I Should Be Packing...

But I'm writing a blog instead....

Liliana and I will be going to Utah tomorrow to see everyone. We're pretty excited. Derek's family was here for the last week so now we get to see all my family! We will be there til the 5th of September. I hope our flights go well. We have a two hour layover in Dallas... But Liliana is such a people watcher I think she'll love it!

She is getting huge, by the way. The Wii said a few days ago that she is 14.8 pounds. That's GINORMOUS. I was carrying her around in her... carrier thingy.... Lol. I can't remember what its called. Whatever. She was in it and hanging off my front end and I felt like I was pregnant again, but with a HUGE baby. Although I still feel like my prego belly was at least that big. Anyway, she's really long too. She is already starting to get too long for a lot of her 3-6 month clothes. She just turned 5 months old on the 19th (FYI). Let's see.... She can sit up by herself if we put her in a sitting position. Not for very long tho. But she gets exponentially better every day. She loves eating baby food. She makes the biggest mess and the funniest faces. I also give her small tastes of stuff I'm eating too. Like REALLY small tastes. She is still very alert and very wiggly. Oh, and she isn't afraid to tell you EXACTLY how she feels about something. She has more opinions than I do! She no longer growls at the little boys in relief society... she actually smiles and laughs at them. She falls asleep in random places and positions.

Ok, I REALLY have to go pack now!!

Here are some random pictures to enjoy:
*Liliana finally got a crib. It has pink sheets, a green bumper, and the beautiful pink blanket that my aunt Kim made her.
*Spider I found on the frame between my door and our neighbors. There is a really awkward and funny story about me taking this pic, but if you know me well enough I'm sure you already know that it ends with "And then he just looked at me funny." By the way, the spider was the size of my hand with my fingers stretched out. SICK!
*Funny sleeping position...
*Liliana loves her bouncer. She won't let go of the toys if we try to take her out and she isn't ready. I think it is a sign of things to come....

Peace out homefrys!

This Doesn't Make Sense....

Derek and I have been wondering why it is soooo easy to stay in bed in the morning, yet sooooo hard to GO to bed at night?? Liliana just sleeps whenever she wants. Usually all night tho. THAT is awesome.

We got our phone numbers changed today to Virginia numbers. We're pretty excited.

We had a great weekend. We went to the ward pancake breakfast on saturday morning and then went to get some pictures printed out to put in our frames. We FINALLY put some in our key rack but we felt like "grandpa" deserved an honorary place in one of our frames since he was part of our family for the last (almost) 3 years. Someday our kids might ask who he is... that's gonna be awkward. But I think it is a rite of passage as a parent to do things that your kids don't get and don't think are funny. We shall see. On sunday we had dinner with Brett and Donia Warren. Leave it to me to finally make a friend and her name would be Donia. Yes, its like Dawn-ya. Awkward? A little.

That's pretty much all I have to say. Sorry I'm not putting any pictures on here but I just don't have the patience to wait for them to upload tonight. Maybe I will tomorrow if I have some time.

Peace out homefrys!

EDIT:
I TOTALLY forgot something HUGE!!!!

I heard A MINUTE AND TWENTY-TWO SECONDS of a song from AFI's new album (due out in September) and I almost cried b/c it was so fantastically awesome. I mean... whoa. Life is sooooooo good when new music comes out to make my insides all squishy with glee.