Saturday, December 12, 2009

Senior Day

The cutest guy on the team!
Sam in the middle of the big game.
Mila and Grandpa watching Sam play.

Grandma entertaining Mila during the game.
At the end of October, Sam's parents were able to come out to Virginia for Senior Day. They stayed the weekend with us, and it was so nice to see them. Mila loved having grandma and grandpa here to play with because she gets pretty bored with me!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Virginia Wildlife

We found this really cute little skunk behind our apartment!

The skunk in its natural habitat

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!




If you look closely there is a lollipop stuck in her fur!

Obviously, Mila was a skunk for Halloween. She was SO CUTE!! I just wanted to squeeze her and kiss her cheeks! We went trick-or-treating in downtown Lexington again this year. Lexington is the coolest town because most of the buildings are historic, and they all have these cute little shops in them. For trick-or-treat all of the shops have someone standing outside to give out candy. It's really nice with kids because I just put Mila in her stroller and walked down the sidewalk. It's mostly little kids like her too, so it's nice not having a bunch of teenagers around all the little kids. We went with Shanda, my friend who watches Mila, and her nephew, Tee, who is like a week older than Mila. Mila slept pretty much the whole time too. It was really fun!

Filling Mommy's Shoes


Mila is obsessed with my shoes. She goes into our closet all the time and gets my shoes out and then walks around the apartment in them. I worry that she's going to twist her ankle in my heels or something because she really loves the taller ones.

Tooth Decay?


One night before bed Mila ate a banana. Then I gave her the liquid vitamins, which as most mothers probably know, are a nasty brownish color. Well, the banana left a residue on her teeth which then was dyed this nasty brown color by the vitamins. It just killed me because she looked like someone from the 1800's who had never seen a toothbrush. Then she was laughing and smiling and it was making me laugh so hard. I tried to get some pictures, but they didn't turn out great because she wouldn't stop moving. Luckily, we do use a toothbrush every night, and it all came off.

"I'm Just Dandy. I Got a Bowl of Chocoloate Pudding in My Underpants!"

Mila always has to eat whatever Sam is eating, and she loves to eat on his lap. This is what often happens to poor Sam. This time it happened to be some chocolate pudding. Thank goodness for bleach! I use tons of it! By the way, if you're a movie freak like us, you probably know that the title of this post is from the movie Blacksheep.

Monday, October 12, 2009

FINALLY!!!

I finally got our blog updated!! Our laptop broke at the beginning of the summer, and they took so long to fix it that we had already moved back to Virginia by the time it was finished. Mom and Dad brought it down last weekend so I have finally been able to update things. By the way, I realize that the blog is mostly about Mila, but we have the blog mainly so that grandparents can see her grow up. So, sorry if you get bored of her, but she really is the cutest member of our family!

Our Energizer Bunny


Mila yelling to go outside. A daily occurance.
She loves to go to the school and run around on all the stairs and ramps there.


We also go to the park to play. We have to do anything we can to wear her out for bed!

Gorgeous View!

Virginia is so beautiful! This is the view from right by our apartment. I can't believe that we already have less than one year left here. I can't wait for us to be done with school, though.


Miscellaneous Mila

Mila decided that the "C" from her foam alphabet made a better nose ring.
Mila would always sneak into great grandma's chair whenever she would get up. She always thought she was being so tricky.
This is actually the handle of a sippie cup. She couldn't make much noise while holding this on her face. A baby muzzle, maybe? I see some definite possibilities!

Fun Times With Dad


This is one of Mila's favorite games to play with Sam. I think she is starting to realize that he is the fun parent. With me, she gets to do fun stuff like get her nose cleaned out, take nasty vitamins, and brush her teeth.

Beautiful Barefoot Baby





I love these pictures so much! I took them at Mom and Dad's house this summer. It was so hard to pick out just a few!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

A Day at the Park




Obviously, Mila is not a baby that likes change or new things that much. When we first got to the park all she did was scream on the swings. Poor girl! Soon though, she was playing on the dinosaur and Cinderella's pumpkin carriage. Still, with all the fun things to do she ended up playing the longest with the mulch. Go figure! We could have done that at home!

Best Buds


Tori is pretty much Mila's favorite person. Tori would always take Mila outside, share milkshakes with her, and watch SpongeBob. What baby could resist an aunt like that?

Our Little Babushka


She is soooo cute! There is nothing more than that to say about these pictures!

Happy Helper

I really hope she continues to be this enthusiastic about cleaning as she gets older!

Sleeping Beauty


I'm pretty sure that these are like the only two times that she has just crashed. She usually takes a bit more coaxing to go to sleep so I had to document.

Our Little Water Baby

I got this little frog pool for Mila because she freaked out so much last year about the big pool. What happened was that everyone spent most of the time squished into this tiny pool, while Mila spent most of her time in the big pool. Isn't that the way it goes?!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Washington D.C. Temple

We had the opportunity to go the Washington D.C. temple last Friday, and it was so beautiful! I had seen it before, but was never old enough to do a session. Sam had never seen it, so it was really fun to go. Sam is in the bishopric of one of the singles wards here, and the ward was there too. We had one of the girls watch Mila for us. It was so sad because she cried so hard when I first left her. Poor thing! It was worth it though.

Me, Sam, and Mila in front of the temple.

The two cutest people in the world enjoying the flowers.

Our little family strolling the grounds.