Updates & Potty Training

My stock pile cabinet :)
Saved $70.00 bucks at the store with coupons

With her cousin Brooks

Her friend Kendra

Became Best friends

Watching the fireworks

Looking at the fireworks with daddy

Her first boat ride

Wating in the car for it to stop raining.

Okay so I have not been on in awhile but it has been super busy here at the house. I started back Grad school for my masters. I had taken a semester off but now we are back in full swing and its been rough. Not only school but having a full time job & lily at the same time. We are currently potty training now which she is in full steam ahead. We are on our 4th day of no "panties" as she calls them for nap time. She thought she could defy all odds and not wear them to bed last night. After 3 long hours around 12am I heard the dreaded cry and kevin and I both knew what it was. I told her before she went to bed that she would need a diaper but I wanted to let her do what she wanted. We are so blessed that she is a healthy little girl. She brightens are day always with her "Hi Yall" we do not know where she got that from but she sounds like a true Paudling county resident which is a little scary.. :) We went to Hiram for our first set of fireworks. I was a little scared that she was not going to like them but she LOVED them. At the end she said "do it again" It rained on the 4th so we left before they shot them off in the sqaure..

I have been super coupoing lately.. We have a little stock pile cabinet now and about 16 things of laundry detergent. Its really fun to do and no Im not like the extreme people who buy pointless things. I buy things that we use or will use. I think my husband would kill me if I came home with 200 packs of gum or 400 bottles of Advil.. Those EXP. I have saved over $600.00 for the past 7 trips I have gone.. I love doing it and I love seeing my total go from $230.00 to $120.00 like it did today.. :)

Easter & Updates

At Daddys bball game
Playing dress up

Yes mommy.. oh this look of little miss innocent

wagon ride...

easter egg time

Easter Bunny left it at her door

Hunting eggs

Well Easter has come and gone and it was amazing. We had family over at the house for dinner and Lily played. We went to Summerville on Sunday and surprised Kevins Grandparents at church. Lily did great and sat through the service. Overall a great weekend filled with new and exciting memories.

Lily's First Visit to the GA Aquarium.

Beautiful
Another Pretty One

Daddy & Lily Looking at the Tropical section

Our Little family

Whale Shark

Looking at all the fish.

Looking at the star fish with daddy.

So we took lily to the GA Aquarium and she had a blast. From touching rays and sharks.. little ones of course to getting scared by a giant shark passing her at eye level (which she laughed afterwards) we had a great time.

Here are a couple of pictures of miss bug.

Lilys 2nd Birthday

Granna Made Her Cake
Playing

Bubbles!

About to Start Singing (Thanks to kristin Pendley for this picture)

Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles!

Eating yummy cupcakes..

Pizza Time!

Family Birthday Party!

She just blew out her candle

Granna (Kevs Mom) made her Tinkerbell cake too.

So Lily had a great second birthday. She had her family party on Sunday Jan 23rd which we had a tinkerbell theme party. I put together 36 flower puff balls made out of tissue paper which took forever but lily went "wow" when she saw them hanging from the top. She had a great time and we had lots of good food. We also had her friends party at Little Bears Indoor Playground in Kennesaw. She had 14 of her friends there. She had blast. I was so excited to see one of my friends who I knew when I was Lilys age and she has a little girl that is the same age as Lily too. She was having a blast running through the bubbles and screaming. We have lots of good video and pictures of her. I could not have had a bigger smile on my face when we left there because of how much fun she had. Lily sat with all the little kids at the table and ate her pizza and cupcakes which mommy made a mistake and got "red" icing so it kinda stained lilys hands and the other kids but it did come off in the bathtub. Anyway We had a great time and I am grateful to have such wonderful friends myself to have shared it with and their children to share it with Lily.

Christmas 2010

Looking at her gifts

Seeing her gifts from santa

Letting the dogs in the back door

Christmas at the Hammitt House

So Christmas was wonderful this year. Having family and friends is a truly blessed feeling. It was a beautiful white Christmas this year which Lily just loved. We got lots of video of her playing in the snow. Santa came with lots of gifts in which lily loved too. We got to have family over on Christmas Eve and I cooked my very first Ham in which it was really good I must say. We got to go to Aunt Amys the next morning and eat breakfast and enjoy family time. It's all about family to me, without family I think things are sometimes impossible. Family is about support and love. We did not get to go to kevins side that afternoon because the snow was coming down pretty hard and we did not want to drive on the roads to Summerville. We did however get to go the next day and enjoy Christmas with them. Christmas day night we ordered a pizza !:) the fun of not having very many groceries in your house and at last minute things not going to plan. I felt bad the the delivery guy as he slipped up our driveway when I asked him if it was bad out there.. Sorry :)

Overall it was a great Holiday and many more holidays to come. Our time has been spent with kevin being off is trying to spend as much time together as possible and building warm fires to sit by.

Dear Lily:

I hope that you had the best Christmas ever. Your face was priceless once you got awake and looked at all of your presents. I cannot beleive that you are about to be 2.. Time is going by so fast and you are starting to become a little girl of your own. I hope that you have all that you want in this world with family, love and as many things mommy and daddy can offer to you.

I love you bugster.

love mommy .

3 more update pics..

Getting ready for bed
Your first backpack with a baby.

Already putting you to work

Time Has Gone By so Quick

Getting your breathing treatment
Sleeping with mommy while you were sick

Shopping away

This has to be one of my favo outfits of yours

Drinking a milkshake with gammi

Hey there little one. Mommy has been very bad not updating your blog so here I go. There has been so much going on with you since I last posted. You are a bundle of joy and might I add a little hotty totty attitude.. You are very quick to say "no" which in my opinion is your favorite word. Lily, you wanna go to the potty or go pee pee on the potty, "no" you say.. Oh well.. Its very cold right now and daddy is actually out of school today because in GA when the roads have once ounce of ice on them we shut down. :) You are growing so fast and learning so many new things. You can say your ABC's all the way through.. Some of the letters might not sound like them but you sure do try. You are putting words together which is always nice but I know you will get more comfortable with that as time goes on. Daddy and I cannot wait till christmas. We went kinda overboard, but we could just not stop. You love "da-ka" santa of course. I dont know how santa came out "da-ka" but it did.. I let you try a hot dog for the first time the other day and you loved it. Don't get used to it because they are filled with sodium :) Your hair is getting so long well it's still short but its getting longer. I am so excited for your 2nd bdays to come up. Tinkerbell is going to be your family theme and Minnie mouse is going to be the friends theme. You were sick a little while ago with RSV and then you got mommy and daddy sick. You had to go on breathing treatments which they are not the best in the world to give you but you had to have them. A funny story: we were riding back from Ross in Hiram and we stopped to get chic-fila with gammi. On our way back you decided that you were going to puncture the side of your cup with the straw and it started to go everywhere. I grabbed it and therefore it got all over me. It looked like I had an accident along with your pants too. Luckily we did not have to go anywhere after that. You told me "sorry" and looked down because I told you no> It was okay because I laugh about it now and did a little in the car after I got dry. You are on the "UP" movie kick. You bring me the PS3 controller and say "doug-y" we have probably watched it about 13 times this week along with all the other movies that you have. Baby girl we love you.

love mommy and daddy.