New Roof and Swing

Last summer we had a terrible storm come through with tons of hail. We noticed throughout the summer that a lot of homes were replacing their roofs so Josh called the insurance company and filed a claim to get our roof replaced as well. By the time we got everything situated, it was too cold to actually replace the roof so we did it a couple weekends ago. We are so very thankful for all of the help we received from Searles, Bobby, Gilland, Robbie and Dennis. It's nice to know we can count on our friends for such big projects...although they may not be volunteering again after that! The boys got started early Saturday morning and got old roof torn off and the new one on in 1 day! Sunday was spent cleaning up the mess... and boy what a mess it was.

Dennis, also known as Papa, hung up Isla's swing he bought her for Christmas and she swung in it for the first time. She is still a little small but we propped her up with some blankets and it must have been really relaxing because she fell asleep. We always look forward to the time we get to spend with our family and friends even if it involves some work!

Well maybe not working.....

No roof!

The mess

Finished product

My 1st Baseball Game

University of Phoenix celebrated our 2 year anniversary at the Lenexa Learning center by going to a Royal's game. This was Isla's first game and Josh bought her some cute little Royal's onesies to wear...and even though they were a little big she was still supporting her local team. We met my friend Kimberly before the game and drove in together. She brought her daughter Piper and we hung out in the parking lot for a bit before the game and enjoyed some adult beverages! Isla did really well at the game and enjoyed looking at all the fun lights and people. It was nice to get out of the house and spend some time with my co-workers outside of work. I always think it's funny to see the people you work with in a professional environment everyday...cut loose if you will.

I'm holding Piper and Kimberly is snuggling with Isla...we switched

She may have slept through most of the game....

Happy Belated Easter!

We had a weekend full of Easter after Isla's doc appointment. We went straight from the appointment to my parent's house in Oak Grove where Isla had her first Easter egg hunt! She only found 3 eggs because Aunt Amanda found the rest...but she did give her $1 to Isla for her froggy bank. We had some brunch type dishes and visited with the family for a while and headed home. Sunday we took Isla to her first church service at the Raymore Methodist Church. She did really wel and slept for most of it. Then as soon as we pulled in the driveway Josh's dad and Gma and Gpa Downing pulled in behind us. We hung out and grilled some burgers and Gma Downing got her Isla fix. I'm pretty sure she didn't put her down all day :) Isla had so much stuff by the time the Easter weekend was over, it looked like Christmas!

We also planted our flowers for our yard this year. We tried it last year but were unsuccessful so we are hoping for better results this year. We even have a mini greenhouse to grow them in so we are looking forward to them blooming.

Finding Easter eggs

Guess who found most of them????

Isla's Easter gifts

Planting flowers...please note we are using Isla's bath whale to water them

2 Month Check-Up

We had Isla's 2 month check-up the day before Easter. This was also the dreaded shot appointment. I myself hate shots so it was hard for me to have to do that but it had to be done! She did pretty well and was over it fairly quickly. You could tell her little legs hurt and she had a slight fever later that night. We gave her a little infant Tylenol and that seemed to help. She weighed 10lbs and 2 oz, 22.5 inches long and her head is 15 inches. I'm happy to report her height is now in the 50th percentile which is much better than the 10th that she was in at her 1 month! She is up to 5oz feedings every 4 hours or so and she sleeps from about 10pm-6:45am every night! We thank our lucky stars every day that we have a sleeper. The only downfall is that she only takes little cat naps during the day but a couple days this week the daycare has said she took 2-3 hour naps on two separate days.

Trip to Pennsylvania

Well again I am a couple weeks behind but we did go to PA a few weeks ago for my cousin Lianne's wedding. Her and Mike have been together for a loong time and he is hilarious. We had quite the time traveling to and from but the wedding was beautiful and we enjoyed visiting with family we don't see very often.

We flew out super early on Friday morning and headed to Detroit where our car seat was left and we almost missed our flight due to the gate changing! Once we got to PA, we realized our car seat was left in Detroit (by Delta) and we spent 2 hours trying to get that situated. They finally loaned us one for the weekend which was the most questionable car seat we have ever seen and I almost felt safer holding Isla! We drove to Carlisle which is where my family lived for several years and drove by Nana's old house and our old house. Then we headed to Reading and checked into our hotel. Later that evening we went over to my Auntie and Uncle Kenny's to hang out. We had a small family birthday cake for Josh and visited. Saturday we were lucky to have the chance to hang out with Jennie and Matt. They live in D.C. and so kindly drove up to have lunch with us and they got to meet Isla. We really enjoyed seeing them and look forward to the next time. Then it was time for the wedding and Isla slept through most of the reception even though the music was SO loud. Sunday we began our journey home and after a delayed flight in Harrisburg we barley made it on time to Newark where we found out only I had a seat!!! I was hysterical thinking I may have to travel with my 2 month old baby half way across the country and I was completely unprepared. Luckily my emotional breakdown was for nothing and Josh got on the plane at the last minute. We finally made it home and got ready for another week. Here are some pictures from our trip :)

Josh and Isla on her first plane ride

Nana's old house. We spent a LOT of time with Nana when we were little

The Benjamin family home

Jennie and Isla (the first time Jennie has held a baby I believe!) She thought she was going to have an anxiety attack :)

Dancing with Dad... who knew babies could do the Cha Cha slide

Mr. and Mrs. Gracely

Happy Birthday Daddy

Josh's birthday was on 3/22/10 and we all went out to celebrate as a family and Bobby was kind enough to join us. We went to Foga de Chao(I believe that is how you spell it) on the plaza. The Searles went there for dinner and they gave us a buy one get one coupon and Josh really wanted to go. It is a Brazilian restaurant that serves primarily meat. There are "butcher" type waiters that walk around with meat on spears and giant knives. You have a card that has a red and a green side and when you are ready for the meat you flip it to the green side. We enjoyed it and Isla did wonderful.

All dressed up for Dad's birthday dinner

Isla and I also bakes Daddy a cake for his birthday....from scratch!

This also happened to be the night we took Isla's 2 month pics!

Back to work!

I have been back to work for three weeks now and just finally today have access to all the necessary systems! Apparently it is a lot harder to get access to the systems when you were "terminated" and the re-hired... but I'm finally there. It has been a busy couple of weeks and I'm super behind on the blog so this is my attempt to catch up. We have had a lot going on that's for sure.

My first week back to work was tiring but luckily I had a live in Nanny :) My sister Amanda selflessly sacrificed her spring break to stay with us and watch Isla because Isla couldn't start daycare until she was 8 weeks old. It made the first week back a little easier with an extra hand around. Since then, Isla has started daycare and just finished her second week. She goes to the daycare at the Methodist Church in Belton and we have been very pleased so far. Unfortunately she she only makes it home in her original outfit about twice a week! They change her even when she just has a little spit up but I don't mind. When we get home in the evening she is exhausted so sometimes we don't get to see much of her.

Luckily the week I went back to work she started sleeping from 11:00pm-6:00am! And she has been sleeping like that ever since.... and I am thankful! I was so worried about how I was going to work a full day if I had been up in the middle of the night. Josh and I are still working on our morning routine and I think we get closer to the right one every day... if we could both get out of bed when we need to!

Here are a couple random pics and more posts to follow!

I swear she hits her rattle on purpose!

She loves bath time....