Happy Birthday Tyson!

Last week Tyson turned...hmm..let's see....27? No, that can't be right, because that means I will be 29 this year. Luckily, he had the day off work. We hung out as a family during the day, ate at PF Chang's for dinner, and had our friends, the Olsen's, over for cake and ice cream. It was a great way to celebrate the birth of a great guy!

Here we are getting ready to play Scattegories. Well, the girls got sidetracked by taking care of the kids and the boys got sidetracked by a basketball game, so we never got to play. Honestly, it's probably exactly what Tyson wanted to do for his birthday.

Family photo? What's wrong with this picture? Someone loves us more than our own daughter.

Nina was very happy to help Tyson open his presents.

Mommy's little helper!

Nina is always very interested in whatever I do around the house. The other day she LOVED when I washed my sheets. She had a blast playing and snuggling on my bed. It amazes me how entertained she is my the simplest things! I wish I was that easy to please.

President's Day

Over President's Day weekend we found ourselves traveling a lot between Bakersfield and Castaic. That's because Kevin, Jennalyn, and Bridget were down for the weekend and we wanted to spend as much time as we could with them. We had a great time seeing them and sure wish that they lived closer!

Here is Nina enjoying the drive. We actually enjoy the drive a lot more when she is like this!

One of Nina's favorite parts of Grandma and Grandpa's house is their animals. She spent a lot of time in the kennel with Jem. Scout spends her time avoiding Nina when we come down.

Here is Nina loving on Aunt Bea!

4 out of 5! Not too shabby. We really missed having Betsy and her family here as well.

Nina just loves Grandpa and Grandma. She gets excited whenever we talk about them and says, "Grandpa?" and looks around for them.

Tom and Mayer made the long trip from Valencia (10 minutes) to come and visit as well.

First thing in the morning Nina came downstairs and locked herself in the kennel. Maybe I should get one just for her to play in. I love her morning hair in this picture.

You're so vain...

I just love how little kids love looking at themselves in the mirror. I honestly wish I could still look in the mirror and be completely satisfied with the way I look. Nina was so pleased with herself the other night that she just couldn't keep from kissing herself.But, c'mon, with a face like this I would probably be kissing myself in the mirror as well.

You belong in the zoo....

When Tyson's parents were visiting around New Year's we convinced them to head to the LA Zoo. We met up with my cousin Leslie and her family, Brandon and Lindsey, and my parents. It began a bit drizzly, but sure ended up being a great day to see the animals. They were more active than I have ever seen them. Nina LOVED all of the animals. Here she is at the first exhibit: the sea lions. I think she would have been content to stay there the whole day.The lion was awesome at the zoo. I have only ever seen the lion sleeping. He got up, paced and roared several times. Thanks for the good show little lion!
The black bears were out as well.
Nina and her grandpas.
Nina and Tyson at the park they have in the zoo.
The Fieldsted family

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Wood's house

On Christmas day we traveled down to Grandma and Grandpa Wood's house so that Nina could be even more spoiled by everyone. Here she is standing next to one of her gifts. Yeah, it is way bigger than her.She got this awesome cat book that she loves. She is a miniature cat lady I swear.
Here she is with the grandparents.
Me and Bea. Bea picked my name for Christmas and absolutely spoiled me. Aah, I love that girl.
Later that night Leslie and Aunt Karen brought the kids over. Nina was in absolute heaven to have other kids to play with.
I love this picture of the girls playing in the piles of leaves.
They all had fun playing on Nina's new toy: a slide.
Santa found Nina at my parents' house too. He brought her all sorts of goodies. Here she is talking on a candy cell phone.
Nina and grandpa in the morning with matching hair-dos.
Nina and grandma
Aunt J, Uncle K, and Aunt Bea..aah, I love these kids and wish they lived closer.

Christmas Catch-up, Part 2: Christmas Morning

This was Nina's condition after she spilled chocolate milk all over her new, white pajamas. She is much happier without clothes on, though, so maybe it was a Christmas gift to herself to do that. She knew I would strip her down to clean her up.
I just wanted to document our first real full-sized Christmas tree. Tyson and I have had 6 Christmases together and this was our first tree. In the past we have always traveled to either of our parents' houses and never really felt justified in spending a bunch of money on a tree we wouldn't be able to enjoy on Christmas. We loved having a tree this year. It made the Christmas season seem real.
I just love this silly face Nina is making.
Nina got a quiet book from Grandparents Fieldsted. She was quite entertained by it.
Tyson and Nina with her new boots on. We had to exchange them though because the poor girl has cankles.
Nina really loves Tyson's Christmas present, an iPod touch. He uses it for work and for entertaining Nina on Sundays during church.
One of Nina's favorite gifts was her new stroller. She loves pushing around her babies. She's so quick she's a blur!
She also got a mini pac n play. So cute!
She enjoys putting her babies down for a nap during her naptime.