Birthday cake fun!

We let Bella go to town on her little birthday cake tonight. She actually would make a yucky face whenever she put it in her mouth which really suprised me, but she really enjoyed squishing it through her fingers and smearing it ALL over. YUM YUM

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY ISABELLA ANN!!!

What a fun year this has been. Lance and I are so blessed to have a spunky, crazy little angel that couldn't be any sweeter. We are so happy that she is a part of our family and that we get to keep her for eternity! We love you so much little Bella. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

A short, eventful, exciting trip to Maui

BYU Hawaii had their soccer Hawaii Cup Challenge in Maui this year and a few of the wives made a trip out of it. We had tons of fun of course besides the messing Bella up from her daily routine. In the two and a half days we were there she had a total of 30 minutes of napping time... compared to her normal 3 hours of napping... talk about crabby pants. I did my best to keep here happy though. So we got there early Friday morning and spent the day at the beach and getting unpacked in our nice little beach house the five wives chipped in on. The guys had their first game against Chaminade that night at 5:00pm They stomped on them with a winning score of 4-0. We were thrilled! We ended up staying at the field with the soccer team to watch the outcome of the next game to see who BYU would be playing Saturday night in the final game. Late night. Saturday the soccer team had a lot of free time in the morning and afternoon and so we were able so actually spend some time with Lance. We watched a little footall and then they decided as a team to hike up twin falls, which is an easy short hike to a couple different waterfalls so the wives decided to go with. It was really fun. Bella had a ball. Saturday night was the Championship game against a University of Hawaii, Hilo. There was no score at halftime and then came the second half... it was crazy! BYU scored two goals pretty quick. Then a few minutes later Hilo scored a goal to make the score 2-1 for BYU. Seriously within a minute after Hilo scored their goal BYU came back to score another one. Exciting to say the least! So remember the score is 3-1 now with like 10 minutes left in the game. BYU let down a lot I'm sure thinking they had it in the bag being up two. Think again. Hilo, with 5 minutes in the game scored a goal. It doesn't stop there. The referee held up one minute to go and the score was 3-2... I swear it was the longest minute ever. One of BYU's defenders fouled somebody pretty close to the box and they got a free kick. The Hilo player shot it, it curved around their wall and went in side net to tie the game. Not kidding! Stressful! They had to play a freaking overtime. Thankfully in the second half of the overtime a freshman on BYU's team drilled the ball into the net to win the game in a sudden death 4-3!!!!! The seasiders won the championship, yes, in once again another overtime. We were really proud of daddy who played the whole game and did AWESOME! He's definetely the sexiest soccer player in the world! We were really excited that we were there with Lance to celebrate their win. THE END!!!!!!!!!!!

THE GAME......

All Bella wanted after the long, super LATE night was for daddy to hold her. She LOVES her daddy

Hooray for another win!

The seasiders played La Verne a team from California and won 1-0 in a grueling LONG game. They had to play two overtimes, but ended up winning with one goal! We needed Caden on the team to score some goals! Love ya Caden

Bella's new thing... driving cars

Bella has been obsessed with cars lately. Anything with a steering wheel she wants it! We'll be walking down the sidewalk and see a little toy car and she signs car and goes crazy! I don't know if it's because she sees all the little kids riding them or sees us driving or what, but it's her new thing. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she's turning one next week and she is a BIG girl now :) She makes us laugh everyday. I love being a mom!

Girl's soccer game

Bella and I officially live at the soccer field here... Today was the girls soccer game and Lance, Bella and I decided to go. Bella loves to be outside crawling around in the grass so it actually is really nice. Everybody loves seeing her there and she loves all the attention she gets. She's a popular one around here :)

How do I customize my blog so it's not BLA?

I would appreciate any advice and help I can get. I can't seem to figure out how all you people have cute backgrounds and mine is so stupid.... Ok thanks

GO SEASIDERS!

BYU Hawaii won their first game tonight! They played Sanoma State last week and lost, but it was just an exhibition game so it doesn't even go on their record. Tonight they played Chico State and it went into overtime. BYU won 2-1. It was an awesome game. I'm so proud of Lance. He kicks major butt out there. Go baby!!! Bella had her first pigtails in tonight for daddy. She was cheering him on the whole game. She'd yell "Daaaaa" We sure love our daddy and all his hard work in all areas of life :) We're off to Maui for a tournament next weekend! I'm so excited! (as you can see I'm not much of an action shot picture taker. I'll get better as the season goes on)

Bella, Abish and Daddy's sandcastle

Abish is Bella's good friend who lives in our apartment building. She loves playing with him. They worked hard together to build this big huge tall sandcastle... of course with a little help from Daddy :)

MMMM.... Spaghetti

BATH TIME

I think I've deprived Bella of being able to enjoy her baths up until now. I have always sat in the bath with her cause I didn't want her to drown or stand up or ya... just call me a paranoid mother. So like a month ago I decided that since she's almost one she's big enough to take her own baths. She loved it! And she didn't drown :) But last night I decided to let her try a bubble bath. She couldn't stop saying "BU Bu, Bu bu" for bubble. She was hillarious! I never knew bath time could be so much fun.

BELLA AT SOCCER PRACTICE

I thought I'd bring my camera to one of Lance's practices so everybody could see how we have spent most of our days this last week. Bella and I go to pretty much all of his practices just so she can watch daddy and crawl around the grass. It's pretty fun. Bella LOVES soccer balls. She'll crawl wherever she has to to get one. Her favorite part though is stretching with daddy after he's all done.

It's when you don't have something that you really miss it...

I have to say that I have taken the best husband in the world for granted this last little bit. I have been spoiled through the summer to have him helping me out with EVERYTHING. With Bella, with laundry, with cleaning the house, just with everything. He's the BEST! Last week he started soccer training... He's been playing anywhere from 5 to 8 hours a day. Insane! Bless his heart, inbetween practices he just comes home and crashes, so this last week I have really missed spending time with him. It was funny he made the comment the day before his 3-a-days started " I don't know if I really want to put my body through this agian, I'm getting old" :) He had his first game on Thursday and played Sanoma State who is ranked #1 in their conference. It was a good game. They lost 2-1, but played awesome especially since the morning of their game was the first time the players EVER played together. This will be Lance's last soccer season and we're excited. The team is looking really good. They've brought a whole bunch of new recruits that I think will be awesome. GO LANCE! GO SEASIDERS!