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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

This Month in Pictures

Here are some Lily pics from the past couple of weeks. I really love this kid. She puts the sunshine in my life!

She LOVES bananas!

She is learning how to climb up on EVERYTHING, we may have an urgent care trip in our future!

This is her new cheesy smile that she proudly gives. It cracks me up!

Going down the slide in nana's new kiddy pool, which she LOVED!

Lily LOVES swimming, she is our little fishy and we can't seem to keep her out of the water. Here she is swimming with her cousins Clara and Langley

Trying to race back into the pool after we got her Dried off and warm!

Yummy Goldfish!

Eating a carrot straight from Nana's garden, much better than the rocks she was previously trying to eat!

The past weekend my Grandpa was in the hospital in Tucson. It made me really reflect on my deep love for my Grandparents. I have great grandparents. On both sides really. I love them all. They have had more influence on my life and who I am than anyone except my mom. I could go on about all the qualities of all my grandparent's but his is a tribute to Grandpa Warner and GG.

I have always been a Grandpa's girl. I have always looked up to him and believed that he is just what a Grandpa ought to be. He and my Grandma are the most generous people. They do more for everyone they know, and don't know, than anyone else I know. My Grandma I think, will be thinking about what she can do for someone else until her last breath. I know that. They are hard workers, too hard sometimes I think actually, and they are ALWAYS giving. I really do believe that they just don't make them like that any more. They come from such a different generation. I think that there are SO many ways that I will always be striving to be like them. Matt and I lived with them for the first 2 1/2 years of our marriage in their guest house out back. During this time I got to know and respect them as an adult. I am so grateful for that time with them, to know them on a different level. I love them so much and appreciate who they are as individuals and as a couple. They are two of my favorite people in the world. They are beautiful people who have helped me become a better person and I love them, more than words. Thank heavens for eternal families.

My Birthday

Ok so now that a month has gone by and I have a long list of things to blog about I will finally blog about my B-day and everything else that has happened in the past month!

My birthday was on tues april 15th. Matt had to work and I was pretty bummed out to be spending the whole day alone, so my dear sweet mom DROVE DOWN FROM THATCHER just to hang out with me on my birthday and go to Olive Garden for lunch. I love her so much and I think it speaks volumes to our relationship that she would do that. It was SO great to have her here and of course she made me a cake and drove it down here in a cooler. Not just any cake. A pirate cake. Because I love pirates. LOVE them!! :)

What can I say, the best mom EVER!

My brother came over after work, which is a 20 minute drive in the opposite direction, so like 30+ to then drive to his house. I love him too and I am glad that he came to hang out with me even though he had only been there 2 days before! We ordered pizza and hung out. It was great! Then Matt got home around 8:30 and they sung happy birthday and I blew out the candles.

A couple days later Matt and I went to his parents house and they watched Lily while we went out to dinner. I really do have great in-laws! We ate at a steakhouse, yum!, and then went to Toys-R-Us where we spur of the the moment decided to buy RockBand for our PS2. It was pretty awesome and Lily LOVES the game. She is a rockstar.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Girls Night!

I had a girls night this week, it was wonderful. I got to spend time with some of my very favorite girls ever and it was SO nice. We all broke our diets and sat around and chatted and ate delicious goodies. We also played Rock Band the (AWESOME) video game. And it only took us 2.5 hours to figure out how to set it up!! Disclaimer: most of the group is NOT technilogically handicapped, but this was CRAZY! Elisa's hubby has a whole system with all kind of gadets and buttons and things wired through other things. So we had everything going within 5 minutes or so, but we had NO sound for 2.5 hours, which you kind of need to play rock band, LOL! Anyway, the wonderful hubby eventually came home and fixed it through the surround system and we were able to actually play... and it was AWESOME! I am hooked. Seriously cool! Anyway, since we had no sound for so long we named our band the "Deaf Eaters". Yeah. I know. We're Awesome.

The Deaf Eaters

Chow Time!

Latley we have been trying to let Lily feed herself. It has been interesting and it actually adds MORE work for us, because of the clean up time. She has some interesting methods to say the least! They include face planting into the tray, licking it off her arms and of course simply picking up the plate and letting food slide into her mouth and then licking the plate as clean as she can (would be great except for the half that ends up in her lap!). Anyway, It has made for some good photo ops!

Here are a couple of other pics from the week:

She LOVES to wear her shades all around the house, here she is cruising her bike!

Her new thing is throwing all the books off "her" bookshelf and then sitting in it and "reading" herself a book out loud. It's pretty dang cute to hear her babbling as she turns pages.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Lovely Little Lily

So being a stay at home mom isn't always easy. I know that you are probably thinking, but you only have one kid, how hard can it be?? But here is the thing, somtimes I think it may be hard BECAUSE I have one kid. And this one kid is my darling sweet, and terribly needy Lily, who relies on me to provide constant entertainment to her. I don't know if it is partially just due to her personality or if I have flubbed up by giving her to much attention, but most days just keeping her busy, happy, and entertained is a full days work. So in order to get anything done I have to try very hard to distract her. The other night I was trying desperatley to get some work done on a scrapbook, she was trying desperately to give me more help than I could handle. I had told her no and taken many scrapbooking things away from her so many times that I didn't much care whatelse she got into!

One bag of Gallon Sized Ziplock Bags: Two Dollars

Clean up Time: 3 minutes

10 minutes of peace and quiet: PRICELESS!

Fun at the Zoo!

Matt and I decided to buy a membership to the Phoenix Zoo this year. We both love the zoo and figured that it would be a good excuse to get outside with Lily from time to time. We have been twice this past month and will probably go again at least once before it gets too hot. Then this fall when it starts to cool down Lily will be old enough to appreciate the animals a little more. She likes it now, but I think that she mostly likes to be outside and doing something different. The zoo has a really cool exhibit right now with string rays and sharks in a tank that you can reach in and pet. It is really cool and I wish that we had gotten some pictures of it, but we did take plenty of pictures of LOTS of other things. It will be hard to decide which ones to put up here. The second time we went to the zoo, my mom, my brother, my sister and my two nephews went with us. That was fun. Being at the zoo makes me feel like a kid again and I am excited to be able to go often throughout this next year. Although I always feel a little sad for some of the animals too. Anyway, here are some pics.