Beautiful day in the neighborhood!

It was gorgeous gorgeous GORGEOUS this weekend!

We spent a lot of time outside playing with bubbles, riding bikes and just enjoying the weather.
I won't say a lot for these pictures. She's just getting big, she's not my little tiny baby at all. That bubble wand is a bust and doesn't work very well, but she still got a few and she's VERY good at skipping! I'm a proud mama/dance teacher! :)

OH!!! Where have we been since February!!!

Holy smokes.

So busy.

Being a mom, and a dance teacher during competition season makes for a crazy crazy time.

Izze is the sweetest girl you've ever met. Smartest little sassy thing too. She's definitely the epitome of THREENAGER.  And it's fun. She's just about done with preschool and we'll be doing 3 days a week next school year. She's been doing gymnastics and dance and loves them both a lot!

She has been saying she wants to play soccer and I'm thinking we'll take the summer off of dance and gymnastics and we'll do swimming and soccer instead.

The only thing is she wants pink EVERYTHING and the pink soccer stuff is too big for little Punks like her.

Speaking of being small. Izze is very petite. She is the shortest one in her gymnastics class, dance class and preschool class. She's a skinny little thing. But a total power house of energy. Like a little puppy.

She is quite the animal lover and would love to be surrounded by dogs and cats and elephants too.

She loves reading, painting, writing words (with help of course) and riding her big big bike.

Jeremy and I are doing great. We're still loving living in Daybreak and Jeremy's doing great at his store in Tooele.  I'm loving teaching dance, our studio just gets better and better every day! :)

I guess you want pictures.

The year is ending.

2009 wasn't too bad. It had it's downs, but luckily they were outweighed by the ups.

Some highlights.
+Jeremy got his own store.
+I started taking more time for myself.
+Moved to a new home in Daybreak.
+Made a lot of new friends (our whole family made friends).
+We had our first family camping trip (we went several times actually).
+I started teaching two new competition teams at dance.
+Izze started gymnastics.
+We found another preschool closer to home for Izze.
+I learned how to bake things not from a prepackaged mix.
+My mom and sister and I spent a few (very necessary) days in New York City.
+We finally bought a big enough kitchen table to fit more than just the three of us.
+Jer surprised me with a shiny new iMac. :)

Some lowlights.
-Jordan had some runs in with the government...
-We have very poor luck with washers and dryers.

Some inbetweeners.
+/- Izze had to have oral surgery on her front four teeth.
+/- Izze lost one front tooth
+/- My best friend moved to Portland (good for her/ sad for me)
+/- Izze lost the other front tooth
+/- We acquired a second car... that needs some work.

And here is a recap of our year in photos. Each picture is pretty significant to the year.

Ok... really.

We had a lot of hiccups with getting internet here. Everyone thought everywhere in Daybreak had free fiber optic internet. I guess there are a few streets that just don't get it.

We finally have it, and I am committed to keep this blog up. I love reading all the blogs of our family and friends. So I need to give to get right?

And you know our blogs are the best with pictures of the cute little people in our lives...

Without further ado.

I have several pictures from this summer.

First off, my little fishy girl. She can swim underwater about three feet by herself. She loves going underwater and could swim all day if I'd let her. You can really see her missing tooth here now.






For Jeremy's birthday Izze got him the DJ Lance Hat, she was so excited. She thought, this is something she really wanted, so she knew her dad would love it too.





Izze being cute again.


I know she's got a booger face, that's what happens when you ride against the wind. I didn't do a thing to this photo, she's just so darn beautiful! :D I can't help but brag!


Showing me the rock she found, she loves painting rocks and giving them as gifts. You can also see her name bracelet I found at the farmer's market. I never thought it a million years I'd find Isadora, and I did... all I had to do was wait until the Ecuadorian family started a booth of these!


Izze told me she wanted to grow out her hair... but we both decided on a whim to get her hair cut, short and choppy.





She loves riding her bike. We ride it almost every night.




and even though this is out of order. We got her dance class pictures back.


I'll update a lot more often, smaller too. Izze dance class is starting up again soon. The classes I teach are up and running. I'm taking a few classes now too. We're always staying busy, so hopefully that means we'll have a lot to post about. :D

Desperately Seeking Pictures.

The craziness that ensues... in picture form.

Izze's mother's day party at school. She made me a huge card showing me how much she's grown since starting school (not at all). And potted a pansy for me... which I left at the apartment (wah wah wah). And she frosted me cookies.



Packed up/ after pajama day at Izze's school... where she had a big "D" accident and came home in mismatched jammies... but hey... I at least remembered to pack another pair of jammies on pajama day. GO MOM!



Izze running through the sprinklers in Jeremy's parent's backyard. She is pretty cute...





And visiting our new house today... That's Jeremy's dad, Jeremy and Isadora... with the fresh blood drawn wound. And our nephew Parker.


I don't have photoshop on this laptop... so no fancy stuff... just pictures you were dying to see. :D

Tomorrow... Tomorrow!! I love ya'! Tomorrow!

Preschool Pictures.

Here are the pictures of Izze's first day of preschool.








She was kind of mad that I picked her up in my dad's car and his carseat instead of her carseat and my car.


This is her school bag she'll use for the rest of the year.


This is her piggy puppet, she made. So cute.

Just a taste.

I have some more photos from that photo shoot we did with Jessica's friend Leah. It was fun. Izze is beautiful.






Doh!












Let's not talk about my hair. I know already.






On my head.

Also. Izze is using the potty like a champ. I'm so proud of her. Now if she would sleep better. She's getting there, she loves her bed and falls asleep in it, pretty well. But I think she has nightmares a lot and wants to climb in bed with us many times a week. After this potty thing is solid we're going to start using the bribery plan with her on the sleep issues too.

I love Izze. She's a great kid. She's a funny person. She's charming, she's smart, she's a good friend. I've been blessed, thoroughly.