I'm going there someday!

Don't these make you want to go back in time for just a little while! 

I have to share this sweet experience, it is something I will never forget! We were in South Jordan the other night where we had a BBQ with both Nick's family, my family and Sierra's family so that everyone could meet. On our way home we ended up having Cooper with us in the car. Nick's parents house is right by the Oquirrh Mtn Temple and this is what happened on the way home! It was dark when we left and the temple was all lit up. Cooper said...well actually screamed "look the temple!" then Mya turned to him and said "Cooper you know I'm gonna go there and I get to wear a beautiful Cinderella dress" to which Cooper replied "yeah Mya" in his deep little manly voice. It was so sweet! It made me tear up from laughter and just because I know she will go there someday to be sealed to her hubby and it made me a proud mommy! Even sooner than that she will get to go and experience this when we seal her brother to our family next year. She's getting more excited as the days go by to have her little brother here with us. She prays for you, Sierra and her brother every single day. She finds things in the store that she wants to buy for him. She tells me all the time I need to teach her how to make his bottle, feed him and hold him! Honestly she is going to be the BEST big sister. We are more and more proud of her every single day, she is completely amazing!! Her little spirit is extremely sweet and I am so thankful for her!

This is one of Mya's favorite songs, she sings it so well in nursery every week!

I love to see the Temple

I’m going there someday

To feel the Holy Spirit

To listen and to pray

For the temple is a house of God

A place of love and beauty

I’ll prepare myself while I am young

This is my sacred duty

Home sweet home!

Ogden UFA Adoption Walk May 3, 2014...

Mya showing your mom how to do the splits on the grass! :) Oh and shes in a phase where band aids are like a cool accessory. She was sporting at least 3 but don't worry none of them are actually covering an injury! 

We had so much fun seeing your mom and making that drive to Ogden again. Going past the hospital brought me to tears. I will never forget that day as long as I live. As Mya and Rapunzel would say it was the "BEST DAY EVER!!" Your mom got to see Mya shake her hips and play like a wild child all over the playground. There were also no bathrooms open so Mya got to pee on the grass which you think might be traumatizing but no not at all for her!  Now she's constantly reminding me of the time she got to pee on the grass and wondering when she can do it again! Awesome right! 

Birth Mothers Day Celebration Walk 5/10/14...

We let balloons go for you....hope they made their way to New York! 

These two nut heads are loads of fun...always!!!!

We wish you could have been here with us!

We LOVE you and hope your Mothers Day was as special as we think you are! Thanks for making our dreams come true girl! 

April fun!

Check this out! She doesn't need the baby swing anymore! She is growing up and its making me so sad! It's all going way too fast! 

Wearing mommys boots! There's that sassy, she's really too cute!

Just riding a pony at Thanksgiving Point! She loved every minute!

My work Easter egg hunt! I helped them throw their party this year. We hid 12,000 eggs!!!! It was awesome! We won $75 which was sweet and Mya ended up with boat loads of candy!

These two are so sweet together! This made me smile! She loves her daddy!

Do you see this?  It's called ATTITUDE and this little girl has it overflowing! 

Beautiful Mya in her Easter dress with a stamp on her nose! She got stamps in some of her Easter eggs and they soon covered the majority of her body like baby tattoos! 

The tulip festival with this cutie was a blast! The flowers were amazing!

Mya and Cooper....these two are a dangerous pair! :) Cooper was telling Mya to hit the flowers and as you can tell by her swinging arm she was listening! Naughty!

Love this sweet little monkey!

The newest member of the Young family.....

Teagan Grey

Precious baby Teagan Grey Young. She was born April 23 and only weighed 5 lbs 4 oz. She is tiny and so sweet we LOVE her!

This picture gives me chills....so precious! 

My cute baby brother has his own baby! What is happening???????

Sending PEACE and LOVE your way!

