The Pink Trike

 Ada loves playing/pushing her pink trike.  It was given to her by some sweet friends on her birthday.  We play every morning outside and she loves playing with her trike.  She will let me put her on the seat and push her around, but mostly she likes to push it herself.  She loves it!

Nature Walk

 Ada I went on our first real nature walk.  We went to the park and searched for cool things in nature.  We found a cool stick with a curly vine wrapped around it, a pine cone, and a cool nut looking thing.  Afterwards Ada found the bike rack a lot of fun to walk through.

Our littler Helper

 Ada is becoming quite the helper in our home.  These are some of the things she loves to do to help.

Help put away daddy's tools

Help take out the trash

Help daddy borrow the spreader

Help keep the milk safe while grocery shopping

Help mommy sweep the floor (she actually does a great job at dumping the dust pan contents in the garbage)

Bouncin' Bear

One of our favorite free places: Bouncin' Bears!

Ada loves playing on all of the bounce houses

She is in love with slides these days

Happy 1st Ada

 We had a fun Neon birthday party for Ada.  She loved her cupcake and frosting. 

Neon Birthday Party

"I spent my first year sleeping"

California Summer 2012

San Francisco Pier 39 and Alcatraz in the background

Ada loved sour dough bread

Hanging with her cousins at the cabin in Truckee

Breakfast with Ben's former roommate and his sweet wife

Ada and her cousin Brooklyn

We met sweet Madalyn who was only a few days old

We some swimming in the pool where I learned how to swim

Father's Day 2012

We had a fun time getting things ready for Father's day. I printed off a free banner, and then put little ties up all over the house with things that we love about the daddy in our house (Ben:) I made a blueberry oatmeal bake and some eggs. For dinner we had friends over and we ate ribs. Ben is better at making the ribs, so he had to cook them- but they were great and we had fun with our friends. Ben's gift hasn't been redeemed yet, but someday we will go to Six Flags because he LOVES roller-coasters!

9 month old Ada- Walking

Working in our Garden

Ada loves being outside!

She is really good at cheering us on while we work in the garden.

For our family home evening activity Ben made bean poles, I made the compost container and planted new plants, and Ada looked cute.

In our garden we have:
Romaine Lettuce
Spinach
Bell Peppers
Jalapenos
Basil
Tomatillos
Cherry Tomatoes
Big Boy Tomatoes
Okra
Beans
Peas
Snow Peas

and soon we will have WORMS!!!
What are you growing?

Messy faces

Ben does a great job of feeding Ada

Even though sometimes Ada sticks her hands in her mouth then rubs her eyes she is soooo cute

Ben always likes to make Ada feel good about herself so he put some of her food on his face too.  What a loving father!