Fun in the SUN!

We went out to have some fun in the sun on our first nice spring day.
Lily loved being outside...but only on the blanket, what you see here is the closest she would ever get to the grass!



Brandon loves this picture :)




Back inside for a few minutes....this picture cracks me up (I love it) I used to pose like this when I was a baby too! ha.


Dumping out the cheerios....
Where'd they go??? Here they are!!!
















Silly me! :)




Now if we could only get the nice weather to come back...and STAY back! :)

A few random pictureictures......

(I can't help but rhyme every end of a sentence)
Just catching up with a few more....some are just too cute not to share!!








hahaha

Herman the WORM

Oh what FUN!

Yay! :)

wait wait WAIT... WHAT is this thing???

Daddy SAVE ME!

This is Daddy....he keeps me safe ;)

Mommy had surgery!?!

Yep, that's right, Mommy had pretty extensive eye surgery in January...and it knocked Mommy off the 'keeping up with the blog' train (long name for a train!). Anyway, I'm back......but (sorry!) I am not even going to try to post pictures of ALL the things Lillian has done since December....that would just get to be a little ridiculous! :) SO here's what I'll do: I am going to list the things she has done and when she did them, and I am going to make a couple of posts of highlight pictures....and then we'll be back in the swing of things!! :)

• Lillian's first Christmas - crazy crazy! Lots of traveling....
• Month 7, Week 1: Sits up from her stomach, sits up from her back, cuts a fifth tooth, starts crawling, starts pulling up, starts cruising (in that order)
• Late Month 7/Early Month 8: Lily cuts a sixth tooth, Lily starts standing, in the middle of the room with no help...Lily starts waving hello and bye-bye.
  
• Month 9 (no teeth!) : Lillian is SOOO close to walking, she takes steps here and there....
• Month 10: Lily is walking (little by little) her record is 14 steps!! She now has a four word (pretty much) vocabulary: Mama, Dada, hi ('hah' and a wave), and uh-oh ('uohh') (in that order)

(Top picture is Dada, Mama and Lily at Silver Dollar City, right before Christmas; bottom pictures are Lily's Christmas pictures.)

I'm Six Months OId!!!

Oh my, how our baby girl is GROWING!






























Lillian Noel and Sissy reading Curious George...Lily LOVES books!

















This is Lily's favorite toy right now...
...the colors, the sound...she loves it all!


so much fun!

Christmas Parade!

Well, our city parade was a couple of weeks ago...our church won first place in the float competition. Although this is a little break from the usual, I thought you all might enjoy seeing some of the pictures of the place we live :)




Here's our church float!





Decked out with our own Abraham Lincoln....do you recognize him??

What, you may ask, is Abraham Lincoln doing in a church Christmas parade float? Well, our theme was 'Christmas through the ages'...and apparently everyone loved our float (thank you Penny)...and we got first!

Here are a few pictures of Lillian enjoying the festivities...only a few people tried to give her candy!

Dedication Pictures

Well, these are a long time coming! It's been awhile since I have posted anything....and I know you all are just dying to see more Lily! :) Here are a few pictures from her baby dedication....
There wasn't much left of the rose when Lillian was done with it!



And finally, here is a video of Mommy and Daddy serenading our most precious Lillian Noel...we didn't have much (any) time to put the song together...and as a matter of fact, Daddy and Mommy agree it's pretty butchered compared to the original version by Christy Nockels....BUT we decided to share anyway. I have posted the lyrics below....we changed a few words to fit Lily Noel just a little better...'the tenderness of God is rolling around in our living room tonight'....





Baby woman, tiny in stature now
But your heart is a treasure
Little princess come follow behind me
I am reaching for you

(chorus)
Lillian, God has answered my prayers
Lillian, God will conquer my fears
To mother a daughter, to look you in the eye
To know that I have everything to walk with you in life
To give you to Jesus that He would impart
The wisdom that I'm longing for to mother your heart
Lillian, God has answered my prayers

There will be others to lead and to guide you girl
But only one you'll call Mother,
The honor is all mine to show you what a woman's like
I'm so glad you're mine

(chorus)

Oh the tenderness of God
is rolling around In our living room tonight
She's lighting up her daddy's eyes
I know he just wants to freeze you in time