SLACKING....

Okay so we have been slacking in regards to blogging. Alot has been going on in our lives and I'll try and recap as much as I can.

Sophie is doing great. She turned 7 months and is in the grabbing everything stage. Everything that is in her path it grabbed and 9 times out of ten ends up in her mouth! :) In the last month, she has also started sitting by herself unassisted. She's been sitting for a while for short periods of time unassisted but now we can sit her up and she will just sit there. It's just too cute.

Toward the middle of the month, we were blessed with the residual effects of Hurricane Ike. It was nothing but RAIN for several days. This brought our family a nice little bit of fun! Last winter our mailbox was hit by one of the plows which knocked the clasp to open our mailbox off. We hadn't had any problems with it till we got the boatload of rain. Then suddenly every day our mail was soaked. So our family headed off to Lowe's and bought a new mailbox. Here's a picture of Sophie getting ready for our outing :)

After Lowes, we made a quick run to Toys R Us for some diapers that were on SALE! YIPPEE. Of course, as soon as we got to the store Sophie fell asleep so Brock and I decided to walk around for a bit and just relax. (especially since it was raining outside SURPRISE SURPRISE). While were were looking around, we found a toy for Sophie that every kid has had at some point in their life. Here is playing with her new toy :)

So here is the riddle of the day! What do you get when you cross oatmeal and raspberries??? (See below for answer). A child covered with oatmeal. Sophie's lastest trick it to do raspberries. She can be sitting there happy as can be and you'll start hearing "pppllllffft" over and over again. One morning I was feeding her oatmeal and she decided it was a great time to start and ended up with oatmeal all over her face! How did she know that oatmeal was good for the skin ;).

The final going on of our family was a wedding. A dear friend of ours from back when Brock and I first started dating over 8 years ago got married yesterday. Brock stood up as one of his groomsmen. Friday night, we headed to the rehearsal as a family and then the rehearsal dinner at the Ozark House afterwards. Then Saturday was the official wedding which we decided to get babysitters for Sophie for. (thanks again Gma and Gpa Boyd). It was the first night that Brock and I have been out alone without Sophie since she was born in February. We had a really good time.

My handsome hubby in his tux!!

The Happy Couple

Good Friends!!! Good Times!!

BUSY WEEKEND!!!

Well this weekend was crazy busy for Brock and I.

Brock took Friday off so that we would be able to go up to Chicago to see my dad who is in the hospital and was having surgery. (For those who don't know my dad was diagnosed with cancer about a month or two ago while he was living in Kentucky. He now has moved back to Chicago and they were doing surgery to determine what was causing blood in his urine. Turns out he had several tumors on his kidneys. They have removed as much as they can and he will begin radiation as soon as he is able to.) We got there about 1:00 p.m. since we new that he would be in surgery most of the morning. When we got there he was still in the recovery area. After being at the hospital for almost 2 hours they finally wheeled him out into ICU for the night. We got to see him briefly in the hallway and for about 15 minutes each in the ICU unit.

After visiting with dad, we headed over to Portillos (YUM) for dinner. And then we stopped at a store call "Buy Buy Baby". For all you mom's out there, this is the best store in the whole wide world if you have a young baby. They have EVERYTHING. For those of you have Babies R Us nearby, this store has MORE then Babie's R Us. To give you an idea. They had one whole wall of their store full of BIBS. Floor to ceiling, every kind and sayings that you can imagine. It was a great store. I was going to stop at Gymboree but after 2 hours in that store, I figured I would be pushing my luck if I made Brock go to another baby store so we headed home.

Saturday morning, we got Sophie ready for her bit day of six month pictures. Which was another 2 hour event. Sophie did well for the most part till she got hungry then we had to take a breather to feed her quick and pick up the rest. We got some really cute pictures, below are a few of them.

After her photo shoot, we headed back home and made preparations for Brock's parent to come over for a visit. They arrived around 3 p.m., we had dinner about 4:30 ish. and then just chatted till they left around 8:00. All and all it was a nice visit.

Now here it is Sunday and we're getting ready for another LONG week of work. This Friday Sophie goes for her 6 month check up. The Saturday we head over to one of my dear friends houses for her annual Luau. The fun just never stops at our house :)