Portraits: Take 1

I took Lily to get her pictures taken at Kiddie Kandids today for her 6 month "birthday." To say the least, it was a disaster. Lily's nose was running out of control, slobber was coming out of her mouth like a freaking waterfall, she kept sticking her tongue out (cute, yes, but doesn't make for good smiles), and the photographer was practically crazy. I understand making noises to make the babies smile, but if you do too much, the baby gets waaay overwhelmed. So, we didn't buy anything. One good picture and over an hour later, we left. Maybe I'll take my own baby pictures.

Hopefully next time will go better...if I ever get up the courage to go again! This morning was exhausting and a bit traumatic (for me, not her, I'm sure).

Halloween...in November

Here are pictures of our Halloween adventures!

We went to a Halloween party on the 27th. Jonny dressed up as Obi-Wan Kenobi (with a hand made costume, I might add!) and his super cool spring action lightsaber - even blue, like Obi-Wan's. I was "Arena Padme" from Episode 2. The party was so fun! The pictures below are pretty self-explanatory, except for one. A friend dressed up as Smurfette, and that's right after the pie eating contest.

The night before Halloween, Jonny and I decided to go get pumpkins! We stopped at a local pumpkin patch (because I have something against buying them at a grocery store...) and picked some up. Lily decided she would much rather sleep than pick out pumpkins.

Here are some pics of Lily and her cousin Christian in their matching cowboy outfits! So cute!

On November 5, we finally got around to carving our pumpkins! Sad, I know. But that's life. So we carved them while Lily slept and we watching Heroes and Journeyman. Here they are! For you Homestar Runner fans out there, you should know what these are! We drew a H*R and Homestar running on Lily's little pumpkin. For those of you who don't know what Homestar Runner is, you should! ...so go here.

Here we go!

Hi! I've (Lorna) decided to start a blog for our family. I don't make the time to sit down with my pen and paper and write down things that we do or milestones that Lily's reached...and all of our pictures are digital these days. Plus, I'm at a computer practically all day, so I might as well make something good of it!


A little background info on us: Jonathan & I were married on July 17, 2004 in the LDS Salt Lake temple. We lived in Utah for a year after that, when we moved to Lansdowne, VA (in July 2005). Jonathan has worked at Flooring Solutions (a commercial flooring company) since August 2005. He recently got promoted to Lead Estimator! I've worked at AOL since August 2005, starting as a temp ordering food for the employees that work late (Baja Fresh & PF Changs, to name a few - YUM!), and at the beginning of this year I started as an Administrative Assistant to a VP of the company. We found out we were pregnant on Labor Day 2006, found out we were having a girl on December 8. I was due on May 16, 2007...but Lillian May didn't come until May 20. She was 7 lbs 10 oz and 20.5 in. long. That is a story in itself, but I can say that she was definitely worth everything. She's such a great baby - and so much fun! Anyway, Jonathan and I are still working - I work most of the time from home, but I go into work twice a week for 3 hours. And Jonathan is still working on school.


Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up to date with fun pictures! Most of them will likely be of Lily, but I'm sure no one will mind! Until next time!