Tim, Tori, & Mylin

Kale Timothy Nicoll---2/7/12

2012-02-17T15:25:00.000-08:00

He's here! Kale Timothy was born on Tuesday February 7th at 10:53 AM. He weighed in at a petite 9 lbs 6 oz! I knew he was gonna be a big baby, but I didn't think he would be that big! He was 20 inches long. The doctor induced me a week early and I was so grateful he did. He said that if we hadn't induced, he would have easily been a 10 pound baby! We went in to be induced at 1:30 Tuesday morning. Yeah, it's a horrible time. I didn't sleep at all before going in because I was starting to freak out, so I was already tired going to the hospital. I won't give you all the birth details (Although I know some of my friends want to know the whole story! If you do, let me know!) but everything went pretty well. The doc said afterwards that he probably should have done a C-Section, but all in all, everything went well. It was a bit easier than with Mylin, being that I only had to push for like 15 minutes instead of hours!

Mylin was excited to see the baby, but as soon as she saw me hold him, her little lip stuck out and she started bawling. Bad. It broke my heart! Then she same and sat by me on the bed and was like hysterically crying. I finally got her calmed down and then Kale started crying. Then I got him calmed and Mylin started crying again and then I realized I was already overwhelmed with two kids! But after a while, Mylin really started to love Kale. She didn't want anyone else (like my mom or the nurses) to hold Kale.

First bath.

Thankfully my momma was here to help us. She came a few days before I had Kale and stayed a week. We seriously could not have made it through that week without her! It was such a blessing to know Mylin was in good hands while we were at the hospital. (It was the first time I had ever left Mylin over night.) So thank you mom for all the help!! Tim's mom is here this week and has also been a huge help. YAY for grandmas! You both are awesome!

Our first family of four picture. Mylin loves pointing out his toes, eyes, nose, etc...

He looks just like Mylin when he cries!

On the ride home from the hospital.

Kale had some presents for Mylin for when we got home from the hospital. (The first few days being home were so hard. Mylin was having a reallllly hard time adjusting and that meant a ton of tantrums and crying and screaming...but we are doing better everyday!)

She was so excited for her Tangled presents! A Rapunzel doll and dress.

Well....I have a lot more pictures to post and hopefully I will get those up soon--but you never know. This two kids thing is kinda hard! But it is so great at the same time. We love our new little man.

Snow

2012-01-25T12:39:00.000-08:00

While we were in Arizona, it snowed! All of the kids were pretty excited to go out and play in it. At first, Mylin was really concerned about it. She just kept looking around and saying, "Uh oh!" She had no clue what was going on. Eventually, she figured out that it was okay and she had a lot of fun playing in it. For some reason, I took more pictures of everyone playing in the snow than everything else on our entire trip--combined! So be prepared for a ton of snow pictures. These aren't even half of the ones I took!

I couldn't get a smile out of Mylin. It seriously took her forever to even play in the snow! Koy and Mia were loving it though! I love Koy's hat.

On Christmas Eve, we went sledding. We built a fire and roasted hot dogs and made hot chocolate. I think one of my very favorite pictures of this trip is the one with Mylin and my grandpa. My grandpa is so cute with her and was always taking her for walks and holding her. Mylin is crazy about him too! (Side note...we were in church on Sunday and saw a picture of Elder Perry and Mylin started screaming, "PAPA!! PAPA!!" Not that he looks anything like him, but still!)

Here are just some more pictures I liked of sledding. I obviously didn't sled, but I did fall down once. It was pretty icy and I just fell right down, but luckily I just landed on my knees.

One day at Tim's parents house, Tim took Mylin, Gavin, and Jordin on a sled behind the arctic cat. Jordin was not a fan of sledding though! They also got to pet the miniature horses and get the eggs from the chickens! They had a great time!

Our Christmas- 2011

2012-01-17T14:27:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. We went to Arizona and were able to see all of our siblings and their families, which was great. Being in California, we don't get to see everyone very much, so it was nice to be around family. Although...for future reference, I don't think I will be traveling that far again when I am that far pregnant! It wore me out! Anyways, we had a wonderful time. We went sledding (pics of that to come later), played in the snow, went bowling, went and saw 2 movies (Which is huge. I've been to like two movies since

Mylin's been born!), played lots of games, and ate lots of food. Here are a few pics of our time in AZ. I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked, but I was too tired to whip my camera out a lot!

This was like the only picture I got of Mylin on Christmas morning. I didn't even get one picture of her opening anything. I think she was really overwhelmed by everything. There were 16 people staying at my parents house, so it was a crazy Christmas morning! She opened her presents in her stocking (she loved the sunglasses!) and then pretty much just cried! We were like begging her to open presents and she wouldn't. She finally just wandered off and ended up opening her presents later!

After church--trying to get a family picture.

Banging on Spencer's drums---with a little help from Cinderella! She loved his drums!

Our annual gingerbread (graham cracker) house contest. My sister won. Again. Like 5 years in a row. But that's only because I didn't get to finish mine this year! Mylin walked by and grabbed Koy's house and smashed it...and then ate it! So his house was ruined. So he got to finish my house. Maybe next year someone else will win!

And now some random pics from the trip...

My mom bought some little princess dress-up outfits for the girls to play with and they were in Heaven. They slept in them and Mylin wanted one on at all times!

Having fun with the cousins!

Mylin's face cracks me up. --I told you..she wanted a princess dress on all the time!

Cute kids!

Welcome Home!

2012-01-13T15:51:00.000-08:00

The Monday before Christmas, my little brother came home from his mission in Mexico. We were all so excited to see him and it was perfect timing, right before Christmas. All of my family went to the airport to see him off the plane. All except for Tim, who had to work. Also, some of his friends came too. (His friend TJ's girlfriend took the pictures for me so I could see Spencer and not have to worry about taking pictures at the same time!)

So here are just a few of the waiting pictures. It seemed we had to wait forever. Probably because my mom wanted to be like 4 hours early! (slight exaggeration. only two hours early!)

So there was this glass revolving door where Spencer had to walk out. We see him walking down the hallway with like 5 other missionaries (who were making connecting flights) and Spencer stopped right in front of the doors and gives all of the missionaries hugs and stuff. Probably just to torture my mom. Which it did. I think she was about ready to break down the doors!

Waiting while he hugged the missionaries!

Oops. This is out of order. My mom got the first hug. But I got the second one! I earned it though. I emailed him every week of his mission except for two times (both times were when we moved (Ventura and Huntington Beach) and had no Internet) so he said I got the second hug! Here he was meeting Mylin for the first time.

Slightly overwhelmed.

A family picture. Except for Kalli and Gav because Gav ran off right when we were taking this picture, so she was chasing him.

After the airport, we went to lunch. I didn't really take any pictures because Mylin is hard in restaurants and also because I was starving! However, I did get this one picture of Mylin and Gavin at the restaurant. They were having a blast being pushed on the rolling high chair by Nathan.

Anyways, welcome home Spenc!

Christmas Time

2011-12-16T12:28:00.000-08:00

I am all caught up! As caught up as I'm going to be before I leave for AZ for Christmas! Mylin and I are heading to AZ tomorrow because my little brother gets home from his mission on Monday! We are so excited. Tim will be heading down sometime next week. Anyways, I have some pictures of Christmas crafts that Mylin and I have been doing, but that will be for another time. These pictures are all out of order, but I don't even care because I'm done! (And now I actually have Christmas pictures to go with my Christmas background. It was driving me crazy to have the Fall ones on.)

This was after Mylin put the star on the tree. She LOVES Christmas. The first thing we have to do every morning is turn on the Christmas tree lights. And anytime she sees anything Christmasy, she will say "HO, HO, HO!!!" Usually really loudly.

Ok--so we went and saw Santa at the mall. Mylin was not a fan. But, it was set up so cute in the mall. It was set up like Santa's village. There were little trains and snow covered mountains and little elves building toys. It was really one of the cutest set-ups I have ever seen. Here was Santa's Workshop. You could buy wood toys or ornaments to decorate and Mylin picked out the star.

They had a carousel just of reindeer! Mylin was scared at first, but then she got the hang of it!

Mylin waiting in line...

See how cute the set-up was?!

Another waiting picture...

She calmed down a little once she got a candy cane!

This is a random one...It was supposed to go with the last post about Thanksgiving, but I was too lazy to go back and edit that one, so I just threw it on here. She was helping me make a pie for Thanksgiving and I just love her face in this one!

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2011

2011-12-16T12:07:00.000-08:00

For Thanksgiving this year, Tim's parents, his two brothers and their families came and stayed with us. We had a house full, but it was super fun! I think there were 15 of us! It was fun to see all these little ones.

This is like the only group picture I took. This was our Thanksgiving meal. I was pretty pleased with how everything turned out. Mylin missed Thanksgiving dinner though! She was napping and I didn't want to wake her up to eat. But we saved her some food!

We went to the beach a few times, but I never took my camera. I need to get a little point and shoot camera for the beach because I hate taking my nice one there. It is really hard to keep the sand out of it. Anyways...one day we went to Balboa Island. It's just this little island thing with fun shops and restaurants. You take a little ferry to get there, which the kids loved. This is on the ferry.

Mylin rode the Ferris Wheel for the first time. I couldn't tell if she liked it or if she was scared.

For those asking to see my baby-bump...here ya go. Getting huge!

Also---Chelsee took way more pictures than I did, so if you want to see more, go check out her blog!

Thanks for coming everyone!

Shoes and more...

2011-12-13T14:15:00.000-08:00

Ok--so for my second post of the day, we have a picture overload! But guys...I only have TWO more things to post about after this! I am almost caught up! This is very exciting news for me!

This is the last random post, I think. It's just a bunch of pictures that don't really fit anywhere.

One day I couldn't find Mylin anywhere. Finally I found her here. It was funny but then when I got her out, she was all covered in soot. Not fun.

Mylin is in LOVE with shoes right now. She is always putting them on and taking them off and she will get really frustrated if she can't get them on. One night, right before bed and after a bath, she came out of my room wearing one of my high-heels and one of my tennis shoes.

She found some of my fuzzy socks and loved wearing them.

Ignore her bedhead! Wearing daddy's shoes.

