sweet lily

halloween 2009

halloween was fun this year. we passed out over 500 candy packets to trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood! pretty crazy. our friends matt & eileen came over to help with us. i failed to get a picture of them in their costumes. they were mary & joseph, which was cute since eileen will be having a baby in a month!

you asked for it, this year's halloween costumes...

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me jane, he tarzan (and monkey and baby banana)


baby banana and monkey


earlier in the day we went trick-or-treating at our little mall with xan and her mommy (megan). i threw eva's old ladybug costume on lily.


the monkey and belle

a review of halloween past...

in preparation for this years halloween costume unveiling i thought i would share with you all of our past halloween costume creations. all handmade of course (except for eva's costumes). please, enjoy...

2002 lumberjack and tree (the first year we dressed up)



2003 shaun was a cow and i was a milkmaid


2004 french painter and painting


2005 trashman and trash (eva in the belly)


2006 bag of fertilizer, flower, and ladybug


2007 dinner: carrot, peas, and a chicken


2008: a field (with for sale sign) and two mice (lily in the belly)


what ever will we be this year... i know the anticipation is making you crazy!!!!

lily and mommy

i think we look a bit alike!

8 months old

(for the one obsessive blog checker who checks my blog at least 4 times a day ~ you know who you are.)

lily is 8 months old! i have no idea what she weighs or how long she is. she certainly can't weigh much more than last month or be much longer. she is still much smaller than eva was at this age. i feel like lily has short arms and legs or something. i have to roll all of her clothes. she still only has two teeth and flashes them quite often. overall she is a pretty happy baby. still not sleeping "through the night" but is still a pretty good sleeper. she goes down at 6:15 p.m. gets up for the day around 7:00 a.m. but still gets up once or twice a night to eat. but whatever. we like her and think we'll keep her.

one last pic of the swamp daisy

in full bloom. is this what my blog has come to? i am boring even myself. i have nothing.

a lily progression

from happy to sad face all within 2 minutes.