Yoder Trip

A while back, we headed to Yoder, KS with Sean's family. We ate at The Crossing and visited "The Farm", a farmstead ran by an Amish family. The food was really good at the restaurant except......Sean ordered fish and it literally came out on the plate as a whole fish minus the head. It's like they chopped the head off and dipped it in batter and fried it up. That was totally disgusting but the rest was really good!

The Farm was a really interesting place. They had a bunch of different farm animals that we got to visit. Lyla even went on her first pony ride! :) And loved it. Pops...I think she needs a horse now!

The most interesting part of it was the fact they had no air conditioning or electricity. Not really my idea of fun but it was interesting to see another way of life. Especially when we are so used to those necessities, to us at least. I couldn't fathom not have my cell phone or computer or Internet or the TV. Overall, it was a great experience to see how another culture/religion live, especially since it is so different from our daily life.

Enjoy the pics!

Lyla {12 months}

Happy Birthday, Miss Lyla!

- You weigh 18 lbs 7 oz and are 27 1/2 inches tall.

- You wear mostly 6-12 months even though 1/2 of it is still big on you.

You sleep from 8:30 til 7:30 unless of course you have to go to daycare.

You nap 3 times a day and normally nap for 1-2 hours and a small 1/2 hour nap

You officially started crawling on your hand and knees about 1 week before you turned 1.

You can also pull up to your feet if you try really really hard but most of the time you pull up to your knees.

You wear a size 3 diaper.

You can say mama, dada if we are lucky, and hi.

You can wave hi and bye and way to about everyone.

You started doing this little dance where you raise and shake your hands over your head whenever music comes on. If we ask you to dance, you do it too!

You can do pat-a-cake and so big.

You love, love, love the water and have been so good every time we go to the lake. You also went on your first tube ride.

Reese would be your most favorite friend ever. You absolutely love her and laugh so much whenever you are playing with her.

You have 8 teeth!

You love ALL food except for eggs and are the absolute best eater. You're quite the piglet!

You are still a huge mama's girl, which is good and bad.

You are getting better at playing with other kids even though you would rather bite them! You have officially bit 3 kids (that I know of).

You love being outside!

And lastly, you are NO where close to walking. We are predicting by 15 months...if even that. My guess is by preschool!

Happy, Happy, Happy 1st Birthday Lyla!!! We love you!

Lyla's ONE!!!!!

Technically, I have a toddler now. A TODDLER. Except she's really not a toddler because she ain't moving anywhere. The concept of balance and/or walking isn't anywhere close!

We celebrated her 1st birthday with a family day! Sean and I both took the day off. We did a little shopping, went out to lunch, came home and napped and then headed back to Hays for supper.

Before supper, we headed off to take some 1 yr pics. Let's just say this girl is NOT cooperative. She's in a stage 5 clinger mode and anytime I set her down, the waterworks start. Pretty annoying when I want pictures...preferably ones where she isn't crying. Here's a few cute ones. We have more but I'm saving some for a few things and I'll post later.

Loves her {SO} much!

I have a new obsession with pettiskirts. Aren't they ADORABLE! She is so scrumptious! :)

During out shopping trip we made a bracelet for Lyla and I made one for myself as well. We plan to add to the bracelet each year for her birthday!

After supper at Applebee's we headed home for presents and cupcakes! She got her first baby doll and a leapfrog alphabet thingy for the fridge. She's getting her big gift at her birthday party!

Then we ate mini-cupcakes....and this girl loved them! We snapped some smash cake pictures the night before that was a complete FAiL. Worst client. EVER.

But this time she loved it!

Absolutely loved it!

Overall, a great first birthday!

It is so hard to believe she is 1 already. She is learning something new everyday and *normally* is a happy, happy baby! She completes Sean and I in so many ways and we are completely smitten with her!

Love you Lyla bug!

Happy 1st Birthday Lyla!

Happy Happy Birthday to Miss Lyla! We've had a busy, family day and will post soon about it! It's so hard to believe my baby is 1!!!!!!

Happy Wednesday

She is SCARED to death of her walker. She doesn't want to walk. I'm probably going to have to carry her to preschool. Seriously. Ok, maybe even to the senior prom at the rate she's going.

These pics were taken a few weeks ago and at the time the pics were taken, she was actually doing a good job walking with it. But since then.... nothing but tears and screaming. She hates it. If I even get it out and she see is, waterworks start.

She actually only took about 5 steps with it.


Then she freaked because she couldn't figure out how to get down. Classy, dear. Very classy. You sooooo take after your father! ;) Definitely not your momma!

Tonight we did it again but we bribed her. And it worked....over and over. Looks like the way to getting her to do anything is to bribe her with....cookies! She'd walk between us and whenever she got to one of us, she got a bite of the animal cookie!

Think I can bribe her to stop biting???

Must share craft.

I love stalking blogs, as I've stated before. Love it. Addicted to it. Really.

I have a variety of blogs but one of this is Homemade by Jill. She was probably one of the first craft blogs I came across. Well she just put this link up to download alphabet cards. I've been looking into making some but she did the hard work! :) Go here to see it and download it if you'd like. I'm planning on putting them back to back and laminating them then attaching them together for Miss Lyla. This has inspired me to make some for animals and numbers!!!

Oh and if you are addicted to crafting, you'll love this blog. She has tons of cute things or puts up links to other cute things! I actually got a few Christmas ideas off her website for this year that I can 't wait to start on!

Guess what!?!?!

Hi Friends....I have great news!

Can you guess?

I'm soooo excited to be a cousin!!!

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Congrats to Uncle Kevin and Aunt Kelci!!! My future cousin is due in April and I heard my mommy say that the chinese people predict that it'll be a boy! YAY!

Tricks

Lyla has some sweet new tricks. She's learned "So big" recently and we finally got a new camera (did I tell you Sean dropped our other one in Lake Wilson? Cuz he did!) so I can take some videos with it again!

And as always...she's so sweet!



Ok, so the movie isn't working... just figured that out. Sorry...more cuteness to come soon!


On another note, 1 year ago today was my due date! My oh my, time has flown. At this time last year I had a doctors appt and found out that "Baby Jay" wasn't going to be time! I also found out I wouldn't be induced for another week, which at the time made me not so happy! Thank goodness she's here now!! It's so very hard to believe that in exactly a week she will be 1! I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad...i'm a bag of mixed emotions about this one!

My friend Shelly came over one night to let out little babies play. The played nicely together - at first.

Then Miss Lyla decided he tasted really really good. Yup, folks - I have a biter. I was *beyond8 mortified that she did this! Mortified I tell you.

We had to add a little fluff to him.... He's the 4th boy in Shelly's fam, so she needs a little bit sometimes!




Dalty enjoying the climb and slide. He's so close to walking!

Luckily the next 2 days Lyla was around kiddos again and no one got the stamp of Lyla! Hopefully it doesn't happen again!!

Happy Tuesday!

Those liars... :)

I ordered this little outdoor toy for Miss Lyla and it came in on Friday! (Love Amazon's free 1 day shipping!!) So, being the impatient lady that I am, I had to put it together. The box said 10 minute assembly and um, they lied. Or fibbed... Whichever you'd like to call it.

This sucker took more like 30 minutes.

And I'm sure if Seany boy would have done it then it would have probably been done in the 10 minutes.

They should have a warning that says: If impatient mom putting this together, add 20 minutes!

Oh, well it was worth it!