Happy birthday, G!

Happy birthday, Mom! (This is the cupcake version of my mom.)

Farewell, furry friend

If anyone had told me a year ago that I'd be getting rid of Bug, I would never have believed it. I loved that cat more than any other animal I've ever had. I'll be honest- I bawled when we had to hand him over to the lady at the Humane Society. (They must have a lot of people doing that, because they had Kleenex handy.) The saddest thing was the sign behind the counter saying that there's no guarantee that the animals will even be put up for adoption...I felt so guilty!!! But it was necessary, with Lucy getting ready to crawl any day, and Bug being so big and mean. I know we did the right thing, but it doesn't help me feel any less guilty!

Glorious rat-tail

I've had to come to terms with the fact that my daughter has a rat-tail. Looking at it during church today, I actually felt a little embarrassed by it. I really want to cut it, but every time I mention it, Ashton makes sure to let me know that the tail is NOT to be cut. He's incredibly proud of the fact that his daughter has a rat-tail, and he shows it off to anyone he can. He loves it so much that he describes it as "glorious." I don't know how much longer it will be around, though. He might come home to find it gone one day...

Corn-grats!

My mom got me a cupcake decorating book for Christmas, and I was looking for any excuse to try any of the ideas from the book. Well, my mom is graduating with her Master's in May, but finished her last class in January. So there we go, my first reason to make some crazy cupcakes. There were no graduation related ideas in the book, but I did find ears of corn. So I decided to make those and tell my mom corn-gratulations. A little "corny", I know.

Where's Lucy?

The other day I put Lucy on her play mat, and a minute later, she's trying to roll down the hall! That girl will not stay put! (I'm noticing in this picture that she looks like she only has one arm...she does have two, I promise.)

Mmmmmm!

Lately, Lucy has been SO interested in our food whenever we eat. So we decided it was time to start her on baby cereal. It took a while for her to figure out what to do with her tongue when eating, but she's figured it out. She LOVES eating, and grunts at me when I don't get her food to her fast enough! She's a funny girl.

*Note: The last 2 posts did not do our Christmas justice! I was trying to type one-handed while holding a crying Lucy. So it was a lot better than I was able to show!

Christmas #2

We got to go to Indiana for Christmas, and we had a great time. It was fun to see everyone and to relax. When we got there, we found that Lucy and her Uncle Dustin both had rat-tails. Very nice. We also got to go to the zoo one day, and we ate wonderful food for two weeks straight. We had a blast.

We got a video camera for Christmas, and I'm realizing now that I took a bunch of videos and not actual pictures. I guess I need to learn how to download the videos to the computer now. So we have no actual pictures of Lucy's first Christmas morning...whoops.