Happy Wednesday!

I think today is a super great day! Why?

I get to spend it all day with my Lyla bug! Love days like this!

Sorry I've been a blog slacker. Lots going on but nothing to exciting.

The 1 piece of super exciting news is we bought a camper. Yup. We are camper people now. Yay!

I'll post later with Lyla facts as today she is 7 months! Holy cow!!!

Have a wonderful day!

One of those days.

Have you had one of those days where you think, " I just shouldn't have gotten up"? I did. This past Friday....

So I had an awesome opportunity to be part of a career fair for the high school in my town. Keep in mind, I live in a very small town. When I compare it to the high school I went to, I'm pretty sure that both the elementary school, middle school and high school don't even make up the amount of people that were in my senior class. But still, this was a great opportunity to get my name out there and get to meet some kids and give them whatever advice or information that I could. But I was NERVOUS. Like, my palms would sweat just even thinking about it. And of course, Friday just had to be one of those days that I shouldn't have even gotten out of bed. First off, we woke up LATE. Like I was supposed to be up around 5:30 and didn't get up until 6:45 late. I still had to pump, shower, get ready, prepare my things for the career fair, get Lyla ready for the day, and feed her. Well, about half of those things actually happened. Then after work I had to rush around and get everything together that I didn't get together in the morning. Then I go to play the slide show I made on Sean's laptop and it.won't.work. I tried everything but for some reason it wouldn't play the CD. And of course I haven't updated my website in forever since I'm in the process of a new one. Blah.

But overall it went just fine and I was WAY more nervous then I needed to be. No offense, but they were high schoolers and they were just happy to be out of class! Still a great experience for me though!

Oh, and after the fair I had to mess around with banks and send some information by a deadline, but after all of that...

We now own a camper! :) Whoo stinkn' whoo!

Food, food, food!!

Lyla is such a great eater! I thought I'd put some food out in front of her and let her go at it! She was so dainty with it, like she didn't want to make a mess! Of course, she got messier then she's ever been! But it was a cute little memory! Ohmygoodness, I love her.

A nice little mixture of chicken, sweet potato and peas!


Lyla has peaches for the first time tonight and she liked those. We tried chicken the past few days but no such luck. Tonight she managed to choke some down, but there were a few gagging moments for her. Such a drama queen and I have NO idea where she gets that from! :)

Well I'm single moming it again and Lyla just laid down, so I'm off to work on some photography! Booked a few sessions today!!! Super!!! :)

Have a good night!

Wow, have I been a blog slacker or what? :) Nothing really new to report or many pictures but here are a few from our other camera. Lyla is growing and is seriously the most laid back baby! She is such a great baby that I have no problem going anywhere with her. As long as her tummy is full, she's happy as can be! She can still roll over but hardly does it. She is very content just laying there or sitting and playing with her toys. She has started rolling over in her sleep every night and now sleeps on her tummy, at least that is how we find her most mornings. Still no where close to scooting or doing the army crawl. My mom told me I never crawled. I just sat there until somehow I learned to walk. I sure led an exciting life when I was a baby! :) Maybe Lyla is just following in her momma's footsteps!

This past weekend (Saturday) we unexpectedly headed to Salina with 2 friends of ours to go to a RV and boat show. They had a ton of boats but only 3 campers but we got a few ideas since we are now in the market for a camper! (We have now paid off my Durango and just this close to paying off Sean's truck.) So we are off to find a camper. Anyways, we had such a great time with them! They are awesome friends and great people to hang out with! We did a little shopping (Hello Hobby Lobby), ate supper and got home around 10:30. Sunday I had 2 photo sessions (yay) and then did some work on my new business cards (double yay) while Sean and Lyla bug headed out to his parents for a little bit! And that's about how exciting our weekend was! It was fun, though and we had a good time! Couldn't ask for more!

Here's a few pictures to enjoy! Plus a little movie sniplets at the end!!! Happy Tuesday!

The verdict is in...

I will not be mom of the year.

I had my very first panicked mom moment today. When I was headed out to the car today after picking up Lyla I grabbed my keys out of my pocket to unlock the back door. Well some how the lock button got pressed (do you see where this is going???) and I laid my keys on the seat thinking to myself not to close the door because I would be locked out. Well I'm talking to Lyla and getting her in her and seat and....

Yes. I shut the door.

I locked my baby girl in the car!!!!

Talk about freaking out. Well, on the inside I was freaking, but I did a good job of staying calm. I went into the daycare and told her that I locked Lyla in the car and I'm not sure she believed me at first! I quickly called 911 who called Victoria's police and they came over. At first they couldn't get it open and had to leave to go get a different kit. Meanwhile, Lyla just hung out and smiled through the whole thing. She is such a good girl!!! Every time I looked at her through the glass she just gave me a big toothy grin!! Once the cop got back he tried with another kit and managed to get it open. And while he was doing that another cop showed up. Oh, and 2 daycare parents showed up too. I was completely embarrassed. But hey, I know I'm not the first mom this has ever happened to.

So, it's official. No super mom award for me! Good thing Lyla loves me no matter what!

I scream, You scream, we all scream for Ice cream!

So, I'd say very very few times have I made a meal that was highly un-liked due to cooking reasons. And to be honest, I don't think I've ever made a meal that we couldn't finish, whether we liked it or not. Until tonight.

