The pictures are kind of sorted around wrong, but I will explain them! Ok, so we moved last month and LOVE our new home. We are renting in a great new area with tons of kids for both Matt and Lily to meet and play (or "hang out") with. Lily has twin 4 year old girls 2 houses down that she loves to play with and she is outside all of the time. Matt is meeting new people, but still has yet to "hang out" with them. We are working on this. This picture is of our living room.
Here is our kitchen. Notice that in all of these photos, Lily is posing. By the way, she dressed herself....blue shorts, Dora pink sandals, striped socks. Luckily she let me do her hair!
Family room. We love the double sided fireplace!
Dining room. Again, we love the bay window. This house is so bright and airy! We open windows and it is wonderful!
The front of our home. I didn't get any pics of the basement yet. It's unfinished, except for Jason's drum room, or man cave! But Lily has a large play area, Matt has a video game area (we hung a swing up down there for Lily too), and we have a LARGE food storage area! We love it!
A co-worker of mine GAVE us this swing set! Her grandkids are older now and she wanted to get rid of it for more room in her yard. So, my parents took it apart, brought it over, and put it back up while we were at work. Oh yeah, it was also snowing the day they did that! My parents are great! Lily is on this swingset constantly.
Easter morning.
Indoor Easter egg hunt.
Matt is super excited about finding eggs! Just kidding. He is such a good sport to help us let Lily have fun! He plays with her all of the time.
Lily's room.
Handsome Matt! Ready for church.
Playing and wrestling.
Matt is in karate. He was showing us some moves when Lily wanted to join in. Here they are punching and yelling "Hi-ya."
Matt is doing so well in karate. I think he can test soon for his next belt. He's a white belt right now (beginner), and he only started about 2 months ago, but he loves it.
My mom is pushing Lily and her cousin, Tayson, on the swing set. Lily just kept laying on poor Tayson and he was so squished. But he just kept taking it. Tough kid. Mom thought it was hilarious!
Again, Lily dressing herself. Actually, just accessorizing this time. She has Matt's baseball helmet on backwards. Funny kid.
Need I say it? I got her all ready for bed, but she had to add her touches.
We went to the zoo. The monkeys and dragons (tigers) were her favorites.
We got Lily ready for bed, but then went out for a family treat of ice cream. On the way home, this is what happened during her chocolate ice cream cone. I'm not quite sure she got any in her mouth. It's all over her face, her shirt, her doll (and doll's hair), the car seat and the car door and window. Oh well, she had fun and I just tossed her in the tub again while Jason cleaned the car. I also gave "Dora, the dolly" a little bath and shampoo.
Too cute. Matt's baseball helmet again. On backwards. She is a funny one!
Extreme Home Makeover came to our neck of the woods this past month. Only 3 miles from our house! Since I watch this show faithfully, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to go and check things out. Jason, Lily and I went to see the house going up. Matt decided he didn't want to.
Here is the finished product. I just took a quick picture from my car, because by this time, the family was back in the house and I didn't want to bug them by taking pics of their home out on the sidewalk. The house is kind of small, but very pretty. It's in a great location with the school a block away, a park just down the street and a man made beach across the street to a lake. Very cool area! I'm told the show for this one will be in September 2011. It's about a single mom and 2 kids. Her son has 2 types of blood disorders.
Here is a pic of the backyard of our home. Not an extreme home makeover, but definitely fun and we love it. The previous residents left a turtle sandbox (empty) when they left, so I cleaned it out really well, and Lily loves it a splash pool (or, as she calls it, her swimming cool).
I just took these pics this weekend. Matt was going with his dad's family for pictures, so he was waiting for his dad to bring his shirt. I did Lily's hair with some mousse and a diffuser to bring out her curls and then did an updo, because it was so hot. Such cuties!
Matt, Lily and I went with some of Matt's friends and their mom to a water conservation park. It was a very hot day, but pretty cool little place. Lots of different types of plants, flowers, etc. plus ideas of what to do with your yard and plants for the weather here in Utah. 
Pic of Lily's curls. Her hair is getting so long! It actually goes to the bottom of her shoulder blades when it's down.
Lily is a fish. She LOVES water. We have automatic sprinklers at our new house, but some of them just aren't working quite right, so I've been turning on the manual sprinklers in the evenings. Luckily for Lily, she gets to run through them almost daily! Here are some pics of her playing in the water, and smelling the roses in our front yard.
Matt and friend at the Water Conservation Park playing in the sand. He claims he was bored, but as you can see, he's not too cool to play in the sandbox!
