Little Swimmer

Mylie loves to be in the water whether it is in the swimming pool, bath tub or merely holding her hand under the running faucet.





This picture is super sweet because David is giving his girl a little kiss, but it also makes me laugh. Mylie has incredible vision and can find the smallest speck of anything on the carpet or counter, and here she has found a hole in the concrete and is poking at it with her pointer finger.

8 Months Old

Mylie was 8 months old on Saturday. I say this all the time, but I can't believe how fast the time has gone.


She has grown a lot over the past month. She is on the verge of crawling. Yesterday, she got on all fours and was rocking back and forth. She has already mastered scooting backwards on her belly. It is really funny because if you lay a toy in front of her, she'll scoot backwards trying to get it. We tell her "come forward" but of course she can't understand us. She definitely keeps us laughing. She shakes her head from side to side now and laughs at us when we do it back to her. Whenever we clap or wave at her, she will shake her hands, so we know she is trying to connect the dots. She still loves meal time and eats all her fruit, but it takes her a little longer to eat her veggies. She is officially sleeping unswaddled now. She was getting out of her swaddle and backing herself into the corner of her crib, so we took the blankets away...cold turkey! Last night was her best night of sleeping in what seems like months and I am very encouraged that this is going to be a trend. We, of course, are so proud of her for all her baby accomplishments, but we cannot get over just how much we love her. She is so wonderful, happy, perfect...and she's all ours!!!

What have we been doing lately? Lots!

Where have we been, you may ask? After we got home from our week in Houston, we stayed put for 4 days then packed up and went to Albuquerque for 9 days. I went to my high school reunion and we were able to spend lots of time with family and friends. Check out the 3 postings below to catch all the action...
Hangin in the hammack...
...playing in the grass with Nonna...
...eating at El Pinto with Grandpa Dobbs & Uncle Ryan...
...trying to crawl to Grami...
...playing with Tanner...

And much, much more below!!!

10 Year LCHS Reunion

My 10 year high school reunion was also this weekend. It is so silly now to think of how nervous I was to be going back, because once we got to the reunion, it was not a big deal at all. The venue was nice and the weather was beautiful, but not too many of my classmates showed up (hint, hint, DiPaolo & Kunkle!). However, David and I went with one of my middle school/high school best friends Katie and her new husband Aaron and I think we had a pretty good time. We thought for sure that we'd be answering the same questions OVER and OVER again, but we were able to just chat and catch up with some people we haven't talked to in 10 years. Overall, I'm very glad I went.

David, Mylie and Me before we left. David got a little spot on his shirt JUST as we were leaving...thank goodness for name tags!!!

Me, Katie, Jennifer & Kim. I've known all these girls since 6th grade.

David and Me. People kept saying "Oh, High School Sweethearts!" which we often forget that we are. However, I was proud to have him with me! He looked so handsome. I guess we'll do this all over again next year for his reunion.

Me and Katie

There was also a family picnic the following day. It was so funny to see some of these girls now with kiddos.

Ralph's 65th Surprise Birthday Party

Nonna (aka Carole Hicks) threw Grandpops (aka Ralph Hicks) a surprise 65th birthday party. It was such a special night for him filled with lots of family and friends - new and old. We all thought that he would figure out the surprise but he insists he was clueless until the minute he opened the door and saw everyone. And although Ralph was the man of the hour, Mylie was a HUGE hit and I know he was proud to show her off.


Surprise!

Here is David's Grandma and Mylie's Great-Grandma Bev with me and Mylie
It was fun for David to introduce Mylie to one of his childhood best friends, Derek Hermann.

4th of July

Thanks for the cute outfit, Nonna!

We spent the 4th in Houston this year. Houston has been receiving just as much rain as DFW, so we spent the majority of the day indoors. GM sponsors the 4th day long extravaganza/fireworks show, so he was working. Mylie and I went up to Alissa's parents lake house and had a good time playing games, going out on the boat (me, not Mylie) and eating lots of good food. We drove back to Sugar Land before the fireworks, but saw many going off in the distance.


Me, Mylie, Alissa, Ryan & Fran



Mylie got to go to her first Astros home game. I guess we didn't bring the Astros much luck...they lost to the Mets.

We stayed at the Houston's house while they were in CO for vacation, but were able to spend the weekend with them once they got back. It is always fun to see our HOU friends!

Wedding planning...

We had an adventure filled weekend! Melissa is getting married in October and we were out and about doing wedding stuff. I'd put more pictures up, but they are all of Melissa in her dress and we don't want Colin to get curious and stumble across those pictures!

Melissa - The Bride, Neta Beth - Mother of the Bride, Ellice - Neice of the Bride

Whitney - Bridesmaid #1 & Only, Michelle - Matron of Honor & Sister of the Bride (Also, there is an 11 week growing baby inside Michelle), Melissa - The Bride

It's always fun when we have visitors because we have a good reason to go to restaurants like The Cheesecake Factory. Poor Mylie was super tired, so we gave her David's hat to distract her.

Another wild woman hair picture!