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Sep 14

Whew, that was a long post.

Haven’t posted lately cause I’ve been extra busy. Last weekend, we threw my folks a surprise party in honor of my Mom’s 50th birthday and their 30th wedding anniversary. Lots of work to get it all pulled together without them finding out, but in the end, we did it. We had about 100 people show up to surprise them, and it definitely worked!

Anyways, the point is, I’ve been busy lately, but not busy blogging! So, this is going to be a very long run-on post. Sorry :)

Ok, where to start? How about here:

So, this is probably old news for many people, but I had to include anyways. This sonogram is very old – we are having another tomorrow, and maybe I’ll update soon. Baby is due February 12 which makes me almost halfway there!

Here are some photos from our Labor Day getaway we took to Grand Lake. Went with some friends – Kelly, Sarah and Bo Kaiser.

A weenie-roast we had with my family a while back. The kids loved being outside by the fire and, more importantly, the swingset :)





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For the party, my sister-in-law, Jenny, and I made ’s cupcake bites. So fun! I would recommend this project to anybody who loves chocolate, sprinkles and has a little patience :)


The party was a blast to plan and even more fun to enjoy. We had hor’doerves and drinks and a dance. I think everybody had a great time – I know my feet were sore the next day! I had just started to be able to feel the baby move – and the loud music and dancing got the little one going!

My parent’s – 30 years ago!! Check out that suit on Rick!

Table decorations.

My brother gave a very emotional (ha) speech and we all toasted to 30 more years!

My parent’s wedding party! How cute is that?!?

Me and my brother.

My nephew enjoying one of our cake bites.

I didn’t have many great pics from that night because in typical Kylie-fashion, I took my camera, but no batteries!

I’ll wrap this up with some pictures of Miss Lilah, who is doing all kinds of cute things these days like dancing to “Ring around the Rosie” and wearing her hair in a ponytail!!! She also did something really crazy this weekend – she slept until NOON yesterday! That made 16 hours of sleep in one night! We couldn’t believe it and kept going in to check on her, but she was snoozing away.



Okay, I promise not to get so behind again! (Ya, right.)

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May 12

Celebration.

Seems we’ve had so many reasons to celebrate lately. My folks’ 30th wedding anniversary. Lilah’s 1st birthday. Mother’s Day. Celebration = lots of yummy desserts :)

We’ve been very busy with work lately, and all the other tasks of life. Preparing for our upcoming vacation to Boston, spring gardening, birthday prep and festivites, etc, etc. Anyways, those are some of my excuses for why I haven’t posted in a while.

I had a tramatic experience while making/decorating Lilah’s cake this weekend. It was late Friday night, after I had worked 12 hours, when I finally got around to it. I woke up the next morning and had to laugh at my efforts – and then start over. See for yourself:


(The first one is the cake in the back. Shameful, I know.)

Don’t have much time to write, but here are some photos from the party, and the party preparation:




These are me working on the cupcake picks and the chocolate chips that were to decorate the cupcakes. To make the chips, I just dyed white chocolate and dropped out babyspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Tip: You cannot color white chocolate with your average liquid-style food coloring. You have to buy the professional, paste-type stuff.


This is Lilah on the morning of her birthday. Pancakes, syrup, balloons = happy one year old.


This is the table that was sitting on our deck when we woke up on Lilah’s birthday. My (very talented) brother made it for her – isn’t it great?!?! (He also sells them, if you’re interested.)

The party:





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Feb 25

Blessed.

Welp, it’s official – Lilah is baptized! And it was awesome. I just want to say that I LOVE the baptism sacrament at our church! Rev. Cindy did a wonderful job – my favorite part is when the entire family and congregation take the vows with the parents.

And the vows that Brady and I took were just perfect. “Do you believe that Lilah has God-given talents that are unique to her?”

Yes! Yes!

“Do you vow to bring Lilah up in the Christian faith?”

Yes again!

I don’t think I stopped nodding through all the questions :)

Anyways, Lilah was an angel, of course – and the party went well. We had a great turn out of mostly family and a few friends. The perfect group to share such an occasion with.




Lilah got some great gifts – among them a handmade necklace from my folks, a personalized “Lilah” pillow from her Great-Aunt Mary Kay, and the SWEETEST bib set ever, made for her by her Aunt Casi. My favorite bib was the little weiner-dog with the bell on his collar.


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Feb 19

In the name of the…

This upcoming weekend is Lilah’s baptism and the celebration of it. After much discussion between Brady and I regarding when we should baptize Lilah, we have finally come to a conclusion. The date is set. We’ve met with the preacher and sorted out all the details. I bought her an adorable little dress (okay, TWO adorable little dress – I just couldn’t decide).

For weeks now, I’ve been practice-singing the traditional baptism song to Lilah:
Lilah, Lilah, God Claims You
God helps you, protects you, and loves you too.
We this day do all agree, that in God’s eyes, you’ll always be.

Ok, now don’t quote me on those lyrics – but I LOVE that song. And, conveniently, so does Lilah! I think she likes hearing her name in it. Plus, it’s better than the “I see you’re hynie” tune that I was singing before this.

Anyways, in preparation for the celebration, I’ve been having some fun. It all started with these great damask paper plates/cups/napkins that I picked up at Wally World a long time ago on a great discount. I thought some day I’d use them when one of my girlfriends needed a bridal shower, but alas, this came first.

I loved the colors mostly, but also the pretty pattern. So I decided to make this a theme for the baptism party and have been working on some fun decorations to match:

These little picks are for the (chocolate, or course) cupcakes that are yet to be made. Found the idea on flickr.


And I’m not quite sure where the garland is going to go, but thought it seemed fun anyways.

Anyways, we are getting very excited for the festivities this weekend – especially because we get to see all our nieces and nephews from out of town. We’ve been telling Lilah what a special day this is and even took her to the church service last week instead of leaving her in the nursery. I think she’s excited too :)

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