Helpful Lyla

Monday is my day for grocery shopping, laundry and deep cleaning my kitchen.

Lyla likes to help....

Lyla is really good at the grocery store. She smiles at everyone and talks and sings the whole time. When we get home I let her run around in front of our apartment while I carry bags up and down the stairs. This morning she decided to just sit, watch and eat her Cheetos.

Lyla also likes to help me carry in the bags, but she always wants to carry the milk. I try to give here something light like paper towels, but she just keeps trying to carry the milk.

After we get the kitchen clean we always sweep last. Lyla loves the broom and sings while she sweeps. She even trys to use the dust pan.

We also do laundry on Mondays. I don't really mind doing laundry because I have such a good helper. I have to be careful and recheck my whites before I wash them because she likes to mix up my piles. She doesn't 'help' much with the folding...so I usually wait until she is asleep or really distracted by something else.

Lyla likes to help me make the bed. Her Daddy likes to have pillow fights and tickle wars with her so that's what she wants to do while I try to make the bed.

I am so blessed to have my little helper.

Some Random fun!!

Lyla loves this Lama her Grandparents brought back from Lima, Peru.

It's really soft and she like to kiss it.

This is the new face she pulls. I think she's trying to bite on her new teeth.

Which I like a lot more than her grinding her front teeth.

I came into the room to find Lyla trying to find her belly button.

She is so silly!

On our way to the Library we stopped to see all of the geese by the Rose Garden.

Lyla was having fun chasing the birds until they all stopped, turned around

and starting chasing her.

She stopped laughing, turned and ran towards me.

It's funny now, but at the time I thought

I was going to have to fight some geese to save her.

We had so much fun with cousin D' at Chuck e' cheese that we thought we would

check out the one is Boise. We took this picture right after we danced for free tickets!

We sadly watched the Packers lose on Sunday,

but we will forever be Cheese Heads!

Lyla had so much fun 'helping' Grandpa shovel snow!

(ps that kitty goes EVERYWHERE with her)

Lyla is so much fun! Just wanted to share all of our fun adventures!

Ice Cream Date Night!

Lyla loved her Ice Cream!

She would open her mouth as big as she could!

Lyla has 4 teeth coming in right now.

We decided to let her eat some ice cream to help with the pain.

She is so much fun. She even sat on the chair like a big girl.

She is growing up so fast.

Best Day Ever!

December 30, 2011

Andrew, Megan and D'marion were sealed in the

Salt Lake Temple.

A Forever Family!

Lyla and her Aunt Megan.

Us outside the temple.

Aunt Sara surprised us all and came home for Christmas.

Sara was everyone's Nanny for an hour during the sealing.

Elder Alonso, Sister Alonso and Andrew outside the temple.

Elder Alonso was Andrew's mission president and he performed the sealing.

Aunt Jen, Uncle Tyler, Scott, Aunt Sara and Lyla outside the temple.

Scott snuck into the picture. :-)

The day was so amazing!

I feel so blessed to have the knowledge of the gospel.

I felt Heavenly Fathers love for the Gordon family today.

God loves each of us more than we could ever understand.

The blessings we receive in the temple are beautiful and eternal.

We are so excited to have D' in our family forever!!

Christmas Eve

I love Christmas Eve!

It's so much fun getting everything ready for the next day

and thinking about what Santa will be bringing you.

We spent the day with Grandpa and Grandma Lindstrom and Uncle Jason.

We went to McGraths for dinner. Lyla wasn't being very much fun,

but she liked looking at the live lobsters.

It's so hard to make a wiggly girl sit and wait for food.

I got a ice cream sundae and 'Happy Birthday' sung to me.

Do you like my hat?

Isn't she so pretty?

Santa came to visit Lyla.

She didn't really like him, but a little while later as soon

as she saw her Grandpa she ran up and cuddled on his lap for a while. ;-)

Scott's family does 'Honks' funny gifts of Christmas Eve.

Lyla loved her daddy's new glasses!

After we read the story of the birth of Christ we have a musical program.

Grandpa gets his accordion out and plays us some songs. He plays 'White Christmas' while Grandma plays with him on the piano. The song he always ends with is 'Beer Barrel Polka.'

It's lots of fun. Lyla really wanted to push all of the buttons on Grandpa's accordion. Scott and Uncle Jason even pulled out their trombones and played us some scales (they didn't know any songs). It was so much fun. I love family traditions!

Lyla went right to sleep when we got home!

We forgot to take some cookies home for Santa

so this is what we left out for him...

A waffle and two brownies.

We also left out some cheese for the Santa Mouse.

I think Santa liked his treats because he came by and dropped off presents. :-)

Christmas Day

I am so grateful for the birth of our Savior and for his life and example.

I love this time of year when I get to think a little bit more about my Savior and his teachings.

I feel so blessed to have the knowledge of the Gospel.

Growing up I always felt like it was a gift to be able to celebrate my birthday on Christmas.

I woke up early Christmas morning to get breakfast going and get ready for the day.

Scott and I opened most of our presents before Lyla even got out of bed.

We were too excited and couldn't wait for her. :-)

Good Morning Lyla! She is so fun to wake up in the morning!

She is so smiley and giggly. And she always has CRAZY hair! :-)

Lyla's face was classic when she came out and saw all the presents from Santa.

She went straight for the blocks. I told Santa she would love them!

We let her play for a while and then we ate breakfast.

I love Christmas morning egg casserole!!

Lyla loved opening presents!

After she opened one she just wanted to play with it and didn't want to open another one.

She received lots of fun presents. A little car to ride, a kitchen set and a potty.

She has already gone potty twice!! We are going to have her potty trained soon!

After our one hour long church we went to Scott's parents house and had amazing food!

Later that day we talked to Uncle Huston (Scott's youngest brother Justin) who is in Mexico on his mission. We get to see him in 6 weeks! Lyla can't wait to meet him.

Overall the two days were great!

Christmas Tree

Lyla loves the Christmas tree. She wants to grab all of the ornament off the tree.
She was doing really well and just pointing and saying 'OOOO' or 'WOW',

BUT NOW....

She points...

She grabs...

and then she runs....

Over all she has been really nice the the tree and the presents.
We are so excited for Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!!

Temple Square

We went to see the amazing lights at temple square.
Scott has only seen the lights once before so we had to take him back to see them.
Plus Lyla and cousin D' needed to see them.
Earlier that day Scott and Andrew went to the Utah game (He was happy they lost).
Us girls (Aunt Meg, Aunt Sara, Lyla and I) and D' met up with them down town.
It was really windy and cold, but the kids seemed to have fun.

Love this picture of us in front of the temple and the trees.

D' and his Dad (Andrew) walking around looking at all of the lights.
D' is so funny. He kept calling it 'Square Temple.'
LOVE THIS KID!!

D' LOVES his Aunt Sara!!!

Cute picture my sister Meg took of us.

Lyla had so much fun looking at the lights. She kept saying 'Wow.'
She is at this stage where she will only hold your hand for a few minutes.
So you end up holding her so she doesn't run away.
Well, she weighs 30 pounds so she isn't very much fun to carry, so Dad ends up
carrying her most of the time. Which she likes because she loves her Dad and he's taller than
Mom so she can see more things.