We wanted to make sure we told you how much we appreciate you!  You are always such a ray of light in our lives and you have NO idea how lucky we feel to have you as part of our family! Thank you so much for listening and helping us as we search for Mya’s next sibling. It’s such a tough and emotional process and you are really great to answer questions, offer to talk to other birth moms as well as make us that cute video for our blog! We are ever more thankful for the relationship that we have with you and we hope that you will always know how much we love you! You are always in our thoughts and prayers. Have a wonderful day and thank you SO much for all you do. You are an easy girl to love! We appreciate your amazing example, we feel so proud of you and all you do. 

WE LOVE YOU!!

Peace and love always,

Nick, Tiff and Mya 

Playroom makeover!

This is a growth chart that we will start keeping track of her as she grows! 

Her magnet board is full of family, friends and her artwork! 

I also made the little purse rack...my wood skills are increasing slowly but surely!

Mya LOVES this sign! She sings this song frequently. I made it cause this song will forever remind me of her and it goes perfect in her playroom!

My mom and I cut the clouds, sun and kite out of wood! It's really cute having those several things stick out and give the wall some different dimensions! 

I was able to design and do all the lettering for the walls with my vinyl machine!

I made this little shelf in my wood class! Glad it's getting some use. 

I forgot to do a before picture but just imagine nothing on the walls they were just boring gray! We spend so much time in this room since it's where all the toys are and I was getting so sick of the plain walls! I was trying to hold out for a nursery someday but I decided I couldn't wait anymore. Plus I LIVE for doing things like this so when the time comes to change it to a nursery I will gladly change it up! I wanted it to be fun and have lots of shapes, letters, numbers and just be a bright fun place to play. I love how it turned out! I know you are very artistic and love stuff like this and I have been so excited to show you! Mya has been really excited about it too. She will grab my hand and say "mom come see my room, you did such a good job painting it" Or out of the blue she'll say "mom look I have a kite and clouds and a sun in my room, thats so cool". If nothing else those little kind comments make every ounce of this project worth it. I am so in love with our little girl! She makes everything in life better!

Long hair

I had to post these pics! On Sunday I blow dried her hair and then used a flat iron for the first time. Look how crazy long and pretty her hair is. She's so cute! We got to go to Nick's sister's ward and hear our niece Bailee do a solo in Sacrament.....it was so awesome! Mya was in heaven being with her Grandma and all the cousins. 

Potty training at it's finest!

Puzzles on the potty....I promise there is a method to our madness it just took awhile to kick in! 

Big girl!

She still likes to do bubbles on the potty....I say hey whatever keeps her motivated!

Alright potty training is definitely on my list of least favorite things to do! I thought it was going to be so easy and boy was I wrong. She fought pretty hard. I have never seen this stubborn side of her before. After a week of pretty much fighting with her about going potty on the toilet I wanted to give up. I thought maybe she isn't ready? Nick was about to have a 4 day weekend and told me to keep the training going and he would help me those 4 days or even take over if I wanted him to. After staying home for days, lots and lots of pee all over undies and pants, hours of puzzles on the potty, and many reward prizes we decided to back off a bit and try again later. I bought her a little stool to get on the potty herself and I'm not kidding like two days after putting her back in pull ups she started getting on the potty herself and going. We were not having any accidents and she wasn't fighting us anymore! It's like all of a sudden she learned to just hold it! Honestly I have no idea what happened or what clicked it's like she had to wait until it was on her terms. She was a stinker about it! It was clear Nick and I are two potty training dummies who had never done this before, lol it was a circus around here! 

You will now understand why when we tell you we have been SO proud of her this last week!! We're going on over a week with no accidents! She is doing awesome! I took her shopping for a special prize the other day since she is doing so good and she picked a Rapunzel dress and some shoes to go with it. She keeps talking about how she is growing so big and she wants to teach her friends to go potty on the big girl toilet like her. We are officially saying goodbye to diapers/ pullups. This big girl is in undies!  And boy oh boy are we glad the hardest part of potty training for this one is over. :) Maybe we'll do better next time...I certainly hope so anyway!