Happy New Year!

It's late but I really wanted to share some miscellaneous pictures of the fun times we've been having over the last couple of weeks. Please be sure to check out the previous pages too for more pictures I posted tonight (Christmas and Fall Fun). Thanks for looking!!

Liliana loving her new ride (Thanks B & V families!!)
I'd like to point out that it's not really that cold in my house, she just likes to wear
a hat and gloves sometimes. Really.

But I do make her sit there to keep my laundry warm. ;)

Seriously. It's not that cold in my house.

Liliana creating a new fashion craze

I tried to prove that she isn't...
but Brianna really is tougher than me.

Uncle Brian kisses are awesome!

See, she's wearing a hat at Aunt Mar-Mar's house too


Our impression of three roller-coaster riders


LOL! And Jason's impression.


Lilie opens a gift from Gow-wow


Cousin Brayden does too


Learning how to share...kinda

Don't let anyone tell you anything different: Elmo = baby crack.

Roller-coaster riders again...because it was so fun the first time.

I *LOVE* these 4 girls with all I've got

And these guys too!!

As a birthday gift, Jason bought us tickets to a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. It was sooo much fun (the business partner/janitor, with the plunger--in case you were wondering). Marci and Brian were sweet enough to join us and make the night complete.

I love you, Durf! Thank you!

Christmas

Miscellaneous pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas:

I love my family

Liliana's little Christmas outfit was adorable although
it was difficult to get her to model it

"Helping" in Daddy's kitchen

She was a natural at unwrapping gifts this year....

and insisted on putting those gifts to immediate use

Looking for snow

Fall Fun

Here are some older pictures that we took awhile back while enjoying some of the last mild days of fall. Mmmm...what I wouldn't give to have this weather back again!

Exploring the creek at Daddy's house

So happy to be snug on Daddy

Don't look down, guys!

What does this button do?

Take me over there, please.

Just a neat picture

Two cuties on a rock

Gimme all your money, kid!

Yep, they are actually standing *that* close to the animal that will bite.

Short Clip of Lilie's World

Lack of Posts

I apologize to anyone who checks the blog and has noticed that I haven't posted in quite some time...my computer got a virus and was toast. In fact, there was a scare where I thought I'd lost all of my pictures but, fortunately, Jason was able to recover them (!!!)

Liliana is getting so big and is so incredible! She's learning new words and doing new things every day; it is wonderful and fascinating to be a part of it. Watching her personality emerge is truly awesome and well....interesting. She has her Daddy's stubborn streak, let's just put it that way. There are the days where she'll insist on wearing her "jacket" (which is actually a big fuzzy coat) all day no matter what. She'll scream and cry if I try to take it off so that she can eat...or sleep...etc. But she's also very sweet and quick to blow kisses to anyone who needs one.

Hopefully I'll get a couple new videos up soon but for now here are a few recent pictures:

Lilie and her stuffed animal posse chasing Mommy

Caught you!
Liliana and her pal Payton going for a "walk"

Fake Thanksgiving

Early last month we had fake Thanksgiving with my family in Northern Illinois. It was so much fun watching the cousins play together and really nice to get everyone together! Thanks again, Tina and Brian, for hosting--it was awesome!

Lilie's favorite spotBrayden enjoying a juicy caramel apple

Lilie explains something to Daddy

Uncle Aaron reading Lilie a story

Grampa H and Lilie-bug

All the grandbabies with Grampa and Gramma H

Gowwow and grandbabies

Aunt Tina protects Lilie from the Transformer dude (yikes!)

Lilie and Reese with Uncle Aaron

More October Fun

Miscellaneous cuteness

Cheesy SmileThis girl loves her graham crackers!

Just monkeying around

Practicing our jet-ski skills for next summer

Halloween

It took her a little bit to be okay with the horn on her head but Liliana made a magical unicorn!

This house had five dogs so I'm not sure if she was running for the candy or because she heard the puppies. Whatever the reason, it made an adorable picture.

I bet there's more candy down this street

Post T-O-T party with Aunt Mar-Mar

The scary treat we made