Summer is here! Mia is obsessed with her tool set lately

and LOVES using her flashlight to fix stuff

concentrating really hard

Rick and I went to Flagstaff for the weekend for our 5th Wedding Anniversary and Mia got

to stay one night with Grandma B and one night with Grandma M

This is called Slide Rock park near Sedona, way cool, people

just had their towels out, jumping off cliffs, etc

Coolest part was an 80 ft slide made out of rocks

that you could go down, kind of dangerous! Anyway,

Rick tried it. I will post a video

We tried this place for dinner that was a musical review

so the waitress and waiters actually sang while serving, it

was interesting. Something new I guess. Flagstaff is a very fun

little hippie town, it was my top choice for college but I'm thinking

my life would have gone a different route had I gone there!!

We have lots of fun plans for the summer, so more pics to come :)

Rick has been taking Mia to dance all year and she

really wanted me to see, so I took work off so I could

go today. She is the best listener in class, I was so proud

of her, I think she will do great in preschool next year!

She is very sensitive to sound, so she was practicing the

recital piece and kept on plugging her ears, she HATES anything loud.

There was another little girl pestering her and she just

kept her cool and scooted over so she wouldn't poke

her anymore. It was really cute.

We decided not to do the recital because for one it

was about $300 and secondly she just turned 3 in March

and the other kids had been doing it since fall.

Her teacher even gave out evaluations and

hers said to start Tap/Ballet next year, so that's the plan

She was actually already put in the 4 year old

class because the 3 year olds were so tiny, so her teacher

suggested moving her up and she fits right in. Their rehearsal

song is "Wash that man right out of my hair." It's really cute, I'm

so glad I got to go see her dance. She has come a long way from not even

wanting to go in on her own. Now she kisses us and heads off :)

Mom and Mia day: I had to take a personal day from

work so I didn't loose it, and we had ALOT of fun!

First stop was the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay,

then we hit Red Robin for lunch, and then to the park

before naps (for both of us :) After naps, we went shopping,

got sandwiches and heated the jacuzzi at my moms to about 95 degrees

and swam. We had a very fun day! She told Rick it was a girl only

day, no boys allowed.

I've already written about Mia's obsession with dinosaurs,

well she's also obsessed with car models. She knows every

single one Chevy, Toyota, down to BMW and has the symbols

memorized. We spend all day counting the Hondas in the parking

lots and if she sees a new one like a Jetta the other day, she has it

immediately memorized. We keep saying if this kid has photographic

memory, we are sending her to med school!! We also thought

about going to a car dealership and saying if she could name every car,

we should get one for free!

While we were shopping, I was trying things on and she

would say, oh no that's not cute, someone else should buy that

She was very honest, I loved it!! 12 more days and I get to spend

2 1/ 2 months with her :) So excited.

We asked Mia what she wanted to do on Saturday and

she said the zoo, so we took her to the only one in Vegas.

It's pretty minimal but I didn't mind paying because they

need the money

feeding the fish

Then we went to Helldorado Saturday night. The

carnival was pretty bad, tons of toothless people so

we stuck to the one ride and headed to the parade.

Mia hates anything loud and she always has, so this

is how she spent most of the parade :)

And on dad's shoulders

Mother's Day: the only pic that she took smiling normal

was while I was getting my shoes on before church :)

cute kisses

We just couldn't get a normal pic: I had a wonderful

day, I slept in the casita so I could sleep in which was only

til 8 because it was too quiet out there, then I had beautiful

flowers waiting for me inside and Mia very excited that it was

Mother's Day. I got a very nice pedicure giftcard too :)

She helped her dad make me breakfast in bed but then

told him that she was a mother to her bear and needed

breakfast in bed too, so he set her up a tray next to me

so she could have breakfast in bed. Too cute!

This is the smile we are getting lately, must be a stage.

We then went to church and the guys and children

got up to sing all the moms a song, well Mia was

standing on my mom's lap and after the song, she put

her arms up and said, " That was just so beautiful"

It was precious

After naps ( for everyone) Grandpa and Grandma B

came over and we had Outback take out for dinner

along with her yummy fruit arrangement- perfect dinner

for mom's day, with no dishes : ) It was a great day. Mia

makes every day special to me. She has the most tender

hearted spirit. She has an endless amount of empathy

for everyone around her and she is truly the center

of our life and love for eachother as a family...

Mia with Easter Bunny at Bass Pro

Catching up on Easter: dye the eggs...

check out my stuff Easter morning! Lots of bug catching fun,

new pjs, few movies, books and CANDY

off to Grandma/Grandpa B's for an egg hunt

Grandpa and me

This is for you Nicole, I'm sure Scott was doing the same thing,

lining them up, counting each one, sure she's missing one,

ha ha, sounds like Scott, they are so much alike :)

she's even putting her candy in a straight row, and they are

color coordinated too :)

Easter Sunday, cute dress from her birthday from Grandma B

cuteness