Oh my goodness gracious our little princess is keeping me on my toes. This morning I got out of the shower and found her covered in minty smelling tourquise stuff. Can you guess what it was, toothpaste! She got into the toothpast and put it all over her legs, arms and face and used it as lotion. Once again all I could do was laugh and run and grab the camera. She is just one funny girl. I guess that toothpaste needs to go up on the TOP TOP shelf of my closest along with my makeup. Hollie loves brushing her teeth and know's that what she had was toothpaste, but maybe she just felt like putting it on her skin instead of her teeth. What a funny girl. I just love all these new adventures. Hollie has always been a pretty easy girl. She never got into cupboards, drawers, never climbed until just recently and she has kept me on my toes! I guess it's time to pull out those locks to put them on the drawers too.
What Now?
What a CHUNK!!!
Princess Hollie
I just love my little Hollie. She can be the biggest sinker and she can be the sweetest most cuddliest and loveable girl ever! She picked this shirt out to wear today and then she wanted to put on her "cool" glasses and have me take her picture. How could a mom resist? We had so much fun and she was definetly sporting the little attitude with it. She is just the CUTEST girl ever!! Man, I love her to pieces. She is mommy's girl and I love it. We paint nails (every morning), do hair, pick out clothes, shopping (she loves to shop-thank goodness), play dolls and all the girly things you can think of. I am so grateful for you Hollie you are my princess and always will be. 
Bounce U
Last Thursday we went with a couple of our friends and 7 kids to Bounce U. We had a BLAST! There was nothing better to do to wear the kids out than take them to go bounce for 2 hours. Hollie LOVED every bit of it and bounced out all of her energy. She loved sliding down the slides, climbing up the walls, trying to climb the spider wall and just jumping and bouncing. It was a lot of fun and the kids all loved it.
As you can see the cast didn't stop her again. She was trying so hard to climb up the wall and used her right arm to help pull herself up the rope. I tell ya, she is amazing! I loved watching her do things and figure them out. She made it up the wall and slid down the other side.
This was the spider Mountain and as you could probably see it was for bigger kids, but Hollie was determined to get up and she did it! Good Job!
Makeup, WHAT!!!?
Oh, my goodness I have learned that complete silence in our home is not a good thing. A couple days ago Hollie asked to watch a movie in mommy and daddy's bed. I said that was fine, because I was trying to get dinner made and Ethan was taking a nap, so a movie for Hollie was great! We put in the "Princess Movie" and she was good and happy with a snack, juice and a movie. I went downstairs to finish up dinner and while I was finishing I had this thought that it was really quite upstairs and either Hollie was asleep or she was into something. When I got upstairs I just about died when I found Hollie putting on my makeup! At first I laughed, grabbed my camera and took a quick picture. Then I thought how in the world did she get my makeup bag. Well, she climbed up on the bathtub and then climbed up onto the counter and was smart enough to not sit on the counter so she took it all to the floor. I couldn't get mad because maybe I should keep it on the TOP TOP shelf of my closet and maybe she can't get to it next time. It was really cute and she just amazed me because she put the foundation under her eyes, that's where I put mine and she was starting to put eyeliner on her eyes, that scared me because we don't need her poking her eyes out. Lesson learned, don't keep your makeup bag on the counter of your bathroom, keep it up REALLY high. My cute, sweet, precious little Hollie who wants to be more and more like mommy everyday.
A Cast DOESN'T stop her!
Hollie continues to amaze me every single day. Although she has a cast on her right arm (what we think is her dominant arm) it doesn't stop her from doing ANYTHING!! She will find a way to do what ever it is she wants to do. She hits golf balls with daddy just about every night when he gets home, she climbs up the swingset and slide, she rides her bike, she runs, falls and still jumps on the bed!! I am not sure if she learned the leason NOT to jump on a bed, but time will tell. She is just amazing and very entertaining to watch. Well, the other day Ethan had awaken from his nap and was laying in his crib happy and playing, so I thought I would finish what I was doing and go up to get him. I could hear him over the monitor and he was talking up a storm, it was so cute to listen to. Well, I hear this "Mommy, baby awake" and I said yes, he is and we can go and get him in just a minute. Before I knew it Hollie was up the stairs and in his room talking to him. She gets so excited when he wakes up from a nap she just can't stand it. I quickly finished what I was doing and went upstairs and as I walked in his room I found Hollie IN HIS CRIB!! It was seriously not even 2 minutes and she was already upstairs in his room in his crib. That girl amazes me. Even with a broken arm she managed to climb up the crib and get in. Her and Ethan sat there for a few minutes and she was making him laugh and they were having the funest time, it was fun for me to watch. Then Hollie wanted me to take pictures of her cast so we did. She LOVES to have people sign it and it's one full cast. The other night we went out to dinner and our waiter was asking what happened to her arm and she put her arm out and said "sign cast" it was so cute. He went and got a marker and signed it, Hollie was very excited and wanted to follow him around the restaurant, but that couldn't happen. He did leave us with a very nice compliment and that was that we have 2 of the cutest kids he had ever seen. That made us feel good and ofcourse we agreed. Ethan was being so good too and was FULL of smiles. 
Pink Cast!!
This post should have gone in before our California vacation, but I forgot. So, here it is. On July 9th Hollie got her cast put on. The doctor gave her 2 choices of colors and it was between purple and pink and ofcourse she chooses bright pink. It was a good choice because it matches just about every one of her outfits. She was so brave and was such a good girl when she got it on. She should only have it on for 3 weeks and that means that, hopefully, we will get it off next week, Hurray!! She has done great with it and doesn't let it get in the way of her doing anything. She will get frustrated now and then because she can't do something but mom and dad always come to her rescue. She loves to have people sign her cast and now it is full of signatures. Here is a cute picture of our precious girl and her BRIGHT pink cast.
