Only when living in Arizona.....

Can you use the money your parents give you for a summer gift as a winter gift instead. 

Winter or summer, Alayna still loves it!

Can you say cheese?

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa L.  Layna loves her sandbox!

Mother's day

We did in fact celebrate mother's day and here I am finally documenting that we did.

I am working on getting out of my blogging funk.  (Ha.  I just wrote gunk instead of funk.  I hope I don't have to get out of my blogging gunk.... oh dear.)Anyway, whatever it is, I will try and do better.  In fact I have a few posts in the works already.

On to the Mother's day details.

Any day is a good day when your two favorite people give you these:



and this balloon.  She was so excited to give me the balloon that she came walking proudly into the store I was shopping at (I was banished to shop at a different store than Dan and Alayna for awhile:) and said, "Here Mom, this is for you!"  and handed me the balloon.  It was so cute to see a little floating balloon coming at me through the isles. 

Unfortunately this balloon had a short life due to a battle with a fan.  Oops.  I'll remember that from now on. 

 Dan gave me permission to order the camera bag I have been eyeing.  I am seriously so excited about my new bag.  It's perfect!

And I would be a terrible mother if I didn't take a picture with my favorite 2 1/2 year old.  As a bonus present, she decided to smile for the camera.  Sweet!

I couldn't pick just one so here are two of my favs.