We got our family an elf.  Scott named him Melvin.  

It's really a girl, but Scott decided that it should be a boy. 

Lyla really likes to find him when she wakes up.

The 1st day Melvin was eating Lyla's breakfast.

The 2nd day Melvin built a house for himself.

Building houses for her toys is one of Lyla's favorite things

to do with her toys.

Lyla's favorite Christmas song is "Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer." 

She has me sing it all day long, but now she is helping and singing some of the words to the song.

We are signing on our house tonight. Can't wait! 

It's going to be great! I want to get my Christmas decorations up!   

We went to Utah this last weekend and Lyla finally saw her first snow of the season.

She had so much fun playing in the snow with Bella.

She also likes to help clean the snow off of the cars.

Someday we might get snow at our house...I am okay if we don't. ;-)

Making cookies!

Lyla loves to help me bake. She likes to climb up on her 'stairs' and pour everything in.

After each time she poured something in she'd look at me and said, 'Taste?'

 'COOKIES!'

'TASTE?'

Rolling out the dough.

She loves to frost and put sprinkles on.

Making cookies with Lyla is so much fun.

We are so excited for Christmas!

We can't wait to move into our NEW HOUSE in 2 weeks (hopefully sooner) 

and put all of our Christmas decorations up!

A fun fall morning!

This morning Lyla and I went to the park by our place in Heyburn.  It's not very big, but they have bears carved out of wood that Lyla likes to say hi to them.  We also played on the slides and dug in the dirt.  

Lyla liked having the park all to herself.  

She was running around screaming and having fun.

On our way back to the car she had to say bye to the bears and give them a kiss.

When we got home we had some hot chocolate, listen to Christmas music 

and decorated a turkey with beans and noodles. 

Lyla loved her hot chocolate and kept saying, "Humm...hot chocolate" over and over.

She noticed Santa on her mug and now she will tell you what Santa says if you ask her.

The morning was so much fun. She was laughing and talking a ton. I love getting to spend lots of time with my Lyla.  We are getting so excited for Thanksgiving next week.  We can't wait to see Scott's parents and two of his brothers.  Lyla and I got to have an early Thanksgiving with my family last week.  I love the holiday season.

 My Lyla is the GREATEST!!!  I love her more than anything.  She is getting so big and learning so much. The other day while I was carrying her at the store a lady said, "Wow she is just about the same size as you." Yep, my two year old is 2 feet away from being as tall as me. I am sad to say this, but she is no longer a baby.  Lyla has the sweetest personality. She is also a little crazy! She has started talking even more. She is so polite and always says please and thank you. She will continue to say thank you until you say you're welcome.

 She doesn't always like to get her picture taken, but this is the face she makes when she does. As you can see in the picture she was eating goldfish...one of her favorite things to eat.

 She loves to help me make things in the kitchen. When ever I am making something she wants to help me mix it. We made sugar cookie dough one night and then I baked them the next day and let her frost them. She kept licking the frosting off the cookies. (Don't worry she ate all of her own cookies)

Lyla LOVES to watch shows. It's the first thing she says when she wakes up in the morning or after nap. I promise I don't let her watch that much...I guess that's why she always wants to watch them. Her new favorite is "Rar" with is her way of saying she wants to watch a Land Before Time movie. It's a good thing there are at least 10 of those movies and that they are on Netflix. Lyla always has her kitty with her and now wants to have her pillow and blankie with her to watch a show. Lyla has a part she likes on her blanket that she always looks for and when she finds it she rubs her nose with it. Now when she grabs her blankie she says, "Part" while she looks for her one favorite spot. 

My kid loves stickers!!  I hear moms complain about stickers, but I love them.  She hasn't really put them on anything that I couldn't get them off of. She usually just puts them on her face. And if she has stickers on her face then you must have some too.

Isn't she so beautiful?!?!  We went for a walk by the snake river close to our house. This girl loves being outside playing in the grass, dirt and water. She picked all of the weeds in the grass, climbed on big rocks and threw little rocks in the water.

Lyla having fun running around and spinning with her Daddy.

I HAVE THE BEST KID IN THE WORLD!!!

We have had a fun busy September!!

 Lyla is learning so much! She is saying so many new words everyday.

Her new favorite thing to say is "BYU!" She repeats it over and over!

