Summer Birthday Fun

Jacob celebrated his birthday in June and Sariah loved helping him open his presents.

Later that evening, we had cake and ice cream with the Armstrongs. I hope you had a wonderful birthday Jake!!!

We get to celebrate with more cake again in July for Sariah's birthday. I cannot believe that my little girl is already three-years-old! She is getting so grown up. We celebrated her birthday a couple days late because of Jacob's board test. The added bonus to that is that we got to celebrate with Grandpa and Grandma Livingston in San Diego. Sariah had a great birthday this year!!! It all centered around princesses...princess presents and princess cake. Then after our trip to San Diego, we got together with Grandma Carroll, Aunt Kendra and Brynnlie to celebrate with pizza and cake. It was like the birthday that never ended!!!

Memorial Breakfast

Jacob's extended family gets together for a breakfast on Memorial Day and we did again this year after a couple year break from doing it. The food is great and then we have a big water fight. It is always lots of fun. This is the first one that Sariah has gone to and it was fun to watch her play with the water balloons. Her two favorite parts were playing with her cousin, Brynnlie and helping Daddy with the water balloon launcher.

Super HAPPY girl!!!

Cute Cousins


Daddy's BIG helper!!! :)

Little Fish

Sariah absolutely LOVES swimming! She would spend everyday, all day in the pool if she could (unless it is a public, crowded pool). She has been spoiled being able to swim in her grandparents pool and is too timid if lots of people are around. She has been learning lots this summer and getting to be a really good swimmer. She can monkey crawl the wall, blow bubbles in the water, hold her breath, and swim from the step to us. Hopefully she will be floaty-free next summer!!!

Double Digits!!!

99 days and counting!!!

So I am not miserable or anything but it is nice once you are finally into the double digit countdown to baby's arrival. This pregnancy has gone by super fast so far and hopefully the next three months will do the same.

Sariah is getting super excited to be a big sister. We have been reading a book together the last couple months to help her understand what is happening. There is one page in the book that talks about feeling the baby kick and it says to put your hand on mommy's tummy. The next page says to put your mouth up to the tummy and talk to the baby. When we get to those pages, she always lays her head on my tummy and talks to "Baby". It is pretty cute.

P.S. Happy Father's Day!!!

The Things Kids Say

It is so fun to have kids grow up and talk more and more. They say the funniest things sometimes. Today, Jacob was pretending to eat her and she said, "Daddy, you can't eat me. I'm NOT food!!!" She said it so matter-of-factly that it made us both laugh.

Earlier today she was watching a my little pony movie in which the ponies have dancing shoes but can't find them. In the movie, one of the ponies tries to dance without them and can't. The movie came with a pony and shoes and she could not find one of the shoes. She looked at me and said, "Oh no, she will never dance again." I reassured her that we would find the shoe so she would be able to dance.

Lately, she has really liked to change her dolls clothes. She came to me and explained that her doll needed a new dress so "we need to go to target and buy one." Target is the solution for everything...so if you ever need anything, apparently Target will have it.

She is just too cute for words!!!

I'm A Big Girl Now!!!

Potty training is the part of motherhood that scared me the most. I put it off for A LONG TIME until Sariah was so sick of diapers that everytime the diaper was wet or dirty, she would take it off and bring me a clean one. Obviously, she was ready...BUT was I???

I cleared my schedule so we could be home and started out Tuesday morning training her doll. She LOVED taking her to the bathroom and helping her be a big girl. Before naptime we had a little celebration for Patty (the doll) for being so good and learning to go potty in the toilet. Sariah went down for her nap (super fast...since she wanted her big girl panties). After naptime, she put on her new princess panties. She had two accidents and so we decided to go one more day before throwing her her big girl party. Wednesday she woke up and did GREAT all day. One minor accident but that has been all ever since.

It has been almost two weeks and she is now wakes up from her naps dry everytime and most nights. She loves being a big girl!!!

Potty doll

Empty out Patty's potty

A certificate that says, "I'm a potty-trained BIG girl!"

Opening her presents

She has wanted princess hair stuff since Christmas...I finally gave in! :)

Easter

Easter was great this year for us. This is the first time that Jacob has been able to be home to help with the egg hunt, decorating eggs and just enjoy in the fun. On Saturday we headed to Midwestern for their annual egg hunt. It was raining so it was moved in doors and was an mad house. Sariah's age group was too full so they moved her with the 4-7 year olds. She got 3 eggs (2 of which were put in the basket by her parents). She also got to sit on the Easter Bunny's lap.

Later that night, we got together with the Armstrong's to decorate eggs. This was the first time for Sariah so she was not too sure what to do. She would shake her body instead of the bag. It was pretty funny to watch.

On Sunday, she came home from church and looked for her easter basket. She was so happy to find it. Of course she started eating the candy right away. Since the egg hunt at the school was kinda a bust for her, we decided to do one in our backyard. She had a great time.

For dinner, we got together with some friends from Midwestern and did a potluck Easter dinner. We had a great time and feel blessed to have made such wonderful friends.

The Little Mermaid

Sariah LOVES the movie The Little Mermaid but we unfortunately do not have it. She always asks to go see it at Grandpa's house and then is really sad that we don't go. The other day, Jake found a website that has the WHOLE movie. So this is how Sariah spent the afternoon...

Peoria Park

Last weekend there was a festival in Peoria and since the guys were busy studying, Megan and I decided to take the kids over in between conference sessions. There was a petting zoo (which we did not do), pony rides (which Sariah LOVED), and lots of little crafts for the kids. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to going again next year.

Sariah was the smallest one out there so the guy in charge walked be her most of the time.

Although she was brave enough to do it by herself too...she thought she was pretty cool.

Here she is trying to eat her sand candy that she made.

Hayden and Sariah coloring their pictures.

Mommy's little princess!!!

We're Having A Baby....

GIRL!!!!! Hooray!!!