Time is FLYING

I decided to quickly get a post written while Lyla is sleeping. Hopefully its long enough so I can finish it! :) Life is great, but time is flying by! I can't believe it's almost the end of March and we will be in April soon. April means Easter! I gotta get busy planning my baby's first Easter. :) I already got her Easter dress which is pretty cute I think! Once April is over then we are heading to Vegas in May for Doug's graduation from Medical School! I can't believe it's been 4 years already. I am so proud of him. Then they will be moving to Kansas City, MO for his Residency for 5 years. They will be so far away!! Thank goodness for Facebook, Instagram, Texting, and Face Time so I can still see my sister and her sweet family. We might just have to take a trip out there too. :) Chris served his mission in St. Louis, MO which I don't think is too far from Kansas City? It would be fun to visit there.

 

About 6 weeks ago we moved into Chris's grandma's house while we is away on a mission. We have LOVED it! It's so nice to have a little more room. Lyla can be sleeping upstairs and we can be in the basement watching TV not worrying about waking her. :) It's definitely preparing us for when we get our own house. All the things you don't have to do in an apartment. Lawn care, sprinkler systems, propane for fireplaces, water softening, and more cleaning. Haha But I am looking forward to the get-togethers we will have this summer on the back deck, barbequing, and trying my hands on our first garden! It will be so fun.

Chris turned 30 last month! He really didn't want to, and was kind of sad about it. :) I wish I had done some better planning for a better celebration, but we were all just getting over being sick, we had just moved, and we do love just hanging out at home. Chris's parents and our friend Dan came over and we ate pizza, had cake that I made (which didn't look very good, it was falling apart as I was trying to frost it), and played cards! It was still a really fun night!

The day after Chris's birthday was Valentine's Day! We wanted to get dinner from Texas Roadhouse and just relax at home. I went over to Esther and Jared's after work since they were watching Lyla while I worked. Chris met me there so we could go get some dinner. But then Esther and Jared told us they wanted to take Lyla overnight for us so we could have a night alone and get a good nights sleep! I was so excited for that! I couldn't remember when I had gotten more than a 4 hour block of sleep. So we took them up on their offer, made sure Lyla had everything she needed, and went on our way! Chris brought me some beautiful flowers (which I didn't get a picture of, of course). We went to Texas Roadhouse. They told us it would be an hour wait. We decided to go to the bar to order some takeout, but when we got there we saw 2 seats open at the bar so we decided to just sit at the bar and eat. We got to go right in and eat without the hour wait! It was great. Chris was worried it wasn't "romantic enough", but I was just excited to be at a restaurant and have a nice relaxing dinner without having to take turns eating while the other takes care of Lyla. :) We went home and had a GOOD nights sleep. I woke up a couple times worried there was something wrong with Lyla since I hadn't heard her crying, but then remembered she was ok and went back to sleep. Haha We were so grateful! Thank you Esther and Jared for that gift. Here are some random photos:

Another fun thing that happened this past month, was we bought a new car! Well, new to us. :) Both of us had old cars, there was always something wrong with one of them needing to be repaired. I was tired of putting all that money into car repairs, and we needed a better car to be able to travel in since we didn't trust either one to go further than Pocatello in. We spent a couple weeks driving around looking at dealerships, browsing KSL and craigslist. We test drove a Camry, Malibu, Highlander, Equinox, and Rav4. We wanted something with a little more room and comfy. We wanted the Equinox we test drove, but since it was such a good deal we missed out on it. But then we found this car at the dealership owned by a couple in Esther and Jared's ward! When we first saw it, Chris DID NOT want to look at it. They told us to just go check it out since we wanted a SUV. Grudgingly Chris followed me over to it, we got in and drove it around town. We were HOOKED! It was so comfy and spacious! We had never heard of the model before, but it was just what we needed. We bought it that day!                                             Our 2007 Ford Freestyle