Wednesday, November 18, 2009

24 Hours!

In 24 hours me and my sis-in-law will be at the theater awaiting the bliss called New Moon.
I have been a Twilight fan for quite some time. I found it the summer I worked as a children's librarian. It was wonderful. A few weeks later Eclipse came out, while I was on vacation with the family and Clayton and we stopped at a Sam's in Colorado and got it. I was done before we got home.
I agonized over the pages where Edward proposes to Bella. I read them over and over and over again. Then in 2 months I was engaged.
Fast forward a year when me and my bff Nicole went to a Breaking Dawn release party, as high school teachers. Then Bella was pregnant and fast forward 2 months and Clayton and I were pregnant. It was crazy.
I have probably read those books 10 times each. I even wanted Clayton to read them so bad that I read them out loud to him and Lilly while she was still on the inside.

Can't wait!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Catch up on some stuff

OK so I forgot that adding pictures puts them in reverse of how I choose them...so the most recent is at the top and it goes backwards in time. :)

First we have Lilly in a Princess Aurora wig for my build a bear, I just wanted to see what she looked like with blonde hair!
This is what we had for lunch today...bacon cheddar Fries...yummy!
Here is Clayton whipping up the bacon.
This is my most recent fabric purchase and Lilly's soon to be blankt.


I still need a brown and a cream I think to round it all out.

Here are my two favorite people. Daddy is excited and Lilly has spit up on her shoulder. She still looks cute supporting her Aggies...even if they lost horrifically.
Here is Lilly's first quilt her momma is making her for Christmas...I just layed it out to get a good idea about how I wanted it. This first way is the way it will be.
This was my other option...but now the stripes will be on the back.
Close up of two of the squares.

Lilly's new favorite thing to do....
eat her feet....
and do baby push ups.
This is her on Halloween before her costume...she looks adorable.
Told ya the last one was a long time ago...

I just wanted this post to catch up with the stuff I have been doing.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Oh man it has almost been a week. I think when there is a lot to post about I stress about remembering it all so I don't post at all.
First I got a stick family at the top of the page and a Christmas countdown at the bottom...I love them.
We also found out that Cade is getting home on the 4th to NC and then will make his way over here ASAP so he can be here for Luke's birth, we hope!
It is only a week, well less, until New Moon. I feel like it was just yesterday that I was like..."Gosh that is going to be forever from now".
All week I got to shop for the school at the book fair. I think I found my calling. Spending someone else's money! It was fantastic.
Lilly had her 4 month check up. She is 25 inches long and that makes her in the 75th percentile, She weighs exactly 13 lbs and that puts her in the 40th percentile and her head I can't remember but she's in the 65th percentile. Dr was impressed with her motor skills and told me to start cereal. We decided to giver her the first cereal on Thanksgiving so it would be like her feast! Lol we are silly...well mostly me. She got 5 shots, one oral and the rest the usual way, it was so so sad.
Friday was MIL's birthday so we went to dinner. When we got back Lilly was fussy. She felt hot so we took temp and it was 100.6....dr told me to call hospital if went over 100.3 so we did. They said might be shots but unlikely since it had been well over 24 hours. So we gave her medicine.
It was 4 months so it was also picture day...she wasn't thrilled. We got some cute ones but not good enough for our family Christmas card so we are going to do them again. IDK when though.
Here are some of my favs:

Elk Bow I made! and look at that lip!
My mom and dad and Little Lills in her Christmas dress
Aunt Hills and baby Luke still on the inside...he should be here soon!
Dee Daw and Lilly
Mommy and Daddy kissing their girl.
Still asleep from the fever and medicine.
so simple.
She loves those feet.
My First Christmas hat.
I had to split the back seam because her head was too big....apparently made for the 25 percentile not 65.


Since she was sick she skipped the Elks playoff game we went to at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium and went home with my parents.
We went on to the game and it was fun but I got tired quick. We came home and got Lilly, went home and went to bed as soon as Miss Lilly would let us.
Tomorrow are plans all involve cleaning, laundry and resting for the week ahead.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Lilly meets Fall

Lilly is a summer baby. She was born in July. I swan the entire last trimester of my pregnancy everyday! She still gets to wear sleeveless in this Texas November so today it was nice for Lilly-O to meet Fall.
Autumn, as they call, rarely surfaces in Texas so we thought while we had good proof it was actually a season we took pictures.




Ok it makes me extremely angry that the first two pictures wont go any larger...They aren't bad pics so I have no idea why.
Any way Lilly loved the leaves and she looked at them and layed in them for a good while. I love the pictures and can't wait for her photo shoot Friday.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Lilly's 3 month pictures

Lilly was scheduled to take pictures on the 13th of October. The her photographer came down with Swine Flu and it was best to just wait it out. So a week later on the 20th all was clear so we went ahead with the photo shoot. This is the results and I love love them!
She was a frog for Halloween and this is her adorable costume!


