Birthday Girl.............

I can't Believe my precious baby turned 1!!!! Our first year has been filled with so many smiles and laughs. She melts our hearts and is such a joy. Brooklyn is always smiling and brightens our days. We will continue smiling and laughing with her for many more years to come.

Finally Hawaii.............

Finally some pictures from our trip to Hawaii. Brooklyn and I had an amazing time. We got to spend a ton of time with Nathan and Amanda and Alan. We went to the beach twice. The zoo and watched Nathan wake board. It was a very relaxing trip. Michelle came over to Nathan's a lot which was really nice. So did Psalms. Alan was so good with Brooklyn. Brooklyn loved the beach. I have a ton of pictures. It was hard deciding which to put on here. Glad Brooklyn got to spend time with Grandpa Lutz even though he didn't feel very well. And thank you to all my Brothers who made an effort to spend a little time together ,even though they have busy schedules. And thanks to my sisters who went to the zoo and had the great bbq. Oh and Psalms thank you for saving the day with the diapers. Phew!!! We had a great time. Love you all. Maybe we'll get to see you this summer???

Happy Halloween!!!!

Happy Halloween!!! It was a beautiful day! Only 90 + degrees! Brooklyn was a little bumble bee! She was so good in her costume. We took her on main street with the rest of the town. It was crazy!!! Kids everywhere. We stopped by Grandma Dolly's house first. After trick or treating we stopped and ate spaghetti at Grandpa Hankes. Now we are getting ready for our trip to Tucson and then HAWAII!!!! See most of you in a couple days!

More cruise..........

All the pictures are of Puerta Vallarta except the last one. It is so green there. Our tour guide flipped his ATV. (This was before we had the Tequila.) Luckily it wasn't that bad. Kari and I were freaking out because there were very steep edges and lots of obstacles to go through. We had only been on the ATVs for about 5 minutes when we had to go through this muddy ditch. Then after coming to another ditch with raging rapids they decided to turn around. Thank goodness. That's when we went to the Tequila Distillery. For the record I didn't even remember taking this picture. Yikes! That's what happens when you haven't had liquor is awhile. The guy on the rock, blind folds himself and jumps into this raging river. There were rocks and whirlpools. The guy is nuts! That river is also what we zip lined across. That is me starting a zip line. And the last picture is Cabo San Lucas. Our boat anchors and we take little fairy boats to the shore. The other towns it has ports it stops in. That is our boat too.

Cruise....

Here are a couple pictures from the cruise. The cruise we took was the Carnival Mexican Riviera. Our first stop was Puerta Vallerta, then Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. There was a concern that Hurricane Ivan was going to hit Cabo but it didn't. Puerta Vallerta was awesome. We went on ATVS through the mountains and local farms and hills and jungles. Then went to a Tequila distillery, and after that we went on Zip lines. The highest Zip line was 1000 ft high and 1200 ft long. Thank goodness for the tequila first! It was amazing. We zip lined over rushing rivers and trees, so cool. I will find the pictures and post them. Mazatlan pretty much was a bummer. It rained and we thought no big deal a little rain won't slow us down. It did. Mazatlan is famous for its shopping and Diamonds. We were soaked and not interested in any of it! Cabo was really nice. The weather was perfect. We took a tour of the town, went to a glass blowing factory. Then went on a glass bottom boat tour. Went to Cabo Wabo and had a margarita. Then we ate at a better restaurant and had a couple more margaritas! Then back to the boat. I will post in another post the pictures from all the different ports. The top pictures are just leaving port which was in Long beach. The next picture is of Brooklyn with one of the many towel characters. She would usually tear them apart before we could get a picture. The last picture is of Long beach coming back. Oh the beautiful smog!

TEETH!!!!!!!!!!

I just took this picture maybe a week ago. At the time she had

two teeth on the bottom. Tonight I just noticed another one on the bottom came through. So she has 3 teeth. We really have not had a hard time with her teething, yet. Some days she's a little more tired or cranky. But nothing compared to all the horror stories I've heard. Phew!

Labor day........

Labor Day we went to Prescott to visit family. Ted and Linda were there. And Tom and Phyllis and Uncle Jason. We had a really good time. The weather was awesome. 80's. What a change! The family picture is of us at one of the scenic views on the way to Jerome, AZ. Its a little ghost town. It used to be a big copper mining place. Its about forty-five minutes from Prescott. It was a winding road, with very steep edges. It had really pretty views. The other picture is Brooklyn playing in GRASS!!!! You don't see that around here to often!!! During our trip sweet Brooklyn cut her first tooth!!!!! Exciting!!! Picture to follow...........