Sleepy Saturday

I took these pictures the Saturday before Lollapalooza.  I couldn't believe it but everyone in the house fell asleep for an afternoon nap.  So unusual!! Ryan and Sophia were playing on the bed and next thing I knew I didn't hear anything, this is where I found them. Cuddled up and snoozing away.

As for Nyla, she's been sleeping great for the past few weeks.  Yeah!! 
She goes down to bed around 8 o'clock and then has one feeding at 4 a.m. I got this picture of her feet and legs while she was napping in the afternoon.  I love those little feet and legs! She just started sitting up in her bouncy seat last week. It's kinda funny because she pulls herself up and then it's like she doesn't know what to do so sometimes when you look over at her she's just laying on her legs. 

I can't believe she just turned 3 months old yesterday. Happy Birthday sweet Nyla!

Thank you Grandma for being with the girls while we were in Chicago.  They loved spending time with you and we're so grateful that you could come down and help us out. 

Lots of love...xoxo's 

Trying to get it out!

She's laughing. Yep and besides a smile there's nothing that could melt you more. Nyla will start to laugh and it's like she just doesn't know what to do with it. So you get one sound..maybe two but then she just stares at you grinning ear to ear. She's doing so great amidst the chaos of Lolla being next week, Ryan wrapping up all his shows & Sophia screaming or singing at the top of her lungs in the house. Beautiful chaos..this is what it's all called, right? It's so hard to believe that Nyla is going to be 12 weeks old this Tuesday. She's changed so much since she was born and she's really filling out..which we Love!! 

Well..I don't have our website updated yet but it's coming, probably after Lollapalooza.  Thanks for checking out our site. It's such a fun way to stay connected with everyone especially our family. We miss you guys, more than you know and can't wait to spend time with you.

xoxo's

Happy Fourth of July

I hope everyone had a great July 4th. Our neighborhood is definitely the place to be for fireworks but we opted out of having a party this year and decided to spend time with our good friends The Bares. They were so sweet to invite us to join their family and celebrate. 

The day started out with all of us cuddling together in bed in our pj's. This is actually how every day starts out for us. My favorite! Sophia is usually the first to wake up and then staggers downstairs. Usually she walks in and then just gets at the bottom of our bed and curls up.  She use to walk right up to me and pound on my forehead with her finger but thankfully she's stopped doing that. Now she just asks for her breakfast which is always a request for cereal or cinnamon toast.  After our morning here we headed off to the movies and took the girls to see WALL-E which is soo cute if you haven't seen it yet. Has Pixar ever done a bad film? Sophia sat in Ryan's lap the whole movie and I kept Nyla in the sling. Then we were off to Angie's parents(Beverly and Dave) house out in Liberty Hill. It was so nice to get away for the day and to get to know her family better. They're soo sweet and made us feel so welcomed.  The kids played like crazy and got their suits on and jumped into the jacuzzi together. It's so fun to watch them play because they really have become such dear friends to our Sophia. Our Sophia is called Little Sophia but the funny thing is is that she's bigger than both Soren and Sophia Bare. We're so glad that Sophia has so much fun with them and is making sweet memories.We ate great food, talked and then headed out front for some fireworks set off by their cousin.  The kids loved it! It all started with smoke bombs and they ran around chasing one another laughing while we tried to snap some good pictures.  Thanks to Ricardo and his awesome camera he got some really cute ones. We're so thankful for good friends. We've really been blessed with some neat friendships this past year and it's been such a neat answer to prayer.  

Going Under

Going under and loving it. We've got goggles now because Sophia is now going under the water. That was her reward for when she put her head all the way under. I meant to post this a long time ago when she was doing swim lessons. She had such a great time doing lessons and is now jumping into the pool by herself and going under.  Daddy took her out a couple of weeks ago and they purchased some new pink goggles.  So fun! This was such a good thing for her after Nyla was born.  She had her own thing to look forward to every afternoon for two weeks. Thank you God for swimming pools in hot Texas!!

All SMILES

Look at these smiles! Nyla started smiling and of course it makes us just glow, there's nothing better.  When that little one looks at you and grins it reminds you that everything is worth it. Nyla will usually flash us her smiles right after she has a full tummy and is getting a fresh clean diaper on.  She loves getting her diaper changed. This is one area that she and Sophia are different. Sophia would just scream at us while we changed her and ..well...it's quite different with our little Nyla Byla. Nyla's squeals continue to make us laugh. She sounds like a little girl out on the playground running. I'm hoping we'll be able to catch it on the video camera  so that we won't forget her little squeals. 

I hope all of you are doing well and probably in the next week we'll wrap this blog up and go back to our family website.  So, that'll be the place you'll want to go to for updates and new pictures. 

We love all of you and can't wait for you to meet Nyla if you haven't already. She's doing so great and is such a sweet gift to us all!