This is how she sleeps now. The second I put her into her crib, she turns and sticks her feet out of the slat things. Every night after she falls asleep I go in her room and put her legs back into the crib! I have no clue why she sleeps like this because it doesn't look comfortable. At all.

One day she was being super quite and I found her like this. I have no clue why she has on the Easter Bunny ears, but it was pretty funny!

The week after we moved here, Tim had to be out of town for the whole week. I was super lonely in a brand new town. My awesome friend Regan (Yes, I know I am lucky to have her as a friend!) and Rylan came and stayed with me and Mylin for a night. We had so much fun and we were so glad they came to stay with us! I think Mylin was needing friends more than I was! She was sooo excited to have Rylan here and when they left Mylin ran into the house and looked in every room, saying "RYLAN". For like 20 minutes. I almost started crying because she kept checking the house for her. It was sad! Anyways...while they were here, they had a slumber party and watched Tangled and ate popcorn. The popcorn actually wasn't planned. They got into Regan's bag where she had a few treats and took her bag of popcorn! Then they just ate it off the floor! Good thing it was clean!

I reupholstered my kitchen chairs and Mylin was "helping" me.

Ok....only two more posts to go! Then I think I'll take a break from blogging for a while!

Halloween 2011

2011-12-13T13:59:00.000-08:00

Halloween

This year Mylin was a little ladybug and her friend Rylan was a bumble bee. They looked SO cute together! This was at Regan's ward party. It was a crazy time because the next day my friends were throwing me a baby shower and then right after the shower, we were moving! Like, I literally left the baby shower and drove to Huntington. So Halloween was kinda crazy!

The next pictures are from Halloween night. Halloween was a sad day for me. I was feeling bad for myself because all of my friends were going Trick-Or-Treating together and I was all alone in a brand new town. On Halloween, we had been living here for like a day and a half. I got Mylin ready to go Trick-Or-Treating at like 4:00. Tim ended up having to work late and then got lost on the way home, so he didn't get home until almost 8 and I didn't want to take Mylin by myself because I was unfamiliar with the area, so we just waited. And waited. But when he got home we were able to go to a few houses. Mylin didn't know what to think at first, but after the first two houses, she was running right up to the doors!

Waiting to go Trick-Or-Treating.

Really interested in the trick-or-treaters that came to our house.

She was excited by all her candy...Although she doesn't look it here!

Autumn Time

2011-12-12T18:38:00.000-08:00

These are a few of my favorites from October. I'm slowly getting caught up!

We went to the Harvest Festival again.

They gave Mylin this little pumpkin and she was pretty excited. We put in on the porch next to our other pumpkins and every time we walked by the pumpkins, she would pick this one up and move it to a different spot. She was always rearranging the pumpkins.

This is at the pumpkin patch, picking out our pumpkins.

Carving pumpkins.

We had a lot of fun doing Fall painting projects. Mylin really likes to paint!

She was covered in paint by the time we were done. In her hair, on her face, in her ears! She's a messy painter!

I guess painting just wore her out because when she was done, she just laid down....which happened to be right in a pile of paint! She was a mess!

Balloons....

2011-12-11T20:33:00.000-08:00

Alright...here is another post about nothing. These are just a few random pics of Mylin that I like.

She makes this face a lot. Mostly when something surprises here.

I just thought she looked so cute one day before church...

I know I've said on here before how much Mylin loves balloons. She still does. I have found the best balloons to get are the dollar store ones because they are only a dollar and they last FOREVER!

I don't know why I love this picture so much. Her face is dirty. She's playing with a bottle of dishwasher cleaning stuff (which by the way, was brand new so it wasn't opened yet! Don't worry, I don't let her play with opened cleaning supplies!) ---But I love it.

Mylin and Rylan

2011-12-10T15:24:00.001-08:00

Here are a few pictures of Mylin with her little best friend Rylan. Mylin sure misses Rylan now that we have moved and she gets so excited to see pictures of her! On this day, the girls had their "babies" and were taking such good care of them! Rocking them and telling them "Shhh"! It was pretty cute.

Here is just one at the park. I know Mylin's hat doesn't match her outfit, but she really wanted to wear it that day. (I wish she would keep hats on more often! She usually never keeps them on.)

One day Mylin, Rylan, Regan, Regan's mom, and I went to the Santa Barbara Zoo. It was fun because the girls were older and they were more excited to see the animals. The favorite thing of the day was feeding the giraffe! Mylin reached right out and fed him all by herself!

Regan's mom is so cute and bought the girls matching Zebra shirts just for the zoo! Of course, I didn't get any pictures of all of us, but the girls looked pretty adorable in their matching shirts!

Baking Cookies - 5th Post!

2011-12-02T14:57:00.000-08:00

Well...be impressed! This is my FIFTH post today! I'm trying super hard to catch up. So if you need to see lots of pictures of Mylin, just keep scrolling down to all of the other posts! Yay for Mylin for taking a good nap so I could start catching up. Although....I really should be writing my talk for church instead of doing this. Oh well!

So here is the 5th post of the day:

Mylin really likes to help me whenever I'm in the kitchen. She likes to be right by me and help stir and she loves to pour things. So, we bake cookies a lot. I let her have a little cookie dough and she was in heaven!

Work trip to Arizona

2011-12-02T14:42:00.000-08:00

Sometime in the past few months, Tim had to go to AZ for the week for work, so Mylin and I tagged along. (I can't even remember what month it was. September maybe?) Anyways...we had a lot of fun seeing lots of family. We stayed a few nights with Tim's brother Nate and a few nights with my brother Nathan and then a few more days with my sister, so we were able to see everyone. My mom came down from Eagar for a few days so we were able to see her too.

This is a picture of my nephew Koy. Koy doesn't necessarily smile all that much, so I was pretty excited to catch a real, genuine smile from him on camera!

We went swimming at this lake somewhere outside of the valley. It was fun and Mylin loved throwing the rocks into the lake.

Just a cute one of Mia.

One day Kalli and I took Mylin and Gav for a bike ride. Well, I can't take the credit for giving them a ride. Kalli was the one who pulled these two around! I just got to ride the other bike without pulling anyone! They sure had a lot of fun together.

Forts and Dice

2011-12-02T14:26:00.000-08:00

Here are just a few random pics of Mylin that I like.

We went with some of my friends on this really pretty walking path thing and I tried to get some good pics of Mylin. She was not interested in sitting still or looking at the camera, so we didn't really get any good ones.

Mylin and I made a fort and she loved it! -I have learned that my fort making skills are lacking. Good thing she is so little because she didn't care that the fort kept falling down!

This is one of my favorite pictures because you can see how truly excited she was! We were pretty much just rolling and shaking the Yahtzee Dice (Die? Die is plural, right?) and she thought it was the best thing ever!

I definitely have to keep my eye on her!

Beach Pics

2011-12-02T14:20:00.000-08:00

Second post of the day:

Here are a few pics at the beach. We went to Pirate Days (no pics of that. shocking!) and then crossed the street and played in the water for a little bit. Mylin was really concerned about her hands getting dirty, but she soon forgot all about it and was running straight for the water! She loves the beach.

The 4th

2011-12-02T13:24:00.001-08:00

I have a goal. My goal is to be all caught up on the blog before I leave for Arizona for Christmas. Which is in two weeks. And I'm posting about the 4th of July. Sooo, we will see if I make my goal. I just want to be caught up before this little boy gets here! Anyways, in order to meet my goal, I decided to have a four picture limit per post. Of course, I already went over my limit on this post. But I'm going to stick to only picking out 4 per post from now on---that is hard for me to narrow down pics, but I think it's the only way I will ever get caught up!

Ok...Quick recap of the 4th of July. We went to AZ. It was fun. Also, it was a long time ago so I don't remember much. Well, here are some pics.

Waiting for the parade to start. Or maybe it was already over. Can't remember!

Tim's family was all in town...

Mylin took her first four-wheeler ride. And loved it!

Utah in July

2011-11-17T14:33:00.000-08:00

Ok so this is not the best post I have ever done. The pictures are all out of order and I am SOO behind (like 5 months) that I'm just trying to get it done. I have found that putting the pictures in collages takes the least amount of time, so I will probably be doing a lot of those! I really just want to be caught up!

So in July we went up to Utah to see my grandparents. Mylin and I were able to drive up one day to see my good friend Meredith and her little daughter Hadley. I woke up that morning and could not stop throwing up (I was super sick because I was pregnant, but I hadn't told ANYONE!) and I really wanted to go, but I knew I couldn't drive on my own (like 2 hours away) so I woke up my awesome mom and she drove us to Provo just so I could see my friend!- We went to Quilted Bear and ate at Zupas (which was good, but disappointing. Good because I love the food. Disappointing because I was REALLY looking forward to eating there and I was so sick I didn't really eat anything.) Anyways...we had fun in Provo and we sure miss our friends.

Ok so here are some pics of us just hanging around my grandparent's place. We had a lot of fun and it is always so relaxing there. -- Blake had so much fun jumping over the sprinkler. I have seriously like 25 pictures of him doing it because he would jump and then be like "Take another one!"

We spent most of our time just hanging out on the back porch playing in the water. --And yes, it's a good thing Nathan isn't a girl! :)

Change is gonna come

2011-11-15T15:47:00.000-08:00

These last few weeks we have had some changes in our lives. The biggest change being that we moved from Ventura down to Huntington Beach. Tim's project finished up in Ventura so they sent us to the next project here in Huntington. And I'm pretty sad about it. I know, I know. When we were first moving to Ventura, I did a post about how I REALLY didn't want to move there and I forced myself to find reasons why I would like living there. I ended up loving living there and I really did not want to move. Yes, I'm sure there are wonderful things about living here (like the shopping. It's pretty great here. And we are even closer to the beach- 2 miles. And we are only 13 miles from Disneyland!), but for now, I am still sad about leaving Ventura. Our first two weeks here have not been great, with both Mylin and I getting really sick and then Tim being out of town for a whole week right when we moved here. But hopefully things will get better and in three years when we have to move again, I will write another post about how I don't want to leave. Positive thinking!

Some of the things I miss about Ventura....

The fruit stands! They were everywhere! No fruit stands here in Huntington.

I also really miss seeing all the fields. Ventura is a huge agriculture town and there are tons of strawberry (and other types) of fields and orchards so it never feels like you are in the city. I have yet to see a field here. All city.

