Nope I'm not gone yet...

Here is the deal...why I am not gone yet. The camp doesn't start until Thursday and I was going to be staying with a friend tonight so thats why I said I would be gone Wednesday-Sunday. Well, my friend had to cancel so now we are just going to meet at the camp tomorrow! I was actually kinda happy...thats one less day I have to be away from everyone!

I really don't have much to say on this post, so I thought that I would just post a picture of my puppy dog today! I have never post about her so I just knew I had to do it. Isn't she so cute? Her name is Prissy and she is a pug! We have had her since she was 6 weeks old and she is now 6 years old. Lilly Jayde adores her! They are very cute together!

Well everyone, this is it...until Sunday!

Just had to post this

This will officially be my last post until Sunday night. I thought I would post this sweet picture since it will be awhile before I am able to post again!

This was taken today during Lilly Jayde's nap! My mom would've freaked if she knew I went into the room while she was napping :)

ENJOY!!!!

My sweetie is home

We have our Lilly girl back! I was so happy to see her today! 2 nights without her is just to much. I am nervous though because when I leave tomorrow for camp, I will be going 4 days without her or my parents. I am actually a little nervous. I get homesick sometimes but I doubt I will because I know so many people at this camp! I most likely will not be able to post again until I get back from camp so it will most likely be Sunday night when you hear from me again. I will miss blogging and I'll be so happy when I get back!

Have a wonderful week!!!

*I updated Rylee Beth's blog earlier today!
www.waitingforrylee.blogspot.com

Babysitting

Well today has seemed really weird because Lilly Jayde isn't here. She is staying at our grandparents house for a few days because they don't see her much and they wanted her! This is the first time that she is away from us and it is harder than I thought. I knew I would miss her, but she is all I think about! Oh my, this little girl has me wrapped!! I love & miss you LiL Boo!

I am babysitting a precious little girl today named Carlee. She is so sweet, I actually think that Lilly will be alot like her. She is so girlie and is always talking about being a princess. We are all pretty sure that Lilly will be the same way...she already knows that she is the little princess :)

Here is the sad news. If Lilly Jayde doesn't get home before Wednesday, then I won't see her for a whole week because I am going to church camp. I just have to see her before I leave!! AHHH. Its killing me. I didn't take many pictures this weekend so hopefully she will come back home tonight and I will take some precious little pictures!

Until then, I have posted one of the little girl that I am babysitting, Carlee!

Rylee's Blog

I just made a new post on Rylee's site!

www.waitingforrylee.blogspot.com

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A busy day

Today was a very fun, but busy day! After breakfest, we went to a baby boutique with my aunt who is expecting her 1st child in 3 months! You must know that whenever me and Mom come out of this place, we never come out empty handed. Haha...we bought Lilly Jayde this outfit and head band/bow. As soon as we saw it, I just knew Lilly needed it. hehe
At first Mom wouldn't go for it but when I mentioned that the cupcake would be perfect since we were going to a birthday party she gave in. We told Dad that if we bought her another outfit, it wouldn't be a dress. He asked us if he could please see her in something other than a pink dress. So we figured a blue skirt would be just fine! :)

After the botique, we went to Lucy Li's 3rd birthday party! It was so much fun and the decor was just adorable. The theme was Finding Nemo and there were fishes all over the place and one was a clown fish just like Nemo and whoever found him got a prize! It was the cutest party ever, it was very creative. Now here is the sad part...on the way to the party I was looking through my camera and it went totally dead. No problem I thought, I have extra batteries with me all the time. Just not today because I had switched bags the night before. Uhhhhh I was so upset :(
Anyway...we all had a great day!

I LOVE MY LILLY LOU!!!

It was only fair...

that Rylee Beth got her own blog too!

www.waitingforrylee.blogspot.com

Pretty in Pink

Here are some pictures from today. These are from dinner time! Goodness, our little piglet loves dinner time! I didn't get many smiles because she was very sleepy. I just adore her big blue eyes when they have that tired look...they are so beautiful!

