Wrestling With Daddy

Jathan loves to wrestle with his little girl. And as you will see she loves it too. She giggles and screams, then screams and giggles some more! One of her favorite things is when her daddy comes home. She hears the door open, runs to the hallway as quick as she can and runs down the hallway into the arms of her daddy. It is so cute! I have a video of him coming home from school and she is on the couch. She starts freaking out and throwing herself all over the couch, giggling and screaming! I will have to post that another time!

Look Mom... no hands!

Zanna is a little climber. She loves to climb everything and get into everything! She is a busy busy little girl!

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Zanna went through a phase of not liking the tub too much. But ever since she got her new tub toys for her birthday form Grandma and Grandpa Garrett, she enjoys tub time much more. She still doesn't love to lay down to have her hair rinsed out. Nor does she like it when I pour water over her head to rinse her hair. Infact she kind of freaks out. But she will just sit and play with her toys for about 20 minutes. I love it! She looks so dang cute when she is all soaking wet!

Check out this little girls hair. It almost goes down to the middle of her back. It cracks me up! I never realize how long it is until she gets in the tub. It's got a little curl to it so it only goes down to her shoulders when it's dry.

Lady Bug Birthday

It was so fun to throw our Little Zanna her first birthday party. We had a lady bug theme. Really the only lady bug items we had were a lady bug cake and cupcakes. It was alot of fun coming up with ideas for the lady bugs. I did not realize how long 50 cup cakes and a cake would take me to decorate. Luckily Jathan was home for the day so he helped with the eyeballs and also took Zanna to run some errands so I could get them all done!

We had her party at Jathan's grandparents property. Thanks to Uncle Jules we had some scrumptious Navajo taco's. That man makes some awesome fry bread. THANKS JULES!

The Yummy Lady Bugs!

This is Jathan's face he pulls when he does not want to take a picture. He is such a little punk.

Singing Happy Birthday

It took her a minute to dig into the cake. She kept picking all the dot's off the lady bugs back. So I took her hand and smashed it into the cake so she could get the hang of it. Once she knew what she was doing she was all over that cake. It was SO CUTE and SO FUN to watch her.

It gets pretty chilly at night these days so Thankfully we had a fire going. Zanna ate her cake in front of the fire and was nice and toasty!


Zanna had such a fun time opening her presents. Jathan would pull a piece of the wrapping paper and then hand it to her, then she helped unwrap it the rest of the way. She would look at her new toys and say OOOO. This was a new thing and it was so dang cute. Side note: I forgot the video camera and I am pretty upset about it.


Thank you everyone for coming and having fun with us. Also thank you for Zannas fun new presents. She had a ton of fun playing with her new toys when we got home. She even stayed up two hours after bed time!

The Cabin

Jathan and I, and some friends and family all went to our cabin two weekends ago. We had such a great time!

Unfortunately we lost our camera by the pond at the cabin.... I am so so sad about it. I had lots of fun pictures of Zanna, and Jathan had just gone on a long buffalo ride and got some sweet pics... all lost. I am sick about it! SO SAD!

Anyhow... I decided to stay up for another week with my mom, Gretchen and Hannah. We had so much fun! It was great to just hang with the girls, ride horses, play games and watch movies. The weather was SO beautiful. I absolutely love the fall time at the cabin. I don't know if there is any place I'd rather be.

We took a little trip through Yellowstone park to Cody Wyoming to check out some horses. It was a beautiful drive and such a fun little road trip. We stayed the night at a hotel and went to the Buffalo Bill museum the next morning. Cody was such a cool rodeo town. I highly recommend going there.

I am kind of a silly little heart and dressed Zanna, Hannah and my mom and took some pics with my dad's camera. We had a fun little pretend Photo shoot.

We had good intentions of getting pics of Gretch and Brigg but ran out of time. Next time I suppose!

Zanna Helen Haazbaa Garrett

Happy Birthday My sweet little lady!

I can not believe our little Zanna is already ONE!! Time has gone by way too fast. She has been so much fun! It is crazy to think she is no longer a baby. It has been so much fun watching her learn and grow. She is at the funniest stage right now. Jathan and I just laugh at her all day long.

