4th of July 2009

My beautiful little girl with Nonnies dog on the 4th of July!

Nonnie and Payten eating popsicles on the back patio. It was such a beautiful cool day in Payson. We stayed outside all day long. A nice escape from the Hellish heat down here!

Payten playing the guitar with Uncle Brett.

Payten smelling all of the roses Nonnie cut for her. Nonnie even put some in her hair. She did not take them out the whole rest of the night!

Payten and her cousins Quade and Blaken. Trying to pose for a picture together. This is the best we got when you have a 3 yr old a 2 yr old and an almost 2 yr old!

Daddy and Payten on Grandpas chimney watching the fireworks. She hated them. She was scared the whole time. She just covered her eyes with her Nigh night toy and peaked once and a while.

Watching the fireworks in the front yard not on the roof!

Notice Payten peeking out of one eye. It was nice to spend time with Linus' grandpa and watch fireworks in the cool weather and not fight crowds:)

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!!