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Hopefully everyone enjoyed the Memorial Day weekend! It was definitely a busy one here! Friday, Grandma and Grandpa West came into town for the weekend. Saturday we had a cook IN, haha, cause we didn't feel like grilling, italian beef was the on the menu. Sunday Uncle Chris and Aunt Lara came over and we had some PEEP before heading over to Peoria for a wedding reception. After getting back to Champaign on Sunday Chris, Lara, Brent and I went to DOS for some yummy mexican and then we headed to putt putt for some serious putt putt competition! I ended up winning, apparently I play better in wedge heels after a daiquiri! Moving on to Monday! Monday Makenna had an appointment to get her 9 month photos taken, afterwards we went to eat some Chinese! Grandma Cathy went to the airport around the same time Mom and Chris came over to grill up some yummy Cuban burgers! After dinner was over Brent took Grandpa Darrell to his truck so he could get on the road. Whewwwww.

Friday afternoon we found out our application for the roof was approved! Yay!

What else? I can't think of anything else right now sooooooo-----

NEW PICTURES ON YAHOO!

I am going to try to update the video page here in the next couple of days...yeah I know I am not good at updating it!

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Hi!

Last weekend the gang went to Cayuga to a graduation party! It was a nice drive with lots of food, we even got to play some frisbee, though no one was really good at it, haha. Amanda painted more of the trim on the front porch, b/c the city says we are "poor" we got 4 gallons of exterior paint, primer and lots of caulk for free. We also replaced a good portion of fascia board on the front porch and put the gutter back up in front of that. The yard was also tended to a little, trying to weed out the flower beds and cut down the volunteer trees. We also went with Grandma Vicki garage sale-ing, some of the subdivisions were having neighborhood sales. We picked up some cute clothes for Makenna and some toys for her as well.

We got our second quote for the roof this week, it came in a $9,600! That is 10 grand less than about 4 other quotes we have from other places! Brent called the company back to make sure they knew that the roof has three layers of singles and the original tin roof, they said yep. We are waiting for our application to go through with the city b/c remember they say we are poor, so they will give us $8000 to help pay for the new roof.

Not much has been going on this week, just some cleaning, laundry, mowing the yard, yada yada yada. This weekend Grandma Cathy and Grandpa Darrell are coming for the holiday weekend. Sunday we are to go to a reception, which I still need to buy a gift for! I believe mom said David was coming down this weekend as well, ha, yeah I have nothing planned so far so go easy on me. The pool opens this weekend in all its glory and lazy riverness, I am excited can you tell! Who doesn't like to float in the lazy river all day without paying for a tube or getting off every time! And I can ride the slides without being pregnant, yeah I wasn't suppose to ride them pregnant but hey.

Amanda has been doing some gardening, since last summer she couldn't! We have some hostas in the front by the walkway and by a tree next to the driveway. Planted two clemantis in front of one of the trellises in the front. Menards had a good deal on gladioli so we have a bunch of those planted, though they won't survive the winter without being pulled and stored, boo hiss! So I have a ton of those left, but I am trading them on gardenweb with other gardeners to get other plants. I have 4 mums and 6 naked ladies coming my way right now! Haha, it's like recycling plants.

Makenna is doing wonderful, getting bigger everyday. She is currently beating the crap out of her spider alphabet toy, which she plays with 75% of the day. In fact Brent was caught by a co-worker the other day whistling the itsy bitsy spider! Anyway, she isn't crawling yet but will scoot backwards into another room. She understands the foot action and the hand action but doesn't utilize them at the same time.

We posted some new pics on yahoo!

UPDATE: Makenna learned how to drink through a straw today at the Mexican restaurant! Go Makenna!

In the mean time....

Well, Mother's Day came and went! We hope everyone had a nice one! For Mother's Day Mom, Chris, Brent, Makenna and me went to Timbers. A restaurant run by the people that use to own the possum trot, they have taken over the old Ned Kelly's building. The food and service was less than pleasant...they won't last very long if that is what they are planning on doing. Not to mention the child hex on the place. Makenna rarely misbehaves in public, yet at Timbers she could sit still to save her life! And as we were walking out of the restaurant we noticed EVERY child was having the same problem! Anyway so we decided dinner wasn't that great we would go and get some ICECREAM! We tried the new Marble Slab Creamery in Savory, we prefer the Cold Stone on green st but thought we should try it. Afterwards we went to play some mini golf since it was so nice outside! The first place was closed so we went to Putt Putt instead.

This is us at Putt Putt! Brent and Mom got hole in ones!

And of coarse Brent won the game....because he always does.

We got our memory in for the desktop, it runs faster but I noticed it was only coming up as 512mg instead of 1g. Looked at the memory and they mis-listed the item as 4 256mg modules instead of what they really were 4 128mg modules. Grrr, so they let us keep them and refunded our money but we only have 512 instead of 1g but at least that is double what we had. We finally backed up all our pictures, all 8 GIG of them! Ha, they barely fit on a duel layer dvd....geez.

Yesterday


Makenna and I were swinging on the front porch since it was nice out and you would never guess what we saw running down the sidewalk across the street. A bird, a plane, superman? Nope, an adult DEER! Now if you have every been to our house....you know we live in the city...really in the city. Yeah I was running down the sidewalk, we asked it where it was going... but it was in a hurry apparently.

