Happy 28th Birthday Nick!

February 15, 2013
28....kinda old!

Nick's dad is a jokester just like him! He is the one who put the candles in saying 82 instead of 28!

They were all doing hand stands and back bend contests.....all Nick's ideas lol! Mya wanted to be right there with them doing it all!

Here is Nick having her do the splits, she thought it was fun!

Mya loves uncle Brandon..she calls him salsa. He served his mission in Cancun and loves Mexican food. When he heard her say salsa he loved it and I think his reaction to her made her remember this, so it;s now his new name!

Giving Carter a hug!

We love being with family! Mya loves all of her grandparents and cousins. She is so much fun to watch with them especially as she is getting older and knows them better. We had a birthday party for Nick at my parents house too but there were so many little babies and lots of stuff going on that I forgot to take pics! I think Nick had a good birthday. He got to pick out some new basketball shoes and I took him to our favorite restaurant Ruth's Chris in Park City for Valentines Day / his birthday! We sure love him and he deserved to have the best birthday ever!

Lipstick......

Beautiful!

This had to be the funniest thing ever! She loves getting in my makeup drawer and taking my brushes and pretending to do makeup on herself. Well that was all fine and dandy until today when she learned how to take off lids!!! She was being so quiet on the bathroom floor while I was putting my makeup on I bent down to see what she was doing and this is what I found! I said "oh no Mya what did you do?" She looked and me and said "Mya lipstick on face" and not only that but she looked so proud of herself. How could I get mad or annoyed at the mess I just had to look at her smile and tell her how pretty she looked! Then of course we had to grab the camera. She spent the next several minutes admiring her work in the mirror. She is such a sweetheart......and such a girl I love it!

Lots of Love for Mya!

Have I mentioned that Mya loves stickers? Her favorite is to put them all over herself!

I thought this was hilarious the other day when I went in her room and found her huddled under her table with all of her stuff just playing and laughing with Louie! She is a riot!

She's very proud of herself because she now knows how to wash herself! When I turn the loofa over to her and let her do her own scrubbing it's all smiles! It's pretty cute!

Ok so if there is one thing this girl hates it is the sun in her eyes! I was talking to her in the car the other day telling her she needs to bring her sunglasses so the sun won't hurt her eyes. When the sun does hit her eyes in the car she dramatically puts her hands over her eyes and says "mommy sun hurt Mya's eyes" lol it is really funny! Well now she has to bring her glasses in the car and they stay on her little face the whole time. She now tells me "mom sun no hurt my eyes" as she is tapping her sunglasses! I swear this kid is a genius!

She wanted Nick to wear one of her headbands, she thought it was pretty cool!

Here she is feeding her baby and looking at the camera saying "cheese"! Oh I love her!

Happy Valentines Day!

She just woke up and was having a hard time paying attention to anything but the TV cause her favorite show Dinosaur Train was on! Look at her lounging...so cute!

 

 

She was excited once she realized she could open it!

She's been very into purses lately. She always has to have a purse like Mommy when we go places. This purse is very blingy and cute, she loves it!

She got a Hello Kitty necklace and plate. She also got an Elmo book and some Elmo stickers!

She had so much fun watching her favorite show and putting stickers all over her and me!

We all celebrated together with a yummy heart shaped pizza! Mya loves olives and had a great time picking most of them off the pizza for herself! My two best buds! We had a great Valentines!

Mya helped me put these on the bathroom mirror for Nick. Every time she sees them she says "daddy's stickers". We both love Nick!

Hope you had a great Valentines Day! We sent you a little pkg so be watching for it.

XOXO!!!

Our little clown!

The other night as we were getting ready to read stories she found my boots on the floor! She has the fascination right now with wearing our shoes! The is the first time she's tried my boots. Me, Nick and Mya were laughing so hard! She looked so funny walking all over the place in these boots! She was also doing some sort of dance moves in them and giggling so hard! We're so thankful for her humorous personality, she's really a little clown and we LOVE it!

Here's another example of her just being a clown! She thought it was so funny to climb in the laundry basket! She literally hung out in here for like 10 minutes. She would get out grab a french fry and climb back in the basket. When running from her fries to the basket she would be yelling "Louie no no Mya's fries" It was so funny!

There's Louie waiting for her to get out, I think he was hoping she would accidentally drop a fry in her frantic run back to the basket! Don't worry she dropped plenty of them. But boy did he get an earful from her when he caught one before she could pick it up!

Strawberries!

Watching the Jazz game with Daddy eating some strawberries.

The other day I bought some strawberries to have with our dinner. Mya has a weird thing with texture food so usually fruit all she wants to do is suck the juice out and then throw the rest of the fruit away. She saw the strawberries and said "please" so I though okay we'll try them. I was fully planning that she was just going to make a giant mess with them. But she sat in her chair and ate more than half of the container of strawberries!! It was so cute, she kept coming back with her empty bowl saying "more please". She also can say strawberry. She's getting so big and saying things and trying new things all the time, it's really crazy! Right now I am glad she is willing to try new foods even when they have a funky texture.....she needs her nutrients!

Another new cousin!

Does this make you miss your belly? :)

This is my favorite picture! Britt's first glance of little Bentlie! She looks so happy and cute. She's a GREAT Mommy!

There's Mya giving Bentlie a kiss!

That little bag she's holding is what she thinks of as her purse, and yes it has to come everywhere with us! It has a litle Cinderella doll. She calls her "lella" it's pretty dang cute!

Bentlie is now in possession of all miss Mya's clothes so she is going to be rocking some major style!

 January 28 at about 4:00 little Bentlie Marie Merrill was born! She was 6 lbs 11 oz and 19 inches long, almost exactly what little Mya was when she was born!  Mya now has 10 cousins. Six of those ten cousins are under 3......wow! We have lots of babies in the family right now! I was lucky enough to be able to be there for baby Bentlie's birth. I am so grateful to my little sister for allowing me to share this experience with her. It's something I most likely will never get to have on my own so it's amazing to be able to watch it happen for my sister. Having babies is so incredible, the Spirit was so strong in the delivery room and I love thinking about how close heaven was in that moment! Watching her two babies be born is such a testimony strengthening experience and I will forever be grateful that I was able to be a part of it. I love my little sis. Mya got to hang out with Nick's mom all day while I was at the hospital and she talked all night about Britt Britt's baby. We took her a few days later to meet Bentlie and she loved giving her kisses and pointing and showing us all that the baby had a nose :) Together they will be two styling little divas! I am so thankful that Mya has so many good cousins her age and a bit older. She LOVES all of them!