Saturday, April 3, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Especially for our #1 Fan, Maryellen!
Cousin Maryellen emailed me about my lack of blog updates lately. Sorry hon! Here's an update on our lives... After Dillon's birthday party weekend, I went to California for a fitness trade show for work. San Diego is a beautiful city and I had a great time despite my cancelled flight Friday evening that forced me to drive to LA to make my red eye flight back to Cleveland.
While I was gone, Anson began decluttering our home. We put it up for sale March 4. He got us a storage unit and took 6 van loads of stuff over there. The following week, Anson went to California for week (yeah, it would've been nice to be there together but it didn't work out that way). While he was gone, I decluttered my closet and cleaned the house so our realtor could come take inside photos. We owe Nana and Papa a HUGE thank you for watching the kids overnight once while I was gone and once while Anson was gone. This allowed us to get a lot of work done.
This past weekend, we cleaned out the garage, cleaned up the yard and Anson painted the basement! We've been super busy the past few weeks! We are having our first open house this Sunday and we are really hoping someone will come look at it. Nothing worse that cleaning your house for an open house that no one attends. I hope that doesn't happen.
As for the kids, they are growing up so fast! Lily is potty trained! Hooray!! She's been consistently going in the potty (even #2) for over a week now. She even went while we were out in public over the weekend - once at Chipotle and once at Giant Eagle. We are so proud of her. It's so true what they say...kids will go when they are ready. Lily is talking a lot now. She's so smart, too. She picks up on things and has an awesome memory. We have conversations. On the way home, she will tell me about her day - what she ate, what she played, etc. It's really cool. She always asks about my day, too! She is in the "why? why? why?" stage, though.
Dillon isn't walking quite yet but he's surely getting close. He is really developing a little personality. He babbles more and more, and he LOVES his sissy. Except when she knocks him over, which she likes to do. He's getting a lot of teeth and a little bit of hair. Can't wait for him to be walking this summer. It'll be a lot easier to play outside with him.
I'm still trying to lose weight. I work-out twice a week with my work friend/personal trainer, Mike. I'm down 15 pounds. Slow and steady wins the race...I hope!
A few pics from our visit with Grammy and Grandpa over at Uncle Jeremy & Heather's:
While I was gone, Anson began decluttering our home. We put it up for sale March 4. He got us a storage unit and took 6 van loads of stuff over there. The following week, Anson went to California for week (yeah, it would've been nice to be there together but it didn't work out that way). While he was gone, I decluttered my closet and cleaned the house so our realtor could come take inside photos. We owe Nana and Papa a HUGE thank you for watching the kids overnight once while I was gone and once while Anson was gone. This allowed us to get a lot of work done.
This past weekend, we cleaned out the garage, cleaned up the yard and Anson painted the basement! We've been super busy the past few weeks! We are having our first open house this Sunday and we are really hoping someone will come look at it. Nothing worse that cleaning your house for an open house that no one attends. I hope that doesn't happen.
As for the kids, they are growing up so fast! Lily is potty trained! Hooray!! She's been consistently going in the potty (even #2) for over a week now. She even went while we were out in public over the weekend - once at Chipotle and once at Giant Eagle. We are so proud of her. It's so true what they say...kids will go when they are ready. Lily is talking a lot now. She's so smart, too. She picks up on things and has an awesome memory. We have conversations. On the way home, she will tell me about her day - what she ate, what she played, etc. It's really cool. She always asks about my day, too! She is in the "why? why? why?" stage, though.
Dillon isn't walking quite yet but he's surely getting close. He is really developing a little personality. He babbles more and more, and he LOVES his sissy. Except when she knocks him over, which she likes to do. He's getting a lot of teeth and a little bit of hair. Can't wait for him to be walking this summer. It'll be a lot easier to play outside with him.
I'm still trying to lose weight. I work-out twice a week with my work friend/personal trainer, Mike. I'm down 15 pounds. Slow and steady wins the race...I hope!
A few pics from our visit with Grammy and Grandpa over at Uncle Jeremy & Heather's:
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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
Grammy, Dillon, Luke and Daddy
Zack and Lily eating their cake 
Opening presents...
Luke, Nana, Jen & Zack and Megan watching Dillon open his gifts.
The best gift of all...our Dill Pickle!
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.
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.
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