4th

We had a wonderful 4th of July and hope you all did to! Jillian and I (Michael was sleeping since he is working nights right now) started the day off hanging out at the Shickles pad with the Zoots, the Brown-Comer's and Nina and family. Jillian had so much fun following the big girls around and eating snow cones with Miss P. I was a dork and forgot my camera so I am hoping the resident photographer of the group happened to get some good shots of Jillian!

After nap time we headed over to my dad's house for dinner and fireworks with the family. Since Michael came with us we remembered the camera!

Vote for Jillian

Since Miss P won last month I want to try one more time to round up the votes for Jillian. If you could please vote for Jillian every day during the month of July (and ask your friends to vote too) we would really appreciate it!

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Summertime Giveaway

Melissa posted this giveaway on her blog so I decided to join in on the fun! Monogram Chick is giving away this super cool Pink Floral Market tote with monogramming included! Please mention that you heard about the giveaway from me because if you win I win one too! You must enter by Monday so get on it!!!!

Happy Father's Day!

Since Michael had to work this morning Jillian and I worked on his Father's Day art project! I got the idea from Molly and I actually think her project turned out WAY cuter but we gave it a try! We didn't have a whole lot of time so it's pretty basic. I wish I would have taken pictures of the process but it was so hard keeping Jillian from smearing paint all over the house I didn't dare get the camera out! We made enough fish to make a card for my dad and some to save for a scrapbook page! While I was turning the hands into "fish" Jillian was coloring on a plain white paper that made out card base. I think it turned out pretty cute and I'm sure Michael is going to love it!

Mouse in the house

Well, last night as we were cleaning up the kitchen and getting ready to go to bed a mouse ran from behind our refrigerator to under the stove. I, of course began screaming and Michael laughed at me. I think the mouse came in when I left the door to the house from the garage open for awhile earlier (let just hope he was alone)! The cat saw the mouse the same time we did and she was on high alert!

We began mouse extraction 2009 by pulling the stove drawer out to look for him. We saw him in the back but couldn't get him so Michael proceeded to spray in there with air freshener to try and get it him out. I told Michael he was just going to make the mouse pass out! Finally Michael decided to stick an old BBQ flipper thing under there and the mouse ran out... to under the refrigerator again!

I was standing guard making sure he didn't run into the living room or bedroom (I had a bowl) while Michael tried to pull out the refrigerator. Well the mouse then decided to make a run for the dishwasher...

This is where the action begins. I proceeded to "lunge" myself towards the mouse with my bowl. Michael likes to joke that both my feet were going different directions and I was screaming but I like to say I was saving the house from varmint. I basically fell on the mouse with the bowl. Luckily the bowl landed on our little friend and I didn't land on the mouse! In the process I skinned both of my knees on the wood floors, skinned (took a chunk of skin off) my hand and twisted my already busted up ankle.

We both had a good laugh about it all (as I'm sure you are) and I got made fun of!

The mouse did make it out of the ordeal alive (Michael wanted to kill it). We slid cardboard under the bowl and carried it outside. I made Michael toss it over the fence. He decided he would give Mr. Mouse to the weird neighbors who are always standing on their back porch watching us when we are outside.

It was a very eventful evening for sure!

Top Baby Names

The social security administration announced the lists of top baby names for 2008. You can go to their site and see where your name or your kids name ranked over the past several years. I'm not too surprised to see where Jillian's name falls on the charts.
Check it out!

New Hair

Saturday afternoon I decided it was time for a change. I was getting tired of my hair and wanted to cut it all off again so I went over to my mom's and she cut around 8 inches off! Here are a few pictures of my new do.