Christmas At Uncle Jeremy's with Mom & Dad Cross

Since Mom and Dad were up early this year, we celebrated Christmas early at Jeremy's house.

Jeremy's girlfriend, Heather and Dillon. Heather is moving in with Jeremy this month.
Cheeeeeeese!

Lily got a dress-up Dora outfit! It's adorable!

It's just a little itchy so we need to get her a t-shirt to wear under it.

Happy boy on a super soft pillow!

This is from the other night. Lily didn't want to get out of the tub, so Daddy put them in the tub together and they had fun!

My Surprise 30th Birthday Party

I have the most wonderful husband. Last Saturday he surprised me with a huge party at the Greentown/Uniontown Fire Station. The plan was for me to think my mom wanted to get Anson's family together for the holidays. It worked! I bought it 100%. It was only a few days before that I started getting suspcious but I never ever imagined it was all for me, and it would be as big as it was. We've got alot of funny stories about it. Anson had to lie to me for over a month and he had some close calls. I've never felt so loved as I did that night. Thank you, Anson from the bottom of my heart! I love you so much!

This was the biggest cake I've ever seen! Anson carefully thought it out and had different stages of my life pictured. It was very thoughtful and made me cry. His co-worker, Mary made it and it was the best cake I've ever had!

Embaressed as everyone sung to me!

I had 71 guests including all the kiddos. Anson even got in touch of some of my GOJO friends and they came too!

There's the party planner and the love of my life!

My big brother

Lily and Zack

Visiting with Family

Anson's family came into town this weekend for a visit. Little did I know that the reason they came to town was for my surprise 30th birthday party that Anson threw me on Saturday night!!! I have the most wonderful husband in the whole entire world! I'll be posting videos and photos from the party tomorrow. But here are a few photos from Friday night at Hartville Kitchen and Saturday day at Grandma's empty house :( and playing at Jackson Park.

Table for 18, please!

Lydia was Lily's pal all weekend. She's still talking about her.

Dillon really liked to swing!

Lily went down this big slide all by herself. No fear!

Making Noises, Talking, ABCs & Sharing a Cart

Here are some new videos of the kids. The first one is Dillon playing in his crib.

This second one is of Lily talking and being a little cranky.

And this third one is Lily saying the ABCs - plus a few extra letters :) - and Dillon in his jumper.

I love the Sam's Club double cart. Lily gets a kick outta riding next to Dillon.

Lily was holding Dillon's hand.Sleeping with his butt in the air
Sitting up in Lily's high chair

Sunday Randomness

We gave Dillon his first finger food today. It was those Gerber puffs. He made faces at first and even spit them out as you'll see in the video, but after a few minutes he was feeding them to himself.

Sitting up and playing with Lily's toys while she is asleep. She's still not keen on sharing!

Dillon can clap his hands!

Didn't do much today. Went to Giant Eagle and Sam's Club, ate lunch at Penn Station. Anson finished the leaves. I took a nap. Now we are watching the Amazing Race. Can't believe a new week is starting already!

Dillon turned 8 months old!

Baby Dillon is 8 months old already! We can't believe it. It sure seems like Dillon is growing up faster than Lily did - maybe because we seem to be busier? Anson and I looked back at Lily's 8 month photo to compare (Jan. 08). Lily started crawling at 8 months and was pulling herself up by 9 months. Should be an exciting month if Dillon does the same. Lily got her first tooth when she was 8 months old. Dillon has had his two bottom teeth for awhile now and his two top front teeth are about halfway in already!

Today we went to Belden to do our normal shopping. On the way down there, Dillon started screaming, so of course Lily joined him. Anson and I were covering our ears and laughing.

Not much else to report this week. I'm heading to Wisconsin on Wednesday for work. I'll be home Friday evening. I hope the kids are easy on Anson!