Lil's tag!

I have seen this in a couple places recently, and last night Lilia was tagged by my friends daughter! SO here you go, totally unedited, totally Lil.




(Pictures of Lil in her new clothes and shiny boots for school...)

1. What is something mom always says to you?
"I don't know! You tell me!"

2. What makes mom happy?
"Um, by not getting spanked."

3. What makes mom sad?
"By getting spanked"

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
"By making funny faces"

5. What was your mom like as a child?
"You had to be a baby and you sleeped in Lacey's crib!"

6. How old is your mom?
"(she rattled off our phone number so my age is 7 digits long)

7. How tall is your mom?
"(she pointed from my toes all the way to the top of my head and said:) That tall!"

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
"play with me and make me laugh (insert fake laugh here)"

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
"You been a mermaid when I'm not here!"

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
"For playing music on Daddy's cello"

11. What is your mom really good at?
"I don't know"

12. What is your mom not very good at?
"You are not good at playing the computer because you don't play hard things!"

13. What does your mom do for her job?
"For working on your computer"

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
"Apple pie that Lacey has in her hand!(Lacey has an Apple Nutri Grain Bar)"

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
(She says she doesn't know, but last night she said she was proud of me for buying her all new school clothes...)

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking... Ah HAH! Go Diego Go!"

17. What do you and your mom do together?
"We got to the library together"

18. How are you and your mom the same?
"My eyes are them same then you are"

19. How are you and your mom different?
"We are different, TOGETHER!"

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
"You only eat your own cereal, not my cereal."

Now- Lilia is tagging Max and Lillie (friends), Gracey (vkiddo), Elsie (cousin), and Rori (vkiddo), and Lissy (2nd cousin)

Lacey can hold her own!

We have a little kiddie chair we bought a few years back. It is totally made of foam, and has a Winnie The Pooh cover on it. Lil used to sit in it all the time, and now, Lacey does too. She LOVES this chair. In fact, she has pretty much claimed it as hers. Well, when Daddy wants to watch TV from the ground he likes to rest his head in the chair (since it really is like a large oddly shaped pillow). So- what happens when Lacey sees Daddy using HER chair?


And just so ya'll know what exactly is going on with the background noise, Lil was playing Dora The Explorer on the computer and we were watching the credits for the incredibly FREAKY movie, The Skeleton Key. So yeah- loud and noisy, but at least I FINALLY caught on tape what Lacey does to ANYONE she catches using her chair!

Tagged!

I am somewhat glad my house is not a wreck today, since I was tagged by a pretty awesome friend, AM, and therefore have to post this here blog...

So the rules are this- you must take pictures of the following things, as is, no straightening up etc.

My fridge (kinda blurry, but oh well!)


My toilet (Yeah- that sticker has been on it since before we moved in... Maybe its time to remove it?)


My kitchen sink (Complete with clean dishes in the drying rack!)


My favorite room in the house (Well- technically that would be the girls room, but its a mess and Lacey is sleeping in there so you get my favorite room of the moment- only cause its GETTING SO FULL!)


My closet (WOW! I need to reorganize the top of it!)


What my kids are doing right then (As mentioned above, Lacey is sleeping)


(And Lil is helping me make this bread)


Dream vacation (Alaska was SO MUCH FUN! I will SO do it again someday!)


And lastly, a self portrait (I hate self portraits! Even when I have time to prep for them! Pay no attention to the clutter- Today is deep clean day for that room...)


I am, in turn, tagging 5 people: (Some I know well, others, I wanna know better!) Julie (best friend EVER), Beth (as in my swap buddy), Kristin (vFriend), Heidi (church), and Loots! I would have added my latest favorite blogger - Mamasphere, but I am not sure she puts personal pictures on her blog, so she can do this is she wants (since I know she is gonna read this!) But she doesn't have to if she chooses to keep personal stuff, well- um, personal...

Special Delivery!

