This Day Rocked

You know those days where the sun is shining, you really don't have a lot to do and it is just chill? Oh did I mention Daddy is home early? 

Well we love those days!

So we decided to paint some rocks by the pool. This was brought on because my parents brought over a rock that I had painted as a youngen, which in fact I still am a youngen, and Bells just thought it was the most amazing thing. My mom was awesome when I was a kid, we were always doing all sorts of crafts. But we loved painting rocks. The coolest thing, they still used them as paper weights. 

Bells decided it was time to paint her own rocks. 

We gathered a bunch of rocks from our apartment building area, shhhh, we couldn't help it, they were screaming at us to PAINT ME! And of course, I always have paint on hand, I think there is some sort of law against not having paint! 

Who is that scruffy man in the blue shirt?

My lovely, handsome, tired but excited to be with his family husband!

All the supplies you will need. 

Plus one happy kid that is!

Did I say kid? No I mean baby, she is my baby....she is not 4 years old! She is my BABY!

And this is why he is going to be the best dentist around. He is an amazing artist, perfection is always a must and his pure concentration. 

Just like her Daddy. She actually is very definite on being a doctor when she grows up. She looks at all the nasty slides when Miah studies and shoots all sorts of questions at him. She isn't grossed out but very interested and she then says tells him, when she grows bigger she will be a doctor so she can help them out. 

I am not sure how she got paint on her lips but she was very embarrassed about it. I almost didn't get a picture of it. 

Do you see the Harrison chin? My shadow is a perfect witch? Halloween here I come! Bells has the same one but since it is covered in chubs right now, it is hard to tell. 

Our masterpieces!

Will Hawaii ever leave our hearts? No, it will forever be our home. Miah painted some beautiful rocks for his girls to remind us of the beaches. I painted some rock monsters for Bells, a butterfly  and she created the most beautiful ones. 

What a great afternoon to spend with the 3 of Us!

4 Years Old

Where has the time gone? My baby is 4 and I'm so happy she is healthy and growing so big but it makes me sad. Why does it happen so fast. I need to stop and cherish every freaking living moment with my little family of three. 

February 4th our little girl turned 4. We didn't have a party, things were crazy hectic. We are so not the parents to not have a party, especially have a cake. I mean seriously, that is our thing. But you have no idea how crazy our life has been. So we just had some fun with the three of us. 

She woke up to this. A birthday tradition, you get your own cupcake for breakfast. She LOVES this! Of course pink frosting and green sprinkles. 

T-Rex came to the breakfast party though!

Can you just see her excitement? Or is that her craziness?

Either way, I love this girls spunk!

Present time

Spiderman sheets to match her spiderman blanket, perfect.

She tells me spiderman will keep her safe and warm during naps and at night. Hey whatever works, right?

She loved this card. It made her miss Hawaii she said. 

Smile for the camera birthday girl, we love you!!

She can be sweet sometimes, like sharing her birthday cupcake with T-Rex.

Happy 4th Birthday Bells!!

We love you to the moon, universe, earth and stars and back....3 times!!

Playing Catch Up

Where has this year gone already? Seriously! We have been staying busy and in our own little world. Miah just finished another quarter, only 13 more to go. My Dad told him our luck will hit because 13 is actually a good number, at least to my dad. So COME ON LUCK! Once again he nailed the quarter  and aced everything. Bells turned 4. I know right? I will post a few pictures of that. I have been struggling with my health once again since the first part of December. After my third episode Miah rushed me in to the hospital, not fun at all. Luckily my parents live so close now, they dropped everything and came here, stayed for a few days because Miah is so busy and yes at 29 years old, I needed help. Our car has been in the shop for 2 1/2 weeks, I will not get into that. We have been house searching. The boys are getting "big" and Bells officially calls us their mommy and daddy. Miah talk to them like they are his babies, its really cute. Lots of park dates. 

One morning Miah and Bells started boxing. It was really cute. See the cut on his face, yep Bells did it! Serves him right for making her eat that broccoli last night!

The boys love going outside and especially to the park. They actually love to hunt the birds there. It is really fun to watch. 

Bells just being Bells. Those brown eyes will weaken any knees!

Playing at the park with Uncle Cameron and Duke. 

She is already loving sports. She begs us to play baseball everyday. She has a really good arm and I'm not saying that just because she is my daughter, she is amazing. I'm way pumped she is into sports!

Did she have a choice?

This is the closest we can get to Hawaii.

Gosh, we miss it!

Races of all sorts...Duke didn't stay too long on Uncle Cameron's back. Bells had a good laugh though.

Wheel barrow race time! Bells made it VERY far and we actually one. I really love this age!

At this park, the ducks are crazy! They all come up to you but this one is trainable! I told him to sit....

Then to jump...seriously this duck jumped right off the ground. Miah got a good picture. We were laughing and completely amazed. 

After training the ducks, I moved on to the geese. They were the crazy as in, insane ones. One would squawk at me and run to me with his mouth open wide and stick his tongue out at me. How is that for manners? I didn't get a picture but maybe we will go back, now that I have healed from his rude remarks.  

We are enjoying some spare time with Miah right now. He gets to go golfing, ONCE AGAIN with my Pops. Just for the day though, while Bells and I get to hangout with Grandma Tiger and Great Grandma. Miah has officially taken over MY dad....I forgive him though. I'll share my dad because he is one awesome person! 

