Mixa Reunion 09

In Carmel..

At Grandpas...

At Mom and Dads..

With Happa and baby DeLorne..

At Tricks...

Peterson Reunion 09

We are home!

Talker

Tonight Grace leaned around the corner of her bedroom door and said "Where did Gracie go?"

The other day Josh was cutting his hair with trimmers and Grace said to me "Daddy's mess!"

When I ask Grace where my baby is she lifts my shirt (just a little) and says "Der it is!" she loves giving the baby kisses on my tummy

Lately when ever we get on or off the elevator to go and come home Grace will say to people "HI" and immediately follow with "BYE"- this always gets at least a smile from all these work-a-holics out here

She is also really good at saying please, thank you, welcome, sorry, no, gun too (gum too), shoes off, elbow, nose, ears, pretties, owie, no hitting, crab, bugers, church, bugs, tree, pie, ball, ouside, where is it?, touch it, Jesus, candy, treats (thanks aunt Cari),funny, baby, fuzzy, Quincy (her doll), and Ellie BEAN.

Grace is currently really into:

MONEY!
Alec
Elephants
Babies
Her stroller
Water
Stickers
Books
Horses
and her purse- it comes everywhere

Will be doing this by the end of the week!

Leah and Jonny's Wedding

Downtown

Grandma Came to visit..

Lorna is the busiest person I know and always makes every person she is with like they are her number one. I am so lucky to have her has my mother in law and as Grace's "ma, ma". The other day Grace ran to the door wanting to go see her ma,ma. I felt so sad to tell her that it would be just a few more weeks and then we could go see her again.

While Lorna was here we..


Went to the American History museum.. then went shopping down town where grandma bought our baby boy something sweet..


Fed ducks, went on the carousel, ate ice cream and went on a train ride at Burke Lake park..

spent some time shopping at the mall, made lego lobsters at the lego store and ate some Panda! Then we came home and stayed up late eating cookies and playing wacky six.

We had so so much fun with Ma Ma! cant wait to live by you in a few weeks!

Mommy Date

Today was GREAT. Slept in till 10 played with Josh and G on our bed, fed him a sandwich that smelled delish (bacon, turkey, avocado, and melted mozzarella) and then G and I went on a Mommy date. We went to the pet store and we looked at pets for 2 hours, with no schedule and then bought 2 fish. I hope they are temporary, they are to feed the crayfish Josh caught. We will see how that goes. Then to Trader Joes for some snacks and cookies with cute packaging. It was a good day. (ha! Minus G ripping the bag of fish open in her carseat and me rescuing them with 1 inch of water left!- cant believe I thought it would be ok for her to hold it "soft")

"Butter"

Grace will be getting a baby "butter" in January. I am so excited, and even more surprised!! And Josh couldnt have been smiling bigger.

Here are some creepy/cute pics of our little guy.

Blueberry Pancakes, A Parade, Birthday Cupcakes, Bread Pizza and Legos

Josh was able to come with us to our ward Pioneer Day breakfast. We enjoyed FRIED blueberry pancakes and a fun parade at 9 in the morning together, as a family. Grace loved riding her car from G & G Mixa in the parade with Ellie and Wes.

Later to celebrate Hill's birthday we went to Georgetown Cupcake. It was so hard for me to decide on a place to take Hill, she is one of the most talented dessert Queens I know. Hill is the type that when you stop by on a tuesday morning at 10:00am she is just finished frosting the 3rd layer of a raspberry delicious cake(and her house is lemon-y fresh and spotless). So, im glad she enjoyed these little cupcakes from heaven, the red velvet was my favorite. Happy Birthday Hill!

That night was just as enjoyable. Grace and I got to spend some time with just Ellie and Dylan. We made homemade bread pizza (bread, cheese, olives and pepperoni - broil for 1 min), read books, danced to loud music, and watched Alvin and the Chipmunks. After we (Dylan and I- he is SUCH a good helper) put the girls down, we sorted through 50lbs of star wars legos that I grabbed at a garage sale at 7 am (when I woke up Josh to tell him I was going to "go buy legos at a garage sale" he laughed and told me that I was hilarious- and he was right! Best find of the summer so far). Dylan and I stayed up late chatting and sorting (to even find 7 dead caterpillars in the huge tub- that by the 6th one Dylan was ready and willing to rescue me from) until our eyes got heavy and sore.

What a fun Saturday. One of my other favorites.

Virginia Beach

Markers

While I was trying to get a few things done I thought I would let Grace be a little creative and use markers. She has used them a few times before with me monitoring closely, but I was busy! And I thought the 2 month break we had given them was long enough for her to remember that we dont put them in our mouths. Guess not. She ate the entire tip of the red and blue.