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Valentine's 2010

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Merry Christmas

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Or as my politically correct daughter would say...."Happy Holidays"!

Trunk or Treat night

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Sorry I've been away....

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I'll try to be better.

Lily's 2

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Betsy made this tutu for her! Adorable, huh?

Ian

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Ian: (watching Scoobie Doo)
Me: I used to watch Scoobie Do when I was little.
Ian: You did? Did it used to scare you a little when you went to bed at night?
Me: (laugh) no.
Ian: Well....It scares me pretty much.

A Couple of Ian Conversations

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Me: (put Toy Story in to play for Lily)
Ian: This movie is embarrassing.
Me: What do you mean?
Ian: You know, it's just embarrassing.
Me: Why?
Ian: you know.
Me: What does embarrassing mean?
Ian: (laugh) You know what it means!
I walk on and forget about it.

1 hour later.

Me: Man, they talk ugly in this movie!
Ian! I know! I told you!!!
Me: What? When?
Ian: I said it was....what's that word?....mmmm...embarrassing! Remember.
Me: oh.

Next Conversation:

Ian: Playing his Nintendo DS
Me: Washing dishes.

Ian: I'm fighting Darth Vader.
Me: Cool
Ian: (still looking at the game)...Can you even imagine?
Me: What?
Ian: Could you even imagine fighting Darth Vader....man.

Criminal Daffodils

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Lily and her friends in a patch of wild daffodils. Here are some more of Lily that Betsy took.

one more picture

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My Valentine's Day

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Rob sent Lily and me out for a manicure that went better than expected, but Lily had 3 fingers off within the 15 minutes of getting home. While we were out, the boys cooked dinner for us. Ian was a perfect gentleman to me and Lily the entire night.

Happy Valentine's Day

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Ian felt silly with the rose until I told him Tatum would get one of the valentines.

While we wait for Ian.

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This is a typical afternoon in the Eastmont parking lot. Note that is is in a span of about 10-15 minutes.

My FIVE Year Old.

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We finally got the 5 year pictures done today. He acted like I wasn't going to have a problem...but it turns out he wasn't as tolerant of it as he let on. I think they turned out good though. A lot better than I felt like as we were doing them. Poor guy, I'm not near as patient with him as I would be with any other kid.

Ian:

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"Popcorn makes me powerful"

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Happy Birthday Party to Ian!...continued

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Happy Birthday Party to Ian!

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Slurper.

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Conversation with Lily.

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Me: Georgie loves to where his Elmo panties, song (not sure to the tune of what)

Lily:.....

Me: You want to wear the Elmo panties?

Lily: No

Me: You want to wear a diaper?

Lily: No

Me: You want to run around naked?

Lily: No

Me: What do you want then?

Lily: CHEESE!

Me: Cheese.

Why I love my new purse camera...

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In the car on the way to Ian's school.

Lily: Bubba....hee,hee

Ian: ....Hee,hee,hee

Lily: Momma....hee, hee

Me: .....

Ian and Lily: (Hysterical Laughter.)

Me: (I get out my new camera)

The Wedding

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They were perfect during the ceremony and walking down the isle. She surprised us! Someone heard Ian toot during the ceremony, though he denies it. I'm talking about Ian and Lily, not the bride and groom. :)

My Snow Angels

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We missed Looney's but....

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This was fun.

White Christmas!

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We were in Iowa for Christmas day after spending some days in Springfield with Rob's family. Cold but fun for Ian and Lily to play in the snow. Lily was turning red and shaking from the cold but refused to come inside....we had to drag her in crying.

Cool new thing for me.

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I've always wanted to make sketchbooks. So I searched it on You Tube to see if I could find out how. I did.

She makes it really easy to do. I've made some adjustments to make it easier for me...but I loved doing this. I made a journal for Rob.

I was pretty excited with how it turned out, so I made a "baby book" for a friend a.k.a. blog stalker. I don't have a picture of it...but it was pretty cute.

So, you should try it. It's fun. Let me in on any ideas, suggestions or anything.

Our Thanksgiving Rocked!