Being a mother has been such an amazing experience. I love it so much and would not trade it for the world. We love this little munchkin so much and are so grateful for her in our lives!

WE LOVE YOU ZANNA!

A few hours old

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1 Year

Happy Birthday Sweet Love!

Today is my honey's 30th BIRTHDAY! I can not believe I have known him since he was 22 years old. WOW does time fly!
The following are some of the many reasons I love you.


You are devilishly handsome
You are a snuggle bug!
I love watching you with our daughter. You are so sweet and so fun with her. She is already a Daddy's girl


I love that ever since we brought Zanna home from the hospital you ask me on a daily basis if I am prego and are sad when I say no
You are constantly making me laugh. No one has ever made me laugh like you
I Love watching you with kids. All children love Jathan!
I love watching you dance your cultural dances. They have always captivated me



I love listening to you give talks. You speak so eloquently
I love that you hold an honor the priesthood
I Love how well you get along with my family
I love all your many looks and how rugged you can be

I love your beard :)
I love watching you meet new people. You are so great at making people feel comfortable
I love when you tease my family and your family. That always makes me chuckle
I love listening to you pray and give blessings. It always touches my heart
We are constantly on new adventures

I Love that you want to be the latter day Porter Rockwell :)

I love the way you love me!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAF!!!

HELP!!! Soon to be homeless!!

Our time here in California is coming to a close very shortly and we are in a bit of a predicament... We move home next weekend and we have NO CLUE where we are going to be living :(

The good news is my super sweet bro Christian said we can live with him in his house until we find a place.

So if any of y'all know of any basement apartments etc.. that will be for rent end of August or beginning of September feel free to share!

THANKS!

The Garretts come to visit

Another INCREDIBLY long post:

When I was in Utah a few weeks ago Ray had told me that they (the Garretts) wanted to come visit and that they might drive out that coming weekend. I talked to Milli on the phone a few days later and it sounded like it was not going to happen. Then Thursday night Milli called and said they might drive out the next day. She called again a little later that night after checking flights and schedules and decided they would fly out early Saturday morning! THANK YOU so much for literally flying by the seat of your pants and coming to visit us! We had so much fun! While they were here we went to one of our favorite spots, Muir woods. We also went to San Francisco a few times. While in San Fran we hit up the Wharf, Pier 39, ate some yummy food at Chowders, froze our rear ends off and did some shopping. The next time we went to San Fran we took the Ferry in and went to China Town. We spent most of our time in a pearl shop and all of us ladies got pearl necklaces and earrings while Ray spent some quality time entertaining Zanna... Thanks Ray! We also went to Stinson Beach, Bodega Bay and Sausalito.

Muir Woods

Oh so strong! Jathan will probably be upset I added this one... but how could I not?

Stinson Beach

Golden Gate

This was the most common picture taken on the trip. Girls will be girls I guess!

Everyone getting ready for sleep on my living room floor! Awe cute!

San Francisco

A sweet mask a guy made out of leather. Jathan's eyes look super rad in this pic. It is almost like he is one with the wolf... ha ha! Does this remind you of the twilight books?? The indian turned warewolf! ;)

This picture kills me! We went on a little boat ride while in San Franciso. Milli was sitting next to the window where all the water was blowing in and had to cover up with a towel. What a sport!

It was FREEZING cold in San Fran. We had to buy Zanna a beenie and a whole new outfit to wear under her coat because it was so cold out. Weird crazy weather.

For some reason I could not get warm. I have three jackets on in this picture. Blue, Red and Orange.

Bodega Bay

This place was amazing. It was a beautiful, green, windey dirve along the coast. There were lots of crazy huge rocks out in the ocean and had a large hole through the middle of it. It was called "Goat Rock" It kinda reminded me of the Arches at Zion... only it was in the water...

On the drive home we stopped and took some pictures of the cows like true tourists. Jathan got some cool shots. It was such an awesome overcast day.

This is the only picture I got of China Town. These were the super nice gentlemen that sold us all of our many pearls. Pretty sure they loved us and the business we gave them.

Thank you guys again so much for coming. We had a blast!!