's Day

My happy little girl after an evening with Mom and Dad at Famous Daves and a trip to Bass Pro Shop. She LOVES that store. All of the fun animals:). I love her smile in this picture!

My mother day gifts. (Theses pictures are all in reverse)

Payten smelling my flowers after she tried to bring them to me. Notice There are now 2 flowers instead of 3!! So daddy spread them on the floor to be pretty.

Here she is after she got them taken away before she spilled all of the water

Here is my wonderful little girl bringing me my flowers she picked out all by herself! (Notice 3 flowers)I am so lucky to have such a sweet and wonderful little girl. She brings me so much joy even though she has screaming fits quite a few times a day:) I love her with all of my heart and could not have wished for anything better! I am truly the most blessed mom ever!

13 Years!

Last Saturday(the actual day was monday the 4th) we celebrated our 13th Anniversary by going on a HOT DATE to Ruth's Chris Steak House. We had a very nice time. I am so lucky to be married to such a wonderful husband and father. He is absolutely wonderful and I definitely do not deserve him! It was nice and quiet and not hurried. Nate and Bethany watched Payten for us. They took her to a buffalo wing place and watched the game. Lets just say that I think Payten may have had more fun than we did!! When we got home just after they did and we said lets get in your pajamas and she ran to Nate for protection!! Needless to say she realized that other people may be more fun than boring old mom and dad:)

1st Water day of the year!

Last Thursday Carson invited Payten over to go swimming in their new pool. You can tell by her face that she loved it! She was a little reluctant at first and stood in the same spot for about 10 minutes smiling and laughing and then ventured out and played! Hopefully we will have many more water days in this horrible heat!

Date with Daddy

Last enrichment night i got home about 9pm and Linus and Payten were not home. Turned out he decided to take her to Oregano's for a pazookie! She had so much fun with her daddy! You can just tell by the big smile on her face! Oh, I love that she is standing up so she can get at the pazookie better. She is no dummy and she LOVES to eat!

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.