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I mean that...we have gone the last few years to our good friends family's house for Thanksgiving. This year our other friend...or I should say (as Ian says every time we see him at church) "my friend", Stuart, played a little Led Zeppelin for us and a little of his own original work. He was quite impressive and I could tell has many hours of practice put in on the guitar. We are welcomed year after year to this sweet family's house and this year it was very anticipated, coming from a difficult couple of weeks. It was nice to sit and be around these loving people that show Christ's love and spirit, not just today, but always. Ian was in heaven running and sweating like a madman with the thousand grandkids. Lily wasn't feeling well, but enjoyed sitting with mom and dad and listening to the music...they both enjoyed the cranberry sauce.

.Ian for notes lovE

2008-11-14T18:13:00.003-06:00

So, here is Ian's first love note. It was in his folder coming home today. She is a very skilled artist and I love her sentence structuring. Very unique. (I'm not even going to post one of Ian's pictures, not near as impressive) Lindsay, the author's mother, told me that she writes them to him frequently, but this was the first I've seen in person. Ian says he has more in his cubby at school. So....how long can preschool love's last? If you look at the links....it's been a little longer than I thought. Conversation example of the other day....

Mom: So what would you name another baby?

Ian: I want to have 10 girl babies and 10 boy babies.

Mom: hmmm....(not happening) I'll let your wife know that.

Ian: You mean Tatum? (the love of his 4.5 year old life)

Mom: ......yea, I guess.

Happy Birthday, a few days late

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too you....Happy Birthday, a few days late, too you. Happy Birthday, a few days late, Dear Colleen....Happy Birthday, few days late too you.

Happy Birthday, a few days late

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too you....Happy Birthday, a few days late, too you. Happy Birthday, a few days late, Dear Kristin....Happy Birthday, few days late too you.

Would it really be me, if I wasn't late?

Halloween from Grandma and Grandpa!

2008-11-02T19:31:00.004-06:00

We got a box of candy from Rob's parents on Halloween. They were very excited and Lily went for the chocolate. She had also gotten into some markers and fell off a skeeball machine earlier that day. (Rough day) Ian didn't care for his worm burger...but liked the thought of it.

David and his sheep.

2008-10-29T21:00:00.002-05:00

This David is a little big on the aggressive and violent side. He also took his job of protecting his sheep seriously. I believe I heard his staff shoot lasers also.

Trunk or treat

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So, Lily liked the costume after she realized that she got candy with it.

Atlanta Aquarium

2008-10-25T19:14:00.004-05:00

Good times! I went with my brother to see Dolly Parton and the next morning we got up and took the kids and my nephew, Griffin, to the Atlanta Aquarium. We all had a good time. Here are a few of my favorite pictures. Here are the rest. My brother's new pit bull puppy, Sophia, is also in these pictures. I tried to bring her home...but couldn't get her past John or Rob.

There were conversations like...

Ian: You know why they are called Jellyfish?
Griff: why?
Ian: They make jelly.
Griff: I don't think so.
Ian: yeah, they do.

or

Griff: Can an octopus grow large enough to capsize a boat?
Volunteer: No, not that big.
Griff: To damage one?
Volunteer: No.
Griff: Man. (disappointed)

or

Griff: That alligator is going to eat you or lily
Ian: huh? Can that alligator eat a man?
Volunteer: Probably not.
Ian: Alligators can bite peoples arms off.
Me: (walk off and let the volunteer deal with them)

I asked for it.

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Mom: Ian, great job eating your quesadilla. I didn't know you'd eat the whole thing!
Ian: Yeah, I knew it, because I have a BIG tummy! I can eat a lot of stuff.
Mom: ......do I have a big tummy?
Ian: No, you don't.
Mom: (feeling good about my sweet son and myself)
Ian: But you do have a big uterus.
Mom: ...

DreamField Pumpkin Patch

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DreamField Pumpkin Patch

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"Lily Licked It."

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That phrase is too often used, by Ian, through out my day.
Then I look over at, the said, Lily.... and see an all too deviously, innocent face.

She's a lunatic.

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Ian and I were reading and we look over and see that Lily has this rigged up. I ran and got the video camera. She's very creatively, skilled in the maniacal arts.