But mostly, I really miss my friends. They are pretty awesome and I'm really sad to leave them. We had a lot of fun together, always going to the park and hanging out and having girl's nights! I only live an hour and a half away, but if you know LA traffic, that most times turns into three hours. Not too easy to just go down for the day.

So anyways...we are here in Huntington Beach and lonely, so remember that we are only 13 miles from Disneyland and come visit!!

Surprise Party

2011-10-25T13:42:00.000-07:00

In June, my sister turned 30. We decided to throw her a surprise birthday party. We planned for a long time over the phone/Internet and then Mylin and I flew down early to finish getting ready for the party. Lindsey had no clue we were even flying down to AZ at all! We had Matt take Lindsey on an overnight trip while we watched the kids and set up everything. She had no clue!

The party planners: Me, my mom, and my sister-in-law Kalli. Seriously, Kalli is the best person to have help with planning parties! She is so creative. It was also very helpful that her mom owns a catering company because we had a lot of supplies that we could borrow!

The food table. We had tissue balls and decorations all over, but I didn't get any great pictures of that.

The banner says, "Happy Birthday Lindsey". You just can't read it on this pic.

Here are the drinks. Lemonade and this yummy Ocean Water stuff.

The food was so delicious.

Some salad and our menu!

Arizona

2011-10-16T22:03:00.000-07:00

So here are the last pictures from this memory card! Only behind five months now! --- At the end of June, Mylin and I went to Arizona for a few weeks to hang out with family.

One day Gav obviously got into the markers. These pictures crack me up!

When we left California, it was a nice 66 degrees. We got to Phoenix and it was 118 degrees! The heat was awful. Mylin's face was always bright red and I'm pretty sure I got heat-stroke one day. So we enjoyed hanging out at the pool.

Although you can't tell by Mylin's face, she really did enjoy being pushed around by Blake!

PS----I know I've asked this before, but does anyone know how to make my picture files smaller on an Apple computer? I hate blogging right now because it takes like 20 minutes to upload 5 pictures. I've tried photo bucket and I couldn't get that to work, but maybe I'm doing it wrong...Thanks!

Berry-Picking Farm

2011-10-12T15:58:00.000-07:00

Back in June, some friends and I went to the Berry Picking Farm in Moorpark. (The week before, Gwen Stefani was there with her kids! Too bad we didn't go a week earlier!) It was an overcast day and so I put Mylin in a brand new shirt that I thought would look cute for pictures. We got there a little bit before everyone else, so most of the pictures are just of Mylin -- I didn't get any of our group.

There is a cute wooden train there that Mylin loves to play on.

She was SUPER excited to see the chickens. They have horses, HUGE pigs, and lots of other animals I can't think of right now!

Here Mylin was spinning in circles.

Riding in the wagon with her friend Eliza.

She loved getting out and picking her own berries!

Remember how I said I picked the never-worn cream shirt specifically for pictures? Well, I'm an idiot. We were going to a BERRY picking farm! After one berry, I knew her shirt was ruined! But she was in heaven eating all those berries!

I was all ready to just throw this shirt away and my friend Regan took it as a personal mission to get all of those berry stains out. And amazingly, she was able to get them all out! Thanks Regan! And Oxy Clean.

Oh Boy!!!

2011-09-30T16:59:00.000-07:00

I should have posted this a long time ago, but for some reason, I just felt like keeping it in for a while. But we are sooo excited to say that we are having a little boy coming this Valentine's Day! We found out at 13 weeks that it was 95% chance that it was a boy, so we are counting on that! We have another ultrasound on Monday and I'll be 21 weeks, so we will find out for sure if he is still a boy! (With Mylin we found out at 12 weeks that she was a girl and that doc was right, so hopefully this one is right too!)

Things have been going pretty well. I was pretty sick for those first few months, but luckily the worst is behind me. I've been super tired lately, but most pregnant ladies are! I do have that weird placenta thing again, like I had with Mylin. It is pretty uncommon (only 1-2% of pregnancies have it) and Mylin's doctor told me the likelihood of me having it again was like 0%. He pretty much said I would never have it again. So, of course I have it again! But it's good. I just get to see the doctor a lot and get lots of 3d pictures! There is concern about the baby not growing and emergency c-sections and preterm labor and all that, but they monitor me pretty well, so hopefully everything will go smoothly.

Sorry for the poor quality on this pic. I thought I had digital copies of this, but I only have videos of the entire ultrasound...Not too exciting! But I'll be getting some more 3d ones on Monday, so I'll share those.

Anyways...this post is kinda all over the place, but we are super excited about this new adventure.

Rodeo

2011-09-30T16:25:00.000-07:00

I have been so bad at blogging. Once you break the habit, it is hard to pick it up again! Anyways, I have so many pictures to blog, I'm just picking out a few things that I don't want to forget. Nothing super exciting, but things that I want when I print out the blog book. Anyways... Mylin loves purses. She likes to carry them around with her toys inside of them. Yesterday she used a plastic Walmart bag as her purse and wouldn't leave the house without it. This picture cracked me up because we were just hanging at home and she goes and gets her purse and stands by the door and says "Bye-Bye!" and just waited for me to get ready to leave! So of course, we had to leave---she was all ready to go with her purse!

Just a cute pic.

One of Tim's suppliers or someone that has to do with something at his work, gave us VIP tickets to a rodeo. I wasn't too excited because it wasn't until 7 that night and Mylin goes to bed at 8, but Tim talked me into it. He said it was right outside of Santa Barbara, which is half hour away. So I thought it might be 45 minutes tops. As we get going, (Me, Mylin, Tim, and two guys from Tim's work) I realize the dang rodeo is two and half hours away!! Yeah. Not cool.

But it was pretty fun for a little bit. Mylin liked seeing the horses. I liked the free food. Tim's work guys that came with us liked the beer. Let's just say they were a whole lot more exiting to talk to on the way home than on the way there!

Sorry for the random post. I'm winding down to the last pics on my memory card.

Ojai

2011-09-01T11:52:00.000-07:00

A while ago, (I'm still playing blog-catch-up) my friend Regan and I and the girls decided to do a day trip to Ojai. It's not too far away and we heard it was a cute town so we thought we would go check it out.

Actually, we knew Reese Witherspoon has a house there and we wanted to see her!

Okay maybe it was a little of both! Sadly, we did not see Reese... but we did see one famous person. You'll never guess who!...The mom from Boy Meets World! Hahaha! Don't be jealous.

We saw this lady and knew she was famous and after we got home Regan did a little research and found out who it was. Anyways...we thought it was funny.

We did a little shopping and had lunch at this little restaurant. I don't even remember what exactly we ate, but it was the best food I have had since I've lived in California. It was SOOO good.

Anyways, on to the pictures. There were a few places as we were shopping that were perfect backdrops for cute pictures. Sadly, the girls weren't super cooperative and it was a bit too sunny, but it was still fun.

Mylin just chose to sit in the ugliest corner and wouldn't move. Or smile.

We had better luck with Rylan. She was great for the pics.

This was the only one I got of both the girls together. They were more interested in running around then taking pictures. I guess I didn't get any pictures of the town either, but it is a super cute town.

Strawberry Festival- Take Two

2011-08-23T17:49:00.000-07:00

Last and final post of the day...

We went to the annual Strawberry Festival again this year and had so much fun! I just love festivals and this one is huge! Of course we ate delicious food and yummy strawberries, but my favorite things there were Mylin and Rylan! Rylan happened to have two outfits that were perfect for the Strawberry festival, so she let Mylin borrow one. I swear, they were the cutest things there!!

The festival started right when the girls were supposed to be down for naps, so they started off the day tired, but they were troopers.

They had such a fun time dancing around!

They are seriously little best friends!

On the bus...

Poor thing was exhausted by the time we left!!

Just another day at the park

2011-08-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

Here are just a few pictures from the park. We go to the park usually twice a day. Mylin is a huge fan of parks and slides.

She is also a huge fan of chasing bubbles and trying to pop them.

This is her usual way of going down slides. Every now and then, if she is in the mood, she will go down normally.

After going down the slides a million times, Mylin's skirt was like up around her armpits. This picture does not do it justice. It was hilarious!!

Finally!!

2011-08-23T12:32:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

We are finally back to the world of blogging. Sorta. Our computer crashed like four months ago and we just barely got a new computer last week. However, we got a Mac (we used to have a PC) and I am really struggling with the photo part of it. I cannot figure out how to make my pictures smaller, so they are taking forever to load and since I am like

four months behind, this is no good. So...I guess I will start where we left off. (Just a warning...since we are so far behind, expect a lot of posts in the near future. That is, if I don't get too frustrated with this computer and just give up blogging forever!)

Ok...Umm...we went to Las Vegas for Tim's sister's husband's college graduation. Now Kevin is off to medical school, so congrats Kevin! (This is the only pic I got of Kevin.)

These first pictures are at the little splash pad at the park where we had a luncheon after Kevin's graduation.

The day before the graduation we all went to a jump house thingy. (sorry so vague. It was a long time ago!)

Well one post down, two memory cards to go! (I have a problem with taking too many pictures!)

Easter in Arizona

2011-05-09T09:12:00.000-07:00

There are a million things I need to be doing right now. Blogging is not one of them. Yet, here I am. I guess blogging about Easter sounds more entertaining than folding laundry.

Well...we went to Arizona for Easter. One of the main reasons we decided to go was because my grandparents were going to come from Utah to stay at my sister's house for Easter. So we headed down to AZ. After a pretty horrible drive (getting a ticket, among many other things) we finally got to Arizona around 1:30 Saturday morning.

By 8:00 we were at the park for my sister's ward's Easter Party.

There was a fun Easter Egg hunt and a yummy breakfast.

Here are my G-Parents.

Later on that day, we met up with Kalli and Gavin and ate at Joe's Farm Grill (which has been featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives---and is REALLY good.)

Mylin was a big fan of Papa.

We were able to stop by and see some of our friends, which was fun.

Saturday night, we went to the Easter Pageant. I took a ton of pictures there, so I'm gonna do another post later with those pics. Then my camera disappeared for about a week (story about that later) so I don't actually have any pictures of Mylin on Easter or in her Easter dress. Lame.

Tim headed back Sunday and Mylin and I decided to stay a few more days in AZ.

