loves watching baby einstein

2/6/10 She watches her baby einstein every morning and loves it. She smiles, babbles, and talks to the tv. she just loves it

Museum

On Feb. 12th we went to the Pheonix Art Museum. It was nice to get out and do something different. Lyla was as perfect as can be. These pictures were taken right outside. It was such a pretty day that day. Lyla staring at the little waterfall

cutest headband ever. My friend sara makes them.

I love spending time together as a family....love them!

Lyla's growls

overwhelmed

I am SO extremely lucky to have a healthy beautiful little girl. Im in tears right now, I just watched a video about a boy who drowned and died for a few min but in the end came out alive and well. Even though that little boy survived and what a miracle it was i still feel so blessed beyond mesaures for my little girl. What a joy she is and I truly feel like the luckiest person alive that i get to raise sweet little lyla. Oh how I love her!

growing up...

Just yesterday I realized Lyla is not a little tiny baby anymore. She is getting such a cute personality, smiling at everyone, laughing when you make funny faces. She also laughs when you scare her haha. She rolls every which way and can get all the way across the room by doing that. She is just such a joy and even though im excited and love every stage she is in, it is sad she is not a little tiny baby anymore even though to me she will always be that way. I love her.

Family Pictures Dec. 09

My good friend Whitney took our pictures for us back in dec. She did awesome! we love our pictures. Check her out on my sidebar. (i dont know how to do links)

December happenings

Dec. 18th Troy finally graduated! He got straight A's im so proud of him and he graduated magna cum laude. He worked soooo hard and i appreciate how much he put into his education.

If you look closely that is him accepting his diploma. Troy and his Grandma Jarman

Troy and his 2 sisters

love this picutre, she loves her daddy

These next few pictures are at our ward christmas party, this was the first time Lyla got sad when someone else was holding her haha

Lyla and scary santa....doesnt he look scary to you??

Me and Troy were invited to a family production of the nativity and they asked us to be Mary and Joseph.

This picture was taken on our little family Christmas (we celebrated it 2 days before christmas)

we started this tradition a few years ago to make a really nice dinner, watch a christmas movie, exchange presents. We made homade fettutini alfredo and the olive garden salad dressing and some other yummy stuff. We watched "Its a wonderful life" and made some homade chocolate fondue with strawberries.

Lyla is opening her gift from Grandma Jayne, she got a fun little toy and a portable dvd player

I got Troy some first addition church history books

And a snuggie haha, he likes it

He got me a cute headband and some earings

And when i thought he didnt get me anything else, he suprised me with this. I put Lyla to sleep and when i came out he said, " did you hear that on the roof"? and we went out the back yard to find this. I seriously love it and have been wanting one for soooo long!

Now these pictures are on Christams day at the Palmers

In her cute christmas outfit

she seriously loves looking at herself in the mirrior

playing with grandpa and grandma palmer

Christmas night we went over to my sister melissa's house, she made such a yummy dinner!

We took family pictures with all of Troy's family, this was taken with our camera

Lyla has been loving her feet

so funny

the many faces of Lyla

This is Alma, we were celebrating her 100th birthday. She is like a grandma to me. She has seen me grow up. She just passed away this morning. She will be missed

we started Lyla on rice cereal Jan. 12th. The pictures may not show it, but she really loves her rice cereal. She doesnt quite get how to eat it, she just tries to slurp it up. It has helped her sleep better through the night which is nice.

Lyla is truly such a joy! She will turn 5 months in a couple of days. She is such a happy baby and still doesnt cry very much at all! she smiles all day long.

A few things she likes to do/learned:

sucking on her feet

sucking on her bottom lip and at the same time blowing bubbles

she scratches everything from her head to my arm, on the wall ect.

she does her high pitch cute screams and talks all day long

just learned how to roll over from her stomache to back, shes been doing the other way for a while

always has to touch her binky when its in her mouth, she pats it. She likes to know its there.

puts everything in her mouth, including her whole fist, literally.

loves everyone and smiles all day long.

I went almost 5 months of pumping, i stopped about a week ago. A couple of days before i stopped pumping i was seriously only getting like a 1/2 ounce total but couldnt get myself to stop . It was so hard for me to stop, but i know that i gave it my all and tried so hard and for all those months she got alot of breast milk and that makes me happy. I do have to say i dont feel as tide down and its kind of nice not having to worry about pumping all the time. I guess you can say its bitter sweet.

Right now me and troy have been in cali since the very end of dec. and we will be here till the end of Jan. He has been working for my bro in law doing demolition again. It pays very very well but it is very tough on troy physically. But we are fortunate that my bro in law is so nice to let him work for him!

2009

Jan. 09 just newley pregnant ( i acutally found out dec. 10th)
feb 09
march 09 found out we were having a little girl
april 09 troy took his Mcat
may went to cali to work for todd, stayed with my family for a few months, i just sat all day long with my feet up it was bliss ( i was allowed i was pregnant)
june troy filling out medical applications, find out he got a 30 on his mcat which is AWESOME
july went to our cabin with almost my whole family and celebrated the 4th. Thats when i started to get wayyyy swollen
aug. celebrated our 4th year anniversary and also added our sweet lyla to our family
sep. troy started school which was his last semester, he also turned 27
oct. troy found out he got accepted to medical school yay!
nov.
dec. Lyla's first christmas!