LOVE, LOve, love

We had a very fun weekend visiting my family down in Payson. We actually met up with my parents in Salt Lake at the Gateway on Saturday and ate Happy Sumo then shopped a bit. It was fun to hang out with my parents and help get everyone Valentine's gifts from my parents. My parents bought me the cutest coat from one of my FAV stores Anthropologie. Man was I excited!!! I can never afford to get myself things from there, unless they are way on sale... plus my money goes so much further at Forever 21 :) Then we spent the rest of the weekend at their place and we even had a "romantic" family dinner at Los 4 Amigos in Payson ha ha Gotta love that place! The dinner included:

• Crazy red, heart mylar ballons EVERYWHERE!
  
• A cute Mexican boy handing flowers out to the ladies that came in.
  
• Ryker spilling his Sangria all over half of the table.
  
• Lola "drinking" water out of a cup. {ya she does that already... crazy. Not well though;) }

There are so many cute pics of Lola this weekend and a cute video too that you all can enjoy. Which brings me to my next thought...

Lately I find myself coming back to the same thought. Lola is amazing! Never in my life could I have imagined how much I could love her. WOW!!! It astounds me. I just look at her and it warms my heart. I knew I was very excited to be a mom and would love her so much. But being a mom is everything I thought it would be and SO MUCH MORE. I could not possibly love her one little smidge more. She makes me happy when I am sad. She brings Chris and I closer to each other. She makes me want to be a better person, so I deserve to be her mom. I seriously enjoy EVERY moment with her. Even when she is bawling, when I am putting her to bed, because she is exhausted. Last night she was fighting sleep so hard and was being a little stinker and I just sat there rocking her, thinking of how much I love her and kissing her little head. She is our princess. She is the most beautiful person I have ever seen and she makes me excited to get up everyday!

I just felt like I wanted to write about this because it has been such a recurring thought lately. I love babies!!! I would have another one soon if I didn't feel like I would be robbing Lola of her "babyhood" {Oh and the fact that we probably can't afford another one, ha ha} I am so excited to enjoy the stuffing out of Lola as she grows up and becomes a bigger baby and then a toddler and then a little girl and then.... I am not so sure I will enjoy the teenage years. {Thank heavens that is a ways off} Here she is, the princess herself!! Little lady, I couldn't possibly love you more!!

P.S. Did any of you guys watch the Office this week?? Sometimes I call Lola "Princess Lady". I was dying when Angela named her new "show cat" that!! Oh gees, Angela's cat nanny cam, that was CLASSIC!

This is Lola's new beanie that I am in love with and just bought her. I was trying to get a cute pic of her and the beanie... "problem is", when I put my phone up to take a pic, she gets so excited and opens her mouth to try and eat it and flails her arms around, so here is how it went.

try #1

try #2

try #3


try #4

try #5 {and Chris napping in the back}

Mommy and Lola


This is Lola with Ryker's glasses on, she didn't even mind :) As you can tell, she never holds still.

I found this pic of Lola and I at church, from a while ago too.

Nicole was making her laugh so hard, this was the first time I had heard some of these giggles!