Damn You Dr. Seuss

Let me begin by sharing with you this cringe worth email attachment:

Who I ask you.... WHO comes up with this stuff?  I know one answer... not the mom who works full time and has a perfectionist daughter that won't do anything half assed and wants to participate in every single school activity.... that's who doesn't think this is fun!!

So I tell Lyla, how about we get an orange shirt and some yellow felt and google eyes... we'll put a Lorax face on the shirt, it will be cute, cheap and hopefully easy.

Lyla says if I'm going to be the Lorax then we need to get glasses so the eyebrows and mustache are on my face!

A trip to the Dollar Tree, Five Below and Michaels.... and one burnt finger from the hot glue gun... and I give you Lyla the Lorax!

Then came "dress as your favorite book character".  Lyla picked Pippi Longstocking.  I (stupidly) assumed a couple mismatched tall socks and braids would suffice.....  Oh no... we need those braids to bend mom and I need freckles oh and we have to find my overalls from summer........  this child...

She has so much fun with it though... I can't even pretend to be mad! 

I think we have the rest of the days covered pretty simply.  We already did crazy sock day, this Friday is wear green - but also falls on St. Patricks Day - so that's EASY!  Then we have hats... the vacation shirt, well that's her problem.  I told her to get a t-shirt on vacation for just these kinds of days and she didn't want one!  I'll just make her wear her West Virginia shirt like last time.  Some people consider West Virginia a vacation!  ;) 

2017 is off to a pretty boring start....

I haven't posted since Christmas.... that's been almost 2 months now.  I haven't posted because there really hasn't been anything to post about.

I'll just share a few random highlights and a few random pictures and videos I suppose!

Lyla surprisingly stayed awake until midnight on New Years Eve!

We've had more nice weather than not nice weather the last two months.  That has allowed lots of trampoline jumping.

We've been busy painting and redecorating our house, which is really exciting!  It is finally feeling like our house is ours and not just a place we live and store our stuff.  It makes a huge difference when the paint and carpet and different things are what you picked out yourself versus what was there when you moved in!

Mom and I went on a little weekend getaway last weekend just the two of us.  Its been forever since we did that and we had a really great time!

I really can't think of much more to report on... but we are still here and all is well! 

Christmas Day 2016

Surprisingly Lyla slept in until 5:30 on Christmas morning!  When she got up we headed downstairs to open presents from Santa!

She got the beanie boo and pie face showdown game that she asked Santa for, along with lots of other fun surprises! 

 

 

 

One surprise was a sled.... not a boat!  ;)

After we opened everything we went into the kitchen to get breakfast.  That's when we noticed a card on the table with Lyla's name on it:

 

 

When we got outside we saw that Santa had brought her a trampoline!!!

We spent the rest of the day at home just the three of us playing with our new toys and just hanging out being lazy.  Just the way we like it on Christmas!