DISNEYLAND and my first steps!

Family Vacation!!!! This summer for vacation we went to Disneyland and San Diego. SO much fun!!! We were a little nervous to take Mahal to Disneyland this year because we thought that she was too young, but we were surprised! She did awesome! Disneyland has great accommodations for families that have babies and I never knew about them until we were there. They have a little special place that you can go and nurse and change diapers in a private, air conditioned building. She had so much fun too. I think that her favorite part of Disneyland was seeing Micky Mouse and Rapunzel (from Tangled.... her favorite movie that we watch 900 times a day.)

All locked up in Toon Town

We also stayed in San Diego for most of our trip. We went to Sea World, San Diego Zoo, and a new place called San Diego Safari. Mahal loved all of the animals. She had a fun time with Dad making all of the animal sounds when we stopped at each animal. I think that out of all four of the parks (besides Disneyland being the best...) The San Diego Zoo was really fun!

The Dolphin show at Sea World was the best!

Dad, Mahal, and the tiger.

Mahal, Dad, and The Lion Man at the Zoo.

Mahal loves her glasses!!!! This is us at the Safari park.

This is us on the Safari bus tour of all the animals.

We were able to go to the temple in San Diego and it was so beautiful! I'm grateful for the gospel in our lives and that we can be an eternal family! The spirit was so strong and it was so peaceful. We also took a stop at the Mormon Battalion. WOW.... never really knew what it was all about until I got there. What a sacrifice our ancestors had to go through for us! We are blessed. The thing I thought was most interesting about the Battalion was that women and children were apart of it. Who would of thought! We had a really good time!

Mahal also took her first four steps all by herself when we were at our hotel!!!!! (Aug. 16, 2011) She'll be walking before we know it!
We went to the beach one day and it's not Mahal's favorite place. She liked playing with the sand and watching all the birds fly around but when it came to the water.... she was out!





We had so much fun on our trip this summer! We are excited to see where we will go next year:)!!!!

Happy Birthday

WOW!!!! Can you believe that our beautiful baby is one? How the time flies when you are having fun. We made a movie for her first birthday with all of the pictures from the past year and she has grown so much! We are so blessed to have such an amazing, beautiful, full of life, sassy, little angel in our lives. She teaches us to have a lot of patients and how to enjoy life every second of every day.
We let her have a Tangled cake for her party (that she picked out for herself). She loves that movie!!! She would watch it over and over and over again if I would let her! She also just started crawling up the stairs.....scary! She knows how to go up but not how to go down. We also gave her a portable dvd player that she can take and watch movies with in the car. This has saved our lives when we are driving. She hates the car!




I truly can't believe how big she is! We love her so much. I guess I never really understood the love that a mother has for her child until she came into my life. She makes me so happy and I miss her every time I'm not with her! Adrian is such a great dad and always helps (unless sports center is on) me with her. They are so funny together! I think sometimes he wishes she was a boy that he could play sports with. I always tell him that in due time we will have a boy:). When we went shopping for her birthday presents, he would pull the legos and footballs off the shelves and tell her she wanted them. Mahal is blessed to have such a wonderful father!
We are looking forward to the rest of the summer ahead and all of the fun things that we have planned. We are most excited to watch Mahal as she continues to grow! We love her and have such a great family!

Moab and the "Bitter Beer face"

Earlier this month, we had a wonderful trip to Moab. It was the first time I had ever been there (as well as Mahal) and it was really fun! We were able to take my Mom and Flint's Rhino down and climb the awesome red rocks. Thanks for that Mom and Flint! We camped, went hiking, ate at some really good restaurants and had lots of ice cream! I don't think that Mahal loved the Rhino as much as Adg and I did but we still had fun!
The "Bitter Beer" face......... or lets call it the Popeye the Sailor man face. I told Adrian that I didn't want Mahal to know what the "Bitter Beer" face was this early in life!:) She loves to pull this face at everyone. Especially me when I ask her not to touch or to get down from something. We just love her SO MUCH!

My first sun burn!!!!!

Am I a horrible mom or what?? My goal this summer was to try to not let Mahal get sun burned! So, our first outing to the pool this year and......







yep, you got it--- sun burn! I put sun screen on all the kids and it was even SPF 85. Poor baby! I feel so bad. I guess i learned my lesson and from now on I will make sure and put it on more often!
Oh and how can I forget the suckers we ate the other day!



Funny Kids!

Finally... New Family Photo's

This past week was mothers day and we decided that for our mothers we were going to give them new family photos! I have been wanting to get them done for a long time! My wonderful and amazing sister-in-law Kylee took them for us and did a fantastic job. We are so grateful for her and the time that she took to take them.






Mahal was so tired and cranky(bad day to get pics for us)! Luke tried everything to get her to laugh/smile but nothing....

Easter Bunny and First's

Easter was so enjoyable! Mahal didn't really understand what was going on but she had a lot of fun with the things that she got from her Grandma's. This week has been full of first's for Mahal. On Monday April 25th, she stood all by herself!!!! She went right over to this little stool and stood right up. She has been trying for awhile. Then, yesterday Saturday April 30th, she took her first little crawl. The right way..... she has been scooting around really funny but finally she did it with both knees on the floor. We love her so much but she is really sassy sometimes!

She loved the candy inside the eggs!

Easter Sunday just hanging out with Dad!!!

Grandpa and Mahal sitting in the old rocker.

Mahal's first time dying Easter eggs

My first stand all by myself!

It was sunny one day this week and so I decided to take her outside and get some good pictures of her. It is a challenge to take her pictures!!! She loves to be outside and when she is out there she has no attention span. I can't get her to smile for anything! And on top of all the the bird, grass, and bugs all over, the neighbor's horse got out and all she wanted to do was watch it run.



Oh and how can I forget the highlight of our day after our photo shoot... My little brother showed up at our house with his new pet.


Three weeks ago my mom and I took the kids to Baby Animal days and it was fun. Mahal loves animals!!! She was able to ride a pony and the boy that we helping us said that she was the youngest to ride that he had ever seen. It was raining/snowing but it didn't even phase the kids.

Overall the week has been great and we're looking forward to the next busy one we have ahead.

Easter