Welcome Michael Francis Hicks!

Michael Francis Hicks was born July 28, 2007 at 5:07 pm. He weighed 7lb 5oz and was 20 inches long. This is Dennis & Jeanne's 7th child =) Congratulations and we are so happy for you!

Chad and Melanie's Reception

Yesterday, the 3 of us drove to Hinkley, Ohio for a beautiful outdoor wedding reception for Anson's cousin Chad and his wife Melanie. We don't get to see them a lot because they live in N.C. Chad is training for the Army and will leave for Thailand or Iraq this Fall. We visited with Aunt Margaret, Uncle Larry, Cousin Kim and her husband Terry and their 3 kids as well. It was really nice to see everyone since we don't see much of that side of the family.

The newlyweds Uncle Larry and Lily
Aunt Margaret and Lily
Kim and Terry
Kim & Terry's oldest, Carmen. She's 5 and looks a lot like her Mama.
Haley is 4 and the middle child
Kim and Mason. He's 3 and the baby of the family. Anson and I think he looks a lot like Chad.
Anson being very silly!
Speeches and toasts
Cutting the cake

Baby Girl and her blue eyes

Grandma Bonnie enjoyed holding Lily, feeding her and rocking her. She's a grandma, a great grandma and works in her church's nursery.

Anson being silly before we left the house.

Busy Week

Lily and I have had a busy week! Monday we visited with Jill and Mindy while Diane watched Lily. We went to TCBY to catch up on our lives. Tuesday, Katy came over to visit us. Thursday, Lily and I went shopping with Jen and Zack at the Lodi Outlets. We spent way too much money, but we are going to be two fashionable gals! Today, I took Lily back into GOJO for another visit. It was really nice to see everyone. Although I will miss Lily a lot, I am looking forward to going back. I go back two weeks from today. And then tomorrow, we are going to cousin Chad and Melanie's wedding reception. We are going to need Sunday to rest! Lily has been sleeping better at night. She sleeps in her swing because she loves it. Last night she slept for 7 hours straight! Then, we were only awake long enough to nurse. She went back to sleep around 6:30 and slept until 10. I'm hoping she keeps this up, especially when I do go back to work.

As you can see, Lily really enjoyed shopping with Mommy, Jen and Zack!

Sampson - he looks sooooo much like Hamilton!

I think Lily Anna looks a lot like me in this picture. She's in a beautiful dress from Brigitte from Germany. Thank you...we love it!

Lily laughing...not really...although Anson did hear her laugh for the first time a few days ago =)

Cutie Patootie

I love Lily so much! She's such a sweetheart! Here's some random photos of her. Don't have a lot of news to report. Anson and I had a nice weekend. Lily stayed at my mom's Saturday night so that we could go to dinner, a movie and shopping. It was very nice.

Anson took this photo. We both love it so much! She's so cute.

Spit bubbles!

Goodbye Hartville McDonald's

By total randomness today we went inside our old stomping ground because we had heard from our friend Jill that Hartville McDonald’s had new owners and were going to tear down the current building and replace it with a much needed new one. Jill had only found out about it through a text message from Aaron Stanley who as many as you know worked there and still lives in Hartville with his family. I had heard that the building just wasn’t as nice as it use to be when we were all there, so my sentimental side took over and I just had to go inside instead of just going through the drive thru. When we went in Mae and I walked around and looked at how cruel life and unfortunately ownership through Bob and Hortense Bobbit truly had been the last 8 to 9 years since most of us left there. I don’t know how long the new owners have owned it, but we could tell the Bobbits never put any money into the place when the bought it back in I think 1997. There were missing seat backs, ceiling panels that were water stained and still smoke covered, and plenty of other run down things that we could just see from the front counter. The ironic thing about us going in today was actually the last day it will be open before they start tearing it down. When we left I got pretty worked up because of all of the memories and friendships that were made there and for a lot of us, friendships that are still as strong as they were when we all met of so many years ago. I certainly don’t want this to be a mushy blog, but I wanted to take the time to let everyone know that a very important place at least in my history is being torn down. So I want to write a list of some of m memories that I remember working there from 1992 to 1998 and hope that those of you that worked there with me will also share some of your fond or not so found memories of that place. There are a few of us that had it not been for this place, we would not be where we are today or who we are with today. I would not have met Mae unless I worked there and Mike Lenke would never had met his wife unless he worked there and went to Cedar Point with us with Carol’s friend Cheri(sp?)

With that I will commence with my memories of those people in this building pictured above in no particular order.

