She went to bed a BABY and woke as a TODDLER!!!

Can you believe Zoey is 1? I sure can't. Zoey turned 1 on Thursday March 28th. We are celebrating Zoey's birthday this saturday with all her friends!!
I was trying to figure how I could sum Zoey up in 3 words, but I can't. She has such personality and is so sweet, words don't come close to describing how adorable she is.  Zoey got a baby and a stroller from my mum for her birthday and if you ask zoey to feed her baby, she will grab the babies bottle and actually put it to the babies mouth! I just can't believe how smart she is, she picks up on things very easily. She's starting to repeat a lot more words now too.
New words: Dog, NO, Duck, uh-oh.
I am so happy that Zoey is apart of our family and couldn't imagine life without her.
Happy Birthday sweetheart, Mummy and Daddy sure do love you x

We went to Olive Garden for her birthday, Zoey was trying to color! She was watching me coloring, so she then grabbed the other crayons and made a few scribbles, I couldn't believe it. This year has really flown by, it feels like only yesterday when we brought her home from the hospital.

Zoey is WALKING!!!!!

It is official, as of last week Zoey has been taking a few steps. Each day she has become braver and braver in her steps. She is so cute when she walks, she looks like a drunken sailor, sometimes lol.
So I decided to film it, so here you go.

FOOD!!!!

Zoey is such a good eater! Over the last few weeks we have gradually been introducing her to
grown-up food and she's been loving it so far. She specially loves bananas, scrambled eggs and of course chocolate. One of her new favorite words lately is Mmmmm...... she says this I swear whenever you put food in her mouth, she's so funny.

Zoey shoving the banana is her mouth

Zoey making a mess with her scrambled eggs.

Zoey's 1st time touching banana

Zoo

On saturday we went to the Zoo with our friends the Dibbs. It was probably one of the nicest days we've had in awhile. Don't get me wrong it was still cold, but the weather couldn't have been any better, seriously clear blue sky. We had tons of fun walking around the park, apart from the fact that half the park was closed for reconstruction. I think Zoey's fav part was seeing the seals, she loved it. Any time she saw an animal she was so cute, she would point and say "wha is tat" she was animated and so adorable as she was taken it all in. Stella who is one of Zoey's besties was so fun to watch also, she is so smart for her age and was very animated as she named the animals. I love watching Stella grow, if anything it just gets me prepared for when Zoey is her age! I loved seeing the Elephants, they are my fav animal, but of course when we got there they were sleeping. (just our luck)
I took a few pics a long our walk through the zoo and few of Stella and Zoey. The pics of them aren't the greatest, but I don't think we'll ever get the perfect pic with those two, they're such busy bodies!

Aren't they just so cute?

Not sure who those kids are in this pic, but the polar bear
in the back ground was so cool to watch.

Zoey's pointing and saying "wha is tat"

Best shot with Zoey and a Leopard- can you see it?

After the Zoo we went to The Cheesecake Factory for Brit's Birthday with her family, unfortunately I didn't take any pics, anyways that was fun! We then that evening went over to the dibbs to watch BYU basketball- I think! I wasn't paying attention, I was having too much fun watching Zoey and Stella play and talking to Brit.

Cool Zoey

On saturday before getting ready to go to the Zoo with the Dibbs. Zoey was eating her breakfast and I found her COOL sunglasses that she's never worn. I'm sure if Zoey ever did wear her glasses they'd only last a few seconds before she'd rip them off and throw them. Anyways, Zoey lasted a bit longer this morning and even gave me a cheeky smile.

Hi

Zoey in her Snowsuit!

We brought Zoey a snowsuit a few weeks ago, I know she probably won't get a ton of use out of it, but it was such a good deal that we just couldn't resist. We've been getting tons of snow lately and Bryce and I wonna get together we friends soon and take the kids to some bunny hills and let them enjoy the snow, but it's finding the time. Having said this, until then we decided to get her all dressed up and take out front and enjoy (somewhat) the snow for the first time.
This was Zoey's reaction!

