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March Update
March 31, 2010 2:09 pmIt’s been crazy around here lately…and that may be an understatement. March started off slow. I went to Dallas for a week to visit family. The kids and I went to the zoo with Cameron and visited all of the great grandparents.
It was fun watching Miles and Lyla play on my grandmother’s adjustable bed and shag rug, just like my brother and I used to do when we were that age.
They also got to take a bubble bath in Gama’s tub.
Poor Lyla had a fever the entire time we were in Dallas, and then broke out in a rash the day after we got home. Classic roseola.
Then once we got home things kicked into overdrive with the land and house building. We’ve been working on getting our house fixed up to put on the market. Our well is finally done being drilled and the plans for the new house are finished. By next week we should have everything to the bank for financing!
Uncle Michael and “Stina” went to Japan for Stina’s 30th bday. They brought back some cool presents.
Miles is really into dinosaurs now.
He is full-on talking now. Lyla is almost ready to take her first steps without holding onto something. She has spoken a few words here and there “kitty” “no, no, no” “flower” “travis”. She has also taken a liking to necklaces and purses.
I thought she was going to be a girly, girl but funny thing is, she doesn’t seem to enjoy wearing dresses. Must take after her mommy.
Nana made sure to remind us to take pictures in the bluebonnets.
That’s all for now. I’ll update when we know more on the house.
Happy 1st Birthday!!
February 23, 2010 9:29 pmTime flies when you are having fun. Lyla is already one! (I’m a poet and didn’t know it). We celebrated Lyla’s bday with family a few weeks ago. Unfortunately she was a little sick but we still had a great time.
Considering this was Miles’ first time to not be the center of attention, he did pretty well not being TOO possessive of Lyla’s presents. Luckily his cousin, David, was here to keep him company.
Lyla wasn’t a big fan of her birthday cake during her party but she chowed down on it on her actual birthday.
2010
January 23, 2010 2:59 pmHappy New Year! I wish I had some more progress on the land to report but at the moment we are at a standstill with the well. The weather has been the main thing delaying drilling. Hopefully, they will start towards the end of next week. Eric and I are also redesigning the house. After sitting on our old plans we realized there were a few things we weren’t happy with. Of course, to correct them the entire house had to be reworked. I’m ok with that, though. I think we’ll end up with a better product.
Eric has been busy working on his Jeep. He replaced the radiator and heater coil? himself. He had to take the entire dashboard off. Now he’s onto fixing up the house so it can be show-worthy once we do put it on the market.
I’m been busy with the kids (I know…surprising) 
.
Miles and Lyla have been playing VERY well together. I can actually get things done around the house now!
A few weeks ago we went to visit my brother and see his new cat, Kirin. Michael and I swear Lyla said “kitty”.
I think I can count that as one of her first words. She may have already said “hi” but it’s hard to tell. Miles is doing great with potty training. He enjoys showing us the fruits of his labor. He also likes to say “Mama and Dada are proud of me”. Here he is watching football with daddy. Anytime he sees a longhord he’ll say “hook em’ horns!”. He’s trying to make a longhorn with his hand but it looks more like a claw.
Here we are goofing around at the grocery store.
He loves helping us with anything we are doing, especially grocery shopping and cooking. Lyla is still such a sweet girl. She has us wrapped around her finger. Her Aunt Beth was kind enough to send her her very own pair of Uggs.
She can walk around now if she is holding onto something. We aren’t encouraging it too much.
People keep telling me she looks like me but she is 100% daddy’s side of the family.
Christmas and Land Update
December 31, 2009 2:21 pmDecember has been a very productive month. A few weeks ago we finally were able to have electric service run to our land. Since Eric did all of the tree clearing himself it took us awhile to be ready for Bluebonnet electric to do the installation. But thankfully he finally finished in the nick of time!
Hopefully next week they will begin drilling our well. Then our next goal will be to finalize the house plans (yes, we are changing them again). I’m not sure if we are still on track to start building in May but we are going to try.
Miles enjoyed playing in his first leaf pile a few days before Christmas. We managed to get a few good shots.
We started a new Christmas tradition by walking the trail of lights in Bastrop. It is far better than Austin’s since there is actually parking! Miles had a great time and ran from one end of the trail to the other.
This year we had our first Christmas at home. After driving back and forth between our family’s houses the past few years we finally decided we had enough lugging the kids and their stuff around. On Christmas Eve my dad and Eve came over for dinner and presents.
Miles got his first tricycle. When he saw it for the first time he yelled “A motorcycle!!”. He really loves wearing his Cars helmet too.
Christmas morning, we opened presents with my mom and Ray.
As you can probably guess, the kids (and daddy) had more fun playing in the box than with their new toys.
I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!
Thanksgiving and Early December
December 14, 2009 10:58 pmTime to backtrack a little to bring everyone up to date. We celebrated 2 thanksgivings this year. Our first one was with Eric’s side of the family on Thanksgiving day. Here’s Eric carving the turkey.
And then Miles trying very hard to stay awake.
At least we had the opportunity to get a good shot of me and Eric.
Lyla wasn’t too thrilled about the turkey but she had a lot of fun playing with the boys’ robot.
We managed to get a decent shot of the whole family!
Then on Friday, Eric and I stuck with tradition and cooked another full Thanksgiving meal and had my mom, brother and his girlfriend over. Eric fried our first turkey and it was delicious!
I even set the table all pretty-like
Miles had fun eating off daddy’s plate
And Lyla was just happy.
That brings us to our first attempt at Miles and Lyla sitting on Santa’s lap at the same time. It was a complete and utter failure. Miles fell and hit his head while trying to run from Santa. Lyla screamed. So we got a picture of Lyla crying on Santa’s lap. I didn’t buy it. But I did manage to get a few cute shots of them in their new Christmas outfits afterwards.
Onto December we go… Lyla celebrated her 10 month bday. She is pulling herself to standing easily now and has cut her 3rd tooth.
She’s been a bit fussy lately but I think that has everything to do with the teething. She’s been a great subject for me to practice my photography skills on.
Miles moves so much that it’s hard to get a good shot of him. Speaking of Miles, he has been so sweet with Lyla and is starting to talk to her, try and feed her and even share his toys! Miles has been talking up a storm lately. Here he is looking at the “spinny”
. He also loves reading books. One of his favorite books has a “ha-pa-tus” in it (octupus). For some reason he has named one of the fish in the book a “ho-ho”. We aren’t quite sure where that came from.
Miles reached another milestone. He used the potty for #2 for the first time a few days ago. He is very motivated to get those M & M’s!
We decorated the house for Christmas. Eric got an amazing shot of our tree using the new camera.
Amazingly enough, both children are doing great not messing with the tree. Lyla actually listens when you tell her “no”. Here they are again after our second trip to see Santa at Barton Creek Country Club. It was only successful because both kids sat in mine and eric’s lap.
