Navi’s Two!

My baby girl turned 2!

These past two years have been crazy. So crazy that some how my baby is now two! (Where was I!?)

Little miss woke up and just knew it was her day. She paraded around the house most of the morning in her pink crown. When she woke up from her nap I had the decorations up and she looked at them and said, “Whoa! It’s my day!” I wish you could hear how she said it because typing it just doesn’t do it justice.

I have little shots of her party that actually turned out, but here are a few.

Navi just ate her party up. She is normally shy around people at first and will warm up after a bit, but this time was different. She knew it was her day and she just loved it. She loved opening her presents and having all eyes on her. She walked around saying, “It’s my day!” all night long.

     

At two years old Navi is the perfect balance between a tomboy and a princess.

She will play in the mud with dinos and trucks,

but LOVES anything pink and girly.

She loves jewelry, hats, and painted toenails.

She is a great eater and will try just about anything.

She loves to play outside.

She is becoming quite the chatterbox and says something new every day.

My favorite is when you tell her to something or ask her a question and she will say “k”. Or lately after I do something for her it’s, “thanks mom.” Or if you ask her about a cowgirl she will say, “Yee-haw!”

She is fearless and tries very hard to keep up with her brothers.

She loves to be mommies helper, especially with laundry and vacuuming.

She weighs 29 pounds (70%) and wears a 3T.

She is a charmer. Especially with Dad. It only takes that one look …

She loves music. She loves to dance and I often find her singing her own little tune as she wanders around.

And she is sooo loved. We just can’t get enough of our little miss!

Christmas through Mason’s eyes

My parents gave the kids camera’s for Christmas and as I was loading Mason’s pictures, I thought it would be fun to show Christmas through a seven year olds eyes.

Didn’t he get some great shots? He has been loving having his own camera. I love that he got a shot of pretty much everyone, including Grandma Jackie.

A little LOVE

Thanks to the lovely Pinterest I came up with some adorable valentines for the kids this year. They thought it was so cool to have a home made valentine, which of coarse makes me very happy!

The finished product was adorable. Complete with a sucker stuck through their hands!

I think we will try to do something like this every year … or as long as they still love it.

 

And even though Dax and Navi aren’t in school, I couldn’t resist something for them as well – they are just way to cute!

 

Also, I wanted to let you all know that I am in the process of starting a new blog! I am so excited about it and have been working really hard on getting it ready. It will be   focused more on things like decorating, DIY projects, furniture refinishing, parties, and whatever else I feel like. I will still continue this blog as my family blog but will be putting most of my effort into the new blog.

I will give you more details as I get closer to starting it … hopefully soon!

Christmas {morning?!?}

This year Christmas morning came EARLY. So Early that I wasn’t even sure it was actually morning. You see, Navi woke up crying around 2 am. I went in, calmed her down and put her back to bed. Then 2:30 rolled around and she was back up, then again at 3. Finally, I decided that bringing her in our room would be the best thing to do in order not to wake everyone else up. Just as I had fallen back asleep around 3:30, Mason came in to see if it was time to see if Santa had come. Are you kidding me? Um … no. So I told him to go back to bed.

Not long after that, we could hear three little boys bouncing off the walls with excitement downstairs. Hmm … I wonder how that happened!? Needless to say, we were all up and I didn’t see any hope of getting everyone back to sleep, so we (including Grandma and Grandpa) decided just to roll with it. It was fun, and exhausting, and Navi was down for a nap by 8 am and didn’t wake up until a couple hours after lunch. Ha. I have big plans of next year being very different!

Griff’s Star Wars helmet was a perfect fit for Grandpa Norm!

Here’s how I found my dad a few hours after the madness. I was wishing that was me!

So although we made it through our first Christmas without Jackie, we still missed her terribly. Here is a sweet poem that Kasey’s aunt gave us about Jackie’s first Christmas in heaven.