Nakey Picture Time!!

It had to happen sooner or later. Every parent must have that incriminating photograph of their precious child with the "nakey butt". After all, how else are we going to embarrass her on her 16th birthday?

As Mommy was changing little LilyBug today, inspiration struck and the nakey photo session began. I (Joy) must admit, I am TERRIBLE at taking pictures. No matter what I do, my pictures always come out blurry. For every 1 picture that is in focus, about 300 are blurry. So..these aren't the best possible pictures, but they're the best out of all the pictures we took today. I'm impressed - Lily was not fussy at all - although she didn't want to look at me, she kept looking away (I guess she was shy about having her nakey little behind on camera!). Here are a couple more (and one with clothes on so no one thinks we are completely sick).

The last picture was taken on her "worm". It's a mat that lays on the floor with toys hanging above her. She LOVES to lay on her worm. I also took some video of her playing on the mat and will hopefully get it online soon, if Daddy can show me how to do it!

We love and miss you all!!!

Say, "Hello Kitty!"

They start so young, these women of today. Shopping that is... Lily couldn't resist modeling her new "Baby Kitty" outfit she picked up on a recent shopping trip with Mom.





We know what really happens after a big shopping trip don't we? ...She becomes a bit more like Dad.

Happy Valentines Day!

We are so in love with our Little Lillianna. We couldn't help but capture this golden nugget on the compact flash card. While watching our regular boring political tv programming we happenned to look over and see this....

Baby's Got New Wheels!

Thanks to the grace of God, and the amazing finance guy at Luther Honda in Hopkins, Minnesota, we have another new addition to our family. Meet the 2005 Chrysler Town and Country "MINI-VAN" ...that's right, we are now the proud owners of a mini-van!


Of course this excitment could never match the excitment of our first addition to the family...but we are none-the-less very excited and still a bit in shock (not sticker shock), but good old fashioned "I can't believe that really just happened" shock.

We started out Saturday morning thinking we would just "go look" and perhaps ask a few questions for clarification. Then we decided..."maybe we should wait"..then we thought, "ok...but we know we're not going to get one today"..."we don't have enough down"..."we don't have the proper paperwork together"...etc..etc. Finally we decided to head to the dealership and just get our questions answered. You can guess the rest of the story. Before we knew it, they were handing us the keys and saying "Congratulations". Except this time (thanks to our having both worked at a Honda Dealership in Tennessee) we knew what we wanted and how to not get taken. Yes, we got exactly the deal and the price we wanted.

We are still in a period of serious disbelief. We are LOVIN' the vehicle and now baby Lily can travel in style with all her gear. Now we just need to make four more friends, or have four more kids.