thankful

Well I'm almost a week late on Thankgiving but we should always be thankful, right? So, with the holiday just behind us, I wanted to express how thankful I am for all the wonderful things in my life.
-I am so thankful for my family, my hubs and little bean make me so incredibly happy. Waking up every day knowing that I have them in my life is so amazing! I never thought I could have the perfect little family, but I truly do (now growing even bigger!). The joy that they bring me is never ending.
-I am SO deeply thankful to have the most amazing man as my husband and best friend. We've been together 11 years now (WOW!) and it still just keeps getting better. He really is the most amazing man I have ever met and I am so blessed to call him MINE!! I love so much that he does for me, even when his alarm clock goes off too loud and wakes up the bean (hehe). I love how he has dinner cooked pretty much every night when I get home from work now that he's been out of work (which isn't a huge deal, he's in the union, so it's just a matter of time before he gets sent out again. However I do love him being home and having the house in order, for the most part, and dinner ready when I get home.).
-My parents, my brothers, my in-laws (who I'm SO blessed to have such a wonderful relationship with), my friends (who are like my family), my Lola and Spike (even though sometimes people may think otherwise), Aunt Mary who watches the bean everyday (SO thankful for you!) and my health. There are so many other things that I can really go on and on but these are the top!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We did the double thing again, Ryan's mom's for dinner and Aunt Mary's for dessert. As hard as it is having to run around, we feel so blessed to have such great families who we can spend the holiday's with. My mom and dad actually did another Thanksgiving Friday night since Pete was home and we totally missed him on Turkey day. So it was nice to spend some time with him.
We started Thanksgiving morning making banana bread and snickerdoodles! Mya loves helping out (aka, throwing the flour and all the ingredients all over the place as I hope and pray she makes it into the mixing bowl).

Daddy and Mya enjoying the banana bread!

Than we headed to Nusi and Grandpa's for some food and fun. Mya was ready for some food...

...and planted herself right by the chips.

Than she wanted to climb up into the recliner.

And she made it of course!

Once Aunt Tabi and Uncle Michael got there, Mya dragged them around everywhere, she absolutely LOVES them!

Off to the kitchen, where the fun really is! Mya dancing on the chair with Aunt Tabi, Grandpa cutting the turkey, Ryan and Michael checkin things out and Nusi coming in to prepare some yummy food.

Michael, Nusi and Ry

Mya trying to grab Aunt Tabi's lip ring.

Babci, Ry and Michael

Lots of turkey

my sexy hubs!

Mya and Aunt Tabi giggling

I wonder where Mya gets her craziness from??

This one cracks me up.

Mya was dragging Michael and Tabs upstairs and at one point came down with a toothbrush, this girl is OBSESSED with toothbrushes. So after dinner she wanted to freshen up!

After dinner we headed to Aunt Mary and Uncle Joe's for dessert. WTF do they teach you here at the Olarra Day Care???? Pole dancing???

I'm pretty sure Sesame Street doesn't teach you this my love.

Tony passed out.

Tony's a nut!

Had to get a nice one of Frank, Tony, Ry and Granny

Than the girls jumped in and Granny has bunny ears?

Mya taking her milk (in her big girl sippy cup, buh bye baba) with Aunt Mary.

LOVE!

Friday night we went to Nona and Dewey's for dinner again! Here's the bean having some cheese and crackers before dinner.

Mama and the bean

Pete's girlfriend just got a puppy, Benji. She bought him over after dinner and Mya was in LOVE!!! She was giving him kisses (with her tongue, gross) and having so much fun with him.

ewwww, tongue kiss

He was SO cute and fluffy.

more kisses

Shadow got pissed and pounced on him!

We had such a great Turkey day. I hope you all had a good one too! Now bring on Christmas!!!!

Guess who's gonna be a big sister???

Coming June 1st!!!!

the traveling zoo

Sunday was another fun filled day, after Ryan woke up from his much needed sleep! Our good friend Rachel and Will gave us tickets for the traveling zoo, which just so happened to be about 5 minutes away. Our neighbors were going too, so we just all went together! It was SO cute and inside so warm (but stinky!).

We got there and the goats were right as you walked in. Mya was looking, Jack was petting and Emma was trying to climb in with them!

They were loving the goat!

Than daddy got Mya some food so she could feed them and she was in heaven!

Regalo, is that you?

Next we saw a sheep? Is that a sheep? Who knows?

SMILE!

DUCK! One of the words she does say!

The biggest cow I've EVER seen!

Than Mya was screaming for the carousal. Like SO excited! It surprised us cause usually she gets on and grasps onto me for dear life, she was fine without me, until it started! But she was still not using the death grip that she usually uses! She's getting so big!

I look drunk but she looks cute!

Ok, so let the water works begin. This was the VERY FIRST ride that Mya went on ALL BY HERSELF! Yes, I was that mom on the side snapping pics as I was sobbing cause my little girl is growing up. Meanwhile she's waving profusely every time she passes, all smiles! She actually started crying when daddy went to take her off when it was over!

HIIII

Leaning forward to steer!

so happy!

HEYYYY

SO CUTE!!! Love this little bean!

Not happy cause the ride is over and it's time to get off.

Than we saw the elephant...

...she was mesmerized.

These monkeys were crazy looking.

But Mya loved them!

Than she starting frantically pointing to this ride. No one was on it at the time, there were like 3 kids waiting to ride it though, so we put her on! Yes people, this is her 2nd ride all by herself (*tear*).

It started going and was SO FAST. Ry and I looked at each other like, ummmm, should we have put her on this???? There wasn't really a seat belt but she was fine. She actually had bigger smiles than the train she was on before this! Little daredevil!

She was pulling the reigns on the horse and the bell too, she was in HEAVEN!

Where does the time go??? How did Mya get so grown up, so fast! Even this past weekend, we took her off the bottle for good. She no longer wanted to be rocked with it, she wanted to take it into the crib so we thought it was a good time to just put the milk in a cup. She was fine, me, not so much. Is everything going to be this hard to let go of? It's so fun to watch her grow up, learn new things, explore all there is to explore, but at the same time, I have a hard time letting go of my baby that would once just lay on my chest as I read her a book. Now I get through about 3 pages and she's up grabbing me another book. Bedtime is so different these days. It's not tub, book, bottle, crib. Now it's milk (in cup), tub, run around room to this toy (the ball popping one Lori, she absolutely still loves the thing, presses the button with her foot and runs around dancing, and makes us get up with her) this goes on for about 10 minutes, a few books, pj's (yes all the other stuff is pretty much done while she's in her birthday suit), than I rub her belly while she lays on the ground with her music on until she wants to get into her crib. I enjoy every bit of this routine every night and try my hardest not to take advantage of it. I LOVE YOU BEAN!!!!