 To celebrate Scott's birthday we went to Tucanos is Salt Lake and the next day we went to Lagoon for my parents work day.  I haven't been in so long! We took Lyla on almost all of the little kid rides. They have way more now. I think Lyla was nervous, but she never got scared. The pictures below don't really show how much fun Lyla and D' had, but they did. We took Lyla on a ride that spun super fast and the whole time she was asking me if she was okay. She kept saying, "kay? kay?" She is super brave! It's so fun having a little kid that isn't afraid of anything and that is tall enough for rides. It was cool having moms point at Lyla and say to their kids, "Look that little girl went on the ride and had fun."

We found a new park by our house. Lyla loves digging in the rocks!

I know I am a purple girl, but I love this little girl in PINK!!!

SCOTT PASSED THE BAR!!!

I am so proud of my husband! He is amazing and such a hard worker.

Next week we are heading to Boise so Scott can be sworn in for the Bar.

We are so happy to be completely finished with school.

Cousin D' and Aunt Meggie came to visit! We always have so much fun with them.

They are moving to Colorado Springs in a week or so. We are going to miss seeing them all the time, but we have plans to visit a lot.

We had fun going on adventures and playing at parks. Lyla and D' were pretending to be kitty's the whole time. Lyla is now walking around saying, "D'? Aunt Meggie? Home. Oh no." She says this at least 10 times a day.

I have been trying to find new, fun, learning things for Lyla and I to do.

Lyla loves playing in water with bubbles. She played for almost an hour.

She loves painting in the tub. Her leg was stained blue for a day or so, but she had fun.

I got Lyla some finger paints. When she paints she gets really calm, quiet and concentrates really hard.

I hung her finger paint picture on the fridge and whenever she sees it 

she says, "Mine" with a big smile on her face.

We got Lyla snow boots and she always needs to where her hat and scarf.

I think she is ready for the cold weather.

We are really liking our new town. We have been very busy every weekend for the past two months with going to visit family, going to the Lindstrom family reunion, having people visit us and taking adventures. This last weekend was our first weekend just the three of us. We had so much fun.

Lyla playing in a cool tree.

Lyla getting a drink! She is so silly and fun!

I love my little family!!!

Lindstrom Family Reunion 2012 

 Scott's family had a reunion at his parents cabin last week. We all had so much fun. Scott could only stay for two days because he had to get back for work. (We are happy he has a job, but sad he couldn't stay longer)

 All of us! Uncle Houston(Justin),Uncle Jason, us, cousin James, Uncle Matt, cousin Lizzie and Aunt Richelle

 Lyla had fun getting to know her cousins. James liked being the big cousin and have Lyla follow him around. Grandma had surprises for them everyday and they had fun with their Uncles.

 Going on adventures with Grandma and Grandpa.

Lyla had to learn how to share her Grandparents.

She also learned the word 'share'. She now says it whenever you have something she wants.

 Checking out the ponds by the cabin.

I love roasting marshmallows! (Scott making a silly face)

We went to church in Stanley ID. The church building is used by a lot of different religions. It was a Lindstrom sacrament meeting...Justin and Jason help with the sacrament, Matt played the organ and I spoke.

It was a great experience. It's wonderful that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the same everywhere. I feel so blessed to have it in my life.

They Boys!!

The Girls!!!

Look at those cute Grand-kids!!!

                                           Lyla and cousin Lizzie

Lyla and James! They look like twins!!

Grandma took us to see some horses. The kids had fun picking grass and feeding them to the horses. Grandma named them George and Betsy.

When Lyla is a little older I want to put her in horse back riding lessons.

We went swimming in Grandmas little pool on the deck. The kids had so much fun. It was nice for us to put our feet in the cool water. Lizzie looks like she isn't enjoying it in this picture, but she LOVES water!!

There is a hot spring close to the cabin so we went one night. The kids LOVED it! Nice warm water and rocks to throw...what kid wouldn't be happy?!?! 

James kept saying "I love it" and Lyla was kissing everyone.

Grandma and Grandpa both thought that they wouldn't get in the water...

well they ended up swimming in their cloths. 

We had so much fun we went the next night too.

Our last full day at the cabin we went fishing and for rides on the canoe at Bull Trout Lake.

Lizzie waiting for her turn on the canoe. She is such a sweet baby. She looks like Lyla when she was that age (10 months).  She is so adventurous and wants to move so bad. She will be crawling in no time.

My amazing Lyla. She is so much fun!
Love her!!

James is super smart! Lyla loved hanging out with him! He is super cute and full of imagination. It's crazy how much they all look alike. They all look like LINDSTROMS!!
















Uncle Jason building sand castles with the kids. He's so good with them. They love him!

We went fishing! We caught so many fish! 

James caught his first fish with Grandpa's help.

Riding in the canoe. Grandpa did all the work!

We had a great week!!!!

I can't wait until next year!!!