hot summer days

I am loving this age (2 1/2) so so much! She loves to play with her princesses and have tea parties. She plays house with her babies and loves to just sit back and watch a movie! I love her so much. In my opinion this is the best way to beat the heat...stay inside and crank the AC!

birthday party

These 5 girls (minus our amazing Chelsea in Seattle) have been my best friends since I was 15 years old! It was Jessica and Katie's birthday and we decided to party!! It was so fun and yummy....we played games and ate fluffernutter sandwhiches (penut butter nutella and marshmallow fluff) haha! They had a photo spot set up and Britt snapping some pictures! Funnest night ever! Happy birthday

Miss you so so so so much Chelsea Renee!!

 The Birthday Girls!!

 Love him!!

Don't worry this was one of the many games my baby won! haha

camping

We had a very fun...very dirty weekend! It was the annual (or in our case the evry 3 years) Burk family camping trip/reunion! This little princess had the time of her LIFE! Turns out she loves dirt? I know right....loves the feeling of it in her hand! And when camping do as the campers do...get dirty!

 Even though it is not documented (you can ask my in-laws for proof) I went on the zip line too! Only because P looked at me and said "a mommy do it!"

We picked flowers, we skipped rocks, we were wilderness women....

....and every once in a while we were city girls who played with our IPhone!

lost numbers

Soo...I have broken my phone like 2 times in the last year and therfore lost so many phone numbers and now that I have my knew phone I need to get everyones numbers back! So please please if you have my number text me yours with your name or email me at bennettjade@gmail.com! Thanks so much! Loves

mommy

Being a "mommy" is one of the hardest, most exhausting, most anxiety producing, most beautiful, most amazing, most humbling, most rewarding things I have ever been called to do in my life. But I feel so blessed that I was called to this life to be a mother and to get the privilege of raising one of Heavenly Father's most amazing little spirits. I take being a mom very seriously and although I constantly mess up at it, I keep trying to get better and better. I love this little girl so much! She is the one who got me the coveted title of "mommy" and I am so grateful to her for that.

My husband did such a great job of helping Miss P understand the meaning of the day, and she was constantly telling me "Happy Moder's day". I love them so so much and LOVE my iPhone too!! yay (it makes me feel like a cool mom as opposed to my cracked blackberry which I hid from people with shame:)) Overall this was an amazing mother's day!

zoo and easter

 I have been wanting to take P to the zoo forever and this saturday seemed like the last chance before it gets too hot! It was so fun for her even though most of the animals were asleep...her faces were priceless.

Easter was so fun at our house and full of "tandy" and trying to learn about Jesus (her new favorite thing to say about Jesus is "He lives"...she says it about a hundered times a day!)

 This FACE is priceless...those lips!

 My in-laws had some baby chicks the girls could play with!

Over all a great easter weekend!

anniversary

I can't believe I have been married for five years to this amazing person. He is truly my best friend in the whole world. I love him so much and can't imagine my life without him. I love that I get to be sealed to him forever. He makes me laugh. He makes me feel so safe. Wherever he is I want to be too...he is truly the love of my life and I am so lucky to have found him! I would like to thank Chelsea and Mountain View cafeteria for bringing us together! hahaha

On another completely ridiculous and self centered note, I had to take the time to congratulate myself on accomplishing a huge goal of mine....to fit back in my wedding dress by my 5 year anniversary!(vain I know but just indulge me for one sec. and I will never mention it again) after I got married I instantly gained 15 pounds and never was able to get it off...add the 50  I gained bringing miss P into the world (worth it) and I had quite the mountain to climb but I did it! with the help of weight watchers, spin classes and some P90X I know fit back into my wedding dress again and feel better then I ever have! yay me (I know you can throw up now I am done.)

In case you don't know me well enough that face is a joke...ok