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The Lily Pad
Friday, June 8, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Penny 3 months
Just to be clear... I am wearing a dress! |
not sure what she thinks about this |
Sister Love! |
The faces of Penny: (missing the poop face ;)
Penny was 3 months on the first of June, she is incredible... I am so in love with her! She has rolled over once, but no more since that one time, she coos and laughs at us now, it's not a full belly laugh, but getting oh so close! I am told she looks like me which is also fun. She has such a sweet personality, I am looking forward to see how it unfolds as she gets older.
Ava is being potty trained at the moment, we have been doing poopoo on the potty but not much else, so today is the first day of true potty training so I'll let you know how it goes. So far today she pooped on the toilet, which I didn't expect, but we haven't had any peepee accidents yet... I AM expecting them :/
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Birthdays and Life!
isn't Penny supposed to be sucking on that? :) |
Love |
kind of scary, but she really loves her sister |
Our friend Esther |
sweet babies! |
made chocolate bagels, now I know what to do when craving Uncle Harry's chocolate chocolate chip bagels.... sooo good! |
someone's flexible! |
Pretty girl! |
my "sweet" baby ;) |
TJ caught a fish and we ate it :) |
Our curious girl! |
my surprise Birthday Party on TJ's Birthday |
cousins... friends |
This is the "Do I want to listen to you?" Look |
Happy Birthday TJ! |
Happy Birthday Me! |
Our Sweet Penny! |
TJ and my birthday's are two days
apart, his May 27th, mine the 29th... it makes for an
interesting dynamic. This year was my 25th birthday, and
TJ decided to throw me a surprise party. We were attending another
party Sunday afternoon, while during TJ informed me that his brother
Kyle's truck broke down and we needed to go help him, and he just
wanted me to go with him, so I just went with it, he called Kyle on
the way there (or pretended to) and said he was in a park, so we
pulled off and while I'm looking out for Kyle, it seems weird that
his truck would be broke down in a park, but whatever so we pull up,
and I see all these people with stuff for a picnic or something, and
I say to TJ “Kyle lied to you, Look... their throwing you a party!
;)” And as I get out of the car and walk closer, they all say
Surprise Lily! I was a little confused seeing how this all happened
ON TJ's birthday... crazy guy, he got me! I'm hard to surprise
because I'm too inquisitive... I ask too many questions if you know
what I mean. I like to know what's going on, and I'm good at
figuring things out, I guess he knows me pretty well, because I was
thoroughly surprised. On my actual birthday, TJ had to work, which
was fine, we had a long weekend together, so I had a normal day, and
for dinner we went to my sister and brother in law's house, Kyle and
Cherie, she made us a hibachi style dinner with yum yum sauce (yum
yum! HA!), it was absolutely delicious, then blackberry cobbler for
dessert, that was absolutely divine! Quite the delicious homemade
birthday dinner, I felt honored and loved. One of my favorite things
to do is cook for people, so it meant a lot to me, them cooking me a
delicious meal.
On another note, I have been enjoying
my girls so much lately, they bring me such joy! Ava LOVES Penny, I
tried to put a few pictures in here to portray that. Penny is just
the cutest thing to me, I can't stop squeezing her! She is getting
chunkier which is course adds to the cuteness, and she just started
laughing which is so fun, so of course TJ and I are now always trying
to get her to laugh. Ava is amazing me with her memory and words,
she is saying so many different words, and also perfecting
pronunciation on words she has already learned, it's so fun to see
her grow and learn.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Embarrassing Stories
I have stories!
Ava has never embarrassed me in this way before, so I figure this is the time to document it. We went to Costco on Saturday as a family, they are only located in Orlando which is a 50 min drive for us, so we took a family trip to do a couple things including going to Costco. After we got a large cart of goodies, we are standing in the checkout line, meanwhile Ava is walking and right next to us is a larger lady wearing shorts, Ava just sort of touched her legs with her hands. I felt bad that Ava accidentally touched this lady's legs, but then Ava took a step towards her once again and gently grabbed the fat on her legs... OH MY WORD! I realize Ava thinks the fat on her legs looks kind of interesting and so she is investigating to see what this stuff really is, as I lean down to pick Ava up I start laughing, and quickly stop myself, and as I pick her up she is still looking down staring at the lady's legs while I tell Ava to "say hi to the nice lady" and "sorry about that :/" I quickly walk away while TJ finishes up.
