A day with Lyla

I've been super bad lately at taking pictures.

It's probably the number 1 thing I need to do more now that I'm home.

So yesterday we headed to the park for a bit. Unfortunately since it rained yesterday, everything was pretty much soaked. And since she isn't walking, there isn't too much we can do!

But she sure can crawl super great! :)

Us! :) We make a great pair!

{Love} her!

Her favorite, swinging!

Today is my last official day as a part-timer at work! From now on, I'll be working PRN.

You have NO idea how excited I am to be a SAHM! Yay!

HRC Playdate #2

Playdate #2 was a success again. They had this little car out this time and so the girls rode it together! Oh, and ignore the poor quality of the pics. I just used my point & shoot.

The girls...

Pretend like you don't see the wicked red eye. I didn't feel like photoshoping it this morning.

Kyn playing in the ballpit. FYI, i want one of these for Lyla.

Kynli pushing Lyla.

A little video of the girls....aren't they adorable!

I did it.

Well folks, I did it.

I can officially cross something off the ole' bucket list.

I ran my first 5K....without dying! :)

My goal was to finish in 35 minutes and NO walking. Well by the time the day came (Saturday) my goal was to finish in 40 minutes and it was OK if I walked a time or two. I'll be honest. I was freaking the morning of. I didn't sleep worth a darn. My stomach was in knots and my muscles were tight. Sean and I ran a bit to warm up and I was tired just doing a few laps.

However, I did MUCH better than I could of imagined. I finished in 32 mins 8 sec annnnd..... did not walk! I started off feeling like an elephant running since I was tight from being nervous but eventually I relaxed and did OK. I have no shame admitting I'm slow. I'm just proud that I completed my goal!

Here's the standings:
Me: Placed 20th out of 34 in my age group. Overall I finished 45th out of 66 people.

Sean: Finished in 21:24 - got 5th out of 66 people overall and got 3rd out of 10 people for the guys in his age group.

Kevin: Finished in 20:29 and got 2nd in his age group. Overall he got 4th out of the 66 people.

Thanks so much to my brother for running it with us along with my SIL Kelci, Mom and my dad for coming up and cheering for us! Love you guys!

And also, props to my friend Shannon for doing an awesome job as well! We started training about the same time with the goal in mind of running this race together! Proud of you dear.

Turkey Trot....here we come!

I'll add pics when I get some. Both of my camera weren't charged and so I have a few from my dad and waiting to see some from my SIL!

[embrace] the camera

Since I've been home, I'm been {VERY} bad at taking pictures of miss lyla. It's like she is 1 now and I don't document near as much as I used too.

I need to work on that. For now, here's 2 I took of us the other afternoon.

Man I <3 her!

She's my world, can ya tell?


Happy Thursday!

New Adventures

One of the things I've wanted to do the most since I've been home was to get Lyla and I involved in our local rec. Since we are a relatively small town, we don't have a Gymboree or any fun place we can go for classes. So the Hays Rec it was. And I'm gonna admit, I was super excited. I have to say the day was a hit, too.

My friend who also stays at home with her kiddos enrolled her daughter, Kynli in it as well. She's just a few months old than Miss Lyla and I think they are totally bff's. Except for the part where Lyla likes to bite Kynli (and draw blood, oh my).

Shannon and Kynli

Lyla and I after class

The girls and I playing.

Climbing on the gym stuff. I really wish I could have taken this home. I googled it and they are *extremely*, out of this world expensive. So if anyone has one they want to give me, go for it! :)

Shannon and Ly playing.

I'm also watching her kiddos on Thurs. morning while she volunteers in her oldest son's class and and so her other son and I had some fun with the pics. Unfortunately, most of them didn't turn out, but this is of our funny faces.

We are quite funny, aren't we! Haha!

We are enrolled for a total of 4 or 5 classes and if we like it, then we'll be doing it again in the winter. And after this session, we might be enrolling in a few more!!

I'm loving being able to do this with Lyla and it is also so great having another SAHM that I get to do these activites with!

My {Exciting} news!

You can now officially call me a WAHM (work at home mom) and I couldn't be more excited!

Since I know there are curious George's out there here's the details...

