Last weekend, the girls & I went down to my mom & grandma's apartment to celebrate my mom's birthday. Jillian picked out a cake that had a Strawberry Shortcake decoration on it & Dora plates/napkins/party blowers for her. She was so excited to have a party. We had a good time. Rhianna had a double date to go on & the boy picked her up at the apartment. My mom & I made her bring him in so we could meet him. He seemed like a nice kid. Rhianna is such a sweet girl. I had to throw my 2 cents in before he picked her up to make sure she knows "how babies are made." I don't think we really did anything on Sunday, that I can remember.
On Wednesday morning, Carleigh threw up like a fountain while I was feeding her at 6:00 am. She had just done that to her teacher a couple of weeks ago, so I didn't think anything about it. I got a call from her teacher after lunch that she had a fever. So, I went & picked her up. She has to be fever free 24 hrs before she can go back, so that meant no school on Thursday. She then had a fever on Thursday, so that ruled out Friday. Her fever never got over 100.7, but she did throw up on Thursday before I took Jillian to school. I think it may just be teething, but there is some nasty stuff going around school, so who knows. I enjoyed spending 2 days with just her. Thankfully I have my vaca/sick days back, so it really wasn't a big deal. Grandma Lana was going to take care of her on Friday, but we go a lot of snow on Thursday & I didn't want to have to chance Lana either coming up here or Chris taking Carleigh down there. So, darn it, I had to stay home another day. LOL
Saturday, Chris went to Walmart for me (Love him!!!). Then we went to BW3's with Chris's family for his birthday. Afterwards, we went down to Brooke & Steve's so Chris & Steve could play cards together. We had a good time. I love the fact that Jillian has a cousin her age to play with. They get along most of the time. When they aren't it is just because they are 3 year olds. Brooke & Dane fell asleep in the chair & Jillian & I fell asleep on the couch close to 11:00. We left shortly afterwards.
Today, is Chris's 42nd birthday. I know, I am married to an old man. LOL. We haven't really done anything. I made Chili & that was about the highlight of the day. Woo hoo.
I have a very busy weekend planned next weekend. Tastefully simple party on Friday, baby shower on Saturday & picking up Granny in Effingham on Sunday. Hopefully I will have some time to blog. Jillian says things on a daily basis that makes me laugh & want to kill her, so I need to blog about her. I have some pictures below of just misc things.

Carleigh playing with her toys.

Jillian watching Dora on her laptop while relaxing on her Dora couch in her bedroom.

Carleigh in her first big girl bath!

Jillian & Carleigh in the bathtub.

The girls & I hanging out in bed last Sunday.

Jillian picked out her own outfit. And was pretending to be a mommy.

We had a great weekend. Thursday night, Chris went down to Brooke & Steve's to play "Magic" after Jillian went to bed. And had some good wholesome nerd time. LOL. Friday, we got up, went to Kohl's & Walmart. I had bought Chris shoes at Kohl's for Christmas, but they were too small. So, we returned those & bought some other things. There wasn't a cart readily available, so Jillian just walked...boy was that a mistake! She was all over the place! Definitely felt like a mom who had no control of her child. She was barely listening to Chris either. UGH!! Then we
went to Walmart, without much incident (Jillian was in the cart). We did our grocery shopping & then went home. After nap time, we got ready & drove down to Franklin. We ate at Bob Evans. Then we dropped the girls off at Brooke & Steve's. We ran back home so Chris could take a shower & get ready to go to Mark & Annie's :

Me and Chris on New Years Eve.

Mark on New Years Eve at their house.

Annie on New Years Eve at their house.

Chris at Mark & Annie's New Years Eve party.

We had a good time from what we can remember. Haha. I took Jager punch (5th of Jager & 2 liters of Hawaiian Punch). And boy did it have a punch! It hit me very hard & very quickly. I ended up on their bathroom floor before midnight:

Annie was nice enough to cover me up with a blanket. Mark thinks it was a table cloth, but it was a blanket. I eventually made my way to their spare bedroom & laid down on the bed. Chris came up at some point & laid with me until 5:00 a.m. When we woke up, he kept saying how he had lost 5 hours of his life because he didn't remember coming up & laying with me. It was quite funny! I was sober by that time (helps when you throw up & pass out for 5 hrs), so we came home. And slept for a few hours.

Chris on New Years Day.

I then got up & went & picked up the girls. They were both good at Brooke & Steve's. So glad Jillian & the boys get along well. On our way home, I stopped by to see my mom, Granny & Aunt Sally. We had a nice visit. Then we just hung out at home that night. I went & rented some movies & after Jillian went to bed we watched "Going the Distance." It was pretty funny. On Sunday, we finished taking down the tree & cleaned up a little. Chris made chili & we watched the Colts. So, like I said, we had a good weekend. As a family and as a couple.

I included this picture of Carleigh because she was too cute. And it was one of the first times in her excersaucer.