Look who got earrings =]

How sassy is this picture? It was taken on Saturday after me, Lilly, and Mom had a girls day out! While we were in the mall, I decided that I wanted my second piercing in my ear. Well, after thinking about it for a few minutes...Lilly decided that she had to get her ears done as well. Me and Mom talked about it for awhile and she called Dad and got everything straightened out. We told Lilly that she could get earrings too. We did let her know that it would hurt for only a minute. She didn't seem to mind so she crawled up in my lap and the two ladies counted to three and pierced her little ears. She screamed bloody murder and latched on to me for dear life. My heart was broken and me and mom just looked at each other like what did we do to this baby. After about thirty seconds, Mom held up a mirror for Lilly and her eyes lit up and she instantly stopped crying. Ever since that moment, she keeps looking in the mirror and says "Hey there pretty girl!" Such a sassy girl!!

And the little princess also wanted me to share this with you all...her new big girl bedroom!

As you can tell, she picked out Hello Kitty as her decor! She loves loves love Hello Kitty. Hehe notice the big pillow beside the bed...just in case the safety rails do not do there job of keeping her in the bed!

We call her Beautiful =]

Look at my sweet baby sister! Isn't she breathtaking, especially in the first picture. She has the most soft and girly features. I just love her chubby cheeks and her soft perfect skin. I just think that this little girl is beautiful inside and out =]

Back to normal

Everything is finally back to normal here at home. Lilly Bug is back to her sweet and sassy little self and I am all caught up in school. We're just trying to keep Lilly at home as much as we can right now due to all the sickness still in the air. The weather is very nice but we are scared that if she is outdoors to much, then pollen will get her allergies started and we don't want a repeat sickness no time soon! Nothing has really been going on around here, just hanging out. School will be out in about two months. I love summer break because the LiL Bug is all mine =] I get to be with her all day long. In the school year, I get so busy and its like I barely ever see her. Thats why I can't wait until summer time! Well thats all of the update I've got for now...not much I know. I hope you are all doing great!

What a face =] Sorry about the snotty nose, thats pretty much how its been the past month :\

We've got a sick baby girl

Lilly has had a 103 fever for the past two days :[ She is so pitiful and all she is wanting is to be loved on and cuddled with. We are off to the doctor for the second time in the morning. Please keep our little girl in your thoughts as she tries to get better.

*Update at the other blog*

We tried a photo shoot...

and this is what we got...

Overall, Lilly did really good with me taking her picture. She did a pretty good job sitting down and smiling for the camera. The only issue we have is that she wants to make silly faces when she sees the camera, therefore, all of her pictures are crazy. And then of course after awhile she gets restless and is ready to get up and be on the go again. Its so hard to believe that she was so photogenic at one time. hehe :)

Hope you enjoyed the pics...its been awhile!

New Look and New Pictures

I hope that you all like the new blog look. I was ready to get it all decorated for the Holidays. I took pictures of Lilly Jayde in her new hat today and thought that they would be perfect for the winter theme. Speaking of her hat, I have forgotten to mention the sad news...Lilly won't keep bows in her hair right now. We have tried everything but she just whines and eventually gets them out. I'm pretty sad. LoL. She does really good with the hat though and she doesn't even acknowledge it.
Well, here is a cute picture from this morning..ENJOY! She was laughing so hard when I took this!

Catching up with Lilly Jayde

Guess what everyone...I HAVE PICTURES! Its only a few, but I thought I would post them because everyone is getting anxious. Hehe I don't blame you...she's pretty adorable!

Things are going really good. We're just getting ready for the Holidays! I am very excited, I just love this time of year! I will be pretty busy the next couple weeks so this will probably be my last post for a little while...I'll be back though! Hope you all love the pictures!


Isn't she so beautiful!


Me and my LiL Bug!

