Hello all!

Well, it's been awhile since I've posted anything. We are doing good. Elizabeth is just as cute and sweet as she could be. I took some great pictures of her in this great little outfit Gramma got for her. I'm not big on head bands for babies but I love hats! I think she looks so darned cute! She absolutely loves to chew on material - her clothes or blankets or wash cloths. It must feel good on her gums. On some of her pictures you can see the slobber stains on her dress. She is quite the slobberer (is that a word?). She likes to blow raspberries and get slobber all over her chin, her hands and her feet!

One thing I've discovered about Elizabeth is that she is one restless sleeper. She gets herself about half way down the crib and sometimes gets herself turned sideways. When we first lay her down and she's tired, she kind of twist her body around to the side and tilts her head up . Hard to describe but its cute as can be - Everything she does is cute!! :)

I've been able to do a couple of scrapbook pages. On Mother's Day, Monica and I went scrapbooking - we considered it Mother's Day off! Actually, we both had great Mother's Days with our family and then we ditched them in the afternoon. :) Here's what I got done. I skipped ahead in her album and worked a little bit more on our trip to Alabama in February. Elizabeth & Emma had the same outfit in different colors and they look so cute together. I skipped ahead in her album and worked a little bit more on our trip to Alabama in February. Elizabeth and Emma are dressed in the same outfit in different colors and they were sooo cute.

We went to Portrait Innovations and had family pictures taken. The stickers are Bo Bunny cardstock stickers. I got very lucky finding paper that matched. I really like this layout.

On to other topics - I said goodbye to one of my favorite TV shows last week. Gilmore Girls came to an end after an endearing 8 years. I'll miss you Loreli and Rory! I have to say Congratulations to Jaslene for winning America's Next Top Model. Good Job! And tonight, I will watch the season finale of Hero's. I guess I will have nothing to watch. I'll just keep up on my Netflix watching.

Take care everyone!! Sorry for the long delay in my blogging!

Prayer Request

Sonya Grimm is 32 years old, with a 5 month old daughter, a 6 year old son and an 11 year old step daughter and she is dying of cervical cancer. When she was about 4 months into her pregnancy, she was diagnosed. Sonya had to deliver her daughter early and although she was about 2 months premature, she is doing great. At this point, the doctors are only giving Sonya about 2 months to live. I don't know Sonya well at all. My husband and her husband went to High School together so I've talked with her on occasion. It's probably been 2 years since I've even seen her, but this has really hit hard for me. I have no idea what she is going through or what she is thinking of or how much pain she is in or how she is getting through each day. I just know that I look at my little girl and I can't imagine not being a part of her life. Hearing about Sonya has really put things in perspective for me. It's important to cherish everything, the little things, the big things, the insignificant things. We never know how long our time on earth is. I can't imagine never seeing Elizabeth smile or hearing her laugh or watching her crawl for the first time or walking for the first time and so much more. I am so sad for Sonya and her family.

Please keep Sonya and her family in your prayers and this will be so hard on them to loose their mom and wife. Pray that Jeremy has the strength to raise 3 kids on his own and to have the strength to be everything he needs to be for his kids.

Ladies, be sure you have your yearly paps and be sure that if something doesn't "seem right", then please get checked out. I got this information off www.cancer.org. This is the direct link.

• About 3,670 women will die from cervical cancer in the United States during 2007. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for American women. Between 1955 and 1992, the number of cervical cancer deaths in the United States dropped by 74%. The main reason for this change is the increased use of the Pap test. This screening procedure can find changes in the cervix before cancer develops. It can also find early cancer in its most curable stage. The death rate from cervical cancer continues to decline by nearly 4% a year. Half of women diagnosed with this cancer are between the ages of 35 and 55.

As I said, please get your yearly paps and make sure all the beautiful women you know do the same.

