one year old girl

this sweetheart is one and i really can't believe it!

some get sentimental about this but i just get so excited.

she is headed to toddlerhood and i LOVE the thought of that!

i am so excited to find out who this little girl is...

i think have somewhat of an idea:

-she is fiesty as can be

-she is really sweet and loving at times

-she hits, pulls on your clothes and scratches when she is mad...she is pretty physical!

-she is pretty daring for a girl, lots of climbing

-she refuses to wear bows (this might make me SO sad because her one year pictures are tomorrow and girlfriend needs a bow..should have slipped one on when she was crowning, and everyday since, oh well)

-she is very stubborn and refuses to be rocked (which is something that kason and I LOVE to do) we actually haven't been able to rock her since she was a newborn because she didn't have much of a choice then!

there is so much more to learn about this little girl and i absolutely cannot wait!

her hair is starting to really grow and it has some curl! ahhh! i have been waiting and waiting for curly hair.

happiest first birthday, maggie kate!!!

next up: birthday party!

birthday's

as maggie's first birthday approaches, i am starting to feel guilty about not ever posting about the boy's birthday's!

griffin is obsessed with halloween so he asked to have a spooky birthday party to honor his october birthday. we will be doing the same party this year, per his request. but he wants it to be spookier this time and he wants to dress scary. hmm.. then for nolan's second birthday (in September) we had a construction theme. there was some kind of cake or cupcake mishap (i cannot for the life of me remember what happened) so i sent kason out very last minute to find a construction themed cake and i was mortified with what he came back with! ha. but nolan didn't care so nothing else mattered! the party had to go on. so excited to post about my little girlfriend's party! it's coming up WAY too fast. ahhhh.

Kasondilla

we love our daddy SO much!

we don't see him a whole heck of a lot but he sure makes up for it when he is here and we ALL ;) love it!

we made Kason a yummy breakfast, the boy's filled out questionaires about their daddy (which were hilarious) and we presented him with guns that the boy's made, a set of bbq grill tools and then took him to the shop to surprise him with a new grill.

it was a fun day and we loved celebrating our Kasondilla.

hot hot hot

I LOVE summer. Love it. I have no problem being hot. Sunshine does wonders for me!

It is pretty hot here now (and super dry) so we have been swimming, hitting the splash pads and eating lots of popsicles.

We also do a "carwash" about once a month where we wash the 5 million strollers I have (don't get me started on strollers....) and all of the bikes, scooters, etc.

It's fun, it gets our stuff squeaky clean and we stay cool.

Then, we eat popsicles.

blog

a friend of from back home (in AZ) has a blog about losing her sweet little boy to SIDS.

it is such an amazing blog, heart warming and gut wrenching, all in one.

she writes so incredibly well and i enjoy reading it so much. you can find her blog here.

as hard as it is to read this blog, i feel like it teaches me to have greater compassion for people and their trials.

in this situation, this blog makes me want to be a better friend and mom and to always remember to be thankful for what i have right now. today.

it's so easy to get all caught up in having a clean house, having perfectly healthy meals on the table for every meal, finding time to workout or just finding a moment of "me" time, period.

cousins

these three little girls are leaving us and moving far, far away! we already thought they lived far away!

this weekend will be so sad for us because these kids are THE best of friends.

they truly do love and adore each other.

i am so so sad that the boy's won't have cousins "near-by" anymore.

{griff and addie look less than thrilled to be in this pic but i swear they had this exact face on in every picture, both of them!} HA.

eleven months

seems like i only post about magz these days and it's mostly always about her turning another month older.

i have got to get with the program with blogging!

one more month and my little chick will be one!!

it blows my mind that this is usually when we start chatting about the next baby....

{scary thought}

about maggie kate lately:

-she did amazing on the plane to and from AZ, thank goodness.

-she loves her brother's, griffin more than nolan still

-her chances of being a tomboy are high. i am not the girliest of girls and she has no sisters to follow.

-when she plays cars with them she makes a car vrooming sound

-she also makes a cute shooting noise when we play guns.

-she picks up the wii remote and shakes it all around while we play.

-she crawls pretty fast now and is starting to cruise furniture and walls, etc.

-it's so weird having an 11 month old who doesn't walk but i honestly think she's close. she's just a nervous little nelly!

-i have caught her several times at the VERY top of the boy's bunkbed ladder. it gives me nightmares just thinking about it.

-she just started popping teeth out about a week ago and they are coming fast!

-her first tooth was her top right front tooth. as of now she has her two top teeth halfway in and one little bottom tooth. they feel awesome when she nurses. eeek.

-she is an okay sleeper at night, not great but not nearly as bad as Nolan was. her ears have finally cleared up so her sleeping has greatly improved, yay!

-looking forward to not nursing her anymore (i'm over it) and maybe that will stop her silly night waking. but really, i will let her nurse as long as she wants. i am all about self-weaning, whether it's early on or late in the game.

-no matter what kind of night she has, good, bad or horrible, she wakes up at the CRACK (anywhere between 5 and 6:30am) and is ready to start her day. it's awful.

-she also books it to her brothers' room (FIRST thing) every morning (at the crack) to try and wake them up.

-she either crawls in their room and claps and screams and if the door is closed she will kneel and pound on the door and scream.

-i have to keep her locked up in a room with me or strapped in her high chair so that she won't wake them. i have heard people talk about having early risers and i now have one for myself, ugh.

-maggie screams and squeals and has a cow when she see's any type of animal.

-when we get in the car and i tell her we are going to mema's she barks and squeals the whole way there. she loves their dog, BEAR.

-she is a terrible eater and literally eats one jar or one pouch of baby food a day. the other night i fed her chicken off my plate and she gobbled a ton of it up. i think she is ready for actual people food.

-she snacks a little throughout the day and still nurses fairly often.

maggie really is a TON of fun!!

she is very much a girl in a lot of ways. she loves singing, dances to any music she hears (even sacrament hymns at church) and when ever she finds clothes on the floor she tries over and over again to put them on.

she is sweet and sassy and so, so loving. she gives the tightest hugs and the sweetest kisses.

we love having her in our family and we are having so much fun seeing the differences between boy's and girl's

trying to plan maggie's first birthday and i am so excited!