For those of you who haven't read my last post, we are going to be fostering a sweet baby girl names Rylee Elizabeth and we have decided that we will call her Rylee Beth! Tonight me, Mom, and Lilly Jayde went out and made the sweetest purchase ever! We bought Lilly and Rylee matching dresses, bloomers, and hair bows. The bloomers have their names stitched right across the booty!!! We do not get to pick them up until next week. We are going to save them until we get Rylee Beth, this will be what the 2 of them wear to church the first time that Rylee goes! I cannot wait!!

Tomorrow is an exciting day...Lilly Jayde will attend her very first birthday party. Her friend Lucy Li is turning 3!! Lucy Li came home from China when she was 11 months old! We met her and her family via internet last summer. They live about 2 hours away so we don't see them very often. We all cannot wait to see that little birthday girl and to see Lilly in her new outfit!
I will most definitely be posting pictures!

Here is a video I took this evening during dinner! ENJOY!

Here she is...

This is the sweet baby girl that will be staying with us! Her name is Rylee Elizabeth and she is just precious! We received this picture and all the information on her this morning via email. She is just to cute for words, I cannot wait to put bows in all that hair! Now starts the "fun" stuff. We have to have some interviews and sign ALOT of papers before she comes home with us. We hope to have her home by the 4th of July! However, we get to meet her next Tuesday. This is just so exciting!

Doesn't Lilly Jayde and Rylee Beth sound so cute together?
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Super Quick One

I don't really have time to post tonigt...it is late and Lilly Jayde fell asleep in the Pack-N-Play thats in my room so she will spend the night in here with me. Therefore I need to get the lights off before she wakes up.

My mom talked to our social worker a few hours ago and we will get the package with info on the baby girl in the morning! Her name is Rilee (sp) and she is 4 weeks old!! Tomorrow we will get a bunch of info/a picture of her and if I can then I will post it. I might not be able to post the picture until she is our baby. I am so excited!!! I can't wait to see how Lilly Jayde does with a tiny baby.

Have a good night!!!

My Little Fishy

Today was a very good day! Right after we got the news about the "new baby", we went out to the pool with Lilly Jayde, and we also had some family over. We got her a bathing suit last night! It is her first bathing suit ever!! It is the sweetest thing ever. Lilly just adores the pool. She is a little fish...if it were up to her, she would stay in there for ever. I took a bunch of pictures of her and the two above are my very favorite!! I cutified the picture with a program on my computer but I couldn't get some of the pictures to go through so I had to do some of the editing myself...I hope it looks okay.

I am still trying to get over the call about the baby girl that we got earlier today. We have decided that we are going to care for her!!! I am so anxious to see her and hold her for the first time. I bet she is adorable! As soon as she is officially our foster baby, then I will post pictures!

Here are more pictures from the pool. Tell me what you think! ENJOY

Cheeeese

She is always so happy!


Sissy is being silly!


Pretty Girl


What's that?


Lilly Jayde and Mommy


Big and Strong


My little swimmer


Big sister-Little Sister


Waving


Told you she was always happy...

God may be showing us a NEW plan...

Oh my gosh, I can't believe what just happened. The agency that we have done foster care with before just called us about fostering a 4 week old baby girl!!! Her parents just gave up full parental rights and she is now going to be a "foster care child" because she has no one to care for her :(
My parents have never done this kind of foster parenting before so they are both a little unsure. Will we fall totally in love with this baby and then get the call that she is being adopted? Or...will we be the ones to give her the forever family that she is longing to have? We do not know anything for sure yet but my parents feel like that God wants us to do this, besides why would he have made this happen if it wasn't what he knew we are suppose to do? We are suppose to be getting her profile and all the information very soon, we don't even know her name. I will let you all know whenever we do. I still can't believe this!!!

prayers would be great<3

A Rainy Day

Today was one of those lazy days. It has been raining since I woke up and it still hasn't quit. So we have spent the day inside. Lilly Jayde was so happy this morning right after she woke up so out came my camera for a snapshot photo shoot. The pictures were so cute because she had a messy mouth where she had just got done eating. Those are the pictures up there ^^^

Last night Mom and I got Lilly Jayde an adorable little hat from Carter's. It is a pink camo hat and lets just say...she doesn't like it. She won't keep it on for nothing. We thought that maybe she would do good with a hat since she doesn't mind hair bows but we were wrong. As soon as we put it on, she takes it off. She is such a goofy!!

