Kelowna

Back in July, we visited our friends in Kelowna. We are so fortunate to have friends that live in such beautiful places and invite us to come stay with them! There is something about Kelowna that gets me every time we are there... it would be such a dream to live the "lake life" all the time!

Guess which one of these boys does not live in Kelowna? I'll give you a clue... glowing!

This face... and her love of ice cream!

It's a tough life out on the boat on the lake....

This photo is blurry and terrible but I love it because she always makes me to slow down to pick the flowers!

Arya and Nyah enjoying some cupcakes... and by cupcakes I really just mean blue icing!

We managed to meet Elsa and Anna in Kelowna too!

I love these two like crazy!

Until next time Kelowna!

San Diego

In June we made our way to San Diego to visit some of our favorite peeps! Nyah was so excited to see her friend Sky in "Sandy Lego"... We all had an amazing visit with our best friends and did lots of fun things like visiting Eva & Matt's private club with water park, eating delicious Mexican food and visiting Auntie Kym's work where we were treated to a VIP experience up close and personal with a sloth and an owl! As usual it broke my heart to leave... We love Sandy Lego! 

(*I forgot my camera on this trip so these pictures are either stolen from Auntie Eva or taken on my iphone).

Sometimes I can't believe that I have been friends with these girls for over 20 years! Throw some babies and fur babies into the mix and it blows my mind!

Sky was so sweet and so kind to Nyah! At one point during lunch Sky said "Nyah you are the best Nyah EVER!"

Xena the Sloth! What a great experince! Auntie Kym was so generous to buy Nyah a sloth stuffy when we left who she named "Pancake"... lol

This little birdie was a beauty! In this shoot she spotted a crow hovering in the trees above and was on alert!

Uncle John took Daddy for a boys day/night trip out 4x4 in his new baby with his buddies. The boys had a great time despite Jay's story of being left behind to walk 5 miles back to camp in the smoldering heat with no water... lol! I'm just glad he survived to tell the story! Haha!

Cooling off in the waterpark was a must! Pretty sure Uncle John was having the most fun!

Just like her momma.... this is her happy place.

Please note the giant fish bowl on the right was all Uncle John's idea! 

Sweet baby Tyler, Auntie Leah loves you!

Proud daddy Matt!

Tyler gazing into mommy's eyes <3

This was the water park at Matt & Eva's Club... I'm pretty sure Nyah went down that little water slide 79 times! 

Just a random church on our walk... she insisted on stopping and was in total awe.

Dinner at Cafe Coyote

Friends who share drinks together stay together!

Old town

Make it a good wish baby girl!

.LOVE.

This is what my heart looks like when it's on the outside of my body...

I'm so glad we did this photo shoot... I had a million excuses not too... I want to lose 15 lbs... I need to cover my grey hair first... the list could go on forever... but I sucked it up and did because it's important... It's important to document all 3 of us... together. The one thing I wish from my childhood was that there were more photos of us as a family. 

There you have it... the 3 of us. Don't be surprised if one of these graces the cover of our Christmas card! haha!

Summer is flying by!

I can not believe its already July 15th!! Summer is just flying by! We have been keeping busy spending lots of time with friends at the lake, beach and water park. This summer has been so hot that keeping cool has been a priority. It helps that my girl loves the water!

I just wanting to do a quick post to jot down some stuff Nyah has been saying and doing lately... so I never forget.

The other day we were playing with our Princess Legos and Nyah decided it was bedtime for the princesses. Even though that Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White and Sofia each had their own castle, when she declared bedtime she pulled them each out of their castles and put them all to bed together. I think its so sweet that she thinks everyone co sleeps.

It has to be noted that she thinks poop is really funny.... dog poop, goose poop, her own poop... you say poop and its funny. Farting... hilarious! Im hoping its a short faze.... although when she randomly breaks out in song singing poop, poop, poop to the tune of jingle bells I die laughing!

With the new despicable me moving coming out there are minions everywhere... and its pretty cute because Nyah calls them minutes! lol

When it's foggy outside, she says "it's pretty froggy outside" and I don't correct her because I love it!

I wish she could just stay 3 1/2 years old because this year has been so fun!

Sunshine Hills Parent Participation Preschool

It's been 6 months since my last post.... where do I even begin? So much has happened in the last 6 months and I blame instagram for my lack of blogging... It's just so easy to post photos and document your life in tiny little squares.

Let's start with this....

First day of preschool compared with the last day of her first year of preschool. 

She really has grown up so much this year. When I look at her first day photo, I still see that sweet little baby. On her last day photo, she looks like such little girl. She's so much taller and her hair has gotten all sorts of crazy! I love it. Her first year of preschool was a great experience. Even though we never reached the point where I could leave her there on her own, I knew it was important to continue to go. She made so many friends and really started to come out of her shell. I'm really looking forward to all that next year will have in store for us.

Our preschool had a photographer come in to do class and individual photos. Here are the ones we selected.

Nyah's class was a 3/4 split so the majority of the kids will be going to kindergarten next year with only 3 friends returning next year. I don't know that Nyah really understands that all her friends won't be there next year but we are excited to form new friendship with the incoming group of kids.

I love this collage the photographer put together. They asked each kid what they would like to be when they grow up. They got some good answers with doctor, police officer, astronaut, zookeeper, artist, mommy, teacher and firefighter. But the best ones are rockstar, gummy bear seller, lion, tall and of course Nyah's... chicken, So funny!

One of our favorite field trips was our year end trip horseback riding. I wasn't sure how Nyah would do, if she'd be nervous of the big horses or not but she LOVED it. This girl is a farm girl at heart. The other day she told me she likes cows, horses, chickens and poop. We are at that stage where poop is the funniest thing ever and most of the time she's right and I can't help but laugh. Here are just a few shots from the field trip. It was really hands on and the parents lead the horses so it wasn't easy to get photos. Nyah's horse was named Applejack and she loved her, like really loved her. She told me that Applejack was hers and that she was going to bring it home. Naturally, my response was you need to ask your daddy. Sorry babe! Haha! She cried when it was time to get off her and leave. 

Her first year of preschool was a great one and we made so many memories. I'm so thankful for our little parent participation preschool and that I was able to share in those memories.