Soccer video

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Lily the Lamb and various other animal noises.

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Watch it till the bubbles at the end!

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This saturday night live skit is the best!

Buddies.

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Dawson and Cullen came over this morning and hung out. These were before Ian had to leave for school.

The girl likes her bows.

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This is just a video requested by my mom to hear Lily's voice.
Thanks Mamaw!

Thanks Missaha.

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The the picture of Lily and me at Looney's.

Who's tha?

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Mom: Lily, we have to go pick up Ian.

Lily: huh?

Mom: Ian.

Lily: huh?

Later, when we get to school.

Ian: Hey, baby. (to Lily)

Lily: (gasping, laughing, kicking in excitement)

Mom: Lily, who's that? (point to Ian)

Lily: huh?

Mom: Who is that?

Lily: tha my Bubbish.

Ian: (cracking up)

Does that mean he's sort of her bubba?

This is Ian playing house.

Mom: Are you pretending to be a daddy?
Ian: No, I'm pretending to be a momma.
Mom: ......

Lily doing her favorite soccer activity.

He's a pretty good goalie.

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SOCCER!!!

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I LOVE IT!!!

Crowd Pleaser...for girls and boys.

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Lily's cousins gave her this Cinderella castle. It entertains both the ladies and boys a like. I thought I would match Ian's castle pictures.

Birthday Discussion

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Me: So, what kind of birthday party do you want to have?
Ian: oooo...like a pirate one!
Me: ooo...how about a Build-a-Bear one?
Ian: ohhh..yes! Totally awesome!
Me: oh wait! Let's let Lily do a Build a bear one....she has less friends...so it'll be cheaper and you can still get a bear.
Ian: oh no! Let me have one....My friends are SUPER CHEAP.

Birthday Party options are still up in the air.

2 minutes unsupervised.

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I'd like to mourn the death of Clinique free gift "All Heart".

Just a little sumpin' sumpin' from 1964.

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My Little Missionary.

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So,I hate to do a post with no picture...but this was funny. Our churches missionaries from Africa had been back to the states for a while and Ian, Lily and I had been hanging out with them a little bit. So we were saying goodbye to them and I thought it would be a good time to tell Ian about missionary work in the car going home. I said that they live in Africa where they have lions and they work for God there. He said he'd like to go there...and I agreed. I've always wanted to go. He wanted to settle on a specific date and I told him that I didn't know because daddy didn't like to travel really far like that but that I hoped that someday we could go. So....two days later...

Ian was riding with Rob in the car on the way to church and he asks...why don't you like to travel really long ways? Rob said who told you that? etc....Ian then says...
"I want to live at the zoo and work for the Lord."

Thank you Charity, Kevin, Josiah and Elijah for inspiring Ian.

Just Your average Game of Dragon Slaying...

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both of them.

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Lil too.

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Ian

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I took these while we were getting ready for school today. He just struck me as looking cute...so....He always has to take some of me too...so here are his photographs also. I think Lily and I look smokin'.

The Highlight of our 4 years in Montgomery.

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The Ice Cream Truck! All the little kids came out for the fun. Ian and I heard the music and road on our bikes to find it. We finally found it and made sure she would visit our street. So....this is what happened. It was VERY exciting.

more...

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My future daughter-in-law.

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Or so I'm told at least once a week. Ian's little girlfriend can over yesterday to swim. I asked to document his first crush and so we took some pictures and they took some of each other. He told me a couple of weeks ago that "soon enough I'm going to move out of your house and get my own house and marry T---. " I said I didn't know if her daddy would like that very much. He replied, "Why?! Well, I'll ask him next time I see him". I'm not sure her daddy is ready for that talk yet. I hear he's not too happy about his daughter talking about a little boy all day long. The fact that he has this strange, goofy look on his face in most of the pictures , unnerves me a little.

Fun Times in Springfield

2008-07-11T17:28:00.001-05:00

We got to see most of my family while we were home. I didn't get to see by brother-in-law, Justin...or my niece, Alexa, and they were very missed...but it was nice to see the others. As you can see, my dad is adjusting nicely to retirement.

