The Easter Bunny came to our house!

We got her out of bed, she spotted the Easter basket on the floor and went running! Glad Nick got this action shot!

First thing she grabbed was a little Hello Kitty doll!

Then she noticed her jelly shoes, which she calls "jewee soos" it is the cutest thing ever!

She was pretty excited about each thing in her basket!

It's very clear she was spoiled! The Easter Bunny took the opportunity to prepare her for her upcoming trips to California and New York! What an awesome bunny!

Look how adorable she looks in her new Easter dress!

Lol funny faces!

Grandmas & Grandpas are the coolest!

Here is Mya at my parents house getting an Easter surprise from them!

Here are the cute things that she got from my parents and Nick's parents! Wow I know, it felt like Christmas! Mya has the BEST Grandparents around!

We had a wonderful Easter! My family has had too many sick kids and adults lately so we will celebrate this next week. We got to hang out with Nick's family and it was so much fun! Mya has some pretty great cousins that really love her, and she loves playing with them. Mya loved the Easter baskets and most of all the treats! As she gets older she just keeps getting to be more fun!! Every holiday we think....this will be the funnest year with her, and then we say the same thing next time! I guess all years and holidays are just better with her around, she's incredible! I got to help Nick teach his primary kids at church about the Resurrection. The Spirit was so strong and it really helped to be thankful for my Savior and all that he has done for me and the ones I love most. I always love Easter. The weather here was beautiful and it just seemed like the perfect day to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ! We hope that you had an amazing Easter and once again sorry that you couldn't be with your family. We are praying for you everyday! We love you and are so proud of all the things you are doing! We couldn't be happier to have you as a part of our little family. Thanks for all you do! 

Happy Easter!

She is growing too fast!

Since we've had some nice warm weather days and a few without one or all of us being sick lately she loves going outside. She loves walking Louie, drawing on the sidewalk with chalk, playing golf with Nick, or just chilling in the stroller on walks. We can't wait for the weather to warm up permanently (we have snow coming down today) so we can be out there more often.

He pulls her all over the place and she giggles and loves every second of it!

I don't think I can stress enough how much she loves to read! She will do this for hours and she knows so many parts of her books. It is the cutest thing to watch her try and read them....she's got a good memory!

Love this little munchkin!

Here's how she likes to relax after eating her dinner! She thinks she is too big to eat with her tray and wants to eat at the table with us. We need to work on this girls manners ;)

House update....

Check out our house!!! It is coming along we have actually been able to walk through it the past couple of days. Mya loves talking about her new house. She will go through each one of us and talks about how we all get new rooms.....even Louie! We can't decide which room to give Mya the big one upstairs that looks over the horses or one of the ones on the main floor closer to us. The room upstairs is huge and has a built in playroom in the wall.....she would be way spoiled if we decide to let her have that one. Out our back windows we overlook an equestrian park with horses. Mya is very excited about that. She will be able to watch them all the time! Sometimes they even come close to the concrete wall we have and we can boost her up to pet them. Anyway we are finding out just how stressful it is to build a house. They have already made one huge mistake while framing but luckily they are fixing it by paying extra to give us something better. Pretty sure they will be sick of us when this is all over but it's okay we will be sick of them too! We are so excited about all of this, can't wait until it's done! Although I know we are going to really miss living with Nick's parents. They are such amazing people and I have gotten a chance to get to know them so well and I think I could just stay here forever! We've learned a lot from them and they have been such a huge support we will never be able to thank them enough!

Our very own driveway!!! This is exciting for us we've never had our own before!

Here is a side view of our RV pad and back patio!

We have walls!!

Here is the view from the living room, that is the equestrian park behind us. And we have beautiful mountain views!

One of the rooms on the main floor....maybe Mya's! It has a great view!

Yay a roof! They are flying with this building process!

That room upstairs is the one that will either be a playroom or Mya's bedroom! It has a perfect view of the horses, and the window is long enough that she can see out of it on her own.

