Sunday, October 13, 2013

LYLA TURNED 3 and other September Happenings!

September was a very crazy month......I went back to work, Emma started first grade, Lyla started Preschool and Lyla turned 3 years old! It just has been so crazy in our household. Here are some pics of our September happenings.....


                           Getting Ready for Back to School



I took Emma and her two friends to get back to school mani and pedis. Then we went to McDonalds for lunch!

Lyla came too!

Pretty Nails!

Having Lunch

First Day of School
Me and my girl! Emma is in first grade!



At the bus stop with some friends

Bye, Bye!

This was Lyla's first day of Preschool! She goes twice a week for 2 and a half hours. 


                                    Starting Dance Class
Emma and Lyla both started dance class! They love it! Emma is in Hip-Hop dance and Lyla is in Tap and ballet! Emma also does gymnastics, mixed martial arts and religion education.

Lyla on the first day of dance class! She loves it!

Emma with one of her friends on the first day of her dance class!
                                   Lyla turns 3 years old!
My girl is 3! I cant believe how time flies! She is doing great! She is a very active, happy, healthy toddler! She recently had a well visit at the pediatrician and she weighs 23 pounds and is 30 inches tall! She is our beautiful girl! She had 2 birthday celebrations this year. One was at preschool and the other was a family celebration. Eddie took the family out to dinner. We went to Luso's and as always it was delicious! 

Going to her preschool party! Mommy brought in cupcakes, donuts, juice and goodie bags for the whole class.

On our way to Luso for the family celebration. My dad and I

My mom and me

Grandpa, Lyla and Emma

Grandpa and Lyla (she has a candy corn in her mouth)



Lyla and Daddy! Lyla is so excited to see the family


Happy birthday time!





grabbed that cookie right away!

Blue frosting in her teeth!


Eddie, Emma,Lyla and me

The birthday girl!


Aunt Michelle and Lyla

Group shot!

Group shot of the cousins! Silly faces everybody!

Lyla opening her gifts


                                A Day at the Hair Salon
Us girls had a day at the hair salon! We all got our hair done. Emma got a haircut. We decided to trim 4 inches off! Lyla got a haircut and mommy a blowout! We needed some pampering!

Emma

Lyla's first haircut at the salon!

Emma watching her sister!
                                             Fall Fun 
The girls are all ready for Halloween! They wanted to be princesses. I ordered these from the catalog Wishcraft! They are so excited for October 31st!


Here we are at Fink's farm!

Lyla loves playing in the hay!
Daddy goes to Las Vegas!
Eddie went to Las Vegas in September with some friends to see the Mayweather fight. So us girls decided to keep busy with of course mani/ pedis.

All set for our pampering session at the nail salon!

Lyla loves when they massage her legs! She fell asleep during her pampering! LOL

Eddie at the fight

Mike Tyson and Eddie

Eddie and Gina Carano

While Eddie was away......I decided to have a Girl's Night Out! Mommy needed a break!
This is what we did for the month of September! Thanks for stopping by!


Sunday, September 1, 2013

Summer Vacation!

FLORIDA/VEGAS GETAWAY AND SUMMER FUN!

     Wow!.....I am a blog slacker!!! I've been having so much fun with Eddie and the girls that I have completely neglected our blog! Well I guess it's time to catch everyone up on what we've been doing this summer! I will start with our great vacation. This summer we took the kids to Florida and my wonderful parents watched them, while Eddie and I went to Vegas..... ALL BY OURSELVES! We left the kids for 6 days and may I say it was wonderful!! Eddie has been working a lot and we both needed this well deserved break! We relaxed by the pool, went shopping, went out to delicious dinners, gambled, saw a show, got pampered, slept LATE, worked out....it was AMAZING!!!!! Here are some pics from our vacation:

Just arrived at the airport!

The girls made daddy buy them these neck pillows and of course he couldn't say no! LOL






We went to Aquatica before we left for our Vegas Vacation



First night in vegas we saw a really cool Prince Tribute Band

We stayed at the Wynn Property in Encore

Dinner at Nobu in Ceasars

After dinner drinks.....my favorite Champagne!!!


Here we are at Tao



Leaving to do some shopping!!!!

Vegas is crazy!!! The pool was soooo packed!

Me and my love!

Going out to dinner again!!

At SW steakhouse....the best meal in Vegas!!

Meanwhile back in Florida the girls had a lot of fun with my parents!!......

At Chuck E Cheese

Going to the sprinkler park!

On our way to Disney!!

Emma has 2 friends that she has known since she's been a baby. Isabel and Abigail

Getting pampered at a girls spa

Chocolate facials!!



Hair and nails too!!!


Sidewalk chalk


Eating frozen yogurt at Sweet Frog!

When we arrived back to Orlando to get the girls we went out to dinner

We also went on a swam paddle boat ride


Bye Bye Florida!!!

After we returned from our vacation we enjoyed summer on Long Island!!!........
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We celebrated our good family friend's 50th Wedding Anniversary............


Lyla and Emma with Cousin Brooke

My girl being a HAM!

Emma and Cousin Jake

My 2 beautiful girls!!

Janet and John renewing their vows.

Me and my girls!!

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We hung out at the beach a lot.........


Daddy having some fun with his girls!

Ice cream is a necessity at the beach!!

So is digging!!


Posing is very important also!!!

The girls with Eddie


A beautiful sunny day at the beach!

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We got our weekly mani's and pedi's...........

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We went out for ice cream............


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Emma continued with her MMA this summer.........

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                 We went to Aunt Weezer's house each week with cousin Katie and Aunt Michelle....


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I ran my very first 5K race and came in 2nd place in my age group (30-39) and got a medal.....


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We celebrated my beautiful goddaughter's 4th birthday...................





Group shot!



Awesome cake!!
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We went out to dinner in the Hamptons, hung out with friends, hung out on boat "BET ON IT".........


Me and my love
                                    





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We hosted our very first Little Littles get together............................

Evelyn, Kyle and Lyla


Alexandra and Lyla

All the kids!!



Introducing.....the Long Island Little Littles and their families!
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               We hosted our First Annual LPA Summer Get    Together..........................

We had 70 people at our house. We had the party catered and we enjoyed a DJ and of course...Mr. Softee!!! The Granshaw Family never has a party without Mr. Softee. We had our local chapter and other people from various chapters come out to Long Island.





Lyla turns 3 on September 21 so we sang Happy Birthday to her since her LPA family was at our house.














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 The coolest milestones we celebrated this summer were......

Emma lost her very FIRST TOOTH!!!!!!!

She got $20 from the tooth fairy!!!

and Lyla is now fully potty trained, takes a shower, and sleeps in a toddler bed!

We converted Lyla's crib into a toddler bed in June!

We also have her taking showers. We found this cool modification which helps her be very independent! She gets in and out of the shower all by herself because the shower is low to the ground.

There's my big girl!


She was also potty trained at the end of July! Big Girl underwear!!!

Here she is!!


I have these in my house. I didn't get a small potty for her. She gets up on the step and I just place her on the potty. She reaches the toilet paper by herself and wipes her private in the front by herself. I have to help her with the back.




This is what we've been up to this summer! To all my blogger friends I will catch up and comment on your blogs soon!! I promise!!