A Morning Home with My Girl

My baby sitter's kid is sick again so I am at home with Elizabeth this morning. I'm taking the opportunity to finally post on my blog and upload to our picture website. Hubby and I are splitting our day in half since I've got month end I'm working on, plus I have a girl on vacation that I'm covering so I can't take a whole day off. We're also doing this tomorrow. I don't mind at all though. I wish I could take the whole day off with her! We're watching Baby Einstein right now. She just gets such a huge kick out of it. We have 2 of them, but she definitely prefers one over the other (I can't remember the names of either one!). I guess it bored her b/c she just fell asleep! Unfortunately I'm going to have to wake her up soon. We're going to meet at my work to "swap". It gives me the opportunity to show her off to my co-workers and that way Brian can work a little bit later and I can be at work a little bit earlier rather than waiting for him to drive all the way home before I can leave again. Oh to be a stay at home mom!!

We had a really great visit with Gramma & Papaw. They got to babysit for half a day Wed. and then all day Thursday and Friday. I know they all enjoyed each other. I got some great pictures of all of them making each other laugh. While they were here we went to the River Market which is a cross between a Farmer's Market and a Flea Market. It was such a beautiful day. Up until then it was rainy and a little chilly. We took them to eat at my friend's parents Mexican Restaurant - Lobitos (means Little Wolf). They also babysat Friday night and Brian and I had a "date night". We saw "Wild Hogs" which was pretty funny. Mom and I went shopping, she got Elizabeth some of THE CUTEST clothes and I got some clothes for me as well. Still haven't lost all my baby fat yet so I don't have a lot of clothes I can wear to work and I refuse to buy a whole new wardrobe!! Anyway, we sure do miss Gramma and Papaw but we'll be seeing them again in a month and a half. Elizabeth's cousin will be turning 1!

While Gramma and Papaw were here, Elizabeth turned 5 months. I went picture happy in a big way and changed her into 3 different outfits. I don't normally do that b/c she doesn't always put up with it, but Gramma was able to keep her happy and smiling. Here are some of those. She still loves her feet. She can now get them to her mouth and she'll suck on her toes!! It's funny how a baby sucking on their toes is cute! At what age does it stop being cute?? :)

Onto a little scrapbooking - This is my most recent layout...

The first page is a Pencil Line sketch. I think its #72. I used #46 as inspiration for page 2. For those of you who scrapbook, its worth checking out. As you can probably tell, I'm a double layout kind of gal. The "Waiting for You" layout is a single b/c that's my opening page of Elizabeth's scrabpook. The closest I've come to not having a double layout is the Snow Angel and Christmas Outfits, but they blend together (just need to get them both completed). I'm notorious for not completing layouts!! Especially when it comes to the journaling. I'm used to not journal b/c of my handwriting and I would plan on typing on then printing, but that never happens. I've gotten over that and just write now. Sometimes though, a layout doesn't really need it, like the one here, I like those!

Anyone going to see "Spiderman 3" this weekend? We're working out an arrangement with our friends so that we can see it. I still love going to the movies. That's about the only thing I miss, Brian and I can't go very often together and I've got that free movie pass card. Most of the time, I go with my friend Monica but we mainly see "chick flicks" and then Brian will go with Eric. We've made it to a few together, but there really hasn't been anything that I'm just dying to see until this weekend.

I'm going to put in a plug for Netflix. We love Netflix. We have the 3 movie deal. I think we pay about $18 a month. We get more TV shows then movies. We watched all of Alias, about 3-1/2 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and I'm starting to watch Lost. There's a hub here so the turn around time is about 2 days including the day we mailed it. There have to be about a million movies to choose from. If you like watching movies but can't always make it to Blockbuster I would recommend looking into it. The turn around time could be longer for places that don't have a hub (warehouse) in your city. It'll let you create a list - we have about 50 on ours and it just goes down the list. We also split ours into 2 users. Brian gets 2 and I get 1. That way we each have our own list. There's my plug for the day.

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Take care all!