Here is Mya and I looking at the horses she likes to wave to them and count them. I never thought I would live this close to horses! I hope it's not too smelly!

We went out there last night and our shingles are on the roof as well as all of the exterior doors. So exciting!

Sick.......

It has been too long since I have done a post....sorry! This has been the worst sickly winter we have ever had. Luckily most of the sickness has just been Nick and I. Mya has a a runny nose a few times but nothing like we've had. Last Wednesday Brittney and Derek had to take Bentlie to Primary Children's Hospital. There they found out she had RSV, which is very dangerous. She is still there today, it's so sad! Last Saturday she had to be taken to the PICU and they though they were going to have to put a breathing tube in. It was pretty scary, so our friends and family did a fast for them Sunday and wow the powers of heaven were sent down to us! She was released from the PICU on Tuesday and never had to get that breathing tube. The Dr said that is the fastest he has seen any baby go from needing a breathing tube to only needing a low dose of oxygen. Prayers work! If that wasn't enough sadness we woke up Saturday morning to Mya having a temp over 102 and the worst croup cough. I have never seen her that sick. It scared me so bad I cried, ran and got Nick out of bed and we rushed her to Insta-Care. We found out that she has croup and all they could do was give her some steroids to help but it basically has to run its course. My mom had got tickets for us to see Disney on Ice that night too and we were so excited to take Mya cause she loves all the princesses. It broke my heart to have to turn that opportunity down with her but she was just too sick. So this past week we have done a lot of snuggling on the couch or her rocking chair, and watched a LOT and I do mean a LOT of Cinderella. She is in love with that movie she can literally watch it several times in a row. She loves the mice and the cat. She likes when Cinderella dances with the prince. She calls this movie Lella, Gus Gus, bippity bop boo. It is really cute! Her cough is so much better today than it's been and she seems to have more energy too which is good. I will tell you what there is nothing worse than having your sweet little child be sick. Mya has been such a healthy child we haven't had to experience this much and I am so thankful cause it sucks! We are just dying for spring to get here! This week it's been so warm like in the 60's with the sun shining! We haven't been able to enjoy much of it with Mya being sick but it's just nice to know that good weather is on it's way. Mya got to pick some new shoes for spring and she wears them and runs around the house. She will put them on and say to me "mommy new shoes fast" and then off she goes! We took some really cute video of her counting she can go from 1-10, and of her singing. Well remember how smart she was on my phone in December she's better now and she totally deleted them. So we will plan to get some more because it is pretty cute. She knows the whole song "The wheels on the bus". She loves to sing the one and only "Ice Ice Baby" from Vanilla ice! It's awesome so we will get some video once her voice comes back. We miss you a ton and are honestly counting down the days till we get to come see you in New York I feel like it will be here before we know it! Here are some cute pics of our sick little monkey!

Much love to ya!!!!

This was Saturday after we got home from the doctor. She was so out of it, I think because her fever was still so high. Poor thing slept like this on Nick for over an hour.

My mom got her this Hello Kitty pen, pad and sticker sheet to keep her busy while she was sick. My mom is so cute, Mya was in heaven with it. She loves to color and play with stickers.

Here's what happens when she is watching Cinderella, she won't look at me it's all about the TV. Can you see where she drew on her face!

She would be coloring or watching her movie one minute and asleep the next, her little body was fighting hard to get better and it made her so sleepy!

From the time she wakes up she starts asking me to watch Cinderella. Oh yeah and she hasn't had an appetite either but she's used her cute sick face a lot this week to ask for coke in a cup......I'm such a sucker! She's gonna want to get sick more often when she figures me out!

Feeling very blessed!

Leaning over to give cousin Kyson a love!

There she is laying on his shoulder giving him a sideways hug! She was making this little guy smile like crazy!

She is going to be the BEST big sister! I can see it already!

Mya and I watched my brother Brady's baby boy Kyson this morning for a little bit. Kyson is 8 months old and is such a cutie! Mya loved having him here she calls him Kys. She was sharing her cereal and went back in her room to get him some toys. She was hugging and kissing him and then having her Cinderella and Belle dolls kiss him too it was so funny! We love having little friends over to play.

