Last weekend we took Lyla on her first out-of-town trip.  We went to Marshfield (where I grew up) for the weekend to visit friends and family.  Lyla did exceptionally well the whole weekend–she was a trooper.  We just stopped once on the hour and 45 min ride up to feed her.  Jerry & Nancy Petcher opened their home to us for the weekend, which was just perfect.  Lyla slept in a pack n play both nights and did great!  She slept from 9 pm to 4:30 am both nights and then went back to sleep after we fed her until 8-8:30.  What an angel!  We arrived on Friday night, then on Saturday morning Joel spent the day with my friend Tanya’s husband, Tim, collecting maple sap.  He has a maple syrup business and on that day they collected 700 gallons of sap!  It was a gorgeously warm day and Tim said that was the most he’s ever collected in a single day!  It was neat to see how the whole operation works and just fun for them to be outside in the beautiful weather.   While they were doing that, Tanya and her kids Haley and Jack, and Lyla and I went visiting.  It was a very busy but very fun day!  I was just sorry that I didn’t get any pics of Joel and Tim and the maple syrup operation or any of Rhoda and Lyla–maybe next time. 🙂

My friend Tanya’s daughter, Haley, with Lyla.  Haley liked pretending that Lyla was her little sister. 🙂

We went to visit our good friends Paul and Shelly and their two boys Andrew and Colin.  This is Paul with Little L.  We forgot to get pics with Shelly before she went to work.  Doy!

Haley with Andrew–they were instant buddies. 🙂