Even a little anger was so cute.
Another tutu shot because I feel the last ones did not due her or it justice.

Some with me and her because those as so few and far between. Plus it was so close to my birthday!
I love the flower...I made it of course!
My favorite thing is her tights...they go over her feet like 80's jazzercise pants and look so perfect!
My goal is to take her picture every month on or close to the 13th and I hope I can keep it up because its so cute and important to me to have a lot of pictures of her. My next appointment is the 13th of November...Thank you Lord for giving me so many special people gifted in photography and want to do this for me for free!

More on the baby shower

I am feeling a lot better now and so far Lilly has not caught anything. That reminds me to go and take my night dose of antibiotics. BRB
OK so now that I am feeling better I can catch up on everything, mostly blogging, crafting and cleaning.
Ok so I wanted to write about all the stuff I made for Hillary and Baby Luke's shower. I did not take any pictures because I made this all so last minute I was working until the minute I left for the shower. I will however have pictures from the shower asap.
I made two burpies in a brown and blue corduroy. I just bought the cloth diapers, Gerber brand I think, I then cut strips like 8 or 9 inches by 18 inches. Then I folded the edges over and zig zag sewed around the edges. It looks really good and I am proud of it being my first sewing project.
I then made a matching boppy cover from the economical baby pattern. It was fairly easy to complete and only took me about 45 minutes total. It was my first zipper! It fit really well and I want to make me one out of some other fabric I have laying around.
I bought some nice fleece Hills picked out and made her a small blanket for covering the carrier. Just a simple tie around the edges one. It was my first however and I learned a good lesson that 1 yard by 1 yard is not enough and any other time besides for this newborn baby it will have to be more.
Then at the last minute I made her my favorite part of the whole thing. I made her some pee pee tee pees. They are for covering the little guy's tiny parts so he can't spray mommy or daddy. I made her 4 out of 1.25 worth of fabric. It was such as good deal! I loved them! I will be making more of them in the future.
I also got her 6 cans of formula. But that's all for the gifts. Now on to the actual shower.
Food wise I made chicken salad sandwiches, an entire loaf of bread worth. Then another loaf of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in honor of the little guy. I made some spinach dip with Hawaiian bread and then a luscious fruit dip that was a knock off of one from Jason's Deli. I made the punch as well. It was a random find on line and it was amazing. It was blue punch so it worked for the blue/brown theme and it involved sprite, blue hawaiian punch, orange and pineapple concentrate and frozen raspberries. Love loved it!
My mil made queso and chips and a veggie tray with dip.
My mom brought sweet tea and unsweet tea from chicken express...best tea in the world.
My step-mil made potatoe salad-it's famous, tortilla roll-ups, a fruit tray and her and my fil made pulled prk sandwiches and sauce. Between the two of us we made coffee.
Bethany, Hill's best friend had her mom make the cake and it was freaking amazing...there will def be pics of that.
decor wise we had the tissue paper puffs/balls from martha stewart and they were amazing looking. I kept a white one for Lilly's room so you'll see it. They are good for any party and I will probably make them again.
One the main tables we had blue, brown and white table clothes and then we had 3 groupings of pictures. Two in each, one of Hillary as a baby and one of Cade as a baby. They were a big hit.
Then there were vases of flowers and they had blue and brown bows around them.
Clayton and Cade's cousin who made me a diaper cake made Hillary a diaper cake and another basket that was decorated. It had some really cool stuff in it, instead of flowers it had cat's tails and tall grasses, very boy! Then in had a Marine rubber ducky. I loved it! They both worked very well as decoration and gifts. Rachel makes these for a little bit of spare cash on the side. She is pretty darn good at it too!
We had a lot of games first when people came in they could pick what day they thought Luke would be born on, so I had calendar pages for every day between now and her due date as well as a month later. Then we played the normal clothes pin game but with a twist. We painted them blue and brown and wrote words on them in white. These words were the words that could not be said: Boy, Luke, Mommy, Daddy and baby. So if you had two pins, like we gave everyone to start, and they said Mommy and Luke those were the words you could not say. The more pins you stole from people the more words you couldn't say. Then we played the toilet paper game. She was so tiny! Her mom and sister were the two that got it right! How weird. The best game was my favorite part. We made Luke a letters book. Everyone drew a letter and was to create a picture to correspond to that letter and I am going to bind it and laminate them for Luke first book of letters from everyone who loves him. I loved the idea and I am still working on the ending part of it. Hopefully by Christmas. Since it was such a large shower we spent a long time opening gifts.
Over all it was a lot of fun but I might wait a while before I do another one. It was a lot of work with a 3-month old of my own and probably ran me close to $400 and I only paid for half. Boy was Clayton pissed. She loved it though! That's all that matters.