Disneyland Part 2

My family came out to visit us and we got to spend two days in Disneyland together! We had so much fun! These are just some of the moments that we'll share with you.

She enjoyed It's a Small World as much as adults do I guess.

Stroller, baby carrier, stroller, baby carrier, I don't know if she preferred one or the other but I gotta tell you it's nice to drag around a stroller with all your stuff in it.

Awww, so cute!

The whole gang!

Elise did love watching water in all it's shapes and forms in Disneyland. Fountains, rivers, spigots, faucets, etc. etc.

Teeth!

Elise woke up Friday morning with two teeth sticking out! I'm so excited that I was surprised by this. I mean she had been grumpy, waking up weird times of the night and had changed her eating habits drastically. But it wasn't anything too bad to deal with and then all the sudden there were teeth and it was all explained. Anyway here are a couple cute pics I got while babysitting my niece today since Elise isn't being so cooperative with letting us see her teeth let alone getting a pic of them.

Celebrating the end of tax season

My marvelous sisters helped us celebrate the end of tax season in style. Ryan's office closed so he had the day off. We dropped Elise off at my sister Trish's and then took off for Disneyland. My sister Mandi got us in and we were astounded at how many rides we got done in such a short amount of time. It was a little funny because my sister got stuck on a shuttle and was later than we were to Disneyland. Ryan and I were going crazy with excitement. We were pacing and looking at every person that passed us that looked remotely like Mandi. She showed up and we were couldn't have been happier. Especially since lines were so short.

We went on Splash Mountain, for some silly reason. It was a little chilly this day as you can tell by Mandi wearing a jacket. We were soaked through on the very fist little hill. Luckily it warmed up and we were dry pretty much after lunch.

Mandi had to go to work that day so when she left we went over to Tomorrowland and did Space Mountain and Buzz AstroBlasters.

We got to go over and see Mandi in action in California Adventure (or as the pros call it DCA) and rode a couple rides we knew we wouldn't be able to do when we came with Elise in a couple weeks.

The funniest hippo ever!

I know that I just barely posted about dressing my baby modestly and that posting this embarrassing bath time footage might be hypocritical. We tried to just get her head, I don't think it's too bad and her giggles were just too much fun!

Happy Birthday Grandma! I hope this makes you smile!

Baby Modesty

This will make me sound like the biggest prude in the world but I worked in the social service field for too long to not worry about my child. So, not just from a moral churchy standpoint will I dress my child with tshirts and sleeves underneath spaghetti straps but I will for the same reason I will watch my children very closely in restaurant playgrounds and around older children who want to play alone.

Plus, I'll never have to go back on my word and try to explain why it used to be ok for her to wear spaghetti straps and now it isn't. It'll just be the way it is. Anyway this gorgeous dress is what brought that up. It was so cute on her the pictures just don't do it justice!

It's almost official

We've almost been living in Cali a year! I can't believe time has gone so fast. It also means our lease is up and we've been toying with the idea of moving to a two bedroom especially since our renewal of our lease came in for $108 more a month which is almost a 9% increase in our rent!

So we have some options:
Since our rent is going up soo much anyway we thought we'd look into paying just a little more a month at our current complex and get a two bedroom place. Unfortunately our rent went up around the board at our complex and two bedrooms are a lot more a month than they used to be. So, if we give up everything extra including trips to Utah, eating out, eating any meat, all entertainment and extraneous driving we might be able to afford a two bedroom along with using up all of our savings.

So, I started to look into other apartment complexes and their prices would at least let me buy more than just pasta roni for the next year but I just wasn't feeling good about moving. Moving didn't sound so rough when it was just another building that I could potentially walk to but to move across town sounded way harder. Plus, we are going to Utah for a wedding the weekend after we would move. YIKES!

And then I remembered that this is the way God leads me. We'd been praying guidance in whether or not to move and God said sure whatever you like. I start looking into doing things and rent gets more expensive, moving seems impossibly hard, and staying gets remarkably less expensive after we talk to the property manager about our options.

So why even tell us do whatever we like and then give me stupor of thought over the options you don't want me to choose? There is only one option left and it feels great. I mean I didn't want it and I was the instigator of thinking about moving to a two bedroom in the first place. But renewing this lease on this apartment just feels so great. Does that make any sense? I should be unhappy that I'm not getting what I wanted and yet I have such peace about the choice we've made. I love the gospel and the gift of the spirit

She's so funny

She's discovered her ears as well as the hair and headband behind them. Poor girl gets to wear socks to bed at night on her hands to keep her from pulling her hair out. She's a little thin behind her ears now.

We call this her piranha move. Anything that she wants in her mouth including our noses or watches she dives at with her mouth open. How do I teach her to bring objects to her mouth not her mouth to objects? Oh also funny, when she's sitting up and wants her toes in her mouth I'll look over and there she is bent in half with her mouth around her socks. I'll have to try to get a picture of that.

And I know when it must be time for bed because she loves being held over our heads and us saying "Flying Baby Girl!" It always gets a smile so if it doesn't I know I'm in trouble.

Easter!

Here is Elise's beautiful easter dress. And after we got rid of distractions...

Took the dress out of her mouth several times...

Put her headband back on, and back on, and back on...

We got this beautiful picture!

Having a kid makes the holidays more fun. I got to put an Easter basket together for the family this year. Ryan hid it from me (with a shopping bag over it so he didn't see the contents), so we both got a suprise Easter morning.

Well it wasn't in the dishwasher...(ignore my messy kitchen it got cleaned up later)

it's not in the cupboard...

Here it is in the closet! (mom why are you carrying me around and making me look in things) Yes, I know she could probably care less and has no idea what we are doing

We got Sherlock Holmes!

Yay easter baskets!

And baby girl got some baby food to try out.