Alli - Around the World: 2010

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Vail

Off to vail in the morning for some quality family time!! Whooh! Catch you on the flip side.

The wedding was spectacular and our friends are now off to a life as a married couple!!! Whooh!!! Not much else to report for the weekend except that I'm happy to report the flu is completely gone. Thank God!!!

Wedding Weekend

My dear friends are tying the knot this weekend. I'm super excited to be part of the celebration. Congratulations you two!!!

LOVE ~ LOVE ~ LOVE ~ LOVE

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world!

Tractor time

Fun at the mall! She's so much fun at this age! I wish I could just eat her up. I love my Sydney Sunshine!

Ciao for now!

So Proud of myself

I am so proud of myself. Today I got home and at my doorstep was the project I have been working on for months and months. Today I received the photo book I created for Sydney's first year. It is AMAZING! My heart was swelling looking through it. I wanted to capture the feelings each moment that year. I actually think I did.

Here is a copy of the cover... I'll try and find some screen shots of the inside as well... Proud day today!!!

Picture Time!!!

I'm such a slacker. Finally got the pictures downloaded. Lots of fun times the last couple of weeks. I am so blessed to have the family and friends that I have. We not only were able to sneak away for our early anniversary up to Napa, I celebrated an incredible friend up in Santa Barbara for her bachelorette and then this past weekend we hung out with family, went to the ball game with work peeps, Legoland for the first time with Miss Sydney Sunshine and ended with a pool party at a friends house. Can't ask for more!

Here are some of the pics I've downloaded.

Fountain fun!

After returning some clothes at the outlet mall, we had a little fun in the fountain!

So excited

Ok, so it's been about a week and a half since losing my blogger app on my phone and i've been at a loss.
No updates! But finally I'm back!!! Whooh! Look for posts soon!

Pizza making

Had fun tonight making pizza!

Fun, fun, fun!!!

11 little words...(warning a bit graphic)

11 little words you never want to hear...

"she woke up from her nap with poop on her face!"

Oh dear god! Why? Did she eat it? Was it everywhere? Oh dear god!

Ewwwwww!

We may never know the true answers my friends, and my stomach has not yet recovered from the thought, but from what annie gathered was that it was up by her forehead and no where else. So the thought is that she was scratching her diaper as she has been the last couple of days, and the poop went from the hand to the forehead. I'm going to believe that they came it right then and that is all that happened! Uggg! Oh the joys of parenthhod!

The good news is, that she's in a great mood and the flax seed in the cereal I'd working! Silver lining to everything :)

Love it

I came across this and just love it. Seeing as this blog is Alli-Around the World, it is only fitting =)

Jennifer from Cup of Coco made this wall globe for a child’s room. It’s made of 100% wool felt and the little pieces move around and attach with velcro. The cute suitcase holds all the pieces.

I think I may need to get this... I have no where to put it, but I just absolutely love it! What do you think?

There is something to be said...

There is definitely something to be said about checking things off your to-do list! We got a bunch of things acomplished this weekend and feel fantastic about it! I do believe it's good for the soul!

Side note: Club Dub orchard and vineyard will be in full effect this fall! Come one, come all!

More than half your life...

Yesterday was a major milestone in our house. Yesterday marked a year to the date when Sydney went from lucky 24 to our 20 digit girl. Those that know us, know what an extremely emotional time it was for both of us. It is unreal that it has been a year. More than half her life she has had 20 digits rather than 24. Does not define her anymore. Wow...I remember the feelings like they were yesterday. I remember how early we had to be at the hospital. I remember the smells. I remember just holding her and thinking that our life will never be the same after this. I remember how incredibly scared I was. I remember my parents all being there. I remember Amanda sitting next to me and keeping me occupied with funny remarks about how weird it was that my mom, my dad and step-mom were all talking like they were best friends. I remember Jen Flen coming and sitting on the other side of me and how much I needed them. I remember the gut wrenching feeling when they took her into the operating room and Craig and I had to go to the waiting room. I remember the praying. I remember the crying. I remember explaining what was happening as best I could to Yale and Hayden. I remember the surgery went over by a half hour, and how I felt just numb until they called our name to go see her. I remember seeing her little body in that big hospital bed. I remember how they had her strapped down. I remember then telling me I can feed her formula when she wakes up and giving me the smallest little bottle. I remember laughing after she finished it in about 2.2 seconds and telling them we would probably need a couple more of those little bottles. I remember seeing the wraps on her legs and arms. I remember thinking, she is the bravest little girl I have ever met. I remember when my family was allowed in. I remember after only an hour or two, them telling us we could go home. I remember how scared I was to tend to her at home. I remember being so scared about how much pain she was in. I remember getting her dressed. I remember driving her home. I remember setting her on our bed to rest in her boppy and how Innocent she looked. I remember my family coming over in the afternoon and her being up and happy. I remember the dressings coming off the second day and frantically calling Craig to come home to help me and my mom to fix it. I remember seeing the incisions for the first time and thinking they looked like Frankenstein. I remember how happy I was to get the bandages off her. What I remember the most is the feeling of relief that our big ordeal was finally over. It was a full 9 months of the craziest of emotions and we made it through the other side. I love you little girl more than you ever know.

Sydney Adele Ward... You are an amazing, beautiful, smart little girl and are the absolute loves of momma and dadda's life.

A daughter will hold your hand only for a little while, but will hold your heart for a lifetime!!!

Napa

Ok, so there is a little back story... My friend Jericho and I were talking about going to Napa and we were looking online and came across this funny picture of these people in a mud bath. Laughing I promised to send her a pic if I can convince the hubs to go! Well, as you can guess, I'm pretty convincing! :)