Here is the only picture that I got with the hat on. Its not the best because she wasn't happy that she was being forced to leave it on for a picture. Hehe!

Um, could you get this off of me?


There's the happy baby girl!!!

Happy Girl Outside

Today was your basic day for us. I got up at around 9 to find Lilly Jayde in her highchair eating banana oatmeal and of course she was fussing because Mom wasn't feeding her fast enough. Hehe, she is such a piglet! Once she had her morning nap, I decided that it was time for a photo shoot! I dressed Lillyana up in her pretty little white dress and got her hair all fixed and then we went outside to get some pictures! She loves it outside so I know that I am bound to get a good picture! I discovered something great today...Lilly Jayde now has enough hair for me to pull the middle up into a "pebbles" hair do! Her few sprigs of hair pop through the top! I love putting bows in her hair, she even has a few pairs of pj's that have matching bows :) Little sisters are so much fun!!!

I was just thinking about how the end of this month will be our 8 month adoption anniversary. It is so crazy to think about life before Lilly, it almost seems like their wasn't life before her...like something was missing. Now we have this precious baby girl in our lives that not one of us can even think about life without her in it. She is just so awesome, I love her so much! God is so awesome, if it wasn't for him, then we wouldn't even know about our sweet Lillyana Jayde!!

Here are a few more pictures from today!

Playing with the grass instead of looking at Sissy


Pretty Flower


Playing in the grass


Being Silly

Father's Day...2

This is my 2nd post for the day because I didn't have much time this morning. Today was so amazing...Lilly Jayde and I gave our daddy his picture this morning along with a few other gifts. Then, after church, we had a big family cookout to honor all of the dads out there! It was so much fun-there was volleyball, swimming, horse shoes, and all kinds of games and fun!

Happy Father's Day Daddy! Me and Loodles love you so much! You are the most amazing Daddy ever! WE LOVE YOU!

Here is a picture that I took last night...she loves to give kisses!

Happy Father's Day!

I hope you all have an awesome Father's Day! We are having a big cookout to celebrate! Lilly Jayde and I got our pictures done to give to dad but our scanner isn't working so I can't share them today. I thought that I would post something that I am in love with!!! I just got the LumaPix program on my computer and I have been playing with it all night. I just did this picture of Lilly and I loveee it! I have already posted it, but now it looks much cuter! ENJOY!

Swim Pictures!

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Just click the play button and then once the album comes up, click the button in the right bottom corner to flip the page!

FFFF Challenge

I am going to try and participate in this weeks photo challenge that comes from the Double Happiness blog! The theme for this week is love and I knew that would be an easy one. Here are the pictures...



The picture on the time is the first time that I ever held Lilly Jayde. I will never forget the way it felt knowing that I finally had a baby sister! The feeling was almost magical the first time I held her! I am so in LOVE with this baby girl!!! The second picture was just taken yesterday. Lilly Jayde always smiles when you put the camera in front of her UNLESS she is posing with another person. That is why she is looking away from the camera. The person taking the picture has to jump around, make crazy noises, or play peek-a-boo behind the camera...that is why she is looking away. So funny!

A rainy afternoon

Today was an amazing day! We took Lilly Jayde out to the pool for the first time. She loved it! I would be posting the pictures but blogger will not let me soo...I am just going to put these pictures up that I just took. We just had a HUGE rain and it left us a pretty rainbow!

I will post the pictures of us at the pool as soon as it will let me!

My favorite...

This is my very favorite picture that I took today! I have been trying to get a good close-up for awhile now and I finally got this. I thought it was so cute!

