Easter with the Wards

 We surprised my Mom on her birthday!  We made it with 15 minutes to spare. She was so excited to see us.  It had been about 4 months and she really missed me...what am I saying...she really missed LYLA! But look at how cute she is, how can you not miss her?


Lyla loves her cousin D.  She walks around saying his name all the time.  They had fun playing in the sand box with the new sand toys.

The EASTER BUNNY came to visit!  Uncle Tyler is the best!  Lyla ran right to him and gave him a huge hug.  She wasn't scared at all.

The Easter Bunny, Lyla and D.

Holding the Easter Bunny's hand while looking for Easter eggs.  The Easter Bunny hid about 50 eggs for D and Lyla to find, with help from Grandpa and Grandma Ward.

I love this picture!  Lyla wanted the Easter Bunny to help her the whole time.

D, Grandpa, Grandma, Lyla and Boompa.

We thought it was funny that D and Grandpa matched and in this picture they are glowing.

We had a really fun long weekend in the Utah.  More posts to come...because I take a TON of pictures.

Happy Easter!!!

We had so much fun over Easter Weekend! We went on an egg hunt in Grandma Lindstrom's neighborhood. Lyla wanted to get out of her stroller and get all of the eggs so I kept her strapped in. When I finally let her out she kept trying to get under the ribbon.

Every time she picked up an egg she would shake it and try to open it. After she collected all of her eggs she sat on her blanket and and started eating.

Decorating eggs at Grandma Lindstrom's house.

Easter Morning. Daddy was reading a book and doing the animal noises and Lyla couldn't stop laughing. She is so silly!

Pretty Lyla in her dress in Grandma's backyard. She loves to run around in the backyard picking up pine cones, bark pieces and smelling flowers.

Lyla loves her Grandpa Lindstrom! She was walking all around the backyard showing him things.

I scream...

YOU scream...

LYLA SCREAMS FOR ICE CREAM!!!

Lyla will eat pretty much anything we give her, but I think her favorite might be ice cream (2nd would be tomatoes). For family home evening this week we decided to try a new ice cream place in Boise called Delsa's. She is starting to be independent with eating and trying use her own fork and spoon. She does a pretty good job and we don't have too many messes.

Can't believe she is 20 months old!

The month of March has been really fun for
us so far. We had a really nice spring day and so we spent as much time outside as we could. Lyla loves the little slide in Grandma's backyard.

Lyla was having so much helping her Grandma water flowers and rake up leaves.

Pudding!!! :-)

Over Scott's last spring break (he only has little over month left of school) we went to Menan, ID to visit the Lindstrom Great-Grandparents.

Lyla does well in the car if she has treat and toys. We also went swimming and she didn't hesitate at all. She ran right to the edge to jump in with her Daddy. She was kicking and splashing the whole time.

We went to the Idaho Falls Temple. It's so pretty there!

Lyla with her Great-Grandparents. She loves them. She really likes to have Grandpa sit right next to her.

We are having so much fun and can't wait for Spring!

SICK DAY










Lyla wasn't feeling very good. Nothing too bad just the cough with the runny nose. So we had a jammy day and lots of activities. Lyla loves playdough. I let her use my cookie cutters and I bought her the cheap version of playdough so I don't care if she mixes. I like her 'thinking face'. She sucks in her chin. It's so silly!

She loves to smile for the camera, but only when she wants to. She loves her little Lyla table and wont let anyone sit on any of her chairs.

Lyla likes to move things from one place to another so I got out some of our dried beans from our food storage and let her play with them. Now we have beans EVERYWHERE!!!

Lyla also likes her doll house. She adds lots of different little people to the family.

She has figured out her little bus, but she always sits on it backwards.

We went to the library on Tuesday! Lyla loves to take the books out of the bag and then put them back in.

Watched her favorite movie:

Despicable me!

We went outside just long enough to take her daddy to school. She is feeling much

better!!

Saturday Scott and I were helping clean our church (with help from Lyla) and on our way home I decided to get Lyla a kids meal from Burger King. She loved it! She ate all of her food and LOVED her crown.

We found a new park by our house. Lyla loves going to parks! Boise is the city of parks! There are so many different parks here. The weather has been pretty nice out...much different from Moscow and Utah. Lyla loves to wear hats. This one is her new favorite. Her Daddy brought it back from one a his many trips to Peru.

Starting to go down the slide.

Slowly getting down to slide down....

Remembering she goes down on her tummy...

can't wait for summer!!!

I want to be outside all day long!!

Brushing Teeth

Lyla loves climbing up her step stool

and 'brushing' her teeth!

She also likes to make faces in the mirror!

Isn't she the cutest thing EVER?!?!?

Lyla is also going potty on her little frog potty everyday.

It's kinda hard to train a kid to go to the bathroom

when she doesn't talk. So I take her in about every 45 mins to sit. Her diapers are dry and she goes in her potty.

She gets really happy when she goes and runs to her room to get a sticker.

She's growing so fast!

She is such a lady...she even crosses her ankles while she sits on her potty! :-)