They are so close to winning!!!

Mandy and Todd are sooo close to winning, they are only 1% behind. Please, please, please vote for them!!! You can vote once per day.

www.sunlitimages.com/blog

Uncle Ryan is coming and I'm going to teach him puzzles!

Keira is very excited that her Uncle Ryan is coming to visit and she would like to teach him how to do puzzles. Keira asks us to do puzzles all the time, but she doesn't actually want you to do puzzles with her, she wants you to watch her do puzzles so she can show off. She really likes it if you clap when she has finished one :)

I am sure I'll have pictures to post of the weekend later!

Vote for my Friends!

Hey all - I need some help.

I've got friends in Indy who have recently gotten enagaged and are on a very very tight budget for their wedding. They recently entered a contest to win FREE wedding photography from a great photographer in Indy. They are currently in 2nd place - they need your vote. Can you vote for them for me? You can vote once ever 24 hours and the contest runs through the end of the week - so if you could vote the rest of the week, that would be great! Just click the link below and scroll way down to the bottom and vote for Todd and Mandy. You remember what it was like to be young and poor right??? They are great people and would be really appreciative of our help!

www.sunlitimages.com/blog

Forgot to mention ...

I have now lost a total of 16 pounds! Yea! Only 6.5 pounds to go to get to my goal! Though I am thinking of upping the goal and adding 10 more pounds - we'll see how it goes!

Possible Papa John's Pizza for $0.25

IF the opening kickoff is returned for a touchdown during the Superbowl, anyone who pre-registers will get a Large Papa John's Pizza for $0.25.

http://www.papajohns.com/countdown/index.html

Birthday Birthday Birthday!

So we celebrated Miss Keira's 3rd birthday several times over the past 2 weeks. Below are a few pictures from some of the parties. It was nice to have family come in and celebrate with us - and since they all couldn't come the same weekend (and we'll have one more visitor next weekend), we just celebrated multiple times! Keira had wonderful time of course, she loves being the center of attention. All the presents we got her seemed to be a hit as we played with ALL of them multiple times yesterday. One of her favorites, but Mom and Dad's least favorite, is a piano that her Gram Gram bought her. Thanks, thank a lot - said very sarcastically.

Keira waiting very patiently for everyone to sing.

Mmm, Yummy!

She did pretty good blowing out the candles, she just wanted to get too close.


See that smile, loves the attention!

She loves icing, the cake she could do without.

She got art supplies for her b-day - this is her saying "TaDa"

The piano, did I mention it also has a microphone that has no volume?!?

I've also got a video or two to post, but I can't find them on the computer at the moment, so I'll try to do that later.

My "baby" is 3 today

I am sure you can all relate ... I am happy and sad all at the same time. I love watching her grow up and see all the new things she can do everyday, but sad that it is all going by so quick. I sit her and think about her birth and can still remember every single minute of that day starting from the moment I went into labor during Wheel of Fortune. I was scheduled to be induced on Thursday, this was Tuesday, and I had planned to spend Wednesday getting my nails done, having a nice lunch out, etc knowing that this child had decided that she was not coming out unless she was forced. Well, you know how the best laid plans go, right? Out the window. I went into labor tuesday night after working all day. This was the only day in the last 2 weeks that Wade had not left work so that he didn't have to come back should I go into labor. He had given up too. So while timing my contractions, he was shooting out e-mails left and right trying to finish up a few things. It was rather comical. Little Miss Keira arrived in this world at 2:48 AM via C-Section (because of fetal distress - she had the cord wrapped around her foot twice, which was causing heart decels with the contractions). 8lbs 13oz, 21 inches long. Brief stay in the NICU because she had swallowed some fluid, but other than that, perfectly healthy. Our life changed forever that day and we would not have any other way. I love you Keira, Happy Birthday!