Lilly Jayde's new talent

First off, I must say that Miss Lilly is feeling 100% better today! She is getting back to her eating/sleeping schedule and is a much happier girl. I took this video yesterday and I thought it was way to precious not to share! This is Lilly Jayde's new talent...waving bye-bye!

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I accidentaly deleted my layout.

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Picture Time

I just took this picture of Miss Lilly Jayde about 1 hour ago. She is feeling much better today so I just had to post a picture of her smiling face. Isn't that so sweet!?
What a cutie!

I am already back...and a very sick baby

Hey everyone, I am already back here at bloggerland! My surgery went great and I have had almost no pain. I decided that I just really wanted to come upstairs and check out my blog. Thank you for my comments, get well emails, and prayers.

Lilly Jayde is very sick...she was allergic to her medicine that was given to her for her ear infection. She is much better today but yesterday was bad. We did end up taking her to the ER because of her fever which was almost 104. So our last few days have been very tough but thankfully, we are all coming back together now. This is the first weekend EVER that I haven't taken one picture of Lilly. I have just left her alone with the camera because I know she hasn't felt well.

I hope you all have a great week, hopefully I will be able to get pictures tomorrow!


Here is an older picture that I took early last week.

Surgery tomorrow

This will be my only post for awhile. Tomorrow I am having surgery on my foot, I was born with a club foot and now my muscles aren't growing right so I need corrective surgery. I am soooo nervous, I have never been put to sleep before. I'm not really scared of pain, its just the hospital ordeal, ya know? So I guess Lilly Jayde and I will be back in about a week...have a good one, I will miss blogging.

Please Pray!

How cute is she going to get??

I just took this a few minutes ago. How precious is this little girl, my sweet baby sister!
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Nicknames

Today I thought that I would post all about Lilly Jayde's nicknames. We have soo many for her and they all fit her quite well. The funny thing is that she responds to all of them! LoL

-Lilly girl
-Lil Jayde
-Chunkey Monkey
-Ana Bana (we got that from Lillyana)
-Jayde babe
-Chunk'et
-Lillyana
-Lil
-Baby girl
-Loodles (don't ask. lol)
-and my favorie...Lilly Lou

I didn't take any pictures of her today, she hasn't been feeling to good today. We are thinking ear infection :( So I decided to post a picture from this weekend. Have a good day!

Offend anyone lately? ugh

Ok...today I was supposed to post about the weekend and how it was such a great one. We went to the zoo, the park, and did all that fun stuff with Lilly but after what happened today, that was bound to change.

Here's what happened...I was with a few of my friends today and one of their cousins came over to watch a movie with us. Mom came to pick me up and she had Lilly Jayde with her and my friends cousin asked me if Lilly and me had the same dad. I just told her no and didn't say anything else about it. Then a few minutes later me and my friend were talking about our Lilly "anniversary" that we just recently celebrated and her cousin said "Oh so she isn't really your sister?" I just gave her the look and said "Yes, she is really my little sister, my adopted little sister." and then once again nothing else was really said. Now, this is where it happens...this is where I almost lost it right there. Me and mom were getting ready to leave and Lilly Jayde was having a fit because she didn't want to ride in her carseat. I was trying to calm her down and my friend's cousin said "I wouldn't be able to deal with that since she isn't really your sister. UGHHH! I don't know if that would offend any of you but it really did me. I could feel my face getting red when I said
(in a raised voice) SHE IS REALLY MY LITTLE SISTER!!!! Oh my goodness! I don't understand why some people feel that way about adoption. I mean how could someone say that about this precious baby girl who I am so in love with??? She is my LITTLE SISTER and I will say that to anyone who thinks otherwise. Just because we don't have the same parents and we don't look alike doesn't mean that she wasn't meant for us. WHEW!!! That one got to me.

Sorry to make this an angry blog.
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Here is an adorable picture that I took yesterday, maybe this will lighten things up a little...

Lillyana Jayde...my little sister!