summer wrap-up: part 1

This really was an amazing fun summer for our family! The california trip was amazing and we have the pictures to prove it! My baby loves the beach and spent hours just playing in the sand with her Dad and Nana (i prefer to lay out and watch from a distance;)) We spent a ton of time with my brother and his wife and my sissy and her now FIANCE!! We took late night trips to balboa for ice cream and ate tons of yummy sushi! And now I can officially say living there has not ruined Cali but only made it better! We were sad to have to leave and a part of us still wished we lived there but when we came back we got to move into our new house!!!! So we were not to sad (pictures coming in part 2)



d-backs, harry potter and swimmin...

 We were just trying to prove that there was no botox here!! haha

(the bunny ears are brought to you by my sister in law! real mature kerr bear...hahahaha)

My friends some how talked me into going to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and seeing as how I never read the books I am not a die hard fan... but I am always down for an excuse to drink gallons of Dr Pepper, eat tons of candy and hang out with my girls into the wee hours of the morning! We had so much fun!

Swimming with Nana and papa is a daily occurrence at our house and something miss P is going to miss desperately when we move in a few weeks! She is a water baby and can"t get enough of the pool!

This happened to be the day that the power was out for like 8 hours so they were looking for flashlights incase it didn't get turned on my dark!

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!