What a weekend!



Mommy and me cuddling in a clamshell



I was so excited this past weekend!  I got to spend time with Mommy, Mar Mar, "Boompah" (yes, I have officially changed his name!), Sarah and Tony at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Dennis the Menace park.  Sorry I don't have any pictures of Dennis the Menace park, but Boompah hasn't had a chance to get those pictures downloaded yet.  But I've still got pictures of the trip I took to the aquarium with Mommy, Sarah and Tony.  I was so excited at every exhibit, I was shaking!  Aunt Sarah was cracking up! (Like she's never seen a kid so excited before!)

We saw all kinds of pretty fishies!

Even Sharks!

Here we are checking out the penquin exhibit!

I don't know which part I liked the best! 

It was probably just being with Mommy someplace fun!

Just 3 girls hangin' with a penguin!

It's a good thing Tony was there to give me a lift when things were too high to see!

I even got up close and personal with some starfish in the tidepool exhibit

This is called a "leafy sea dragon".  Auntie Sarah thinks this is the coolest thing ever--and dares anyone to think otherwise!



It was a long, fun day!  Sarah had to take a nap!  Ha ha, just kidding!



I'll try to get Boompah to post a couple of cute videos of me and some of the Dennis the Menace park pictures when he gets home this weekend.  Keep watching!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everybody!  Not many pictures this time (yet!) but you can see we had fun.  Sorry you couldn't be here, Oompah!  Maybe next year.

No, I haven't been drinking......

....I've been eating a banana!

Mama, Mare Mare, Gramma, Frankie, Paige, and Vickie must have been eating bananas, too!

No, they were just kidding around!  They're so funny!



  The holiday's not over yet.  Maybe we'll have some more pictures tomorrow...we'll see!

A week in December

So, you all know that December is MY month!  First my birthday on the 18th, then Christmas just a week later.  You know I make out like a bandit!

Mmmm, I wonder what I got for Christmas?

I can't think of Christmas yet!  I've still got my birthday to get through!

Oompah says I'M the best present anybody could get!

Don't let the t-shirt fool you!

I know HOW to be nice........

I just don't always want to be!

Ha ha!  Just Kidding!  Are you reading this Santa?

Santa must have bought my "nice" act.  He brought me some drums!

I love hats!

It's exhausting being the life of the party!

Ahhh, sweet refuge!

What a great week!  Oompah says if I keep getting any smarter and learning my words faster, I'll have to start actually writing my own blog, instead of dictating to him.

For Oompah's friends

This is the way the Christmas Story would be told today!

Here come the holidays!

Where to begin?  Let's start by saying I miss my Oompah when he's out of town for a long time.  He was gone 5 whole days last time, so I got some of his clothes out of the closet and decided to play "dress up."  I look just like him, don't I?

Go Bears!

Then, all of a sudden, it was Thanksgiving!  We had planned to go to Great-Grammas cabin for the holiday, but the snow was higher than I am and the power went out, so we had to change our plans and have it at our house instead!  Maybe we'll get back to the cabin next year! 

We didn't have many leftovers last year, so Mommie and Mare Mare cooked two this year!

"Family, getting together to thank God for each other is what it's all about," says Oompah.

Great-gramma wanted a picture of all of her kids, grandkids (and me, of course)

Have you met my other Great-gramma?  I call her Nana.  She was here, too.  We had fun.

Oompah said to "pose".  I don't know what that means!  So I just kind of stood there with Nana.

Just havin' a little "girl-talk".  Oompahs not allowed.

After Thanksgiving, it was time to bring out the Christmas decorations---starting with the tree! 

Mmmm, these ornaments look interesting!  Mare Mare, how about this one?

I tried to untangle the bead garland, but I didn't get very far!

Here's the family Christmas tree, all done!  Cool, huh?  It's 100% Raggedy Ann and Andy.  (Mare Mare's got TONS of Raggedy Ann and Andy stuff!)

 And since I'm a "princess", I get my OWN tree!  And this year, I got to put it up in the LIVING ROOM!

Here it is all decorated.

And lit up!  Mommy and me wanted a pink-flocked tree, but Mare Mare "vetoed" that, whatever that means!

Isn't this a neat tree-topper? 

Well, that's all for now.  I'll try to get some more pictures posted as we get closer to Christmas, but Oompah's going to be real busy until then.  God Bless all of you!  Merry Christmas!

Halloween happenings

Halloween!  It's Mommy's favorite holiday!  I have a feeling it may become mine, too!  Here's how my Halloween went today:

First, we have to check the condition of the jack-o-lanterns that Mare-Mare and Mommy made!  Yep!  They're all working right!

What?  Not every trick-or-treater has a chauffeur???

Oompah said I had to use this picture just to show I'm not always in the best of moods! Boy!, Do I have HIM fooled!  I'm such an actress!

Where were we?  Oh, yeah--the chauffeur!  Let's go!

I can turn the charm on when I want to.

Bet you can't guess which hand the candy is in!

Silly!  I don't have any candy yet!

I told you I was a good actress!  I made out like a bandit!

I just had to show you our jack-o-lanterns one more time to keep you in the mood!  Pretty good, huh?

They're even cooler when it's dark and they are only lit with candles! 

I'll see you again on my next post!



What Oompah said vs what I heard

Oompah said, "Lily, let me do some work on the computer!"  But he didn't really mean it.  What he meant to say was, "Lily, let's watch some YouTube videos of the the Wiggles."  People say Oompah does whatever I want to do, and that he spoils me.  Do I look spoiled to you????