Dillon's First Birthday

Our baby is 1 already!! How did that happen? He's so precious. He's very happy and sweet. And, we all had a great weekend celebrating his birthday. Here are a bunch of photos.

Thank you Nana and Papa for allowing us to use your house for the party! Hopefully we will have our new house for the next time. This past week, we put our house up for sale!!

Playing with balloons before the party started.

"Uncle" Josh playing with Dill Pickle

Jen, Zack and Lily eating at the kid table

Silly Dillon! He likes to wear his bib like this...he's a goof!

Anson, Jill, Josh, Brent and Luke and Heather

Baby Luke - he's about 7 weeks behind Dillon

Jen & Dillon with Grandpa in the background

Lily and Zack opening their party bags

Cake and free Smash cake (from Giant Eagle)

Lily on Papa's shoulders

Signing to the birthday boy!

Brent, Megan and Luke

David, Josh, Jill, Jen & Zack, Grammy, Daddy and Grandpa

Lily, Papa and Nana

Dillon really "smashed" into his cake! He liked it a lot :)

Grammy, Dillon, Luke and Daddy

Zack and Lily eating their cake

Opening presents...

Big sister Lily helped open all the gifts

Dillon got a lot of much needed clothes

Grammy helping Dillon open the presents from her and Grandpa

Luke, Nana, Jen & Zack and Megan watching Dillon open his gifts.

The best gift of all...our Dill Pickle!

Zack in his jammies getting ready to go home.

Nana and Papa got Dillon this big tool bench set. He loves it and so does Lily.

Later last night at home. Dillon was playing with his piano from Mommy and Daddy.

Lily was playing with the balloons...one of her favorite things!

Last weekend, we took the kids to Portrait Innovations to get their photos taken. I love that place and I think they did a great job! We came home with a lot of photos for our money. Plus, we got the photos within minutes.

Tomorrow is Dillon's 1 year check-up so I'll have to let everyone know his stats.

Surprise Birthday Party for Jill

Yesterday, Josh threw Jill a surprise party at Whirlyball. We had a blast. As you can see from the first few photos, Jill had no idea we were all going to be there! Her birthday isn't until March 22, so she really wasn't expecting it. After we played, we all went over to Linking Lizard to eat dinner.

Lily helping Jill put on her party hat.

Aunt Jill holding her niece, Lexi

Playing Whirlyball

Josh and Jill

Me and Jill

Lily with Jill's party hat

Cake and cookie cake. It was one of Jill and Josh's other friend's birthday too. Her name was Laura and Jill thought they were going up to play Whirlyball for her birthday.

Blowing out their candles.

Dillon fell asleep on his Mommy - I love those moments!

Jill opening her gift from Mindy and Me. We got her a beach bag, sundress, and promise to take her shopping for an outfit. Her and Josh are going on a cruise in April.

A few night ago...Anson and Lily playing Candy Land. She does really well playing it.

Happy Valentine's Day

Sending love to all our friends and family - near and far! Remember that life is too short. Always tell those you love how much you care about them.

Lily loves lollipops!
This morning at breakfast opening her present. We got up before Daddy this morning and Lily saw her present and asked "What's that?" When I told her it was her Valentine's present but that she had to wait until Daddy got up to open it, she was not very happy. As soon as she heard Daddy's footsteps coming down the stairs, she yelled "We can open the present now!"

Look at that face!

Lily loves flowers too. We got her this rose.

Dora and Baby Jaguar chocolates

Nana and Papa got the kids each a ballon and some candy and cookies. Plus some money for their piggy banks.

Grammy and Grandpa Cross sent Lily a card with her favorite thing inside...stickers! It came in the mail yesterday right before we left to go to the store...

Visit with Katy, Dale and Kai last Monday evening. It was great to see them and catch-up! Kai turned one in January.

Lily had Dillon had fun playing with him.

I love this photo of Dill Pickle

I figured out how to get videos to upload from my new camera!!! Here's one of Lily and Dillon playing with Puppy the other night. She can say her ABCs really well. And we are working on counting to twenty.

Dillon is 11 Months Old

I'm not happy with my camera right now. I had about 10 pictures on it and they disappeared! Anson had taken photos of the snow, we had taken Dillon's 11 month old photo last night and we had some other random cute photos of the kids. Plus, I took some adorable videos, but blogger isn't allowing me to upload them. I think the files are too large! Urgh! Hopefully I can figure out how to take videos that will work, and I'll get them up on here soon.



Other that my camera troubles, all is great at the Cross house! The kids are growing too fast. Dillon will be a year in just a few short weeks. Lily started walking about 3 weeks before her birthday, but I don't think Dillon will be walking before his birthday. The photo we took last night was so cute. It was Dillon in a hat like this one and he was smiling really big. It stinks that we lost it. Owell, these are cute too...

Lily acting like Dillon

That's all for now. Gotta go nurse Dillon...