Weekends go by so FAST!

I've decided that weekends just go by too fast. This is even with me having three day weekends... We had a good weekend. We went to hang out at the park on Friday night with some other families from our ward so that was a good time. We watched the kids play on the toys and many of them gravitated to the water (of course Nyah did also).

Then on Saturday we took her to a water park. Turns out that the water wasn't warm so we didn't want the sun to be behind the clouds because we wanted all the warmth we could get. There was a slide Nyah enjoyed and then a water fountain area provided some fun also. We also went around the lazy river about a million times (okay maybe I only went around 1/2 a million times because the rest of the times Nyah and Ryan went around while they let me take a little cat nap in the sun) :) The lazy river was definitely my favorite part of the park.

When we came home and changed out of our swimming gear, Nyah decided she wanted to wear Ryan's shirt. So here she is modeling Ryan's shirt.
















Then here are some pictures of Nyah and I rolling her ball back and forth. Hallie has this same shirt and last time I was at the Carter's outlet I decided Lisa did such a good job with that purchase that I should copy her. :)























We hope all of you have a great week. Ryan is going to scout camp Tuesday night so Nyah and I are going to be on our own until Saturday morning. Hopefully he has a great time at camp although we're sure he's going to miss us a ton!

A New Car

No, not a new car for Ryan - but for Nyah. Saturday night we went looking for a tricycle for Nyah but found a little car she could push herself around on and decided that would work better for now. I don't think she would quite have the pedals down anyway. Besides the car makes all sorts of fun noises (a fire engine, the radio, a police car, etc.) We decided to go look for something when she was trying to ride her little push toy we bought about 5 months ago. She is having a blast with the new car. She had to push it all around Wal-Mart (she can ride it or push it) once she saw it. We tried putting it in the cart and she wasn't having it. She was so mad so we gave in (I know, quite the parenting technique) and she pushed it the rest of the time. Here is a picture of Nyah with her new car.

Here is also a picture of her with her hat. She has decided she kind of likes hats again. She leaves them on for a lot longer and actually initiates putting them on. I'm going to have to invest in some new hats for her because they will be great to help keep her out of the sun a little since she always wants to be outside. Perfect, another excuse to shop for Nyah.... :)

Below are just a couple more pictures of her just looking cute so I thought I would share.

Everything is going well. We took Nyah swimming this weekend at the rec center and she had a great time. She really enjoyed going down the alligator slide - good times. She does love the water. We hope all is going well for all of you. On another note, I can't believe Jana is going to be leaving the MTC for Argentina in about a week - crazy!

A New Hat and Dancing

So I finally got her on video dancing last night. Her hair is wild though because by then she had taken out the little ponytail that was in. Her dancing cracks me up though and hopefully you will enjoy it as well. You will see that she had her toys all over the family room but she actually helped us put them all away before she went to bed last night. Good girl. :)

We were having popcorn while watching a movie last night and she also had an idea of what to do with the greasy popcorn bowl - that's right, a hat. Pictures continue to be a challenge since she doesn't want to hold still for that long but we got a couple.





We did go on a small hike/walk on Saturday. She of course found water and that was quite the adventure. Let's just say she was nice and cool from head to toe by the time we left to go home.

You may wonder why I'm posting during the middle of the day but that's because I have the day off. :) I'm going to need to work on Friday so I switched. I love days off.

This morning while I was getting ready, I looked over and she had managed to sit inside a shoe box (she even had her little legs tucked in there). It was adorable but she had bailed by the time I ran to get the camera. I really need to just start hauling the camera around so I don't miss all these cute little pictures.

Hello everybody!

I hope all is well with all of you. We are going to enjoy a little break in the weather today. It has been around 100 degrees most of this last week so we are excited that it's only going to be about 80 degrees today. I think we're going to go for a little hike.

Nyah is being as cute as ever. I looked over the other day to see her pick up her plate and start licking it. I asked Ryan if he taught her that during their breakfast time in the mornings but he assured me he didn't. It's cute though. I've got a video of her licking her plate and then saying "hello" at the end of this post. Adorable.

She is also doing some fancy dancing these days. I'll get her on video sometime this weekend and then add that to the blog as well.

We are just super blessed because she's such a good little girl and brings so much joy into our lives!

It's almost been a month!

I can't believe nearly a month has passed by since I've last posted. So much has happened. We had the Ragnar relay which was a new adventure. There were lots of good times (but not a lot of sleep) and I think most of us would like to do it again sometime. When Ryan was running his last leg he didn't know if he wanted to ever do it again but I think he is already changing his mind. :) It was interesting for me to see some of the differences between this type of relay and previous events. I'm hoping everybody is going to send me pictures and then I'll post a slideshow of the Ragnar relay experience. We also got a chance to spend a little bit of time with Dale and Kathy before we came back to Colorado which was nice and relaxing after the crazy Ragnar days. :)

Then we had our anniversary the next weekend. Ryan surprised me a couple of days early and sent me some gorgeous roses to work. Then we had a date night. We went to see Iron Man. I have to admit I wasn't very excited when he told me it was based on a comic strip but I really ended up enjoying it. It was a good mix of adventure, drama, and comedy.

We had a fun Fourth of July weekend although you'll just have to trust me on that one because I don't have any pictures to show for it. We walked down to the park by our house three times for different activities and also played in Nyah's pool in the backyard. Nyah went through three different changes of clothes (besides her swimming suite) because they kept getting wet on our trips to the park (the park with the very tempting water fountains and pond area). We wondered how Nyah would do with the fireworks last night. She really enjoyed the first 10 minutes and then her attention span was done. Ryan and I joked that we had never looked forward to the grand finale before. :) She wasn't crying or anything, just ready to be off on a new adventure. She did keep saying "ooooh" which was adorable.

Then today we were productive and ran errands and then I helped Ryan finish cleaning the garage. He had a big job but it looks great! The last big piece of news is it appears as though Nyah is now going down for naps and going to bed at night on her own. I told my mom the other day that I might have a five year old that I need to lie down by in order for her to go to sleep but it looks like that might not be the case after all. It all started because I love to cuddle with her as she falls asleep! :)

I'm also going to do a slide show of some of my favorite pictures from the Pincock family pictures we had taken recently.