Cool Park in Springfield

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This public park was awesome. We had so much fun if you don't count my mom and I being sick.

4th of July

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Lily loves Fireworks. I am raising pyromaniacs....well, Rob is.

Springfield Good Times Continued

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My Handsome Nephew

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I was honored to take my nephew's senior pictures over the 4th of July weekend. I can't believe he's going to be a senior. Seems like yesterday he was a little baby goobie that I couldn't put down. All of my nieces and nephews are so special to me. I was lucky to be able to focus on them and love them before I had my own baby goo-goo's. Go to my ame photography website to see all of caleb's pictures.

Happy Father's Day

2008-06-15T17:15:00.002-05:00

I am lucky to have a few great father's in my life. Starting with my dad, then my father-in-law, then my brother (as a dad) and last but certainly not least, Rob. Here are some pictures of Ian and Lily working on their masterpieces for their dad. Ian has really and finally embraced painting. I've been waiting patiently. Lily embraces expressing herself with anything that makes a mess.

more painting.

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Final Haircut

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I think it's cute....he has yellow in it today.

TBall Game

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On the way to church, he likes to make out shapes in the clouds.

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Silence.

Ian: Mom!

Me: Yea?

Ian: There's a goat!

Me: A goat? Where?

Ian: In the clouds! Oh, he's dead.

Me: ........

Ian: A dead goat.

Me: hmmmm (look at Rob)

Rob: .........(looks at me)

Our conversations these days.

2008-06-05T15:18:00.002-05:00

Ian: Do you think Indians live in there?
Me: Where?
Ian: Those caves. (points to the trees to the side of the road)
Me: Those are trees.
Ian: Indians speak Spanish...not human
Me: You mean not English?
Ian: No, human.
Me: You speak english.
Ian: No, I'm human.
Me: Yes, but you speak english...and Indians ARE human.
Ian: No they're not.
Me: Yes they are. They were the first people to live in the United States.
Ian: No, they have red dots on their heads....I mean the girls do.
Me: .......

Go White Soxs!!!!

2008-06-02T21:17:00.003-05:00

This month is the only month you will hear that from me or Rob. But Ian is on the White Sox tball team for the Y and we had a rough start. There were some crying on the field episodes during practice that had me stressed out, but tonights game was so much fun! We actually prayed together that he would have a patient attitude and control his emotions and that a ball would come to him. As soon as the game started that coach asked him to be in the pitcher's position, so about 6 balls came directly to him right away. Thank you, God, for our answered prayer!

I wanted to share some pictures from it. Remember that I was using a 300mm zoom...so I was quite a ways away. It makes the pictures funny too me, because Ian is looking straight at me, so happy! He was soooo proud of himself.

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Just thinking back.

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Lily has been reminding me of Ian lately, with all her "talking". I lost these videos on my old hard drive so you'll have to go here to check this video out of Ian. I think he was a few months older but...it's still so fun to look back at how much Ian has grown and what I have to love and look forward to with Lily.

Now Lily...

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and her new yellow dress.

New Hair!

2008-05-20T13:34:00.003-05:00

So here is our compromise. I think it's cute although I'll probably take him next month to have it cut real short. I like it really short or really long, not a fan of in between. You can't really tell, but she put some blue hair gel in it also. He really like that.

more haircut

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more and the mom pig

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These are Ian's "unedited" (besides black and white) pictures he took of me today.

Okay, you can cut your hair now.

2008-05-19T21:44:00.003-05:00

Ian was very excited that tomorrow we are going to get his hair cut. I told him I needed one last photo session before we went. So I'll post pictures after tomorrow of his new short doo.

Ninja Jump

2008-05-18T16:05:00.004-05:00

It's a Ninja Jump because, "...I'm wearing all orange". That's a sure sign of a ninja.
I knew that either he was being a ninja or Rob dressed him.

This Week in Lily's Mouth......

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Sand.

Big Boy Bike!!!

