Peter Pan Park

So today we went up  north to look for a house for Trent to live in and we found the coolest park I have ever seen.  It was a Peter Pan park, we had to stop to let Brylinn play.  Half the park were the streets of London and the other half was Never Never Land.

There was the London Bridge,

This was Big Ben (there was a big clock behind the post, and it rang just like in the movie.  So it not only looked like it but it sounded like it too. So cool.)

And even the Darling house with Peter Pan in the window

Then on the other side of the park there was Caption Hook's Ship with a crocodile in the "water"

There was the Lost Boys treehouse, which Brylinn loved.

But her favorite part of the whole park was the Mermaid Lagoon.  At first I thought I could just take her shoes off and she would play but I realized very quickly that if I wanted her to go back in the car with dry clothes I would have to take them off.  So she ran around in her diaper proudly. 

This also led into a little splash pad that she loved.  The water would stop for a while and so she would get really close to it and stick her face over the hole with such curiosity wondering why it had stop.  It was so funny to see how surprised she would get when it would spray back up.

She also met two friends, a little girl and a puppy that she would not leave alone

 This kind of park is perfect for Brylinn because she finds swings boring and she cries every time we go down a slide. We both had so much fun, I am so glad that we got one more really fun park day in before it gets freezing. 

Brylinn turned 1!!!

Our baby turned 1 on September 3rd.  I can't believe how fast time has flown.

Here is a recap of the past year...

One day old

 1 week old

3 weeks old

1 month old

2 months old

3 months old

4 months old

5 months old

6 months old

7 months old

8 months old

 

9 months old

 10 months old

11 months old

Taking this picture was crazy.  My sister and I were just trying to make her stand there to get  a cute picture of her in her new outfit.  So we had our cameras out and I stood her up and backed up.  Then before I knew it she was walking towards me.  It was crazy, we couldn't believe it.  There had been no signs that she was even close to walking. So we hurried and switched our phones over to video and got some of her first steps.  She was only 11 months and 2 days old. Its so cute to see such a tiny little person waddling around.

1 YEAR OLD!

I can't believe how fast she has changed. She went from this tiny 7lb baby to this big girl with such a cute and sassy personality.


We spent her actually birthday down in Mesa with our Eddington family and had a little early birthday party in Colorado Springs with our Taylor family before we left for Mesa.

At the early party we just invited a few friends and family for a BBQ, cake and ice cream.  

She was so cute she would open a present and then hold it up with excitement in front of her face. 

Beth and I spent hours the night before working on this.  Half way through we thought it was a failure, only finishing it because we had already invested so much of our time.  Which I am glad we did because it really turned out pretty good.

She also had a little cake just for her.  She dung into this cake so dainty.  She would just poke it with one finger and then lick her finger.  When she decided it was good she dug right in. 

These are pics from her actually birthday down in Mesa.

The day started off with Grandma bringing her home 3 balloons which were a hit, she carried them around for days... 

 **Cute outfit made by Aunt Beth

Then she rode the rocking horse and when that didn't satisfy her anymore we took her to ride a carousel at the mall. 

But I think her favorite part of the day was when we took her and bought her a new pair of walking shoes.  She would have walked around the mall all day if we let her.  She would just walk back and forth past the stores.  We passed a ton of stores and she had no interest in going inside any of them till... we got to Victoria Secrets.  She tried to walk in and I would turn her around hoping that she would forget about it, but she didn't.  She tried to go in there 3 or 4 times till I finally picked her up and walked her away and of course she cried till it was out of sight. 

Then when we got back home she blew (well tried) out her candle on a cherry cheese cake. She did the cutest thing, when we told her she could eat her piece of cake she bent down and put her face in it.  Then we showed her that her fingers were easier.

Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby Brylinn.