Happy Birthday to me! I'm now 26.

Lily & Will were very excited to help me celebrate my birthday. Will handed me presents to unwrap and Lily helped destroy all the wrapping paper.

Lily has a cow

Lily loves the barn & barn animals Uncle Pat (Scott's uncle) gave her for Christmas. She insisted on taking her cow to Activity Days. Naturally, it was my turn to lead the activity. I was trying to teach the girls how to lead music, and we started learning a new song. Lily would cry if she dropped the cow, and would cry if I set her down, so I held her the whole time. The girls became focused on Lily's cow, and would scream, "The cow! The cow!" whenever Lily dropped the cow.

Lily's now big enough to sit up and play all by herself in the tub.

She loves bathtime!

Michael (the man in the chef's hat and apron) hosted a murder mystery dinner for New Years. We all dressed in our best 50's attire and played various roles in trying to solve the murder mystery.

Candice was a studious nerd, and I was the dumb jock.

These are some cute pics of Lily playing with her new toys that she got for Christmas.

She loved all the pretty bows and wrapping paper.

Candice surprised me with the coolest Christmas gift ever . . .

It was a CANDICE BOBBLEHEAD!!! I always told Candice that she shakes her head at me a lot, and when she does she looks like a little bobblehead. Now that I actually have a Candice bobblehead I can watch her shake her head at me even when I'm at work.

Ashley, also surprised everyone with a creative gift. She hand-crafted a mini tipi for the grandkids to play in for my mom. The tipi has the names and handprints of all the members of the S family and say "Families are Forever" on it. As you can see by the picture, it is quite a hit with the grandkids.

Lily was so excited to sit with all the big people at Spaghetti Factory. Here she is sporting her "look at me. I'm goofy" grin.

Here's a couple of pics of the S grandkids during Christmas. The first is at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.

This one is my favorite though. Check out Logan (Mr. Logey). Logan is the one flashing his belly at everyone.

Christmas in Canada!

Lily was so excited for Christmas, she woke-up early! We were all excited to sleep in, but the child determines when presents are opened. She didn't understand unwrapping presents. She liked her toys once they were unwrapped, and loved playing with the wrapping paper once it was off the presents.

The second picture is Scott, and his mom, with Lily and one of her new toys. (I purposely didn't post a picture of me. No one needs to see how bad I look when I first wake-up.)

There was snow in Canada, so we wanted to take Lily sledding. We got her all bundled up, so well that she couldn't move at all! We all laughed at Lily's expense. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the sled at Grandma Allen's house. (Lily fell asleep while we were hunting for the sled, too.)

Christmas Lights at Bellevue Botanical Gardens

I've wanted to see the "Garden d'Lights" for years, so we finally made it a point to go. We liked it so much, we decided to go a second time, taking Scott's family the second time.
I thought Lily would love the lights, but she fell asleep both times!

The peacock was my favorite light creation.

Apparently, it's a Garden tradition to relocate the slug each year. All the regular visitors know to look for it. (Scott helped me find it this year.)