the best.

the best friday evening.



with my two best buddies.



and the best view of these chubby legs {walking all over the place}.



and the best greek salad + onion rings {from apollo}.



= happiness all around.

and...



my belly is growing.

the end.

weekend.

saturday we did lots of chores. sean cleaned out the cars, and found a nice surprise in the back of mine. a dead hummingbird. so apparently we hadn't thoroughly cleaned out our cars since before the cabin trip a few weeks ago :) serena loved playing on the wet grass while daddy weeded & watered. and threw a monster tantrum when i brought her in, stripped her down, and made her take a bath. she has been full of monster tantrums lately. and then after sean's hard day of work, i treated myself to some ice cream & berries :)




yesterday we had the most stressful day ever, made much worse by serena's tantrums. {we think she has some teeth coming in or something... we hope.} i spoke, sang, and directed the choir in sacrament meeting, sean taught elders quorum, one car died in the church parking lot, home teaching and visiting teaching, a temple recommend interview, all while dealing with an extra cranky toddler. but we ended the day with some relaxation. my parents came over for a perfect summer meal. hot dogs on the grill. cantaloupe. strawberries. crab salad. potato chips. and of course a nice berry pie for dessert {which i can't take credit for. thanks marie calendars!}.

i love summer. so glad some warm weather has finally arrived.

p.s. i took a picture of the hummingbird, but it grossed me out to post it with so many food pictures... sorry you missed it :)

sunny fiona.

like the new blog header? me too.

i discovered sunny fiona today and i'm so pleased! i love tammy's designs. so clean and fresh. and all of these lovely images? free printable downloads from her website. i highly recommend checking it out.

{images are linked to the downloads.}

adventures in swimming.

somehow we got stuck in line behind someone's entire family reunion today when entering the waterpark.

serena refused to sit in her stroller during the 20 minute wait. {i always bring her stroller but end up using it to push around all of the swimming paraphernalia awkwardly with one arm while holding her.}

while standing in line, serena {who was on my hip}, peed right through her swimmer. it was all over both of us and dripping down onto the ground. i'm sure the people in line behind us were disgusted.

oh, the joys.

it's a good thing she's so happy in the water.

hmmm.

well, i guess sean wins. most of you said you would say it like daisy with an "m". but because there was some confusion, i guess we'll spell it maizy. i'm not in love with the "z", but i would rather reduce the mis-pronuciations. we don't want her to be confused for a macey, which is a darling name, but not what we're going for.

so.

now it's down to maizy and harper. we flip-flop on which name we like better just about every day. good thing we have 18 weeks to decide :)