I wish I could say it was over, but as we were on our way out with our very heavy car we are approaching the very long line of people and their carts getting their receipts checked before they leave the store... Ava is very tired, and giving TJ a hard time, and I'm dealing with Penny because I just took her out of my wrap, as I look up I see that our cart is rolling towards this woman's large booty (no condemnation here, it's just the facts), I yell "TJaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" but it was too late, the cart had run right into her bum, we both wanted to die right there, we felt really bad, TJ said "sorry... Kids!" I don't know if that was the right thing to say, but she definitely scowled at us, and quickly moved to the other line, I suppose I would probably do the same thing...maybe.
That's all folks
Ava has never embarrassed me in this way before, so I figure this is the time to document it. We went to Costco on Saturday as a family, they are only located in Orlando which is a 50 min drive for us, so we took a family trip to do a couple things including going to Costco. After we got a large cart of goodies, we are standing in the checkout line, meanwhile Ava is walking and right next to us is a larger lady wearing shorts, Ava just sort of touched her legs with her hands. I felt bad that Ava accidentally touched this lady's legs, but then Ava took a step towards her once again and gently grabbed the fat on her legs... OH MY WORD! I realize Ava thinks the fat on her legs looks kind of interesting and so she is investigating to see what this stuff really is, as I lean down to pick Ava up I start laughing, and quickly stop myself, and as I pick her up she is still looking down staring at the lady's legs while I tell Ava to "say hi to the nice lady" and "sorry about that :/" I quickly walk away while TJ finishes up.
I wish I could say it was over, but as we were on our way out with our very heavy car we are approaching the very long line of people and their carts getting their receipts checked before they leave the store... Ava is very tired, and giving TJ a hard time, and I'm dealing with Penny because I just took her out of my wrap, as I look up I see that our cart is rolling towards this woman's large booty (no condemnation here, it's just the facts), I yell "TJaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" but it was too late, the cart had run right into her bum, we both wanted to die right there, we felt really bad, TJ said "sorry... Kids!" I don't know if that was the right thing to say, but she definitely scowled at us, and quickly moved to the other line, I suppose I would probably do the same thing...maybe.
That's all folks
Friday, May 18, 2012
Family Progress
As for how we are doing now... I would
say things are going well, God has been faithful (is that really a
surprise? ;) Penny is getting bigger... and cuter! She pretty much
sleeps through the night now which is great, but for some reason I
still have a hard time getting enough sleep, especially with Ava
waking up at about 6:15 every morning. Penny can hold up her head
pretty good, and we found that she loves to sit in the jumperoo, it
gives her something to do, she likes to be up and moving around a
little more than Ava did at this age. Ava is pouring out the words
out right now, it is really fun to finally have Ava talking, she has
also been going poopoo on the toilet almost every day, she doesn't
like to do all her #1's on the potty, but I'm grateful for the poop
in the potty right now, we will work on the rest as she desires to go
on the potty more.
I have been letting you know what's
going on with our church... well there are some new things to be
known. We have a new interim Pastor until we get a Pastor of our own, and we are so thankful for him coming to us to help out our church in a time of need. TJ has still been leading worship, and I've been singing with him, which I actually really enjoy :).
Also, our church is still behind us and what we're doing, and are A
ok with us going to school this fall. TJ also feels like this is
what God has for us right now, and hasn't heard any different from
Him, so we're just following God's leading. We are still saving
money and are not to our goal yet, I have estimated that we need about $35,000 (for all our needs & school costs), and we are about $11,000 short of what
we need for 2 years at the the New Tribes Missionary Training Center . If you are interested in supporting us right now (while we're in school) here is the information:
~Check: Made out to New Tribes Mission
1000 E. First St.
Sanford, FL 32771-1487
with a note saying it is to go to us (TJ and Lily Shropshire - students at MTC)
~Credit card: set up by calling NTM headquarters at 1-866-547-2460 or 1-407-323-3430
~Electronic transfer - set up by calling NTM headquarters at 1-866-547-2460 or 1-407-323-3430
Until we are NTM missionaries these donations will not be tax deductible.
Thank you for being interested in who we are and what we're doing, and would love for you to be a part of it!
In the beginning of June we will be having a yard sale at a friend's house and people in the church are donating things to be sold there, and this money will go to supporting us while we are at school, we are really thankful for the effort people are putting in, and support from our church. We are also in the process of getting our new website up, and prayer cards made.
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