4th of July, MJ, Big Girl and School.

So I'm already slacking on this thing. I guess I just don't feel like my rambles are worth posting half the time. But oh well. So Friday, July 3rd, Lili and I drove to Salt Lake City to kidnap Courtney. I ended up picking her up in Green River (she was camping with her Dad who lives in Vegas) and we drove to SLC to get her things. We stayed for the 4th (since last year I spent my 4th driving from Washington back to Colorado so I wanted to find some firework shows...btw boo on Fort Vancouver cancelling this year's show!!). Anyway, my friend Angie's little sister is pregnant with a girl so I had gone through Lilian's things and passed on what she doesn't wear (that wasn't too cute to part with or sentimental) and things she just doesn't use anymore (her bottle warmer, tub, bouncy chair). We dropped that off for her and went to the mall downtown. Being broke we just got a Starbucks, window shopped then decided to walk the like, 10 blocks or so to the Mormon Temple. We got there and saw they had tours. I am not Mormon. Courtney was raised, but never baptised, Mormon. So she new enough to not let them pester us too much (I never admitted to them that I wasn't Mormon, I just kept saying "I'll read Courtney's Book for Mormon..."). But it was beautiful. I put pics on my myspace (www.myspace.com/heavenseyes). So after that, it was time to find a show. We ended up going to one in Park City, where we picked up Courtney's Friend Mikela (she was visiting family there, she's from Colorado Springs too) and we found the park where they had a show. It was sort of like going to Fort Vancouver, minus the vendors, the ridiculous crowd and the actual show wasn't nearly as long or as extravagant as the Fort's. But it was nice. Lili loved the fireworks, didn't scare her one bit! So the next morning we packed up my Jeep and Courtney drove all the way back to Colorado. We've been lazy the past few days, haven't unpacked or anything, so my apartment is still trashed, but whatever. We'll clean it eventually. :)

So Lilian is now 8 months old (as of the 5th). Its amazing how time flies now. I don't want my baby girl to grow up so fast, but at the same time, its helped this deployment go so much quicker for me. It feels like its only been a week at the most since Adam left. I can't believe he'll be home next month! I am so excited, and seeing all the soldiers in their ACU's (their uniforms for you civilians :D) just gets me more anxious! I'm hoping this payday I'll be able to afford paint to paint in the apartment so I can hang pictures and get the rest of these boxes unpacked. I feel so lazy having this messy place and boxes every where still, but Monday we wanted to relax, Tuesday was Michael Jackson's memorial, which I watched, and bawled. I think the two times I cried the most was when Usher was touching the casket and singing TO MJ instead of the audience and when he broke down at the end and could barely finish. Then Michael's daughter did an impromtu speech where I just lost it. Courtney wasn't home to watch it live and so we watched it again later in the evening and I cried some more...I think I have some of that emotional rollercoaster side effect of pregnancy left...and pregnancy brain. Seriously, I think some of that stuff is permenant. So anyway, all my crying yesterday morning gave me a headache so I just didn't feel up to it. And today I had to run to the WIC office (btw they measured Lilian, she's just about 30 inches long now and 17 lbs 13ozs...she's got tall genes!!!) and then the education office on post. Going back to school next month (if I'm approved of course)!!!

Tonight I actually put Lilian to bed without her bottle! Normally I make her a bottle and give it to her in her crib so she'll fall asleep. But the lady at my WIC appt said that's bad for her teeth, so I gave her a bottle about 30 min before her bed time to work on and at bed time I put her in the crib. She only cried for maybe 15 min before crashing! She did so good!! Such a big girl now!! :)

So anyway, I think that's it for now...I'll try to get on track to update more frequently so I'm writing novels anymore!