Rylee Update

Well everyone! I am so sorry that I didn't mention Rylee in the last update. Its not exactly an update that I am very happy about. She is no longer staying with our family. At the beginning of this month, she was matched with a young couple who love her more than words can say. We had to drive about 5 hours to meet them and then 2 weeks later, we got the call that everything looked good and they would foster Rylee until the adoption was finalized. It was very tough at first to not have the sweet baby girl with her big smile and sweet little laugh. God is so good and now sweet Rylee has her forever family! We have talked to the family once since they have had her and she is doing great. We hope to meet up with them at Christmas time to pay our sweet girl a visit! Thank you for all your concerns!

as for Lilly Jayde...
she is not feeling to good this week, we think its just teething so hopefully she will be all better by the weekend. I wish so so bad that I had pictures to post but my camera broke a few weeks ago so I am saving up for a new one. I hope to have it in the next couple weeks!

You have to watch this...

Isn't she so funny. I love her so much!

2 Crazy Girls

I know that I usually show the precious, perfect, adorable pictures that I take of the girls. Today I wanted to change things a little bit and take a big step. Aren't these pictures so funny? I took both of them today and it was so funny that they both had goofy faces and their bellys are showing. I just had to make something with it!

Trying to get caught up

Hey everyone! I am here to get caught up with my blogging! As many of you are wondering, Lilly is feeling better! She was back in the ER on Sunday night whenever she wouldn't keep anything down and her fever got high again. She has had an intestinal virus. It has been tough but we are getting back on track. I haven't taken any pictures over the past few days...I took these today but she wasn't really feeling like a photo shoot. The picture on the right is my favorite! It shows her sweet little features and her beautiful smile! and did you notice her hair??? Awwww, it is getting so long! And yes, that is a hair barret, so cute! I hope that I am 100% caught up in bloggerworld and that I can soon get back to daily post!

The picture explains it

As you can tell by the picture, Lilly wasn't in the best mood today. That is why I have no more pictures. We don't think that she felt good. We are just going to go by how she does tonight and see what we think. She hasn't messed with her ear or anything so hopefully its not her ears. I will update tomorrow!

This picture is from Sunday before church. Isn't Lilly Jayde's dress so pretty? This dress is very special because it is the very first purchase that we made after we were matched with a birth mother. We bought it at a boutique that my mom's good friend owns. We bought this outfit and just in case, we also bought a little boy outfit because we were clueless to what the baby was.
We have been waiting for her to be able to wear it and after she grows out of it, it will be hung up on the wall in Lilly's nursery!

Lilly's 1st Sippy Cup

Awwww! My sweet LiL Bug had her first "sippy time" today and she loved it! At first she really didn't know what was going on, but after we showed her, she got it really good! Such a smart girl!!

FFFF Challenge!

Here is the FFFF Challenge! I saw the topic and I knew that these pictures were perfect!
Enjoy!

My Little Diva

First off I wanted to say sorry for my lack of post here lately but I have been really busy! It is crazy how adding one little baby to the house can make things crazy!
Lilly Jayde will be 10 months on Thursday. It is so crazy how the time goes by s0o fast. I remember whenever all she did was sleep and eat all the time just like it was yesterday and now...she is doing so much! I just love her age that she is now. It is very fun!!!
Well, my camera messed up last night so I am going to have to get a new one. We do have one other camera in the house but it isn't very good quality so hopefully we will be able to get me a new one very soon! I will post older pictures over the next few days.

Hope everyone is having a great summer!!!

Lillyana Jayde's Story...

I have been wanting to blog about this for awhile but I never have gotten to it. I have had alot of people ask questions about how we got Lilly, ask about her birth parents, and ask us why she was put up for adoption. Well here it is...

