Pinecrest

Last weekend Bryan's family was camping at Pinecrest but we had to be back for church and I had just barely gotten home so we just went for the day (my kind of camping!)

The boys had fun cliff jumping in the lake 

 (Bryan blends into the rock, but if you look closely you can see him!)

Jilly ate her first ice cream cone and LOVED it!

Chad caught us some yummy fish

I think we'll make a habit of this "day camping"

One Year

Auburn, CA - September 2010 

Auburn, CA - August 2011

I guess it's a little less than a year, but still- it's amazing what a year can do!  I'm so glad we have our Jilly girl to go on adventures with us now.  

Gotta get down on Friday

Last Friday we were with my sisters and they kindly sang this song at the top of their lungs for us.

And now it's been in my head all day today.  Thanks girls.

Have you missed her around here?  I sure have.  I'm sick of taking pictures of my clothes!  Even though there's no picture today, trust me, I am jazzing up my jeans.  

I'm sure you've been wondering what Jilly has been up to lately.

- She started saying "mama" and even though she hasn't connected that mama is me, it melts my heart every time

- She decided she can stand all on her own which enables her to get into even more mischief

- At her 9 month checkup the doctor said to start feeding her more table food and nursing less (hooray!)  This week we've discovered that she loves graham crackers (just like her dad) and cheese (just like her mom)

- She's way into animals lately so we have to stop and look at any cats or dogs (or any other creatures we encounter which thankfully isn't very many.)  I can foresee many fights in our future when she begs for a pet and I refuse.

- She is so fun to play with.  She giggles so much when we chase her or play peek-a-boo.  And we found an old wrapping paper roll that has been endless fun.  Maybe she could stay 9 months forever?!?!

Hope you get down this Friday.  Bryan and I are going on a hot date here and I can think of no better way to get down on Friday.  :)

closet orphan

Yesterday the challenge was to find a closet orphan to bring out into the light.  I got this shirt as a gift a few years ago and I love it but it's too big.  I decided to give it one more try.  Belting it helped a lot but the neck was still humongous.  By 11 in the morning I was totally sick of adjusting straps and pulling the sleeve back up on my shoulder.  So, I took a yucky mirror picture and changed.  Goodwill will be receiving this shirt soon.

Shirt- H&M, Belt- Old Navy, Pearl earrings- Walmart, Shorts- Old navy, Plaid Flats- Target

blue

I realized yesterday why I like this whole 21 Day Challenge thing.  In high school, I lived for Spirit Week. This is like a big spirit week, except this time the intent isn't to look as ridiculous as possible.  All one color day (monochromatic day if you want to be sophisticated) was one of my absolute favorites in high school.  I dressed in head to toe pink and it was just as fabulous as you are imagining.  Yesterday I opted for blue.

Earrings- gift from my mom, Shirt- DownEast Basics, Skirt- made by me, Bracelet- necklace from Penelope's, Shoes- Famous Footwear (sadly I have no blue shoes)

layering

I missed the first week of the 21 Day Challenge but decided this morning I needed to jump on the bandwagon.  Today's challenge was to mix dressy and casual.  90% of my clothes were in piles on the floor to be washed, and my day consisted of laundry, baking bread, paying bills, finally unpacking and organizing, creating our menu for the week, grocery shopping, going to the library and begging for a new library card since mine broke in half for the third time, etc.  I decided dressy + casual just wasn't going to happen for me today.  So, I traveled back in time to yesterday's challenge- layering accessories.

shirt- H&M, pearl necklace- Penelope's (my fav. jewelry store in Richmond), other necklace necklace-H&M, green skirt- H&M (are you noticing a pattern?)  polka dot flats- old, Target maybe?

This is something I haven't ever done before but I think I kind of like it.  My double necklaces made my boring t-shirt and skirt outfit a little exciting.

The only problem was that my necklaces looked like this most of the day:

Oh, the joys of mothering.

Join in!  Find tomorrow's challenge here

Wizarding

Jilly and I are home from our trip with lots of sleep to catch up on and piles of laundry to do.  It's always hard to come back to reality.

On the airplane Jillian needed no small amount of entertaining.  For 90 minutes she ripped pages out of the Sky Mall magazine, looked at her book, played with some toys, watched in glee as I turned the reading light on and off and on and off, ate Cheerios, stuck her hand in my cup, spilled water all over my lap, and then did it all over again approximately 5,000 times.

We sat next to a guy who was about my age.  Near the end of the flight he said to me, "Are you a wizard?" I said, "Um, a wizard??"  "Yeah, you keep finding things for her to do, you're a Baby Wizard!"