 Mya is obsessed with Louie's dog food she loves feeding it to him and it's just funny! Today she was dumping the food out and then cleaning it all up while singing the primary song "clean up". I was dying it was so cute I didn't even stop her instead just listened while she dumped, cleaned and sang! She is starting to sing so much. We were on our way home from church the other day and she started singing "sunbeam". Her other favorite songs right now are "locked out of heaven" by Bruno Mars she walks around singing oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah oooooooooo. Talk about freaking awesome! It's funny cause Cooper is in love with the same song, it must attract babies! She also loves "baby" by Justin Bieber which makes me so happy! Nick played it for her one time and she loves to sing it. The cutest thing is she loves to sing all the time so when she's back playing with toys I can almost always guarantee that she will be singing something! She is so smart! She's talking more than ever you would be so amazed. She literally copies everything we say. Yesterday she was reading her princess book and was telling me that Cinderella has blue eyes like Mya. Hello so smart! Not all of her words come out perfect but they are understandable and it is amazing! She is also rocking it in nursery. We drop her off she runs to the toys and doesn't look back. When Nick tried to pick her up last week she didn't want to leave! She is such an independent little thing....sound familiar! It reminds us of you all the time! She is wonderful! We are counting down the days to New York, that will be such an amazing trip. Mya and I are also going to Newport Beach California the first week of May with my family. Nick has to work, but I decided it would be fun to tag along with my family! Mya will get to go to Disneyland, and the beach so I think we will have a lot of fun! We have so much to look forward to right now! Lots of cool things coming in the near future!! 

House Update.......

This is our house!!!! The first picture was from a couple weeks ago when they dug the foundation hole! Then then last one is from last week when they poured the foundation!!! This week they start framing and it will really start looking like a house fast! We are so excited, it is supposed to be done right around the time we get home from New York. I think this is as excited as either of us has ever been to seeing a dirt hole and some concrete! YAY!

Books, books and more books!

Last night I took Mya to Barnes and Noble to pick a new book! She loves books so much. We were going to do it for FHE but Nick got an opportunity to go to the Jazz game with his Dad. He loves the Jazz and hasn't been able to go to a game yet this season so we had to let him go! Mya was so cute! Her eyes lit up when we went in the store and she wanted to hold the basket as we walked back to the kids section. She inspected almost every shelf from the front of the store to the back. When we got back to the kids section she saw the Sesame Street books which immediately caught her attention she ran right over grabbed some and sat on the floor to read. She kept telling me "mommy sit down". It was so sweet. We were there for ever an hour and we finally left with this fish book, it's a counting book and she is very into counting right now. She forgets the 1 and 2 but always says "3,4,5,6". In her little Mya voice it has to be the cutest thing ever we love it. She also likes to count like the count on Sesame Street so she'll say "3 ha ha ha!" She also found that weird little blue monkey ball guy and fell in love with him. He giggles and jabbers in a little monster voice when you push his tummy. She kept him on her lap and read books with him the whole time we were in the store. It makes her laugh so when we went to leave she held it up and said "mommy please" seriously how could I say no! Little monster man is now part of the family! Nick was so sad that he missed this outing but we had so much fun we'll definitely be going back there so he can see how much she loved it.

She is getting quite the collection of books. I am in a wood shop class at UVU right now and for my project I am making miss Mya a bookshelf for her new room! It will be so cute and I can't wait to finish it and give it to her.

Cupcakes

This is her saying "cheese"

Mya helped me make cupcakes yesterday for the family that Nick home teaches. She was very excited to stir the batter, and especially loved watching the cakes grow through the oven glass! But lets be honest her very favorite part was eating one of the cupcakes! She does not like her hands to get dirty so she dug her face in and then had me brake pieces off and feed them to her. It was so much fun, first time she's been my baking buddy and we had a blast!