Sunday, February 20, 2011

Is she really 18 months old???

I cant believe I have an 18th month old who now is in nursery! Time has gone by way too fast. She did great in nursery, didnt cry once and just likes to play and eat her snacks. Im really excited that I me and troy dont have to chase her in the halls every sunday and I'm especially happy I dont have to chase her in my heels anymore. But I have to admit I really hope she doesnt come home sick every week cause you know most parents dont care to leave their kids home when they are sick! But all in all I'm excited for her to learn more about Jesus and to have fun with other kids while me and Troy can enjoy our classes :)

This picture is right before Lyla and her friend Jolie were going to nursery. They are only 3 days apart. And Jolie's mom is my really good friend Katie :) Some fun things about Lyla
She loves to put this steaming basket for rice over her head
She loves to eat her fruits, veggies, mac and cheese, turkey, rice and whatever we put on her plate. But she especially loves candy. I hardly give it to her but Im telling you she can spot it like she has an eagle eye and she will whine and scream until she has a little piece, so i've been good to keep that all hidden.
She is still obsessed with her binky's, she will run in her room and find them somehow, even if I thought I have put them all away she seems to find more in random places. I always keep like 10 in her bed for her to go to sleep, that way whatever position she is in there is always one handy.
Speaking of sleep she STILL doesnt sleep through the night. Let me tell you that has been the hardest thing of my life and yes i've tried to let her cry it out but boy she is one stubborn girl and she eneded up climbing out of her crib and landing on her back. So sad! She has slept through the night before so I know she can do it. Im always so hopeful everynight!
She is the most animated little girl I've ever met. Her facial expressions or the funniest thing, she can never hide what she is thinking of feeling.
She can do a really good impression of cookie monster. She does the growly voice while she says cookie cookie
Lyla is such a smart little girl, she learns things very fast!
If you ask her how old she is she says "one" while holding her finger up
Likes to be read to
When I ask her to sing she sways back and forth saying "la la la"
She loves songs, and loves to been sung too, When she hears music she says "song"
This girl can climb ANYTHING. She is totally fearless! she climbs all the stuff at the park which is for the older kids. She scares me all the time!
She loves people
One day we decided to count with her so we started to say "one, two, three" and then she blurts out "four, five"! Me and Troy were shocked because we have never taught her that!
She knows and says alot of words
She has full on conversation speaking her own language (with a few real words in there) she even looks at you in the eyes like she is telling you this whole long story.
She likes to eat an apple whole and she will eat it to the core.





You cant ever give her just one cookie you have to give her a whole handful which she will put all in her mouth at the same time




she loves to put stuff over her head and start to run, yes she has ran into the wall a couple of times


I've painted her toenails a lot before but this was the first time I painted her fingernails and she did a great job holding still.

I hate to admit this but she loves watching her shows. She loves the channel sprout, sing along videos and yo gabba gabba and seasme street. She also will climb up on our bed and say "show", she likes watching it on our bed.
She definitely knows what she wants and when she wants it. She will throw some serious tantrums
I can never take her to the store because she climbs out and just wants to stand in the cart even if i buckle her in she manages to squeeze out! and let me tell you that is very frustrating
She for the most part is a VERY happy little girl. She loves to hug and kiss you and is just soooo sweet. Me and Troy just think she is the cutest thing ever and love to see her learn new things everyday and I just truly love being her mom. Every night I still love to go in her room while she is sleeping and just stare at her for a little bit. I just LOVE this little girl and I'm so glad that she is mine :)






Monday, February 14, 2011

Month of December

Lots of fun stuff went down in December. First we start off with temple lights with our group of friends! 12/4/10 the girls







On our way to church, this is the smile we get when we ask her where her teeth are. I love it!






Lyla is such a tom boy, she loves playing in the dirt and getting dirty and she likes sucking on rocks!





12/11/10 we had our ugly christmas sweater party. It was sooo fun, we also had a white elephant gift exchange. The picture below shows first second and third place. First place goes to the guy in the middle, those outfits were awesome!


some of the funny white elephant gifts








the lovely ladies




me and my sister melissa

i love this outfit!! haha






Skyler is so happy to be wearing his reindeer sweater



me and Kaylee

me and Rachel






had to get a picture of the ugliest sweater ever

This is Lyla wearing dad's hat looking too cuteThis is Lyla in her Christmas outfit, but of course she just wants to run away and play and not stand still







This is all our christmas presents under the tree. That night we had our own little chirstmas. Its tradition that we make a nice dinner that we've never made before and open christmas presents and watch a christmas movie. That night we watched A Christmas Story. I always look forward to this night, its always so perfect!


Lyla see her horse for the first time. She loved it!





getting a toy car! she is such a tomboy!


driving it around making a car noise (which she tought that herself)

she loved opening her presents sooo much she had to hug it



now its troys turn to open his presents. I got him 2 shirts and a pair of shoes



He got me my fravorite movie! The Thorn Birds










Here is our yummy dinner.








We went to California for Christmas this year, this was on Christmas morning. Even though our parents gave us cash for christmas they still had a couple of things for us under the tree to open in the morning. This is Lyla opening up her doll



She wanted to suck on the dolls binky

That night we went to Kristens house and had some good food, played games and had so much fun! Here is Lyla and her cousin Macy in their matching pajamas from grandma We also watched Brian Regan (a comedian) and I have never seen my dad laugh so hard!!!

Here was the gang, we were missing a couple siblings :(


One of the days we went to Ryan and Taryns house in LA and spent the night. The kids have fun playing in the bath together as you can tell on Lyla's face. We went out to eat at Rock Sugar and wow is it pretty dang yummy! While we were there we saw Sherri Shepard from the view there. We always have a good time with Ryan and Taryn

Then on another night we went out with our friends Nicole and Jeff and Elisabeth and Tyler. I grew up with Nicole and Troy grew up with Elisabeth. We went out to PF Changs. We had such a fun time catching up.Dont we look hott?? We were having so much fun in the parking garage taking the ugliest pictures ever!
And the handsome guys

And here is the cutest picture ever! Lyla found mommy's make up!