Lovin Summer

Braylie eating her first popsicle with the bib that DAD used to wear as a baby! :)

Lexi was so patient to help her.
She ate MOST of the popsicle and didnt get too messy,although she did keep trying to grab it.

She has a blast playing in the water and can hold her own pretty well with the big kids. She wasn't about to let me hold onto her in the water. She did great and didn't want to get out!

---just some random pictures of us---

in our backyard

There are always so many cars at this hiking trail above our house, so I thought for sure it would make an excellent family home evening. It couldn't be that hard if there were always so many cars there. It turned out to be harder and longer than we thought. I was not prepared with diapers, wipes or food for Bray. Luckily I threw in a banana. Dad had some apples. Bray loved sharing our apples although it took her forever to chew each tiny bite.

Brandon did so great with Braylie over and through the rocks.
Braylie fell asleep on the way down.

I realized how out of shape I am.
I could barely sit on my butt the next day, it hurt so bad!!
The end result was beautiful!
I would do it again.
We cant believe that is tucked away in the mountains "in our backyard!"

Our little vacay...

We decided to have a little getaway for our anniversary this year and kind of made it into a family vacation.
6 years together and hoping for many more!!!
We went to the Tahiti resort and spa in Vegas and yes, we took Braylie with us. I can't even stand the thought of leaving her yet, plus she is still nursing and needs her Momma! ;)

THE first time we tried to get in the pool it was way too cold and Bray just shivered, so we got out and tried the next day..

Bray had a hard time getting used to the water. I thought she would love playing in the sand but I had to sit with her and play till she warmed up, then we stayed for hours she loved it so much!

I think she ate a pound of sand... here she is going for it.

Brandon made her this little pool of her own

went to the lazy river...

We wished we could have spent a little more time in the lazy river, but somone pooped and it was closed the rest of the day and the day before we spent most of our time in the pool.
There was a shallow area, so we just let Bray crawl around and play in the water. She did really good to not go off the edge. She kept dipping her face in the water and would giggle to herself! :)

Braylie only got called a boy once (she did have a blueish swimming suit and a boy looking life jacket on. The hair is coming, people, it really is!

Braylie had a fascination with the stroller when it was parked against the door. We found her after she had climbed into it herself one time.

Braylie had a rough couple nights.. the first night we got there, we were going to go swimming, but she was playing with something on the table and one fell..she tried to get it and slipped and banged her nose pretty hard on the table... She cried for awhile AND cried herself to sleep.
The next day... we were getting ready and she was sitting on the bed playing while I cleaned some stuff up. I was keeping an eye on her, but not close enough....She fell off the bed..and it was a HIGh one! Here is her mark...Poor thing!

Little Bray was so exhausted at the end of each day.

We had a great time and it was so nice to have a little break and get to be a full time mom and wife for a couple days and not have to worry about anything else! Oh how I wish I could do that permanently (count your blessings stay at home moms... i would trade you any day!) :)

11 months

I really really hate that we are only one month away from my baby being 1!!!

I want her to stay little forever!

-- she is trying to talk more and constantly says BAAAAA. It is her word for Everything!
--she walks against furniture
--she is getting a full mouth of teeth (she has all 4 bottom and is working on all 4 top). Does this teething ever end!?
--she eats peppers and pickles and no funny faces. Amazing
--she HATES getting her diaper changed
--she is constantly MOVING...thanks to her DAD.
--she stands up in the tub
-- she licks my nose and thinks it is the funniest thing ever
--she is super ticklish
--she is gaining quite the little attitude
-- she sorts things from one pile to another
--she is learning to copy... the other night in the tub I put a little thing that sticks to the wall on her head and she kept trying to put all of them on her head!
--makes noises with her finger on her lip

{Pictures from May/June}

Mom's 50th surprise birthday party
(need to get some more pictures)

Braylie fell asleep holding onto Grandma's balloons on the ride home.

Braylie started crawling and has figured out how to do the stairs after ONE time of showing her how to do it.

This is how I find Braylie a lot of the time when I go to get her from her nap-she is so stinkin happy and jumps up and down.. I LOVE IT!

She is getting into EVERYTHING!!

she is getting close to walking!! :( She did the push walker by herself the 1st time!!

We got on the tramp and Braylie would open her mouth like this and make little excited noises when Brandon would start jumping! :)

Tia and I got underneath the tramp and Tia pushed up on Braylie and we would call her name. She couldn't figure out where it was coming from... she finally figured it out! SO funny!