The Weekend Goes By Too Fast!

This weekend, I again, had off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Thursday night after I got home from work, I made a meal for the Homers. I made my white lasagna, salad, and attempted to make a cake. The cake that I made crumbled when I tried to frost it. It was so moist and delicious, I decided to still salvage the cake and frost it and take it upon myself to eat it instead of giving it to the Homers. BTW, we just finished eating the cake tonight! Sad, yes, we ate an entire cake between Ryan and myself in just 3 days. Anywho, Friday morning when I woke up, I made some chocolate chip cookies since I could not bear giving them a lopsided cake. Then I got dressed and delivered Guen over to my parents house for them to watch her. I wanted to give all my attention to Sarah and baby Kate. I delivered the meal to the Homers and asked Sarah if she wanted me to bring her some lunch or if she wanted to go out for lunch. Suprisingly that Sarah was up and dressed looking beautiful with her makeup on and hair curled and looking super skinny wanting to get outta the house for lunch. She makes taking care of a newborn look effortless. So we took Kate and went to Daily Review Cafe. I have not been there in such a long time and it was delicious. Of course one week old Kate, was an angel. What made the entire time so exciting was that I got to feed Kate at the restaurant. While feeding her, I asked Sarah if Kate started having those massive poos that shoot up her back. She said no. I told her that would probably start in the next few weeks. Sure enough, when I sat her up to burp her after her bottle, well....see pic below. We were laughing hysterically. Luckily we were done eating and had no plans to go anywhere else. We changed Kate and headed home where I could change my WHITE shorts into some shorts Sarah lent me. Then I headed home to pick up Guen. Guen and I headed straight for the Woodlands where I had found on craigslist a jogging stroller. I have wanted one for awhile, but could not find a cheap one with a swivel wheel. Well this one was a good deal but I knew why because it was dirty. I got her down on the price a little bit more and decided to buy and take it home. I gave the stroller a good bath and washed many of the parts of the stroller, Ryan filled up the tires and now it is as good as new. See pics. Now we can leave the regular stroller in the back of the car and leave the jogging stroller in the garage when we go on our walks the days I am off. Saturday morning was the time Ryan filled up the tires, so by the time he got home it was so hot we did not get to go on our walk. I got dressed to go to a work friends wedding shower at Clay's restaurant. It was an interesting restaurant with animals for kids to see, so I took Guen with me. The shower was nice, food was good and G and I left early when she got restless. On the way out I showed her the goats, donkeys, horses, chickens and peacok. She did not seem to impressed, maybe cause she was so tired and passed out in the car as soon as I put her in the carseat. We went home and went swimming with my mother in law, Ryan and my mother in laws friend Chuck at her neighborhood pool. It was a nice night. G was so tired, she crashed that night. Love swimming for the fact. Today, Sunday, was our usual church, lunch with my mother-in-law at our house, Ryan, G and I went to get Ryan's haircut and then a visit with my parents before calling it a day. Where did the weekend go? Hope you had a good one.

Picking Guen up from Sunday School:


Guen's new ride:


Check Please:

A VERY EXCITING WEEKEND!!

So let me tell you about this weekend. Boy was it busy! Thursday, on my way to work, I get an email video from Aaron and Sarah saying they were on their way to the hospital after Sarah's water had broke that early morning. All day at work I was waiting for Baby Kate to be born. Finally around 4pm, Baby Kate Elise arrived at a healthy 7lbs even though she was two weeks early. Mommy Sarah, Daddy Aaron and Baby Kate are all doing well. Friday, my first day off, my friend Randi came into town from Austin. I have not seen her since she came up when Guen was born at the hospital. She got here around 1130 and we took off to the Village. I had already made plans to meet my friend Julie, whom I have not seen in a long while, for lunch at the Black Walnut Cafe. It was so great to see you Julie! After lunch, since we were close to the med center, Randi, Guen and I headed up to the hospital to see Sarah and Baby Kate (Aaron had gone home to feed the dog). She is absolutely beautiful!!! And that girl has so much hair. Kate needs to do a hair donation to Guen. She is precious Sarah and CONGRATS, we are so excited for ya'll! After our baby visit, we then headed over to my sister Tootie's condo. We took Guen swimming for the first time over there. By this time Guen missed her afternoon nap and had such a big day already she was a little crazy at the pool. But we swam for about an hour before heading home. Randi and I put Guen to sleep (Ryan went up to see Aaron and Sarah after he got off of work). When Ryan got home, we all had some dinner. I made Randi some chicken, mushroom, tomato and pesto pasta chicken (Sarah, I used the homemade pesto you gave me and it was delicious!). We also had some salad and brownies and ice cream for dessert. After that big meal and our big day, we were in bed by 945pm. Saturday Randi, Guen and I went walking around out neighborhood. Then while Guen napped during the morning, I took Randi to see my parents new house down the road from our house. We visited with them for a little while and headed back home. When we got back, Randi took off back to Austin, Ryan headed to work and I went to Target and Costco. That was pretty much the exciting parts of our day. Sunday was our usual church and my mother in law came over for lunch. Ryan and his mom and Guen are in the living room playing while I type. Hope you had a great weekend. Love, Liz

Guen and her new BFF Kate ---isn't weird to think that they will be in the same grade?!

Busy Weekend

This weekend was great. Friday, my first day off, I ran around doing errands getting ready for our party for Saturday. Saturday, Guen and I had a birthday to attend. It was one of my former NICU graduates that invited us to there party at MY GYM in The Woodlands. It is like is a indoor play area for kids that is all padded and kid friendly. Guen was trembling when we first got there. I think she was a little overwhelmed by all the kids. She stayed close for awhile but the warmed up and took off. Happy 2nd Birthday to Madison Collin and Dylan! We got home and Ryan had cleaned the house and did my honey do list. We got ready to have over Barbie, Robert, Christopher, Aaron and Sarah. It was a little dinner celebration as the last hurrah for Sarah and Aaron before the birth of baby Kate. 2 weeks and counting! It was fun and I made veggies and homemade dip, white chicken pizza, vegetable tortellini, mint brownies and lava cake. Yum. Ryan and I went to bed around midnight and we are NOT used to that. We crashed and burned. Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of that evening. Probably the last time I see Sarah preggers. Anywho, today Sunday Guen and I went to church solo since Ryan had to work today. We came home and both crashed for almost 2 hours. We ran some errands and visited her grandmother, Lovey and called it a day. Hope you had a great weekend. BTW, here are some pics of Guen when she turned 9 months old on July 3rd. It is getting really hard to take a pic of her every month in the chair by the bear as you can see.