small town parade

Yesterday, Lilly and I went to the parade. OUr friends muffy and Keri invited us and so muffy picked us up and we headed down with her. It was fun. Keris husband is a local cop so he was standing behind us directing traffic and what not but the floats would try to spray him with water everytime. lol It was fine by me. Lilly and i were sitting under an umbrella so we would just use it as a shiled everytime. Worked great. Lilly must have gotten worn out cause she stayed up pretty much the whole day till 4ish and then took an hour or so nap. But this morning she didn't wake up till close till 9am. Crazy. She wakes up like clock work at 7am every morning. We took pictures of the parade. most of them are of our friends kids and stuff so i'm not going to post a bunch of them maybe just one. I'm not going to bother posting them on the photosite either i'm just going to send the pics to muffy and keri.

my mom and little brother get here in 5 more days. So excited. I just want to spend some good quality time with family. I think my little brother is goign to be so excited about being an uncle. lol. It's his first time. I want Lilly to grow up so loved and so i'm glad my mom gets to come and shower her with kisses and love.

We have started trying to eat a little healthier over here. So i have to say that i'm having a bowl of cereal right now it's shredded wheat but i got blueberries and strawberries from walmart and put some in there.. yummy yum. It's so tasty. LIlly is chewing on a biter biscuit ready for me to feed her some baby food i think.
Anyway you all have a great day.

Food groups

Lilly is doing so good eating. She is always hungry. lol. I don't know how she can be in the 25% for weight cause this little girl puts away the food. Today I went to pizza hut and got the salad bar. It's fast and easy not to mention healthy while i'm out doing errands. Anyway I've been letting lilly taste things. She loves just about everything. She had a little pudding which she devoured. She gnawed on cucumbers which i like cause they don't break up in her mouth too easy. She loved the lemons. lol.. She gnawed on a carrot stick. Loved the applesauce. Had a couple pieces of cheese that was shredded real fine for salads. I'm telling you she loves everything. I have to be careful though because she is getting a taste for real food and it might be affecting her taste for baby food. haha.

We are getting things done around here. I mailed off a bunch of birthday cards and presents along with some anniversary cards. I like to mail all of them for the month at the same time. Some people get them very early but at least they get them. WE got another present that i ordered for allan. It was something i ordered online and it arrived today. Yeah! Allan is out of town again today. He may be home tonight or tomorrow. Dont know really. Lilly and I are going to go downtown to the parade with friends tomorrow. We have new friends and her husband is a cop and is directing traffic so we are going to go down there and harrass him lol.. She has two kids too so it will be fun.

WE got a ton of clothes from Muffy. She passed down a lot of jordan's clothes and she doesn't want any of them back. Yeah.. she keeps all the sentimental ones and passes the rest. I guess alot were passed to her from Keri. It's a nice circle to be in though. lol. Lilly got some cue new outfits and a ton of dangling toys and even some baby food that jordan wouldn't eat. lol.

We had to run out and exchange a pair of pants for allan. I bought him two new pairs of heavy duty jeans from workmans warehouse. The wranglers fit really good but the carharts wouldn't go over allan's bubble butt. lol. So we took them back and got another pair of wranglers. Allan wears a weird size cause his waist is skinny but his legs are long. So it's usually hard to find jeans that fit him. They usually aren't long enough. This place has his size always. Yeah.. The only bad thing is they are WORK pants. They sure don't have stylish ones. lol..

We got an estimate on our basement. We are adding a bedroom down there very soon. The estimate from the guy in the paper came back about 600 dollars higher than we thought it was going to be. So we have a friend named Milk who is a construction guy. He does alot of fencing these days but he does good work. He is the one remodeling jason and muffy's house when they start doing thier basement. Anyway he is coming over in a few minutes to look over their estimate with me and tell me how much they are ripping me off. lol.. If he can beat the deal and has the time to fit us in then we will go with him. We would rather hire someone we know anyway. (Mi, i can't help but think of your recent roofing job while i write this and wonder what i'm getting into myself.. teehhee) Allan is going to do the electrical work down there but we just want someone to frame it and put up the sheet rock. We plan on adding two bedrooms, a big bathroom and laundry room (joining), and a big family room down there. I think we will carpet the family room but the bedrooms and bath are going to be whatever kind of cheap flooring we can find. There is just over 900 sqft down there in the basement so i'm sure we have room to add all these things. Technically we can't call the rooms "bedrooms" because they are suppoe to have like a 4x4 window to be considered a bedroom. They have windows just smaller ones. lol.. I don't care. We are going to put beds in them and have people sleep there soooo they are bedrooms. lol.

