my little walker

look at all those teeth! she is such a cutie:) showing us her claps, and double chin.

paisley took her first step at grandma and grandpa jensen's house on sunday august 30th. Later in that week we took this video of her. now she is walking everywhere and especially loves to walk outside. we love this baby!

dancing through life

at the end of august, andrea and i decided to try our luck with the wicked lottery. it was the last weekend that the show was going to be in town and we both wanted to see it again. for those of you who don' t know how the lotto works, you go down to the venue 2 hours before the show starts and put your name in the drawing. i think it depends ont he day/show how many tickets they have for the lotto. we went to saturday matinee and they had 20 tickets to give away, each person that won could take 2. on the second name in the drawing, the lady was something like this "is it devEE--n-i-e, deveenie jensen??" i said that's me! we were both so pumped, there were probably about 100 people there so chances were slim of winning and i won! you have to go right into the office and pay $25 cash for the ticket, we had no idea where the seats were.

sue (andrea's awesome mom) came too, but sadly neither andrea nor her won. of course andrea got my second ticket.

this is how close we were: [yes you can actually read the backdrop]

i might have snapped just a few shots at the end...we were in the second row!!

crazy close i know. the show was fabulous as expected. i loved it a lot more the second time, was able to take it in more, and being on the second row really helped!

with our "i won the wicked lottery buttons," and andrea's niece toni who was here with her parents for her birthday. check out her sweet new shirt, love it!

not the best picture of us, we had so much fun, i am so glad that andrea came with and that i won! whoot!

we were pretty excited. and don't worry we were so close that during intermission i got dared[yea like fifth grade style] to go get the cuteish conductor's signature for andrea. don't you worry your pretty little head, i did it. he was very nice and it was cool to see the pit.

wonderful afternoon. wonderful show. wonderful friend.

del mar races

at the end of august, swinerton did a day at the races, where they host a free suite at the del mar races with yummy food. even though we don't gamble, we thought it would be fun to go see some of the races, and mingle with some of chris's work friends. the tasty mexican salad was enough to make me happy:)

paisley showing off her big girl seat that she just loves.

eating while paisley destroys some napkins. or cups. yes she is holding a knife. it was super dull and kept her happy. don't judge me:)

momma and daughter.

outside the suite waiting for the race to start. some of chris's friends made a good chunk of money in a race or two-it was fun cheering for who they had bet on.

our happy family. (paisley is too interested in the track to be bothered with a picture.)

one of the many gorgeous horses there, i love horses! i seriously did horse back riding as my birthday present several times growing up. i also did horse back riding camp for a week at a time in the summer-loved it! (other then the sweaty shared helmets)

isn't the background beautiful?? i am so blessed to live in san diego:) thanks for the fun afternoon swinerton!

pantry fun

paisley really likes to help in the kitchen. she especially loves to stand in the pantry and get things off the shelf for me.

occasionally she helps me open things. like these granola bars...apparently she has super strong/sharp teeth.

chew. chomp. chew.

this pose reminds me of the spice girls.

i love my baby, even when i have more work rather then less when she helps me.

fort building with dad

one night while i was out, paisley and chris made a fort. she loved it. here are a few pics that chris snapped of it.

inside the fort.

loving it.

not loving it.

paisley and daddy: my two favorites!

i'm back

well, it has been a while. a lot has been going on for me and my family..maybe sometime i will share, but for now i am trying to get back into the swing of things and get caught up on my blog. i have so many cute pictures of paisley to share! so here goes.

this video is from driving to lake powell( i know, forever ago!) paisley shows off a few of her skills in her big girl car seat. yes, we really traveled all packed up like that-its takes a bunch of stuff to travel with a baby!