SIX MONTHS OLD!!!!!

The last three months (well, all six actually!) have flown by, and I'm not okay with this! Isabella is now laughing, eating baby food (that I make- I LOVE it!) saying, "Hi Da-da," sitting up like a PRO & attempting to crawl. I say attempting, because every time she gets up on all-fours I push her down.... Just kidding-- but no, really- I don't want her to crawl-- I want her to be my baby forever!!! Here is a quick recap of Izzy pictures from the last 3 months. Note: these are a mere fraction of the pictures taken; as I take about twelve thousand a day... Ask her grandparents ~ they can vouch in the amount of picture text they receive daily.


In the last three months the Bolins have...................

Flown to OK while Casey was deployed. Mom came up and stayed with me for a little while and flew back to Oklahoma with Izzy and I. I was SO nervous about flying with her, but she was an absolute rock star... it couldn't have gone better. She's amazing.

(Please notice her middle finger. Please. Haha- she gets these sweet, sweet manners from her dad, I assure you.)

Isabella got to meet Parker & Jack!!! Two of the sweetest boys in the whole wide entire world.



Not too long after Casey got home we took Izzy to her first Mariners game. While there they gave her a 'My First Mariners Game' certificate. Since then we have decided to make a baseball scrapbook ~ whenever we can we are going to visit baseball parks around the US and keep the tickets and take pictures and build it as we go and as Iz grows up. This was all actually Casey's idea and I think it's pretty awesome.

Izzy on the ferry on the way to Seattle. She is always such a happy baby. We are so lucky!

Like I said earlier- she is sitting up on her own like a p.r.o.

We had to put down our sweet Ginger Bear. I've had her since I was 12 and she was our first child. It was extremely, extremely hard on both of us. The vet's office did this for us- it's now on our family picture wall. We miss her so much everyday.

Izzy celebrated her 1st 4th of July! (This picture was taken at church, before the gathering started.)

Super Dad!! We went to the fireworks in downtown Poulsbo... we were honestly expecting Izzy to hate the loud noise and us have to leave immediately, but instead she LOVED them. Success!! Love when that happens!

While waiting for the fireworks to start, we stopped at a local bakery and got doughnuts... not just any doughnuts... doughnuts as big as Izzy's head!

Soooo we booked a trip to HAWAII and Izzy is SOOO excited!! She can't wait try these suckers out!!

Okay- so the story about this Hawaii trip is just too funny to not tell... For Christmas this past year my parents paid for all of us to go to Hawaii for the week and stay in a resort in Kona and just relax and be away from it all... They even booked Casey & I this little condo to ourselves, because we never got a 'real' honeymoon... anyway... We were PUMPED- and as we were ordering tickets I said to Casey, "Wait- shouldn't we pay the extra to insure our tickets, just in case we need to change them?" (I was thinking this was so necessary because even though the Navy promised Casey's crew this past Christmas off, anything can change... always.) Casey very quickly said, "No! There would be absolutely NO reason to do that... NOTHING is going to change... We ARE going to HAWAII!" HAHAHAHA!! Little did we know I was about 6-8 weeks pregnant during this exact conversation. So yeah. We didn't go to Hawaii. Neither did anyone else in the Mobbs clan. Everyone had to cancel their flights and resort reservations to meet sweet Isabella. NO ONE would have changed this, obviously... it's just comical. So now we are going to Hawaii (just us) as a family of 3. :) Heck- Izzy still flies free- everyone wins!

I got to have a night out with the girls with NO babies!! This was the first time EVER for ALL of us-- so yes, it was a big, huge, gigantic deal!! :)

I am now an 'Independent Scentsy Consultant.' For my first party several guys from the boat came (not to buy Scentsy exactly... but to hang out with Casey, play with sweet Izzy and eat the yummy snacks). Here are a few of the guys doing ab exercises with Izzy.... Andrew (the guy in the brown hoodie) is 6'4", which just makes this even more funny. They're a great group of guys!

This picture and the following were taken on Izzy's six month birthday. 7-2-11

There is no denying it- Isabella is a daddy's girl.

Nom-Nom.

LOVE her.

Probably my favorite picture of the day. She has changed our lives, brought us so much closer, left us exhausted, left us with baby food everywhere, left us laughing and smiling for days... I wouldn't change a second of these past 6 months. Isabella Jo is forever and always our baby and we thank God for her every single night. (Along with all of you, don't you worry!)

I asked Casey, "How would you sum up these last six months?" His reply, "Crazy. Awesome." That just about sums it up. :)