Our Family: November= Mommy stays home with Lily, a birthday, Lily's first cold, & Thanksgiving

November brought about some amazing changes and firsts. Jeff and I decided that I would quit work and stay home with Lily, I turned 30+1 ;), Lily had her first cold, and it was Lily's first Thanksgiving!

It has been so wonderful being home with Lily. She has gone through some amazing transformations in the past few months! She is such a joy to be around and that makes it all the more worthwhile!

On November 13, I turned 31- blah, blah, blah... Jeff took me to the spa (no, really, he actually took me to the spa & then picked me up!) for a manicure, pedicure, and massage. Then we went out to dinner with some family and friends.

Lily and Jeff both had colds the following week, and even though it was really sad to see Lily suffer, she was such a trooper through the whole thing! She managed to to survive me being obsessed with suctioning her nose so that she could breathe better, and the only other evidence that something was off was that she slept more than usual.

For Thanksgiving, we had dinner at our house with Jeff's parents and his older sister and her family. Lily had a really cute outfit that a girl I used to work with gave me before I left. The shirt said "Thankful for Mommy" and the leggings had a turkey on her butt. And I had bought her a turkey "headdress" of sorts that was made out of foam.

On to the pictures!

"Me & Mommy went to the park and I got to swing!"

"I'm 8 months old :)"

Birthday dinner at Firebird's

Our family

Kader, Tiffany, & Kirk came to visit for my birthday, and this is how close he & Lily got to each other the entire time!

Lily playing with my birthday balloons from Stacey

This is when Lily was sick. After taking a 3 1/2 hour nap from 5-8:30pm (!), she laid on the floor and watched Baby Einstein while Mommy and Daddy ate dinner.