ANTS Galore!

This is long overdue, but to my defense, every time I went to make this post, blogger wigged out on me....

The Ants arrive....of course, Besty ran in as soon as they pulled in, turned and locked the deadbolt, then came for Emmett, ensuring she got him first!

We made mini ants for each:

Besty-make-upped; Laree-camera and a cute headband; Nik-blonde bob and green thumb; Ren-sideways baseball hat and red sox B

Mom made some very pretty and tasty salads!

an intense Photoshoot, which included rearranging furniture and lots of wicked cute pics

the learned mommy shows the new one how to bathe a baby without making him cry

with Nik

Nik's kids were so excited to see her! We skyped a little bit when we were all together

On Tuesday, we floated the cutest cake that Renee decorated for Best's birthday

..and they thought we were going to get murdered under the dark bridge by the river-

The balloon fiesta favorite

How cool is this?

The first time we went with mom (Saturday morning), we weren't early enough to see this in the morning, but it was really cool.

I'm glad we caught it the second time around, when we went on Thursday with my sisters

When we went with all the ants, it was the special shapes ascension, which was is a lot of fun

Micah had his own personal furnace...

(some guy even came and asked him what he had under his shirt! We thought the feet hanging out the bottom made it pretty obvious)

The rest of us had to huddle together to keep warm

Tuesday before Laree took off, we took everyone to our favorite-Tinkertown

It's great because no other place has anything like it and even if you don't love it, it's unique and something you can't find anywhere else!

We were bummed that Laree had to leave that afternoon, and mom the next day, but reality calls

And because it's all backwards....on Moday, we went to El Pinto, which has great patio seating and not so great food...but the atmosphere is impressive

with Laree

how cute-he crosses his legs when eating ;)

with Ren

This was such an awesome week for me & Micah and we are SO grateful for everyone that made it happen-sisters willing to come, husbands willing to live without wives for a week, neighbors willing to watch kids, everyone willing to sacrifice the time and money, leaving school and jobs, etc, etc, etc.... I just never thought I'd see so much of my family here in Albuquerque, especially not all at once. Micah was excited to just spoil everyone and make sure it was the funnest week, with great food and any entertainment we wanted. To me it truly was a miracle and we'll never forget it! Micah is even looking for a cabin up in UT so maybe next year anyone that wants to come with families could possibly meet up again! We sure love you!

28 on the 28th!

Could I have asked for a better birthday!??!

My first (and second) Balloon Fiesta...
with Mom!!!

and this new little guy came just in time to celebrate...and this 'old' guy floated me a cake...

...and surprised me with a cake plate....
and gave me the GREATEST week with some of my sisters!
(Lis, the X is only cause you weren't coming and this is the only picture
he could find of most of the sisters!)

I hope I can do 28 all over again next year ;)

Happy Halloween!!

yup, it's late, but the costume is timeless!!

Just kiddin'....blogger was not uploading pics for me this weekend, so here you go

Getting this sucker on was a bit tricky

Of course, I have....ok, really HE has, a big fan club of my YW

Our little buddy Bryce came earlier this week to drop off dinner and was SHRIEKING with delight over Emmett. He even was taking him off my lap so he could take him over to his mom. It was very cute! Notice mom's hand on his head ;)

Trunk or Treating with Daddy

All tuckered out after his first Halloween (party)

Announcing....

Emmett Kirk Lillrose
September 18, 2010
7:25 am
7lbs 9 oz
20 inches long

So this is old news to pretty much anyone that sees this blog, since facebook and emails have reached most of you, but for posterity's sake, we wanted to add an official announcement here, and for anyone that our emails did not reach.

These first 2 were taken in the delivery room. They had told us on the hospital tour that you couldn't take pics with the staff in the room (liability I guess?) so we held off on pictures. When we did get the camera out and realized they didn't care, we were bummed that we hadn't taken a lot more, but oh well....we've got plenty of pictures of him now! (and just FYI- my nailpolish was NOT black...it was a dark maroon)

The ANTS come marching one by one....

I found this awesome lamp that has a bulb in the glowing ball and it's the perfect night light.  Even Micah actually got a little excited and took it on himself to update the wiring, even though it worked.

lately....

we've been doing some projects, naturally. So I found this lamp at Goodwill this summer and realized it had this cool night light feature. However, it's like 40 yrs old and when I got home, it wasn't working, even though it'd worked at the store. It made Micah nervous to have old wiring in the house and so that was kind of the end of that. But then I started to revamp it and told Micah about this feature and he'd wanted a nightlight, so he figured out how to do 2 sockets on one switch and completely rewired it for me! I repainted it and I had to get a lampshade for it, but we totally are proud of this project. A lot of effort for light, but you gotta admit, it is pretty cool-and unique, huh?

....And finally got some furniture. We've spent a night or 2 last week like this! Our friends make fun of us for being so 'calm' about having a baby. Friends that are having babies had this stuff set up months ago and are due after us. I'm not sure it's calmness; I just really haven't been worked up over a crib because the baby's not going to sleep in it for a few months anyways, but now that there's an actual nursery set up with some clothes in the drawers, we somehow do feel better. Something to kill time while we wait....

Before & After

We have totally lucked out with people being so generous with hand me downs! Our friends in the ward had twins last year and so of course, people gave them TONS of stuff. This year they're moving and I don't think needed, nor wanted to store a lot of it, so this is one thing we got from them. They said even though it' s one of the older ones they were given, it worked the best and the newer ones broke on them.

I always love a good project, so I thought I'd just update this a little so here's the 'Before'

Ta-dah!!
I must say I'm pretty proud of myself and my hand sewing....
we'll see how sturdy it is and how well it holds up...