Future Musician?

Lilly meets Elmo!

My Gym had an open house last week and had Elmo visit the kids. Lilly, who is Elmo and Dora obsessed, was in heaven.

Bubble blowing

Yoga

Downward dog with a leg raise



Triangle

Downward dog

Long time no post.....

I know it has been almost a month since I last blogged. SO SORRY! We have been trying to stay busy to make this deployment fly by. It seems to be working so far. Pete has been gone about 6 weeks. Only 5 1/2 months to go! Here are lots of pictures....

ABCs

For Pete....

Giving Haya a kiss!

The 12 days of.....

FAMILY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got to spend 12 wonderful days as a family before Pete deployed. Pete figured out it was the longest we had all spent together since October!!! OY! We had a great time. Pete came home for 4 days and then we all flew to California. We went to our last duty station, 29 Palms. It was definitely a bittersweet trip. Bitter for the obvious-Pete deploying...but sweet because we (Lilly and I) got to see some of my friends and meet their friends.
We stayed with the Farmers; Wendell, Brittany and Kaydence. They were so amazing to put us up for about 9 days. We have known the Pete and Wendell have been friends since 1999 and were the head sword detail for each other's wedding. And Lilly was born on Kaydence's 1 yr birthday! They are a very special family to us. We love y'all. Lilly and Kaydence played like crazy..pictures to come...

Lilly finger painted a sign for the airport and picking Pete up.

Learning to ride her "motorcycle-just like dada"(Lilly's words)

We got to spend 2 nights in Big Bear(our favorite mtn town) right before he left. We ate at our special restaurants, went to the zoo, and went to see the water. We loved going to Big Bear for the night when we lived in 29 Palms. One Valentine's Day Pete surprised me when I got back from work. He got off work early told me to get dressed when I walked in the door. He drove me to Big Bear for dinner and going around the little shops. It was so special.

Terrible Two's are a comin....

February 1, 2009...Lilly turns two. We are officially in the terrible twos....well only some of the time. For the most part, Lilly is such a good girl. She just is too young to understand patience, what a joy it will be when she learns it! She is in the "I want it and I want it NOW" stage. "oh I can't have it? I will scream!!!" But she is sooo much fun right now too. We do crafts, we sing, we play, we dance, we go on walks. We have so much fun together. I do love this stage mostly.

On Feb 1 she woke up and got to open her presents that came in the mail. Thank you Nana, Pops, Grammie, and Bampa for the wonderful goodies.

Holding her new baby Abby Cadabby

Trying to put on her new dress


While we were in San Diego, Lilly caught a virus that shot her temp to 102! We had to leave Sea world early and lay low the next day. Luckily the temp when down with the motrin/tylenol alternating combo. She broke the fever sat morning. But i didn't want to chance it on her birthday of her not feeling well and getting other kids sick. So we postponed her party. To still make it birthday-like, we made mini cupcakes on her birthday. She had the most fun decorating them...

Sunday, Feb 8 we had her birthday party. It was a crowd! We had 5 little girls and 3 infants come over. They colored, did a craft, played, and had cake. They girls had a great time together and there was only a couple of small arguments over toys, and Lilly only had one small meltdown. But hey, it was her party and she could cry if she wanted!

Sneaking away to try and open presents!

"Blowing out" the birthday candle on her Elmo cake.

Opening presents after everyone left

The last week of January Lilly and I got to take a trip down to Camp Pendleton(San Diego) to see Pete. Needless to say we had a WONDERFUL time. We rented a cabin(trailor) on the beach. We took a trip to south of LA to visit Grandma Eve(Pete's great aunt) and spent a night with her.
We took Lilly to the beach, which she LOVED and still asks to go to a couple of times a week. We also took a trip down to Sea World. Lilly's favorite were the dolphins. (just like dada) Unfortunately we had to leave early, she got sick with a fever of 102! We didn't do much the rest of the trip except hang out and go down to the beach again.
Lilly's crazy hair courtesy of San Diego humidity!

Looking for seashells

Because it was too cute not to post!

Pete's favorite-feeding the dolphins

Looking at the turtles

I love the way the light reflection makes it look like our footprints are popping up

Helping me make muffins