Christmas outfits

Festival of Lights

One of our Christmas traditions is to drive to Spanish Fork to the Festival of Lights. The kids loved it this year, we put the back of the car up and sat and looked at the lights listening to Christmas music, there was a light snow but we had a couple of blankets and they were in heaven, they thought it was the greatest ever.

Breakfast with Santa

Papa and Grandma had everyone over for breakfast and Santa made a magical visit to their house. He must have known there was yummy breakfast!

That is as close as Ava would get to Santa, with dad.

Papa and Grandma with all the grandkids.

An Evening with Santa

Kecia's brother Jess held a Santa Christmas party as his eagle project for the Utah Down Syndrome Foundation. It was a really cute party! We had a good time, it was fun to see some familiar faces we have recently met since having Lyla and also to meet some new people! The kids loved the sugar cookies, getting treasures from Santa's big bag and playing around with the cousins.

The kids got to go fish in Santa's big bag and get some treasures! They were in heaven

Lyla and Bree rockin out on the dance floor!

PEIP Christmas Party

One of the Christmas parties we had this week was the Provo Early Intervention Program that comes to work with Lyla. There was a dinner and then Santa was there. Lyla and Crew were the only ones excited to see him, Griffin and Ava stood back in the hall and wouldn't talk to him. Santa gave Lyla a cute blanket they had made. We're grateful for all the therapists that come and help Lyla learn and grow! Thanks for a fun party!

Elf on the Shelf

We've had a little elf land in our house this Christmas season. Every morning he's hiding in a different spot after he reports to Santa to watch who's being good or not. The kids love to search for him when they wake up and see where he's landed today. It's nice to have a helper to make sure they are behaving!

Lyla 4 month heart check-up

Lyla got a golden star at her four month post-surgery heart check-up last week. Her chest x-ray was clear, her ekg was perfect and everything else looked great so we got rid of a couple of more medications, no more waking up every night at midnight to give her medication, and no more oxygen at night. Yahoo!

Lyla and one of her cardiologists Dr. Su. We're so grateful that they take such great care of her heart!

These were all her medications we started with after surgery. We're now down to only two and no oxygen. Amazing!

We started rice cereal and she's doing great. She's catching on pretty well and now will actually eat it instead of just leave it sitting in her cheeks.

I have three little helpers that like to feed her too!

We've been working for a few months now to get her to sit in the Bumbo without tipping over to the side or front and she can finally do it now. She's doing awesome! It's so exciting to see her be able to catch on to something new!