4th of July Parade

This year we wanted to have a low stress holiday and so we didn't do anything super extraordinary that day. But that doesn't mean that we didn't have fun. On Friday night we visited Eric's Aunt and Uncle and had a great time talking, bbqing and swimming in their pool. Saturday morning, we went to our local parade. It made me kinda homesick because it was very much like my hometown parade with scouts, little league, etc. Then we took Lil home for a nap, she slept over three hours, so we decided to ditch our plans of going to the beach. Instead we had a nice bbq at home and then watched the local fireworks atop our minivan eating popcorn, while Lillie slept (our baby monitor still got rececption in our parking lot). So it wasn't crazy exciting, but we really enjoyed spending time together!

 

 

 

N-U-R-S-E-R-Y

So Eric and I were called to be the new nursery leaders in our ward. I'm really trying to be excited about this... so far I've at least accepted it. I kept hoping there'd be a last minute change, but nope, it's us. Last Sunday was our first week. It was blazing hot outside and in our classrooms. I was so sweaty after chasing little ones around and dishing out snacks and drinks like nobody's business. We've got some difficult children, a few heavy cryers and a couple of AGGRESSIVE kids. So it should be interesting. I hope I will eventually come to enjoy it.

If you have any advice or tips, I'm all ears.

Friday Fun

What do you do when your Friday afternoon is dragging on? We go to the park.

 

 

 

Lillie was all about collecting leaves and smelling flowers on this park trip. Which there are a lot of both and so it made for a lengthy (boring for me) trip to the park. But the best part was that it burned time so that Daddy came home soon after we arrived there and would be home for the next 2 days!

Wedding Skirts

Charee said that she wanted a better view of the skirts that I made for Lil and Ella to wear at the weddding. So here ya go.

Family at Wedding

 

Here's a picture of Eric's family taken after Eric's sister, Krista, got married last Saturday. It was a quick trip for us, but was a lot of fun. We loved spending time with everyone!

Lazy Sunday

So a couple weeks ago, we went with our friends to Balboa Park. The girls are big fans of ducks and playgrounds, so we knew it would be a hit.

 

 

 

 

We didn't notice the sign until after we had emptied our bag of bread crumbs, oops!

Lil' talker/dancer

Lillie Gates??

Our little girl has seen too much of her mom blogging I think.

Memorial Day Weekend

Eric's Mom came to visit en route from Seoul, South Korea to Utah, for a couple of days.  It was really fun to have her around.  We had a delicious bbq at Delahunty's, went to the zoo, and Universal Studios.  It was our first time at Universal Studios and was a lot of fun.  Lillie quickly made best friends with Grandma and chose her over us, but who could blame her.  

This is one of the sets used for Nacho Libre.  We had to get a picture of it for Eric's Dad.




Lillie is soaked because we went to this waterworld show, which was really cool, but you get wet and Lillie did NOT like that.



I know that the pictures are not in chronological order, oh well.

Fab Vocab

BORING POST, SKIP IT. I'm writing this for documentation sake.
At 16 mos, Lillie is learning new words everyday. Here is a list of some of the things she can say:
Anna (NaNa)
Apple
All Done
Amen
Ball
Banana (NaNa)
Bubble
Book
Bird (Boouh)
Baby
Dog
Daddy

Eye
Fish (Ish)
Food
Flower
Go
Hallie (Aya)

Hi

Hello

Juice
Mama
Monkey
Milk
More
Moo (Cow)
No

Nose (same as no)
Ow
Oh No
Please (Pweez)
Peekaboo
Raisin (Ray)
Thank You
Turtle (Tootuh)
Tiger (Tigo)
Two
Uh Oh

Where'd it go?

6 Years?!?

I know this is late, but Eric and I celebrated our 6th anniversary on the 16th of May. We had already decided that our tickets to see Beatles Love in Vegas was our celebration, but we still went out for dinner that night... by ourselves. Man, I cannot tell you how nice it was to sit there and enjoy conversation and food. Lillie doesn't have the best restaurant manners and so this was a treat! It was a great day and the past six years have been the best! Love you, Babe!

Disneyland...again.

This semester so far has been infinitely better than the last. Eric had a free day this week and so he took time away from studying to go with us to Disneyland. It was a great day. Lillie loves it there and the weather was perfect. Can't get enough of that place!

Santa Anita Raceway

The first day of our spring break was spent with our friends, Troy and Mikelle, at Santa Anita Park to enjoy the beautiful horses and to place a couple 2 dollar bets.  Lillie loved the horses and so did we.  Eric and I were both terrible at choosing the winners, so at least we know we won't be come addicted, but I definitely want to go back!

Our friends, Troy and Mikelle, knew a lot about the jockeys from a reality show called "Jockeys", that's about horse racing and riders at Santa Anita raceways or something like that.  I'm gonna need to watch a few episodes before we go again.

Can't have a post about horse racing without at least a couple horse pics.



The next three photos show what I did the most: follow Lillie around.

The next five action shots show the struggle between mom and 1 year old.  Sigh.  I don't know if I'll ever get another decent picture of her again.

Lillie wishes she could grow up to be a jockey...but she's pretty much already too tall for that job.
I don't know how Eric missed out on being in any of the pictures.  He won't be so lucky next time.

We had spring break the past 2 weeks. It was great to have a little vacation time. The last few days we spent in Las Vegas. Lillie did surprisingly well and we had a great time hiking, seeing shows and other random free stuff. Can't wait till our next break!