Ponytail

Yup. I bought some little tiny elastics and put my daughter's perma-mohawk into a little girly ponytail right on top of her head!

I can already tell you this is going to be a 'special occasion only' kind of a doo because not only is it tough to get her to sit still and stop grabbing at her hair - I can barley squeeze my chubby fingers through the dang elastics!

I have a new admiration for those moms who do their little girls hair cute everyday.
Wow. What a talent!
This took me 10 minutes to do and it doesn't even look that great!
Don't get me wrong - I think my baby girl is adorable no matter what her hair looks like, I just didn't realize that it takes some serious skill. I guess I need to start looking at all the mommy hair blogs now.
Besides, it is definitely better than her long strip of hair falling in her eyes all day!

Oh, and here is a video. We had gone out to dinner one night and I was fortunate enough to catch all of this (including her gut laugh):

Soul Patch

I bet you thought from the title of this post that perhaps Josh had decided to attempt growing some facial hair. Don't be fooled!
It's not my husband who grew the soul patch... it's Brinkley!!

Okay, okay. It's not really a soul patch there on her chin, it's half mashed chocolate animal cracker, but it looks pretty close to the real thing if you ask me!

Well, it made me laugh! So I snapped some pictures, which made her scowl at me!
I learned my lesson: Don't mess with the soul sista!

And don't ask me why her hair is such a mess, I don't have any excuses.

Two wonderful weeks in UTAH!!

So we went to Utah... three weeks ago. And then came back... one week ago.

Aaaaannnd... I am just now blogging about it.

I don't think I've ever had this hard of a time getting back into my groove.
WAIT! I'm still not in a groove!
In fact, blogging right now may be the most productive thing I've done all week!

But that's okay. Brinkley is going through a really fun, happy phase right now and I figure playing with her is more important than registering the car and doing the grocery shopping anyway.
Who needs to drive? Or eat? Not us. We have a fun baby in the house. It's time to play!

Anyway. Here are some pictures of our fun two weeks in Utah. We had the BEST TIME EVER!

Oh, I should mention; as I uploaded our pictures I realized that, like usual, I took most of them of just Brinkley and almost zero of our family. So... sorry. But not sorry to the grandparents because they don't care. They like pictures of Brinks.

Okay. Weird. The 'upload photo' button won't work. So, for now this is all the pictures you get. I'll keep trying, but until then my apologies!

This is Grandma Becky with her two beautiful granddaughters, Brinkley and Jude! We went to a little Irwin family get together and had a really good time. There was a little playground there with a slide that Brinks adored and wanted to go down again and again... and again. Judith and Brinkley played together really well. Brinkley also really liked playing with Rocky's (Becky's husband) dogs! Ever since then, whenever Brinks sees a dog she goes 'woooah.' Which I think is her version of 'woof.'


One day we also met up with Becky and Jude at a different park. We played with that bouncy orange ball for a couple of hours. We had to stay under the pavilion though, because it was a million degrees outside!
I had a super cute picture of Brinkley playing ball with Jude, so imagine it if you can.


My mom bought Brinkley this little pool. Talk about love at first sight. Doesn't she make it look like a blast? That smile just makes you want to jump right in there with her! She got a nice little tan out there in the warm sun.

Grandma and Gramps stopped by to say hi! And Brinkley blew them plenty of kisses.
(She now prefers blowing kisses as opposed to actually giving real kisses... I guess I would too if everyone kissed my face as much as they kissed hers!)


All tuckered out.