Party Time

We had Lyla's 1st birthday party at the zoo on Saturday.  We had wonderful weather and a wonderful day with our family and friends!  Lyla is a very lucky girl to have so many people in her life that love her so much!  :)  Here are just a few pictures, I took so many!  More to come as we continue to celebrate her birthday all week!  hehe

My sister made all the cupcakes, plus Lyla's special "smash" cupcake cake!  She did an amazing job!  We love you Auntie Em!

Party Girls in their Party Hats!  :)

Daddy's Girl

Trying to get her to stand still for a picture = Impossible!

My perfect little family!

After her cake

I also want to add a VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU to my mom (Grandma), my sister (Auntie Em) and my grandma (Great Grandma) for all their help Saturday morning!  We lugged so much stuff in to the zoo and up the hill to the pavilion it was a little crazy!  I could not have pulled this day off without you three!  So thank you again and I love you very much!

Early Birthday Present

My friend Maria got Lyla a little picnic table all her own for her birthday!  Instead of dragging it to her party at the zoo, we decided that she deserved to just get it early!  I think she likes it!  :)

A Saturday Trip To WashPa

We spent the day in Washington on Saturday, the weather was great and it was fun playing outside at my parents house!  Lyla finally got to try out her new swing! 

Then Dad (Pap) thought she needed to go for a ride on his bike....

She wasn't very happy with him when he actually started it!  Maybe someday....

And this was her on the way home playing peek a boo with me in the backseat:



So Many Things Going On!

Lots and lots of things have been happening the last few days!  Let me start with saying how proud we all are of "Uncle G" aka my sister's fiance Gerald.  He graduated from Waynesburg on Sunday and we went down to celebrate with him.  We couldn't go in to watch the actual graduation because it rained and they had to move it inside with limited seating, but we did get pictures with him in the cap and gown and went to dinner with him and his family afterwards.

In other news Lyla went in to have her tube in her right ear replaced yesterday.  Things didn't go exactly as planned but she seems to be feeling better already!  When they got in there they took out the right tube and saw that it was really swollen and infected so he cleaned it out and put a new tube in.  Then he checked her left ear which we all thought was fine.  Turns out that tube was also blocked and it was swollen and infected as well.  So he took that tube out and replaced it.  HOPEFULLY it all works this time and she can get to feeling 100%!  I just hate her being sick all the time.

But she never lets feeling bad slow her down!  They had a little play room that mom and I took her to while we were waiting to go in for surgery.  She had a blast!  Here she is running the sweeper... haha

And just for fun some other pictures from the last few days!

The Impossible Picture

So I was going thru old pictures last night and I told Gary, Lyla used to be so much easier to take pictures of!  Here is a perfect example:

All I wanted to do was get a shot of her standing up so you could see her pretty dress...  hahaha

And by the way, only a baby/toddler can look cute wearing tenners with a dress!  I'm so jealous that I can't pull that look off!   :) 

Lyla's Tongue

Gary and I could not stop laughing at Lyla this morning!  Apparently she has found her tongue and its too funny!  Here is a video, but it really just doesn't capture it!

These two videos are from my phone so they aren't the best quality but they are still enjoyable! 

Walking around the house this morning!

Happy Cinco De Mayo - AKA - Happy Birthday Nathan!

A little over a year ago things looked like this:

Then about 2 1/2 weeks later they looked like this:

4 weeks later like this:

And last weekend like this:

For anyone who doesn't know the story, here is the quick rundown!  Gary grew up with a great guy named Jim.  They remained friends after school.  Jim married a wonderful girl named Karla.  When Gary and I started dating and he introduced me to Jim and Karla (hoping for their approval) Karla and I were instant friends! 

About 4 years later Jim and Karla had a little girl named Naomi who Gary and I fell in love with!  And in the end Naomi is basically the reason we decided we wanted to have a child of our own!  So Gary and I made the decision to try and start a family without really telling anyone about it.  I get a phone call one afternoon from Karla saying she had news and I said really, so do I!  Well we were both pregnant!  Her with her second, me with my first!

We had so much fun being pregnant together!  Then when we were both far enough along to find out the sexes we found out she was having a boy and I was having a girl.  Well of course then we decided that the two would have to get married, then we would officially be related!  And how wonderful it would be to be friends with your inlaws!  hahaha  And so began their arranged marriage!! 

We love to joke about it and would be delighted if someday it really did happen!  ;)  But for now its so much fun watching the two of them play and grow up together!  And Naomi has pretty much adopted Lyla as a little sister! 

We <3 the Canons!

Walking Video

Ok, so this video is from about two weeks ago and let me just say that she is so much better now!  But its still really cute and it shows just how much she loves Clarkie and how much Clarkie is not a fan of Lyla!  haha  I hope you enjoy!  :)

Welcome To The New Blog!

Hi Everyone!

I'm sorry for changing websites and forcing everyone to go to a new site.  I was having a lot of issues with the other site.  It would give me a lot of problems when I wanted to upload pictures, I couldn't upload videos and I was having a lot of comments from a lot of random people!  So we are going to give this one a try and I hope it works out better than the last! 

Lyla is 11 months old today!  I can't believe it!  A month from now I will have a daughter who is a year old!  That is so hard for me to comprehend!  Time just goes by way too fast!  Here are some pictures from her 11 month photoshoot this morning: