Point No Point.

2012/13 is going to be a big year. My sister jessy graduates this year and will be heading off to college soon after. My sister alexis is heading into middle school and just made the cheer squad. I just started a new job i really enjoy and cj... well he is just being cj. With that being jessy wanted to do something as a family since after this school year things will be changing. We decided to take a trip to Point no Point. Its about 45 minutes ish away from our house and it is a actually beach.
 You may want to laugh at me when i say actually beach but i will explain why i say that. I am from Cali, so when you visit a beach it involves sand. Washington beaches typically don't have that. They have rocks instead of sand. Not very feet friendly if you ask me.
 It was a great trip though and it was liyahs first time at at beach. She loved it. According to her the name of the ocean was pool. She enjoyed playing in the sand and if she could she would have stayed in the water. Jessy had to take her out because she noticed the shivering. It wasn't exactly warm when we visited but it still was a nice and enjoyable day. Great family time spent together. A blog post wouldn't be complete if I didn't have pictures to go along with it.
 Most of the pictures are taken by my brother who is an inspiring photographer. He did a pretty good job.

Dancing with aunty

what she does best: EATS

Stepping into the pool 

Way too cool for us 

One of my favorites 

Family Photo :)

The siblings

The boyfriend

Stung by a bee

 

You know when you tell your child to not to do something, and you see them not listening to you so you think " I guess they will just have to learn for themselves." Well that happened today. Jaliyah got stung by a Bee for the first, and most likely, not the last time in her life.

 It might not seem like that big of a deal being stung by a bee, but for me it was. Two reasons 1) I am a mom and i thought she was going to die 2) My mom and my siblings(me included) have never been stung by a bee so i didn't know how to take care of the 

sting.

That is as bad as it got.

 

 Liyah loves animals and bugs. She doesn't have any fears, actually, she is a huge dare devil. Well we were doing a photo shoot today( My brother got a awesome new camera) My brother is trying to build his portfolio and used Liyah and my sister as models. Jaliyah, being curious as she is, found a bush that bees kept coming out of. I told her to leave it alone but she was so excited that she found out where they were going she just couldn't help herself. 

Crying her little eyes out

 

 All I hear is her screaming. She comes running saying "Bee" "Neck". At least I know what happened. I was worried she might be allergic, thankfully she wasn't. She cried for about 10 minutes and then we everything was ok again. 

She is saying "Stop"

 My brother got some pretty good shots. Jaliyah didn't really want to be an awesome model today, but he still made it work. :)

Not wanting to take a picture

Still not taking the picture

Finished product :)

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

 Well, actually its a blue-ish green-ish color, not red. My sister babysits a couple times a week and the lady she works for was kind enough to give Liyah this wagon. I have been wanting to get her one so its really cool that she has one that i didn't have to pay for.

 The youngest kid is about 8, so the wagon is kind of old. Not too bad though. My step dad had to fix one of the wheels. You can't fix something with out having an assistant, luckily for him Liyah was kind of enough to lend a hand.

After grandpa fixed the wagon we decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. I don't know why i thought this would be fun. Well, Liyah liked it. I on the other hand have a really buff arm from this trip. Good exercise if you want to look at the positives.

 No trip is complete for this little girl with out making stops to pick flowers or point out everything we pass. Trees, plants, flowers,cars,house.. you name it, liyah will tell you about it. It was nice to get her out the house even though the weather was sort of gloomy. She loves this wagon. I can tell she has a lot of plans for it for this coming summer.

Look at the happy baby

Loves picking flowers

Can't drive with open doors

Showing me the "leaves". That is what she was saying

 Side note. My parents just bought her a multi purpose table that she can color on and also use to eat dinner and pretty much anything else you can think of. Very nice table from Ikea. Erase most of the crayon marks and is very sturdy. Liyah Loves it.

So its offical

Jaliyah can officially crawl. I always new she had it in her. She always spent so much time attempt to crawl that i just summed up to, she got her laziness from her mommy. I am glad this day finally came but im sad because it only gets worse from here.
The way she crawls is what gets me. She uses both her hands one leg and kind of drags the other one along. I'm not judging her but i will say she looks a little special. We can't all be perfect. I am proud of her though. She spent so much time dodging anything that had to do with the floor, unless it was standing. I have a feeling she will be walking pretty soon also. Liyah does so well cruising the couches. I still feel like i just had her, sheesh.

1st Easter

So today was Liyah's first easter. We had the event at my step dad's sisters house. Tons of people there. I didn't get to many pictures of her because we didn't do too much. They had a egg hunt and after it was all said and done they put the eggs into a box so they could save it for next year. Well Jaliyah discovered the box with grandpa so thats what we got pictures below

The pictures kind of just tell a story by themselves 

big toy

Our lovely cousin staci gave us her daughters old play set. Since today was so nice out, i brought the toy to the front yard and let Liyah play. Today she got to experience grass on her feet for the first time. If it was up to my daughter, she would be outside all day long.

she thinks shes driving

swing yay

yay

The thing with the swing is that she liked pushing it more then being in it. Why i don't know.These next couple shots are just me, enjoying snapping pictures of my baby.

whos that pretty girl

she thinks its fun to use me as a jungle gym

Wondering what grandpa's doing

April Snow?

So living in the Interesting state that I live in, we actually got snow today in mid April. It wasn’t tons of it, but the fact that it happened still boggles my mind. Because Jaliyah was 4 or 5 months old the last time it snowed I didn’t take her out into it. She’s older now and was staring out grandma bedroom window. She  was very curious on what was going on, so i said what the heck lets go outside. Of course I got to catch the lovely moment in some pictures. Just an FYI, I don’t really own shoes for Jaliyah, mainly because she can’t walk so there is no point. So that’s why I’m holding her, if you guys were curious.

Shes like what the heck is that?

Hi aunty look at me

Its so cold

Lets help clean grandma's car