Update

Hey all. Sorry its been awhile, but im not the only one not updateing my blog weekly (you know who you are :) Well, i went up to my moms house last weekend and while we were there Layla started sitting up on her own. I love going to moms, it always seems like Layla does new things there. The first time she rolled over was at her house too. Also, chelle got me started on www.sparkpeople.com and im actually sticking with it! Its a really cool diet/workout page thats perfect for me. You log in everything you eat and all the work outs you do and it helps you keep track of calories so on and so forth. Anyways its completely changed my eating habbits and im finally working out. I walked an hour on the dikes today with Layla and it was so nice. I hope to stick with this long enough to loose my college/baby weight, im tired of being big.

Photo shoot

I decided for Layla's 6 month pictures that i wasnt going to go to sears since they are so expensive and Layla doesnt smile at those places. So i asked Randi Jo to come over and take some pictures with her fancy camera and see how Layla does that way. Layla still didnt smile but the pictures turned out so cute. Thanks Randi Jo!! We draped a sheet over my bed frame and used pillows to prop her up since she still topples over. It was kinda funny when Richie came home and Layla was but naked getting her picture taken on our bed!!!! She started getting mad when i tried the last outfit on her (as seen in the first picture) So we called it a day after that. Thanks again Randi Jo!!

House update

We have finally started yard work this week. When we bought our house the front yard was all river rock. We shoveled out the river rock and moved it to the back yard around the fence last summer. So we finally got the blocks leveled in the front yard. The back yard when we got it was a junk yard. We had to till up the entire yard a couple times just to get the junk out! Richie built the wood fence last summer and we made the rock beds around the new fence, leveled the rest of the yard. We got our deck from chelle and ryan a couple years ago and we got the shed this last month from them too since they are building a shop. We are going to put the railroad ties from the corner of the house all the way back to the fence, then we will corner off in front of the shed and down the white fence. Then we are going to corner around the deck and infront of the house with railroad ties and river rock as well. Hopefully if the weather stays nice we will have the ties in place this week before Richie has to go back to work on thursday. Stay Tuned.

bucket head

This thursday Richie, Layla and I went up to my moms house to get out of town. We had a nice relaxing time hanging with my mom, brother Ron, and neice Jessi. When mom was doing the dishes we had a butter bucket that we put on layla's head. She didnt mind it was there at all. My mom said she needs to wear it to hold her ears down (mom always comments on her ears :) Tesse, Jeff and Alex came over for lunch on friday so Layla got to hang out with her buddy! We have been starting our yard work so hopefully if the weather holds we will have a front yard this summer! I'll post pictures as we get farther along. Saturday we went to Kenzie's birthday party and got to see Brady's little red head girls! Its so funny we both ended up with red heads. We had a great time at the party. I cant believe i have to start thinking what im gonna do for Layla's first birthday.

Bath time!

So i finally took more pictures of Layla! I just love how chunky her legs are and have wanted to get a picture of how her rolls hide her "HuHa"! She's gonna hate me when she grows up for taking these pictures but thats ok.

Layla has 2 teeth (as seen in the second picture)!! She loves biting things. She will chew on things then bite down really hard and pull it out fast. Its so cute. Our house gets very lively around 6 o'clock. Layla will sit in her bouncer and just talk and talk then squeal then yell at everything and everyone. If we are talking at all she will over talk us!

Well, Richie hurt his back at work this week and has been using this time to get all of the random house things done and since i gave him the go ahead for the sprinkler system he is in seventh heaven planning everything out. We are also getting our front yard in soon so our front area will finally be finished! (two years later then planned)! Im excited because we got my sisters old shed so i have storage!!! I completely re-organized my spare bedroom to give richie a study space and my scrap booking stuff is very accessible!

6 month photo shoot

Well my baby girl is 6 months old! I wasnt sure when to consider her 6 months exactly since thre isnt 30 days in feb. Grandma Eloise got her this outfit and i just couldnt resist useing it for her pictures today. I am going to have Randi Jo take some more pictures of Layla with her fancy camera instead of going to sears or somewhere that will charge me an arm and a leg for professional pics. Layla is getting so big and strong, she can kinda sit up by herself but she topples over very easily. We are surviving her first cold this week. She has the same crud everyone else is getting and now she has a cough and stuffy nose. I'll try to update my blog sooner next time. Stay tuned!





she was standing...this is her falling