July in Review

Pearl is sitting up so well these days!

Holding hands :)

Lyla love, love, loves the new pool in town!

We have been frequenting it to help beat the heat.

Our dear friends Mark & Karn had a healthy, beautiful baby girl! Her name is Maggie and she is a miracle, as they were told they wouldn't be able to have children. God is good. :)

And here is Maggie's big brother Nelson, wearing Joel's glasses :)

Grandpa and Pearlie with sissy's hat on funny :)

Our 7 year anniversary dinner...yum

7/22/12

Super Daddy

Sitting on a dock on the Mississippi...it was a beautiful evening to enjoy God's creation

Lyla likes going in Daddy's bow case :)

Movie night with Grandma & Grandpa

the doe and fawn who live in our backyard

4th of July

This is how Lyla fell asleep one afternoon...too much fun will do that to a girl. :)

Lyla playing with her friend Evan

My friend Susan and her three kids came for a visit~we had lots of fun and craziness with five kids in the house!

Louella, Pearl, Lyla, and Vivianna (Grayson was sleeping)

Lyla went on the pony ride at the fair!

6 months old

Well, our little Pearlie girl is 6 months old already! Here's what she's been up to lately...

-Her 2 bottom teeth have come in so she chews on anything and everything she can get her hands on, including her toes!

-She loves to stick out her tongue and crack us up when she does it.

-She's a very content baby and she smiles easily.

-She loves to play with her toys~her hands are always busy, busy.

-She's very observant and notices everything going on around her~doesn't miss a beat!

-She loves to be where all the action is!

-She's still not a big fan of tummy time~she rolls right to her back as soon as possible.

-She's also not a fan of rice cereal yet, but we're working on that.

-She loves to make lots of squeaky sounds, and squeal when she's excited or happy.

-She loves to play patty-cake and clap.

-She also loves tummy zerberts and daddy's whisker tickles.

-She loves books and kicks her feet like crazy when we read because she's excited. Hope she's a reader some day!

-She's getting very quick at pulling hair and pulling glasses off.

-She's starting to enjoy dropping things just to hear the sound it makes.

-She's starting to reach for mama when I put my arms out to her.

-She still loves her pacifier and her soft blankies.

-She looks a lot like her daddy and is very entertained by her big sis.

-I call her my little flea-flea because she's still just little. :)

Love her to pieces.

And here's a few pics from our summer so far...

This is what I saw when I walked into Lyla's room one morning. I was cracking up for a good ten minutes, and so was she. What a nut!

Lyla's new kiddie pool

Rainbow toes!

My parents and us at Beaver Creek--so beautiful there!

This is the spot where Joel and I got engaged. :)

Big stuff in the high chair, ready to try some rice cereal.

Pool fun with cousin Ethan. :)

Large, medium, small...it's fun having girls :)

Pearl and her Great Grandma Nita

Love.

Fun with Friends

My friend Tanya and her kids, Haley and Jack, came for a visit over the weekend. It was a scorcher of a weekend so it was perfect for lots of pool fun. :)

neighborhood "pool party" in our front yard :)

Lyla likes the pool even when there's no water in it!

Fun with Joel

Boog & Dag (our nicknames for each other when we were tennis partners for many, many years!) :)

Cuties

This & That

Sitting up :)

Pearl loves napping on Daddy

At Beaver Creek--the spot where Joel and I got engaged

Grandma and her girls

Pearl's first time in the johnny jump-up