A while back I signed up for a "Favorite Things" Swap. They gave us a deadline for when to have our packages in the mail... The deadline isn't up yet, but I was surprised to open my mailbox on Friday and find me package from my SWAP BUDDY! I was so excited! I actually had the package opened and rifled through before I even got back to my front door! And since this is my blog, and I wanna, I am gonna post all the awesome goodies I was sent.

Now, the rules for this swap were simple. Send in an email with your name and address and a list of things that you like. Then you will get a swap buddy assigned to you and you can read their list. BUT- you are to send them 3 (or more) things that are YOUR FAVORITES. My swap buddy sent me 6 of her favorite things AND a special letter! Each item had a small note of explanation... Here are the notes:


(haha! I just realized the picture is sideways! Oh well!)

Here is a picture of all the different goodies she sent:


and a close up of my favorite item of the bunch.


... Okay- its hard to tell what I was getting a close up of. It is the little giraffe card. It is SO DARN CUTE!

So as a breakdown, she sent me a super yummy smelling (calming) lotion. Some gel pens (I LOVE THEM! And the one I was using for writing checks* just ran out, so it was perfect timing!). Some Swedish Fish, the little giraffe card, a homemade birdies card, and a picture of her favorite actress. It was an awesome package, and I love, love, LOVE IT! Thanks so much Beth!

Now- just so she knows, her package is still in the process of being put together. I am almost done MAKING something for it, then I will pop it in the mail for her! I hope she is as happy with my package as I was with hers!

keywords...

For those of you not familiar with Google Analytics, well... shame on you! Okay- so it's fine for you to not know about it. But I LOVE my Goggle Analytics! It is a program you can add to your blog page to see analysis on your site. It shows you ifo like, where people live that are reading your blog, (no worries- it doesn't give addresses, just cities, and countries. It shows you how many hits you get a day, it shows which specific blog entries are the most hit, you can find out who is referring your site (such as I have had over 30 people hit my blog after reading something I commented on McMommy's blog. Anyway- its kinda fun to see all this info about my blog. WELL- one of the features is seeing which keywords are being searched for that lead people to your blog. Now- I have seen others do this and thought it may be fun, so here is a list of the searches that lead to my blog and my opinion on that search...

1. Voldemort carries Twilight in his purse Well- HE DOES! :)
2. a phrase with beyond, flowers, friends Ha! It's totally BEYOND me why anyone would be interested in reading about my FRIENDS and FLOWERS!
3. "sneeze attack" ?
4. a quick learner as whole Why- YES! I am... Thank you for noticing!
5. facebook flair One of my favorite features of Facebook, and at the same time, the bane of my existence a month ago
6. flowers lilie tattoo AWESOME! I wanna see it!
7. frills pictures well you will find TONS of pictures on my blog, but not too many of actual frills... That is until I start taking pictures of Lil in her tutu!
8. naming siblings flowers Lilia is as close as I will come to that. Though Ivy is kind of a cute name...
9. picture of haven Well I sure think so! My main picture is not just a haven, its totally serene! IMHO...
10. renaesme AWFUL name isn't it? Though I do like the kiddo, just thought the middle name was much better...
11. writing a sense of foreboding Didn't realize reading my stuff was so depressing! It's like I can just hear the depression in this person's search... Hope they found what they were looking for.

Photoshoot

We had pictures taken on Tuesday. They turned out AWESOME! (And yes- I have the rights to these photos, so I can legally post them on the net...) So of course, now I will share them with you all!

Enjoy!














I especially love the last one. So cute!

Lilia growing up!

So, this weekend has been a busy one! Almost all of it was centered around Lilia, as Sunday was her BIRTHDAY! She is growing up so fast, it just amazes me how big she has gotten. I still remember when she was born, and how she was SO MAD to be in the world, and she was holding tight to her umbilical cord. We could totally picture her screaming "PUT ME BACK, PUT ME BACK!"









She seemed to grow up so fast. It wasn't long before she turned 1...



and then 2...



Time just flies by I guess, and now, here she is! 4 years old!

Well, enough of my memories running away with me, on to this weekend...

