Fun With The Cousins In Oklahoma

Sadly we have no pictures of our Spring Break trip to Oklahoma because we lost our camera somewhere between the Seattle airport and home. But we did have a wonderful time visiting with all of the family in Oklahoma. We loved meeting precious little Lincoln. Lilly adored him and all of her girl cousins. Some highlights were trips to the park, wagon rides, "playing" slap jack with the girls and following the girls around everywhere. After just a few days Lilly was saying the girls' names. It was so great to see everyone again and meet our little nephew.

Lilly did a pretty good job traveling despite throwing up a huge amount on the way there. Although we packed extra clothes for Lilly, Ryan was covered in puke and had to buy a new shirt in Colorado. The only pants available for purchase were camoflague sweatpants which he decided weren't worth the embarassment of wearing. That was why we were carrying the camera separately to make room for a change of clothes for everyone in case she threw up again on the return trip. We did take lots of pictures of the kids and are sad we can't share any of them but were fortunate to get to spend time with everyone again.

Flashback Friday - starbucks baby

A few months ago we took pictures of Lilly enjoying and empty starbucks cup. Since Ryan and I met at starbucks for the first time we thought we should do a starbucks post.

Social Sweetie at Conferences

Sorry, no pictures this time. Lilly and Ryan came to join me for dinner at work since I had to work at 12 hour day on Wednesday. Lilly was quite the social girl wanting everyone to pick her up, sit on their laps, dancing and then pointing at people to tell them to dance. Walking around on her knees and showing off boo boos and her belly. She even pretended to be a puppy for part of the time! Overall she was very funny and silly and quite the entertainment during a long conference day! Only a half day tomorrow until SPRING BREAK! We hope she is that social, charming and entertaining during our airplane travels net week!

I did want to add: We don't really want her to be social enough to ask strangers to pick her up or sit on their laps, but it would be great if she was happy and entertaining!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Due to parent-teacher conferences I work 12 hours today so we aren't able to celebrate St. Patrick's day on the actual day. Ryan and Lilly will come join me for dinner at school, maybe we will have a green themed meal. Over the weekend we went to a family friendly St. Patrick's Day event with live music, dancers, balloons etc. Lilly had a blast and got really into the music and loved being out with all the people.

Watching her explore and check everything out.

Dancing and entertaining people near us. She danced SO much!

I tried to get a picture of her cute shamrock t-shirt.

Watching the bagpipe band while playing with Daddy's hair.

Still watching the band, she really like the tunes!

18 Months Old Already!

Our sweet little Lilly is 18 months old today. A year and a half has gone way too fast! Here are a few pictures looking back on the last year and a half. I am not sure why two of them are such tiny pictures.

More Puddle Jumping

Lilly in action in one of her favorite past times. She loves "wa wa" and puddle jumping. It was hard to get her to leave this great puddle!

All girl - tutus and purses

One day I had off recently Lilly spent the afternoon wearing her tutu, lady bug boots and spent a large amount of time engrossed in playing with her singing purse.

Spring Walks/Wagon Rides

There have been some beautiful days lately! We have been going on a lot of walks and taking Lilly on wagon rides. She loves to wear her ladybug coat and boots. Last weekend we took her and Lucy on a walk through the "wooded" area near our house. I didn't take the camera on our trek but dog and toddler were both on the same wavelength. They were both searching for "wa wa" to play/stomp/wade in. They chased after each other with Lilly constantly saying "dog" and "lucy" and "wa wa". The two companions made it home quite muddy and ready for naps.