Hanging out at Uncle Nate's and Aunt Kalli's house after a delicious dinner.

Pretty much the only picture I have of Nathan. This is what you get when you won't let me take your picture.

Later that week, my aunt and uncle flew in from Utah to spend a few days. We all headed to the Arizona Science Center to see the Body Worlds and The Brain exhibit. I love love loved it. So interesting! You can't take pictures in there though.

Koy at the children's section in the museum.

Sorry for the picture overload. There are just two more! Mia all dressed up. Not for church. She just likes to get dressed up!

Mylin hanging with Uncle Jeff.

So there you have it. Super fun trip!

Cottontail Days

2011-04-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to Cottontail Days down at the Harbor. They had booths and crafts and most importantly, an egg hunt!

They did egg hunts every 1/2 hour with 25 kids at a time. Luckily they had it separated by age so Mylin was in the 1-3 year old group.

Once she got an egg, she just wanted to take it out of her basket. And then put it back in. Then take it out. And put it back in! Thanks to Tim, she still managed to get five eggs! (Which have entertained her forever! At home, she loves putting the eggs in and out of her basket!)

Mylin and her buddy Rylan.

Mylin isn't usually scared of much, but she was not a fan of the Easter Bunny.

There was also a petting zoo that Mylin loved!

After that, we took her down this big blow up ride.

The End.

I saw the sign....

2011-04-09T14:37:00.000-07:00

I meant to do this a while ago, but better late than never. It's kinda fun to see how much Mylin has changed and grown in a year.

We finally went to her 12 month appointment (a couple weeks late!) and she is 21 lbs (50th %) and 29 3/4 in tall (70%), which is a big jump from being in the 10% at her 9 month appointment! She is getting 4 teeth in right now. She had only 2 teeth for so long that it is so weird to see her with a bunch of teeth!

Mylin's favorite thing to do right now is to put things in things. That sounds weird, but I don't know how else to explain it. She will put little blocks and her sippy cup and toys and anything else she can find into her laundry basket or any other box. It can entertain her forever.

Anyways....here are the month pictures.

*Just curious....Do you have a favorite month picture? I think my favorites are 6 and 11. But of course, as her momma, I love them all!

Party Two: Birthday Party

2011-04-04T09:36:00.000-07:00

Here are some more pictures from the party. I didn't get any good ones of everyone that was there....the pictures were mostly just of Mylin! But we had a great turnout.

Mylin woke up RIGHT before her party started, so she was still out of it. Notice the butterfly outfit?! To go along with the butterfly theme!-

And this is her little swimsuit. She would not keep the hat on at all. That's why I'm holding her arm down! I wanted at least one picture with her hat on! (It matched her swimsuit.)

Mylin's friends. There were way more kids, but these were the ones closest to her age. (and easiest to catch for a picture!---And don't worry...we were standing behind them!)

Love this one of Gavin!

So who are these two people? you ask. (As did everyone at the party) Well....I have NO clue who they are, but they sure loved the food! Haha!

Close up of the smash cake....

Mylin digging in.

She kept looking at me like this! I guess to make sure it was okay that she was eating the cake!

After a little bit, Gavin came to help his cousin out!

Then some of her friends joined in. It was funny to see how different they all ate the cake. Mylin and Calum had both hands full of cake. Gavin would just use one finger. Rylan just took the cake off of Mylin's hands!

Mylin loved her cake!

Birthday Party----Part One

2011-04-01T10:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of the decorations and food from Mylin's birthday party. I have been planning her party forever and I think it turned out great. I was pretty nervous because we were having an outside party (BBQ and swimming at one of the pools at our apartment complex) and it was saying 60% chance of rain! I wanted to change the party to the next week, but Tim said no (because my family was coming!) so I just kept praying it wouldn't rain! It was pretty cloudy and a little chilly, but people still swam and the rain held off until that night.

Anyways...just a quick thanks to all my friends and family who helped me with this party. You guys rock!

This is the pool. The BBQ grill and food table is behind this picture.

My friend Regan made this banner for me. I ran out of time to make one so I just wasn't going to have one, but she made one for me without me even asking her to. Yeah, she's awesome.

Oh yeah...the theme for the party was butterflies. And the colors pink, purple, and green.

My sister designed the labels for the water bottles. My sister is a rockstar.

These are little party favors for the kids who came. They got candy and bubbles. The girls got that plus little butterfly hair clips.

This was probably my favorite thing there. This is a banner with all the "month" pictures, going from 1 Month to 12 Months! (There are little butterflies on the banner too.) I just love seeing how much she has grown.

So we had hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, fruit, and fruit dip...but that wasn't very exciting to take a picture of. So use your imagination! What I was most excited for was the treat table! (Yes, I know I went a little overboard. My brother reminded me that I was ridiculous many times! Whatever...your first baby only turns one once!)

Anyways...here is the treat table.

Some strawberry suckers that say Happy Birthday Mylin!

Marshmallow Pops. (Thank you mom and Kalli for helping me with the treats! I would have lost my mind if you guys wouldn't have been there!)

Chocolate Covered Oreos.

Sugar Cookies. I already made butterfly shaped sugar cookies the day my family got there but my mom surprised me with more cookies (the bigger ones) from Sweet Cakes (an awesome bakery in AZ that Kalli's aunt owns). They were delicious!

For some reason I didn't get a picture of these...but look in the corner of the cookie picture. See that little butterfly lollipop? We had lots of those floating around. Too cute.

I made these red velvet cupcakes. The butterfly toppers are edible butterflies I got from sweetdejavu on Etsy.

And these beautiful cakes were made by a lady in my ward. I know, I know....overboard. But she gave me a great deal! And her cakes are awesome. And go big or go home, right?! Haha.

Ok...Those are pretty much all the pictures of the decorations and food. I'll be posting more pictures of the actual birthday party soon. (I had a ton of pictures, so I couldn't fit it all in one post!)

Surprise!

2011-03-29T10:41:00.000-07:00

I have been planning Mylin's birthday party for a while (which we had on Saturday. MANY pictures of that to come soon.) and I have been bugging my brother and pretty much everyone to come for her birthday. I just wanted some family to come. But I knew it was kinda unrealistic to ask anyone to come because it is a long way for a little birthday party. Soon it was apparent that no family would be able to make the trip. I was bummed. And a little homesick. But back to my brother...so he told me they wouldn't be able to come because of money and he couldn't take off work. Okay. I completely understand that. But then, the week before Mylin's party, they went to Mexico. Not cool! So I was a little annoyed at Nathan that he would go to Mexico but not come see us! Then on Thursday Nathan calls me and is telling me all about how this weekend (the weekend of Mylin's party) he and Kalli were going to Vegas with some friends and they got a great deal on hotel rooms and blah blah blah....I was FURIOUS! I was like...just come here if you have work off! It will be perfect. Just come. And he was like...No, I'm just gonna go to Vegas with my friends. I was soooo mad at him! I call Tim and I'm like...my brother is so selfish. Come to find out, my brother and his wife and my mom bought tickets to fly out for Mylin's birthday like 2 months ago! And while I'm complaining to Tim, my brother is in the backseat dying laughing. (Tim picked them up from the airport.) Anyways...sorry this is so wordy. But they came for Mylin's party and we had a great time! (And I am probably never gonna live down the "selfish" remark.)

On Friday, we decided to go to Solvang.

Gav got a cool new hat and a camo backpack.

They loved playing in this fountain. Mylin kept trying to climb in.

My favorite picture of the day. This is outside of a shoe store. Of course we had to go to the beach.

Mylin had such a fun time playing with her cousin.

Thanks mom and Nate and Kalli and Gavin for coming for Mylin's birthday. We had such a fun time and we miss you already!

Happy First Birthday!!!

2011-03-23T11:19:00.000-07:00

Today my baby is one year old. It is insane to me how fast time flies. I have been quite nostalgic all week, thinking of when Mylin was born. I can't really remember life without her. She has made my life infinitely better.

Since it is her birthday, I thought I would share a few pictures of when she was born so you can see how much she has grown.

So sweet.

Now...twelve months later! Still sweet, but full of so much attitude!

This picture was from this morning right when she woke up. I decorated the house with balloons and streamers and she was kinda unsure about it.

After a little bit, she loved it! She was pulling all the streamers down and trying to hold like 4 balloons at a time.

Here are just a few pics from this past month. (Guys...I have taken over 3,500 pictures of Mylin since she has been born!!! Wow. Kinda embarrassing.)

She is such a funny girl. She's been putting these sunglasses around her neck and she thinks she is so clever!

This is her favorite toy right now! She will walk around exactly like this for most of the day. One arm in. One arm out. It's hilarious.

I let her try to feed herself the rest of her oatmeal one morning. Not such a good idea.

This is probably my favorite picture of Mylin right now.

Happy birthday Mylin! We love you so much and we are so grateful you are in our lives!

Princess Day at the Zoo

2011-03-21T12:09:00.000-07:00

Last week it was Princess Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo, so of course we had to go! "The joys of having a girl" Tim said. They had a bunch of girls dressed up as princesses and had lots of fun crafts and booths set up. (Apparently all of the proceeds went to Save The Frogs.) Princesses. Frogs. Clever. The zoo was overrun with little girls dressed up as princesses! SO cute!

Anyways, we had a great time. The weather was perfect and the zoo was beautiful. Super small but really pretty. Mylin was cutting her top tooth (I know I wrote that like 2 months ago. It never came! Haha! She now finally broke her third tooth!) and she was OUT of it. It was weird. She was like comatose the whole day. Not crying. Not smiling. Just out of it.

I love this pic with the elephant!

The ONLY smile of the day.

Regan, Derrick, and Rylan.

Pirates.

Sitting with the princesses.

I love Rylan's face in this pic!! She was so scared of the frog. Mylin wasn't impressed.

Disneyland

2011-03-11T16:44:00.000-08:00

We went to the "Happiest Place On Earth" on Tuesday! We had so much fun. My friend Cami and her husband Nate and their little baby Jane (if you remember--she is one of the girls Mylin took pictures with last year in their tutus) came from Tennessee just to visit us! (Yes, from TENNESSEE. So my dear brother Nathan...stop making up excuses to not visit us.) Okay...so maybe they didn't come just to visit us, but they were still able to stay a night with us and we spent the next day at Disneyland together.

