Trip to the Museum!

Lily and I took a trip with some friends to the Museum yesterday!  We had a great time!  Lily is growing up so much and enjoying "big kid" activities more and more.  The last time we went to the Museum of Nature and Science was when she was 9 months old.  Then she enjoyed pushing the stroller around with her dad but that was about it.  This time she loved everything!  She loved playing in the Discovery Zone, pushing the buttons to make the animal sounds and playing with the moon rocks in the Space Zone!  I so enjoy her discovering and loving life!  It helps me love life too!  What joy it is to be the mother of this adorable little girl! 

 In the Discovery Zone they have story time and of course Lily was all over that!  To say she LOVES books is such an understatement! 

 Sitting with her friend Valeria during story time

 After she just had to see the books one more time!

 Playing with the puppets in the Discovery Zone

 Playing with the buttons in the Wild West Exhibit

 Picking up moon rocks.  I didn't think she would get it, but she got it as soon as she picked up the little claw!  She had a great time with it too!

New Years!

New Years Eve was very quiet for our little family!  We had a lazy morning and then TJ and Lily headed outside to shovel and play in the snow!  Lily was in heaven!  She is a true Coloradan!  She asks almost daily to go and play in the snow, no matter how cold it is!

 She followed Daddy around while he shoveled until I came out to take pictures.  Then she decided to throw snowballs at me!  I asked TJ if he taught her how to make a snowball and throw it and he said no.  This means that she figured it out all on her own!  It was so cute to watch her.  She would get a big grin on her face and look at me and say, "I throw snow at you mommy!"  And then laugh as she did!

 When daddy finished with the shoveling, the two of them played on our little hill in the front yard!  Lily was grinning from ear to ear the whole time!  She loves her sled and has no reservations about falling off!  As soon as they got to the bottom of the hill she would say, "Again! Again!"  So they would go again and again!  Those two are the best of friends!

That night we put Lily to bed, played games together and watched some 24!  We made it until midnight! 

Then on New Years day, we started the morning off with the New Years Fairy!  This is a tradition from the Gray side - which we LOVE.  You leave your shoe out on New Years Eve and the New Years Fairy comes and fills it with treats!  Lily put out her boot, in hopes of getting more!  It was fun to see her excitement when she saw what the Fairy left her!  Then we watched the Rose bowl and went to dinner with some friends!  It was a great day!

Too Cute!

The other day I was doing dishes.  When I went into see why Lily was being so quiet - which usually means she is in trouble - this is what I found!  She had found a blanket and my Book of Mormon!  This little girl loves any book.  Lately she has been really into the Scriptures.  She likes to look at the pictures as well as flip through the other pages.  She is so gentle with them as well.  We gave her her own book the other day and she LOVES it! 

 We finally got a real snow here!  It came the Thursday before New Years.  Lily was so excited that it was snowing and sticking to the ground!  She couldn't wait to play in it!  We got home Thursday night after dark, but she still wanted to play.  Daddy was oh so kind and took her out on her new sled for a while in the dark.  She did not want to come in.  When she finally came in for hot chocolate she put on daddy's big boots and was ready for more!