Finally almost February

Mia before preschool: every time Rick

picks Mia up from school and asks her how her day was, she says,

GRRREAT!. So cute. Whatever they are learning about, she gets really into it,

right now it's planets and she already has them memorized and figured out. Too funny!

She is still very obsessed with cars, in fact Saturday morning, all she wanted Rick to do was

show her the engines of our Honda, Ford, and Rick's Chevy work car. soooo funny!

Grandpa B's bday party: Yes we are lucky we live where the grandparents

do on both sides actually. It's something we never take for granted and we love

having them here! We went to Outback for dinner and came home and did presents and cake.

Wow look at all those candles! Aunt Brooke sent this funny card of a really old lady

in a swimsuit and Mia just couldn't get over it. She just kept staring at it and finally said,

"Now that is scary!" It was hilarious! We were just glad she didn't think it looked like any of us.

haha!

Scott, Hailey, and Ari sent a video singing Happy Birthday and Mia

was so touched by it. She told my dad that we should've had it playing while the rest

of us were singing. She had to listen to it 3 or 4 times and kept kissing on my dad.

Such a love bug!

I have to warn you about the next picture. Mia has been pulling

this popeye strange pirate face when she's mad and it's downright

ugly. Haha. The other day at dance, I guess Rick poked his head in to tell

her to behave and she came right up to the glass and gave her stink face in front

of all the moms. Rick said it was embarassing.

This isn't even how bad it gets. Notice the one eye is smaller

Still not as bad, my dad wanted to participate

This is pretty much it. We don't even know how she closes

only one eye, it's just so strange!

We went to BJs for lunch on Saturday and I took some pics

One minute nice

Here's popeye again!!

back to nice

Then she got ahold of my camera and took these

this is funny- see all those alcohol bottles in the background?

Well every time Mia comes to BJs, she thinks they are shampoo

bottles and that they are beautiful. It is so funny. Aww to be

innocent!

We got home and she wanted to learn how to fold socks

my little organizer

my cousin Nate visited from Tiawan and brought

his adorable girlfriend-it was so great to see him.

We've always been very close.

This was her first time in the US and Mia thought she looked like the

character on a chinese cartoon she loves, so she kept asking her how to

say things in Chinese and then Mia would tell her words like Ye Ye (grandpa)

in Chinese, it was cute. She was impressed that we had a chinese cartoon.

We took Mia bowling on Monday for the first time

since it was Martin Luther King Day and we both had it off.

She had a great time!

Dad was being very patient!

picking her ball

watching the ball...

throwing the ball down the lane

Spock absolutely loves getting into things..

Speaking of that, the other day, Mia was trying to drink her

milk and the cat came over and tried to drink it, so I hear Mia

say, "You BLOCKHEAD!!" I was dying laughing but thinking oh boy

I guess she won't be watching so much Charlie Brown. You would think

old school cartoons are a little better, but apparently not. It was a pretty

fitting name for him, so funny!!

And the cat always climbs in my dryer right when the

clothes are done because it's nice and warm.

Mia and her bear playing sleep over

bear all comfy

Does anyone else's kids put together pretend birthday

parties for their stuffed animals? She did this all herself

as well as wrap some presents for bear to unwrap. Then we

all had to go to her party to celebrate. It was super cute!!

Boring January

January is not my favorite month, but here is Mia and I

on a cute little train in Town Center. It's super fun and goes

around the whole outside shops. Mia has been busy learning about

planets at preschool which is right up her alley. She really likes planets

and even had a homework assignment to make her own planet. You could

probably guess but she named it after a Disney Car guy: the Red planet

and it consisted of cars and dinosaurs, oh and a few fish. Sounds interesting to

me. I let her do the whole thing (I swear) even though the teacher in me wanted

it perfect. Mia's diet still consists of cottage cheese and cantaloupe these days which fruit

like that is kind of hard to get in the winter where it tastes good. She will go through 2 a week on her own.