Anyway my girl is waking up from her nice little nap. Guess i'm going to go play with her a bit. She is doing so good though. She has been sitting up against the couch with hardly touching it. ;-) she can sit up but she doesn't focus after a second and falls to the left or right. lol.. Plus she locks her legs alot like her cousin jake did. She gets so excied when she does something new though. haha She can hold her bottle for a few minutes at a time and she loves it . She takes it in and out of her mouth a zillion times while smiling. haha and she has been taking a few steps in her walker. Mostly she just jumps up and down on her feet and if it moves she laughs and squeals. lol She is just starting to be so much fun. She really is getting her little personality. The only thing i'm hating is that she has been screaming when i walk out of the room. She gets so mad when i leave her in one room and go into another. She will be in the walker in the living room and i go around the corner to the kitchen and she starts screaming. it's ridiculous!

Anyway gotta run

Favorite things

I wanted to share this bit of info with any moms out there. I'm sure most of you have seen these things but we just started using them with lilly. i have no idea what they are called but the general idea is you can out frozen fruit, fresh fruit, ice,etc in the mesh part and the baby can suck on it like a lollipop. lilly goes nuts everytime i give it to her. she loves it and i like that she can get some fresh fruit without having to worry if she will choke on it. here are the pics. I recommend this for anyone with babies learning to self feed.

More pics on photosite

Great 4th of July!

We had a really fun day and night yesterday. We ran around during the day and then came back and we all took a nice little nap. We got up and headed up to the event center where they had bands playing and all kinds of vendors. We ate some fair food basically and hung out for a bit. Then we went home grabbed our chairs and a cooler of drinks and headed back to the center. We parked on the side of the road and were enjoying people watching and seeing the cars go by. Then we got a call from our friends who said they always go to the soccer fields and there was plenty of parking and no drunks or traffic out there .. so we picked up and headed over. It was fun we got there about 830ish and we kicked balls around with all the kido's and had all the babies out on the blankets. The boys did what boys do and had a few beverages. lol. It was alot of fun. I really like having some local friends that grew up around here. They know all the good spots and what is going on all the time. Very handy. It's also nice that they have baby that is 10 months old and tonight we are going over to their house to play cards and let the kids play together. I'm going thru all of jordan's old clothes because they are passing them down to lilly. Yeah! ;-) Jordan is alittle squirt. She is in the bottom percentile for weight also so lilly might catch her because she is also in the bottow for height and lilly is in the 50% for height so it looks like lilly is catching her. lol..We may end up passing things down to her after a while. lol.. anyway we had a very good day and night and hope everyone else did too. Happy 4th.. Enjoy the rest of your summer!!!

lilly's good!

Lilly weighs 14lbs and 8oz. Which puts her in the 25% for weight. She is 26inches long so that put her in the 50% for height. Now here comes the humorous one. her head is 17inches. that puts it in the 75%. lol She has allan's huge noggin. lol she was happy at the doctors. The shots of course made her cry but only for a second then she too her bottle and fell asleep for the ride home. She woke up as soon as we got home and has been happy and normal every since then. The doctor said it was fine that lilly doesn't eat anything green or anything with meat. he says the are horrible and he doesn't blame her but that he though by the time she is between9-12 months she will start. He said she is where she needs to be on sitting up and and that he wouldn't expect her to be in the crawling position till 8 or 9 months, but that she lifts herself up like any normal 6 month old. It was encouraging to hear that she is progressing normally. i worry that i don't spend enough time trying to get her to sit up or crawl. She will do it all in her own time has been my philosophy. I guess the doctor agrees. She had the whole staff laughing in there with her panting like a dog. i had to tell them she was mimicking our dog then they thought it was hilarious. She also wanted to look out the window because there was a construction crew out there making a racket. She flirted with those boys. lol yelling at one of the teenage black boys out there. he saw her and kept waving thru the window at her. it was cute.
I've been slowly buying a certain someone some b-day presents.. its hard cause i have no idea this time what he wants. i've slowly picked up a few things though. I won't mention what they are on here in case he reads it. MI, I picked up some books for kaite's b-day present. She may already have the ones i got her but if that is the case you can pass them on to any other children you know down there. ;-) I figured it would be fairly cheap to send in the mail. They are paperbacks.
I scheduled an apt for sears to come and give us an estimate on refacing the cabinets. I thik i'm goign to paint them white myself and put in new hardware but i thought it might be nice just to get an estimate on refacing them. I haven't ever priced that kind of thing but one of my friends mothere suggested sears and said they do a really good fairly cheap job so I'll find out how much it will be before i get to painting. They aren't oging to come though till the 17th. boo.. I'd kinda like to get started painting before that. I could get alot of painting done with my brother and mom here to help. Aaron could help paint and mom could watch lilly away from where we are painting but i guess i'll just wait and see what sears says. I fi don't like the price then they don't leave till the 22 so i would have a few days to paint them. Who knows. We are getting estimates for our basement today. Both contractors are coming today. I'm hoping they both don't want to show up at the same time. That would kinda suck. lol. I have so many questions for them though. They are going to think i'm crazy but i want to get to the bottom of the basement stuff. lol. I'm also going to ask one about the wall that we need to add in the garage . how much would that cost? We dont' know what portion of it we will do ourselves and what portion we will have done but i think it will be a mixture because allan just works too much now to be getting into huge projects. I'm ready to get back to work on this house though. We need to have some room to expand.!! ;-)

