Some new things

The past two weeks have been someo f the most crazy and hectic ones for us! Thus, the reason for no pictures! As I was packing, I realized that I have not taken my camera out in over a week! EEEKKK!!!
Yes, I did say packing! I spent over 2 weeks packing up all the things that Lilah and I had taken to with us to Kansas. I did not realize how much we accumulated, until I started packing, and we had to pull a 5'x8' trailer on the back of a Toyota Carrolla!!!! Luckily though, I have friends in low places! A friend of mine that I grew up with just graduated from Tech School and is also stationed at Lackland AFB. I flew him up to KS for the weekend so he could spend time with his family AND help me on our 10 hour trip back to TX.
The drive was not as bad as either of us thought it would be, well, for me, I knew it would not be bad, as long as we stopped every 2 hours or so. Which is what we did, and Lilah did GREAT in the car! I'm not a big advocate on Television/DVD's being played in the car, but sometimes there are exceptions to the rules; a ten hour drive! We left at 530 Sunday morning, and arrived in San Antonio around 4 pm, and dropped him off at the dorms, then headed to our friends house, were we are now!
Now that we are here in TX, my house hunting adventure has started again! This is not as fun as I thought it would be! I have looked at 4 houses in person so far, and there are pluses and minuses to each house, and a few I have completely knocked off the list. Yet, I am not sure we are going to get our money's worth living in a house, but we will NOT live in an apartment again!!!
I will try to get some photos of Lilah, once the sun starts to shine, and also some photos of her new and old friend Connor. He is the little boy of the family that we are staying with.

On a happier note, since we are back in TX, this means Trent will be home really soon!!! He has stopped working, and has been packing and shipping things back! So, any day soon he will be home! I hope I can find a place for us before he comes back!!!

Great Weather

The weather here in Kansas on Saturday couldn't have been more beautiful!!! So, after an early morning, I decided to push nap time back a few hours and take Lilah to the park! We met up with Grandma (my mom), and had some fun times! Oh, and I got to take advantage of using my new camera!!!

Grandma and Lilah
She would sit long enough to go in one circle around, and then she would get off!!!

Just standing in the sand, trying to get used to walking on it.

I absolutely love this photo! It reminds me of the poem, "Footprints in the Sand." And if you look close enough, they are followed by little hearts in the heal!

My Mommies 50th!!!

This past weekend, we celebrated my mommies 50th birthday! Happy Birthday Mommy!


Here are some photos of the CRAZY night!!!

My sister Andrea, oldest brother Andrew, Mommy, Myself and my older brother Michael: This is a 'different' type of family photo!!
And a better one!

All the siblings together! And yes, we all are really that tall!!!

My Stepdad and Mommy!

My Unlce Dan bought her this card! It sang the Star Trek opening song when the card was opened, we all got a good laugh out of it!!!

Happy birthday Mom! We love you and you have done so much for us! Hope you enjoyed YOUR night!

I've been tagged....a few times!!!

Here are the rules:
1. Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer. No cheating {cropping, editing, etc.}
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 people to do the same.

No cheating right?! Well, this is what I found!!! This is my older brother Micheal, with his Fiance Gina and their little girl Micah this past Christmas!

My people to tag would be anyone that hasn't done this yet! There are so many of us in the blogging community, idk who hasn't done it yet!!!

Please PRAY

Just a short note to all, please keep Trent in your prayers. He's almost home, and we want him home safely with us! Only a couple more months and he should be back home!

Also, keep all those other military familes in your thoughts and prayers as well! Even if you don't agree with what is going on, as in the war, not all troops are fighting. But support the Troops!!!! Thank you!!!!!

Birthday Celebrations!!!

As most of you know, we celebrated Lilah's 2nd Birhtday this past weekend! It was such a good time because we were able to celebrate with not only friends, but family as well! *Being in the military doesn't always allow for that!* We took advantage of our time at home this year, and boy did Lilah get spoiled once again! Here are some pics from her great Birthday Bash!

Opening gifts from uncle!
this is the skirt thingy that my mom and I had made her!

Such a pretty outfit..if only she would look at the camera!

Getting ready to open up gifts!

Unfortunately, after this point, the batteries in the camera went dead :( but my cousin was able to take more pictures for us. I just have to wait for her to post those. *for you facebookers, look for up and coming tags!!!*

Sunny Days!!!

This past Friday was the most GORGEOUS day outside in a very long time! The weather got up to almost 61 degrees, which is rare for a Kansas winter! I took this oppurtunity to get Lilah and myself out of the house for a few hours and take some pictures! Enjoy them!!

Fun in the swings, look at that beautiful blue sky!!!!

Pretty mural with a pretty girl!!!

Just looking around under the slides

She really didn't want to leave the park...almost 2 hours later!!!