Saturday morning we took her shopping for her birthday present from us. We wanted to surprise her, but well, we just weren't sure what size to buy so instead we took her with us so we made sure to buy a gift that was big enough but not TOO big... She was so excited when we finally reached our destination and let her choose her gift. Being the good kid that she is, she chose one that was not only just the right size, but the cheapest, er, uh.. LEAST EXPENSIVE of the bunch!

:) Now before I tell you WHAT exactly, it was that we bought her, I will continue with the story (the truth is that I forgot to take pictures, so you will have to wait til her party to see what she got)... So, the rest of the day was spent doing the usual grocery shopping, lunch buying, nap taking, etc. When she woke up from her nap, she helped Daddy assemble her gift.

So SUNDAY, we do our Sunday Morning routine. Breakfast, Bath, Church, etc. The primary at church sang to her, and she was so excited! Her teacher told me later that morning that she is very impressed with Lil. I guess she corrected the teacher at some point during the lesson. IF ONLY it was a church related correction. No- it was just a math error. The teacher had brought treats for the 5 students and had mentioned that there were 5 people in her class, and Lil said, "No- there are 5 kids and 2 teachers. That's 7!" Smart little monkey!

After church we came home and I started making a cake. Which was a total flop. (Don't EVEN get me started on what a disaster it was!) While I was trying to salvage the cake my mom called and rescued me. She offered to pick up a Costco cake on the way over for dinner! Awesome mom!

Well- Originally I had invited all the grandparents over for dinner, but Joe parents and their spouses couldn't make it, so it ended up being just my mom and she brought both my brothers. A small party, but that is okay. Lil was happy and that is all that mattered!

So mom bought Lil a gift that coincided with our gift. AND here is where the pictures begin!

Lil opening Grandma's gift!



And wearing Grandma's gift, while sitting on her gift from Joe and I


Parking her bike in its rightful place between Daddy's "bike" and Lacey's "new" trike (read: Lilia's old mode of transportation)


Now- When Lil asked for a birthday cake, she asked for a chocolate cake with white and chocolate frosting and pink flowers. Luckily Grandma found the PERFECT cake already made at Costco. Chocolate Cake with chocolate frosting, cheesecake filling (aka white frosting) and pink and yellow flowers. Lil was in heaven!

Lil blowing out the candles.


YES, I know- the cake has the wrong age on it. No, she is not 31. She is 3 + 1 !!! I couldn't find the 4, neither could I find regular candles, so a 3 and a 1 won! Lil didn't mind.

Lil chose her piece of cake. It had a big pink rose on it. She then "let" my baby brother have a piece of cake. Notice the difference in size... David was a good sport though. He ate his whole piece then finished hers. She took maybe 3 bites of her piece.




Lacey enjoying a piece of cake...




Grandma made the mistake of falling asleep watching TV, and ended up decorated by Lil. Grandma is a good sport though- she woke up just enough to hold the horse, and allow Lil to put the hat on her.



Now- we managed to convince Lil that, JUST for HER BIRTHDAY, Daddy didn't have to work on Monday! :) So we took her and Lacey to the nearest outlet mall. We bought Lil all the stuff she needs for her future dance class. She starts dance in October. So yeah- we had to buy tap shoes, ballet shoes, convertable tights, and a leotard. It was great fun and Lil was in HEAVEN buying dance stuff. After that, we took the girls to the Nicklecade and got 10 dollars of nickles. Note to self and anyone else interested: 10 dollars of nickels is A LOT! It took us almost 3 hours to spend them all!

We managed to earn enough tickets to win Lil a tiny 13 piece porcelain tea set. It's pretty cute.

All in all, a good weekend, with my cute kids. And speaking of: Grandma brought Lacey's birthday gift with her when she came for Lil's party. They were a SUPER CUTE pair of boots. Lacey LOVES them. So when we got up on Monday to take the girls out, and we saw the cold weather, we got Lacey all dressed and put on her new boots and new jacket. She chose to put on a hat as well. She LOVES her hat.



And how was YOUR weekend?