Little Lily

My sister and her husband welcomed Liliana to the world on April 20th at 8:12pm.  I was able to go to the hospital and see her shortly after she was born for a few minutes.  Josh and Alannah had to stay home because kids aren’t allowed in the hospital.  So on Sunday we headed over to my mom’s house for a visit so Alannah could meet her new cousin.  When we first got there, Lilly was eating so we had to wait a bit.  By the time they came out, Alannah was in full playing mode so she didn’t really care much about the baby.  She went over and looked at her for a minute and then went back to playing with her toys.  After a while she came back to see her and seemed more interested in her.  She kept petting her hair and seemed very concerned every time Lilly cried.  I was afraid she would be jealous but that wasn’t the case at all.  We look forward to many more visits with Lilly!

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Alannah’s New House

At the beginning of the year we started the process of buying a new townhome.  After a TON of paperwork (and still more to come) we’re a little less than two months away from our closing date (scary!).  The new house is a block away from Alannah’s daycare so we drive by it at least 3x’s a week.  We usually drive by on the weekends as well to take pics of the progress.  We’re trying to get Alannah as excited and prepared as possible because it is going to be a huge adjustment for her when we move.  Whenever we drive by she screams, “Alannah’s new house!” from the back seat.  We’ve looked at the model a few several times and she loves to run up and down the stairs.  So whenever we talk about the new house she talks about the stairs and her new room.  We’ve been trying to explain to her that Grandpa is staying at Grandpa’s house; which I think she sort of gets. 

The builders are making progress and we had our first walk-through a couple of weeks ago.  Here’s some of the progress over the months and our design choices:

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And the first official picture of Josh and Alannah in the new house:

I cannot tell you how excited I am to decorate.  I think about it a little too much and tend to overwhelm my self, but I know it will all come together eventually.  I have a ton of fun ideas for Alannah’s room.  June 22nd we’ll be here before we know it and we’ll be signing our lives away!

I think she's pretty cute...

Check out some pics from our recent session with Angel :)

Easter

Easter was a lot of fun this year now that Alannah is more aware of what's going on. She was excited for the Easter Bunny to come and to find eggs! We colored eggs on Tuesday night because we though daddy would be working until Sunday morning....but he ended up getting Saturday off. We spend Saturday morning at VG riding the choo choo (one of her favorite things to do) and had lunch. After nap time we headed over to Josh's aunt's for "Mexican Easter" :) I forgot my camera so I have no pictures of that, but it was a ton of fun as always.


Easter morning we found what the Easter bunny left. She got lots of goodies! I think she got a total of 5 baskets from everyone! Nana came over for a visit and later Grandma, Auntie and Uncle came over. We had a fun weekend!


And now we are all sick! Boo! I just hope we're all feeling better by the weekend because we have family pictures to take.

I'm Back!

It's been almost a year since I last blogged. I got a little sidetracked...but things are back on track and I'm ready to try this out again (and learn some more about it)! Even if nobody reads it, that's ok because I'm using it as a tool to help me keep track of memories. We've been busy this last year! Alannah turned 2 and we took our first family trip to Disneyland. So much fun! Alannah loved it and we can't wait to go back. We also bought a new townhome! We're still in the process, but on track to move late June or early July. It's a little stressful...but we are very excited! I promise I'll be back soon with updated pictures and fun stuff. It won't be a year again!