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Sunday, May 31, 2009

At Home Camping

Friday was Lilly's last day of tumbling and we decided to have a 'party' for her tumbling graduation. After tumbling we went and got a pizza (Lilly's choice, she loves pizza) and then set up the tent for our camping party. We were going to try and light a small camp fire, but it was really windy so Mike fired up the grill and we roasted marshmallows over the grill and made smores!Lilly LOVED the smores, but after eating one she wanted to eat just the chocolate. She is such a chocolate lover :) Mike and Lilly camped out in the tent that night. I had the house and bed all to myself :) They read in the chapter book Mike is reading Lilly (The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe) and both slept the entire night! I was impressed with Lilly she loves to camp.

Last weekend was my turn to have a slumber party with Lilly. We slept in the living room in our sleeping bags and watched a movie (Robin Hood). Summer time is here and we are having so much fun enjoying it.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Bike Ride

We found Lilly a bike for $3 and then paid $15 for training wheels :) Lilly loves riding her bike. It's so neat to see her light up and just cruise and really enjoy riding her bike. Yesterday Mike had to work on some projects for school so Lilly and I headed up to the local waterfall. Of course it was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too crowded, but I found a sweet parking spot, that really helped me deal with the crowds.
We started our picnic out with subway, and some people watching. We thought for a minute that we should of brought Bryn (our dog) but I quickly changed my mind once Lilly got on her bike. There is no way I could of watched Lilly and had Bryn with me. Lilly is a wild child on her bike. She would cruise around yelling "watch out here I come" and then make a siren noise. It was hillarious! We made a few pit stops along the way (mainly so I could catch my breath) and Lilly added a little flower power to her bike.It rainned a ton Sunday, so the river was really high and very fast. Lilly was pretty impressed with it.
We made it to the waterfall! Lilly didn't really care about the waterfall, all she wanted to do was collect rocks. She thought it was cool that I just let her walk in the river, thank heavens for keen sandals :) We had a total blast and I am looking forward to taking more bike rides this summer.

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Lilly loves her cousins

Lilly in 2007 with her cousins, Alex, Matt, Jacob & Kaelyn. We had a really great family reunion with my family. Deffiantly a reunion to remember. Alex & Matt live in SC, so we don't get to see them very often.
Lilly and Jacob, wrestling. Jacob is such a good guy, Lilly follows him around, jumps on him and he just laughs and plays along. We love Jacob! Lilly and Kaelyn are both very independent girls. Lilly loves Kaelyn and is always asking when our next visit will be. She loves to play with Kaelyn, she has such a wild imagination.

Lilly has four other cousins, 2 live in AZ (Belle & Sophie) and the other two live in WA (Owen & Gwyneth). Hopefully we will be able to visit them in the future. We do love cousins, they are so fun!

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Random Fun picture post

Lilly has another week of tumbling for the spring. I'm thinking about looking into karate lessons, or swimming for the summer. She does LOVE gymnastics, Lilly is a natural monkey :)
Mike and Lilly doing a little gardening, we've found that the only way to keep the morning glorys out is to hand pick them out of the lawn in the spring.
Yup, me looking so serrious an actual picture of me ala o'natural I paid for frolicing in the grass, though with 3 bug bites! Darn those critters.
We found a great deal on a bike for Lilly ($3) Mike and Lilly fixed it up and Lilly has been really enjoying riding her bike everywhere. Today I walked & Lilly road to the gas station and got some treats. It was so much fun, Lilly really enjoys the freedom and I enjoy that she doesn't tire out as soon so I don't have to carry her, or push a stroller.
Summer time is coming soon! I am so glad it wont snow for at least another 4 months.

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Very cool!

My friend Heather sent me this video, it is really cool. 2 beautiful songs together in a stunning arraingment. LOVE IT! I want to use it in a video slideshow :)

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Water bug

I took this picture the other day when it was in the 80's here.

