Weather Girl

Often when a storm is coming through you will see Zach outside looking at the clouds, or taking pictures of them. Our Sarah has grown to love the storms as well with her Daddy. She now has our old camera and will go out with Daddy and take pictures right along with him. I hope that she is as good as he is one day and loves it as much as he does (that is photography & storms).

The Storm

Taking her pictures of the clouds...

She has to get different angles and everything!

Once it started to rain we went inside to watch it...this is from her window in the toy room.

Gramma's Home from her mission

Well my Mom got home from her mission in late March and so these pictures are much overdue. But Sarah was so excited to see Gramma. She sure does love her Gramma! Ever since Gramma has been home Sarah, Kahlan & I have had the opportunity to spend some time with her every Wednesday for lunch. But these pictures are from way before our time the past few weeks. Welcome home Mom!!

Gramma & Kahlan first meet :)

Gramma is all about kisses...lots and lots of kisses. Sarah in her new dress that Gramma got for her.

Awww Gramma, Kahlan & Sarah

Another one of Gramma & Kahlan

Gramma & Princess Sarah

We went to FatCats in Ogden with Abbie...
Sarah, Abbie & Gramma

Sarah & Gramma playing mini golf

Sarah's first game of mini golf

Easter

We had a very eventful Easter this year, I think all together we had 2 mini Easter egg hunts and 1 very large one. So Sarah had a lot of candy to go through, and I believe it is now all gone! Yipee for sugar highs! So I have a lot of pictures of Easter so here we go....I know you love pictures!! Our first adventure was our play date with Isabel. I brought over some eggs with some candy in them and between Krystal and I we got them all hidden so they could find them. They had a great time!

Sarah & Isabel in our first mini Easter Egg hunt

Sarah in Isabel's room searching for eggs

Sarah & Daddy waiting for the fun to start!

The "Hunting Grounds" for the 3-5 yr olds

Another one of Daddy & Sarah

Kahlan fast asleep on her first hunt...tired little girl

I only know one name besides Sarah in this picture and that is Ava standing to the left of her.

The "Blue Dot" mmm....yup prize time!

picking out her extra goodies

She picked out some fun sidewalk chalk and yes we have used it already!

She wouldn't leave Daddy's side...

Coloring eggs

Finished product

More eggs....

Last but not least an egg hunt in the play room...as you can see Sarah is all smiles about this one.

opening her eggs...

As you can see we had a lot of fun, she didn't get the elaborate big gifts, but if you look below she did get a new dress for Easter and we all got to spend some time together.

Sarah's Haircut

Well we decided that we needed to have someone professional cut Sarah's hair. As I have been cutting her bangs for awhile now. So Nikki who cuts Zach's hair at Great Clips was our choice, she is so nice and loves to see the girls each time we go in to get Zach's hair cut. Before going to get her hair cut we asked Sarah if she wanted to get it cut and her response to me was, "Mom I don't want to look like a boy..." She was very serious and was almost in tears. I had to explain to her that just because she is getting her hair cut doesn't mean that they are going to make her look like a boy by cutting it all off.

Nikki cutting Sarah's hair...

All smiles

She was watching another person getting their hair done I guess???

In the end we got 2 inches cut off the back and layered the front because we are growing out her bangs and needed it to blend into her hair. She didn't end up looking like a boy at all! She is still all GIRL!

Sarah & Kahlan Pictures

Well we had the girls pictures done together at JCPenney and they were wonderful there! I do have to say that Zach picked out the girls yellow dresses and also found Kahlan's headband and hat that Sarah is wearing. I just said yes those are beautiful and yes we should get them...

Sarah & Kahlan 2011 they look absolutely beautiful!

Sarah looking so cute in her new dress from Gramma Vee

This is a favorite of mine with Sarah she looks so sweet!

Zach says that Sarah looks like a gal from the 20's with the hat on and all.

This was only the 2nd shot of the two of them together, it turned out absolutely beautiful. Sarah will tell you every time that she sees the picture..."my baby is laying on my back..." and then she will giggle.

Awww so cute in their spring dresses.

Kahlan Grace Lyle Blessing

Well Kahlan was blessed on April 10, 2011. We waited long enough so that Mom could be home from her mission and be there with us. Zach did an awesome job with the blessing!! But the week prior to the special occasion we had pictures done in the new dresses. My mom got both Kahlan & Sarah new dresses for the occasion and they were both beautiful! Thank you Mom!!  

A picture of the entire dress.

She was more interested in looking at Mom right here...love you Kahlan

 

Loved how she stuck out her tongue...so adorable.

 

Look ma I can hold my head up :)

 

This blanket she is laying on was made by a friend of mine at work. Thank you Kathie it is beautiful and went perfect with the dress and pictures.

And here is our beautiful Sarah in her dress...so CUTE!

 

Kahlan's blessing;

Kahlan we bless you with love, happiness and joy throughout your life. We bless you with the strength of Spirit, strength of Mind, and strength of Body.

Kahlan we bless you with Grace in everything that you do.

Throughout your life you will have opportunities to strengthen your testimony.

We bless you with friendship, we bless you that you will be surrounded by people that will love you.

Kahlan we bless you with knowledge and the wisdom to use that knowledge in everything you do.

We bless you with a sense of Humor. That you always find a reason to laugh.


As you can see Zach did a wonderful job and it was everything that needed to be said to Kahlan. Lots of love to our new little girl.

Life with 2 Kids

I just wanted to post some other pictures that I found while I was looking at birthday pictures of Sarah's. These were too cute not to share with everyone. As Sarah would say "They make my heart smile!"

 Sarah has taken up the job of reading to her sister very early on. She sat down with the book and started reading to Kahlan. Most of what she said was "Once upon a time..." for every page, but it was still adorable.

 So intent on reading the book for Kahlan.

 She is even in her Princess dress reading to her sister.

 For a little while Kahlan was well a fussy bum, and one of the ways she would calm down was to be held by Daddy like this. I thought this was just an adorable picture and couldn't resist the opportunity to take this one.

 Daddy & Kahlan

 They were both into watching the TV...I don't even recall what was on at the moment, but they like sitting next to each other watching TV.

 Kahlan & Sarah

Dr. Smithing (delivered Kahlan & Sarah) with Kahlan at my 1 month post appointment.