Oh my goodness!!! Time is flying. Alyssa is now our big 2 year old! She is talking and singing and dancing like CRAZY! She keeps us busy, that is FOR SURE! Now, we have another little girl on the way, and we often wonder what we were thinking adding another one to the mix. Alyssa is great, don't get me wrong, but she is a handful. We are always running with her, and never slow down. She doesn't stop until we MAKE her stop, and even then, it can be a challenge. She is as adventurous as they come and will try just about anything without fear. Since I've once again waited forever to update, there will be lots of pics from winter up to a couple of days ago including Alyssa's Birthday.

Here she is loving the snow!!

Alyssa with cousins Kyri and Graysen. We are so glad we live close enough that we get to play with them every once in awhile.

Here is a great picture of Mauri and 2 of her kids, just days before little Tanzi was born. Seriously!!! like 3 days before!

Oh how she LOVES smoothies! Delicious!

BUT, I'm pretty sure she loved her birthday cake and ice cream even more!!

I am not the craftiest person around, so I was pretty proud of myself for making this cute birthday cake. Alyssa LOVED it. I guess that's really all that matters!

What a goof!! Wearing dad's safety goggles! Jason would say she just looks like her nerdy mom with her glasses on! :)

So, as you know, this past weekend was the 4th of July. Alyssa LOVED all the fireworks. She was running around yelling "BOOM" all Friday night. (which is when Logan did their fireworks). Then, we went over to Bear Lake on the 4th where she had the time of her life. First of all, she LOVES going to Grandma ReNee's restaraunt to eat. Grilled cheese are her favorite, plus the ice cream of course. Then her Papa and dad decided to go drive the go-carts, and Alyssa got to go along for the ride. She absolutely loved that. Then we went to the parade in Paris ID. I think she was a little overwhelmed at first. She just stood there and stared as the floats (if you can call them that) threw candy. Once she figured it out though, she was running and picking up all the candy she could. Then, we went to North Beach where she played in the water and the sand. What a fun weekend!!!

Here she is getting strapped into the go-cart! How exciting!!!

There they all are! Ready to roll!!

If Brent's face is any indication of how much fun they were having, Alyssa must have been having a ball. Too bad you can't see her face over the steering wheel!

It wasn't the warmest day at the lake, but that didn't stop her from getting all wet, and playing in the sand to her heart's content! She can't wait to play at the lake with all of her cousins!!!

Once again, I am starting a post by saying that it has been a long time since I've posted. (I am starting to notice a trend here) Anyway, it truly has been awhile, so this post contains photos and what-not clear back from Thanksgiving. I wish I were better at posting regularly so I could write down all the silly things Alyssa does. She is growing SO fast, and says and does the funniest things. Some of her favorite things to say are:

"ouch-a-reena"

"Oh gosh"

"I do it"

"come mommy"

"what doin?"

Just to name a few. She has also become a mocking bird. Always repeating what we say. We have learned in a hurry to watch what we say. She has already said "oh crap" and "stupid" a couple of times, but only after either myself or Jason says it first. We just love her to pieces and have loved watching her learn and grow. Even though time has flown by, and we can't believe she'll be 2 in May.

Here is a picture of Alyssa eating some clam chowder. She LOVES it!!! In fact, a couple of days after this, I tried giving her a different kind of soup and she had the meltdown of the century because it wasn't clam chowder. I only figured it out after she finally quit screaming and said "kind", meaning she wanted a different kind of soup. I luckily had some leftover clam chowder. When I showed it to her, and asked if that was what she wanted, she said "yep", and was as happy as ever when she got it. Silly girl!

For a couple of days Alyssa was obsessed with having me take her picture while standing on this little pan. She would stand on it and say "picture". Needless to say, I have a few pictures of her in this particular pose.

Already loving to dress up! I found this wig while cleaning one day, and she wouldn't take it off. She LOVED looking at herself in the mirror with it on too. Pretty stinkin' cute!


Christmas day at Nana and Papa's house! They bought these fun cars for the grandkids to play with when visiting. Alyssa loves them, and talks about driving whenever we mention going to their house.

Here she is checking out the Jeep! It has taken her awhile to get used to them, but is getting better and better each time.

Sometimes, however, she would rather just play in here instead of with toys. She seriously spent quite a bit of time on Christmas climbing in and out of here.

We spent Thanksgiving in Bear Lake this year with my dad's side of the family. It was cold, but the grandkids all had a blast, and the food was DELICIOUS as always!!

Here is Grandpy with Alyssa and cousin Kennedy on Thanksgiving

In my last post I mentioned that Alyssa has a shoe/foot fetish. She is obsessed with putting anything and everything on her feet. If it looks like a shoe, she'll make it into one! Here are a few pictures to prove it!

This is her just wearing a pair of my fuzzy socks.... along with her Aggie bow which she put on by herself. Nice outfit!!!

Oven mitts??? Seriously!?!?!

She loves wearing my boots. Even if they do go all the way up to her crotch!