Our Little Lily Flower

This last year has been so great. Our little Lily has added such joy to our home. Today she is one and I thought it appropriate to show a few photos from her first year with us. We are so grateful that she is with us. She is happy and fun and brings a softer dimension to our home with her squeals and laughter. In this photo she is only minutes old. She came three weeks early, in time for Halloween, and I couldn't have been happier to finally hold her in my arms.

These are her little feet at about six weeks old.

Here she is with Ian, her reluctant big brother. She is 4.5 months and he is almost 2 in this photo.

Here are the kids having fun at the neighborhood pool last May.

Lily still toothless at eight months.  

Lily and Ian this past July playing on their horsey with Daddy.

These last two photos were snapped within the last week. Her hair is getting longer and lighter as she has gotten older. It looks like her eyes are settling in on a beautiful hazel or steel gray color. Also, she has two bottom and four top teeth coming in. Little cutie!! We love her more than anything!

Pretty, pretty, tutu. She's almost walking. Pretty soon she'll be twirling everywhere. Our little Lily flower is such a delight. Happy birthday, little love!

Back In Time

Halloween is my most favorite holiday. We kicked it off by decorating our house around the first of October. Shortly thereafter we decorated our Potato Head Pirate Pumpkin. Ian helped while Lily was sleeping. He loved it so much that he played with it for about an hour or so after we had created it (Way worth the five quid I spent on the kit!). 

My birthday was Saturday, October, 11th and to celebrate we took the kids to a cool pumpkin patch and fall festival. It was so much fun to be together even though Ian whined a lot. 

I thought this was a cute shot of my kids' biscuits. 

This past Saturday was real low key for us. We lazed at home in the morning and then went to the mall in the afternoon so I could get some clothes for Lily. After stopping at the library, Matt drove us to his old elementary school. We stopped there and let the kids play on all the cool toys. They had the best time ever! It's great how entertained they are by free things like parks. Anyway, it was fun to see the beautiful neighborhood and school Matt lived in and attended as a child. It's kind of crazy that now we only live a few miles away from it. 

Here's Matt in front of his elementary Alma Mater. 

Win A Free Handbag

Handbag Planet is doing a promotion for the launch of their company. They are giving away 24 handbags in 24 hours on the day of their launch, which is October 15. Enter to win. What have you got to lose??

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Better Than We Deserve

Sorry about not posting since Ike, but our internet has been horrible since then. During the storm and after we never lost power, though we did lose internet for a while. Mostly everyone else that we know lost their power. In fact, the power was out in our old neighborhood for about two weeks. Anyway, we were fine and our house sustained no damage. Just a lot of scattered debris. Also, we had fun having Matt home for a couple extra days.

Now that our internet is really back up and running well I wanted to post a link to a little video of Lily that I made a few days ago. I hope everyone likes it!