It's not Fall it's Birthday Season

Well... tis the season of birthdays... It all starts with mine (of course) because the world does still revolve around me... right!?...

My birthday was on Tuesday, and it was a fantastic birthday at that! My mom came and picked me up in the morning and we went and picked rasberry's again. This time Eliza had the company of Kara Lundmark so she was much happier about playing on her own rather than needing to be carried. I went to lunch with Ben which was fantastic! Everyone likes a quick fastfood lunch on occasion right? Following which we celebrated my birthday with my family and My present was a Bed!!! My Bed... the one that I've been drooling over for months but haven't been willing to spend the money on! So my parents and hubby spoil me way too much and I love them for it! We came home and Ben put the bed together right away for me and it looks awesome!

Eliza has been as busy as can be! She has mastered going up the stairs and she is getting into every thing she can reach and some things that I didn't know she could reach! '

Liza bug is so funny! she has this adorable Elmo plush doll that Mallory and Evan bought her when she was born but it is still as big as she is; and she's started attacking it for no apparent reason. She'll just get suddenly excited and start giggling and squealing as she crawls/fly's across the room and tackles Elmo. I tried to get a video of it but I'm not sneaky enough with the camera so we'll have to sufice with pictures.

Eliza has also had this HORRIBLE rash eariler this week and I think we've got it figured out as to what is causing the problem! HoRRaY!! But the rash alone wasn't enough to deal with so She cracked a fever of 102 and then the next day it was down to 99 (but that's still pretty hot for a kid who's highest body temp has been 97.9 on a normal day)... so at this point I'm just really glad she's getting to feeling better!

Speaking of being sick Ben's been a little under the weather... nothing serious just not top notch. He also bought himself some new golf clubs! He took them for a spin by hitting a bucket of balls and says that they work great! so that is good!

My mom's birthday was on Friday and she says she had a good day! We had Sunday dinner with my family and Lindsay and Mike came as well which was fun for all.

Woah!

Well what a week it has been. Here is a brief run down of the week for all your enjoyment!

Monday: got up early and went to pick rasberries at the Turner's house (thanks so much!!)... Well you'd think that would be an easy task but when you have the first pick of the season and a 9month old who HATES playpins it makes it a bit more complicated. Eliza spent a good portion of the morning in the baby-backpack grabbing rasberry branches and crying becuase it hurt her hand. But eventually we convinced her to take a bottle in the play pin and this was how we found her:

Tuesday: Nothing exciting happened... really nothing at all...

Wednesday: Eliza and I went to Grandma Merritt's house and Eliza learned how to Make rasberry/huckleberry jam while mommy read her book. I finnished the Twilight series and that is monumental because now I will have to start paying attention to my negleted husband and child (that's probably a good thing, two weeks of mommy in her own world is bad for moral) Then I went to Activity Day's and Eliza stayed home with daddy. I'm so glad that Ben gets off of work early enough to watch her now it's soooo much easier!

Thursday: It's a blurr... really I cleaned some to make up for my lack of cleaning while reading and Eliza tried to catch up on some sleep she's been missing! Durring 'Liza's bath I made a discovery; she has enough hair for this:

Friday: It was a great day! We went to Savers and bought Eliza's costume for halloween and then we went to the COOLEST park ever in Loveland. It's on the old Fairgrounds and it was tons of fun! There's water things and a covered play area and sand and wood chips and a frog slide and it's right on the river where you can walk right down to it! It really is nice! Ben went to Granby to golf with his dad and so I satyed the night in Loveland with my family after Nancy's baby shower.

Saturday: Honestly I think I'd rather forget this day all together. But seeing as how it's so darn funny I'll just have to tell you about it anyway. Mom went to the hospital to test babies in the morning and I watched Kara while she was gone. She's usually home by noonish and so I was going to go home, get a shower and clean cloths when she got home. Well Noon came and went and no mom. But 1:00 rolled around and she was finally done. Only to find out she had a flat tire and so she couldn't come home until she changed it. Well she couldn't find the jack so she called Triple A, who then miscommunicated where she was and sent the help to the wrong place. Then she found the jack and canceled the AAA. Well then they went to fix it and found out that the tires were shot so she had to replace them. So durring this time Eric and Alan were hurrying to leave to get to Best of EFY and Eric smashed into my car therefore completely removing my bumper. But he somehow managed to not break any lights on my car or damage anything on his own. So now I'm really not leaving anytime soon. Then Heather and Heidi needed to be at the EFY thing an hour later than the boys and now we were completly carless. So we called someoen to give them a ride. My dad rode his bike to the auto store and got the parts to fix my car and used his handy-ness to fix it up right. (that bumper isn't going anywhere!). Mom eventaully got home around 5ish (she left at 8am). At 6 I went on a wild goose chase to retrieve the twins and then told my mom I didn't want to be her anymore and she could have her life back I liked mine a WHOLE LOT MORE!!! so really in the end everything worked out really well for them but I think I'll pass the next time that oportunity presents itself.

Ben on the otherhand had a fantastic day! He played two rounds of golf on a couple of the most beautiful courses ever! He played great games and he even beat his dad both times!! (for those of you who don't know Ben's dad is very good at golf!) He really enjoyed the sights and He has an awesome sunburn for proof!

Sunday: finally a day to relax and rest. Goodnight!

Fall is coming!

So lets see here... Fall is officailly coming, Ben has been sick, I have been sick and Eliza has also been sick. So therefore the seasons Must be changing... It has only been the last few days that Eliza has been able to breath through her nose without a full out fountain of snot pouring from her many orafices. As for Ben and myself we've been indulging in drug induced sleep at night for a few nights to try to get better faster. It seems to have worked for Ben but not for myself.

Monday was Labor day and we got to spend some time with Mallory and Evan while they were here. We went wakeboarding (of course) and had a blast! I've recently become much better at the sport and am really enjoying it... too bad it's the end of the season now... sad.

The rest of the week was uneventful until the weekend. Friday night we had Heather and Heidi come spend the night with us (FUN!!! those sisters of mine who missed out...too bad for you!) and then Sat morning we hit the lake with two of the Steed's and us ... it was COLD!!! The water was warm but the wind was Horrible when the boat was going. Heather and Hedi are so tiny they were up and out of the water before we even started (literally) I really wish we would have rememberd the camera but we didn't so I'm sorry for no pictures! Heather did the best of all three of the first timers and stayed up the longest! As for myself I crashed not long into it and it felt like i smashed into a wall of needles because I was so cold! I have some light brusing on my arms from it but it was all good.

Anyway enough about the week... here are some adorable pictures of Eliza in a cute dress Grandma Waite bought for her!