At the beginning of the month, my mom paid for LaNea and I to come and visit with her and my sisters. I think we all had a lot of fun and LaNea really enjoyed getting to see her grandma. I'm sure it helped that she didn't have to take all her naps and got to stay up with all the adults each night.
Laura's boyfriend, Fernando planned a small surprise for Laura while we were all there. While she was spending the morning with us, he got their apartment all decorated with streamers and balloons and set up her birthday gift. He also got her a delicious cake called a Tres Leches cake. Soo yummy!
Mom and Laura
Dinner out
Getting to cuddle with Aunt Melissa
After our short hike, we stopped for lunch at a really fun restuarant that even allowed dogs to join us.
This was my favorite picture. It was such a beautiful day to go hiking.
While I was there I got to visit with one of my closest and longest friends! I had so much fun getting to visit Amber's family and together we got to relax and catch up!
We also met up with our other friend, Melissa. We hadn't seen her in a LONG time.
Overall, I was very happy to be able to go back to my own schedules and sleep times but it was great to see everyone and especially to have LaNea get to know her family. Thanks again for the trip mom!
While we were in Utah, Melissa's good friend and amazing photographer took pictures of LaNea. You'll have to take a look on her website
sharstinmillerphotography.blogspot.com
(Sorry, don't know how to make a link!)
Since Eric wasn't able to go to church since he's on standby, I gave him the task of hiding all the eggs. He did such a great job by making it a little difficult but still in plain sight. LaNea loved the idea of finding eggs. I almost want to do stuff like this more often.
She had a ton of her goldfish crackers, now its time to share with Izzie. 
Putting the final egg in her basket.
So this picture is just thrown in because I just had to show the proof of how much this little girl loves her daddy! Every morning she'll drag her blanket and doll and crawl up into daddy's lap to watch TV. She also seems to know whenever he's getting home from work and she'll stand by the window ready to call out when she sees him.
Here's just a few more pictures that we took of us outside this weekend!
So I always love trying out new things especially when you get to be creative. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not perfect at any of my hobbies but I love to at least try. For our visiting teacher this month, my partner and I decided it'd be fun to make bows while we talked and checked in our gal. These are my amazing creations!!!
Loved the fact that they are so easy to make and not expensive in the least, though hopefully that's not obvious.
For most of mine I just used colored brads in the center of the flowers. I love the simplicity it brought!
Sadly, I'm not a ribbon bow maker. I tried as you can see. Most of my bows turn out to be way to large for LaNea's small head or incredibly lopsided. I don't think the "practice makes perfect" theory is really applicable for me here, especially with these being the best of the best I've made! Still have had lots of fun trying though.
I know I do a lot of posts that are just about LaNea but really, who wouldn't when they have a kid this cute. She is talking so much more. Lately she's been calling everything "daddy" which I'll admit, I hate. She's still working on the Potty Training and we tend to always have at least one mistake but she's trying and we can't get mad at that! I believe she has most her teeth in for a while so hopefully I'll be finding fewer teeth marks on things. She enjoys keeping things clean. She's really good at putting things away. Just this afternoon, she started randomly picking things up and putting them away. No idea how she got that gene but it'll definitely be a motivator for me to keep up on the house. She loves to laugh and be happy. She rarely stays mad for long. I feel so lucky to have her and despite our major disagreements, I love her to death!
Like most out here in Texas, we've been really enjoying the warm weather. LaNea has a love/hate relationship with her pool. She always has to slowly realize that it won't hurt her and that its okay to play in it!
We also took advantage of a great deal at Big Lots and got this little picnic table. Its fun because LaNea always knows when we buy something that's for her. She's only a touch possessive. 
Did I mention she has a passion for shoes. Apparently it runs in the family as both Grandma Shauna and Peyton would tell you! 
So this last month Eric and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. Yep, 5 years already. We actually got a babysitter and went out on a real date, something we don't get to do very often. Our date started with going to Chuy's, a new mexican restaurant here in College Station. Since its only been open a month there was a 45 minute wait. After eating we rushed to go see the new movie, Red Riding Hood. We enjoyed it, as it wasn't too scary for me but still had some suspense for Eric. It reminded us a lot of The Village. Once we got out of the movie, it was getting pretty late. So instead of heading out for ice cream, a must on any of our date nights, we bought some and made sundaes after I took the babysitter home. It was a really fun night and made it easy to know why we're still happy after 5 years!
A couple weeks ago, we had the chance to go to the Houston Zoo. This was exciting as it was first time LaNea had ever been to a zoo and Eric and I never been to one together.
Of all the different animals that LaNea saw, she was the most fascinated with the fish. Eric thinks that we should get a couple fish in the future because of how much she loves looking at them.
There were two baby giraffes when we were there which was fun to see. They were so small!
LaNea loved the playground of course and is ever fearless when it comes to going down the slides.
Eric and the girls hiding out in the little huts!
They had a small petting zoo there. There were probably 20 goats that kids were allowed to go pet or brush their hair. LaNea loved getting up close with the animals.
Wait, does it look like this guy could bite her ear? Hmmm, I guess its because this was taken just seconds before he actually did. LaNea wasn't too thrilled about that.
Several times though she would go up to one goat, only to reach over it and pet the one next to it. Prime example of the goat is always better on the other side!
Halli was such a daredevil too. She had no problem petting all the snakes. Pretty cool albino Alligator in the background too. I don' think that guy moved the whole time we were in there.
They had a small little alligator for us to touch. This guy was 2 years old. They grow about a foot each year. LaNea kept wanting to pet his face like she does with Izzie. The keeper had to keep moving its head away from her reach.
They had a really cool tunnel through the aquatic area. LaNea had fun looking at all the fish surrounding her and cried when we had to get her out.
It was really fun going to the zoo and I think we'll have to try it again as she gets older. She loved getting to see all the different animals and had a hard time realizing that we were only leaving this animal so we could go see another animal.
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