Towards the end of last week we took Makenna to the park for a nice walk with the stroller. She had fun swinging in the infant swings and I helped her down the slide a few times. We took some pictures and they are posted on yahoo!

Looks like come July we will be taking a vacation to Ottawa, Canada. Brent has a conference, originally it was going to be in San Fransisco buuuuut they changed it. Now I would rather go to San Fransisco but for a basically free vacation I'll go to Canada. Makenna will have left the county when she was only 10 months!

Like I mentioned before, new yahoo photos posted! Enjoy!

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The week is halfway over! This weekend will be my first Mother's Day, we are planning something but aren't totally sure what we are going to do yet! I am thinking Dos though, must be something in the water that has been making me want Mexican food a lot.

Monday was our 7 year anniversary of dating! Brent sent an e-card, came home early with some flowers from Ginza and then we went out to eat! It was a nice night!

Brent gave me my Mother's Day gift today! It is a new to me digital camera! Yay, we already have one, yes, but this one is a digital slr camera, oh yeah 8x zoom! Someone was selling it on craigslist for a reasonable price, so we jumped on it! This is a picture of it below. It takes some really nice pictures with field of depth that takes lots of work when using my kodak!

Here is one of pictures I took

with the new camera:

Brent and I also bought some memory this week for the desktop computer because it is slllllooww, it hasn't been upgraded in about 5 years, poor thing. So we got a super deal on ebay 1gb for $31.00 shipped, I guess everyone forgot about it right before the auction ended. Other 1gb auctions were going for about $100! So we are waiting for that to arrive in the mail!

Last weekend Brent and I watched some movies and play a game of putt putt, which Brent won by one stoke. Sunday we were brave (and Menards was having a sale), so we bought an electric chain saws to do away with the horrid 7 foot juniper trees...uhhh bushes that were in front of the house! All FOUR of them! The front yard looks so much nicer now, and house looks huge! I also mowed the lawn and we bought a new weed wacker, I broke the one we had! We also bought some flowers to plant (bulbs) so that it will look a bit less barren than the front yard does right now!

Tomorrow will be a busy day! We have a meeting a 8am with someone from the city about a painting grant we were approved for! The city basically pays up to $500 for exterior paint for your house and garage, score! Then around 10am Brent and I have dentist appointments for a cleaning , just regular maintenance stuff. Everyone at the office likes to oogle over Makenna, so I am sure she likes that.

Makenna is getting bigger! She can use her sippy cup, and she can roll over now! When on her stomach she pulls her legs up to her chest so I am sure it will be only a matter of time before I will be chasing after her all around the house!

Makenna eating egg drop soup! Yum!

New photos on yahoo! Enjoy!

It's FRRRRIIIDDAAYYYY!

Yes it is Friday again! Yay!









This week Brent and I worked on arrangements for the vacation we are taking in October to Orlando. Brent has a conference down there so the University pays for his plane ticket down and back as well as the Disney Hilton for about five days. After the Hilton we have rented a vacation house in Kissimmee to share with Grandma Cathy, Grandpa Darrell, Uncle Chris and Aunt Lara. So we have been making plane reservations, looking into rental cars, booking the vacation house and trying to get an idea of what we want to do while we are down there!










I would like to thank Grandma Bonnie and Grandma Cathy and Darrell for buying us haunted toys. Haha, they aren't haunted all the time but this past weekend while Makenna was napping Brent and I were watching the tv and the boombox turned on by itself. It was face up not touching anything else, it was weird. I mentioned to Brent that it was weird because that week I had a dream about my Grandma Vivian (I don't usually dream about her), the day after the dream the picture of her on the coffee table was face down. So I am telling Brent about the picture turn and point to it and it is face down AGAIN (the day before I strateeegeryly place it with other items around it make sure the cat hadn't knocked it over). So ok weird, Makenna did use to play in front of one of our couches and would turn and smile at it like someone was sitting on it, Brent points out that couch is my Grandma Vivian's. So we decided ok something was touching a contact or the batteries are dying or something sane like that. Fast forward two hours, we are sitting in bed talking and the baby tad toy turns on by itself, face not touching a thing. Tad says Hi, I'm baby tad, peeka boo I see you, I love you and then bye bye. Call me crazy but you would've been freaking out too, two toys same day, different rooms. A quick shoutout to Grandma Vivian.


Earlier this week we had Chinese buffet with Grandpa Darrell, yummy sushi! Makenna likes Chinese, she like the rice and crab rangoon! We had a nice time visiting with him and Makenna had fun playing.









Last night we went to Dos with Grandma Vicki and Uncle Chris, it was REALLY good. Makenna had some chicken taco, guacamole, cheese dip and sweet potatoes (these came from home) AND of coarse she had to have ice cream since everyone else was eating it (she really likes ice cream)!








Makenna is doing great, it is nice to see her personality forming. She is learning to sign more words. She signs for hungry and diaper change right now. The only other words I have taught are kitty and bottle. She is babbling, no mama or dada yet but she can say baba when she wants to.








This weekend we are going to see Ryan and Heather on Monticello, they are suppose to have a farmers market flower market show thingy. Hopefully the weather will hold up for us! We also really need to mow the yard, it's a jungle out there!






New pics on Yahoo, sorry not a ton though!