Christmas Pictures

Ok...I know it is February, but I wanted to put these pictures up on the blog. We went outside to get pictures for our Christmas cards, but Lily was not in a very cooperative mood. She didn't mind her picture being taken as long as it wasn't anywhere near David and/or me. We ended up getting some cute pictures of Lily, which I was very happy about.

LOVE this one!

playing at Auntie Ashlee's

cute family picture

Later that evening, we tried taking pictures again. Lily was in a much better mood. We even got some great pictures of Lily and Gracie together.

giving G a kiss

with dada!

what most of our pictures looked like. baby+dog=bad idea

giving us a squeeze

cute, except for the dog

excited to take her pic with Granny & Grampy

Pictures!

Here are some pictures of Lily that I think are super cute :)

Lily feeding a one-armed spiderman

playing in her new house!

peek-a-boo

the window is so much fun

she put all her blueberries on one fork

licking the beater

yum!

she loves her new YGG blanket!

lovely hair from the ball pit

sleeping with her straw in her mouth

working in her kitchen

wearing my socks and shoes

loving on her pup pup

Wow! I'm a bad blogger!

I can't believe it has been since the beginning of the year since I have last posted. Well, things have been quite crazy, but I'm back now so get ready for some pictures. I am going to go back and cover some of the things I have missed.

Happy New Year!

We had a great night ringing in the new year! The 3 of us went to a NYE party at Jim and Lindsey's house. We went early so we wouldn't be out too late, but we got a good amount of celebrating in. Lily had lots of fun running around as well as dressing up in her New Year's beads! Lindsey had lot of yummy snacks and it was a great way to celebrate the start of 2011.

I'm looking forward to all 2011 has to offer. My life is changing in ways I never thought it would, but I feel like God is moving us to challenge ourselves.

I promise to post about Christmas, but I don't have the pictures from my mom yet so those will have to wait. I did get a new digital dslr camera right after Christmas, so I should have lots of new pictures for *hopefully* lots of new posts.

Thanksgiving

As Christmas is only 4 days away, there is no better time to update about Thanksgiving :)

We has such a wonderful Thanksgiving spent with both of our families. We started off going over to David's parent's house to enjoy lunch with them. We had so much fun hanging out with them, and Lily enjoyed playing with her cousin.

Afterwards, we headed back to our house, where I had to finish up dinner. We had my parents, sister, grandparents and uncle over. It is the first time I have cooked Thanksgiving. We had such a good time, and it was a very relaxing evening. Lily had so much fun playing with her Great Uncle. She would pick out colors for him, and then tell him where he needed to color.

Well...let's see if I can get my blog up to date before Christmas...cross your fingers!

A Little Me Time

In my blog, I usually try and tell stories of fun things we have done, which focus mainly on Lily, but today I'm going to brag a bit on myself.

After seeing the amazing results of my parents and sister, I decided to join in the diet/lifestyle change they were a part of. I started my new eating lifestyle on October 18, and I am proud to say that I have lost 12.3 pounds since then. I am only 6.5 pounds away from my 4-6 month goal! I am in awe of how easy it has been, and how much better I feel about myself. I no longer dread getting dressed, and I actually feel like I look good. I probably am close to the weight I was when I got married, but unfortunately my body changed quite a bit with pregnancy...so I'm not quite the jean size I was back then. And the best part! I now weigh less than David!!!!

I couldn't have done any of this with out my amazing family. I am so proud of all of us!

My Little Artist

Lily loves to color! She would happily color all day long if she could. We have to hide the crayons and paper, otherwise that's all she would want to do. Needless to say, she loves it when we grab her jumbo pad and let her go to town!

Her new thing is having us color with her. She will grab a crayon, hand it to us, and then point to where she would like us to color. The other night David joined her on the floor, and I had to get some pictures because it was too cute to pass us.

He drew an aTm and she colored over it with her green crayon...I'm so proud!

LOVE this picture

No coloring here, but I couldn't pass up this picture! She thought it was so funny walking around with her foot in her bucket.