Lilly's latest is saying, "no". It honestly is the cutest thing. I know it will eventually not be as cute, but for now it is adorable!!! She also will smile a cute cheesy smile when you ask her to-I love it. We are just plugging along at the Kraus home. Trying to get ready for Christmas and such. Collin got into Ortho here, and I couldn't be more happy or proud. He is my superman. I'm so incredibly grateful for all the blessings we have. Merry Christmas to you all. 
Okay so I have more videos I want to post, but Blogger keeps freezing on me!! I will try to do another post either today or later this week. Lilly is sitting with me on the computer chair right now, so this will be brief!!! My sweet little daughter wants to be a part of EVERYTHING I do. Which on the one hand is pretty adorable and on the other is sometimes a bit of a challenge. She is so fun. She is cutting through 4 new teeth, my poor little baby. I wish I could do it for her!!!! Hope all is well with all of you!!! I am going to try and see if I can get this posted!!!!
Once again it has been awhile. I have just decided that I'm going to accept that I can't seem to get a post up more than once a month. Maybe eventually I can improve-but for now it is what it is!!!! My sweet little girl is growing so fast. The purple blanket in the picture below is her favorite blanket!!! She carries it around the house, and wraps it around like a cape. She also likes to put it over her head and bump into stuff!!!! Lilly loves to "help" with the laundry as indicated by the picture below. We still are working on her signing, her newest one is "please", it is the most adorable thing she says "p" and then does the sign. She has such a wonderful sweet countenance, she is my happy girl!!!! Collin is busy,busy, he went on his first interview for Ortho school last week in Nashville and it went well. He has 6 more to go!!! Who knows where we will end up!!!! I'm trying to think of it as an adventure!!!!! I'm so proud of him. He works so hard. Love to you all!!! 
I am FINALLY going to catch ya'll up on our wonderfully eventful- crazy busy- amazingly fun summer!!!! In this post, Joel gets married, we )Collin, Lilly, myself, mom and dad Kraus, Courtney and Tyler) go on vacation to California and Arizona and just prior to our departure to CA. we celebrated my hubby's b-day hence the cake pic. Lilly went in the ocean for the first time, and absolutely LOVED it!!! And I will tell you, it was COLD. Didn't faze her a bit though, she wanted to keep going out deeper and deeper, when the waves would start to come she would kick and get all excited and try to run towards them!!!! She full on tried to face plant in the sand so she could more effectively eat it. I discouraged this behavior. I thought after her first mouthful she would realize that it just wasn't very good- alas she somehow thought that it was utterly delightful and wanted more!!!! We got to go to Venice beach, the San Diego Zoo (Lilly as you will see was alseep for a good chunk of the Zoo) which was so gorgeous, Collin, his dad, and Uncle Barry went to a Dodgers game, we got to walk around the L.A. Temple- we also got to see Uncle Doug and Aunt Jody too!! And much more it was so wonderful!!!! We had a blast in AZ. too with Collin's sister Miranda and her adorable children!!!! They loved Lilly and were so sweet and wonderful to her!!!! We miss them all!!!! Joel and Bittany's wedding was so beautiful!!!! They are so cute together, I'm so happy to have a new sister!!!! I love all my sweet sisters!!!!! They are such a hansome couple-I miss them!!!! They went back to cold Idaho, and far away!!!! Suffice it to say, it has been a great summer. Lots of fun memories were made. I am finally getting myself back on track, I had a hard time re-acclamating to life back at home. But all is well now!!!! Collin is busy, busy and I don't see him as much as I would like, but ah well. I love it when I get to see him!!!! He is my personal superman, and he is such a wonderful husband!!! Love to you all!!!!
