Labor Day Weekend

You'll have to forgive me, a few weeks ago I tried to start my blog on our iMac in an application called iWeb. It's really cool how it works and I really enjoyed getting started...then I found out that I had to pay for it. I didn't get deep into the details, but just the word "buy" set me off at the time. I had already written my entire post on our Labor Day weekend festivities and thought to myself, I'll give Lila a bath and come back in and repost it to my blogger account.

That was 3 weeks and 2 days ago. Like I said, I'm sorry. I'll just go ahead and play the "we've been really busy card". Actually if you know me, you'll know that that isn't a lie! :)

So here's my post for Labor Day!!

We had a wonderful day today. We actually got to sleep in a little, with a little bribery to Lila. It was about 9:00 or so when we ended up getting up. We hung out and played this morning. Drank some coffee and ate some breakfast as a family. I got a few things done before Lila got down for a nap.

About 20 minutes after she crashed, unwilling mind you, we got a semi-surprise visit from Aunt Megan and little cousins Nicolas and Halle. They were quite disappointed that L was sleeping when they got here, but she must have known they were sad because about 30 min after they arrived, she started stirring! It’s so fun to watch her with kids. She just loves being around them. The looks that cross her face crack me up. It’s almost like she looking at me saying, “Mom, do you see what they’re doing? It’s so cool.” or “Mom, can I do that too?”. It’ll only be a matter of time before I don’t even get a look anymore....excuse me while I wipe my tears.

We made it over to Grandma Jane and Grandpa Jacks for the “Cardboard Boat Rigatta” contest. This was supposed to be on July 4th, but we had a date change. Neil and I didn’t get to make a boat, but we thoroughly enjoyed watching the success of everyone else’s boats.

Lila will be 1 year old two weeks from tomorrow. I look at the list of things that I still need to do for her birthday and thank God that I started about 3 weeks ago. I would’ve never gotten anything done. I just got off the phone with our cake lady. She did our wedding cake and L’s baptism cake...both of which were so cute! I just can’t wait to see what she has in store for this special occasion. I did give her a picture of something that I liked. We’ll see what she does with it!

I’m trying out this new webpage/blog thing with our new Mac. I’m not completely sure how it’s going to work out, but hopefully everything will turn out ok! Go easy on me while I’m making these changes to my blog. Let me know how you like it and if I should stick with it or go back to my blogger account. Have a wonderful short work week!

You can see how it turned out....I'm going to make a few more posts on the events of the month!