Life....the past two weeks

Mom Rushed to the hospital.

House sold.

Moving within the month.

Buying a dental practice.

Parker sick:(

So exhausted we all feel like we could fall sleep in the bath tub....

(deep breath)

To be honest, the past two weeks have been some of the hardest in my life. My parents came for a short visit to help with selling our house. While here we had to rush my mom to the hospital where she was given less than a 2% chance of survival and diagnosed with streptichauchal pneumonia that spread to her blood and started to shut down her organs.. She has beaten all odds and is still here and has made, what the doctor's call..."a miraculous recovery." I have never been so scared. I cannot describe the outpouring of love and support we have had. Dinners, flowers, and cards have been sent and I cannot thank everyone enough. It was been so hard to see my Mom go through this. If you know my Mom though, you know that if anyone could survive this, it would be her. I am so thankful to have my Mom back and a second chance at life for her. She has a long road to recovery, so please keep praying for her....

Within those two weeks, we have sold our house and have to be out within the month, find a place in Canby to live (where we are moving), Parker got sick, dog is sick, buying a dental practice, and figuring out the details of how we are going to move everything....

Again, thank you to all my friends and family for their love and support.

Parker's pic says it all...we are wiped out....

REALITY.......

no more pics mom.....

YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN LOVE WHEN

YOU CAN'T FALL ASLEEP, BECAUSE REALITY

IS FINALLY BETTER THAN

YOUR DREAMS........

DR. SEUSS

Blue eyes, smiling at me......

My blue-eyed girl:)

BIG NEWS

We will be moving from here...

BACK to here in April!

For those of you who do not already know...we are moving! Long story short. We have spent three wonderful years, in what we believe to be the Northwest's best kept secret...Wenatchee WA . It is a bitterwsweet move as we really envisioned ourselves living here long term, but alas this was not meant to be. Kevin has found an amazing opportunity to buy his own dental practice 20 miles south of Portland in a town called Canby that we could not pass up. I have no words to express my sadness of leaving, but truly believe everything happens for a reason. I am also very excited to be going back to a place we love so much. If we were to move back anywhere...it would be to Portland. SO, let the adventure begin. Our house goes on the market tomorrow. Know anyone who is moving to the area?

No goodbyes Wenatchee (seriously crying right now), just see you later......

&

Hello Canby:)

LOTS of pics!!! Happy New Year:)

4 months!!!

sweet little perfection in my eyes:)

Look how long she is getting!

New Years Eve with Rothie and Wexler

Auntie Leesher aka Marge

The gang New Years Day hanging out watching football (Kyle, Wexler, Kev, Parker, Jamie and Coffey)

cuteness Rothie and Mike

Auntie Jamie and Parker having belly time

Wexler, Parker and I

Auntie Jamie and Parker hanging out

sweetness, Wexler and Kyle

Bumpo eating time!

Getting ready for her first rice cereal meal

Opening presents can be SO tiring

My little twinkle star

Loving the wrapping paper!

Kristin and Matt Eastman over for some babysitting. Shortly after this pic...baby meltdown. Poor Eastman's! Please come back to babysit again!

Baby Ben and Parker Playdate!

I wish I could write more, but I just do not have the time right now. My parents are here visiting from the east coast too! LOTS going on and we will have some big news to post at the end of the week. For now, here are pics from her playdate with Ben, babysitting with the Eastman's, Xmas, her first solids eating day, New years and her four month pics. Life is great, and Parker is just amazing:) Talking jibber jabber, rolling over, eating solids...and SO interactive. Our sleep schedule is down and Kevin and I couldn't be happier about. Can't wait to share our news:)

Until now....here are some pics and a video of us and the girls New Years Day in Seattle at Rothie's.

Oh Christmas tree and a little bit of Santa

Snow last night! Me telling her that this is not the real Santa...but a helper!

Her saying .."Oh yeah?"
But I want to meet the REAL Santa...
Well I guess, he will do:)
Huggin by the tree

She is

so tired here, but still so cute:)

Love this pic of Parker and Dad

The only photo that kind of turned out. She wanted to be free!

Here are some recent holiday pics with our favorite little girl. It took us forever to try and get a family pic in front of the tree! Parker was looking everywhere and talking...not to mention it was past her bedtime. This past weekend we also went to see Santa. She got to wear her "boots with the fur." Yes some lady in line in front of us said that to us...so funny, made me think of Rothie!!!

Anyways, we are super busy as I am sure you are all this holiday. We went to our friends fantastic murder mystery party this past weekend. It was themed "Deadwood" this year and we had to dress up circa 1800's. SO FUN. Matt and Kristin Eastman did a wonderful job hosting again and we will look forward to this party every year. We already found out that next years theme is "Caddy Shack." Think of all the fun outfits for that party! I will post pics once I get them.... I brought our camera and it died right when we got there! So bummed. I did take some video with our Flip so if I have time I will post.

For now, I am off to lunch in our winter wonderland here in Wenatchee. We got 6 inches last night and it is snowing again right now! Love.it.

Turkeys don't fly but Parker does!

Kevin trying to give Parker some turkey

Hoai huggin Parker after her bath. She gets the mini fro after her baths!

the food and table

Kevin and I looking at our first turkey!

Brined and roasted=yum yum

Parker at 5am in the Wenatchee airport thinking, what am I doing up?

Just hanging out!

In the air looking around and making friends

Daddy and Parker on the last flight

Monday night at 6:30pm after a LONG weekend:) P.S. this is my FAVORITE thing to do with her

Well, once again it is catch up time. Here are some pics from our wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with Kevin's Mom Debbie and our friend Hoai from Portland. It was the first turkey I have ever cooked and I wanted to brine it. So we soaked it for 24 hours before we cooked it. Then Kevin made two pies and Debbie and I made the rest. IT WAS SO GOOD. We will brine every year now! Loved it:) Isn't it funny how for Thanksgiving everyone cooks for hours on end only to sit and eat all in 20 minutes! Thank you Debbie and Hoai for all your help:)

Last weekend was busy. We made a day trip to Portland and back with Parker and then had two holiday party/functions to attend. Our flight left Wenatchee on Fri at 6am and we changed planes in Seattle and then arrived in PDX at 8:20am. We then left Sat morning and did the same trip back. Parker rode 4 planes in 24 hours and was A-mazing. She went with the flow, was so curious and smiley at everyone, and never cried! I think we have a little traveler on our hands. Kevin and I were talking about how we can't take wait to take her everywhere, Italy, New York...Disneyland...camping! OH how I can't wait for these wonderful adventures to start.

One last thing, Parker has officially grown out of 90% of her newborn clothes! I filled up a rubbermaid bin full of stuff that doesn't fit. It made me kind of sad. She also started sleeping in her crib on Mon night. After we got back from Portland and she slept in the pak-n-play, she wasn't too fond of her bassinet anymore. She is for sure a crazy squirmer. They said at daycare that the current 4 and 5 month old babies do not move as much as she does in her crib. She likes to be free for sure. So now, in 1 week, no more newborn clothes, no more newborn diapers, and no more sleeping in mom and dads room.....It is going TOO fast!

Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and staying warm.

xxxo D, Kev and Parker Lilly