Pool Days!!

It has been warm enough to go to the pool lately. Although Brooke's favorite thing to do once we get there is not swim. She like to sunbathe, eat, and mostly play on any stairs that are around.

She is a very picky eater lately and and I can never her her to eat watermelon. However on this special pool day she was willing to eat it, but she has refused ever since. She is so weird with food! 

Looking totally awesome in her sunglasses parading around the pool.

The Stash....

So I am constantly buying pacifiers because is seems Brooke always loses them. Well the other day I went on a paci search so I could sanitize all of them. I always find a few under her crib, a few in my diaper bag, a few in her toy box, etc... Well for the first time I looked under her changing table and found a bunch of her toys, but behind all her toys I found her secret paci stash! I couldn't believe that my baby was taking paci's and hiding them. I always wondered where she found a new one when I would take all of them away during her playtime. 

It was amazing to me because there were like eleven paci's under the changing station. Such a funny little girl!! 

First Dodger Game

We took my dad and Brooke to there first Dodger game on Saturday night. It was a freeway series and they were playing the Angles. They won it 5 to 4. It was a great game and even better company!

I wanted to get a picture with my Dad and Brooke in front of the Think Blue sign but he wanted to get it in front of this motorcycle. So funny!

Brooke wanting Grandpa back after we took her so we could take a picture together. She liked him much better than us the whole time!

What a little babe!!

Me and my thug:)

Brooke's favorite part of the game was clapping with everyone else and doing the wave. It was funny because she would put up her hands to do the wave on her own. 

My little sleep fighter didn't crash until around 9:45! But once she was out she was gone.

She is so fun!!

Brooke turned 14 months a few days ago. She's walking around now like she owns the place. Everywhere she goes is a new adventure for her. She notices when surfaces change under her feet and likes to stop and touch them. She has mastered climbing up and down the stairs in our house and loves to do it. There have been a few falls, but nothing bad. Jason gets nervous and wants to put her in full body armor to keep her safe.

She still refuses to eat sometimes and thinks its funny to throw her food off of her high chair. Once we take her down she spends the next hour or so picking up the thrown food and eating it at her convenience. She'd eat candy and yogurt all day if we let her, but I don't think that is part of a well balanced diet.

She loves to have us read books to her, over and over and over... She does a really cute lip puckering thing now when she tries to talk. She thinks she is much older than she really is. She's becoming much more demanding, but still as sweet as ever when she wants to be. Most of her cranky moments come from her teething pains. She has had several teeth cut in over the last few weeks and more on their way. Poor thing.

We love her so much and still think she is the greatest!

San Francisco Part 2

Here are a few pictures from the first two days that we were in San Francisco.

Walking up a very steep San Francisco street. It was funny because there were lots of women walking and all the men took the trolley up instead of walking it.

Here are 3 of my sisters with me Amy, April, Christa, Me. (L to R)

We ate at some very delicious places! This was one of my favorite because it was all super fresh crab. We had fresh steamed crab, Crab cakes, and a crab salad in a sour dough bowl. YUM!!

After I was done eating my crab salad and crab cakes I had to eat the rest of the lemon crab soaked bread....mmmm...my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

They had lots of "Natalie" stores in San Fran, which is something I never see. Here we are at my gallery:)

All of us girls together. 

Katie, Natalie, Christa, April, Amy. Aren't we so cute?? 

Drinking some divine hot chocolate at the Ghiradelli Chocolate Store.

Of course we had to take a picture with the random money statue on the street.

Lombard street, So cool!! What is crazy is it is actually a street with houses on it. So people have to back up out of there drive ways onto the crooked street. I want to know how much one of those houses would sell for. I'm sure it would be insane!

Lots of catching up to do....

While I am waiting for all my San Fran photos from my sisters, I thought I would catch up on everything else. 

A couple weeks ago we all headed to Palm Springs for George and Amber's wedding. While we were there we got to go to our nephew Alec's baseball game. It was a lot of fun, and it actually got pretty cold later on at night. The sad thing that happened is that Brooke got hit on the head by a fly baseball:(! I was so worried at first but thankfully to her hat, she didn't get hurt too bad. I felt so bad though because I was holding her and not paying attention to the game, so once I saw the ball coming for her, I could only move her so much.

