Friday, January 16

Girls Night Out


Tonight I got to get together with my long lost sister Jenn. For any one that's reading this that doesn't know her, she was my bestfriend, my sister, from high school. She is the one that finally convenience me that I was pregnant when she called me to tell me about her bun-in-the-oven. I ended up being a month ahead of her (denial I guess you would call it.) We always planned to have our kids grow up together, but miles between us had put that at a stand still. Well, tonight she came to town and went out to dinner with my rents. I caught some pictures of them running wild after dinner was over...

Sunday, January 11

The New Camera

Yea! The new camera came in. And just as I suspected, it's a lot easier to upload pictures with. It takes awesome pictures:


Today I got some to show Riley's boyfriends in the future. That's right, bath time!



Is that a rat tail I see?



I also got some good ones of Karl teaching Riley to write her own name:






How cute... more to come!


Wednesday, January 7

Random Stuff

Karl saved up and got me this really cool camera off of eBay. I can't wait until it comes in. Maybe it will cause me to post more/better pictures on this blog and on Facebook. Now if we could just get a better computer so it was even easier!
Riley has now moved from headbanging to "That 70's Show" theme song and bending at the knees to any other music that she thinks is classy to moving her hands too. Now in a "Walk Like an Egyptian" motion she has added hand movement to her dances. As soon as I can catch this on video I will be sure to share. Normally, however, as soon as I get the video camera or phone out she immediately stops what she is doing and wants to see herself in action, even if I haven't gotten any action on there yet.
The Sit-n-Spin she got for Christmas from cousin Danielle, who thought "oh, this is a toy she won't grow out of immediately". She's already mastered it! I couldn't believe it because I didn't show her how to do it and she's only 16 months old. There's no way she could have known! I will admit to having "tried it out", you know, just to be sure it wasn't poisoness :) But, either way, it didn't work (they sure don't make things like I remember them when I was 10!) Well, I tried to get this on video also, I did manage about 10 seconds of recording before she realized what I was doing and got up :(
Her new thing is to turn on the loud music from the Sit-n-Spin then run across the room to Sing-n-Stage that Karl and I got her for X-mas and dance in the mirror. Then when the music FINALLY turns off, she runs back across the room and turns it back on and repeats the whole process. I have watched this go on for as long as 30 minutes! And it's not like the Sing-n-Stage doesn't have it's own music, I think she just prefers the music from the other toy.
Not much else going on in life right now, she takes up all of it, as it should be.

Thursday, January 1

New Years

New Years Eve started out rocky. I got off work early and Karl and I enjoyed a nice, quite beer lunch together. Then on to grocery shopping. We came home, cleaned the house (much to my procrastinating) and then made some snackie food.

The plans were for Karl's sister and brother in law to come over. It was quickly discovered that those plans would fall through. So on to the texting. I think we texted everyone in our phone book looking for anyone that didn't already have plans for the night.

Danielle and Hannah were the first to come over. Although Hannah couldn't stay long, Danielle actually helped keep us entertained for a long while. We enjoyed a naughty game of Dirty Minds, to which she kicked our ass. Afterwards she had to leave to make sure her house guest weren't having a party without her.

Then Garson, our friend, came over. While drinking Coca-Cola (looser) he did manage to fix most of what was wrong with our computer (no longer a looser.) Karl said he stayed until about 3, at which point I had been in bed for 2 and a half hours already.

Our neighbors made it over before midnight to share in the festivities. They brought some fun with them, but I really don't remember much after 11. I really shouldn't start drinking at noon!

So moral of the story, we started out with no one here and a ton of food. But the night went on, people came, stayed, and ate almost all of the food! It ended up being a great night. Hope everyone else enjoyed their New Years Eve.

Welcome to 2009!