2008-05-16T09:07:00.005-05:00

We are all SUPER excited about the "big boy" bike. Ian's never been a future Xgames athlete, to my dismay, but he is finally riding a bi, rather than a tri. of course, Lily can keep up with him as she walks beside him...but we are still very very excited. I told him skate boarding is next. (Pictures in a couple months)

Trip to the Zoo

2008-05-13T16:12:00.004-05:00

With Miss Kristin, Eli, Miles and Ella. This is what happens at the zoo. They run. and run. When I grabbed them for the picture with me...I think you can sense the disappointment of not running.
I was the only one having fun in that picture.

My Mother's Day Nap

2008-05-12T09:02:00.002-05:00

Which is a fancy way of saying....I took a nap like I always do on Sunday afternoon, just didn't feel guilty about it. I also had dinner and dessert made for me. The following is my mother's day drawing (I love that he named the flowers) and pictures of dinner and the ones responsible for it.

Mother's Day Interview, by Ian.

2008-05-11T12:42:00.002-05:00

What is your favorite food?

"Ummm, a sandwiches."

How does mother make them?

"Her puts peanut butter on it first, then jelly on it. And then her puts it in my lunch box. And my dad does peanut butter and honey on my sandwiches ever day. And then, my dad puts it in my lunch box. And then my dad has a drink for me and puts it in my lunch box. And then, and then, after I eat my sandwich I go back home."

Cool website.

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The Refined Cubby Hole. A friend of mine has some cool jewelry on this site...There is some really cute baby stuff too. I love the "Oh, Snap" shirt under Onesies and T-shirts. I wish they had it in Ian's size.

"Letter Game"

2008-05-05T11:24:00.003-05:00

It's where Ian puts all the letters and numbers on the bath tub wall and they both knock them down. It's a crowd pleaser.

At The Park

2008-05-02T09:59:00.004-05:00

We went on a picnic yesterday and then to the art museum. I wanted to get pictures of them together, but Lily doesn't make that very easy. Every time I get behind my camera, she looks down or cries. I don't see modeling in her future...not that her thighs would be problem. We had a good time. Ian always loves going to the museum. Lily on the other hand, is at the age where she doesn't like being confined to the stroller and is too young for me to beat her in public when she runs off. I'm torn at this age between my love of torture and love of spankings. By the way, speaking of torture...that's not blood under Lily in the last picture.

No telling where this blog entry will be pulled up with all my talk of spankings, torture and modeling.

More birthday pictures...

2008-04-29T10:07:00.002-05:00

Sorry about that turned picture...I'm not going to redo it though.

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Lily's Birthday Party

2008-04-29T09:31:00.003-05:00

We celebrated Lily's 1st birthday party on Saturday. It was a good time. We invited her friends and teachers from Sunday School and my parents and brother were able to be there also. My mom brought serving piece that she made from looking at Melissa's blog...that is in the second picture. It turner out really cute. She has another cool craft on there right now you should go check it out.

My Rock Star!

2008-04-28T11:08:00.002-05:00

So, Ian is relatively inhibited. So we were pretty surprised when this came out of him. At the end you can kind of hear him blame dad for his bad guitar playing as the reason they were boo-ed from stage. Sorry the lighting is so bad. I didn't want to make a big deal of recording him or he would have stopped singing.

1 year and 17.5 months

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Cullen and Betsy went with Lily and I to Grace Episcopal to do some pictures. Here's a couple or you can go here to see them all.

It's nice to shoot for fun.

2008-04-22T17:04:00.003-05:00

When I don't take 1,000 pictures of my own kids a week, I start to feel like I'm neglecting them. So here are a couple that I took today at our new neighborhood swing set.

On the way home from school...

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Ian: I was waiting in line for the bathroom today and I tooted....Brady laughed at me.

:Laughter:

Mom: Did you say excuse me?

Ian: I don't think so...I don't have to say excuse me when you're not there.

Mom: hmmm.

Happy Birthday to Lily!

2008-04-18T12:08:00.003-05:00

Lily had a birthday banana today, since we are partying next weekend.

As Promised!

2008-03-29T09:47:00.002-05:00

Ian is so proud of her! She walks the best to Ian because we, for sure, catch her at the end. I think she knows she'll fall down if she doesn't try her hardest with him.