Rooting for Alec with Daddy!

Aunt Vicki keeping me nice and warm.

Being a big girl on my own.

This picture cracks me up!

And apparently she cracks herself up!!

During George and Amber's reception. Such a cute little baby!!

I love her little face in this photo!

Showing her attitude with her hand on her hip! I love her cute little sassy personality.

Surprised?

Trying to slip away from daddy.

The hotel we stayed at in the desert for the wedding was THE BEST! It was the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage for only $150 for two nights it was a 5 star quality hotel. I basically lived in the bath while we were there. I love big bath tubs and they had a flat screen for me to watch....Oh the good life:)

Easter morning at church in Palm Springs. This is the best family photo we got that day.

Brooke found her Easter candy and quickly learned how to unroll a fruity tootsie roll. I just stuck her in her high chair and let her go for it.

Opening her Easter basket.

My mom is taking another photography class, and needed us to pose for her. Here are some of my favorites. If any of you are interested in her taking your photographs let me know. You can also check out her blog which is listed in my blogs that I love Beverly h photography. These are Brooke's 13 month photo shoot.

San Francisco Part 1

I was able to go on a sister vacation with 4 of my other sisters to San Francisco this past week. We had a lot of fun and got to bond a lot! However I had a few unfortunate things happen to me so this post is dedicated to them. The photos and fun stories will come later once my sisters have emailed me some photos:)

First I am terribly afraid of bridges. I acquired a fear for them about 3 years ago and I am terrified of being on them because I don't think they are built very well. They are my biggest fear! Anyways on my drive to San Fran I knew I would have to drive over the bay bridge by myself, however I didn't know I would be in traffic! It took me a whole hour to get over the dumb thing and the whole time I was hyperventilating and I kept talking to Jason on the phone. Not fun at all!!! (Note that I will be posting more bridge stories from San Fran)

Second once I arrived in San Francisco. My sisters asked me if I would pick them up at a certain subway station that they had gotten on from the airport. I said sure, and got in the car and ended up asking maybe 10 locals where the place was and each person told me something different or didn't even know where the pick up spot was. After an hour of driving the same streets and keeping several cars from going on green lights, I finally found them. However I was at a green light and had to stop so that they could run to me and put there luggage in my car. There are no parking spots where I was at and I couldn't pull over. The poor guy behind me was so mad, and once I finally had all the luggage in the car I got back in the driver seat and heard my sister in the back say "go, go, go" so I put the pedal to the metal. Then all of a sudden I hear all my sisters scream "Stop!" I slammed on my breaks to look back and see that my oldest sister Christa was not in the car yet and her face had just slammed on the door from me hitting my breaks. She finally got in the car after I almost ran her over, and all of a sudden we were all crying. I felt so bad, and my sister told me she wasn't saying "go" to me but to my sister in the back seat that she wanted to scoot over. So already I had almost ran over my sister. Thankfully she was fine and we were all able to make it back to the hotel safely.

Next we checked in but our room wasn't ready so we decided to check our luggage with the hotel and go walk around and buy Alcatraz tickets for the next day. We did that and when we came back to the hotel they delivered our luggage to our room. After about an hour of hanging out and talking I realized that one of my suitcases was never brought up. I immediately went and told the hotel and thought they just forgot to bring it up. But of course that is not what happened. They searched the hotel and couldn't find it. The whole trip I kept asking if they found it, and they never did. When I added up all the stuff that was in it it was a little over $2000 worth of my favorite shoes, jewelry (including the $400 diamond stud earring Jason bought for me when I was 17 years old) every once of makeup I own, brushes, all my face products, my razor, the only cute modest 1 piece swimsuit I have ever found that fits me right and doesn't make me look like a 12 year old, and my curling iron, curlers, and very expensive straightener, not to mention a ton of other stuff. I was so bummed out and I know that it was probably stolen because the guy that checked it didn't store it in the proper closet and also didn't tag it properly (all which I found out too late). They also just told me that the case would go to there insurance and so I have to wait and see if they will even reimburse me for anything. I doubt it though.

 So that was the beginning of my trip. Luckily I didn't let it get in the way of having fun but it was a huge bummer and a huge inconvenience, not only on the trip but also once I came home. But I did have a great time, and I will post lots more to come!!!