She is also really into boiled eggs, but she calls them "spoiled " eggs which is cute!

She's also been really into Charlie Brown movies and cracking up at them. I told Rick

it actually makes sense  because the whole cartoon is witty and sarcastic which she definitely can be.

Nothing much else , just cold outside and nothing to do!

I don't have any new pics, because I think after Christmas, we are in such a picture overload, that we need to take a break. I do have a funny story that I need to record. We went to the Fashion Show mall to return some boots Rick got me for Christmas and Mia wanted to "just look" in Build a Bear. She was being so good just walking around with her bear and trying on little outfits, then putting them back and going on to the next. For those that don't know, they are VERY expensive clothes for stuffed animals. Anyway, this little girl about 5 years old of course had a handful of clothes for her bear ( and didn't seem to have a limit) came up to Mia and asked, " How come you don't have any clothes for your bear?" in a snotty little voice. Mia replied with, " Actually I ordered this, this, this, and this (as she was pointing to various items) and they are being delivered to my house in a few days." WAY TO GO MIA!!! You told her!! She is so witty! If there is a way to solve a problem, even if it's making up an elaborate story, she will do so. I was so proud of her,  I ended up letting her pick one thing for her bear and of course it was a Lightning McQueen slipper set. I hope this CARS obsession settles down for her bday! I want to do something girlie :)

Christmas Time

I kind of did these pics backwards, but I had sooo many

to post. This is Christmas Eve and we just set the camera

up. Look how great it turned out! We were so happy to have

everyone here this year.

family pic of just the 6 of us..

Christmas Eve dinner

Family tradition: my mom and dad get everyone PJS and

look how stinking cute they all look!

Nicole's cute family

This little thing is seriously so stinking cute, love her:)

Laith and Ari are only a few weeks apart. Laith tries so hard

to love on Ari and she wants nothing to do with it. We got a

chance to spend some time with Laith before everyone else

got here and he is just so funny and smart. You ask him something,

and he says"yes" and "hungry".

Chris and Brooke were able to come down for a few days

so we were glad they got to spend some time with us.

My mom and dad LOVED having all the grandkids here

Rick and I Christmas morning at my mom's house.

We always go sledding the day after Christmas in Mt. Charleston

IT was such a blast.

Look at Ari's face

my dad and Laith

Hailey was hilarious, she would literally jump on the sled

she has absolutely no fear

Scott was loving it too!

from the left: Scott, 6 Ari 22 months, Hailey 4, Laith 21 mo,

Mia, almost 4.

These guys played and played the whole week, it was adorable!

Mia has a serious crush on Scott and was constantly kissing

and hugging him. She would ask him to help her down everytime

she needed help with getting up on the table or anything.

It was sooo cute!

I brought over little gingerbread houses for the kids to decorate

they had so much fun!

Here's Mia's!

Back to my mom's, Christmas Eve, Rick and I

Christmas day- my parents opening gifts

Mia and Hailey both got these cool microphones from Grandma

and Grandpa B. We also got the Xbox Connect so we all had a blast dancing

and playing some sports. Way fun!

okay back to our house Christmas Eve

Mia was REALLY into Christmas this year, she was

super excited for Santa to come!

She gave him strawberry milk and cookies

dad reading stories before bedtime and then she heard Santa's

reindeers outside, so she flew under her covers!

Here's what Santa brought: All Disney Car stuff, dinosaurs,

and bikes for everyone!

fun stocking stuff

Mia's cute face as she came out of her room Christmas

morning!

Her babysitter Kirstin even made her a Cars blanket

A very cool camera

After we opened presents at our house, we went to my mom's and

had breakfast and opened presents there. Then we went to

church, napped and hung out playing games and dancing all

night. It was a ton of fun.

a few days before Christmas, Grandma and Grandpa M

came over and we opened presents with them.

Mia was very excited to get her Cars movies and cars stuff

It was a great Christmas with all our family and we were

so glad we got to spend time with everyone :)