1. Taking Quarter Pounder meet and fries back to Chris’s apartment and having a cook out.
   
2. Staying after close and playing cards, drinking beers, and smoking Marlboro’s till early dawn.
3. Working all day, going home and showering, to turn around and go back there to meet everyone to go out that night.
4. Jeff Gardner putting soap into Matt Brooks chocolate shake expecting him to take a small sip and spit it out, only to drink a lot and have to go to the ER and have his stomach pumped out.
5. Kevin Nisly and I going into the freezer and doing spit bubbles on the fry boxes….I know it is gross, but it was fun.
6. Carmen, Mike Lakatos, and I in the red station wagon being stupid and going way to fast on a back road over a small hill and going airborne almost destroying the car and experiencing my first near death experience.
7. Countless days and nights over at Pulliam’s apartment watching Monday Night Nitro, playing Playstation, and just doing a whole lot of nothing.
8. I remember Chris P. telling me that he was mad at David Bower’s one night so he made sloppy joes and did not drain the grease in hopes of making him sick.
9. Freaking horn bag Tina always trying to take advantage of me. I still have nightmares.
10. Phoebe, a dirt road with a farm in the distance, and us quickly driving away…we are going to hell for sure.
11. I went running from the fry machine to the back drive thru chasing after Jill only to slip and fall and slide into the wall. It was pretty damn funny.
12. Mae telling Carmen that she needed a small fry when he would back her up on drive thru and his would response would be, “How many total?”
13. Carmen sending Jason Schwabero (sp?) over to Ponderosa with a case of French fries because “supposedly” the manager had called over asking if we would give them a case because they had ran out. Not only did he take the case of fries over to them, but managed to get some employee to follow him back over and tell Carmen that they hadn’t called nor did they need the French fries. Priceless comedy there.
14. Having some customer say “Thank You Sir”, to Holly and her replying to him, “I’m a girl”
15. Tall Mike and his Lg. Diet 2 scoops of ice – No lid at least 2 or 3 times a day.
16. That retarded guy and his mom that would come through the drive thru naked.
17. Taking cases upon cases of cups and fry boxes back to Pulliam’s apartment when Monopoly was going on in hopes of winning something. We never did, except free food which we took regularly anyway so it didn’t even matter.
18. Swapping with Domino’s every once in awhile at close. We would give them a ton of nuggets, burgers, and fries for several pizzas in return.
19. Carmen telling Frank that the “Ball and Chain” was either on the phone or there to see him and Frank getting so mad at him and telling him to never refer to his wife as that again.
20. Blaring my music when we had our truck deliveries and when I closed.
21. Gutting Pulliam’s old apartment and throwing the stuff away at the dumpster at McDonald’s only to be chased by the Hartville Police Dept. Remember Buck, they were on the look out for your truck that we were using and it was titled to your mom.
22. Having to put band aids on our earrings because Alverda hated the fact that boys wore earrings.
23. The stupid Beanie Babies and the rush the caused.
    
    I literally could go on and I may add more to the blog as good memories come up, but I just wanted to take a few minutes and remind a lot of us out there of the good times we had there while we were all in high school or just freshly out before we went on to better things. I remember that I enjoyed being there so much that I would have worked for free some times because of the great time I had. It totally sucked once people started quitting like Buck, Carmen, and Chris and we each moved on when we were ready. Jill was the last one to leave and we couldn’t believe she stayed as long as she did, but it paid the bills at the time. I think it would be sweet in one of those Hollywood movie moments if we could all just go there before they tear it down and sit out in the lobby with some cold ones and reminisce one last time.
    
    I will miss that building.
    
    Anson

Two Months Old Today!

Lily is two months old today...already! The time has flown by. Lily & I went shopping this morning and then had lunch with Daddy at Bennigan's. Then, I took Lily to the doctor's for her 2 month well baby check-up. She had to get 3 shots and an oral vaccination. She screamed and turned bright red! I felt horrible, but I was able to calm her down pretty quickly. She got this teddy bear today for being such a great baby at the doctor's. (I stole this idea from my friend Jen. She bought her son a bear for his first shots, too. Hope you don't mind, Jen.)

She's been smiling a lot more this week!


Lily weighed in at 11 lbs, 8 oz., which puts her in the 75% percentile. She is now 22 1/2 inches long. The doctor asked how tall me and Anson are. Since we are short too, the doctor said she's doing well. She's only in the 50% percentile for her length. Here are a few more photos and a video. She's pretty fussy tonight...I don't think she feels well =) Poor thing!






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Hanging Out and Looking Cute

Another adorable outfit from Great Grandma!

I love shopping with my Mommy shirt from Grandma Cross =) Lily and I went shopping at the scrapbooking store while Daddy went to Sam's Club. We had fun picking out her baby book! Now, I have to get busy and put it together!
Yet another precious outfit from Great Grandma!

Video from this afternoon on Lily's rug in the nursery =)

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