My personallity has been compared to a water bug before. I had a boss (my favorite boss ever) refer to me as a little water bug. We were talking and I tried to tell her that I was a pretty calm chill person and she quickly said no way, you are like a little water bug floating from place to place doing a million things at once, she even went so far as to say I was a tad on the hyper side :) I was totally shocked, I had pictured myself as a really relaxed kind of person. I guess I was wrong :) I really like the explanation of being a water bug, though. I do tend to skip from project to project and my mind is constantly going in many directions. I always have so many grand ideas, but do tend to forget some of them when I get busy with another this and that.
So I had a great idea the other night, I thought it would be fun to go back to all the past comments on the blog and answer the questions people have asked. I'm not sure on how people usually go about answering questions left on blogs so why not do it all at once. So now's your chance if you have a question about Mike, me, Lilly or even Bryn go ahead and ask. Just leave a comment on any entry and I'll answer it in a mass blog. Just ask the question by Next Wednesday, I think I'll try (try is the key word here) to post the Q&A blog Thursday or Friday next week.
Ask away, I can't wait to see what people want to know. So here's your chance if you want to know anything about Mike, Amanda, Lilly or Bryn go ahead ask I triple dog dare you with a cherry on top.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

My favorite girls

I'm having a total blast with my new camera! Lilly and Bryn are my only 'test subjects' so far :) Both of them are very cute models :)

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Inspiring

One of the blogs that I like to read just posted this youtube video.
Click here to see video.
Pretty awesome video!

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Monday, May 11, 2009

ahhh shucks :)

That was such a sweet post from my hubby :) Yup, that's right folks I'm 30! Ahhhh! I can hardly believe it, wow, I'm 30.
Mike really sweetened the big 30 for me. He has been working a lot of extra hours lately, I just thought he was busy. But he has been saving to buy me MY DREAM CAMERA!! I have to say I WAS TOTALLY SUPRISED, that is hard to do.
In case your interested here's the specs on my wayyyyyy nice camera. Canon Rebel XS EOS in black 10.1 mega pixels 3 frames per second plus three lenses! One is a 55mm, the other an 88mm the last one is 70-300mm! I am totally excited if you can't tell. Photography is my hobby and a little bit of an obsession for me. So now I can take really beautiful pictures, plus it's so fast that I wont miss a shot, LOVE IT!
Here's some pictures I've taken today and yesterday with my new favorite thing.

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Big 'Three O'!!


It's not very often that I get to post on our blog, Amanda usually takes care of that, but the most wonderful woman in the world and the most important person in my life just reached the milestone age of 30. Although her date of birth shows this to be her new age, she doesn't seem to age past 25.
Amanda is the love of my life. She always is there to support and encourage me in everything I do. She is the reason I am who I am. It is so wonderful to be eternally joined with my best friend, and to have her with me through all of our stages in life. Ever since our second date I could picture myself growing old with her... I didn't want to live without her. Now we are a little bit older, and still I look forward to getting even older with her and I can't imagine living one day without her.

Amanda, I hope you had an awesome Birthday!
You are the BEST!!!
I love you!
Mike


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Happy Mother's Day!

I am so grateful to be a Mom, I know that I wouldn't be a mother without Lilly. So today I rejoice in my beautiful daughter. Lilly has changed me and my life for the better. I have learned what true selfless love is from her birthmother, I've learned that I can love without boundaries. So thank you Birthmama J. You are my hero, and so is our daughter.
I love, love, love being a Mommy. To me there is no better thing in life than to have a child call you Mommy and to be able to love someone so much that you want to give them the world and more. I can not express how lucky I am, and what a miracle motherhood is to me. All I can do is be grateful and nuture and love my daughter the best I can.
Happy Mother's Day to all the women in my life who gave me their all and taught me what a true gift Motherhood is.
A post wouldn't be the same without a picture....
I got a NEW CAMERA for my birthday today. TALK ABOUT HUGE SUPRISE!!!!!!!!!!

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Happy Birthday to the best dog ever!

Our doggy :) Bryn is the family pet, our best bud, she is always happy to see me when I get home from work and everyone else is sleeping. Bryn was my 'baby' when Mike and I couldn't have the 'real kind'. The worlds best dog lives at our house, love you Brynny pooh.

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