Lakeside

Lila's baby chicks!

 We are settling in here in Lakeside. We love it so far! Lila got some baby chicks yesterday so she is very excited. So far we've gone to the Birch Aquarium, to the beach, and to the zoo!!

Cara and Lila at Birch Aquarium, La Jolla.

Birch Aquarium

Lila checking out the beautiful fish.

Lila and I

Lila and Cara

Sea Dragon

I took this shot at night with our new camera! Long exposure.

This shows the night sky better. This is the view from our patio!

Hope everyone is doing well!!!

Moving. . . and Other Things

For those of you that don't know, we will soon be Southern Californians. We made the decision to move down to Lakeside, CA where we will house-sit for some of the friends for 6 months! We will arrive to a "ready-made family" of a dog and two cats. Lila is delighted! Also, we will be next door to her cousins (The Dingmans) and best of all. . . (according to Lila) They have CHICKENS!!

Lila is convinced there will be baby chicks there (Lila hasn't had imaginary friends. She has imaginary pets and they are usually "baby chicks.") We told her there needed to be a rooster to have baby chicks so she said, "Well I'm pretty sure they will have a rooster." Haha. We'll see.

So we are doing our best to enjoy Redding with the time we have left here. Our official move out date is April 30th. Since the weather has been nice off and on we have gone to Turtle Bay here in Redding and taken little trips down to the river.

So I will be posting some of those pics for you all to see. I believe this part of the state is the most beautiful part of California!! (Sorry Southern Californians!!)

Here is a youtube link to a video of Lila playing near the river. They were letting a lot of water out of Shasta Dam so the river was pretty high.You can also search on YouTube for caragrow and landryandcara:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFtsmYMSGqM

Here are some pictures!!

Cross Eyed Lila

Lila has decided that being cross-eyed is really funny. She crosses her eyes, looks at us, and says, "TWO mommys and daddys!"

Yeah.

EXAMPLE (complete with chocolate marks on her face):

Where does this goofiness come from? I was trying to get her to pose to show off her socks she had pulled up to kingdom come.

But, we finally got a cute one. I think it's time for some new "sunny weather" clothes!!

On a different note, my Granny had a stroke yesterday morning. They live in Reno so I am hoping to get up there this weekend. She's doing "okay" but as far as I know she is still in ICU. Mom went up there this morning. I hope she gets better! Doctors are hopeful.

Landry

A Saturday Morning Picnic

Here is Lila's picnic. This is what she wanted to do this morning. I asked what she wanted for breakfast and she said she wanted to cook in her kitchen and have a picnic outside. So we did.

Here's the proud picnicker and she even put her apron on!! :)Then we did "dishes."

Then we washed the window.

This is the result of the "washed" window.

Then she made "soup" out of her dishwater. :)

This is Lila's trash can (with empty soup cans in it).

Where'd we go?

Where DID we go? Unfortunately we enjoy looking at other people's blogs rather than writing in our own.

But, just for kicks, here's some pics of us. My, how Lila's grown!

Here we have Lila with one of the ballerinas at The Nutcracker, Lila at Mom and Dad's house in Weaverville, Lila in San Diego on the Carousel, Lila at her ballet lesson, and Lila eating a cupcake!

As for Cara and I, we're doing pretty good as well! Guess we'll see if anyone ever looks at our blog anymore!

Landry

Hello World

We are still alive and well. Here's a video of our little star! Kara...we tried to get her to say "Kara" but she had just said goodbye to Cayla and couldn't quite figure it out.

Cutest video ever!

At the lake watching the ducks which were actually geese.

Cousins

We went out to Whiskeytown Lake last Saturday and it was awesome! Lila had so much fun being outside and running around!

Mother's Day

We had a really nice Mother's Day up in the 'Ville. There were LOTS of flowers and family and delicious food. Lila and Milla had fun playing outside and getting lots of attention from Grandma and Grandpa!