"Chase"

When I was growing up, my favorite thing to play was "Chase." My dad would chase after my sister and I all around the house and we loved it! It would entertain us for hours, seriously. Well, Mya loves to play chase with me and Dan too, which is so much fun for us. So when my parents came to visit, she initiated playing chase with my dad, which was hilarious. Here is a picture of my dad chasing Mya and her running to my mom. So cute!
And here's Mima keeping Mya safe from Papa! So cute! She was giggling so hard!
Just a typical day with my missy moo, that's what I like to call her! All smiles in the morning as that is her favorite time! Good thing there's not a picture of me because I am a complete grump and hate the mornings. Same with Dan. We're not sure where she gets her love of the mornings from, but it's not from us! (We blame Mima and Papa!)
Mya got a stroller from her Aunt Sissy and Uncle Matt for Christmas and to say she loves it is an understatement. She plays with it constantly. She puts her bear in it, her kitty in it, block in it, sippy cups, etc. and pushes it all around the house. All I have to say is, "Mya, go get your kitty and put it in your stroller" and she does it without any help or anything. She's so smart! Anyway, thanks Aunt Sissy and Uncle Matt!
Last, but not least, here is Mya reading with Grandma and Papa. Course, at this point, she wasn't so much reading as she was being silly. And my goodness, she is so silly! Well, that's all for now. Stay warm! Or try to, at least!

Happy New Year!

There is so much to cover since I last updated, but as usual, I don't really have the time to get into everything, so here are a few pictures from Christmas and I'll try to post again soon. We took a ton of pictures, so this is just a sneak peak!
See, Mya really is an angel! Grandma and Aunt Vicki were having the kids put on an impromptu skit of the birth of Jesus and Mya got to be an angel. Cutest angel I've ever seen!

Just a quick family photo by the tree on Christmas Eve!Mya on Christmas morning, peeking into her stocking. She got her first toothbrush!Here's Mya opening up a gift from Mommy and Daddy. She really didn't know what to do with her presents but she was definitely excited once they were opened and she realized she had a new toy!Here's Mya listening to a book with Mima and Papa. They had bought her a recordable book from Hallmark and Mima recorded herself reading the story to Mya. Mya was absolutely mesmorized by it and she still is! Overall, we had a great Christmas and were so glad to not have to travel hardly at all this year!

Thankful...so thankful

What a fun year it's s been. This time last year we were getting to know our sweet new baby girl, miss Mya Jae, who was only one week old. I'm almost positive there is a picture just like this one from last year of my mom talking to Mya. Mya loves her heart to hearts with her Mima.
Mya has her Mima and Papa wrapped around her drooly little finger! She loved spending time with them this holiday. She talked and talked and talked to them. I'm pretty sure she was telling them her Christmas list! I wish I had gotten a picture of Mya with my parent's dog, Dodge, because she was loving having him around. She would talk to him and pet him and do what I call her "cheerleader" face where she has her mouth open wide smiling! I'll have to get a picture of it! What a funny girl!
Ok, these next pictures are out of order because that's how my computer puts my pictures on here and I don't have the energy to change them. So they are backward. But you'll get the general idea. This is Mya in one of my favorite outfits she got for her birthday reading a book in her new princess chair that she got from me and Dan. She loves to sit and read in it. So cute!
Here's my sweet girl eating her birthday cake at her party. It was a great day, great party, and I really think she had a great time!
Here we are singing Happy Birthday to our little one year old. She had a leopard print cake with her picture on it. It couldn't have turned out better!
Why, yes, that is a tutu on my sweet adorable girl! She looked like a real diva princess!
Does it get any cuter than this? I didn't think so!
This is a picture of Mya eating a cupcake on her real birthday. She had no idea what she was supposed to do with it. She ended up just flinging the frosting around and not really eating any of it. I was glad we had a "practice run" because she actually knew what she was supposed to do at her birthday party.
And this is just an adorable picture of my blue eyed girl playing in my hat. She walked around the house forever in it and when I finally took it off of her, she tried to put it back on herself. She is so funny! Mya is such a joy and we are so truly thankful for everything she is and everything she will be. She is silly, sweet, loving, adventurous, shy, talkative, naughty(surely not, right?), and everything we hoped she would be at one year old! Happy Birthday our pretty girl! We love you more than we ever imagined.

Stupid Computer!

