All About Lily . . . and a little update on life :-)

Yes, there are a lot of pictures of Lily in this post . . . but she's such an amazing girl, we can't resist showing her off :-)

Recently, Lily received a package in the mail from Scott's parents. Inside were festive hair bows, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa, she loves them!

Lily will ask me to randomly take pictures of her because she's "being silly" . . . so here is one of those "silly" moments.

Also, in other news, we starting giving Lily allowance in reward for her doing certain chores/jobs (she gets a whole $0.03 per chore/job). After each week she gets to collect her money . . . then she must divide it up into tithing (we give 10% of our earnings to the Lord, such wonderful blessings come from sacrifice), savings, and spending. Once she has enough spending money (about $5), she gets to pick out a toy from the store. Recently, she earned just enough spending money to buy a My Little Pony Unicorn. She paid for it all by herself at the store!! Yay for teaching our kids about money and how it works!!! We're very proud of her . . . not to mention her counting has improved so much since we started giving her allowance.

Here she is with her purchase:

We also realized that we never took Lily's 3 year old pictures, so we decided to do it on our own. These are the results:

These are before I helped Scott with getting Lily positioned (those are our new flower beds in the front yard) :-)

What a goof!

Here are the final and edited shots:

So, that's about it for now. Our other "little nudger" of a girl, is growing perfectly (just had my 24 week appointment) and enjoys poking me with the the sharpest points on her body . . . but I love it. I will post an updated "prego shot" sometime in the near future . . . I feel huge and sometimes waddle due to sciatic nerve issues in my lower back, but all is well.

We have some great trips coming up (camping, Washington D.C., and more camping!) that will make blogging a little bit more eventful, so stay tuned!