The last few days have been a mix of stressed, fun filled and confusing.
Yesterday was Lillian's first birthday and we woke up to no power. Now, I had a payment arrangement with the power company and they showed on my bills how much was due on a certain date along side my current charges. But on my last two bills, this was absent, so, I thought I was caught up. Apparently not. So yesterday was a race to borrow money so we could get the power turned back on, then when it wasn't back on by 6pm, I called to find out if they could send someone out, but they wanted to charge us $150, in cash, for them to send someone out to us. I was resolved to not have power last night because we didn't have the money in the first place to pay the remaining balance to get it turned back on. But I recieved a call while we were at JoAnn's (I was picking up a job application... yay, I may have a job soon!) and we rushed home so they could turn it back on. We chatted with the really awesome man and then enjoyed our night of power.
Another horrid thing happened yesterday, I fell while holding Lillian. Somehow, I managed to hold her just right to where she didn't get hurt. Her head did graze the floor slightly, but it wasn't even a tap apparently. She has no bruise, no egg, not even a sore spot. But I scraped my elbow, banged up my knee and did something to my hip. Last night my knee was aching, today its my hip. Great. More hip problems. After my car accident two years ago, all I needed was another thing to happen to my hips. But all in all, I am so grateful that nothing happened to Lily. I felt awful, but it seemed she just got really scared.
On Sunday we had Lillian's birthday party, which had a great turn out! About 3/4 of the people we invited showed up, so that was awesome. And Lily was an absolute princess. She was so social and happy. She got a little fussy toward the end, but she had a busy day, without a nap! She got on great with Cashton and my friend Alexa's Lily. It was super cute, :)
She got great gifts and I need to get some thank you cards put together and send those out.
Adam and I have been talking about having another tiki themed party, but this time for our birthday. Since it'll be late summer and still perfect weather for a BBQ, I think we might try for it. We haven't done much for our birthday the last two years, but we may try to do something this year. We set up the gazebo and we have tons of the party decorations stil. Good to reuse that stuff! If we do have this party, hopefully I'll have lost more weight and I can make my dress. I have a pattern in mind, and I already have the fabric I'd like to use.
On my weight loss progress, I've officially lost about 16lbs, then Lillian's party with cake and junk food set me back about 2... Meghan! We need to go walking! :) I'd like to try and walk every other day. Weather pending. I think Lillian and I may start to go later in the day (post 4pm so the sun isn't as strong) and power walk down the bike paths by the river downtown. Get the iPod set up, stroller and coast along. Lily loves walks. I'd love to go with others, but sometimes schedules don't work out. I need to also start using the time she takes naps to use my workout dvds and weights so I can start toning up. I really need to work out the left-over pregnancy belly. And I really want smaller/toned arms :( I've never had that. And I want it.
