Makaia's new room

There are butterflies on the hanging flowers!

The room is essentially 75% complete. There has been weeks of naptime-work done for this room and it's almost done...whew! We still have a flower mirror that is on back-order and a tu-tu bedskirt that I crafted (and my wonderful mother is sewing) that will be done in a few weeks. Some more flowers also need to be painted on the wall, but I got a bit burned out last week.

John painted the tree and I used the leftover leaves from the silk flowers that are hanging to craft the tree. Our families' frames they each made for Makaia make up the new "family tree." A neighbor gave us the table (for free!) and I re-covered the chairs.
Her new bedspread

I made this pillow case for her, with all her current favorite things. Guitars, turtles, flowers, ladybugs. She likes to invite people to come and sit with her on the bench :)

More Disneyland videos

Dancing with the chipmunk :)

Riding w/ Mom on the carousel. This is the day we got hit with the rain!

Dancing after dinner at the Rainforest Cafe. She loves to dance!!!

Disneyland

What an amazing 3 days we had at Disneyland! It was so much fun, and Makaia had the time of her life! We totally soaked up everything Disney and it made for such a great experience. We did breakfast with the characters, ate at Rainforest Cafe and Blue Bayou (inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride), and came home exhausted. ha ha ha.

Her favorite thing was meeting the characters. She couldn't stop hugging all of them and they (especially the chipmunks) couldn't get enough of her either! It was so adorable.

Makaia may not remember her first Disney trip, but we definitely will. The last time we were there was 3 years ago April when we were deep into fertility treatments and we had just found out that the previous round hadn't worked. John took me to Disney for our anniversary and we were feeling down. We made a pact that we would bring our 1st child here and experience it with him/her before we thought about having another one. So.....taking Makaia was every bit an emotional thing for me. Hopefully, we will have many more trips with more kids to wear us out even more, ha ha ha.

There were so many pics that we loaded them on a seperate site. Here are the links:

Set#1

Set#2

Below are the videos we took:

Easter

As I was packing for our trip, Makaia ran around in her bunny slippers. She is too cute sometimes!

We had a great trip to Fresno over Easter and spent nearly a week there just hangin' with Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma, Heidi, and Kyle. John had to stay in San Diego for work but he gets to make a trip up with us this summer...in time for the Fresno heat!

Her first time holding her own cone. Maybe not one of Mommy's smartest decisions to do this in the car :)

Yum Yum!

Grandma had a big-girl bed waiting for Makaia. She was definitely stoked when she saw this!

Thanks Grandma for this amazing set-up! Anything with Ernie on it is worth its weight in gold!

Our new obsession: guitars

Trying to ride this "big girl tricycle" with a little help from Mommy.

We had a picnic at Woodward Park. I haven't been there in about 10 years and forgot how nice it is there. We had so much fun!!!

Makaia and Mommy at Woodward Park

Makaia with a stuffed bunny from her Easter basket

Can't head to church without playing a little guitar first.

The crazies who went egg hunting in the rain!

Showing off her beautiful Easter dress (thanks Nana! - John's Mom) with Grandma Dorothy

Bubble gun with Grandpa was a huge hit. She kept begging him to go outside for bubbles.

My sweet, dainty girl has an arm on her. Lookout!

Been awhile

Our first taste of Dippin' Dots

Huge smile on her face!! She loves water.

Posing in front of the New Orleans Lego city

Wow! It's been awhile since I've updated the blog. Our days go by in a blur right now and we are busy with all sorts of stuff. Here are some cute pics and video of our visit to Legoland in March. It was a hot day, which was great because playing in the water was the highlight of our day. Makaia rode her first amusement park ride, which served as a great preview of how she would handle Disneyland the following month...loved it!