Craft Day

Today's craft day at my moms house, a tradition that my family(grandma, 2 aunties, cousin, and my mom) have been doing for years. We all get together 1 Saturday a month and we craft, scrapbooking, knitting, crochet, paint, whatever you feel like doing. It's so much fun, I'm now introducing Lily to it, she will be our next generation crafter! I should post some pics of all of us around the table crafting... I need to take some first.

Love Birds

I was looking at some old pictures and ran across this pic of James and I, this was taken at the beach summer of '06. That night was lots of fun, we were sitting at friends house about 10pm we decided to go to the beach and have a fire. Back then we were able to get up and go, no worries. Well things have changed, in a good way! I think it's fun to look back at old pictures, you really start to day dream... Oh the memories :)

New Book

I am so excited about this book, it's not coming out until November. I have a review copy which is not proofed, but it's getting me so excited, theres so many cute toys to make. Susan B. Anderson is one of my favorite knitting authors, I love all of her books, Itty Bitty Hats, and Itty Bitty Nursery. I can't wait to start knitting some cute toys for Lily!

More Recent Pic

This is a more recent pic of Lily (horrible scan), this was taken about 2 weeks ago at my moms house. It was very hot, around 90* I believe she was on her way out to the pool.

Tonight James Lily and I are going grocery shopping, now that Lily can walk it seems like we always leave the store with an extra item or two. She will grab things off the shelf that she knows she likes, like Cheerios, Gold Fish, Juice Box's, Chicken nuggets etc. Then she will walk around the store saying yummmmmmm.... and rub her tummy! very cute. Her personality has blossomed the last few weeks, she is turning into such a little lady.

Where have I been?!

I have been super busy and on top of that we no longer have Internet at the house. One of the luxury's we gave up to be able to get rid of some bills. I miss blogging and posting updated pics of Lillian. She is now 13 months walking and talking (baby talk) She knows how to say, mama, dada, baba, buba (the dog), spoon, balloon, ki ki (kitty). She knows what a Tiger says, a Bee, and we are trying Dog. She is growing up so fast, it's scary. You can't take enough pictures, she changes everyday. She's my little lady :)

Her first birthday was great, all my friends and family came I will try and post some pics soon.

yesterday James, Lily and I went to my friend Heidi's house for her daughter Delilahs 1st b-day party, we had a blast! She is so cute, she had a great first birthday. I wish Heidi and I can see each other more often, it's not like we live 100miles away, but beings we are both moms we understand how busy we can get.

I will try and post some pics soon, I don't have any on the computer except for the one I am about to post, this was on Lilys B-day invitations. She was about 11months here. I will post more pics soon!

I do tweet on Twitter alot.. I will add it to my Blog.

Later gators,

Dionne

The Window

The other night when Devin was over, he went outside and stood on our front porch, Lily was eating in her high chair and wanted out when she saw him outside. I took her out and stood her on the kitchen table, Devin put his face up close to the window and she started smashing her face into the window and moving her head up and down, it was so funny. Luckily James had time to grab the camera. Now whenever she is up to a window she starts to lean towards it, silly girl!

New Snack

As James and I were walking through Safeway thinking about what we can get for dinners, i saw a bag of mini bagels, I thought they were so cute and just the right size for Lily. When we came home from the grocery store I opened up the bag and handed her one, she kind of looked at me with a weird look, as if I was crazy for giving her something so big. This was definitely not bite size. She was having a hard time eating it as it just crumbled into big pieces. I decided to freeze them and give them to her, as you can see she loved them! This is her new favorite snack, she has a bagel every where she goes, whether she is eating it or not.


She looks so proud!