I'll be working PRN at the clinic I've been at for 3+ years. The opportunity kinda fell into my lap and I jumped on it, as this is something I had been wanting to eventually do! It just came upon me a little quicker than I had planned!

Since I'll only be working a few days a month at the clinic, this gives me more time to concentrate on my photography! I have been extremely busy and I'm so blessed to be able to do this! Now I can officially do the two things I absolutely love - my photography and raising Miss Lyla! I know that not everyone is cut out to stay at home but I have highly enjoyed my time for this past month! I have some big plans ahead, for both Lyla and I and with my photography!!!

So I'm super excited (can you tell?) to be able to do this! I'm beyond blessed and so thankful for my friends and some family members for supporting me as I do this! And can't forget Mr. Seany Boy, thanks bub! I love you! :)

Happy Thursday!

ETA: Happy Birthday to my mother-in-law! Hope you had a wonderful day!

Date Night

Seany boy and I had a date last night. It has been a looooooong time since we went out to eat without Lyla. Truth be told, I'd rather have miss sweet cheeks with us. But, we had a good time with out having to pick up food off the floor, entertain her with crackers or snack foods, or shush her when she decides she wants to test out her little squeal she does.

We headed to Gellas, like we do most dates. But we switched things up tonight. Instead of splitting an entree, we split 2 appetizers. Look at us be on the wild side, huh! :)

After supper we thought about going to play mini golf but that got nixed for some reason. We thought about a movie but nothing was playing that the both of us could agree on. So what did we do....

We went to Wal-mart.

If we aren't an old, married couple, then I'm not sure what we are! :) I'll aisle browsing (had to buy Lyla something of course) and then we headed to Hastings to grab a movie. Picked up Lylabug and headed home. Then PJ's, then movie, then falling asleep mid-movie finished up the date. Ain't Mr. Seany boy so lucky to be married to me? I agree. He sure is...

I love our little life.

Oh, and I took not one picture and even had out camera with us the whole time. Bad blogger! I even looked super cute (a random walmart shopper even told me that! :) )

Playtime

have I mentioned how much I love her recently?

End of the day = not looking so hot. But I kinda love this guy!

Yum?

How cute are we!?!

Happy Wednesday!

Lyla {13 months}

Happy {13} months, Lylabug!

- You weigh around 19 1/2 lbs.

- You wear size 6-12 month clothes but they are all huge on you. The white skirt you are wearing is 9 months and it falls off of you sometimes.

You wear size 3 diaper.

You sleep still from 8 -8:30 til about 7:30-8 am.

-You still take 2-3 naps a day. Normally it is 2 naps and if you miss a nap, you are miss cranky pants.

- You are still a great eater and love, love food.

- You say hi to everyone and wave. You especially love to say hi and wave at dogs!

-You can also say yum yum, uh-oh, dada, and mama. You also mimic thank you.



- You are finally pulling up on things all the time.

- You are also finally walking with your walker *and* enjoying it.

-You've started throwing some crazy tantrums. So fun.

- You still love, love to dance. Whenever you hear music you throw your hands up in the air.

-You and Miss Reese are still bffs. You get so excited whenever you see her.

- You also have finally started cruising the furniture too!

- You learned to blow kisses and are quite adorable whenever you do it! If we ask for a kiss or say we love you, you blow kisses to us. Or to anything we ask to you blow a kiss too!

-You got to attend your first KU game!! Unfortunately they lost, tho!

This has probably been one of the fastest months of your life! You are becoming quite the little toddler...it is somewhat sad! You are no longer our little baby! We love you {soooo} much!

Drama Queen, anyone?

Really? The girl is 13 months (as of yesterday) and she's already acting like this? Oh.my.brother.

She takes after her dad, right?





She started these little fits like 2 days ago and holy.stinkn.cow. To be honest, we ignore her. I'm good at tuning out her bawling! A little Mr. Google and a little parenting books and Sean and I have decided we are not giving her any attention during her little fits, positive or negative. She always snaps out of it after a few minutes and soothes her self to calm down and off she goes to play with something. So far...it is working. But we'll see what'll happen with his drama queen we have!