We've been trying to post videos of Lyla forever, but our blog hasn't been cooperating with us. Now we finally got some up! the funniest thing about Lyla is that she knows when you're recording her or taking a picture of her. As soon as she figures it out, she'll stop what she's doing and put on a stone cold face while staring at the camera. It's hilarious, but it's been so hard to get good videos of her. You'll see some where we had to hide the video camera from her, and you'll also see some where she catches on to our little secret :-) The best part is listening to her cute little laugh! I love it! Enjoy!


This is one of me playing a little game of Peek-a-boo! with Lyla



This one has Tiffany hiding the camera while playing with animal puppets.



One of Lyla's favorite games to play is Superwoman!



We've found that Lyla loves eating fruit (What?! Just like her Mom? Anybody surprised...?), but she is not a fan of peas....

Quiet Book

I've been trying to find projects to fill my time during Lyla's afternoon nap so that I don't get too lonely and depressed. :) My latest project was a fun little quietbook for Lyla to use in church when she's a little older. I found a free pattern online and used all of my fabric scraps. Here are the pages:

I know the sewing isn't great but it does the job, right? Anyone have a good idea for more projects I can keep busy with? I'm always looking for easy but productive crafts to work on.

Here are a few sweet pictures of Lyla.

Green is my new favorite color...

I've realized how much I hate dirt. Especially Idaho dirt. It gets tracked all over the house, turns to clay-mud after every rain and then covers your shoes, it's constantly in our eyes since it's always windy here, and it's ugly! Since moving in, we've been busy working on our yard- starting with the patio in the back. Paul worked hard while I was out of town doing all of this:

And here is the finished product!! Kinda hard to see in the bright sun but we've loved it so far- someday we may even have a BBQ grill out there!

Our next project was to tackle the front yard. It started like this:

Paul's brother Justin visited and helped us to level the ground and get the hundreds of rocks out

After lots of work the front looked like this: And finally like this:

Oh grass is just so wonderful! Green is such a bright, warm, pretty color and I love seeing it all around our house. We haven't done the back yet but for now we're taking a break from the hard work and enjoying what we've gotten done so far. Our great neighbors have helped a lot along the way which we greatly appreciated!

Updates

I'm so bad at posting lately so I'm just going to add lots of random pictures we've taken lately. Lyla is growing so fast- she's already 7 months!! She's such a cute chubby little girl and we have so much fun together!! She can sit up now and loves to sit and play with her fun toys! She's so happy most of the time and she loves to be tickled- she just giggles and laughs. We're still working on sleeping through the night but she's gotten very good at falling asleep on her own when she's tired.

Lyla and I were having a pink day together- which happens quite frequently! :)
When Lyla wakes up from a nap, she starts babbling in her crib and when we open the door she pokes up head up as far as she can reach.

Loves grabbing her feet!

We went camping with my family for a weekend- Cassidy loved pushing Lyla in the hammock.

We had a quiet but relaxing 4th of July. We cleaned our cars, mowed the lawn, ran a few errands and then walked around some vendors that were set up by the river.

On the actual fourth we went to church in our patriotic colors and then cooked hamburgers on our George Foreman- the closest we could come to a BBQ!

I just melt when I see Lyla's sweet smile!

Playing with daddy