another quick tidbit

I forgot but i got excited today because we finally got a good CMA done on our house. We wanted to know what our house was worth now that we have done work to it. WE figured that it couldn't of went up much just because we have only lived here for a year now. We thought it might have went up 5-7 grand.. maybe.. They came back and said at the high end it is now worth 22k more than we paid for it and at the low end it is worth 15 more. YEahhhh..!! I don't think we are selling just yet. Gotta finish the basement and hopefully school too but It was encouraging to know that it is worth quie a bit more than we paid for it. Hopefully the market will keep going up around here. Who knows though. The rest of the country isn't looking too good. I do however know that last year there was only 200 or so houses on the market at this time of year and this year there is like 600 so.. might be hard to sell but we are waiting anyway so who knows where it will be when we actually do sell. Just thought about it so I wanted to share. ;-)

Tuesday- terrible 6 month old.. lol

Yep it's official lilly has turned into a spoiled brat. lol Not really but i think she has figured out that if she cries really loud i'll just about do anything to get her to stop. All day today if she has wanted something she would scream bloody murder. SSSSOOOOO Annoying. Allan has been gone. He had to stay out of town the last two days. His boss went on vacation though so he should pretty much be home most of the week and i'm crossing my fingers and hoping for this weekend. I think he will be but you never know. Lilly is discovering foods. she has been eating biter biscuits for a while but now she has moved up to those apple tasting pinwheel things. She doesn't do well with picking up the tiny puffs yet but the pinwheels are easy for her to hold and she loves to chew them or lick them till they are gone. lol. I have been giving her little tidbits of all kinds of stuff when i'm eating. today she got a taste of a popsicle. She loved it then turned into the monster child screaming at me cause i wouldn't give her anymore. I don't know where she gets this temper from.. lol.
Tomorrow is her 6 month check up. We tried to weigh her at home to se how much she weighed. we think she is right around 14 1/2 lbs. We looked it up on a site and it said she was in the 25% if that is the case. Hard to believe that one so i'm going to go with what the doctor says tomorrow. She looks like a chunky monkey to me. hehe. her little cheeks are so fat and her little legs have rolls but i guess i could be wrong. I thought she would be in like the 80% last time and she was 50% for everything.. We'll see tomorrow.
We are getting some estimates on the basement. We want to find out how much it would be for someone to put some walls up down there. We can do all the work ourselves but with allan's new job he just doesn't have anytime to work on it. I'm an okay painter i guess but i don't have the foggest about building walls. lol. So we know a guy that does all kinds of jobs like that so he is going to come by and let us know what he would charge for a least a bedroom down there and maybe the whole thing. We also called a guy out of the paper just to see the difference in the two. We need to get some more rooms going on around here.
My brother aaron is now coming instead of byron. We just aren't sure about him flying and well there are other issues going on too so my brother is coming up with mom now. My friend carissa is going to drive with me down to denver both days. I thought that was really nice of her she switched her days at work so she could go with me. I was worried about Lilly. They are coming and leaving on weekdays so i have to take lilly or leave her with a sitter. I don't really want to leave her with anyone for 8 hours at least. So i'm going to take her but i was worried cause for half the drive it was going to be just me and her in the car and if she starts freaking out i wouldn't be muchhelp if i'm driving. So that was a problem solved when carissa said she would go. I thought she might just do one trip with me but she got off both days to go both times. Really sweet. I sure haven't known these friends for that long but her and lynn have been answers to prayer. I really think god puts people in our lives for seasons. I'm glad it's their season. I sure don't know what i would do without those girly's. I haven't made too many friends in wyoming but the ones i have made a pretty great!I'm looking forward to nursing school just because i'm excited to meet some new friends again. I think i met the one guy that is in the program. lol.. He was at the scrub store the other day when i was. I was getting an idea how much some good scrubs would be and he came in doing the same thing. I have to say he didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed. I'm not trying to be mean but it encouraged me somewhat. lol
anyway my little one is in bed and I'm headed in that direction. One tired mama here. I'll post about Lilly's appointment tomorrow.

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