Last 5 months in a nut shell...

June

  

We celebrated Julie's 31st Birthday in June!
One of Julie's presents from Carter was this sewing machine!!

Carter did real good and even had a friend make a cake to go along with the sewing theme!!

Lily & Papa having a good time!

The girls!

More girls!!

Fun times & many laughs!

We also celebrated Carter's birthday in June! Julie put her new sewing machine to work and started this t-shirt quilt for him! It is made out of all the youth t-shirts since we have been at our Prosper location of Prestonwood!

Lily had a blast this summer swimming with her friends!

Julie started a business in June and named it "giggles & coos"! She is sewing on clothes and making hair bows and accessories and many other things for little ones, and some clothes for adults! We had no idea this would happen after getting a sewing machine! ;)

Shortly after Julie started her business, she was given the opportunity to sell her creations in a quilt shop not far from Prosper!

July

We celebrated 4th of July in Houston with family! Here is Lily with her Great Grandma!

Four Generations!

The whole gang!

We had a blast shooting fireworks at Deb & Bill's farm!

Lily & Papa

Lily saw her first parade in Roundtop...it was awesome!

Had to stop at the Blue Bell Creamery before heading back home! 

We celebrated Julie's Dad's 60th Birthday in July! Her Mom made this awesome video/slideshow for him!

Look at that stud!

He loved the video!

Julie and her niece Keely had fun with the red icing on the cupcakes!

Julie's Mom & Dad

Carter's parents & Julie's parents trying to get a picture, but our nephew Rex is determined to be in on the action!

We went to Boston with our HS choir students at church for a mission trip!

We visited Hawaiian Falls a few times with our church!

We went to our friends lake house for a little getaway! Lily loved playing with our dominoes!

We had a great time on the lake and fishing! Our friends came out for a few days too! Lily is not so sure what to think about daddy's fish!

August

We celebrated Julie's niece, Laney's 6th birthday!

We also celebrated Julie's nephew, Rex's 2nd birthday! 

Lily started going to CLC, our churches "mothers-day-out" program every Tue & Thu! She loves it!

Sometimes after school we go visit daddy at the office!

Ok, so yes...this is Julie's car...the only car in the parking lot! She was a little eager to pick Lily up from her first day of school! Hilarious!

We went to our first Rodeo in Mesquite!

Lily has lots of teeth!! Her top 2 and bottom 2 are in and the 5th tooth is coming in now!

Lily got to swing at the park for the 1st time!

She probably could have stayed in that swing all day! She loved it!

September

Lily loves standing and pulling up on things! She's getting so big!!

Fun in the tub (or sink!)

Lily's 1st football game! Prosper's Homecoming!

Love these lips!!

October

She loves talking to her animals!!

Introducing them to Daddy!

Sleeping beauty!!

Happy Memorial Day!

Fun in the sun with our friends and family Memorial Day weekend!

Daddy & Lily looking cool in their shades!

Lily's first time to get in the swimming pool!
Mommy trying to get her excited!

Lily inspecting her boat float!

Her "get excited" face!

Family pic!

Time to clean up before bed! She loves "tubby time!"

Giggling while Daddy dries her off!

6 month check-up

Lily turned 6 months old on May 5th!

Her check-up with Dr. G went great! He told us she is tall and petite!

Her 6 month pictures will be posted soon...here is a sneak peek!!
Can't show you until Grandparents see first!!! hee hee

Weight: 14lbs, 12oz (25-50%)
Height: 26in (80%)
Eye color: Blue
Hair Color: Light Brown

Her report card read...
Physical Exam: "Tall Girl, Pretty Girl"
Development: "Awesome!"
Her doctor is so great! We are very thankful for him and his great staff.

Her next appt. will be in August when she is 9 months old!

Mother's Day 2010

Mother's Day was extra special this year...it was Julie's 1st!
Lily gave her Mommy a sweet card, beautiful tulips, a much needed pedicure, and some precious photo frames with her pictures in them!

Lily & Mommy at church

Family pic with O'Daddy & Big Mama!

Family Pic!

Dinner at Texas Roadhouse after taking pictures of Lily in the Bluebonnets!

Julie celebrated with her Mom and family that night!

Lily showing off with her Grandma!

Julie, her Mom & her sister all celebrating Mother's Day together!

Bluebonnets!

Well...we waited a little late to get a good bluebonnet picture this year...but if you look REAL close you can see a few in all the weeds!! Poor baby girl! She was a good sport and let us have fun taking her picture in the small patch of bluebonnets we found! Julie bought this "Made in Texas" onesie before Lily was born and realized it fit her now...so we had to get some pictures!!

This one is our favorite!

Looking off into the sunset!

"Don't Mess with Texas!" ha ha ha

Sweet baby girl!

Lily happenings...

It is so fun capturing what all Lily is doing and learning at this age so we can make memories for not only us, but for her when she is old enough to look back at these pictures and videos!

Here are just a few things she is doing at 6 months!

Lily loves "tubby time"! Here she is after her bath nibbling on her toes!
At least we know they are clean!!

She loves story time!

Lily loves her daddy's kisses!

We just added oatmeal to her diet, and she seems to enjoy it too!
At 6 months, she is nursing 4 times a day, plus eating oatmeal in the morning and rice cereal at night. Soon we will add vegetables to the mix! Can't wait to see what she likes!

Celebrating 7's FIRST Birthday!

Lily attended her very first birthday party this month!
We celebrated Miss Sevyn Trogdon turning ONE! Yippee!

The theme of the party was animal print & camo...so Lily was excited to put on her camo onesie and party with her friends!

Sevyn's Mom, Mendi, did an amazing job planning and decorating for the party!

Lily made some new friends at the party!

Lily gave Sevyn a pillow just her size to nap with! Julie made the pillowcase!

Here's the Birthday Girl posing with her proud Mommy & Daddy!

It was so fun to watch Sevyn figuring out how to eat her cake!
Didn't take long before she dug in with all fingers!

Great party Sevyn! We love you!

Playing catch up!

It has been way to long since we have updated our blog!

So, to our few faithful blog readers..."sorry" we will try to make it up!
Lily is almost 6 MONTHS!!!
Here is a quick update...more will come after her 6mo check-up!


Lily loves it when we read to her!
Carter is reading the Bible to her before going to bed! So sweet!

Lily has found a new snack! She is very excited about it as you can see!!

Just in case her toes aren't keeping her satisfied, we started her on rice cereal and she is a big helper with that! I guess we aren't giving it to her fast enough because she tries feeding it to herself!


Wow, we can't believe she'll be sitting up on her own soon!


She is fascinated with her tongue!


She's rolling everywhere and occasionally gets her knees under her and will scoot!


So, a few Sunday's ago...while Carter is talking during a parent meeting at church, Lily decides to show everyone a new trick she's learned! Yep, she is blowing raspberries! It's the cutest thing! What is so hilarious to us is that she probably saw another baby do it in the nursery that morning and had been thinking about how to do it all day and then "ta da" she figured it out...and she hasn't stopped since! ha ha

Turn up the volume!



Lily attended her very first Powerlunch at Prestonwood in Plano!
We were so excited to introduce her to our sweet friends David & Connie McKinley!
Dr. McKinley was a guest speaker for Powerlunch in April, so we went as a family to see him.
He was teaching Pastor at Prestonwood before leaving to Pastor a church in Georgia. He officiated our wedding in 2006, both of their kids were in our student ministry, and Julie was blessed to work with Connie at the bookstore! It was so great to see them!

Stay tuned for her 6 month check-up and more fun updates!
Lily went to her first birthday party...pics coming soon!