happy birthday zuri

hurray! zuri turned two. she was so excited. we celebrated kennedy's birthday on friday and she was totally jealous. for the next 2 days, we got her pumped up that it was "zuri's birthday" and we sang the happy birthday song and showed her the big box that had her present in it. she was so excited. that morning when i woke her up, i sang happy birthday and she immediately said "big present." luckily, i had a small gift and let her open that. she went into the family area and looked at the streamers i had handmade and kept repeating "pretty" and singing happy birthday to herself.

we spent the day together shopping for her big party and when she went down for her nap it was crunch time. with 15 minutes left i decorated her "pink" teddy bear cake, which nick called a creepy zombie that had weird ph issues. funny cause it is true, but we got it all packed up and headed for liberty park.

zuri loved it. jackie and ryan and kids were already there playing at rotary park in the water and zuri stripped down and joined them. we had to pull her away from the water when everyone had arrived and were ready to eat.

nick cooked some mean hot dogs and hamburgers and it was a blast. we really appreciate all the love from family and friends. we ate, played more in the park, all the kids demolished zuri's cake (luckily i made a separate one for the adults), zuri opened up all her adorable gifts and she finally got to open the "big big gift", which was a wiggle scooter, and she freaked out and her cousins caroline and rexy helped show her how to work it...which was adorable. we finished off the party by doing a teddy bear picnic parade (all the kids paraded around to the song with their stuffed animals-we brought nicks old teddy bear for zuri and she fell in love) and played "duck, duck, bear" and then zuri was off to the water while the rest of the kids played red rover.

happy birthday zuri. it was so much fun to see how much she understood and how excited she was that it was her birthday.

the next 3 days we kept celebrating cause her birthday balloons were floating around the house.

spring has sprung so sprung has sprang

hurray. spring is here. we have been doing a lot outside now that spring is here. zuri and i frequent liberty park and today she strolled a baby doll to liberty park and when i asked her, "which park do you want to go to? the big park or the little park?", she pulled her baby doll off to the side and leaned over and asked her which one she wanted to go to...it was adorable. i love having a little girl. seriously. i had no idea how great it is.

zuri has learned so much lately, she is a little parrot. i have been trying to teach her the concept of waiting and i put my hand up and say wait to her and today we were reading one of her favorite books ("one naked baby") and suddenly she got up and put her hand up and said "wait" and ran out and turned back and did it one more time and then went and got her drink. she is so stinkin' cute.

zuri's favorite things:
barney the dinosaur : "mommy. show. barney" (when she says "barney" she puts her hand to her mouth and does a bird beak opening and closing hand motion)
tangled
BIG trucks
choo choo train
choo choo the big train song : constantly saying, "mommy sing choo choo"
puppy poo
"side" = outside
candy or treats
dresses : she loves to get herself dressed
her cousins
she has started the squealing phase and seems to be pretty impressed with herself
baths

as for nick, he is on some easier rotations but is getting ready for 2 big back-to-back conferences and seems to be a bit stressed over the preparation. he finally shaved off his mustache march and the funny thing is i guess i didn't notice it was gone until two days later. i'm a bad wife. he just celebrated his 31st birthday and for presents he got tandem skydiving in moab and driving the race cars at miller motorsports park...sounds like a pretty good birthday.

i am growing fatter and fatter every day. i hate it. i have 3 months left and starting to teach zuri how to roll me around...to help out in the upcoming months when i become huge. that's fun. trying to get our yard done so that zuri and jenga can go out and play and not come back as dirt monsters. need to start figuring out a list of names for this new one coming up. happy that we chose not to find out the sex of the baby...makes it even more exciting.

last few events we did:

nicks 31st birthday : went to leapin leaners put on by the utah jazz
midway general conference weekend
nba allstar weekend in orlando : cocoa beach : disney world : universal : epcot
heather going to manti temple


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some pictures of us hiking in zion national park in november

top of angels landing

up on our deck

nba allstar weekend in florida : cocoa beach

nba allstar weekend in florida : disney world, epcot, and universal

family in front of the manti temple

hanging out with zuri

swiss creek condo in midway, utah

easter sunday : zuri wasn't very good at the egg hunt. pretty content with her first finding of candy

making it through winter

in the cavern of donut falls

hiking donut falls : really bad picture of me

zuri loves her  pu-pu

zuri's new found love this winter : clementines

was getting ready and i heard zuri making a commotion and found her doing this

watching a movie and suggling up to the pup

playing outside with our new toy

it's all on zuri's onesie

we are having another baby : july 14th