Our day started off a little rocky...and early! Cami and I stayed up til after midnight the night before just talking and we had to wake up at 4:30 in order to leave by 5:30 so that we could beat the LA traffic. So we were pretty tired. And then we had camera problems and forgotten shoes. But finally we made it to Disneyland!

This was walking into Disneyland. Mylin was super excited if you can't tell!

Here is Cami, Jane, and Nate.

We were able to go on a bunch of rides. Tim and I would go on a ride while Cami and Nate watched the girls, and then we would switch. One time while Cami and Nate were riding a ride, we saw Buzz Lightyear and decided to get a picture with him. I went to set Jane down next to Buzz and she started FREAKING out! She was screaming her head off and crying and then just held on to me so tight and hid her head. It was sooo sad but quite hilarious! Mylin, on the other hand, was trying to climb onto Buzz! So we ended up just holding the girls for a picture.

This is the only picture I got of the two girls together. They both were walking all over so it was hard to get a picture.

Sweet little Jane.

Mylin in the stroller.

Mylin's favorite ride by far was "It's a Small World"! Her eyes were huge and she was staring at everything! It was pretty awesome seeing how excited she would get.

We went on so many rides. I actually prefer the rides where Mylin could go rather than the upside down roller-coasters. I don't handle roller-coaster rides too well!

She really was having fun, I swear!

She loved chasing the birds! Notice her cute Mickey Mouse outfit!? I'm not a huge character fan, but she had to have something Mickey to wear! I found this outfit for 10$ at the outlet mall. What makes it even better was that they were selling this exact same outfit inside Disneyland for 30$! Score.

By the end of the day, the girls were exhausted! Jane got a decent nap. Mylin only slept for 30 minutes the entire day! She slept for a little bit during the Aladdin Musical show we watched, but then it got too loud and woke her up. But for only sleeping 30 minutes, she did awesome!

Let's just say Disneyland was awesome!!!

Weekend Visitors

2011-03-04T11:18:00.000-08:00

Tim's brother Nathan and his family came to visit us this past weekend. It was a super short visit, but we sure had fun and are glad we got to spend some time with them!

We went down to the harbor and looked at the ships. (We also went to the beach, but it was freezing, so I didn't get the camera out.)

The twins looking at the ships.

Harlee!

Shelbi!

These cutout things entertained us forever! I have MANY more pictures of these, but I'll just post a few.

Come and visit us again soon!

Mylin - 11 Month Update

2011-02-24T11:42:00.000-08:00

One more month and she will be one! I can't even believe it.

Mylin is such a sweet baby and has such a cute personality. (Although...she can destroy a clean house in like .5 seconds!)

I decided to take a few pictures of things she likes...

She loves playing with the guitar. It's in our bedroom and I usually keep that door closed, but she as soon as she sees that door open, she sneaks in and heads straight for the guitar. She will just strum it and laugh at the noise she makes!

She likes to close doors. However, when after she closes the door she starts freaking out because she can't get out!

She likes to play the piano!

Mylin loves her little walker thing. It folds into a car thing that we can push and she has fun with that. She will push the walker SOOO fast until she runs into something.

One of the things Mylin loves most right now are the balloons she gets from our grocery store! We shop at Ralph's and they almost always give her a red balloon whenever we go. We went yesterday and she was dying laughing whenever she saw the balloon. She will take the balloon with her everywhere! She will start crying if she can't take it in the car. She likes to have it near her when she eats. She will crawl and walk with it. It is pretty hilarious how much she loves these balloons!

And just a few more pictures. Just in case you haven't had enough yet!

LA Temple

2011-02-21T09:43:00.000-08:00

Last week we decided to drive over to the LA Temple. We didn't have anyone to watch Mylin, so we just walked around the Temple and went to the visitor's center. It was nice to just walk around and the weather was PERFECT.

She looks like such a big girl in this picture. And yes, she did pick that flower. Oops!

Miss Independent

2011-02-14T12:31:00.000-08:00

My baby is getting too big! She started walking this past week!! Well, sort of. She walks/crawls still. She will take like 3 or 4 steps and then crawl and then walk a little bit and then crawl. A few days ago she walked 9 steps in a row!

She loves walking. We bought her a little walking toy last week and ever since she started using that thing, she has been all over the place. It really helped her walking.
One of these days I will get a video of her walking, but until then, pictures will have to suffice!

Look how she falls down. So ladylike!

Here are two pictures that have nothing to do with walking, but they are pretty cute.

She grabbed her oatmeal bowl and tried to feed herself.

I was getting ready one morning and she emptied out the cupboard and climbed right in!

Solvang: Take Two

2011-02-03T09:15:00.000-08:00

On Saturday, we went to Solvang (the little dutch town an hour away we went to a few months ago) with our friends Regan and Derick and Rylan.

It was warm when we left Ventura, but after we drove an hour up through the mountains and finally got to Solvang, it was freezing! Of course, we didn't bring jackets for us or for the girls. So right away we went searching for jackets. Regan and I found these sweaters for 10$! Hence the reason we match. Then we found these adorable, really warm outfits for the girls for only 12$. So we did not plan on all matching, but we did anyway. We felt super cool. :)

Everyone thought the girls were so cute!

After we ate dinner and looked around the shops and bought some of the best chocolate I have ever had in my entire life, we let the girls crawl around in this grassy area. For some reason, I was cracking up. They looked like little ninjas pushing the stroller around!

Another fun day in Solvang!

This Week

2011-01-30T21:07:00.000-08:00

This past week Mylin and I drove out to Westlake Village to see my cousin's wife Tiffany and their new daughter Dylan. Dylan is almost 4 months old. Since they live in Utah, (they were just in CA to visit Tiffany's family) this was the first time we have met Dylan. They were super cute together!

Here are just a few cute pictures from last week. Tim was kissing Mylin and she kept pushing him away!

How can you not love this face?!

Mylin - 10 Month Update

2011-01-24T21:18:00.000-08:00

Yes, I realize that my last post was Mylin's 9 month update. I'm a slacker. Anyways...

This month...

Mylin started nodding 'yes'! She started shaking her head 'no' before Christmas, which is the cutest thing ever! (Except when she is just playing in her crib instead of napping and I tell her to go to sleep and she just smiles, shakes her head 'no', and keeps on playing...!)

She tries to clap. She doesn't have it quite figured out, but she's getting close!

She will stand by herself for sometimes 10 seconds! She is always so proud of herself when she does that!

She is starting to refuse to eat any baby food. She just wants what we are eating.

She has decided it is more fun to play than to take naps or go to sleep.

She says mama and dada more regularly.

She is currently getting her third tooth. (This one has been the worst. She has not been a happy baby these past few days!)

One day my friend Regan and I took the girls to the park. They rode in Rylan's wagon and Mylin loved it! (We took a bunch of cute pics of the girls at the park, but they are on Regan's camera, so I'll post those when I get them.)

The other day we went swimming and the girls had little matching swim cover-ups. Not planned, but cute!

Then this past week Regan and I took the girls to Santa Barbara for the day. (Haha...I swear I do stuff with Tim...when he's not working! Thank goodness I have Regan to hang out with!)

It was super fun. We ate at this cute little restaurant called Blush and looked at all the shops and then finished our day with frozen yogurt. It was perfect weather and such a fun day.

While we were looking at some shops, we saw this cool wall and decided to take some pics of the girls near it. Regan got some great shots of Rylan, but Mylin was not having it. She wanted to play and crawl (fall) down the steps and make funny faces and she was having a crazy hair day! Oh well, they still turned out pretty cute!

See what I mean?! Crazy faces!

Mylin - 9 month update

2011-01-11T10:28:00.000-08:00

I'm a little late (again) posting Mylin's 9 month stats.

Here are her stats from her 9 month doctor appointment:

Weight: 16 lbs 14 oz (10%----Which is crazy because she was always in the 75%. Last month she was in 50%, but now she is down even more.)

Height: 28 inches (50%)

Head: 17 1/4 (25-50%)

Also included in this post: A Mylin picture overload.

It seems like Mylin has learned so much in the past month. She is learning and growing everyday and I love it! (Except it does make me a little sad that she is getting so big!)

She is a really good eater and eats anything you put in front of her.

Over Christmas, she started doing this "Fish Face". I have no clue where she got that from. I can't even do fish lips. But I think it is quite hilarious!

Also over Christmas break, she discovered stairs. We don't have stairs where we live so she was pretty excited about climbing the stairs at my parent's house. She would just start laughing so hard whenever she would climb. She thought she was pretty clever or something.

She's learning to listen. Whenever she is in the tub and she stands up, I will just ask her to sit down and she will! It's awesome! Of course, she will just stand back up like 2 seconds later, but she still listened!

One thing I learned about Mylin this month is that she has a really long tongue!

She's starting to look like such a big girl.

She loves to read. For a few seconds at a time, anyway.

She charms all the old ladies at our church. On Sunday she was leaning over the back of our seats to look at the people behind us. She was just talking and smiling and laughing and she was successfully entertaining all of the back row. Then she put her hand up and kinda waved at them and automatically three people raised their hands and waved back to her! (Which was kinda funny because it was during the Sacrament.)

Her second tooth has broken through. So now she has one and a half teeth!

I can't wait to see what the next month brings.

Part 2- Sledding

2011-01-06T09:57:00.000-08:00

When we were in Arizona, we wanted to go sledding. So we (Me, Tim, Mylin, Nate, Kalli, Gavin, my mom) packed up the sleds and headed for the mountains. There wasn't a whole lot of snow, but Nathan knew of a place that would work. (Ironically, the next day it snowed SOO much that we got stuck in Eagar for a few days until the roads were better.)

Anyways, we made a fire and had Smores and hot chocolate. We also made these banana treats where you cut open a banana and fill it with chocolate chips and marshmallows and wrap it in tinfoil and put it in the fire. Pretty yummy!

Mylin loved the snow!

Ok so Tim wanted to put Mylin on a sled and came up with this idea! He strapped her in her carseat and then tied the carseat onto a sled and then pulled it behind the truck! Ok. Not really. He just pulled her himself! But seriously it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen! Mylin had a blast!

Then we put Gavin in there and he was loving it! I don't know why, but it was seriously really funny! We could not stop laughing.

