Some videos of Lilyana

Lilyana crawling (sort of)

Lilyana plays with a ball

Dad makes Lilyana laugh

Lilyana crawls some more

what's going on.

here's a recap of the last few weeks.

July 17 - 25 visiting with Matt's family back in Wyandotte, Mich

July 26 Oil leak discovered in Marshall, Mich. Here's the lastest update and photos here: http://response.enbridgeus.com/response/

July 27 work busy with people flying in for the oil spill. over the next few days we had multiple helicopter in and out flying over to view the damage. Jennifer Granholm and Kate Segal both fly over. I saw Jennifer get in\out but she didn't come in the building.

July 25 I was informed at work that they were overpaying me 6cent an hour for the last year and a half and now i have to pay it back. I was NOT a happy camper this day. This totally stinks. !!!!!

July 3o Lilyana is 4 months old. Took the day off work, Rehearsal and Dinner for the wedding i stood up on Saturday.

July 31 April & Steve's Wedding in Marshall, Mi. It was a wonderful wedding and a beautiful day. It was an early wedding and reception so we meet up with some friends at Dark Horse Brewery in Marshall afterwards. It was a very laid back kid friend place, so we didn't have any worries about bringing Lilyana with us.

August 1st My mom is in town for a few days. She went with us up to the Frederick Meijer gardens in Grand Rapids. One of my favorite artists (Dale Chihuly) had an exhibit going on.

Cousins Portrait

We had the cousins photographed, it was no where near pefect but it wasn't horrible either. I may try again on Sunday before the Franklin's leave to go back home.
Here what JCPenny got, take a look:
https://www.smilesbywire.com/home.asp?AC=LTPP0173113309JCP

Customer Code: Alicia Collins

Day at Beadle Lake

Lilyana's new talents

Lilyana rolls over
She can roll from her back to her tummy, but has a hard time getting onto her back again (she has done it before but usually needs help)

Lilyana Sits with Boppy
She can't sit up all by herself just yet but she does pretty good with the help of the boppy.

Lilyana uses her hands
She is still a little uncoordinated but is starting to use her hands for more things than just something to put in her mouth.

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Matt's hobby

Many of you knew of Matt's hobby in high school was playing Magic the Gathering. For about 10 years between high school & now he hasn't played very often, but within the last two years playing "Magic" has made a resurgance. This weekend he played in a pre-release tournament. Meaning a new set of card is coming out so they play the tournament with the new set(M11). He paid $30. and got 5 hours of playing time and 6 packs of 15 cards each. He spends hours looking through stacks for cards. He has them all organized but he still has alot.








Lilyana trys to " help" sometimes.

He also won this cool box that holds cards. I am about as intrested in Magic as Matt is intrested in my Scrapbooking but we still support each other in our hobbies. Here is Matt's newest creative venture. He cut the artwork off these cards, matched them up to create a landscrape picture. We had the stripes framed. It actually lots pretty cool.

Rise of the Eldrazi basic land, from the top: Island, Forest, Swamp, Plains, Mountain

Happy Forth of July