Pumpkin

Remember when I rocked this Halloween costume two years ago? Look who wore it last night. Doesn't she look great!?!

WELL - Guess what Becca's doing right now....she's being induced to have Baby Boy! I can't wait!!!! Please send some good thoughts her way.

Pictures from Ohio - part 3

We had such a great time in Ohio and our last week there was very busy. We did a mini photo shoot with my niece Sarah, who is becoming a great photographer. She took some really cute pictures of McKay that I'm using for his birthday invites.

Our last couple of days there were jammed packed, because of all the festivities for Kristin's wedding. I had a blast being a part of her big day, and loved getting to see my friends from high school. I'm amazed at how after not seeing these girls for over 6 months it feels as if no time has past. While I'm glad to be home, I miss my family, my friends, and my Ohio!

Lo, Sakai, me and McKay

Lo, me, Kristin, Jen, and Emily

High school friends!

Pictures from Ohio - part 2

Tonight we had everyone in the family (minus Chad's family that now live in Texas) over to celebrate 4 birthdays (Becca, Matt, mine, and Jeff Conley's). It got pretty loud here and McKay was running around like a crazy man. Seriously. He was a little out of control, but that's a nice change from last weekend when he still sleepy from our flight and didn't know everyone. We're going to try to pack in a lot this week. I can't wait!

Cousins! Matt - 13, Lillia - 2 1/2, Sarah - 16, McKay - 23 months

Thanks, Daddy for teaching me how to dig for rocks in my church clothes! :o)

Sarah watching Lilly explore

Pictures from Ohio

We're having a great time in Ohio so far (aside from Sean having the stomach flu on the flight here!). We've just been hanging out with family so far, but honestly, that's what I was looking forward to the most anyways. Here's just a few of my favorite pictures.

Lilly giving her baby brother some love

Lilly and McKay playing with their car

Plenty of snuggle time with my baby

Playing at this great new park

Celebrating my parents' anniversary

P.S. Another GREAT thing about being in Ohio and having McKay around Lilly all the time is that he has been talking a ton! He's been saying "truck, car, mine, bug" and my favorite..."Becca!" Yeah, my kid who doesn't talk said Becca when he saw her yesterday. This kid can drive me crazy how much he can do, but won't!

Toddler Lab

Today was orientation for McKay's Toddler Lab program through the college. We were lucky that Sean had today off so he could take McKay and I went for the first 15 minute during my lunch. I can't believe he's getting to be such a big boy. Just the thought of him becoming this little man made me such a proud mom that tears began to well up in my eyes. Just before those proud tears began to flow...McKay took a huge handful of beans at the discovery table and threw them across the room making a huge mess. All the parents there looked to see who was responsible for this kid who was making a such a mess, that's when I wanted to cry because I was pretty embarrassed that I obviously hadn't taught my son the proper bean etiquette. Oh my Kayo. I was thrilled that he had a good time. Too bad for him, though, because he's going to miss the first 2 weeks of class while we're in Ohio. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

P.S. I wanted to wish a very happy birthday to my sister Becca, tomorrow!!!!

BFF

Is it weird that I consider McKay my best friend? Whatever. I don't care if it is weird because he is. I know that in the near future McKay will prefer to play with other kids instead of me, but I'm loving that Sean and I are his favorite playmates.

Guess where we're going next weekend? To OHIO!!!! Oh yeah! We'll all be there for a total of two weeks! I'm so excited to go home to see my family AND I get to see all my best friends from high school at Kristin and Garrett's wedding. I'll do my best to post lots of pictures from our trip.

"Let's all hurry to the flying Fairy School"

*Bonus points if you know what my title is referring to*

Today didn't go as planned, but then again, when does it ever? So the plan was to pick up our basket of produce from Bountiful Baskets at 7:30am (our scheduled time) and then go straight to IF to hit up Winco. Then we would come home, put McKay down for a nap, and be able to do something fun in the afternoon. Sounds like a pretty good day, right?

Instead McKay woke up around 6am which meant that he would need to nap earlier so we couldn't go to Winco when we wanted to. So he napped around 9 and then we just ended up hanging out around the house. Well, by 4:00 I was needing to get out of the house and tired of McKay destroying everything so we took him to the playground at my school. For the first time McKay became brave on the playground and climbed up to the high slide and then went down by himself. I was ready to catch him if he fell (nervous mom!), but he did great.

So not the day I had pictured, but we ended up having a good time. Sorry this post is kind of random, but I watching Sesame Street with McKay as I'm typing and this show does a pretty good job holding my attention and distracting me from blogging.

McKay with Mr. Potato Head's glasses

Me - "No, put them on your eyes!" Close enough.