Save a Horse, Ride a Dollhouse Box

You would think based on my complete lack of anything to do with an outfit that I just hadn't been wearing clothes for the last few weeks... but I think I've actually managed to come up with some new combinations. Now if only I could get some pictures. Oops!

Here are some pictures in the mean time from my "niece" Lily's 2nd birthday on Sunday. She is so fun and absolutely one of my favorite children ever and I cannot believe she's already two!

Lily in her Abby Cadabby theme crown!

Woke up from her nap and bee lined for the presents yelling "OPEN!"

"...Or maybe I want to nap for a little bit longer..."

Bought her some of her own bracelets to play with so she didn't have to steal mine anymore :-)

I have been wanting to buy her pink cowboy boots pretty much since she was born.

Save a horse, ride a dollhouse box.

Sarah's turn with the dollhouse!

Aunt Alex Cadabby.

Oh look! Dad makes a nice horse too!

I'll do my best to get some kind of outfit and pictures together soon. I've also been trying to catch up on reading a lot of your blogs! It has been a busy week since school started! Hope everyone is doing well and avoiding all those bugs going around.

Play Date with LilyPop

Thursday afternoon, after braving the BMV to get my driver's license renewed, I went over to my friend Emily's to visit my favorite little kind-of niece, Lily Ann! I honestly feel like it was just yesterday that Emily was even telling me she thought she was pregnant, and now Lily is 14 months old!!! It's so crazy how fast they grow up!

She's one of the funniest little kids I've ever met, and is always laughing or trying to do something to make you laugh. She's also big on mocking, and when she kept trying to grab my sunglasses, I kept acting like I was going to bite her fingers... and she started doing the little chomping face too. It was so adorable... and my friend Katelyn actually got this picture of it.

We also tried to play with bubbles with her, but for a while she was mostly interested in just chasing the cat around instead of the bubbles. Finally she got the hang of it, and would kind of just wave her hands in the air trying to pop them, or maybe just keep them from popping on her head again.

Such a cutie! I still hope that when I have my own kids I like them as much as I like her, they'll have large shoes to fill! :-)

LilyPop's First Birthday!

As of right now, my books are in (they had been at the office of our apartments for assumingly almost a week. I don't know if they ever planned on informing me of that or not), my homework is done and I'm not as much of an idiot on InDesign and SPSS as I thought I would be, my sicky thing is much better (but not completely), and all seems right in the world.

This weekend was my niece (best friend's baby) Lily's first birthday party! She turned 1 on the 14th, and her party was sunday. She is truly the best baby ever, and I don't think it's just because I'm biased. She has such a fun personality and the prettiest big blue eyes! I am a little sad, however, that her hair is getting longer and she doesn't look like she has a mohawk anymore. :-(

Saturday night I went over to visit for a while, and gave her the plush fish Kelly (Sew Me Some Love) made for her.... which she ADORED! Then her mom, dad, and I went over to a friends house where the guys taught us to play Texas Hold 'Em. Let me tell you, the innocent "I don't know how to play" thing comes in handy when it comes to bluffing. I'm already working up a plan to be a pro hustler ;-) Too bad the game wasn't for any money, because Em and I would have won big.That is... after I realized you could only play five cards. One round, I tried to play "Three pairs", but two of the pairs ended up being good enough to beat everyone else anyways. That would have been nice to know AHEAD of time. I also almost won a round bluffing with a pair of sixes, only to be beat out by Emily, who was only holding a pair of sevens. These guys thought we were insane... but hey, it wasn't real money, why NOT get crazy?

Sunday I went over to help decorate, and three rolls of streamers basically beat me ten to nothing, though I must admit somehow it came out o.k. in the end. Lily at first didn't know what to make of all the attention/decor, but loved the balloons. She's also practically a professional present opener by now, and loves doing it! The only real issue comes when it takes too long to unwrap and she loses interest in favor of previously opened toys.

 

(Precious in her birthday outfit- already obsessed with cell phones)

(A girl has got to have her birthday shoes!)

She was a dainty little cupcake eater until we put some in her mouth, at which point she chowed down a little more. I had the idea to try giving her a lemon (I feel like all babies should have the "lemon experience" and all mothers/aunts/grandmas/etc etc should have a million pictures of it), and somehow someone decided to give it to her right after cake. What a shock that must have been... sugar, sugar, sugar, SOUR! Surprise! My camera had died by then, so only mobile pictures... but still, so cute. She actually kind of ended up liking it and kept trying more!!!

Somehow, someone got the idea that Emily's mom (Grandma) had been spiking her punch... and the rest of us quickly followed suit. Obviously no one had enough to get even tipsy, but it did make the punch a bit better! 2pm on a Sunday and we were all drinking at a 1 year old's birthday party, classy, right?

I wore my new AE cardigan, and paired it with a tank I haven't worn since possibly Hawaii! And of course, my new necklace and favorite black flats!!! My apologies for my inability to take a decent 'self-timer' picture. Thanks to lighting, lack of good places to set the camera, etc etc, it just didn't happen. Might be time to consider a tri-pod! (I'll also have to apologize for the abundance of pictures- when it comes to Lily it's way too hard for me to just pick one or two! If you're friends with me on facebook you know this weekend resulted in around 80 pictures!)

Outfit

Cardigan- American Eagle

Tank- GAP (I think)

Cami- The Buckle

Flats- American Eagle

Necklace- Italy!