Preschool and Exciting News!

 Mia's first day of preschool: Miss Kelli is her teacher and 

Mia was very excited to go this year. She is going 3 days instead of 2 and

so far, she is coming home and giving herself hours of "pretend" homework 

working on letters and numbers. It's pretty cute!

 I can't get a picture in without a certain cat's tail!

 She's a seahorse this year

 Mia's class: I can't believe will be in Kindergarten

next year and come to school with me. Crazy! She's been saying the most

interesting things lately. Right before we were headed to church on Sunday, she told

Rick that heavenly father would be really sad if he knew that he was drinking coffee on a Sunday

(she saw his coffee cup in the bathroom) Rick was like oh this is from yesterday, I was just cleaning it out. It was so sad. Little did she know that dad just got home a few hours earlier and we were lucky he got up and went to church with such few hours of sleep :)

And we finally got pregnant. I will be 18 weeks this Friday and I took

this on Tuesday. We have been trying for almost 3 years. We kept it secret from Mia for the most part all the pain we were going through and trying the fertility avenue, but last March and April, she just started praying every single night for a baby brother/sister out of the blue and saying she's the only kid on the planet without one. It was really hard to hear that from your child. Well after two months of praying, we got pregnant. Of course we didn't tell her right away, we waited for 12 weeks, but the second I found out, she stopped with the prayers on her own and it just seemed like she knew already. It was crazy. We also got tons of prayers and our names in the temple for years, so thank you for that. Mia has been a little mom since she found out, telling me to drink water or I will be dehydrated. Asking why I'm burping so much... She's too cute and soo excited. The day we found out what we were having, we brought Mia. Apparently she wanted a sister, because when the tech told us it was a boy, she started bawling. It was sad. Then she came home and had this conversation with the cat: "Well Spock it's a boy, yup oh great, that's what I thought, so be prepared that when the baby gets here, he's going to pull your tail and throw you into the air." Sooo funny, she's just so used to preschool boys, she thinks they are all naughty! I'm worried too, I like my quiet, peaceful house of girls but according to my mom, Miss Mia would never let a boy be wild in our house, she runs the show and would keep him in line. Anyway, we are due Feb.1st and I will keep you updated! I did have a name that I'm just not ready to give up so we will see what we decide, but name suggestions are welcomed :)

Random end of the summer pics :)

 Mia is missing this little guy. She is having a hard time

not seeing her cousin! Yes they are in matching towels lol :)

 Mia got to go to a really fun birthday party

where she got a manicure, got to dress up, hair

done, the whole thing and she loved it!

 Here she is getting her fingers done

 And her hair...

 Cute table all set up for the tea party

 all dressed up

 oops forgot about the makeup

 of course the only one who picks the 

bright red lipstick. Hmm where did she get that from??

 all finished

 then they got to walk down the runway

 all the girls together :)

 she had a blast

We took Mia to an indoor soccer place to see if she would

want to do it. Well we thought she would be super shy.

Not so much, being the only girl, she started right in bossing the

boys around. It was so funny. She was seriously herding

them onto the field and keeping them on track. We were cracking up

 At one point when they had teams, she yelled out Nanananana! We're going

to beat you!! Rick and I about died. It was so funny. She is definitely wanting to come 

back so she starts in the Fall.

 Grandpa B and Grandma B took us out on

the boat last Friday. We've had such a busy summer

that this was our first time. Mia loved it once she 

got used to how fast the boat goes.

 cute little stinker!

 Grandpa B and Mia picking out shells to take home

Me,, Mia, and Grandma. It was too windy for any wakeboarding,

so we just floated in the water and there were some HUGE waves. Here's to

the end of the summer. Pretty sad but it was a fun filled one. Mia starts preschool

again 3 days a week on Wednesday and I start work on Wednesday too. Mia's new teacher is Ms.Kelli

and she looks like she could be on Little House on the Prairie so I think she will be a very sweet teacher for Mia. I had to fill out a paper that asked Mia: This year I hope my teacher_____________. She answered with I hope my teacher makes the other kids behave. Yes that sums up Mia. Always mother hen and trying to be teacher's pet. :)

Legoland/Zoo/Beach

 We decided to take one last trip to San Diego before I started

work again. Of course Mia didn't mind seeing the beach again.

 This is how goofy she was acting the first night we

were there...

 really??

 Off to Legoland! Mia was probably the only kid who knew 

how to drive the car and she took it very seriously!

 look close and you will see her game face!

 With dad on the helicopter...

 fun boat ride

 of course the horse

 And then she decided she was going to ride all the roller

coasters to our shock. She went on a little one at the Orange

County Fair with her cousin Scott and I think it jump started her adventure side!

 She's 42 inches now so she could do them all... kind of scary!

 Airplane ride

 lots of waiting in lines

 and then the big one! I think she thought what did I get myself

into on this one...

 look at this one close up, totally crying but then laughing at the end!

 safe and boring boat ride

 another roller coaster ride!

 and she loved it!

 they have a really neat aquarium attached to Legoland

 Mia loved the aquarium, she just loves all creatures of the earth

 The next day we tried the Animal Safari Park instead of the 

San Diego Zoo. We made the mistake of giving her a map.

Ohhhh boy! She was directing us everywhere and what was 

really scary is that she knew exactly where we were at all times

and would tell us to turn left or right. She definitely didn't get that from her mom.

Geography is not my strong suit!

 These lions and tigers loved this car, it was too cute

 We got to go on this safari ride around the whole park and that was

a lot of fun.

 Dad and Mia at the zoo.

 Mia as a bat, she was very excited that there were bats there.

We both love bats!

 off to the petting zoo

 they gave out little brushes so they could brush the animals too.

 this was the best part, these rainbow parrots. You could get

some sugar in a cup and they would actually climb on your hand!

 Of course she absolutely loved it!

 they even had a fun merry go round at the zoo!

 she wanted a picture of this bird because he looks like

Blue from Rio.

 We met my sister Bre and the kids at the beach before we left

 I got to hold cute little Kyse

 All smiles

 And then he puked all over me. Of course Rick was taking

pictures instead of helping. Thanks!

 Laith and Mia goofing off

 Cute pics of my love bug. She's so funny, we were at a glasses

store and she got to see herself in the mirror up close. She says, "Mom you are right, I do

have freckles on my face." So cute! She has been a blast this summer!

 Rick and the kids

 beach bum

 We had a great little trip as a family. It was fun to see 

Mia have such a blast. She's so funny and smart. She cracks us

up constantly. I asked her to do something and she said, "Mom I can't 

do this my entire life!" So dramatic :)

 before we left it was raining, so right when she woke up

she took off her pjs, stood there naked, grabbed her raincoat and boots

and headed out the door to jump in puddles!

 love this pic

And this one. 

I actually caught Mia in my shower singing and dancing to No Doubt

Holla Back Girl with a spoon as her microphone. It was soooo funny.

I secretly video taped it and may use it later on with her future husband or 

some kind of embarassment. I didn't even know that she knew the words to that 

song. Too cute!