Down on the farm

We've enjoyed spending Sunday afternoons at our friends' house watching football. Lilly and Cooper like to play together and she really loves trying to dive out the door of the inflatable jumper!

"Who me? Cute in these overalls??"

Sometimes we play outside and wait for Daddy to get home from work!

I just love this goofy grin!!

Date night: Razorback game

A big thanks to the grandparents for giving us the best date night ever! Free tickets to the Auburn game and free babysitting for 7 hours! Woo pig! My favorite part was walking from the parking lot (really far away) to the stadium. It's not very often that Matt and I just get to walk somewhere and hold hands!! There were soooo many people along the way. All dressed in red and white, tailgating, and yelling at anyone who dared wear blue and orange on our campus!

We had such a great time. It was fun to be on campus again and reminisce, eat some hot dogs, and watch a really good football game. Typically I have a hard time even knowing where the ball is during a football game. The players are very still and then they scramble around like crazy and I'm just trying to find who has the ball and Matt is hollering about some kind of play that didn't work out and then in 0.7 seconds they stop! Frustrating! But there was one play, where they were on the 3 yard line, and like slow-motion I saw every step that player took when he ran the ball down 97 yards for a touch down! It was awesome!

I've been working on my recipe collection and trying to get new ones and figure out a meal plan that rotates so we don't get bored with the same 'ol same 'ol. (Don't even mention spaghetti around Matt...)

So I started a blog that I'm hoping my friends will get excited about and we can share recipes! It's www.brandnewrecipes.blogspot.com Check it out and email me if you want to be able to post! Right now I'm working a meal plan that will use all of the ingredients I have instead of leaving open jars of things in the fridge for weeks and tossing out tortillas that are questionable. I'll let you know how it goes.

A new family tradition has begun. We will be going to the corn maze every year. Although it was a little hot, we still had a great time. Lilly petted the goats, we walked through the maze, shot a corn cob out of a pressurized pipe gun, and rode a tractor to the pumpkin patch!

I guess Lilly wasn't enjoying the tractor ride.

I think Matt looks super studly in his new flannel shirt!!

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Walkin' Talkin' Baby!

She's on the move! Lilly can take several steps at a time now and walking is her preferred form of transportation. She's slow, but getting steadier everyday. She loves to walk holding our hands, too.

And the babbling has finally begun! She used to "talk" when she was younger and then all she did was blow raspberries so we're excited that she says "go go" all day long. I think "da da" will be next!

Caught ya, sock monkey!!

It's funny how she has such strong preferences at a young age. Why does she like Elmo so much? How does she know that Gerber Puffs are different from the organic Target brand? She's a smart cookie! She's getting better at Peekaboo and she's almost got Sooo Big down. Except it's kind of reversed right now. She will randomly throw her hands in the air and then we will say Sooo Big! instead of the other way around. She's training us well!

We went to the trail at Crystal Bridges this weekend. It was so beautiful! Can't wait for the museum to open!

Matt got pooped on by a bird.. haha!!

Fun times with GG at the Promenade!

I'm finally following the lead of my sister-in-law, Jill, and my friend, Lacey, who actually have a housecleaning plan/schedule. Jill has a fancy iPhone app that intimidates me but Lacey uses a written plan. I typed one up after looking at suggestions online. This is week two and I can tell a difference! The house is cleaner overall instead of the previously manic schedule of dirty for a week and super clean for one day. Just having one scheduled cleaning day and trying to keep up with daily tidying was kind of stressful. I would try to take a cup from the bedroom to the kitchen and find a pair of shoes along the way so I'd carry the cup and the shoes to the closet and see that the closet is a mess so I'd try to tidy the closet for a few minutes but find something that needs to be put in Lilly's scrapbook and then leave the cup in the closet and never get back to the kitchen to clean the dishes like I had started!!

But having a small amount to do each day is accomplish-able and rewarding. And I'll get stuff done, like cleaning windows and dusting baseboards that I never thought I had time for. It still needs some modifications and I'm open for recommendations! Thanks Lacey and Jill for inspiring me!

We tried finger painting! It was so funny to watch!

Here's the masterpiece! She gave it to Matt to take to work. Don't you think the orange blob in the top left looks like a bird?!