Getting out

We have made it our goal to spend more time getting out and active and spending time together as a family with no phones and no TV. It has become some our favorite times and something that we look forward to. Hiking has been our main journey with work schedules and weather camping hasn't really been an option, though hopefully soon we will get to go. Lilly has become a huge fan of our trips as well. She does so well and doesn't complain much at all. Although she gets the best seat in the bunch so there isn't much to complain about. This weekend we went to the national grasslands and to Pawnee Buttes. It was so beautiful and we had great weather. Ziff got a sunburn on his face, ears and top of his head and I got burned on the back of my legs. Lilly no burn at all :-) The views were magnificent and the quiet was welcomed. Here are a few of the many pictures we took on our hike:I don't know if you can see him very well but we saw a little lizard on the trail

This dandelion was huge!

Family pic :-)

We let Lilly out of the back pack so she could burn off some energy, but she had no desire to... she gets a little freaked out in big spaces, she wont even run in the grassy fields at the park...it's strange, but this it what she did for about 10 min before we picked her back up, she was collecting and examining the rocks.

Ziff was so Proud of his dirty car...he worked really hard to make it look manly and rugged

After the hike Lilly and I were playing she was still in good spirits and laughing :-) she is definitely our sweet angel!

Isn't it those little unimportant things that make all the difference anyway?

Isn't it those little unimportant things that make all the difference anyway?

I've been tagged.

One of my Awesome sister in laws tagged me! Even though we all live spread throughout the country our blogs and facebook keep us all connected. It's great that we can be so close even though we are so far away. You can check out her fun blog and read all her great stories about all 7 of her wonderful boys:

http://thebookofreed.blogspot.com/

The game goes as follows:

* List Six Unimportant Things That Make You Happy
* Mention and link to the person who tagged you
* Tag six of your favorite bloggers to play along

Unimportant Things That Make Me Happy

1. The smell of fresh cut grass.

2. The smell of my baby girl (i could smell her all day)

3. A note from Ziff (I love it when he leaves me little messages unexpectedly)

4. A great view (whether it be the sunset, the ocean, the mountains or a waterfall, they all stop me and make me think)

5. A bubble bath or shower (time to myself to regroup and be me)

6. Photos. I LOVE to look at photos. Anybodies photos. A photo can tell a story like no other. I could spend ALL day looking at photos. (I agree with my sis in law on this one you spoke my mind)



What makes you happy?
Romper Bomper Stomper Boo, Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me Do, Have all my friends had fun at play? I see:

1.Kathleen
2. Kari
3. Lela
4. Kirsten
5. Ocean
6. Tabatha

Cannot wait to see what little things make you happy!

First Father's Day

Make a Smilebox greeting

Stuck

Ah the discovery of climbing. Lilly tries to climb on everything now. Ziff and I were packing up in the living room and we let Lilly play in her bedroom. We figure there is nothing in there that she can get hurt on and it keeps her from unloading our boxes we had just packed. All the sudden Lilly starts crying. Ziff say oh she's just rying to get us to come back there (there has been alot of her crying for no reason other than to get our attention lately) and so he tells me to just keep doing what I am doing and she will stop. But a few minutes later and she is still crying and now she is crying pretty hard so I decide I will go back there just to make sure she isn't hurt. To my surprise when I walk in I don't see her...but I hear her. She was stuck on the bottom shelf of her changing table. and there was a little puddle of tears from how hard she had been crying. Poor thing I felt terrible for not checking sooner. Ziff felt a little bad too..but she has learned her lesson and has not tried to climb on the shelf again. We have been trying to let her learn the hard way so we aren't constantly running behind her saying "no-no". Seems to have worked this time. But I am sure the princess will strike again with something even better next time.

Shower time

I have had to find ways to keep Lilly out of trouble so that I can take a shower and for the last few months she has been in her jumpy chair having snack while I shower. While I was in the shower Lilly started getting a little fussy, she had finished her snack and so I thought I would sing to her. I am singing the wheels on the bus to her and she suddenly gets quiet. I think to my self yes, it's working keep singing. So I finish up and didn't rush because she was quiet and I thought she was enjoying the songs I was singing. Boy was I wrong. She was quiet because she was getting into trouble. She had managed to swing her seat over to the toilet paper and unroll the entire roll of tp. She had it everywhere on her head in her mouth, in her chair, on the floor...it was hilarious. I couldn't help but laugh. The other thing she had managed to do was start undressing herself. All morning she had been trying to take her shirt off. For some reason she didn't want it on and she managed to get one arm out. Needless to say she was so happy during shower time.