Swimming with Daddy

She had so much fun with these rings!

Daddy teaching her to kick her legs!

Playing under the waterfall...

Swimming with Daddy!

Lilah went swimming with Daddy for the first time - at Chris's cousin Brianna's birthday party a few weeks ago... she had a great time and loved the pool! We did, however, run into a mishap that day...

If you don't know already, mommy fell into this cactus bush in our old neighborhood when I was young - at least 5-6 times. And each time, I'd be riding my bike, and it would be as if a magnetic force pulled me in... I'd go running home and my parents would either pull the needles out themselves, or take me to the doctor if there were too many...

Well, Chris's aunt and uncle have a cactus bush just like the one I used to fall into... and Lilah took off walking super fast and her leg and right hand fell into it... ouch!!!!!!! She had about 30-40 needles in her right leg and hand. Needless to say, with everyone's help we got them all out... but I think mommy was going to cry even harder than Lilah at times!!!

Sacramento/Carter's 1st Birthday

Auntie Jess playing with Lilah

Wow-wow loves!

One of her first somersaults!

The beginning of the somersault!

Watching Papa clean his fishy!

Noni and Lilah looking at Papa's fishy

Auntie Mimi and Lilah

Carter... devouring his cake! He ate half of it!

Uncle Dave, Cousin Carter and Auntie Jackie!

Lilah with her first tattoo!

Carter's first tattoo!

Playing in the "water park" Auntie Jackie and Uncle Dave set up for the kids!

The grandkids!

Haha Carter looks so happy here! Mine, not so much!

The weekend of August 28-31st we headed up to Sacramento for our nephew Carter's 1st birthday! Jackie and David had a great party planned... the Sacramento Zoo in the morning and then a party at their house later that day. Here are some pictures from the party and from the weekend with the family! We had a great, exhausting weekend!

Model Baby

Blown down by the fan!

That's some model wind-blown look!

Auntie Jess has taught Lilah to yell into the fan when it's on... so I caught her doing that the other night... she was so cute. She has the total model - wind-blown effect!

Don't leave her alone!

So mommy went into the garage to do some laundry and didn't hear Lilah moving around too much... Most likely because she was very busy taking all of the back cushions off of the couch and then jumping on the bottom ones... When I came back in this is how it looked!

Mac n' Cheese

She makes this same face every time you tell her to say "cheese" when taking a picture!

Mmm, it's so good!

Recently Lilah has really started to enjoy mac n' cheese (thank goodness! It's mommy's favorite!). I gave it to her the other night and she just looked so silly and cute with her cheesy face... I had to share!