So my little baby girl turned one last Friday and we have tons of photos to show from her actual birthday as well as from her birthday party on Saturday. So I finally sat down tonight to upload them and do lots of fun stuff with them, including order some prints and guess what? My computer won't let me upload them. It absolutely refuses to let me get them from my camera to the computer screen. I am so mad! So I just wanted to let you know that we have beautiful fun pictures of our sweet girl...but can't show them off just yet. But soon. Or else. Do you hear me computer? I'm going to throw you in front of a car if you don't work with me here. I don't think it's listening.
Well, anyway, without the pictures, I can tell you that we had a great birthday weekend! Mya had such a good time turning one. We got to spend time with our family and friends and have a great time celebrating Mya's first year of life. She had her one year check up which went really well. I can't believe she's 30 inches long and 19.2 pounds! She is tall and thin according to the charts, which I'm sure can be attributed to all the running around she does, because she certainly knows how to eat! She's developmentally doing great and looks healthy and happy! We're so proud of her. I promise I'll post pictures of our happy healthy missy moo as soon as I can. Until then, Happy Thanksgiving!

Time flies

Happy Halloween... a little late! This year was so much fun since it was Mya's first halloween. We don't usually get too excited about halloween, but isn't she just the cutest K-State cheerleader you've ever seen? She had such a good time walking(toddling) around the block with her cousins. I just love the picture above of us walking together. So cute!
Her cheerleading costume is actually a 2T that someone gave to us, but I couldn't wait until next year for her to wear it. But as you can tell, it was a little big. I love this picture of Mima and Jordan! Jordan was a Manhattan cheerleading and she was so cute!
And here's Dad trying to walk with both Dorian and Mya. That is not easy. Especially because Mya kept tripping over her shoes. Silly girl. In her defense, walking is hard!

Dan took this picture of Mya and it is one of my current favorites. We can't hardly get her to sit still these days, which is a lot of fun! She is always babbling, playing, and most recently, walking!
The above picture was taken at my friend Lindsey's house when Cami turned one. I know it doesn't really look like it, but Cami is actually giving Mya a hug and it was adorable. And Mya didn't even mind it. They got along so well! They are going to be best friends, I can tell!
And I just had to add this picture of me and Camdyn all dressed up in her snow white costume... her favorite princess! Isn't she precious?

Well, that's all I've got for now. Just waiting for Mya's birthday and for Thanksgiving... my favorite holiday! What's not to love about family, friends, and good food? And Dan would add football to that list!

So Much to Cover

Things have been crazy busy here lately, which is why I have not posted anything lately, but I promise we're all still alive and doing well. Here is just a snapshot into our lives. Dan and I went to hang out with some of my dearest high school friends and their spouses. Here is a pic of Kristin and her little man, Jacob (and her newest little man Nathan entered the world just a couple of weeks later) and then there's Morgan with her adorable little guy Camilo. We had such a fun time with them and it was so neat to see all of us as moms together.And then we went to see our friends Cody and Amanda with their little bundle of joy, Ryder! He was born by emergency c-section a month early, but him and mom are doing really well. He is such a sweet baby!Then just recently we went to see Mima and Papa for Mima's birthday. The weather was absolutely wonderful and we played outside for a while one afternoon. Mya loved this ball so much... maybe a good birthday present idea? I'll put that one the list of the million things I want to buy my beautiful girl for her first birthday.
When you have one Mima who doesn't like her picture taken much, one nine year old who can't sit still, and two small children who won't smile or look at the camera when you want them to, this is the best picture you can get!
More recent events, Dan got to have a guy's weekend! One weekend a year, him and his college/high school friends get together and... well, I don't really know what they do, which is the way it should be, I think. It just so happened, that his college friend, Craig, was here from Georgia, so we got to see him for a little bit before he left for his guy's weekend. Here's Dan, Craig, "Uncle Josh" and Mya. I love those guys!
So there's just a little update about us. I am going to try really hard to stay updated on this thing. We've got my best friend's baby's first birthday coming up, then Mya's first birthday *November 20th* and then Thanksgiving! And of course, all the little things in between! So I'll try my best to get pictures up of all the exciting things going on!

Mya's world

Right now, Mya is kind enough to let Dan and I be a part of her world. And because we don't really have a lot going on right now, I thought I'd give you a glimpse into it. So here are some of Mya's favorites things.

Favorite silly song: Bingo (was his name-0)
Favorite show: Wheel of Fortune
Favorite words: dada and a-da
Favorite sounds: farting sounds, of course
Favorite toy: anything that plays music or that she can throw around
Favorite thing to do: there's several, so the top three are taking baths, standing(by herself), and playing with the cabinet doors in the kitchen or bathroom
Favorite foods: peas, mandarin oranges, watermelon, cantaloupe, cheerios, and goldfish
Favorite thing about daddy: he plays "where's daddy" (can't explain it, you just have to see it)
Favorite thing about mommy: sings "Free" by Ginny Owens after every bath (she squeals as soon as I start singing it, and it's not because I'm a good singer)
Favorite thing to do with daddy and mommy: read, read, and read! She loves books!

Our favorite thing: being around Mya and enjoying all of the above things with her!