First Christmas as Three

This was our first Christmas as a family of three and just couldn't have been better! Lilah Bean was 4 months and although she had no idea what was going on, she never once objected to receiving a gift!! Santa was more than generous for Bean's first Christmas, and Mom and Dad did pretty good too! Momma and her two dearest blessings: her precious baby girl and wonderful husband! What more could a gal want? Not too shabby are we?

Auntie L made her a super cute reindeer hat that couldn't fit her personalilty any better!

Lilah dressed in her first Christmas dress. What a little lady.

CHRISTMAS EVE

Stockings were hung by the chimney with care, counting the hours 'til Santa would be there!

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Santa brought Lilah a Baby Eintsein jumper and she was thrilled!

Between Santa and Momma and Daddy, Bean was set! I have never seen so many presents for a 4 month old! Spoiled or what?! I hope she's this good next year!

As with any baby, the bows were better than the gifts!!

Bean's favorite gift was Hilda the blue hippo.

Hilda is a sure smile and squeal eveytime!!

Cousin Layne was a big help opening gifts at Grammy's

At Gramzie and PawPaw's Cousins K and B were big helps too!

Where would Bean be without all her big cousins to help her?!

Lilah Bean was absolutely exhausted when all

the Christmas fun was finally over.

She did really well for all the shopping, cooking,

cleaning and chaos that comes with Christmas.

This was her face after we told her we had to do it again next year!!!!!

What a blessing children are at Christmas. It was our first year to experience it, and I must say I have never felt more blessed. What special moments I will cherish in my heart forever!

3 Months~Big Day!!

I was so excited to be off for Lilah's big 3 month b-day! I couldn't wait to show her the ropes on what us women love to do on special days such as this!!

1. We slept in!!! Girls need their beauty rest!

Here is Lilah dressed and loaded up wondering what on earth her

Momma was dragging her out to do!

2. Starbucks! I think this was more for me, of course, but still, all part of a complete girl's day.

No, no, Starbucks...THANK YOU.

3. We hit the Mall. We may not have the best mall, but it's a mall none the less. We found some great sales and found Lilah's first MUST HAVE ONESIES.

My favorite part of the day was just having fun with my sweet Lilah Bean. We hopped in the photo booth and snapped some fun pics together. I thought it was a fun way to remember the girlie day we spent together for her 3 month day.

When we got home from all our girlie fun, this is what I found in the back seat,

a completely pooped Lilah Bean.

I am so blessed to have a sweet daughter that I can have so much fun with and love!!

(Yay Heather!! I finally updated!!)

Sweet Spider

Lilah's first Halloween is one I will never forget, not only was she the cutest spider even known to man, but she also spent the majority of the day screaming with a painful tummy ache!! I was so happy that I was at least able to snap some pictures of her in her costume. The great part was that she was actually in a pretty good mood for the part that counted...the Trick or Treating!!

Here is my sweet spider.....


And here she is again letting me know just how she was feeling!!


Cousin Layne sure made her first Halloween extra fun!

We walked and watched Cousin Layne rack up on the candy

Daddy and Cousin Layne

OOoooOOoooooOOOOOooooo!!! Pretty scary guys!

Momma and Auntie Whitney (and don't forget Cousin Layton, to be arriving in Jan.!!)

The women returned to hold down the fort and pass out candy to the eager

Trick or Treaters while the men forged on door to door

Love at first FRIGHT!

Corey found these masks fo $1 and was so proud of

himself for adding to the fun.

They were pretty scary if you ask me.....creepy looking!

Lilah wasn't one bit scared of Daddy in his mask! She was actually all grins....

a girl after my own heart. Maybe Halloween will be her favorite too!

SEE...these are scary masks! Ewwww. Well here we are, our first Halloween!!

A Few of Momma's Favorites

All Momma's have their favorites. Now, this Momma has 100 favorites already, but, I'll spare you and just share a few!!

Pumpkin Patch 2009

Lilah took her first trip to the Pumpkin Patch and she was the cutest pumpkin there!

She told me all about it on the way home!

Sick Sweetie

Poor Lilah woke up with this face this morning, and being a new Momma, it wasn't until the afternoon when it dawned on me that my little sweetie MIGHT be sick!!

I called my sister and said, "Hey Lacie, I think Lilah may be sick!"

and she responded, "Well, she probley is, Linds." Wow. We sound very bright don't we?

Took her temp and sure enough, 100.0 on the dot. Poor thing just had to suffer and fuss all morning before her Momma caught the hint!!

In traditional nurses fashion, I stripped the bed and every blanket that she could have possibly touched over the last 48 hours (well, I won't lie, I literally washed EVERYTHING in her room that could possibly wear the flu!!!)

Then off to the Natural Health Clinic we went to see what was ailing my little sweetie. After her little testing session, the conclusion was a lung infection her body was fighting well, but having difficulty getting rid of. Because we attempt supplements and food as healing modes before any pharmaceuticals, we began with a 100% natural herbal dropper used to aid in lung healing.

(If we sound like hippie's.......well maybe we sorta are!!)

I laid Lilah in her vibrating chair that she loves for a nap (so she could sleep upright.) A few minutes later a came in the room and she had pulled the burp cloth up over her face as if she was trying to escape the world!! Poor little thing!!

That night, we let her stay in her swing for her evening nap. She was feeling so rotten!! Her little nose was so loud, we had to turn up the TV ~like the concerned parents that we are! :) ~

With a little extra Momma love......

And some extra attention from Daddy......


We had our sweet Lilah feeling all better in just a few days!!