Changes Changes All Around!

If you are one of those extra, super, duper observant people you will notice that the blog has a new name! 

No longer being referred to as the "Burge Fam" blog, I have changed it to "Kate's Kaleidoscope". 

The definition of kaleidoscope is a constantly changing pattern or sequence of objects or elements.  I think this is a good description of my life.  Things don't stay the same for long!  If they did, we would all be so bored! 

When I started this blog a year ago... yes, a year has already passed.... I wanted to keep everyone updated on Lyla and how quickly she was growing and changing.  No worries, I'm still going to keep everyone updated on the little Bean, but I have realized that I really enjoy writing.  I enjoy just jotting things down that are on my mind and those things often don't have anything to do with the "Burge Fam", they have to do with me. 

I have seen some fun ideas on different blogs that I am thinking about incorporating here, I haven't totally figured it all out just yet.  But I'm excited about it!  So stay tuned!

Back to reality after a FANTASTIC Weekend!

As great as it is to spend time with our family and friends, my favorite weekends are when its just the three of us doing whatever we feel like doing!  And this past weekend was exactly that.

Friday night we went to Home Depot to get some supplies for working outside at our house.  Then we had dinner at Wendys (fancy, I know!).  But hey, we like it and we had coupons!  And Lyla is much more comfortable in that sort of environment.  She was standing in the booth next to me eating her nuggets and dancing to the music they had playing in the dining room.  The next thing we know she is shaking her butt in the air and says "Shake Your Butt"!  hahahaha  It was fantastic!

Saturday morning I needed to run up to the mall for a couple things and Gary and Lyla came with me.  I guess it was "Free Comic Book Day", Gary could tell you all about it, but I'm not a nerd like him, so I don't know anything about it.  But he took Lyla to the comic book store while I did my own thing and she was just as excited as he was!  It was cute seeing them together!

Saturday afternoon Lyla and I went on what seemed like a thousand walks, but I didn't care, the weather was so great I loved being outside and spending time with her!  While we did that Gary was busy pulling out plants/weeds along the side of our house.

Saturday was also Nathan's birthday!  We didn't get to see him on Saturday so we had to send him a special message to be sure that he knew we didn't forget!

Sunday Lyla and I went and did more shopping while Gary kept working out in the yard.  Sunday afternoon I painted Lyla's toenails!  I have been waiting almost two years to paint those piggys! 

She loves them!  She kept taking her shoes off to look at her "pink toes"!

So that's a quick rundown of our weekend.  It was perfect!  :)

Heard Around the House - In the Car - She really just never stops talking!

I have been wanting to do some "Heard Around the House posts" but they all keep piling up in my head and I just don't get around to posting them.

Lyla has turned in to quite the little chatterbox!  It doesn't matter where we are, she just talks nonstop!  And she doesn't even care if there isn't anybody to talk to, she has no problem just rambling to herself!

Here are some of my favorites lately:

She likes to say that she goes to "work" every day, not daycare.  So after I picked her up one day we had this conversation in the car:

Me:  So what did you do at work today?
Lyla:  Make money.
Me:  How did you make money?
Lyla:  Hot Dogs.
Me:  So you sold hot dogs and made money?
Lyla:  Yes.

Later when I was retelling this to Gary:

Gary:  Lyla, can I have some of your money?
Lyla:  No!  :) 

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Her and I sitting in the back of the car on the way home.

Lyla:  (saying something I totally can't understand)
Me:  Finger?
Lyla:  (repeating whatever it is I can't make out)
Me:  Touchdown?
Lyla:  (repeating it once again, annoyed that I can't understand)
Me:  Can you use it in a sentence??
Lyla:  hahahaha Mimi funny!
Me:  I will take that as a no.... 

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She hasn't been really crazy about eating pasta dishes lately.  I made stuffed shells for dinner last night and wasn't sure if she would eat it or not, but figured I would give it a try.  I put her plate of shells in front of her.

Lyla:  MMMMMM Red Tacos!!

And she ate them!  So Gary and I just called them red tacos all night!  Whatever works right??

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Busy Saturday

Saturday's schedule was booked solid from start to finish.  First thing in the morning Gary had to go to work for a couple of hours so Lyla and I were trying to use that time to get a few things done around the house, like laundry.  Well my hands were full trying to get her and the laundry basket downstairs, I put my cell phone in the basket... and forgot about it.  Forgot all about it until I saw it falling in to the washing machine that was halfway full of water.... ugh  I yanked it out of there and took it all apart and put it in a bowl of rice.  Amazingly enough when I put it back together on Sunday it actually worked and is still working!!  But it wasn't a very good way to start the day.
When Gary got home he got ready and we headed to WashPA for things that we had going on there the rest of the day.  One of the things was a celebration dinner for my cousin who graduated from Pitt.  It was really nice getting to see all of our family from around the country (Texas, Colorado)!  All the cousins were there except for one, which for us is about as good as you can hope to get!  We got a couple pictures of the whole gang.  I hope some of the family can share theirs with me because when I got my camera and looked whoever was using mine only took two pictures...  But they are still great pictures nonetheless!

