A peak at the weekend...

I am still sorting through our fun photos from the weekend and will have all the "Girls Weekend" stuff tomorrow, but wanted to share just a peak from the weekend. We had such a lovely time with Grandma and can't wait to do it again.

Beautiful Blogger Award

Kelli, over at Three Girls and Tim, nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award.

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated me for this award.
2. Copy the award & place it on my blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated me for this award.
4. Share 7 interesting things about myself.
5. Nominate 7 bloggers.

7 Interesting Things About Me


1. I don't like doing dishes (I married a great man who doesn't mind them at all), but love to vacuum.

2. I love to sew. I'm not as good as my mom, who made my wedding dress, but I'm getting there. Sewing 4 silky fairy costumes this fall is good practice!

3. My two favorite baby milestones are when your baby hugs you for the first time and when they say I love you for the first time. It hard work is always worth it, but when they show that appreciation, it is just so sweet.

4. Those who live in my house all love Disney...the mouse, the castle, the polka dots...you name it we love it! (I'll blog about our "Disney Day" this weekend later:)

5. I met my husband while roller blading.

6. I like peanut butter and I LOVE chocolate, but do not like them together!

7. I like to drink green olives in my beer with my sister!

And the Beautiful Blogger Award goes to:
1. Aimee from Aimee's Bowl of Cherries
2. Lindsay from Crawford House
3. Christy from Dreamer Boys
4. Courtney from The Adventures of Pudge and Zippy
5. Lianne from My Life with Gabriel
6.Adrienne from Our Unexpected Journey
7. Amber from Barn-icles

What is going on at our house...

The BIG news at our house this week is that we have a NEW COUSIN! My sister had her fourth yesterday and it was a boy!

Jacob Douglas Lamborne,

born on February 3rd, 2010 at 4:43pm.

7lbs. 10oz. and 19.5 inches long

He is welcomed by parents Sarah and Jeff Lamborne,

big sisters Livy and Carley and big brother Lucas.

Everyone is healthy and ready to come home tomorrow.

(I am so hoping for some cute pictures soon...hint hint grandma:)

Our little buddy Jace is doing wonderful. In case you didn't check his blog, his surgery went really well and he was already off of the ventilator yesterday already (it took Aubrey 5 or 6 DAYS to get off)! Today, he got to eat and play! He looks so wonderful, and I'm sure will be heading home soon. He does have some "stuff" in his lungs that he was coughing out today (yes, it does hurt to cough after you have open heart surgery--so he was grumpy). Please pray that this won't set his recovery back and that he will continue to move forward and be home soon.

Another little friend, Piper is having surgery on Friday to remove her gall stones. She reminds me a bit of Aubrey in so many ways. She is just an itty bitty thing at 8 months old, just 10lbs! Anyway, she could use some prayers tomorrow for her lunch time surgery. So as you sit down to thank the Lord for the food that he has placed before you at lunch, also thank him for the skilled doctors who will be taking care of Piper tomorrow. May the surgery and recovery be swift and take care of the problems that she has been facing.

Aubrey has had a funky week of not napping well and not going to bed well. We are trying to decide if she might possibly be getting another tooth or if she is just off schedule (we have been busy:) Daddy left today to go see his parents in Ohio, but is putting Grandma on the plane in the morning so she can come here. We have a fun filled weekend planned and will have lots of wonderful photos to share in the end, I'm sure.

The Sweetest Thing...

When you have multiple children, you always wonder, "when will they be friends...when will they actually play together." It has happened for me when the "baby" is about 18 months old. The baby can actually communicate enough to play with the older sibling and they actually enjoy each other.

Alice and Kate are the best of friends. They play together really well. Ella plays with them too, but it isn't quite the same yet. From day one, Ella has been in love with Aubrey and about a year ago, Aubrey took a very wonderful liking to Ella. They just love each other sooooooo much. You can see it and Aubrey's whole face lights up when she see's Ella. I don't even envoke that kind of love and smiles from her:( I was so glad that the two big ones would have each other and the two little ones would have each other, but I wondered...when would they be friends? Would it take a lot longer? Would Aubrey have to talk, walk, crawl or something before they would be able to really enjoy each other? WHEN would THEY get to be the FRIENDS that I knew they would be someday?

TODAY!!!

I was ironing my pants in the back room and Ella and Aubrey were in the playroom and I overheard Ella...

"Aubrey? Aubrey! Come on...let's play!"

It just melted my heart. I almost cried actually! They were friends....

Ella got them all set up with "here are my people and these are yours and don't touch my guys!...ok?:)"

It was the sweetest thing ever...when sisters become friends!

Prayers for Jace Today

We humble ask our family and friends who read this blog, to take some time today and pray for our buddy Jace. This morning he is having his tiny heart repaired. (he has the same defect that Aubrey had repaired last January--same one his sister LC had repaired last year too).

We ask that the Lord guide the hands of the surgical team, that they may carefully and swiftly repair his heart. And that Jace quickly recover so that he and his parents may return home soon to be a family.

May the Lord give his parents strength as they entrust him to the care of his doctors and begin the long wait for updates. May they continue to stay strong in the days ahead as Jace recovers from his surgery.

(Prayers for the Auntie who is taking care of big sister at home:)

Courtney and Justin have said that they will do updates on their blog today if they have internet and are able to do so. You can click on the picture of Jace in my sidebar and that will take you directly to their site.

Weekend Fun

I keep thinking that not much has happened that I can share and then I download the camera and find all kinds of pictures and things to share. It happened to be just a relaxing, work around the house sort of weekend, but Aubrey was busy "helping" and doing fun things.

She is three weeks without the oxygen and we go to the pulminologist on Tuesday and will see what he says, but she seems good! Though this weekend she seems to be a little congested, so we are continuing our isolation. It seems to be working, but it is not a lot of fun:(

Ella and Aubrey were helping me with the laundry. Ella likes to sit under the baskets and Aubrey (all by herself) tipped one over and crawled in too!

Aubrey is getting much better at the straw. We have been giving her some smoothies, which she loves. But once she has some, that is it for the meal, because all she wants is the smoothie!
We have a lot of pictures on the fridge down low and she scooted over there yesterday to have a look and had a lot to say to all the people on the bottom:) This is her talking to Papa Olson, my dad. She had quite the conversation and then proceeded to take people off so that she could really talk to them. It was fun to see and reminds me that we should print off a lot more to stick up there for her to see.
It is a busy week of therapy and appointments and preparations. Woody is going to see his dad and his mom is coming here for a girls weekend. It should be fun and we will have lots to share.

Aubrey Playing Blocks

This week during therapy, we had Aubrey standing at the coffee table. We were trying to get her to cruise a little. We stacked up some blocks to try and motivate her to scoot down and knock them over. Instead she took them and put them underneath! I couldn't believe it and she did all the blocks. We moved on to other things and then when her teacher was writing out her report, Aubrey scooted over to the table and proceeded to put all the blocks back on top! It was so exciting to see her do a new trick and in front of the teacher. We then decided that because she has been making so much progress lately, that we would start to meet every week. (we have been this month because we were doing make ups from when she was sick.)

It has been such an exciting month for her and we can't wait to see what February brings for her!