New Baby

Here's a picture of our new baby!

Just finished the 1st trimester, so its still early, but we're super excited! Natalie's already getting ready to be a big sister!

Speaking of Natalie, I have a funny story to tell. The other day, I asked her to put away her princesses before I got out of the shower. The playroom was a disaster so I gave her one easy cleaning task. When I got out of the shower, I asked her if she did it and she said "No". I asked her again to clean up her princesses. About 5 minutes later, she walks into my bathroom, ringing her little toy princess phone and this is how the conversation went:

Natie: "Mom, Nana is on the phone."

Me: "Oh yeah, what did she say?"

Natie: "She says I don't have to put my princesses away."

Me: "Oh really? Tell Nana she's not the boss, I am, and you still need to go clean them up. Now go."

She walks away. Comes back in 2 minutes, phone ringing again.

Natie: "Mom, Mimi is on the phone."

Me: "What did she say?"

Natie: "She said you're not the boss."

Are you kidding me? She's only 2 years old. I laughed to myself about this all day. :)

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, Mom! I love you. You're the coolest.

Pretty sure you're not going to be happy that I'm posting this, but I love this picture. Who else could pull off a cowboy hat, Mickie Mouse shirt, and bell bottom jeans like this? :) Reminds me of our many family campouts.

And here's my Grandma Bennett. Sure wish she was still here. I miss her so much.

Recap

Here are some pictures from past several weeks...

Natie's cousins came over to play one afternoon. Here are Riley and Natie, chilling out in Natie's room, having a snack.

JoJo wants a snack too. :)

We spent a day wine tasting with friends a few weeks back. Here we are on the deck at Vista Hills. What a fun time!

How cute are these 2?

We finally checked out the Portland Children's Museum. Here's Natie with Curious George.

Here's Natie in the water room. It took her a few minutes to warm up to the smock and the chaos in there, but she ended up having fun.

Her favorite part was the mock grocery store. I had to tear her away so we could see the rest of the place before it was time to go!

5 Years

Some of you might remember this...5 years ago today...

I love this picture. Such a happy day. A lot has happened in 5 years. I couldn't feel more blessed or happy. I love you, Justin.

A couple weeks ago, we went back to the place in Kauai where we honeymooned. We had 5 glorious days together, just the 2 of us. So fantastic! Do we look relaxed?

This was the sunrise we woke up to on the first morning. Incredible view from our lanai, right?

Of course, we missed our kiddo. We brought her back a hula outfit which she put right on over her clothes. I think she LIKED it...do you think? Another goofball face.

Happy Easter

Natalie is excited for Easter this year! She's been talking all week about how she hopes the Easter Bunny puts "engines and Jasmine" in her basket. She's also been singing the Peter Cottontail song. Not sure where she learned it, but HERE is her rendition. Enjoy. :)

We colored eggs today.

Steamroller

After dinner the other night, Natalie and her dad had a silly face competition.

Here's Natie with the new puzzle that Mimi got her. She loves puzzles. This one is 100 pcs and she can almost do it entirely by herself. She amazes me sometimes.

I took this today with a new lens I bought. Notice she's holding her engines...her favorite things!

I took this a couple weeks ago. She said "Look Mom, I drew my bed". Pretty good.

Justin has been giving Natalie the Steamroller since she was really little and she loves it. Watch this VIDEO from the other day. You might have noticed the wound on Justin's forehead in some of the earlier pictures. Natalie jumped on him shortly after this video and sliced his head open with her teeth. Oops. Don't worry, he got a Dora band-aid.

I love this picture. I took it last month when I was working on shots for my class.

Here was another one. My attempt at using a tripod and timer.

Here are few more videos:

- Aviators - Natie likes my new sunglasses.

- Chopsticks - Cracked us up how she said "Chopsticks, I call them".

- Go Team - She's already a team player.

- Broccoli - Natalie ate broccoli! She will not eat green vegetables so this is a major breakthrough. Of course we had to "incentivize" her with some of "Daddy's treats" (which is trail mix).

- More? - I see her eating more broccoli in the future. :)

Always Very Curious

I love this picture I took of Natalie today with George.... :)