A day of love...

We had Nina's two little best friends over for lunch on Valentine's Day. They had heart shaped sandwiches, jell-o, and ice, pink yogurt and juice and sugar cookies. These cute little girls hardly ate a thing, but had fun playing and just being with each other.
The girls made foam butterflies and here's the cute creation Nina came up with. Brilliant creativity!
They decorated their sugar cookies with sprinkles. I love the location of the sprinkle and the expression on her face.
For dessert I tried my hand at chocolate dipped strawberries. They didn't turn out half bad!
I just love my Valentines: Tyson and Nina. Tyson is such a great husband. He works so hard for our family, with work and school. He sacrifices a lot of fun things he used to do in order to support us and I appreciate him so much. Definitely, the perfect person for me to marry. Nina is my little ray of sunshine. She is sweet as sugar, but has some good spice to her as well. She is always asking me if I feel okay and will rub my back and do other sweet things for me. She often says, "I love you Mommy", which makes me happier than she could ever imagine. She's funny, kind, and cute and has everything going for her!

Santa Barbara

Tyson and I took advantage of having Bridget around for a month and got her to babysit Nina so we could have a quick getaway to Santa Barbara. With the upcoming baby and school semester we knew it would be our last chance in a long time. We stayed in SB for 2 nights and couldn't have had a better time. The weather was beautiful and it was nice and quiet without all of the usual tourists.

Seriously one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

The harbour

It was so cool to see the pelicans in action catching their breakfasts. I thought this pelican was pretty cool.

The cute little hotel where we stayed.

A great little seafood restaurant overlooking the ocean.

I was afraid of riding a bike by myself and being almost 9 months pregnant, so we rented this little beauty and cruised around for a bit.

What a horrible picture, but I guess it's the reality of my 34 weeks pregnant look.

SISTER WOOD

Here is my cute sister Bridget with her friends Kelly and Laura on the weekend of her mission farewell. She was called to serve in the Salt Lake City Temple Square Mission. We are so proud of her decision to serve a mission. She will be an amazing missionary. We will miss her, but know that she is where she is supposed to be and will touch the lives of many people. I can't believe that it was 9 years ago that I was in the MTC leaving for my mission.

Fun with the cuzzies!

My side of the family is becoming more and more fun as more kids are being added to it. (hint, hint K & J...no pressure) There is just something about having kids around that brings energy and life and noise, of course. Nina absolutely LOVED spending time with her cousins and can't wait until she sees them again. They had fun doing everything together for a week.

Here are the four cousins. We were attempting to do the impossible: get a decent picture of all of them.

This is how most of the pictures turned out....couldn't get them all to look/smile at the same time.

The morning tradition of breakfast in their pajamas. By breakfast, I mean picking out all of the marshmallows from their Lucky Charms cereal.

Nina and Billy

Tricia and Billy