Portland and Vday

Mahal, Honey, and I were lucky to have the chance to go and visit Cory, Rachel, Emory, and Tessa in Oregon last weekend! It was really fun! The first day that we got there, we went to a fun museum for the kids. It's called OMSI. Mahal had so much fun playing with her cousins there. They had different areas where you learned about water, sand, air, the market, and a place where you learned about animals. You could spend hours there!!!! We also were able to go to VOODOO DOUGHNUTS!!!! SO good! We even brought some home to share. We went shopping, hung out with everyone, and just had a really good time!! On the way home our flight got canceled and it made for a long night! We were supposed to leave at 5:30pm and our flight got changed to 6:50pm. Mahal loved to play on the walking, floor escalators. Good thing they kept her occupied because we had been there for 4 hours waiting to get on a plane. We did finally make it home.... thank the heavens! Thanks to Cory, Rach, and the girls for all they did for us while we were there!
This week was also Valentines Day. Adrian is so amazing! I'm a lucky women to have him in my life! He bought me some beautiful roses!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL! He also got me the Breaking Dawn movie:) Mahal got some really fun things too. She got a new barbie that she can play with in the tub, a really loud, singing, dancing elephant from Gma Z, a new movie that teaches her about letters from Nanai, some more necklaces from Gma Z, and some treats! She is lucky!!

Please and Thank you

Mahal is so stinking cute! We love her so so so so much and she has started to be so polite. She now says thank you and please for everything. She also has started saying sorry. I don't think that she realizes when the right time to say it is, but she is so cute when she says it. Yesterday morning, i had to wake her up to go in and teach aerobics. I tried to wake her up and all she wanted to do was sleep. I wrapped her blanket around her and picked her up, went outside and put her in her car seat trying not to wake her up. Thinking that she was sleeping, with her eyes closed she said, Mom i go, I go mom. I tried not to laugh but then she said, bye dad, bye dad and was then wide awake! Wow I love her! It's hard to think I could love any other child as much as I love her! Adrian thinks the same! She is the light in our lives!
She is really into movies now. I try to limit the amount of T.V. and movies we watch because I don't want her to be a lazy couch potato, but she sure does love her movies. Her favorite movie right now is Finding Nemo. She says Nomo; i watch Nomo. She could watch it over and over and over again! I can't wait for summer! We will be outside everyday!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We had a great Christmas this year! Mahal had more fun with the wrapping paper than her gifts, but it was fun to watch her. This year we got a new bed! Hallelujah!!!! Much needed since the bed that Adrian and I have been sleeping on is 15 years old. We sleep so much better now! We loved spending time with family and friends during the holidays! Mahal had so much fun with cousins!

For the new year, we did nothing! It was great! I think that the older you get and the more kids you have the lamer (if that's a word) and over rated new year celebration is. Sleep is so much better for us and especially since Adrian always has to work the next day. I think that the new year is a good time to set goals! I hope that the goals that I have set for the new year I can accomplish.

Tickle, tickle, tickle

Mahal is so funny! Where she gets her spunk and attitude, I have no idea. About a week ago, she was laying in our bed asleep and Adrian and I climbed in with her and all of a sudden she rolled over to me with her eyes closed and said tickle, tickle, tickle, (pause) tickle, tickle, tickle. It was so funny! Adrian was trying not to laugh, but it was really hard not too. She is so cute! Her new words the past couple of weeks are tickle, please, cheese, and drink. She loves to say Chase, Dad, Mom, and Grandpa. She will stand at the bottom of the stairs every morning and yell for Grandpa. Most of the time he is out on the farm, but if he is inside he will always yell back at her. Whenever she gets in trouble now she will come over, pucker up her lips and give you a big fat smooch. Adrian always says to her that just because she comes over and gives kisses it's not going to get her out of trouble, but she always gets out of it. Right now her favorite movie is Madagascar and she loves to dance and shake her butt to I like to move it, move it.
We had a great Thanksgiving! Just spent time with some family and went to the turkey burner at the rec. Adrian came too and it was a blast. He was sore for a few days, but i'm really glad he came!

The Big 29!!!

Happy Birthday Dad(on the 6th)!!! Can you believe it, Adrian is 29! It's going to be so crazy when he turns 30. We are going to have to have a major party for that with dancing girls and everything;)(JK). We hope he had a great day! We love you Dad!!!

Marathon and Fall fun

Well, I finally did it...... A MARATHON! Check it off the bucket list. I keep saying that it was one and I'm done running them, but I will probably do another one. It really wasn't too bad, the hardest part of the whole thing was trying to find the time to train. During the run, besides the fact that it was raining like cats and dogs... from mile 15 to 17 it started to hail. The size of pennies. It sucked!!!!! But, I made it and it was a great accomplishment for me! My amazing husband brought me some beautiful flowers at the finish line! He is the best! I'm thankful for my mom, gma, and little brother Chase who were at the finish line! Cindy, Sierra, and Deaneayer were at mile 19! They had great signs to help me push through to the end! And how can I forget my little princess Mahal! She was there too, cheering me on the whole way and she was so tired she fell asleep at the finish line! Bless her heart! I have an amazing family!







Sierra came over today and wanted to rake all of the leaves and jump in them. So, we looked for a rake and couldn't find one and then Sierra out of the corner of her eye said " look there's one of there". She was pointing to the neighbors house. We ran over grabbed it and ran back to the house. We just borrowed it for a few minutes:). Mahal didn't know if she liked playing in leaves. She didn't want anything to do with jumping in them. Today's the last day of good weather, fall weather. Then the snow will come. Bummer!

GO HUSKERS!!!

Adrian and I had the opportunity to go to Nebraska to a Huskers game and man was it a blast! We were so grateful to be able to stay at Adrian's aunts house to save some money! We loved spending time with their family! They have 2 cute kids and it made us miss Mahal! There is no way she would have made the long drive there and back...... and in such a short time. The game was awesome!!!! We had great seats even though they were row 97! When we were walking to our seats, I was assuming that there were 100 rows up but I was wrong. They only have 98 rows so, we were really up there!!!! Travis and Renee went to the game with us and they had great club seats! Renee let Adrian sit with Travis the first half of the game and he really enjoyed it! Renee and I cheered our guts out! It was so much fun!!!!! Long drive but we made it!!!!:)