And baby makes 4...

FYI...we are expecting a new little Lively in March. I know it is early to tell (I am only 5 weeks along) but that is just how I do it...sorry if that bothers you! We are hoping for a girl, so think pink! (of course we will be happy with whatever!!)

Vines Beach Week

Every year Lance's Aunt and Uncle Vines kindly allow us to use their beach house for a Vines Family Reunion. (Thank you, Thank you!!) This year we went down on the 4th of July and came back on the 11th. It was a great time (as always) and so much fun to have Peyton old enough to play and enjoy herself. Going down to the sand and beach is a lot of work with a 15 month old, but so worth it in the end. And I could not have done it without the help of my mother-in-law. Thank you! Unfortunately, Papa and Daddy were not able to be there becuase of work, but hopefully next year. Here are some pictures of my little princess...

The second cousins (Lincoln, Tatum, Peyton and Romi)

whenever she heard the camera turn on she would say "cheese"!!!

A shot with mommy

Watching bay-beee (aka Baby Einstein)

In her highchair at the Beach House having a popsicle. Her new favorite thing!

Superstar!!

As promised, here is her picture on the Front Page of the Lassen County Times! My baby is a star!! I try to make sure her hair is done everyday...I guess I missed this day!

The Grizz Bowl

Last Saturday we had a football game here in town. It was between the two prisons that are up here. HDSP (High Desert State Prison) and CCC (California Correctional Center). The do it every 5 years or so, and all of the money goes to benefit the high school sports. This year, Lance was the QB for HDSP. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for the last 2-3 months he has been at football practice from 5-7. It was full on tackle and everything! All these guys were taking it so serious!
They big day came and we had so much fun! Lance's team won, 16-12. I made some shirts for myself and Peyton. They even took Peyton's picture for the town newspaper, asked for her name and the spelling and told us to look for her in next weeks issue. I will be sure to get those pictures up if they come! But for now, this is all I got! (thanks to Aunt Kelly for taking them. I forgot my camera, plus mine isn't half as good!)

Lance was #11, obviously.

Isn't he so cute? Wish I had a picture of his bum! That was even cuter!

Awe! The Lively's! (Minus P, she was home sleeping. She better figure out how to stick things out, there are many more sporting events in our future!)

you can do it all by yo-self!!

Anyone who knows me well knows that I raise my daughter by what the internet says. Lance calls it my "baby encyclopedia". I get posts once a week telling me what my baby should be doing and at what point she should be doing it. Most of the time, like walking for instance, she is way ahead of their predicted stages. One e-mail, about 2 months ago, told me I should start to give my child her spoon and allow her to feed herself. It will promote better hand-eye quardination, or so they say. Those who know me know there is no way on this green earth that I would allow her to have that much freedom, and the only reason is...THE MESS. I cringed at the thought of letting her at it and the disgusting, sticky, gross mess I would have to clean up afterwards.
Yesterday, at 14 1/2 months, I finally gave Peyton her spoon and about a tablespoon of her food in a bowl. This is the outcome. I was so disgusted that I had to walk out of the room while she explored. She had such a great time making this mess! I took some pictures for documentation. I think I have created a monster though...tonight when I tried to feed her, she wanted no part of the normal, clean eating, and opted to make a mess again BY HERSELF. And so it begins!
This ones for you Uncle Craig!





I wonder where she got that tongue!

Swimming!!

Today was the hottest day of the year so far. It only reached 85*, but that was warm enough to break out the pool!! I sat inside puffing that mini-pool full of air, and 10 minutes later I went out and started to fill up the pool with water. Peyton screamed. Of course. Then I let the semi-cold water sit for awhile while we went to walmart to get to swimmers diapers and some sun-screen. We got home, changed little P and lathered her up. When we got outside, she proceeded to scream again. I sat my dainty bum right on down in that little pool and played like I was 1. She sat on the front porch for another minute or so, deciding if it was going to kill her to get in this water. She slowly inched her way over and held her arms out to me. I sat with her on my lap for what seemed like forever and started playing with the toys. Finally I got her on her own bum all the way in the water. I got out, cause no one would believe me if I didn't get pictures, and there was a whole different child in the water!! She loved it! I watched her play for another half an hour and then when it was time to get out (daddy was taking us miniature golfing-a whole other blog, believe me) she screamed again. I wasn't too mad about that scream though. I think we may have found our new summer pasttime!





Getting ready to play in the new pool.

She loved playing with these "sand" toys!

She would crawl out, get her toys, bring they back in the water, throw them out again, then start all over. She did this for about half an hour.

Absolutely priceless.

Pigtails!

I finally got her hair into pigtails. She was so cute, and when I said "show me your pretties" she bent her head down and showed them to me. I swear, kids are so funny!