Daddy's girl

There's not too much to say about this picture. When Tommy comes home from work Lyla likes to wear his boots, hat, dog tags, etc. This particular day we just didn't get her pants back on after using the potty. I'll do another post about using the potty.

Sprinkler fun!!

Nana and Papa George gave Lyla this sprinkler for her birthday. She didn't enjoy it too much in NC because their water is super cold, but she loved it at our house because for some reason our water never gets really cold. It has little ping pong balls that you can put in and then the water shoots them up in the air. You can make the water shoot much higher, but I kept it low for our shorty. It's pretty cool.

Furniture Shopping!

We've been doing A LOT of furniture shopping lately. With the baby on the way we've been moving things around in our house. We only have 3 bedrooms so the office/guestroom is going to be the nursery. We have a sleeper sofa and guests will now have to sleep in our living room. We sold our living room furniture on Craig's List in two days, so we moved the sleeper sofa in and bought a recliner. We still need one more chair, but we'll get to that one day. We also found big girl furniture for Lyla. This isn't what we bought in the picture, but she looked so cute in this bed I had to take her picture. She actually enjoyed trying out all the furniture and getting to know some of the sales people. One store even had a dog and Lyla followed the dog all around the store. Once we get her big girl furniture in I will post pictures of it. We ordered a bed and chest from Stanley's Young America line. It's really cute furniture if anyone is looking for kids furniture. We got it in white, but you can get pretty much any color you want. Oh, I just remembered that we have to get a mattress. Add that to my to do list. Suggestions anyone?

Anna Claire's Birthday Party

Anna Claire had a water play birthday party in July to celebrate turning 2. The party was great and lots of fun with yummy cupcakes.

I love this picture of the birthday girl hanging out under the palm tree.

Water table fun!

Anna Claire blowing out her candles after we sang Happy Birthday!

Lyla, Jacqueline, Sydney & Anna Claire eating their lunch.

Lyla had blue icing everywhere when she finished her cupcake.

Thanks for inviting Lyla to your Birthday party ACE.

Hands On Children's Museum

My parents visited in July and we took Lyla to the Children's Hands on Museum in Jacksonville. Lyla had a blast and we need to go back soon. It's good indoor fun for those hot Florida days. They have a toddler room full of toys, a fire truck, a police car, train, ball pits, slides, dress up clothes, grocery store, newsroom, the list goes on and on.

Here is Lyla with her Nana and Papa. None of us knew how to play Chess so Lyla had to teach herself.

Lyla at the castle.

This was a stage with dress up clothes behind it. Lyla loved to throw the curtain back and make a grand entrance.
The grocery store was really cool. They had all kinds of groceries to put in the little shopping carts.
There was one room just for toddlers which Lyla loved and they had small ball pit to play in.
Lyla and Nana off to fight a fire. She pretended to talk to her Dad on the radio.

Lyla resting in the choo choo train.

Happy Father's Day!

We had a great Father's Day. Lyla brought her Daddy his presents to open in bed. He got slippers (because we have new hard floor downstairs) and a water bottle so he can quit filling the land fills with plastic water bottles. Then we went to church and had lunch at The Homestead. Lyla was tired after all that excitement, but we managed to get a couple of good pictures of her with her Dad before we all took a nap.

Vacation is Officially Over!

It takes us about 6 hours to get home from North Myrtle Beach. Lyla started to get squirmy about 40 minutes from home, but we were so close we were just trying to push through and finally get home. So, 25 minutes from home it starts to rain on I-95. As usual, people start slamming on the breaks because rain is sooooo scary to some drivers. The cars in front of us came to an abrupt stop, Tommy easily stopped our car because he was paying attention, unlike a lot of the drivers around us because people in front of us were swerving off the road. As we stopped we both looked in our mirrors and felt relieved as we saw the car behind us come to a safe stop. Then, bang! Who hit us, we are trying to figure out. Then we realize the car behind us got rear ended so hard they were pushed into our car. Here's a picture of the back of our car. It's not too bad and doesn't look like a car hit it at all, right...

That's because our bikes were on the back, so they got pushed into our car. My bike was worse than Tommy's. My tire, gears, and peddles were all messed up. The cost to fix my bike was actually more than we paid for it a few years ago. However, because the price of bikes has gone up, and because I love my bike, I chose to have it fixed.

The accident wasn't too bad, mostly scary for us because it was the first one with Lyla in the car and because I was pregnant. We were all OK though. So, Lyla thought 40 minutes more was bad, she was in the car for another 2 1/2 hours. It took Highway Patrol forever to get there and write up the report. The 18 year olds that hit us didn't seem to care. They just hung out beside their car talking, laughing and smoking cigarettes. Oh, to be young again. And yes I remember how many times I wrecked my car before turning 22, but I always cared and got upset and learned from my mistakes. Never did I laugh as I stood beside of my wrecked car, especially if someone else was involved. The good Lord was looking after us that day and kept us safe.