After a while, we tied some sleds behind the truck and went for a ride. (Can you spot Tim? He's kinda hard to see. He just blended right into the scenery!)

Cute Gav.

We had a great time.

Christmas- Part 1

2011-01-03T14:36:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. It was Mylin's first Christmas so that made it extra special. We went to Arizona and we were able to spend time with both of our families. I have quite a few pictures, so I'm gonna break it up over a couple posts.

Mylin and I flew down to AZ a week or so before Tim and stayed with my brother Nate and Kalli and their boy Gavin. We had such a fun time!

Here is a tub picture of Gav and Mylin. Blackmail pictures for the future!

My niece Mia wasn't feeling too well and fell asleep on my dad's leg. I thought it was super cute.

Here we made our annual graham cracker houses. We tried something different this year and we all had the same house and we were judged on the decorating. (Except for Blake. He wanted a bigger house!)

Mylin in her adorable Christmas dress.

Christmas morning in her Christmas pj's.

Like most little kids, Mylin liked her presents, but LOVED the wrapping paper and bows!

We stayed at Tim's parents this year and his sister Amanda and her husband Kevin and their daughter also stayed there. Jordin and Mylin had a fun time playing together.

Here is Mylin with her cousin Kenzi. Kenzi is such a sweet girl and was always loving on Mylin.

Here are just a few of the cousins. I didn't get a picture with all of the cousins. When we tried to get a picture with all of the cousins that were there, I pulled out my camera and the battery was dead. Bummer. But overall we had a great Christmas! We were definitely spoiled, so thanks to everyone who spoiled us with great presents! You rock!(Pictures of our adventures sledding to come. Someday. Soon. Probably.)

Candy Castle and a Ponytail

2010-12-14T15:03:00.000-08:00

This year I decided I wanted to invite a few friends over for a little Christmas party. We had some food and hot chocolate and made graham cracker houses. My family makes these every year and I love doing them, so I thought it would be fun with friends.

We decided to make it a boy/girl competition. I'll show you the pics and you tell me who you think won!

Here is the boys' house.

Yes, it is sound and sturdy and huge and awesomely built. (Good thing we had 8 boxes of graham crackers!)

But as you can see, after they spent so much time making an awesome "mansion", they were too tired to decorate it! (This is the final product.)

The missionaries in our ward dropped by so they decided to make a house. They made an LDS Temple complete with an Angel Moroni.

And here is the girls' "Candy Castle". Ya we know it's awesome!

We had such a fun time and we think ours was the best!

These are my friends Ashley and Regan.

On a different note...Mylin's hair can kinda fit into a ponytail now! More like a little horn or something, but it is still cute! It makes her seem really old though, so it's a little hard to get used to.

This was at our ward Christmas party. First time rockin the pony.

And for your enjoyment, here is a picture of Mylin that cracks me up! She climbed into this tiny box and was laying down in it and she fit perfectly! It was so funny! By the time I got my camera out, she was crawling out of it, but it was pretty dang funny.

Mylin - 8 Month Update

2010-12-07T17:33:00.000-08:00

Well I'm quite a bit late on Mylin's 8 Month post. We had some camera trouble. Anyways...

New this month:

She finally got a tooth! You can't really see it, but you can feel it. Can I just say teething is...fun. Or maybe the opposite of fun!

She's been eating more finger foods as opposed to baby food. My doctor told me to wait until she was 9 months before I gave her any finger foods and my friend's doctor said by 9 months her baby should be 100% on normal food. No baby food. Which doctor is right? Hmm...?

She bangs her head against the back of the high chair when she wants out.

She stood for like 2 seconds all by herself!

Anyways...that's all I can think of for now.

This was the best one I could get with her sign! It gets harder each month.

So you know the "Dimples" story? Well...Let's just say that Tim got a lot of grief over that. Everyone was calling him and giving him a hard time about it. Lots of comments and so on. So I for sure thought that he believed me about dimples. A few nights ago he was trying to make Mylin smile and he started freaking out. "Her dimples! They are almost gone! They don't look as big as normal. Do they?? Look at her dimples. Are they getting smaller?!" Guys, he was completely serious! I guess only time will convince him that her dimples are here to stay!

She is into everything. She climbed into this box and stood on the box inside of it to get something off the couch. Smarty-pants! Haha!

My mom made this little nativity magnet set thing for the fridge and it is Mylin's favorite toy right now. She will go sit by the fridge and pull all the figures off. Entertains her forever.

So there is her 8 Month update. Better late than never!

Thanksgiving Weekend...

2010-12-03T11:56:00.000-08:00

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. My parents and my sister and her family were able to come out to California for the Thanksgiving weekend. I have more pictures of Thanksgiving and stuff, but they are on a different memory card, so I might post more later. We ate lots of good food (Our turkey was delicious! Thank you Food Network!) and had lots of fun and went to the beach every day.

I think my favorite part about Thanksgiving weekend was watching my nephew Koy see the ocean. It was his first time seeing the ocean and I have NEVER seen anyone more excited than he was! He was like beaming the whole weekend. The water was freezing and no one would get in and then there would be Koy running full blast for the water. He was in heaven!

It was actually pretty chilly, so Mylin is all bundled up.

Mia wasn't quite sure about the sand.

We went to one beach that had a park right on it. The kids loved it because the park had a zipline. Look at the view from the park. It's awesome!

One day we went out to the Santa Monica Pier with the Ferris Wheel and everything. That was pretty fun. Except that I got sick the day everyone came (lost my voice 100%. That has never happened to me before. It's finally coming back but it was all the way gone for about 5 days. It was awful!)

My parents...

Here's the gang! Not complete without Rusty the dog!

Dimples

2010-11-19T12:05:00.000-08:00

A few days ago Tim and I were talking and this is how our conversation went...

Tim: I'm gonna be so sad when Mylin loses her dimples.

Me: Huh?

Tim: You know, when her dimples go away.

Me: Say what?? Umm..Why would her dimples go away?

Tim: Because only babies have dimples. Because they have baby fat. Duh!

Me: Okayyy. So you're saying that only babies have dimples? You have never seen an adult with dimples?

Tim: Nope. Adults don't have dimples. (Looking at me as if I am crazy.)

Me: You know your sister Amanda...have you ever looked at her?

Tim: Uh yeah. Why?

Me: Do you not realize your sister has like the best dimple in the world?

Tim: Amanda doesn't have a dimple.

Me: OH MY GOSH! Are you serious? How could you not know your sister has a dimple? Adults have dimples too! She's not going to grow out of her dimples!

Tim: Really? Amanda has a dimple?Are you sure?

Me: Ya. Positive.

Me: See? Amanda is a grown-up and she still has her dimple!

Bruises

2010-11-17T11:00:00.000-08:00

Since we haven't done anything too exciting lately, I thought I would just post a few pictures I have taken of Mylin lately. Tim and I have been busy preparing for a Dating/Chastity Fireside we had to do for the youth in our ward. It was last night. It went great and I am SOOO glad it's over!

Here is Mylin just hanging out on the chair.

So Mylin was taking a nap and I heard her start talking so I went to go get her out, and she was just chillin in the corner of her crib, with her arm resting on the bumper, playing with her sock. For some reason it was so funny to me! I ran out and got the camera and she was still just kickin back! But the reason she looks a little crazy is because she just woke up!

Mylin is in love with her puffs. Here, her little cheeks were full of puffs.

Like I said in the last post, Mylin is pulling herself up on everything. What's funny is that she is ALWAYS on her tip-toes.

And of course with standing up, there is a lot of falling down! On her forehead is her first bruise from falling down. (She's in the tub after she had a blowout diaper all over Tim. It was his first experience with getting pee/poop on him and he did not handle it too well! It was pretty hilarious!)

I'm Still Standing...

2010-11-09T10:18:00.001-08:00

Mylin has started standing. Not by herself, but she pulls herself up on everything. She is into everything! She is no longer content to just crawl all over the floor. She loves to be standing! She is getting too big! We had to lower her crib on Saturday because I went to get her from her nap and she was just standing there looking over the crib.

Like most babies, she loves to help with the dishwasher. As soon as I open the dishwasher or the fridge, she is right there!

Also a fun toy...her trash can. Yuck. She likes to pull it down and roll it. Nice. Especially when it is full of trash!

Just a random picture...Tim was sharing his fruit popsicle with Mylin. She LOVES popsicles!

First Halloween

2010-11-02T11:59:00.000-07:00

Well here are some pictures of the cutest little witch. We couldn't decide what we wanted Mylin to be for Halloween, but then we saw this hat and decided she would be a witch. This hat was actually made to be like a sexy adult hat, but with some alterations, it works perfect for a baby! She did great with keeping the hat on. She never once tried to take it off! And she was in her costume all day, so that is pretty impressive that she kept it on. The people at the grocery store loved her! We bought the onsie and the rest of it I made. We did go to our ward party, which was fun, but we didn't take any pictures. Tim and I didn't dress up this year. This is the first time in like 5 years I haven't dressed up, but I simply forgot to find a costume for me!

She fell over right when I was taking this picture, but look how blue her eyes are! They are just beautiful!

Here Mylin is in her super cute Halloween shirt. Thanks Regan and Rylan for the shirt!

Harvest Festival & Pumpkin Patch

2010-11-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

So I made this post like 2 weeks ago and forgot to post it, so here it is. I'm gonna post pictures of Halloween hopefully today. Anyways....A few weekends ago, we went to a pumpkin patch with our friends. They had a live band and hay rides and pumpkin pie and yummy food. There was this pumpkin catapult thingy that launched pumpkins really far while trying to hit some targets. That was fun to watch.

There were rows and rows of sunflowers, but they were all dead except for this bunch!

Mylin hangin out with her friend.

Then the weekend before last we went with the same friends to a Harvest Festival. Just say the words "festival" or "booths" and I am so there. I'm a sucker for things like that. It was a craft festival so there were lots of really cool booths and things to buy and yummy food to eat. And there was Elvis walking around on stilts and a ventriloquist Michael Jackson.

There was a little place to take pictures, so of course we had to stop to take some. For some reason Mylin was hugging this pumpkin. I don't know why, but it was funny! She just sat there for like 2 minutes, just frozen, hugging the pumpkin. (It was pretty cold and rainy, hence the hat.)

