Going to see the ducks!

Look how freakishly giant this duck is.....I have never seen one so big.

She loves sunglasses or really just glasses of any kind!

I took Mya to see the ducks the other day. There is a lake up near the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. She was in heaven, she loved watching them and quacking with them. There were like 40 or 50 ducks. We thought it was so cool we took Nick back to feed them with us. He didn't believe me about the giant ducks until we got there! I let the giant white one take a whole piece of bread out of my hand. We had to keep shooing them away they all wanted food and were not afraid to come right up to us to get it. When there is like 40 of them coming at you it felt a little crazy!

Wild mama hair!!!

When I do this to her hair........

Wow this is what I get! One head full of wild mama hair!!!!!

Now they look alike!

Her hair honestly has a mind if it's own!

Life is great!

Playing with her baby!

She likes to share her babies sippy cup, she takes some then gives the baby some.

She makes little slurping noises when she feeds it to the baby. It is so funny!

She loves unloading all my shoes in our closet.

Look at her eating her corn on the cob all by herself. She loves it!!!!

She's just learned that she can close her eyes anytime. She does this and laughs. So funny!

Look at her crazy hair. We call this her pageant face. ;)

Mya loves making Nick put her toy's in his mouth. He's a good sport.

Putting up some Halloween decor with me.

This is her little section of the fridge where she likes to play with magnets. She just has a whole bunch of random ones that she loves taking on and off.  She also likes to dip the magnets in Louie's water. She even says "dip".

She is so pretty!!! I had a lady the other day tell me she should be on TV she is so pretty! I love it cause everywhere we go she makes people smile, I hope she's always that way. She just has a light about her that draws you in. She may be little but she has a big beautiful spirit.

I took Mya and Sami swimming the other day, they had so much fun. Mya wanted to chase Sami all over the place.

When we came home Mya watched Sami hula hoop, she was watching so close and then wanted to try it herself!

So cute!

After a long day and swimming I got her in the tub! She loves playing with her ducks! The first thing she says when she sees the tub is "duck".

She knows how to stand up in the tub now too. She will stand up and then hurry and sit back down before I make her sit down. She thinks it is so funny and laughs while she's doing it!

She has finally started to walk a lot on her own. She can even stand up in the middle of the floor without holding onto anything. She is still slightly nervous but I think before too long she will be up and walking on her own all over the place.  One of her new favorite things to do is jump. She will get on our bed or the couch and jump up and down while saying "jump, jump, jump". She likes crashing down and giggles a lot! She's trying to copy all the works we say too. She calls Louie. "La or Lou" she says, light, on, off, dip, stop, drop, walk, woof, duck, quack, mom, dad, ma (for grandma), more, no (says this one too often), dog, ya, ball, bottle (she kind of says ba, but we get it!). She nods her head up and down for yes. Now for kisses she says mmmmwaaa. She can also blow kisses which is really cute! She is such a good baby! Growing up way too fast though.

Look what we did!

This is a dresser that belonged to Nick's Great Grandma. Nick's mom gave it to us for Mya. I love it they just don't make furniture like they used to, I had a great vision for it! Refinishing old furniture is one of my favorite things to do so I was really excited about this project!

Here's me being a dork! Nick bought me a new sander and watched Mya the whole time that I worked on this. We did it right before he went back to school when he actually had a little free time!

All sanded down and ready for paint!

Mya came out to watch me for a bit, we gave her some smarties and she had a blast watching me and eating.

I can't wait until I can teach her to paint and draw. She will be my little craft buddy, just like I was for my mom.

The color I chose is called kiwi splash, it is like a light chocolate chip mint ice cream looking color. I LOVE it!

I like to distress furniture or antique it so after I paint things I sand the edges and put glaze or stain on them.

Ta da.....I love how it turned out! It is so girly and pretty. Mya will be able to have this in her room for a long time. Plus it is so cool that it belonged to family and is being passed down to her. Maybe she can pass it on to her first daughter.

We got new knobs and put new glass in the mirror and it looks perfect!

My mom needed some things to hang on the walls of the room she did for all the grand kids. She bought me some canvas and let me have fun with it!

Mya helped with this one by putting her hand prints all over it! She loved having me paint her hands, by the end she was a real pro at it! My mom loved what we did for her.

This is a little painting I did for Mya's room, inspired by you!.Mya loves to color while I paint so we have had a lot of fun being artsy the last few weeks.