I can see clearly now...

My friend let me borrow her Nikon lens. It's the one that I thought I had bought before my cruise, but I didn't read about it enough and ordered the wrong one.  Now, this one is definetly on my Christmas list!

It is super clear and has such a blurry background!!  Enjoy these candid shots of my kids!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo a Day July

Messy Marvins

My kids don't get a bath every night...I know shocking right?  Sometimes I look at the clock and wonder how it's already 8:00 and neither kid is in pajamas!  So, if I know they are due for a bath then I just let them have some fun playing and not worry about how messy they are.  These are cute pictures of my kids even with their messy hair and faces!

I love it when Ryan looks at Lyla and says, "I thought girls weren't supposed to be messy".  Why can't a girl get messy?  I used to spill guacamole on my new outfits at school when I was younger.  It's ok, Lyla...you can still be a lady and be messy sometimes!

I mean...look at this girl!  :)

Cade loves his messy sister!

This is the face of a little girl who ate spaghetti and then had her brother poor flour in her hair!

There's a piece of spaghetti!

Lyla 9 Months

Lyla 9 Months!

You are such a joy!  I love how excited you get over the simplest things.  

You can sign the word "more" and you can clap your hands.  You stand up by yourself without pulling up on anything and you've started to use a walker to walk around.  Cade thinks that is so funny watching you walk around. He cheers you on!  You also like to shake your "booty" when you hear music.  You do alot of bear crawling around the house.  You are so quick....sometimes too quick and fall on your face.  Daddy likes to all you little bit and I call you squirmy wormy!  You are so quick.  Cade calls you Lyla (with his tongue handing out of his mouth)

You like to drink out of a sippy cup now..just like brother.

Such a big girl standing by yourself.

so pretty!!!

You can give your brother a run for his money when it comes to being messy!

Getting ready to swim!

Memorial day party!

I have got to get Ryan to take more pictures of me with my little ones!  These are precious.

Cade at 9 months!!

Lyla at 9 months!

You keep your tongue out of your mouth just like Cade did and still does.

Every month it becomes more of a challenge to get them to sit still!! But I love these "mischievous" pictures too!

Spring Break! "What What"

With Ryan and I both being off this was a super fun Spring Break! 

Saturday:  Baby Showers and Flamingos!:  Yes, that was plural baby showers!  Pics from the Baby Showers will come in another blog.  It was so much fun and we had a blast throwing it!  

The flamingos flew in very cold and wet weather so Cade didn't have much of a chance to play with them, BUT I took him outside for a little bit in his pajamas.  It's okay that it was 5 pm and Cade was still in his pajamas right?  Remember I had been at 2 baby showers that day so you can imagine why he was still in his pjs.  

Sunday: Worship in our New Sanctuary!  Praise the Lord!!!  The dedication service will be in April so I will talk more about this, but Praise the Lord!!  Come worship with us at Woodlawn Baptist Church!

Monday: Butler Park.  This is one of my very favorite places.  I used to come here before kids just to take in the views, ride my bike, or play with my friends' kids.  I feel so at peace and love to look at the view of Austin.  

We met a few friends there and some had never been there before!  I was so excited to show them what they were missing!

Since Lyla is crawling all she wanted to do was crawl and eat the grass, leaves, bugs, acorns, trash, etc on the ground.  This is a video of her crawling last week at Butler Park.  

Cade totally loved chasing his friends, climbing up the hill, and running in the open field.  But I'm pretty sure that his favorite was our picnic where he got to eat.  He sure loves to eat!

Becky has become quite the photographer so she was able to get some pictures of my kids and our friends that came!!!  I will repay her someday!

Tuesday: Austin Zoo. Ryan and I have lived in Austin all our lives and neither of us had ever been to the Austin Zoo.  We got a Groupon a while back and had planned on taking Cade for his birthday but it was raining, so we saved it for Spring Break.  If Austin has to have a zoo then this is definitely a zoo for Austin.  Some day we'll take the tots to the San Antonio Zoo and hopefully the San Diego Zoo, but for now Austin Zoo will work.  I take after my dad a little bit (well maybe alot, but that's for another blog) in that I don't really care for zoos because of the captivity for these animals, but the animals at the Austin zoo are all rescues.  So it's a little easier to look at them.  Cade loved all the animals and the peacocks that just roam around the zoo.  He got to feed sheep and goats and tried to feed a llama but he wasn't hungry.  I think one of his favorite parts was his snack and putting rocks in his pockets.  People have said it before but it's true...you really don't need to spend money to entertain kids!  Please notice my amazing wardrobe decisions for the kids!  Lyla in her giraffe onesie from Sharyn and Cade is in his monkey shirt!  That's right...I'm super mom.

Garden:  We planted more veggies in our garden!  By "we" I mean Ryan!  But I tried to keep the kids out his way.  Tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cilantro, beans, and more to come!

Wednesday:  Shopping with Baba! My dad decided to take the kids Easter shopping...so cute right?  I actually already had a dress for Lyla from my favorite consignment sale Mama Cents.  So we just needed to find Cade something.  Since I get some awesome hand-me downs I just wanted to find some special shorts or top to go with something he already had.  Simple right? 

3 hours later we still hadn't found shorts that would fit that weren't like $50. Geez...so my dad got Cade some church sandals and sunglasses and we called it a day!


But Cade did get to ride on an escalator, look at himself (and Lyla) in the mirror and he got a balloon from Nordstroms so he was super happy!

Thursday:  Strawberry Picking  We went to Sweet Berry farms to pick Strawberries...super fun!  It was mostly Cade and Ryan doing the picking because I had Lyla in a pouch so bending over wasn't fun.  The kids loved being outside and seeing the animals.  Cade got a strawberry popsicle!  He kept saying brrr...cold!  But he ate it anyway and was super messy!  


We hope to make some strawberry candies and some chocolate covered strawberries!  A Hancock House favorite!

Girls Night Out:  That's right!  The Woodlawn Women went to Matt's El Rancho and had a giggly good time!  I needed that!


Surprise!:  My dad surprised me with a super amazing camera!!!  You just thought I took a lot of pictures...just wait!  I'm hoping to take a class next week so I can actually know how to work it!







Friday:  Long Fun Filled Day with Old Friends!  I got to hang out with three amazing friends that I've know for about 15 years.  (They have all known Ryan longer than that!)  Between the 4 of us there were 7 kids!  Boy have times changed!  I only have 1 picture because I just let Becky take them all, but it's a good picture because Becky is in it!

The best part was taking the kids home, changing clothes, and going out for Ladies night (again!) then coming to my house for late night games!!  Thanks for the friendship and fun!!  We have already planned our retirement home so we can all be together!


Saturday:  Writing on my Blog and taking pictures with my new camera.

I took over 200 pictures today and this is about the only one that was decent enough to show you.  But I do love my camera and can't wait to figure it out!