I don't think she knows if she should cry or smile 

Daddy & Zoey on our new snowmobile 

Zoey's New hair do!

I just had to take a pic and post it on here of Zoey's new hair do. I can finally clip a bow in her with her cute little pony.

Zoey walking & talking

Zoey has been trying to accomplish walking by herself for some time now. She can pull herself up to the couch and walk along it. BUT... today she now walks with her playskool walker, it is hilarious so Bryce and I filmed it.

 Zoey since birth has been very vocal and loud. She has for a bit been able say a few words, but lately I swear she's just become very verbal.   Zoey can say "was that" "tity tat"= kitty cat, "dada" and now when she waves she says "Hi"she also makes these funny sounds like a gasp when she's looking at something and pointing or sighing.

It's flippin cute, her soft innocent voice, although i'm sure she'll soon be a chatterbox. 

Minnie Mouse

Zoey LOVES Minnie Mouse! She is so funny to watch when you put Mickey Mouse clubhouse on in the morning, Zoey will seriously move to the music and gets all excited. I'll have to film it one of these days and post it on here.

Plus I thought these pics were so adorable of her, that I just had to post them on here.

Random pics from England

So because my blog completely messed up how I had my pics, they are seriously now out of order, so I apologize.

Opening Zoey's presents

No jokes this room was literally full of gifts for everyone

Buckingham Palace

Zoey on Grandpa's lap, enjoying the train ride up to London

Another pic of inside the cool pub

Zoey in front of Windsor Castle

Yianoula, Bryce, Bec, Chris, Zoey, Mum and Jon

This pic is with my Grandad

Bryce standing right next to the deer

It's kind of a dark pic but this was taken by the Thames River
in Thames Ditton. From left to right.
Rob, Chris, Jon, Bec, Bryce, Jo, Yianoula and Mum.

England- Our first weekend!

Ok, so when we arrived in England we were all completely tired, I think we all fell asleep pretty early that night. Bryce couldn't believe how small the roads were when we drove to my dad's house from the airport, I think he was kinda freakin out (Ssshh... just don't tell him I said that.) Of course the day we arrived it poured down with rain, but that's English weather for you!

On Sunday the 23rd of Dec. My brother Chris and his wife Yianoula took my mum, bryce and I up to London to sight seeing! Although I am from London and have been up there many many times before, it was really nice to show Bryce around and have him take in the London culture!
We went on the London Eye which is basically like a ferris wheel, it is literally massive and when your at the top you can see over the whole of London pretty much. We also took Bryce to the Tower of London. Bryce told me he really wanted to see some castles so we did go to a few different places, there will be several pics throughout all my new posts showing the few castles that we did visit.
Also, I just realized my pics are not in order like I had actually put them, so instead i'll just write little captions under each photo instead.

This pic was taken while on the London Eye

Bryce and I

Pic of Big Ben

Heading to the Tower o London

Some serious Bling going on in there!

This pic was taken at the Natural History Museum

My brother Chris and Bryce in a taxi in London

Yianoula, Chris, Bec and Bryce

Up London

Christmas Morning!

Zoey loved opening and help others open their present,
but what she loved most was the CHOCOLATE!!!

Getting ready to go out for the day!

This pic was taken in front of the London Temple

Mummy with ZoZo's

On the temple grounds

Temple grounds

Still Temple grounds

I thought this was a really cool picture. The grounds for the
London Temple are really pretty and it's huge.

Pub

Inside the pub

Bryce with his Fish and Chips!

Zoey with Grandpa

Bryce getting a pic with one of the Queens guards.

Windsor Castle

Zoey taking a nap with a singing snowman that she just loved.
She would sit next to it and dance (leaning back and forth)

Deer, Deer, Deer. Bryce was in heaven at this park where the deer roam free

Aboard the plane getting ready to take off

Like I said, Zoey LOVES chocolate

Up London