After I was born, my parents knew that they did want another child but just not right away. The plan was to wait about 5 years before they tried to have a little brother/sister for me. Whenever I was 3, my mom had to have a hysterectomy due to some internal complications. This being, they knew that naturally having another child wasn't possible. My parents had thought a little bit about adoption while I was growing up...mom was 100% for it but my dad was a little unsure. He had the fear of not loving an adopted child as much as he did me. Because of this, they never seriously considered adoption. The year I turned 13, my moms best friend adopted a baby boy through domestic adoption. She and her husband were not capable of conceiving naturally. My parents followed the entire process and they were there the day she got her baby. This showed my dad the unconditional love that is felt to an adopted child and that it is no different than loving your biological child. Now...my parents knew that they were both very ready to begin the process to bring home a new little one! The first plan was International Adoption. We looked into it and right as we were just about to make the decision on Korea, my parents came across profiles for domestic adoption. My mom read the stories and fell in love with the idea and made the decision that we would begin the Domestic Adoption process.
Thats when it all began...
Interviews, homestudys, paperwork, and waiting..lots of waiting!!! We waited for almost 13 months before we were selected by a birthmother and when we finally were...it was a 14 year old girl who lived with her family in a small house about 4 hours away from us. Once we were contacted by the agency, we were able to meet the mother and we knew right away that we wanted to go with it and so did she! She was 7 months pregnant at the time and she didn't know what the baby was (which made it even more exciting!!) We would visit Lilly's birthmom 2 weekends out of the month for the next 3 months and went baby shopping and did all the fun baby preparations!
Then finally...
the day came that the baby was due! It was September 26, 2006 and birthmom was induced to begin her labor. It was a very long day but then finally at 7:22pm...I got the news! It was a baby girl. A sweet, perfect baby girl who we would call Lillyana Jayde! I will never forget the first time I saw her. My perfect baby sister!! Two days later, we brought her home and it was so hard to take her away from her birthmom. She cried and cried and kept saying that she wishes there was some way she could care for her but she knew there wasn't and that it would be best if we took Lilly and give her a successful life. We were willing to have an Open adoption but Lilly's birthmom said that she would rather close it up and end it now :( That was when we took Lilly home with us and we fostered her for a little over 1 month and then the adoption was finalized by the court. It was such an amazing expierence and I enjoy every minute that we have sweet Lilly Jayde! She is just perfect!!!

Sweet LiL Flower

Today Lilly had a follow up appointment to have her ears checked and make sure they were clear. Thank goodness, they looked good! She did really well at the doctors, normally she is clingy and whiny as soon as we walk in but today she was very happy and she even reached out to one of the nurses.

Lilly wore her new dress today and oh my it looked so cute on her! We bought it a few days ago at a children's boutique. It has pink and red flowers all over it and around the hem it has smocking. I took a few pictures of her before we left and they turned out so cute! Those are the ones up there ^ I scrapped them tonight and I thought that it turned out really cute! The words say "Laugh everyday" and this fit Lilly girl perfect! She is always laughing!!!

Lilly had her first taste of watermelon tonight and I did not even think to take pictures :(
She loveeeddd it!! I really think that she would've ate the whole thing if she could've! haha
Thats our little Piglet! :)

Hope you enjoy the pics!

Poor Lilly

Well, I have no pictures from today because Lilly doesn't feel well. She was just at the doctor yesterday and everything was fine. Her ears were clear, her chest was fine, all was well but she woke up through the night screaming and running a light fever. Today she has mostly just cried and fussed all day. We are going to take her back tomorrow to have her checked out. Hopefully it is just a cold that makes her not feel well.

Get Well Soon LiL Bug!!!

A fun day

Today was great! Lilly Jayde had her 9 month old check up and she did really well. Whenever we first got to the doctor, she was a little whiny and clingy...I swear she knows what the doctors office is. Once we got called back into the room, she was weighed and measured. Our sweet little Chunk'et is now up to 23 pounds. hehe, she is a tubby!!

When we got home, I took Lilly Jayde swimming and she loved it of course. After we got out of the pool, she took a nap and then once she woke up, we went to the park with Mom and Rylee. I don't have any pictures from that because I forgot to grab my camera off the charger :(
It was alot of fun though...Lilly loved the swings!

Well, thats all for today, I have Lilly sitting in my lap and she is making it very hard to type..

*Don't forget to check out Rylee's blog!!!

Have a good night!!!