I made Beef and Broccoli stir-fry tonight and it was H to the ORRIBLE! Seriously, worst thing ever. We couldn't even take a few bites. It was *that* bad. We are giving it to the dogs and I would be surprised if even they didn't eat it and they will eat anything. It was just way to salty. Every time we took a bite, we made a gross face. So guess what we ended up eating for dinner... Ice cream. With chocolate syrup for Sean and with peanut butter for me. Yes. We resorted to ice cream. And it really stunk because it took a while to cook this meal. And it is even a top 10 meal for me. It should of been a sign that we shouldn't have ate it whenever I burned the beef and filled the kitchen with smoke, or when I forgot about Lyla's meal in the microwave and over cooked puree green beans and broccoli. And it should have been a sign when I didn't cook the rice all the way through. I was offically a bad cook tonight. Good thing these days don't happen often. And it's also a good thing I don't have to cook tomorrow either. I think I need a night off! :)

Well I really don't have much to blog about but I do have some pictures. I'll also do another post later with some 6 month pictures I took of Lyla this weekend. Get ready because they are stinkn' freakn' adorable. Your heart might seriously melt! But until then enjoy some equally cute random pictures from the past few days!

I'm off to drink about a gallon of H2O since all that salt made me thirsty. Oh, and maybe to replenish and rehydrate my skin since Shaun T made me sweat again. That dirty man.

Please forgive me, for I have sinned.

I ate a *whole* box of Little Debbies today. ::Blush::

I did not like that fact I ate 1500 calories in less then 5 hours but damn, they were good. I had this uncontrollable urge to just eat them! And that I did. Don't tell Sean.

Hopefully this means it is out of my system and back to losing weight. Right????

Yeah, I don't believe it either!

Shaun T, you suck!

Dear Shaun T,

I do not care for you right now. I don't care for you yelling in my face telling me to digger deeper and push harder. I don't like the fact you are making me sweet. I prefer to glow, but you dear, are making me sweat. You are also making me pant, and not in a good way. Thank you for convincing my Sean to decide to pursue your insanity. You named this DVD correctly because you are truly insane.

But if you make me toned and skinny, I will like you. Amen.

Signed,

The girls whose butt you are kicking.
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Omigoodness, this is intense. I have no idea how I'm going to be able to do this. We did it for 45 minutes tonight and it sucked. It is probably the hardest workout I've ever done. But I do *kinda* feel good after I'm done. But I'm exhausted and my thighs hurt!! I'm dreaming very hard of a toned, skinny body for lake season.

On a Lyla note, she had her 6 month appointment today. She still weighed 14 lbs 13 oz (25th percentile), so no change from her appt last week. She is 25 inches tall (25th as well) and has a head circumference of 44 1/2 (90th). So I still have short, petite, big noggin girl that is just adorable as can be! She checked out well but does have a slight ear infection and chest cold but she's managing well. We can start some finger foods and also start using a sippy cup! She's just becoming a big (little) girl!! :) The only semi-downside was she's a little behind with rolling over. But tonight she did roll over 3 times. Probably a fluke but hopefully she starts to pick it up!

We enjoyed the day together and I must say I absolutely LOVE being home with her. I wish it was within our means for me to be a stay at home mom and do my photography. I'm so entirely jealous of moms that get to spend time with their kiddo's at home and enjoy them. At least the mom's that spend quality time with them and do activities, MOPS groups. play dates, go to the library, etc. Unfortunately we see mom's come in that are blessed to stay home with their kids and don't do much with them, which in my opinion is sad.

Well kids, this sore girl is off to bed!!! Happy Tuesday!

We've gone "insane"!

So my lovely husband decided that he and his wife should be skinnier. He has come across this workout DVD called Insanity by Sean T or someone like that and tonight was the night we started it.

IT SUCKS.

Bad.

I'm sore. My legs are like jello and shaking. I could hardly walk up the stairs afterwards. I pretty much complained through the whole thing. And I have to do this for 59 more days. 59.
We took before pics and I am not posting them. Mostly for reference for us. And as a motivation because Oh.My.Day it ain't pretty. We are both pretty disgusted with ourselves. I have pregnancy and Swiss cake rolls to blame. Mostly the pregnancy. Now Sean on the other hand has nothing to blame it on! :) Love you honey!

But on a serious note, I need to do something. I did good for a while with the elliptical until Sean got hurt and then I kinda fell of the train. I think once I start working out I'll pick that up again. I really actually enjoy the elliptical. And since Sean is doing this too, I think we'll motivate each other. Now, no one can go and get hurt ( hint hint Sean). I was even going to post our before pics and as I was editing them I decided I couldn't do it. I'm too embarrassed. It's gross. So once we are done I will put up before and afters on both of us.

On a happy, pretty note, here's a pic of our Lyla girl! We did a few 6 month pics Sunday morning and I should hopefully finish them next Saturday! :)

Happy Monday!

Short and sweet

Wanna know the funniest thing I've heard in a long time...

"My favorite part of a fish is the fish sticks". Yup, adorable! (Straight out of the mouth of a 6 year old! It was hilarious!!)

Saturday was great and it was spent with a friend and her crazy but stinkn' adorable 4 boys. Yes 4. I had 3 photo sessions today including her youngest babe who is 9 days older then Lyla. So she watched Lyla while I went to 2 other sessions and then we went to dinner! Fun times! We were both husband-less this evening! Thanks for letting me hang out Shelly!

Here's a pic of the bug after her bath last night. Too cute! Love her!