water water water!

I had to work the weekend last week, so Brandon and Miss Elizabeth went to grammas to go out on the boat!! The water was too cold to get in, but they went for a fun boat ride. Brandon got elizabeth some super cool floaties and life jacket, as seen below! She was quite excited about the trip. So excited, she wore herself out and crashed for a good nap on the boat!!! Brandon foresaw that happening, so a pillow was ready just in case!! She asked Brandon, "Why is the boat wobbly?" Brandon's reply, "the waves make it wobbly" Elizabeth: "what makes the waves?" Brandon: "the wind" Elizabeth: "What makes the wind?" Brandon:" Mother nature" Elizabeth: "what makes mother nature?" You get the picture, yes we are officially in the why and how come phase!! We can come up with some amazing answers!! God defnitely is the answer to the 20th question at times!!

We got a sprinkler for Elizabeth and this is her and Brawny playing in it, Elizabeth loved splashing brawny and washing her car!! We are surprising her when the rain stops with a bigger pool with a slide!!!

This has nothing to do with water, but i thought it was a good picture of Brandon and I, we went to a wedding of one of Brandon's friends Jeff, he was going to and will build our future home, whenever that may be!!!

This i think is a fabulous picture of Elizabeth, well they all are, but i thought this one was sweet!!

Horsing around!

Brandon and Elizabeth went to hot springs last weekend, I had to work all weekend, Gramma and Papa's neighbor has a couple of horses, the newest addition is the brown and white horse, who is absolutely beautiful, more so in person brandon says. The horse is very gentle and trained, so, elizabeth got to ride her first horse!! She loved it so much, when she got home i asked her how it was riding the horse, her reply "it was wobbly" too cute. She fed them peppermints and carrots. She had such a good time, lots of things to explore on the farm!!! She definitely comes back worn out!!! Brandon loved the horse as well, i think if we had land he would have brought it home!! The Altima probably wouldnt pull a trailor very well though..... The last picture is of Zoey gramma and papas "puppy" on the picnic table and her sidekick brawny........Enjoy!!!

Bentonville Firestation!

The meetup group that we try to attend once a month, were given a tour of the new Bentonville firestation, Elizabeth was too excited to go see the fire trucks, well, i would have to censor her way of saying "truck" use your imagination, her "t's" are coming out as "f's" I just pray everyday she doesn't say fire truck or dump truck out in public! She did not hollar firetruck this day, thank goodness!! Needless to say, she had a fabulous time! As did I, since about half way through the tour, we had to make a pottie break, for her, so proud!!! Enjoy the pics!! She didn't quite know what to think of the fireman in all of his gear, but got use to it. She loved sitting in the seat, didn't really want to get out, the fireman offered that she could stay, but i don't think she could quite reach the ladder to help out!!!

Potty Training our Ballerina

So, we are officially free of diapers during the day!!!! We are keeping our fingers crossed it sticks!! Elizabeth has done great with it, one day we decided to put big girl panties on her and just went with it, we didn't have the time or energy at the end of the day to read countless books on the subject, so that is what she did. We had to throw away a couple of pairs of undies, but for the most part, it was fairly easy. When is the S&%*#&%( going to hit the fan, really, Elizabeth has been such an easy kiddo, we are so blessed!!!! But definitely still up in the air on another one, with the fear that a 2nd will be the demon child. So, only 1 diaper during nap time and one at nite tiime. We will work on that one later.

Ballerina....... Elizabeth has been doing these ballet moves, that neither one of us has taught her, she must have caught it on tv, (imagine that). So, i was at work the other day and ventured into the gift shop and they had the cutest tutu's and headbands that i could not pass down. Elizabeth wears the tutu at some point during the day everyday and practices her moves. It is too cute!!!

Not much else going on around here, waiting for the rain to stop so we can get back out and play, we are all getting a little stir crazy!! Brandon and I have a couple of weddings to go to and work as usual.

Jelly Bean Reeses Peanut butter egg overdose Easter

So, the Easter festivities continued on Easter day despite the yucky weather. We didn't get any Easter egg hunting done, but definitely ate enough deviled and chocolate eggs to make up for it!! The Easter bunny was good to Elizabeth and we are helping finish off the candy she got. My mom and Aunt kelly came over for lunch and brought lots of surpises for Elizabeth. I will let the pictures tell the story!!! We hope everyone had a great Easter!

This pic was obviously taken not on easter day but the day before, Elizabeth was having a picnic lunch with daddy and Brawny!! (while i could clean without little one "helping")

Dying Easter eggs with mom and dad, too much fun!!!

Elizabeth and Brawny

As soon as we found out we were pregnant with Elizabeth we started telling out first four legged child Brawny about "baby" Brawny was very interested in my growing belly, and we introduced her to Elizabeth's room early. She was very good when we brought Elizabeth home, and ever since then, they are best buds!! Brawny loves to give her kisses, and vice versa. Elizabeth helps us feed Brawny her dinner every night, and she loves to throw her food now while she is eating. (elizabeth is doing the throwing) Needless to say, they have quite the unique relationship. Last night Elizabeth was letting Brawny use her blanket, kitty and stripes to go to bed. This was too cute!!!!

Early Easter Egg Hunt

Our Neighborhood had its 3rd annual Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday, and it was our 1st!! It was sunny, but very windy, in fact we are still recovering from prolonged colds, this time with a little temp today, so while Elizabeth is napping, i am catching up on blogging, and paying bills, washing sheets,,,,,,,fun stuff.. No really, I enjoy being able to be home and awake during the day to do "domestic" things. I even cooked dinner 2 nights this weekend!! Anyway, i digress,, back to the hunt. When we got to the Rodney Ryan Park, which is new to the neighborhood and fabulous, previous blogs have pics of the playset which elizabeth loves, they had blow up castles, snacks and kids everywhere. She went straight to the castle (thank you gramma and papa again for her castle) she wanted to jump and slide the entire time, she was such a big girl jumping with some bigger kids, she definitely held her own!!! There were kids from baby size up to 12 years old, not many her age either younger or a bit older, but she still had fun!! Then they divided everyone up into age groups for the hunt. They had the fields separated for the little kids, and the older kids hunted eggs down the street in the neighbors yards. There were eggs everywhere. they had the street kindof blocked off so the kids could run. We were waiting for the organizer to give the go ahead, but elizabeth kept pulling at me to get to the eggs, she was so ready with basket in hand and an eye on the prize!!! She kept saying, "ready set go, mama?" finally, it was time, and she was off....... she had her basket filled quickly, it was too funny, she would shake the eggs before she would put them in her basket to make sure there was candy in them!!!! Definitely has the sweet tooth of the family!!! enjoy the pics!!

I would post the video, but for some reason it doesn't take with our camera.