March Madness

Like most, my bracket suffered miserably after the unexpected loss of Kansas...but luckily, 3 of my four brackets are currently still in the running for first place! I've been able to watch quite a few of the games so far, and there have been some really great games that went right down to the line. I realized the other day how much I really enjoy sports (a shocker- I know). But it made me really hope that at least one of my kids can enjoy sports the way I do. Amazingly enough, it seems my prayers have already been answered. Lyla was having a rough day, so I was trying to find some way to distract her. In a last ditch attempt I set her on a pillow facing the tv. Get a load of this picture!



When I went to take a picture of her from the front she gave me this "don't interrupt me" look. "I'm watching the game Dad! Stop distracting me!" Too cute!



Usually when we put her down for "tummy time" she barely makes it 3 minutes before she drops her head to the ground and starts crying. This time she went over ten minutes just watching the game! There may be hope for her yet :-)

Spit-up queen!

Ok, I need some suggestions. Lyla is officially the queen of spitting up and I need ideas on how to deal with the mess. I guess it's because she has reflux that after each feeding she spits up so much that I wonder how she's getting enough to be growing as fast as she is. It's not unusual to completely drench two burp cloths in 2 minutes. Yesterday I was going to a cooking class with my mom so I made the mistake of wearing nice clothes. I successfully finished feeding and burping Lyla and thought I was out of the danger zone because I was about to get her in her carseat and there hadn't been an incident yet. Suddenly it all came up...drenching her cute new outfit that I had been protecting, completely soaking my pants down to my knee, and covering the nursing pad cover that I had washed and put back on 20 minutes earlier. Most days I feel that I'm a walking burp cloth, and I'm sure people wonder about the smell that surrounds me.

Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for us? I've thought about wearing around plastic rain shields all of the time...

Lyla does make up for all of the spit-up in being cute. We were trying on her dress for an upcoming family picture and we couldn't resist some pictures of her darling yellow bow and silver slippers.

We're Homeowners!!!

This past weekend, Tiffany and I drove up to Idaho Falls to close on our brand new home! We took up Tiff's parent's van and trailer so that we could make the move some what easier, and it was so fun to see the house all finished. It was a fun and exciting process as we were able to choose the carpet, tile floors, cabinets, countertops, and fixtures. So, now it really feels like OUR place :-) Here are a bunch of pictures so you can get an idea of what it looks like.

Here's a closer look at the kitchen

This is the overall kitchen

This is what you would see if you walk through the entryway and look to your right

This is the Master Bath

This is the Master Bedroom

This is what the bathrooms look like

This is a view of the living room from the kitchen

And finally, the outside view

Catch up

I'm so bad at posting- so this is going to be a random post to catch up on what has been going on. Paul dressed up as Faux Paw at Mountain View HS for a family event. He did a great job and everyone loved watching him!

We took more pictures of Lyla in her blessing dress a few weeks after the blessing when she was feeling a bit happier.

Valentine's day was a fun day but we're terrible at taking pictures so Paul and I didn't get one together. I did get one with Lyla and her cute festive outfit. We went to eat at Tucanos since Paul had never been there- so yummy!! We also went to Love Concert that Alyssa sang in. Lyla tried to sing along during most of the songs so we spent most of the time standing with her in the back or outside to keep everyone from hearing her cries. I love huge bows!

As usual, I couldn't decide between the pictures because they are all so darling so you get to see

all of them.

Lyla has started to like bathtime a little more than she used to. We couldn't resist some cute pictures of her.

We saved the top layer of our wedding cake but then forgot to eat it at our one year anniversary...so we celebrated a few months later. The cake was amazingly good for being so old.

We thought it would be fun to get a cheesy picture of us cutting the cake- just like at our reception.
Life is always busy but always fun!