Lily's 3rd Birthday Week

The past week has been a lot of fun. It's taken me a few days to upload all these photos. The fun started last Friday. Grammy and Grandpa came to town. So did Uncle Dennis, Jeanne and the kids. Uncle Bob and Brigitte from Germany were also here. We went to Hartville Kitchen and there were 22 of us!

Last Saturday, Cousin Melanie and David got married and we all went to their wedding. Here's a photo of Grammy with her Sugar at the church. Grammy has lost 40 pounds and she looks awesome! We are proud of you!

Daddy and Dillon before the wedding began
Uncle Bob and Brigitte. It was very nice to see you guys!

After the ceremony, the reception was downstairs in the church.

Melanie and David entering the reception.

Pickle

Lily dancing around with all the other little girls that were there.

Rebekah and Pickle

Uncle Jeremy and Heather

Our family

Me and Dillon James

After the reception, we all went back to Jeremy's house.

Grammy holding the youngest Hick child, Joseph, 1 mo. old. I didn't get many photos of all the other kids :(

Dillon playing with Dakota

On Sunday, after Bob, Brigitte, Dennis, Jeanne and the kids left, we went back over to Jeremy's to spend more time with everyone and celebrate Lily's birthday. Grammy and Grandpa bought her an ice cream cake!

Opening gifts...

Bob and Brigitte got Lily a gift card - THANK YOU! We will have fun picking her out an outfit.

The kids dancing with Grammy!

Then, on Tuesday, we went over to Nana and Papa's to celebrate my Mom's birthday and Lily's birthday with them! Mom's birthday is May 18 and Lily's is May 19. Lily is wearing the shirt and skirt that Grammy and Grandpa bought her!

Nana and Papa got Lily a train set just like the one that she loves to play with at Hartville Kitchen!Pickle standing on a box

Helping Nana open her gifts

We got Nana and outfit for her birthday. Uncle Jamie got her two movies.

We got an ice cream cake

On Wednesday, Anson and I took the day off work to take Lily to the Columbus Zoo. We had so much fun! It was a great day. It rained a little, but other than that, it was perfect. The kids were so well behaved. This day trip gave us practice for our vacation in 3 weeks!

Lily is scared to death of bugs but she will touch a snake! Go figure!

The largest, stinkiest flower!

Me and the birthday girl!

Real live Bonobos monkeys! Lily loves Diego and there are bonobos brothers on that show.

Touching a turtle shell

String ray and a manatee

Pickle wasn't feeling well that day. He stayed in the stroller most of the day and slept a few times.

Aquarium

Seahorses

Touch station - different sea animals

Anson and his "mini me"

Watching the lone elephant

Cougar Town!

Train ride - yes we were the only ones on the train!

Lily said the train ride was her favorite thing at the zoo

We stopped on the way home and ate dinner at the Olive Garden. We didn't get home until 8:30. Once we were home, we gave Lily her gifts from us. Beach toys for our vacation...

A baseball and bat

My Little Ponies. We also got her a princess dress up set and a sticker album set.

Dillon has a new trick. He makes this silly face that really makes us laugh. We say "Dillon, make your face," and he will do it on command!

Another shot of his face

Dora and Diego colorforms!

A cute video of Pickle doing his silly face while we were eating lunch at the zoo. Warning, though, I dropped the camera towards the end of the video :)

My Mother's Day!

I had a great Mother's Day today! Here are a few photos from my day!

Babe let me sleep in until 9:30 and then he made me french toast for breakfast! He also bought me this beautiful charm bracelet. He gave me the charms this morning and we went to Kohl's later so I could pick out the bracelet. We ate lunch at Chipotle.

Lily and Dillon's birth stones are on the charms! I really love it!

Then, Anson let me take a nap and when I woke up he had made this wonderful homemade pizza!

Cute photo of Lily with her shades on. Yesterday while we were cleaning we had the music on and the kids were dancing around.

Thank you, Anson, for a wonderful Mother's Day. I love you!

Pretty Pretty Toenails

On Sunday, we bought Lily a pair of light-up Dora sandals. I told her we should paint her toenails, and when we got home from shopping, she asked me to paint them. So, after our baths, I painted them, and she sat really still while I did. She even sat in the chair for about 20 minutes to let them dry!

She couldn't wait to get to Nana's Monday morning to show her. Nana said that Lily kept asking her all day if things would mess them up - like getting in the sandbox or putting on her shoes. She's such a little diva!

This is from last weekend. Lily had "her family" together on the couch :)

Birthday Parties!

The past two weekends we've went to birthday parties. The first party was Zachary's 3rd party last Friday. And yesterday was Luke's first birthday party!

Daddy and Dillon hanging out at Zack's partyThe kids pulling strings to open the pinata!

Blowing her whistle

The birthday boy!

Lily playing with her favorite thing, balloons!

Decorating cake cookies at Luke's party yesterday!

The birthday boy and Dill Pickle

My two favorite boys!

Lily playing with another little boy that was at the party.

Watching Luke and Megan open gifts. Lily helped too!

Two tired kids. They were both asleep within minutes of leaving Brent and Megan's.

I took these this morning. Lily kept asking if she could hold her baby brother.

A couple of videos of Dillon that I took this afternoon. Lily was asleep and Daddy was out shopping so it was just Dillon and I.

A couple of other updates:

• I was in South Beach, Miami this last week for work. I was gone Monday through Thursday. It was fun but exhausting, and I was glad to get home to my family.
• No bites on the house yet :( Our next open house is May 23.
• Dillon is walking better and better every day. He says "mama" and "dada" and waves hi and bye. He also shakes his head no when he doesn't want something. Especially if you say "Time for nightly night."
• Lily amazes us everyday when her vocabulary! She has an awesome memory too. She is definitely transforming into a little girl right before our eyes.
• We are looking forward to the weekend of May 14-16 when a lot of the family is coming to town for a visit!
• We are thinking of taking a vacation soon! Can't wait to make plans!