Happy Birthday Lily!

So, yesterday was Lily's 4th Birthday.  We planned a big water party in the backyard.  We were making a ladybug cake, and Mike filled over 100 water balloons.  When Lily woke up it was very apparent that she had a stomach bug.  Poor Lily.  No party.  No friends.  Still, we managed to have fun anyway, and I am planning the party for sometime next week.  Lily still had plenty of energy, so she just played with mommy and daddy, and we kept our germs to ourselves.  All Lily wanted for her birthday was a kitchen and a skateboard.  Amazingly she got both!  Yaya and Papa sent her a very cool kitchen (which has a market with it and cash register that takes credit cards!!).  Mike and I gave her the skateboard and pads.  She was a happy girl!

CA Trip 2011

It has been awhile since we've been to visit in California (18 months!), so we had to make sure to take a trip before Mike deploys this summer.  We had to get all of the "good stuff" in.  We took a 3 day trip to Disneyland with Yaya, Papa, and Isabel.  We played at Sea World with Grandma.  We even made it to the beach with Papa and Isabel.  It was cloudy, and barely 70 degrees, but Lily has never been to the beach before, so it was a must.
Lily and Isabel became good friends, but were very competitive when it came to elevator buttons!  Lily also got along great with her Beers and Phillipson cousins, especially Peyton.

Very Belated Easter

We had so much fun this last Easter, and since it was under a month ago (just barely, I know) I feel I can still post about it.  Auntie Kelly, Hollis and Everett were here with us.  We had several egg hunts, lots of candy, and tons of fun!  We got to pet bunnies and hold baby chicks, and play all the time!  We even got to help feed baby Everett, which Lily and Hollis both loved to do.  They had to take turns, which was the hardest thing sometimes.

Cold Stuff!!!

So, there are two things to share, both happened at different times, but they were both cold so here goes...

First, we had snow again here in TX!  Who knew?  I never would have figured we'd have snow 2 years in a row here!  This year, there was not enough snow for a snowman at all, but we still had fun playing in it. 
Lily also got to go ice skating for the very first time.  Her daddy took her and showed her around the rink.  Unfortunately, I have not been iceskating in forever, and I completely underestimated just how cold it would be inside the rink.  Poor Lil was a popsicle, and didn't even last a half hour.  (I don't blame her at all, I was outside in the warmth after just a few minutes!)  Next time, I will put her in more clothes and gloves!!

Yeah for Yaya!

There is nothing we love more than when family comes to visit!  Yaya came to visit in January and we were all so happy to have her here!  We had some girl beauty time, every got their nails painted, and we did some shopping.  All the good stuff!

It's been awhile...

So, for my Christmas post...

Grandma and Uncle Mark came to visit and we all had a blast!  We went to San Antonio, and had a nice Christmas at home!  Santa brought Lily lots of cool toys, and everyone had a lot of fun.  The one small hiccup was the fact that everything I touched seemed to go wrong.  Picture smoke pouring out of oven and dough that wouldn't rise.  Making 4 batches of toffee to get 1 that was right, forgetting to put butter in my fudge, you name it, I messed it up!  Still I think everyone ate plenty over the holiday anyway! 

A visit with Santa!

We are very excited that we got to go see Santa this year.  Last year Lily wouldn't go anywhere near him.  But that was not the case this year.  The tantalizing bribe of the candy cane was enough to get her to sit on Santa's lap!  She even talked to him for awhile too, but I couldn't hear what she said.  When I asked her what she said, she got a little upset and told me she forgot to ask for the gifts she wanted for Christmas-- which include a Buzz Lightyear Skateboard, a Toy Story Scooter, a Handy Manny construction set, and Toy Story Play dough.  My little princess.  What a girlie girl!  Luckily, I think Santa knows what she wants anyway...