Meet Sophie!

We had so much fun with Lily at Build a Bear. She got to pick out the animal of her choice and go to town! She picked Monkey and she is soo cute! So now this will be our tradition for Gotcha Day, we will go to Build a Bear every year!

Monkey is getting stuffed! (Lily wasn't so sure about the noise, but didn't want to leave Monkey)

Kissing the heart that gets sewed inside Monkey

What ya doin' monkey? About this time when Lily was checking out Monkey, she stood back up and announced to all around her that Monkey had boogers! The inside of the Monkey's nose is darker that than the outside. I laughed so hard, I probably started something terrible. I hate to see boogies in Lily's nose, so I HAVE to get them!! She'll tell ya that Mommy pick noses, not Lily!

The first thing she did was give Monkey a kiss

Monkey gets a bath and a brushing

A girl after her Mommies heart! She went straight to the clothes to pick out stuff.

Monkey needs these shoes Mommy!! (yep, she's all mine)LOL!!

Monkey's new outfit

Meet Sophie!

Happy Monday Everyone!!!

Gotcha!!!!

Today is Lily's Gotcha Day!!!

One year ago today, Lily's adoption was final!!! We will never ever forget how excited we were to finally have the little girl we had been dreaming about since she was 4 months old and came into our lives. 11 months of worry and sleepless nights finally came to an end!! Our adoption worker called to let us know that the judge had signed our adoption petition!! You can only imagine how I cried!!! Of course I immediately called Rob at work and he couldn't even hardly believe it, he said he'd believe it when we had the actual adoption paperwork in his hands. I called Mom and she bawled like a baby, I called Dad and I think he was crying too!!! Then I called my Sister and I'm pretty sure she was crying!!! Then of course I proceeded to call ALL of my friends, and if I could have stood on my roof and had a fireworks display, I would have!!

Lily came into our lives and immediately won over my heart, and Rob's sooner than he will admit!! She just fit perfectly into our lives! She is so easy going, go with the flow outgoing little thing! I truly believe that everything happens for a reason!! I now know the reason I was given grim news at 27 years old, I didn't understand then why I was told I had Cancer and needed to have an immediate hysterectomy. I do know, God must have know that this little girl not yet even thought of would need Rob and I, and I am so great full! I would go through it all again, a million times over if I knew that this Princess would be ours!!! EXACTLY 6 years to the DAY of my hysterectomy, our adoption of Lily was final, you can't tell me that was a coincedence!!!!

We are heading to Build A Bear tomorrow night to start our Gotcha Day tradition!

Did you guess right about what today's post would be??

Look how much my baby has grown since 1 year ago. I can hardly believe it!!

Stay tuned........

For tomorrow's post....

It's a super special, really important day!!!!!

Can anyone guess what is so special about tomorrow April 10th???

Friday Fill In's

1. Tonight I saw (ok last night) I saw my Dad for his Birthday, Uncle Ray and Aunt Louise.

2. Listening to music by Eminem always makes me wanna dance!

3. Splitting a few appetizers between friends is smart!

4. Some of my online girls like Anna and Luz are people I'd like to get to know better. (I've never met them, but they always make me laugh!!)

5. The smell of lilac's reminds me so much of springtime!

6. Laugh when you really want to cry and that makes it all better.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hanging out with my sorority sisters and their hubby's to play some texas hold-em, tomorrow my plans include a birthday party for my sweet Bella and dinner with the family for Dad's birthday and Sunday, I want to scrap!

Photos to come soon!!

Happy Happy Birthday Papa!!

Happy Birthday to the BEST Papa in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!

I love you Papa!!!

Just a quick Happy Birthday to my Daddy! I love you Dad!!

I love this photo of Dad reading to Lily, her favorite book, "There's an alligator under my bed" I think she probably knows all the words to the story! The first thing she does when she gets to Papa and Grammy's house is grab one of their hands and says "mon" and they go to her room and get the book. She "sees" alligators everywhere, and we talk about alligators EVERY day!

Anyhow, it's almost Friday, so just maybe I'll blog tomorrow!