Chicken Dance

Hopefully Em and Gerald are planning to do the chicken dance at the wedding because if they don't I know one little girl who will be very disappointed! 

*Nobody is allowed to make fun of my singing either!!!

Such a little diva!

Saturday evening Gary got to go to the Steelers game so Lyla and I enjoyed a girls night at home.  She kept carrying my purse around the house and unloading everything I had in it.  So I took her up to my room and got out my bin of old purses.  I gave her a couple out of there to play with.  Now, keep in mind, I do not buy expensive purses.  They are all cheap and if they are in the bin that means chances of me using them again are slim, but I just haven't got the nerve to get rid of them yet.  All but one.  I own one Coach purse that was a gift and I love it!  Its small so I don't use it everyday - only for special occasions!  Well guess which one Miss Lyla Bean insists on playing with:

Earlier in the day on Saturday we had gone to Target to get her new dress shoes to wear for Em & Geralds wedding in a couple of weeks.  I got them a little big so hopefully she can wear them for Christmas too.  I decided to try them on her again while we were hanging out at the house to make sure they weren't so big that she couldn't walk in them.  She can walk fine, and she is obsessed with them! 

So we spent the evening in our pjs, wearing sparkly shoes and carrying a Coach purse.  If that isn't the makings of a diva, I'm not sure what is!  hahaha

So... How was your Tuesday??

I'm well aware that its Friday already, I wanted to post about this earlier in the week but haven't had a chance! 

Our morning Tuesday started off like any other morning in our house - total chaos!  We were having such a hard time getting us all ready and out the door.  Just when I thought we were almost ready Lyla pooped.  So we had an unexpected diaper change.  Then we are almost out the door and she drank her milk too fast and threw up a little bit.  Not a ton, but enough to need an outfit change.  So finally, about 10 minutes later than normal we get out the door.

We are cruising down the highway when all of a sudden traffic is at a complete stop.  Luckily we didn't rearend the truck in front of us and nobody hit us either.  What the heck is going on we wonder??  We turn on the radio to find out a boulder fell off and bounced off of the hood of a car!  The good news, the kid driving the car walked away!  Even better news, had we been running on time it easily could have been our car that got hit!  So we crept along until we got to the next exit and took a different way to work.  The same way all the other people took.  Our 20 minute drive turned in to over an hour.....

Story on the Boulder

So once I get to work the day goes along like a normal day.  I get back from lunch and I'm sitting at my desk when I felt what I thought was one of the guys shaking the back of my chair.  I turn around and nobody is there.  I turn back and it looks like my desk is shaking.  I decide that I'm either losing my mind or I'm getting dizzy and about to pass out or something.  Then my friend comes out of her office and says did you feel that???  I was like yeah!  Then we thought maybe a truck hit the building or maybe they were doing some kind of construction upstairs.  We had no idea, I was just glad to know I wasn't crazy!  Then we found out, there was an earthquake in Virginia and we felt it here!  That's just so crazy to me! 

Anyways, that was my boring, normal Tuesday... how was yours??  hahaha

Lamb says MOOOOO?!?!?!

So Lyla learned that a lamb says BAAA and a cow says MOOO.....  we have had a bit of regression....  lol

ELMO!

The three of us were off this past week and we had so much fun just hanging out and spending quality time together!  We also watched a lot more tv than we normally do...  and it didn't take long before Lyla was obsessed with Elmo!  I kept teasing her that she is going to have to attend meetings for Elmo anonymous, "Hello, my name is Lyla and I'm addicted to Elmo....." hahahahaha 

So of course she now has a stuffed Elmo and an Elmo dvd.  And that probably means that by the end of the week all interest in Elmo will have disappeared!

Lamb says BAAAAA

6 Years Ago Today....

6 years ago today I married an amazing man!  In a week it will be 8 years since I met him.  For anyone who doesn't know that fun little story, let me share it with you!

August 14th, 2003 - Starlake Ampitheater - Lawn Seating
I was there with a bunch of my girlfriends to see the Counting Crows & John Mayer concert.  Gary was there with some of his friends.  Before this night, we didn't even know that the other one existed!  If you know Gary and I at all then you are know we are both pretty outgoing people.  Well we all started talking waiting for the concert to start.  As the night went on, all our friends went their separate ways hanging out and watching the show.  Gary and I spent the entire evening sitting together talking.  When the show was over, Gary took my hand, kissed it and said it was very nice meeting you.  And then he walked away.  My friends came over and were all like Did you get his number????  I just said NO!  They said well you better get it, you just spent the whole night talking to him!  So I did something that changed my life forever and ran after him.  I litterally chased him down!  When I caught up to him he told me to give him my number instead.  So I did.  I remember going home that night and telling my mom all about him.  She had a theory that he only wanted my number so I wouldn't have his because he had no intention of calling me!  hahaha  She was wrong!  He called the next day and the next weekend we had our first date!   And if thats not fate then I don't know what is! 

Fast forward to May 2004 - I moved to Morgantown to be closer to him.

December 2004 - We got engaged at Oglebay in Wheeling.  That is another fun story!  Gary had this great elaborate plan of how he was going to propose.  We were going to go see the lights and we were going to go on the horse drawn carriage ride that they have.  At the end of the ride he would get down and ask me to marry him.  WELL it rained that evening.  And they don't take the carriage out in the rain because its not safe.  No big deal to me, we will just drive thru the lights like we always do.  So we drive thru and Gary pulls in to a parking lot - looking directly at the Santa Clause lights!  He hates that I always include that in the story!  "We parked in front of the Santa Clause... blah blah blah"  hahaha  He was so discouraged that his plan was all messed up, he just turned to me and said so, do you want to get married?  I like to tease him about his proposal all the time, I tell him I want a do-over some day!  But really, it was perfect just the way it was!  I love our imperfect - perfect for us - relationship!

Fast Forward to August 6, 2005 - We got MARRIED!  :)

Its been a pretty amazing 6 years!  And looking back I wouldn't change a thing!  We have had a lot of stuff happen these past 6 years.  In May 2006 we moved to Pittsburgh.  In June 2010 Lyla was born.  In April 2011 we bought our first house.  But deep down we are still those two crazy kids hanging out in the lawn at Starlake!  We just have to act like grown ups now most of the time!

Welcome to the newest member of our family....

We had a new addition to our family Saturday!  We got a new car!  :) 

I haven't taken any pictures yet, but I will.

After a lot of thought, Gary and I decided that we are going to go from a two vehicle family to a one vehicle family.  Both of our cars were getting high in miles and starting to break down a lot.  So as much as we hate starting fresh with car payments we decided we would rather pay a monthly car payment than the stress of not knowing when the car is going to break down next!  Plus now that we are parents, we need a vehicle with more room. 

So I did lots and lots of research and we decided on a Mitsubishi Outlander and we love it!!!  We traded my Subaru in on it and we are trying to sell Gary's Saturn.  So if anyone wants to buy it, hint hint... hehe