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!

Easter Princess

Finally a few photos of Lily in her Easter dress!! She looked like such a little princess!! She was dancing in the full length mirror and saying "hi princess", of course those photos did not turn out! I've decided that this dress will be so cute this summer out in the grass, barefoot and with her fairy wings on. I'm going t make a point to get photos!!

Snow an Easter?? I mean seriously, enough is enough already!! Can we please have spring!!?? I at least had to take a few photos outside, even though it was COLD!! My child really should have had a coat and hat on, but sometimes you have to be cold for photos!!

Love his photo of Lily and her Daddy!!! She wanted nothing to do with being held onto either, she wanted to play in the snow!

We haven't gotten any results back from Lily's blood tests or her X-rays, hopefully soon we will know something, but no news is good news in my book! For those of you that I worried, I probably should have explained a little more why she had these tests done. The reason she had her tests is only because she is so little. She is a tiny little peanut, she is 26 months and is only 21 pounds 4 oz and she is 31 1/4 inches tall. The child isn't even on the charts yet! Now mind you her birth parents are only 5'2 and 5'3, so I believe she is going to be small, but the Dr. just wants to check everything out. I'll keep you all posted!

Not much going on here, just waiting to get Rob's suburban back from the shop. We haven't driven his truck since before Christmas!! His truck should be back any day now, we had to have the transmission worked on, UGH!!!! Paying out all that money is just no fun!!! Oh well, what do you do?? It had to be done!!

Happy Tuesday!!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter!!! Just a few quick shots from this morning.

Lily finds her Easter basket!

Lily Finding Eggs

Lily throwing eggs in her basket

I found them all Mommy!!

We had a great morning here, just relaxing and playing with Lily's bubbles from the Easter Bunny! Since its cold out, what the heck, we'll blow bubbles in the house!!

Lily had so much fun coloring eggs last night! Papa and Grammy and Auntie Robynn came over to color eggs too!

I have lots of photos to share from last night and more today after the princess gets all dressed up in her Easter dress to head to dinner!!

Have a wonderful Easter!!

She's a Trooper!!!

My little peanut is such a trooper!!!! She had to go have blood work and an x-ray yesterday and I was really nervous!!!!! When she was little we had to have blood drawn and it was terrible, I mean shoes were flying off, she was kicking right out of my arms, it was UGLY. Well, this time, she did amazing!!! She sat down on my lap put her arm up on the chair rolled up her sleeve and was ready. She never shed a tear, never flinched, nothing!! She had 7 viles of blood drawn and just sat and watched, it was unbelievable!! She kept saying "See it Mommy, that's my bood" it was the cutest thing ever, cause of course she can't really say blood. So needless to say, she left there with stickers covering her pant legs and her sleeves. The x-ray even went fast, we got it on the first try!!!

We left there and had to make a trip to Target and she told me she was hungry so I asked her what she wanted (usually she says cereal or cereal bars) but this time she said nuggets and a burger. So off to Burger King we went!!

We are gearing up for Easter at the daycare. We are having an egg hunt and the kids will get their Easter baskets. I think I am officially prepared and have everything. I wish Easter didn't fall in March cause now we have to have the egg hunt in the house, which is just no fun in my book!! Since the egg hunt is in the house, we aren't doing real eggs, which kinda bums me out, cause I like coloring eggs with kids, but I REALLY don't want the mess of real eggs in the house! I'm lucky enough that my good friend Heather took all the eggs and is going to fill them for me! Thanks Heather, you're the bomb diggity girl!!

I'm so looking forward to a crop with my MI SISters on the 29th. Me and two of my friends are driving to Brighton to scrap and stamp for the day. Can't wait!!!

Happy Hump Day!!

Thank You Janice

Once again I'm really slacking at this bloggin' thing!! I've been meaning to get these photos on the blog, so finally here they are.

Lily got a package in the mail last week from our wonderful (long time) friend Janice in CA! How cute is this sign??!!! Lily thought it was the coolest thing to get a box in the mail!! Thanks again Janice for all of the well wishes in the last year for our Princess!!

We are finally over the pink eye that Lily and our respite foster daughter had!!! Luckily no one else in the day care got it!!

Our respite foster daughter is going back to her foster parents tomorrow. We had so much fun having a baby around, and she was such a good girl!!

Tomorrow night we are having a new sitter for Lily, and I'm sure she will do great! Hard to believe that I used to take care of her in day care. I hope the Princess is good for her!

Here's a Friday fill in for ya'll!! Happy Friday!!

1. Contact may cause a lack of sleep (if you know what I mean!!).
2. The parties hereto do mutually agree to not talk about the transmission that it is in the shop cause it only leads to fight!!
3. Disney parks are a blast and I can't wait for the Princess to be old enough to go!!
4. A Mailbu and Diet sounds really good right about now!
5. I positively am going on a budget.
6. When the princess says I Love You Mommy it always makes me smile :-)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to (would it be really boring to say a relaxing night)??

It's March Already?!?!?!

OMG, I can't believe it's March already!! I have lots to update on, but just haven't had the time, and I don't know either, just wanted to stop in and say Hi and tell ya'll to have a good weekend!

I'm off to a 12 hour crop tomorrow, yea for me!! Although, I will be missing the "SISiversary" coming up in June, I'm SOOOOOOOO bummed!!! Really wanted to meet some of my online friends in person! Oh well, maybe next year!!

Some VERY sad news, my cousin Bobby passed away yesterday morning. He was such an inspiration to all, he was probably the "strongest" person I've ever known! I will be dedicating a post just to him very soon! So please keep ALL of our family in your prayers, especially his wife and two children!

Seriously, I have to go.......