After the party my cousin Kristen came back to our house to stay.  We had so much fun!  I really wish that we didn't live so far apart because we always have a blast any time we are together! 

Edit:  Grandma just sent me two more pics from the party!

Happy Happy Birthday to ME!

Anyone that knows me knows that I stretch my birthday celebrations out as long as possible.  This year Gary let me get started on Saturday!  First he let me open up my birthday present from him and Lyla - a Kindle!  I was SO excited!  I have been wanting one for a long time and its just as awesome as I knew it would be!

Then Saturday afternoon he went to "run some errands" while I stayed home with Lyla.  When he got back he had some of my friends with him!  They came for a surprise get together!  It was so much fun getting to hang out!

Gary got me a birthday cake (ice cream cake from Dairy Queen)!  We were all so confused when we cut it because it was missing the crunchies and fudge!  Gary called Dairy Queen and they are refunding us for it!  hahaha  nothing better than free birthday cake!

Everyone sang Happy Birthday and then Lyla helped me blow out the candles.

We all just had a really nice time visiting!  Lyla was on entertainment committee and she did an excellent job!

On Sunday my mom and Em came up and we spent the day birthday shopping.  I love getting new clothes for my birthday and getting to have a girls shopping day is always so much fun!

On Wednesday (my actual birthday) I went to work and Maria brought me flowers.  They were so pretty and I wanted to put them in a vase on my desk.  Well we couldn't find a vase, so we had to improvise!  I work at a construction company, so an empty jug from wire connectors did the trick!  hahaha

After work Gary and Lyla took me to dinner at Longhorn, I tried to get a picture with her, but she didn't feel like cooperating!

SO that is my birthday in a nutshell!  There will be some more celebrating this weekend.  Well a shared celebration since my dad's birthday is on Sunday!

A little bit of this - A little bit of that

Its been two weeks since I posted anything - so I figured I better get on it before people start to think something happen to me!  Where to begin?

First to recap my March Resolution of not saying curse words... that was an epic fail.  haha  It will be a lifetime struggle to try to stop doing it, I think I'm addicted to it like people are addicted to smoking!  I can censor and abstain when I need to, but to give it up completely is too extreme for me.

Easter weekend was good.  Thursday Lyla and I went and spent time with my friends from high school.  Friday we dyed Easter Eggs.  Lyla had a lot of fun doing that this year!  Saturday Gary's mom came up and stayed.  Sunday morning the Easter Bunny came, Lyla found eggs and got her basket.  Then my parents and Em and Gerald came up and we had dinner.  Dad also cut a hole in my wall and caught my house on fire... so it was an exciting day!  haha  Seriously though, our bathroom had a serious leak and dad cut a hole to get to the pipes then he had to solder them back together. 

Lyla got in trouble at daycare last week for stripping off all of her clothes to get attention when she felt she wasn't getting as much as she wanted!  It was all I could do to not laugh when the teacher was explaining the story to me! 

Gary's Great Aunt Helen passed away over Easter.  This is a terrible loss for his family.  She was always a really sweet lady.  I enjoyed getting to visit with her every time I saw her at a family event.  She will really be missed.

I can't think right now of what else needs updated, so thats it for now!  :)

Girls Weekend Away

Every year around this time we take a weekend and Lyla and I go away with my mom and Em for the weekend and Gary spends it in Clarksburg visiting his family and friends.

Lyla got to spend lots of quality time with Em in the backseat of the car:

We did lots of shopping:

On Sunday when we got back to town we went to Em's house and G had a surprise for her (& Lyla) - he bought some baby bunnies!

At that point, Lyla was in desperate need of a nap because we were planning on going to an egg hunt later in the afternoon.  She wanted nothing to do with me... but cuddling and taking a nap with Grandma was just what she needed!

After her nap we went out to hunt some eggs! She loved it and one egg even had some "Ms" in it which made her a very happy little girl!

After the egg  hunt we played on the weee or a slide if you don't speak Lyla!  ;)

Today we spent some time at my friend Stef's house.  Just a perfect way to end a great weekend!  :)