It's coming...I can feel it!

Today, Lila put my hand in her mouth and sarted sucking on it. I felt a sharpness on her bottom gum. Lila's first tooth is coming through!!!

Can you see it...can you? Yeah, neither can I, but I can feel it!

Lila is Crawling!!

This first video is of Lila beginning to crawl last week.

This second video is of her crawling today.

I'm so amazed at how fast she improves. I shouldn't be, cause she practices everyday. All her hard work has paid off:)

She can also sit up on her own too. I love watching her learn and grow!!

Keep on Comin'

The visitors just keep on comin' and we love it! We've either had family or friends come to visit once a month since May. Our friends, Jeanne and Kent Lamb, stopped by on there long road trip from CA. They haven't seen Lila since she was 3 mths. old and she's grown so much. 

Jeanne and Kent holding Lila before bedtime.

I don't know how many times they had us over for dinner and games. It felt like old times. We ate and played games:)

Playing games. Jeanne threw the dice to make it an action shot.

Thanks for coming. It was great seeing you guys!!

Anyone else want to come visit? We'd love to see you:)

Thank Goodness for Honest People!!!!!

We ran some errands today. Wal-Mart was our last stop and after leaving we realized our diaper bag was left in the grocery cart. Chris raced back as we both prayed we would find it. I prayed over and over in my head, 'please let the bag be in the cart or please let an honest person find it and turn it in to lost and found'. I started to think of all that was in the bag and became more and more nervous if we couldn't find it.

I can't blog without putting up a pic.

Our diaper bag with my phone and wallet. My wallet pretty much has my whole life in it and to replace everything would have been such a pain.

We drove by where the cart was left and it was empty. So, we went inside to lost and found hoping someone had turned it in. Of course there were like a billion people in line before me. Chris said he was going to walk around. I thought he was walking around the store looking to see if anyone had our bag. Then I imagined this scenario where he sees the bag in a person's cart. He approaches them telling them that's our bag. Then the thief attacks Chris by hitting him with the bag and then runs off. It's crazy where your mind goes when you are nervously waiting in a long line. Finally, it was my turn at the service desk and asked if a diaper bag had been turned in. As I watched the clerk walk to the back to look for it, I saw it on the ground behind a table. Relief immediately followed:) How great is that!!! Everything was safely in the bag as it belonged. This reminded me of another time when I lost my wallet during the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. An honest person found my wallet and called phone numbers on a list inside and then turned it into the police station. Thank goodness for honest people. They still exist and prayers are answered!!!!

A Long Drive But Totally Worth It

My parents drove from FL, after stopping in Chattanooga, TN for a family reunion. They got here late Sunday night. I had a few activities in mind for us to do throughout the week giving them the first day to rest from the long drive. To my surprise, my dad knocked on our bedroom door at 8:30am and asked 'Are you gonna sleep your life away?' Apparently, I was wrong about resting and we headed out to see some sights. My dad requested to see Rosenblatt Stadium and eat at Zesto's, home of the town's BEST cheeseburger. As for the BEST part, it depends who you ask but it was an experience:)

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He ordered the double cheeseburger and could barely put his mouth around it for a bite..

Mom and dad in front of the stadium.

Then we went to the Winter Quarters Temple and

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Mormon Trail Center.

The next day I had a couple doctor appointments so my mom watched Lila for me.

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Lila loved grandma reading to her.

My dad and Chris had to work the next couple of days so my mom, Lila and I went out. My mom really wanted to go to the Botanical Gardens and the Zoo. So we went.

My mom in the center of the Rose Garden.

. The Train Garden. Everything except the trains were made from natural materials. They also had a replica of old town Omaha.

Lila loving all the beautiful scenery and looking beautiful too.

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Then we went to the zoo. Where we saw

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a bear sleeping in a tree.

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A monkey asking for a hand-out.

In the Desert Dome we saw a

Bobcat!

Then on our way out

my mom pretended to be a lion. Really, she made lion sounds while I took the picture.

That night my parents took us out for a Omaha Steak dinner and it was SO GOOD.

Friday morning, Lila helped my dad with work while my mom and I

went to the Temple.

That afternoon, we went searching for where my dad's mom, Grandma Virginia and Great Grandma Florence used to live. We had 3 addresses. The first two looked like this,

vacant lots.

And the third address is now a homeless shelter neighoring a detox center.

But my dad was happy to see they named a street after his grandma.


Friday night dinner.

Thanks mom and dad for cooking the whole week!

Sad you had to go:( Thanks for coming. We love you, miss you and can't wait to see you next!

It's Hard to Tell....

Does Lila think baby food is

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Yummy

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or Disgusting?
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We have way more pics of her looking like she hates it. Either way she's got to keep eating it:)
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Here are more pics of her eating.
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What do you think?

The Greatest Show on Dirt

Chris' brother Greg and family came to NE from UT and stayed with us for a few days. Their son Tanner's baseball team was in a tournament here and they also went to one of the College World Series games.

Tanner pitching and hitting.

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Zach, Tanner, Kaden, Denise, and Greg

The whole family loves baseball and couldn't get enough of it except

Brynn:)

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She was totally excited about hanging out with Lila and less than excited about all the baseball. So it worked out when we needed a babysitter when Chris and I went to a game. Denise and Brynn watched her for us and they had a blast.

Chris' work gave us general admission tickets. The free tickets were nice but you have to stand in line for like 2 hours to wait to find out if you even get a seat for the game. We didn't want to deal with that so we bought tickets from

John, some guy scalping tickets in the parking lot.

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Isn't it hilarious he has business cards? Anyway, his number is legit and we looked over the tickets carefully to make sure we had the right date and other info was correct. After what happened with our WICKED tickets, we've become a little more careful. It was so nice to walk around, eat, and take pics at our leisure waiting for game time.

As we were searching for our seats, we noticed row 10, our row, didn't exist, or so we thought. To the left was row 9, then the walk way, then to the right was row 11. We looked down and saw numbers on the ground and a few folding chairs over some of the numbers. We looked at our tickets again and then noticed it said 'Special Needs' at the top. Are you kidding me? I guess we didn't look as closely as we thought. They were great seats but I felt a little awkward as more and more wheelchairs pulled up around us. We ended up trading seats with an elderly man who couldn't walk up the stairs very well and he was very grateful.

We went to the FSU v. TCU elimination game. It was a great game but dissapointing when FSU lost in the last 2 innings after being ahead the entire game.

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Here are pics from the game:

Thanks for coming Greg, Denise, and fam. We loved having you stay with us and hope you come back again:)