Our Favorite Girl

This is the face we wake up to every morning. She puts a smile on our faces. What a silly girl!

A wonderful eater when it comes to sweets

The wonderful life continues

Such a good girl brushing her teeth for church. If she could speak our language she would say, "I do it myself, and don't touch me." Such an independent little thing.

Weekend Getaways

Sam has extremely busy work weeks so on the weekend he just wants to getaway with the family.

To pass the time in the car, Lilly hugs and tosses her baby doll, her favorite toy (mother like daughter- soon she will be calling up girlfriends, "Do you want to play big house or little house)

St. Petersburg beach. Our cabana baby

Lillian is a water baby just like her daddy. Good thing the water temperature was jjjjjust right!

Rays stadium. One of Sam's dreams is to visit most if not all professional sport team stadiums.

First baseball game. She loved it especially when the music came on; she would clap her hands every time.

Animal Kingdom: Meet and greet with Meeko

Oktoberfest at Epcot

We Love Visitors

Two weeks in our new home and we had our first visitors. Yippee!!! After an extremely long treacherous flight, the Rudnicki's arrived. Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom, Cape Canaveral, and Downtown Disney...just to name a few places visited.

The Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom. Apparently Lilly has seen it, done that!

Lillian felt like a BIG GIRL riding in the big kid stroller. Thanks cousin Rylee for sharing your seat.

Princess Rylee post makeover with her Fairy Godmother. You look gorgeous! I would love to get my hands on some of that hair goo for Lilly's unruly feathered head. No fly-aways here with the added bonus face lift, instant cure for the tired eye.

"Edgar Bad Bones" (Brody)

Thanks for coming Rudnicki family. We miss you already.

From Coast to Coast

One bright sunny Sunday afternoon, Sam got a call from Disney saying there was an unbelievable opportunity in the Global Business Development dept. in Orlando, FL starting in less than to weeks. With no reservations, Sam gladly accepted. A week and a half later, he drove across the country to conquer his dream! One month later Lil' and I hopped a flight to join him. San Diego, you will be truly missed and will always have a special place in our hearts. Let the adventure continue! Only tears of pure joy here in the Happiest Place on Earth.

The Best Occupation

I will be honest. When we found out we we were expecting, we were both a little nervous. I hear all the time, "Parenthood is so tough!" Yikes!!!

But Lilly has made it such a breeze! Being a full time mommy beats out any 12 hour night shift any time!!!!! Lilly has made our lives even easier. Look how reverent she is at the dinner table- already folding her arms to pray without even being asked!

She is still working on how to jump, but she has accomplished falling asleep in her jumper.

She is such a big help at the grocery store. Thank you Lilly for making sure the apples don't fall out of the cart- I guess apples make a good arm rest as well.

She doesn't mind the water either... pool time every day.

And did I mention, she loves to sleep in. Unless she hits her 12 hour mark (or longer on some days) she is fast asleep. She thinks she's a teenager that can sleep past 1pm.

My Favorite Part of the Day

Dressing Lillian! She is growing so fast that instead of reserving dresses for church on Sundays, she is wearing dresses every sunny day- which is pretty often here in San Diego. Still squeezing into unworn new born dresses at 3 months. To top it off, a cute headband complements of auntie Britt.

Can't get enough of the milk bubble lips!

Trip to Utah

Vacation isn't official until we have gone shopping!!! the Quilted Bear, Park City Outlets, Rocky Mountain Chocolate store... just to name a few visited and bought out :)

Lilly doesn't have it in her as of yet...marathon shopping. She had to take 5 to regain her strength.

What perfect timing was it to plan a trip to Utah!! That Sunday we headed off to church for cousin Lance's homecoming talk. It was a bit of a challenge remembering his english after serving 2 years as a missionary in Mexico. It was wonderful to see extended family again!

What can I say...Lilly is an excellent traveler. Not a peep did she make on the 4 plane rides.

Crazy kids! It was oh so much fun seeing auntie Brittany, uncle Aaron and cousins Chantilly and Maddox.

And it definitely wouldn't be vacation if Oma wasn't present! Thank you all for a wonderful time.