endless hot summer days!

So here they are...both finished and ready for fun!!!

After many hot days and sleepless nights, we are finally able to say that our backyard "full of fun" is finished and ready for company (hence the girls on the doorstep trying to recruit friends to come over and play)!!! By the way, did I tell you it is 90 something degrees outside and supposed to break heat records this week!!

~Happy Monday!

Piper's 5th birthday!

Piper had a wonderful birthday filled with scooters from Grammie & Papa, sushi & grasshopper pie with friends, buttercup (the cactus), a sunflower, rose earrings and fairy box with lots of glitter~all from Katie, princess fun stuff from Jason and Kelda, riding outside with Paigey, and a new FINISHED swing set in the backyard!!! What a day!!!!!

*click on picture to enlarge!

It seemed like yesterday...

...when I got the phone call from the doctor that I was pregnant (850 miles away from Chris and eating Chinese food with my mom and friend Timbre)!

...that Chris had to leave work just a "little early" because of the life changing phone call I gave him!

...when the only other option for nausea relief was phenergan suppositories!

...when I almost broke the chair at work, and the physician sitting next to me thought I was going into labor.

...that I was told to go straight to the hospital (on my birthday) and we would have a new part of our family before the weekend was over (mind you, it was 4 weeks early and we didn't have a crib yet)!

...that I reached 209#'s and counting, and refused to get on the scale at the hospital after being admitted.

...when our beautiful baby daughter was born into this world.

Happy Birthday to:

Piper Ann Schweigert

Saturday July 24th, 2004

12:22pm~6#'s 2 ounces ~19 inches

It's my birthday!!!

Just a glimpse of some of the fun suprise birthday gifts I received today (and VERY late last night)!!!

1.) The birthday hat and pageant ribbon were from the girls and the trip we took to Claire's this afternoon (how sweet they thought of me, even in the midst of all the fun jewelry)!

2.) The beautiful floral arrangement Katie brought over.

3.)The fun necklace given to me by the cutest lady ever!

playground progress...

Believe it or not, we are not finished putting together the playground structure in the backyard. And just to clarify, there is also a wooden swing set over the fence in our neighbors yards, that you may mistake for being a part of our monstrosity!!! We have two more days (count them) until Piper's birthday, so we are kinda under the gun! Chris...no pressure!!!

painting rock hearts for Katie!

Yesterday on the girlies "nature walk" with Katie, they brought home two of the most perfect rock shaped hearts. And this morning they wanted to paint them and give them back to their favorite nanny of all time, KATIE!!!

Hope you like them!!!

Can't hardly wait!

While I continued to paint the playhouse (almost done, by the way), Chris and a couple of his buddies decided to go folfing (frisbee golf) this morning and to tackle the swing set (we bought for Pipers b-day) this afternoon!!! I think it was a little more than they bargained for because after hours of construction and nightfall quickly approaching, they were only able to put up the structure and attached the slide!! And boy do I really need to hand it to them, because this thing came in a million little pieces with a million little screws!! What great friends they must be!! The swings and infamous "horsey swing" will come later this week...before the big b-day Friday!! Hopefully many fun years and pictures of our new playground!!!