Standing on a wagon. The dads were holding onto them.

And here we are. Ohh...I just realized Tim and I are wearing Christmas colors along with the wagon in the back. Oops!

Check back later for some pictures of a cute little witch!

My Little Pumpkin

2010-10-29T10:41:00.000-07:00

Pretty much since the day she was born, I have called Mylin "pumpkin". I also have a few other nicknames I call her, but pumpkin is one of the top. Tim makes fun of me and will call her squash, but I think Pumpkin is cute!

Anyways, I saw these pajamas and I had to get them. They say "Mommy's Little Pumpkin". And they were on sale for like 4$ so that makes them even better!

Love it!

Lakers

2010-10-27T11:46:00.000-07:00

Tim's job has some perks. One being that he gets free tickets to sports games every now and then. We have been to a Diamondbacks and a Suns game (with awesome seats!) and yesterday we got free tickets to the opening game of the Lakers. (Row 11!) We were pretty excited. We aren't huge Lakers fans, but still!

This is like the only purple outfit Mylin has and since we were going to a Lakers game...when in Rome, I guess!

She did pretty dang good, even though it was WAYY past her bedtime!

Since it was opening game, it was kinda crazy. They were giving out free shirts. They said Mylin needed one and that she would grow into it. Someday!

They had the championship ring ceremony thing with the trophy and everyone was going crazy. Below is Fisher and Kobe hugging like they haven't seen each other in years, even though they probably saw each other in the locker room like 15 minutes prior! LA really is Kobe's city.

Here they were revealing the championship banner. (?) And some shots of the game. It was a great game. Super close and exciting.

But let's be honest. I was looking for celebrities! I was very distracted during the game, trying to spot famous people! It was quite fun!

Of course, Jack Nicholson. He's like a given at a Laker's game.

Then I saw this guy. I knew it was him. (Yes, I had my long lens on my camera like a stalker. Whatever!) I was SO excited about seeing him!

Then I saw this guy. I don't know who he is, but he has to famous for three reasons.

1. He was sitting like right next to Leo on the front row.

2. He was wearing ridiculously amounts of bling.

3. He was hugged by......

JUSTIN BIEBER!!! Haha I'm not even going to tell you how excited I was to see Justin Bieber! It was embarrassing how excited I was. I spotted him from the back (I don't know how I did. I have never seen him from the back. Maybe it was his swagger!)

But I thought...hmm that looks like....no...is it?....no...maybe a ball boy?....no it is definitely Justin Bieber!

Yay for free tickets! I will gladly go to another Laker's game anytime!

Halloween Party

2010-10-26T16:00:00.000-07:00

We were invited to a little Halloween party last week. I bought these wings a few weeks ago for a dollar and I wanted her to wear them. She has another Halloween costume for Halloween. I couldn't make up my mind, so she has two costumes! So here is the little fairy.

I woke her up early from her nap and that is never a good idea. She cried almost the whole time unless I was holding her. Here she is with her friend! Doesn't Mylin look happy?

Here she is with most of the kids there. Mylin was all too happy to be taking pictures.

Mylin - 7 Month Update

2010-10-25T11:22:00.000-07:00

Seven months.

I know Mylin has changed a lot this month, but my mind is blank right now! She has started refusing things and pushing things away. She doesn't have any teeth yet, but she has been so cranky from teething I'm sure they'll be coming in soon.

She likes to take things from me and laugh about it. She wasn't feeling really well for a few days so I took her to the doctor and she weighed 16lbs 1 oz. Not a huge jump from her 6 month appointment where she weighed 15 lbs 15 oz, but she's still getting bigger everyday. She's a total mama's girl, which I love!

Sick of getting her picture taken!

Faces

2010-10-21T11:15:00.000-07:00

I figured out how to do this! I've been wanting to do a collage thing of the different faces she makes, and here one is! So...here are lots of pictures of Mylin's face! She normally opens her mouth, but she was not wanting to make very many different faces at the time.

Shoes.

2010-10-15T12:19:00.000-07:00

This week has been quite uneventful. Mylin wasn't feeling awesome, so we have just chilled at home. We were going to go on a date tonight. Some friends offered to watch Mylin for us because we haven't gone out with just the two of us since Mylin was born. So I got it all lined up. Then Tim said, "Why don't we just go out to eat and bring Mylin with us?" Ha! Kinda defeats the purpose of going on a date without her! So we'll probably go out on a date tonight...with Mylin!

Anyways...here are just a few random pictures I had on my camera. We had been looking for a high chair forever and I couldn't find one I liked that was a decent price. My friend knew I was looking for one and saw this one at a yard sale and called me. 35$! I was pretty excited.

Mylin can't really wave yet. But she is in this pic! (Yes, she is messy. We have a hard time feeding! She likes to grab the spoon and then wipe food all over her face. We're working on it!)

Sometimes Mylin really doesn't want to take a nap, even though she is so exhausted. She cries and pulls down her bumper and stares at the door. Funny/sad/cute all rolled into one!

Mylin was helping me in the kitchen. Yesterday was like the first time she has worn shoes. Her feet are really fat! I bought 2 SUPER cute pairs of newborn shoes and her feet never fit. They were too fat! But she can fit in these ones. With enough squeezing.

Crawling Pumpkins

2010-10-06T11:29:00.000-07:00

The other day I was driving home and I saw this awesome pumpkin patch with HUGE pumpkins so we decided to go and take some pictures of Mylin with the pumpkins. (Sorry this blog is always all about Mylin! She's just the highlight of our lives!)

The lighting isn't the best on these pictures...too much shadow. But they still turned out pretty cute.

Don't worry...Tim was standing next to Mylin during this picture!

Like I said in the last post, Mylin has been crawling for almost a month now. I took this little video on my phone and I hope it works. I've never done a video before, so I guess we will see.

6 Months

2010-10-01T13:38:00.000-07:00

Half a year....I cannot believe she is already 6 months! (And a week and a half. I'm slow getting this one done.)

She is getting so big.
Since her 5 month post she has:

Started eating in a high chair. (Finally! It took us forever to get a high chair.)

Started eating more veggies and fruits. (Loves everything except Banana Mango. Won't eat it.)

Started reaching for me!

And her biggest accomplishment? She started crawling! She has been crawling for about 3 weeks now and she is all over the place. She's a pretty fast little thing!

For her 6 month appointment her stats were:

Weight: 15 lbs 15 oz (50%)

Height: 26 1/2 (75%)

Head: 16 3/4 (50%)

These pictures are getting harder and harder to take! I took about a million where she was grabbing the sign and trying to eat it. You don't even want to know what kind of embarrassing things I do to get her to smile and not eat the sign for the picture.

I wanted to do a little photo shoot thing for her 6 month. She just woke up from a nap and was kinda out of it, so smiles were hard to come by. But I still think they turned out pretty cute!

The Nice Thing About California

2010-09-27T11:36:00.000-07:00

The best thing about living in California is that we live super close to the beach. On Saturday it was the nicest day since we've lived here. The weather was perfect and there was no wind. We decided to go to the beach with some friends and their little daughter.

Mylin loved eating the sand! We had to keep washing her mouth out.

Here are Mylin and Rylan playing in the sand. (Yes their names are pronounced exactly the same except one starts with M and the other with an R. It gets confusing!)

Even though the weather was so nice, the water was FREEZING! I was a wuss and didn't even get in to me knees. Everyone else went all the way in.

Maybe...

2010-09-15T16:00:00.000-07:00

Here are just a few pictures of Mylin.

Hmmm. Here's a thought. Maybe if I stopped posting pictures of Mylin on here, then our families would miss her and then come out to California to visit us! I think this could work...!

Mylin was playing with her stuffed animals, so I decided to just put her in the basket with them. It was kinda funny.

She is definitely mobile now. We were playing with some of her toys in her room and she worked her way to the books and started pulling them all down! Fun times!

Vegas

2010-09-15T15:44:00.001-07:00

That possum picture seriously grosses me out, so I'm writing another post so I don't have to look at it any more. (And now I am always peeking out the door to make sure the possum isn't there before I step outside. Nasty.)

Anyways, over Labor Day weekend, we went to Vegas to see Tim's sister and her family (Thanks Amanda, Kevin, and Jordin for letting us stay with you! You guys are awesome!) and to meet up with some friends from Utah. Meredith, Steve, and Hadley.

We wanted to get together and Vegas was in the middle of California and Utah. We had lots of fun. We went to Caesar's Palace and watched a little show thingy.

Hadley and Mylin by the aquarium.

Tim, Meredith, and Steve all love their Coke, so of course we had to stop by the Coke Factory. They had this setup of samples of the different Cokes of different countries. I don't like Coke anyway, and all of these were just nasty! Like REALLY gross.

You can't go to Vegas and not eat at a buffet. My favorite part? The dessert!

We also went and toured Ethel M's chocolate factory where they had delicious samples. I'm not kidding when I say they had the best peanut brittle I have ever had in my entire life. I don't really love peanut brittle, but seriously....this was ridiculously good!

After the chocolate factory, we walked around a botanical garden.

We did other things, but I wasn't very good at taking pictures. Hence the reason why we didn't get any pictures of all six of us. But we had a great time!

Hangin Out

2010-09-15T15:40:00.000-07:00

Lately we have just been hanging out. Just like this nasty little possum that was hanging on the archway by our door.

Mylin-5 Months

2010-09-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

5 Months...Sheesh. Mylin has changed so much this month, it seems. This was the only decent picture with the month sign that I could get of her this month. Now she knows that there is something there and so she was trying to play with it the whole time!

This picture makes me laugh because she looks like she just got caught doing something wrong.

Her crying face is pretty funny too. Sad, but so cute!

She's like Michael Jordan with her tongue.

She loved playing with this ball. She thought it was awesome. And don't worry...I do have shorts on. And also don't worry because I did not wear those socks out in public.

Mylin went for a bike ride for the first time...

She loved it!

She rolls over both ways now! The other day she was on the ground rolling from front to back to front to back nonstop. She rolled over 8 times in one minute! When she finally stopped rolling over, she spit up everywhere! Motion sickness, I guess.

And she sits up all by herself! For about 8 seconds. Then she falls over. We're workin on it!