Christmas 2012

We welcomed this break with open arms! We needed some family time. Miah has been super busy and hard at work. So we went to my parents house for a few days. They weren't here for Christmas but they officially moved here on the 28th of December. It is very exciting. 

There was A LOT of this!!

We did a lot of relaxing, just spending family time. We even brought the boys, Rex and Zoro. They loved getting to go outside in the backyard and helping Miah and Papa golf. 

Christmas Eve pajamas. I surprised my favorite two people with matching dinosaur pants I made and white shirts. They loved them. Bells thought she was really cool, having the same pants as Daddy and the fact that they were DINOSAURS!!

Showing off their muscles.

Bells with some fun toy airplanes. She has such an imagination!

We also did a lot of bike riding after Christmas. Papa and Grandma Tiger got her a spiderman bike. Although it came from Santa because they were not here yet. It was pretty cold so we would stay out for a bit, go around the block a few times, go inside for some hot cocoa. Luckily my parents have an awesome neighborhood with multiple parks and lots of kids. She has more friends at their house then ours. 

Miah snapped this shot and I think it is pretty funny. Just proves how goofy us girls are. How we are in our own little worlds. Miah is such a lucky guy, hahaha!

Apparently Grandma Tiger and I are pretty slow, she told her Daddy this multiple times. She would have to stop and wait. She has our competitive drive...

What is it about bum shots in our family? Although I do have to say, they are pretty nice! She was actually telling Miah he had a big bum bum and couldn't fit. She was probably right!

She just adores time with her Daddy. I love just watching those two together. We are quite the 3 amigos. 

I love this picture, not because its awesome but because it is me, my parents and my Uncle Bill. 

He moved here too! So we were able to spend a lot of time with him too. Man, have I missed him and his humor. Bells loved playing with him and he did with her. 

Welcome 2013

"I don't like it here, it is cold. Can we please move back to Hawaii?"

Miah and I....

Love is all we need!

She loves riding horses. Who doesn't? Luckily the park as one!

Wanting to make a heart with Daddy. 

There was also lots of cuddling. She is the best. She will come up multiple times a day and just ask if we can cuddle. I drop everything and cuddle. Those are the best times. 

I hope everybody else had a good holiday season and were able to spend some relaxing time with family.  But I do have to say, it was also nice to get back in the swing of things. The sooner we are done with school, the better. 

Trying To Keep Up

Everybody else was having more kids so we decided to adopt ferrets. Two boys actually and Bells named them Rex (actually T Rex but we shortened it) and Zoro. We got them just about a month ago and love having them around. Bells really enjoys having them. She makes sure to give them loves as soon as she gets up. She even woke me up at 2:30 am to tell me that the boys want to come out and play. They go everywhere with us. We took them to the park and they loved running around and digging. They went with us to Grandma Tiger and Papa's house. My parents love ferrets and had lots of fun with them. My mom even said she would babysit if we needed. They loved going in the backyard where my dad has a putting green and helping Miah golf. Rex is really good at golfing. Miah took a shot, missed and Rex pushed it across with his nose and put it right in the hole. I wish we had it on video!!  Bells loves running around and acting like a "lazy ferret" as she calls it. 

This is Rex, he has a cinnamon colored face and loves our attention. He loves to crawl into places, up pants and thinks Miah is his protector. He will always run to Miah and hide on / behind his foot. It is very funny. He really likes people's attention and will just hangout by you. He loves chasing ping pong balls around the house for hours, seriously! I will post a video, it is very entertaining. 

Bells and I giving Rex some love. 

Rex crawling up Miah's pant leg into his sweatshirt. 

Cute little Zoro. He is the cuddle bug. But he rather be out exploring on his own. He will fall asleep on Bells' lap while she watches some cartoons. He steals all his toys and hides them in corners. It is a fun game, letting him drag all his toys in one corner and then take them out and scatter them around the house. He will play hard and then fall asleep curled up in a corner. 

They will crawl into about anything.

The best thing to watch....them wrestling each other. They just go at it for ever. Then you get involved and they will team up on you. You'd better run for cover. 

Zoro getting some loves from Bells. They really are troopers with Bells dragging them around and shoving them down their slides. But they love her and chase her around the house. 

One of their favorite toys, a rope with a fish on the end.

They are babies and so we are training them right now. The are already potty trained, whew! I don't want to go through potty training again. Rex did like to chew on your toes a bit but we broke him from that. We are working on tricks right now but since they are kits (baby ferrets) they have so much energy, you only spend a few minutes at a time training them. 

We love having them around. Miah was a bit nervous, he didn't know much about them but I was onboard. I had them growing up and loved them. 

We now have three kids, which means we caught up to most of our friends! 

Instead of the crazy cat lady, we might become the crazy ferret family.

5 Years and Counting

It is only Nike in our family so with our Anniversary why would it be anything else? 

"Still Doing It" -Nike

December 22

We made it, we hit the 5 year mark!!

We look back and are so happy with where we are. We are truly blessed with each other and a beautiful daughter. 

One night after watching The Hobbit, I was thinking about how much the type of movies I watch and enjoy have changed. I never minded watching chick flicks as much but nowadays I don't watch them at all. I watch the super hero movies or crazy action movies that always leave me on the edge of my seat. I decided the reason was because those love story movies will never compare to "our love story". I am living the best chick flick of all time. So why would I watch anything else? 

I love my husband to the moon and back, twice as Bells would say. 

Happy Anniversary Miah!!