Our Trip to California
Last week we took a little vacation to California. Our trip started in Whittier where we spent a few days with our good friends Doni and Renee. We always have a wonderful time with them and this time we got to be there and watch their oldest son get married. I love attending weddings in the Temple because I love to hear the words of the sealer and reflect back on the most wonderful day in the world when Ryan and I were married. I wish I could do it all over again because it was so much fun and I loved every bit of it. Our wedding day was just perfect and I couldn't have asked for anything more. Back to our trip. Once we left Whittier we headed South to Temecula where both of our families are. Ryan and I were smart this vacation and sent out an itinerary of where we were going and what we were going to do. That's just what you have to do when you have so much family around and you want to have fun and a vacation at the same time. It worked out perfect and everything was great and it all went as planned. We spent some time with my dad and Janene and that was great! Hollie loved hanging out with her papa and janenenene (that's what she calls her) had lots of fun TRYING to swim in the pool with a cast on and drawing pictures on the cement with chalk. Getting her ready to swim and wrapping up the arm was eventful and a big experiment. We had Ryan's dad, stepmom and sister over and it was fun seeing them too. It works out great for us because my dad and his dad are good friends and so we can have them all over together and it's one big party. 
Monday we went to the San Diego Wild animal park with my dad, Janene and Austin (Ryan's brother) and had a great time also. Hollie loved all the animals but I think our favorite part was the water feature they had. We all got wet and it cooled us off. Let me say it was sooo humid and hot there. Yes, I know it's hot here, but not as humid as it was there. Anyway, the water feature was fun and we loved getting wet. One of the animals that we got to see was a lion upclose. It was amazing! Hollie loved it. The Lion came close up to the glass and all the kids where going crazy. Hollie just stood there and pointed and said, Lion. It was so cute and very cool. We have never seen one up that close. 
Monday evening Ryan and I got to get away for a date night. It was great! We went and looked at cars, yes we were looking for a new car, then we went to dinner and went and walked the mall because we obviously didn't do enough walking at the wild animal park, haha. It was fun and I loved being with just my husband and no kids. It was quite, we got to talk without any interuptions we just enjoyed our time together. Thanks dad and Janene for taking the kids. From what I heard papa and Janene had a blast with the kids.
Tuesday morning we headed off to the beach with Ryan's mom, brother, 2 sisters and his sisters two girls. We had a great time and the kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Your probably asking yourself, why did we take a girl with a cast to the beach? Well, because we wanted to go we LOVE the beach and were super careful with her arm. Her arm was all wrapped up and you couldn't even tell what it was. We had put a sock over her arm, wrapped it with some medical tape that was waterproof and then put it in the sling, it worked perfect! We were only there for a few hours and then we headed home. Hollie loved it and enjoyed playing in the sand and standing in the waves. No worries, her cast didn't get wet and there was NO sand in it either. Ryan did a great job at wrapping it up, thanks hun. That afternoon I got to get pampered a bit and went and had my hair done by a girlfriend of mine from High School. Everytime I go to California I get to get my hair done by her and it's great catching up and chatting about our kids. Thanks Katie. That evening we spent the night with Ryan's mom and loved hanging out with them and his sister and her 2 girls, Mckenna and Whitney. Hollie loved playing with her cousins and we just wish we lived closer so they could play more often. Thanks for the fun evening guys. 
Ryan's siblings
Well, Wednesday we were on our way home, but before we got home we had to stop and get a car. Yes, that may sound crazy, but our friends from Whittier have a car dealership and we wanted to trade out our Jeep. Well, by 5pm that night we were on the road in a new car and we both were so excited. Thank you guys for all your help we love our new car!
That concludes our trip to California. It was great and both kids where fantastic. Ethan did really good and we were so relieved and happy.
Our bed has been taken over!
Just lately Hollie has had this obsession of mommy and daddy's bed. Everything she say's is mommy's daddy's bed, it's so cute. She wants to watch movies in our bed, just lay in our bed, sleep in our bed, play with toys in our bed everything in our bed! How did this all come about? We don't know. We are not people to let our kids sleep in our bed because we don't want to deal with that battle. For some reason Hollie LOVES our bed. When she broke her arm we made her a really nice soft bed right next to ours because her nights were rough and we thought having her next to us would be perfect. She liked it and knew that that was her bed. Well, one night she wanted to lay in our bed and watch a movie and she wanted Ethan to lay next to her. Within 10 minutes both kids where out like lights and Ryan and I looked at eachother and laughed. Our nice compfy bed has been taken over by our kids. No worries, the kids were put in their own beds and we all slept great! We love this cute picture of our precious adorable children.
This was in the morning and ofcourse they are back in our bed for morning cartoons.
Thanks Nana!!
Nana (Ryan's mom) was so kind to send Hollie a great big care package! Let me just tell you that Hollie was in heaven! I think she got everything and more a little girl with a broken arm could ask for. Nana wanted to make sure that while Hollie had her broken arm that she would have plenty to keep her busy and she does. She loves all the coloring books, crayons, necklaces, bracelets, disney characters, purses, magnet boards, drawing pads, etc. You name it Hollie has it. Thanks Gayl so much. You made Hollie's day and she loves it all. 
