Lily's 2nd Birthday Party

Yesterday we celebrated Lily's 2nd Birthday at Nana and Papa's house. Nana's birthday is today so we celebrated her birthday too. Uncle Jamie and Uncle Jeremy came, along with Jeremy's girlfriend, Heather. Aunt Mindy stopped by to wish Lily a Happy Birthday too. We had a lot of fun watching Lily open all her gifts and play with them all. Anson and I decided to go ahead and give her our presents too, even though her birthday isn't until tomorrow. She doesn't know the difference.

The big Dora balloon sings "Happy Birthday."

Chocolate cake I made for Lily and Mom

The birthday girl!

Lily playing with her balloons. She loves balloons!

If looks could kill..."Princess" Anson with his blanket. It was cold in Nana and Papa's house.

Me with the birthday girls. I wish I would've taken another one since Lily's eyes look funky =(

Papa and Dillon

Me and Dillon

Lily opening her Little People bus.

Papa helping Lily open her sandbox toys

Uncle Jeremy and Heather bought her this art set. The markers and finger paint only color on the special paper. What a great invention!!

Lily gave Jeremy her woobie and barney dolls to hold!

Lily trying to carry her bubble mower over to Papa.

Bubble mowerLily reading her card from Mommy and Daddy! Baby brother

Lily opening her Dora bathtub toys that Daddy picked out for her! Can't wait to see her play with it in the tub tonight.

Lily checking out her new sandbox!

We changed Lily into some play clothes and let her play in her sandbox. It has pink sand!! Isn't that cool??
Uncle Jeremy playing with Lily
Lily and Nana blowing out their candles!

Lily eating her cake and ice cream

Video of Lily and Uncle Jeremy playing in the sandbox!


"I love you!!" video from the other day

Dillon from the other dayThis is a two + minute video of Dillon. Towards the end you can hear him laugh.

Week of Sadness

We had to say good-bye to Grandma Hicks this week. Grandma (GiGi) died last Saturday. The whole family came in to town this past week to say good-bye. The calling hours were Thursday and the funeral was Friday. We love you, Grandma and we will miss you!!

This was after the funeral on Friday. The church had a reception for us with delicious food!

Lily Anna wearing the sailor dress from Gigi and the cross neckalace (can't see it) she gave to her for her first birthday.

Uncle Dennis and Aunt Jeanne's kids - (L to R, starting in the back) Emily, Adam, Lydia, Rachel, Sarah, Michael and Rebekah

The kids had fun playing together all week. Here are a few from them playing outside at Grandma's house.

Tuesday was Rebekah's 5th birthday so we took the kids to the Akron Zoo for the day.

We forgot one of Lily's shoes at Grandma's so we had to buy her a pair of flamingo slippers to wear. She only had one pair of shoes at the time. Now she has another pair =)
Petting Zoo

The birthday girl

All the kids - even Dillon is in the photo

Emily, Sarah and Dillon

Me and my Lily Bug

Everyone eating lunch

Dillon slept most of the time

Later, back at Grandma's house, we celebrated Rebekah's birthday with a cookie cake.
Thursday was Sarah's 12th Birthday so we took her and the kids bowling.

Grammy and Dillon

Anson and Lily

Adam, Dennis, Jeremy, Rachel and Anson

Me and my baby

Adam, Sarah (birthday girl) and Anson

They had this cool ramp so the little kids could bowl too. Lily bowling.

Rachel, Grammy and Jeremy

Jeanne with the two little ones. Lily learned Michael's name and still says it a lot. I think Lily really liked having so many kids to play with all week.

On Saturday, Grammy and Grandpa bought Lily a few gifts for her birthday. She had just gotten up from a nap so she wasn't too happy. But she loves the gifts now!

Cute photo of Daddy and Dillon

We are all tired and looking forward to a "normal" week this week.

Two Cute Videos...

...that I just captured of the kids...

Dillon is 8 weeks old today!

And he slept 6 hours straight last night =) Yeah!! The nurse said she thought he would soon because of his weight. Bigger babies can sleep longer sooner.

Here's a bunch of randomness...random photos, videos and updates in our lives...

Daddy holding Dillon. He was fussy last night and this was the only way he would stop crying. He fell sound asleep like this!! Whatever works, right?
Eating dinner last night. My mom made us Bacon Cheeseburger Spaghetti. It was good! Rich, though. We joked about the person who made up the recipe. There must have been a fight between two people. One wanted cheeseburgers and one wanted spaghetti. Haha.

Dillon looking cute in his puppy pj's.

Earlier in the day yesterday...Dillon smiling!

This is from the other night. Cheesehead!

Cutie Patootie!!

Two cuties!

• Our friends Megan and Brent had their baby boy on Sunday. His baby Luke was 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 22 inches long. Long and skinny like his parents =) We are really excited for Dillon and Luke to play together someday.
• Dillon's 2 month check-up is next Wednesday. Poor little guy will have to get shots =(
• Jill's bridal shower is this Sunday. It's a Mad Hatter theme and we are going to wear fancy hats. I am excited. Lily is going with me. We're leaving the boys at home.
• I went into GOJO earlier this week for a baby shower for my work friend, Kathy. Her and her hubby adopted a sweet little boy they named Jayce. We are so happy for them. It was great to see everyone too. GOJO is really busy right now with the swine flu pandemic. Everyone wants PURELL and I don't blame them!
• Below are two videos of Dillon...one of him happy and smiling and the other of him crying. Anson said he sounds like an alarm so I wanted to capture it on camera.

That's all for now!