Friday Flashback - Planting Trees

A month ago we went and planted trees with Lilly's Grandpa (my Dad). The family business sponsered a tree planting event through Friends of Trees. Lilly and I went along but we did very little planting. She is a busy toddler and I was newly pregnant.

Here she is wth her Grandpa eating one of many snacks for the day.

Posing in front of a planted tree.

And doing what we did most of the 4 hours while Ryan and my Dad planted trees... she ate snacks, we did laps around the block, went to a nearbye playground and watched everyone else work. It was fun to support a great cause, even just in spirit!

Nose Bubbles

No pictures this time, just a funny toddler story. Lilly is obsessed with water and bubbles. Over the weekend she discovered she could make bubbles all on her own. She had a really runny nose and would blow snot bubbles and point at them and say "Bubble!" with pride.

Oklahoma Trip - All the Cousins Together

On our last day we tried to pose all the kids together for a whole group picture. I took more pictures of the trip too but taking pictures of little ones is tricky, they didn't all turn out. Below is a play by play of our impromptu photo shoot. Lilly was by far the wiggliest of the group.

Everyone but Lilly posing nicely...

One of many attempts to get the busy toddler in the photo.

Finally a decent picture of everybody!

Oklahomah Trip - Wagon Rides

Then it was Ryan's turn to play with the girls. They have the same wagon as
Lilly and she loves to ride in the wagon! The older girls took turns pulling it and running behind it while Lilly got to ride the whole time, one benefit from being younger.

Here are the girls posing with the wagon.

Ryan pulling some of the girls around the outside of the house.

Oklahomah Visit - Uncle Kevin Teaching Lilly To Ride A Scooter

Lilly had never seen a scooter up close before our trip. She was super excited to see the girls riding their scooters around. Uncle Kevin showed her how to ride a scooter too!

Excited to try riding a scooter.

Starting to feel confident...

Trying to take on the scooter on her own!

All the kids playing outside.

Lilly, Londyn and Jade outside playing.

Oklahoma Trip - Jade Arrives and Cuddling with Cousins!

Here are some pictures of Lilly and cousin Jade snuggling the morning after Jade and Nikki arrived. We were glad to see them, they had had a long night of traveling!

It was hard to get a good picture of the two of them, this was the best I could get that early in the morning!

Cuddling with the other girl cousins in the morning.

Oklahoma Trip - "Playing" Slap Jack with the Girls

Lilly loved "playing" slap jack with the girls and Uncle Kevin!

Taking some cards for herself.

Sneaking off with some cards.

Watching the girls.

Oklahoma Trip - Londyn and Lilly at the Park

Here are some pictures from one of the pretty days in Oklahoma when we took Lilly and Londyn to the park. We went to the park a lot while we were there.

Oklahoma Trip - Ice Cream Snacks

Londyn helped me get some groceries one of our first days there and she insisted that Lilly needed icecream when she got up from her nap. Skylar got home right at the same times so the girls all enjoyed an icecream together. Lilly had never had icecream in a cone before so it was quite a treat.

This last pictures is so cute eventhough Lilly is a little blurry. She is a busy little toddler, always on the move!

Bugs = Bubbles, Toddler's Take On Life

No pictures this time. Just a Lilly's take on the world. It is so adorable how simply and happily Lilly views the world around her. Yesterday at the park there was a big swarm of bugs hanging around above a patch of grass. Lilly spotted them and happily squealed "bubbles!" and would stop every once and awhile to point at them and say "bubbles!" Luckily she was too distracted by the kids and the park to go over and try to play with the "bubbles" to find out what they really were! We contine to be amazed by this sweet and adorable little girl!

Oklahoma Trip Revisited - We Got Our Camera Back!!!

Luckily we were able to get our camera back that we left on the airplane so we are able to share some of the cute pictures we took while in Oklahoma visiting Ryan's brother's family and his sister and her daughter that joined us there.

This picture is from our first day there, Ryan cuddling with Londyn, Skylar, Lilly and little Lincoln.

Ryan snuggling with Lilly and Lincoln.

Baby Number Two!

Lilly is going to be a big sister somewhere around October 15th! We are very excited to add to our little family. Lilly is a darling child! Here she is holding the first pictures of her little brother or sister and practicing her baby holding skills. She loves babies and baby dolls, hopefully she will be as receptive to a real baby that comes home to stay.

Easter Day

Happy Easter! There are a BUNCH of posts below, so scroll down to see all we have been up to. Lots of catching up on all the Easter Stuff we have been doing this week. What a busy week!

Today we spent Easter with the Lawrences, Rogers and a family from the Lawrence's church who have 3 sons and a daughter a few days apart from Lilly. Lilly and the other little girl Alora were both wearing the same easter dress by chance. Grandmommy and Grandaddy Lawrence gave Lilly hers and the two girls just happened to be dressed alike. Lilly loved being dressed up in her adorable dress. She really likes to be dressed up now. I wouldn't be surprised if one of her next words is "dress"

Lilly enjoying another (much dryer) egg hunt.

Very busy egg hunt.

Taking in all the excitement.

Getting into the hunt.

The girls hunting together.

The girls enjoying some of the candy they found.

Grandmommy with the look alikes.

Lilly and Eli having some down time after the egg hunt.

The girls playing the piano.

All three toddlers playing some easter tunes (Lilly multitasking by taking a milk break too).

Muddy Egg Hunt

Fairview has an annual egg hunt in the park. We didn't take Lilly last year because she was so little but this year she was ready! She loves her purple basket and had been practicing for over a week putting eggs around the house and picking them up.

Unfortunately the event said it went from 10-1 and I assumed egg hunts went all day long. We arrived 5 minutes after 10 and the toddler hunt was already over. We had to go in the with bigger kids but Lilly loved it all the same!

Waiting to get started.

Really excited by all the action, she just froze, we were over in the corner to avoid all the big kids. There were hundreds if not a thousand eggs everywhere... it wasn't really a hunt, more of a mad dash.

Getting into it near the end.

So much fun!

So many people! She loves crowds!

Waiting in line to collect a special prize she won in her egg, she was hoping for a stuffed animal but got a gift certificate instead.

Easter Baskets

Again... loaded in reverse order.

Since Lilly loved dressing up in her easter dress we let her wear it for opening up her easter basket from Grandma and Grandpa Wagoner. Afterwards she didn't want to take it off!

Happy that we allowed her to keep wearing the dress since she was goofing around for pictures.

A sad look and a quiet "no" when told we had to take her dress off to get ready for the mud bath egg hunt. We were going to let her wear her dress but it was so wet and muddy out. We are glad we didn't, we all came home with mud more or less up to our ankles and all over our clothes.

Checking out the loot!

A "dog!"

Starting to take stuff out of her basket.

Easter Cookies

Again, loaded in reverse order....

We baked sugar cookies and decorated them. Lilly was very into the process this time!

Enjoying her cookie.

Frosting face.

Frosting is the best part.

Adding sprinkles.

Sampling the frosting.

Starting with the decorating.

Thinking about tasting the frosting.

Cleaning the cookie cutter.

Sampling the dough (as quickly as possible).

Cutting out her bunny cookie.

Getting a little help while eating dough.

Ready to start on her bunny cookie.