Trip Home

We went back home for Easter weekend to get Evie baptized at Ryan's family's church.  Ryan couldn't take any time off work, so I went solo with the girls a couple days early since I was still on maternity leave and we had a lot of family to show off our baby girls to.  The trip alone was quite the adventure, but honestly the hardest part was just lugging all the stuff around...besides some wild and crazy bathroom trips.  (But what's an adventure without a few diaper blowouts and toddlers hiding under the changing table, crawling on hands and knees in the public bathroom and stripping their shoes off?)  In all seriousness, we really lucked out with good little travelers. 

Evie got to meet a lot more of her family, and once again they were all smitten.  Lyla had the time of her life being around a new set of grandmas and grandpas every day and getting to chase around their kitties and puppies, getting wheel barrow rides, jumping on trampolines, sleeping in a big girl bed for the first time (which was a lot less fun for me), and getting all around spoiled with presents and attention.  She's still talking about all the fun she had.

Here's some photos from the first few days.  I'll post some photos of Easter and the baptism another day.  :)

- K

See Ya Later, Maternity Leave

Today is the last day of my maternity leave, and those 2 months sure flew right by.  For those of you that know me you know that A) I can be quite emotional, B) I wear my emotions on my sleeve, and C) I'm a crier.  Given that information, you can just imagine what the last few days have been like.  I don't need to bore you with the details.  ;)

In between all that we did a lot of fun things like baking blueberry muffins, cuddling, painting nails, and a McDonald's date.  We also did some not-so-fun things like wish it would stop raining, washing filthy, rascally animals, and baking blueberry muffins.  (Baking with a toddler is a lot more fun in theory, I think.  But the pictures are sure cute. :)

In other news Evie Sis has become quite the ham this last week with her smiling constantly and mimicking sounds.  Mostly "ooooh".  She's also racing right through her 3 month sizes, and even maxing out some of her 6 month outfits.  And she's not even 2 months!

Also, my number one problem was relieved today when the girl that creates the birth announcement I wanted to order for Evie (who happened to go on maternity leave right when I did and discontinued her work during that time) said she would go ahead and do them for me anyways.  Can I get a #firstworldproblems??

Here's some pics from the week!  Wish me luck tomorrow...

- K

Arizona

I am so far behind on my blog posts...so much has happened over the last month but it turns out having two kids take up any extra time you once had.  Who knew?

We went to Arizona the first week of April for Ryan's 30th birthday.  Traveling with a 3 week old and 2 year old was interesting at times, but it was more successful than I ever thought it would be.  Our girls are awesome fliers.

Ryan's family got to meet Evie for the first time, and thoroughly spoiled Lyla with a new pair of sparkly cowgirl boots, a pink cowgirl hat and a horse you can actually ride around the house. 

It was a lot of fun to get in some warm weather and see family, but I think my favorite memory is from the drive back to the airport on our way home.  We had to get up early and head to the Las Vegas airport to catch our flight.  Ryan had thrown Lyla's hood on her sweatshirt up over her head before putting her in the car and about 15 minutes into the trip she says from the back seat "Lyla's head go?!" while patting the top of her head and feeling the sweatshirt material.  I died laughing and explained that she was feeling her sweatshirt hood over her head.  Her head was still in fact there, just covered.  A couple minutes later she says "Lyla's head!" And I turned around to see that she'd taken her hood off and found her head. 

Also, we saw the mom from "Everybody Loves Raymond" at the airport.  Lady's lookin' a little rough these days.  Too many late nights at Thunder Down Under I'm guessing.  ;)

- K