Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM!

This is a video of Hubs and Mylie from our Oregon visit. Hubs is reading her a book. Mylie is just too cute I had to share.

We miss her like crazy, especially after watching this video!

Mostly Mylisa...

These are for my sweet lonely husband who has been begging for pictures.

Wanting to push the cart all by herself.

Corn on the cob, her favorite.


Listening to an IPod
Talking to Bryce on the phone.


Posing!

Being too cute!



More corn!

MY MANLY-MAN!

So this is my manly-man watching baseball while he is sewing!

Hubs and I have been trying to get this quilt done for Mylisa for months now. With her birthday coming up in a few weeks, we thought that it was time to finish it. I have made several baby quilts and Hubs always wants to help a little bit, which I love. He decided today that he was going to work on it while he is watching the OSU baseball team play in the College World Series (Which he has been really excited about watching all day.)

I just love this MAN!!!

Lost and Redone!

Well, I finally got my craft/scrapbooking stuff unpacked. I was looking through the scrapbook I did for Mylisa last year and just wanted to share her cuteness.

And there is a story that goes with making this scrapbook... After I had done most of these pages, I went and had color copies made for Mylisa's mother and for my cousin who was her foster mother (and for those who don't know the story about Mylisa, Hubs and I were her respite care providers every weekend for 7 months). Then I took the book to show some of my family. We were outside when I was showing everyone and I went to go put it away and the car was locked, so hesitantly I put it on top of the car (I know, not very smart!). So then we left and we got down the road a little ways and I couldn't remember if I put the scrapbook in the car or not, but I sure couldn't find it in the car. So I was in hysterics for a while. We should have gone back to look on the road for it, but we decided to keep driving down the road to the festival that we were going to. We were at the festival for maybe a half-an-hour before I couldn't take being stressed out anymore so we decided to go back and look for it. We couldn't find it anywhere. We retraced everywhere we had driven and it was just gone. I was devastated, because I had worked so hard on it. Well we never found it, but I was sure glad that I made copies of every page, and I was able to redo every page almost exactly. So almost every page has double the sweat and tears into it that usually go into a scrapbook page, so it really means a lot to me, especially since we have moved away and don't get to see Mylisa on a regular basis anymore.

Boy, do we love that little girl, like she was our own!!

MISSING MYLISA!!

Mylisa's mother let us have her for the weekend before we moved. It was alot of fun having her for a few days, but really hard knowing that we wouldnt see her for a long time (if ever again).

Mylisa was her typical cute, fun, sweet, smart self! And she is talking like crazy. We are so going to miss her, everytime I think about her I get choked up. I also balled the entire 45 min drive back to her mom's place and I was crying so hard when I got there I couldnt even talk to her mother. And I made her mom cry too, she was very sweet.

Mylisa has been a huge blessing in our life. And we are very greatful for the opportunity we had to be a parent figure to her. We pray everyday that she may grow up to do good things in her life. And she will always be a part of our family no matter where she is.

Mylie on the go!

We got to have Mylie for a few days. She was so much fun, and she is such a happy little girl!

I am really excited because she is starting to add the correct word to her signs. (One of these days I am going to have to try to take pictures of her doing her signs.)

Mylie doesn't sit still for anything, the second you set her down she is on the run. You ask her to come here and she is off running the other direction. You go after her and she is off running the other direction. She is starting to get better about holding our hand when we are walking, but the second we stop she can't wait to let go.

One of her favorite things to do is dance. And boy does she have the moves. She will snap her fingers, sway back and forth, and stomp her feet. She steals the show where ever we go.

She likes to say Hi to everyone where ever we go. She can tell the people who pay attention to her and the ones that don't. When someone is paying attention to her, her greeting is hands over the eyes for peekaboo, and when they are not paying attention to her she says HI over and over until she can get their attention.

Her hair is getting really long and it gets curlier every day, I can never decide whether her hair is cuter in pigtails or down and curly.

If you couldn't tell, we love this little girl like crazy, and wanted to share a little about her.

Her new ride!

Folding her arms and bowing her head for prayer.

Watching American Idol. She was very intrigued by the horrible singing.

I missed the shot I wanted. The second right before this she had both of her arms out too while balancing on her head.

The new "crocks" that Grandma Wilma bought her.

Return of the Jedi

Mylie just had to have my sweater on.

Hubs thought that she looked like a Jedi.