Elder Spenc

2010-08-27T18:07:00.000-07:00

Last week we made a quick trip to Arizona for a Nicoll family reunion. For some reason I didn't take like any pictures, so as soon as I get some from some of Tim's family, I will post them. I also need to do a 5 month post for Mylin, but that involves getting my camera and putting the pictures on the computer and I'm too tired to do that right now! Maybe next week! Until then, I thought I would post a few pics my brother sent me. He is in Mexico on a mission and he is doing really well. He's changing so much but still the same old Spenc.

Nothing New...

2010-08-15T21:23:00.000-07:00

Well, nothing too exciting has happened here since I last posted. Mylin has started eating rice cereal and oatmeal, but that is probably only exciting to Tim and me.

And Mylin. She seems to be excited about eating the oatmeal!

Mylin has also started sucking in her lips. She does it all the time and it looks like she doesn't have any lips. It's kinda funny looking.

Here she is with no lips.

Here she is again, sucking her lips away!

She's such a cutie! Poor girl has a camera in her face all the time.

4 Months

2010-08-04T17:00:00.000-07:00

Four months old already! Time is flying by!

Weight: 15 lb 1 oz (75%)

Length: 26 1/4 (97%)

Head: 16

The doc says she is long and lean.

At 4 months she:

Laughs

Smiles

Puts everything in her mouth

Growls like a monster (pretty dang funny)

Plays with her toys

AND.....

She rolls over!

Kyron and Kason

2010-08-02T10:06:00.000-07:00

Our nephews, Kyron and Kason, came and stayed a week with us out here in California. We had lots of fun. We went to Hollywood, to the beach, went bowling, mini-golfing, swimming, and my favorite: The berry farm. At the berry farm you can pick your own berries/veggies. We picked rasberries, blackberries, boisenberries, strawberries, and apricots! So good!

We had fun and sure miss you guys!

Tutu Cute!

2010-07-17T01:37:00.001-07:00

While we were in Utah, I was able to meet up with two of my great friends from college, Cami and Meredith. We all had baby girls really close together. Mylin is about a month and a half younger than Jane and Hadley, and they are about 17 hours apart! We did lots of eating and shopping and just hanging out! We decided that we needed to take pictures of our girls, so we went shopping to find the perfect outfits and then we went to Thanksgiving Point to take pictures! It was a little hard since none of them can sit up, but they still turned out cute! (My sister played around with a few on photoshop, so that's why some of them aren't in color!)

Jane: Cami's daughter. In pink.

Hadley: Meredith's daughter. In turquoise.

Mylin: My baby girl! In purple.

Cami, Me, Mer, Jane, Mylin, Hadley.

4th of July

2010-07-17T00:50:00.001-07:00

For the 4th of July, we headed to Richfield Utah. We had so much fun spending time with all my family. We had a few family reunions, went swimming, shot marshmallow guns, ate lots of food, and many more things but it's 1:30 in the morning and I can't think straight. Why am I still up?!

The pictures are all messed up, but I'm too tired to fix them! Here are Nate, Kalli, and Gav.

My grandparents.

Four Generations.

Mylin at the parade.

Tim and Mylin at the parade. She looks like a little diva!

(Funny story about her outfit. About 3 or 4 years ago when we were trying to get pregnant, I saw this outfit and I loved it! I wanted it soo bad, but I am very superstitious and I didn't want to jinx us to not have a baby by buying an outfit! So I had my mom buy it for me! She held onto it until we found out we were pregnant and it happened to fit perfectly for the 4th...I guess it was meant to be!)

Dad and his momma.

The whole family. Minus Spenc!

Sister--

2010-06-22T10:59:00.000-07:00

Today is my sister's birthday. So I decided to write 29 things about her that you may not know. Not really. I'll probably just write 5. Or 7.

1. She knows a lot of words. Whenever we play Boggle, I swear she always makes up words so I'll challenge her and low and behold, the word I swear she is making up is always in the dictionary.

2. She likes to experiment when she is baking/cooking. Some experiments turn out. Some do not. (Her idea of No-Bake cookies = instant apple & cinnamon oatmeal packages, marshmallows, cupcake tin, freezer.)

3. She has to have her kitchen sink wiped out with no water spots in it. If you turn on the water in the sink and don't wipe it down after, she may yell at you!

4. She refuses to watch scary movies. Wuss.

5. She does NOT like when feet touch her and if you try to squeeze her knee to tickle her, she will hit you.

6. She is a whiz at photo-shop.

7. She is super creative. Check out her awesome Better After blog. I'm pretty proud of her.

Happy Birthday Sis!

Solvang and Random

2010-06-21T22:23:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we decided to go to this little Danish town an hour away called Solvang.(http://www.solvangusa.com/) It was the cutest little town, full of fun shops and restaurants. They had AEbleskivers (yummy pancake ball things...Although I think my dad's and grandma's are better!) and pastry shops. We bought some Danish chocolate that was so unbelievably good that I would drive there again just for the chocolate!

We also tried out one of the swimming pools at our apartment complex. I don't think Mylin was too impressed with the water.

In two days my baby girl will be three months! Time flies by. She is getting strong and active and I love it! (Don't hate the grandma looking sweater. It is seriously adorable!)

And for a random pic....Tim was so excited when we found this girl AC DC onesie before Mylin was born. She is just barely fitting into it and he had to get on his AC DC shirt too! (It is girly. The sleeves are pink!)

Photo Shoot

2010-06-08T14:10:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago, a lady in my ward asked if she could take pictures of Mylin. She is a photographer and hadn't taken any pictures of a baby in a while. She did a GREAT job! She gave me a CD with 195 pictures on it! Here are just a few of my favorites. (I only posted a few because it just takes too long to post a lot of pictures, and there are too many cute ones to choose from!)

Two Months

2010-05-26T17:04:00.000-07:00

Two posts in one week. I'm an a roll!

My little pumpkin is two months old already! Time is flying by. We went to the doctor yesterday for her two month appointment. She weighed in at 12 lbs 1 oz ( 75 percentile). She is 23 3/4 inches long. ( 90 percentile) And her head is 15 3/4 inches. ( 75 percentile.) So she is nice and long!

At two months, she smiles all the time and she is starting to coo. She is a strong baby. (The three nurses it took to hold her down on Monday when they were taking her blood agree with me!)

Health-wise....Mylin is doing great! We went to her specialist in LA on Monday and Mylin is great! It turns out the problem is with me and not Mylin, so that is good news! Her carnatine was low because mine was low and she was getting her nutrients from me. They took more blood and are running more tests to make sure she is still doing ok, so we'll know in a few weeks. (I wish life was like Grey's Anatomy where you go to the hospital and they run tests and you get the result in like 3 minutes. Not real life. Results take weeks!) So for right now she does not have to take the medicine because they started me on the medicine and she can still get it from me. So thanks for all the prayers on her behalf!

As for me, I'm now taking medicine three times a day. It's not too bad, except for the fact that it tastes like Power-Bait. But worse. It's nasty. Ugh..Anyways..So there are pretty much 2 reasons why my carnatine is low. One would be if I'm a carrier of the Carnatine Transmitor Disorder or the other reason would be that low carnatine is a symptom of some other metabolic disease. They ran tests to check my levels of carnatine to see if I'm responding to the medicine. They ran a DNA test to see if I'm a carrier and then more tests to check for other diseases. Low carnatine in adults lead to, among other things, fatigue and heart problems so I also had an EKG done and am having a heart-echo (?) done next week. Anyways..Lots of info...Now just waiting.

But in the meantime, here are some cute pictures of my cute little baby!

I love those lips! She does that pucker all the time!

Even though she is getting so big, she is still so tiny!

Hollywood

2010-05-26T15:30:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we decided to go to Hollywood and be tourists. We did one of those tour-bus things where they take you around and show you Movie Star homes and famous places!

We saw homes of Simon Cowell, Dr.Phil, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and then we saw a bunch of the front gates of many more stars! (The brochure was misleading! "See the Playboy Mansion", it said. In reality, we just saw the front gate.)

Tim & Mylin waiting for the tour to start.

We did see the home where Michael Jackson died. There was still candle wax from all the candles that people lit after he died.

Then we walked along the Walk of Fame and saw the Chinese Grauman Theater, the Kodak Theater and lots of other places.

The weekend before last, we went with some friends to the annual Strawberry Festival in Oxnard.

There were strawberry foods galore! Strawberry shortcake, strawberry pie, strawberry funnel cake, strawberry salsa, strawberry popcorn, strawberry beer, and strawberry pizza to name a few!
Mylin had a blast!

Along with the foods, there were lots of booths. We bought Mylin a fancy dress from a little old lady who made them. Tim and I loved this dress.

So did Mylin.

Blessing

2010-05-11T17:07:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we drove to Round Valley to bless Mylin. (The drive sucks. Bad. I mean...it's AWESOME! Everyone come and visit!)
We had a great time. Almost everyone in our immediate families were able to come.

This is Mylin in her beautiful dress. I loved it!

Our little family. Yes, my hair is way different from the last post. Shout out to my sis-in-law Kalli for doing an awesome job!

Here are all the cousins on Tim's side. All 13!

Here is my family with the exception of Matt and Spencer. Matt had a track-meet. He's the coach. And Spencer is in Mexico on his mission. So I pretty much planned Mylin's blessing around Mother's Day just so we could all be there to talk to Spenc. Turns out he wasn't able to talk to us until 7 pm and everyone had to leave by then. So we all just had a time that we were going to call him. I had the worst time. I tried 4 different calling cards and then tried calling on my cell (even though it was like 4$ a minute) and I STILL couldn't reach him. This went on for two hours and it never worked. Everyone had a hard time getting through to him, but I was the only one not able to talk to him. I was more than bummed. I cried forever! Nothing like waiting months to talk for 10 minutes to your brother and then not being able to. He emailed me the next day and said he waited up until 2 in the morning for me to call. He fell asleep with the phone in his hand and woke up with it still there. Ya. I'm still mad about it. Anyways...

The rest of the pics are just some I took while we were in Arizona.

Nate, always pleased to have his picture taken.

I love this one of her. She's such a cutie!

This is Mylin with her cousin Jordin. (Amanda's little girl.) Jordin is just a few months older than Mylin.

Gav and Mylin. When we were taking these pictures, he kept putting his arm around her back or he would pat her on her head!