"say cheezy"

"Don't you wish you knew what I was thinking?"


"I'm not looking down my nose at you. I just noticed
that when I look at you like this you look Asian."


yep, that's my girl! One more month and she'll be two years old. I can hardly believe it. This girl loves being outside like you wouldn't believe. Just one word about going for a walk or going to get the mail or just the word outside sends her bolting towards the front door in search of her favorite shoes, which of course are her white crocks that she refers to as her "crock, crocks." Like every other kid, she puts them on the wrong feet, which of course looks hilarious and makes me laugh every single time she does it. Then she comes running after me as fast as her little legs can carry her and pushes me towards the door saying, "go mommy, go." I just can't tell you how much I love this little peewee sprout. Way...way...way too much. I'm in serious trouble!

Three nights in Mammoth with just my husband...what?

That's a mountain


That's my man.


And this is happiness.

So, me and my incredible guy just celebrated our third year of marriage. Some people say it's your first year that's so tough, well...for us it was our third and I think I can safely say that we are both glad to have it behind us. We were so glad to have it behind us, in fact, that we had to celebrate by leaving our little Presley with grandma and venturing out on our own for a few days of mountain solitude. Little did we know just how hard it would be to leave our little monkey behind. I think mom was ready to smash her phone after four days of us calling a half a dozen times a day just to hear Presley say things like, "I, me, doogie" or "punkie hold it" which of course means she wants to hold the phone so that she can hang up on us, or my personal favorite and something she no doubt learned from her little cousins, "I, me tooted!" Ya, I know the things that amuse you when your a parent. Anyhow, our trip was great, the snow sucked, I came home sore, but Mark and I finally got to do something, just the two of us, that we'd been wanting to do for a really long time. And we came home with a goal: someday, somehow live closer to the mountains and forget this Southern California nonsense!

Presley got an early Christmas present from her aunti Rita. She loves putting her care bear in it and pushing it all over the house.




Here we are at a Christmas parade. Needless to say, Presley wasn't too impressed with Santa. But she really liked walking in the parade.

Yep it's fall

So, here we are trying to experience fall in spite of the horribly hot days we have been having. It was so hot the day we went to the pumpkin patch that we only stayed for about 15 minutes to take a few pictures before heading home to our cool air conditioned home. I really don't know how much longer I can handle living in SoCal. What I wouldn't do for some rain and cold weather! On a more positive note...we did have a great time carving pumpkins with our good friends Hannah and Mark. However, we learned that carving them up a week before Halloween is just too soon. By Halloween they were mush.

Dress-up Time

Last week we were at home playing and Presley went into her room and pointed up at her fairy costume. It was the first time she has ever tried to pick out her own clothes. She usually runs from me when I try to get her dressed. She wore it all evening and was very proud of herself. I had to take pictures.

We love the beach!

Living 5 miles from the beach definitely has its benefits. We spent a lot of time there this summer. Presley is at such a fun age for it. Her favorite thing to do is catch sand crabs or as she calls them "crabbies."