Relaxing weekend

Ah, what a calm weekend surrounded by people you love can do for your soul!

Last week was one of those go, go, go weeks around here where Brent and I were passing each other waving hi and goodbye. Some weeks are just like that. It defiantly wore Jillian out and by Friday night she fell asleep in my arms.

Saturday morning started off slow. We let Jilli sleep in and Brent ran to Home Depot and I worked on laundry. Jilli woke up to an Asian beetle in her bed and proceeded to give it its leaving instructions. Jilli and I worked on cleaning the living room as it was a disaster zone of toys and Brent worked on some yard work. She did a great job helping to clean up. We ran into Lake Geneva to get lunch and go grocery shopping. While at Walmart Jilli peed right out of her diaper and onto the floor and my foot! A kind man offered me his cart as I was running to the bathroom with her, feeding pump, oxygen and diaper bag... it was sweet. We came home and started prepping stuff for dinner and then my parents came. Jilli was all excited to play outside with grandma and bumpa. My dad and Brent worked on picking sticks up in our yard as you could see more sticks then grass. They looked at our trees too and figured out that two died over the winter and we are going to need to have someone come in and take them down (both are right next to the house and large). We came inside and had dinner and then the boys went out and burned sticks.
Sunday morning we got up early and headed to church in Jefferson. My best friend Jaime is the worship leader there and they were dedicating their little boy. It was awesome to be part of such a special event for a little boy that we have prayed for many years. Jaime and I met in collage in the Navigators (Christian collage group) and have been friends since. During our years at Whitewater she led worship, Brent ran sound and I ran slides so ended up spending a lot of time together doing different worship events and weekly Nav nights. Jaime and I were talking yesterday about how much has changed in our lives since meeting as collage sophomores. After church Jaime and I headed back to their house to get stuff ready for family and friends to come over for lunch. Brent took Jilli to a park to play for a little bit. A while later Brent brought Jilli over so he could eat lunch and Jilli and I played in the back yard. Jilli is allergic to cats and Jaime and Jason have cats so Jilli can't go in their house but it was a beautiful day outside so Jilli and I hung out in the back yard and different people came out to play. I love how Jaime and Jason have never made us feel bad about Jillian's allergies or pressured us to try to bring her by the cats anyhow, instead 99.9% of the time they come to us or we meet someplace in the middle. Jilli loved spending time outside playing. By the end though you could tell she was 100% exhausted! She kept laying on the handlebars of her trike. She did not even make it half way to Whitewater before she was asleep. She worries me in the car sleeping though when she is that tired because her head just flops around. She slept the whole way home and then once we got home she laid on the couch for another 45min.
Brent and I were talking about what would be good for dinner and we both decided that Adrian's in Burlington sounded amazing. I limit my dairy intake because of a milk protein allergy so if I am going to have ice cream it is going to be good ice cream. We called my parents to see if they wanted to join (my dad had been talking the night before about wanting Adrian's) and we decided to meet for Italian food first. Then we went to the park for a little bit, but Jilli's muscles were tired from the day so we mainly just pushed her on the swing and she played with the steering wheel for a while. We then walked over to a very busy Adrian's. After ice cream it was time to come home and go to bed.
Today I feel like I have been recharged. It was great spending a weekend relaxing and celebrating with people that mean so much to me. Today I have an OB appointment and then Jilli has therapy, hopefully this weekend did not wear her out too much... its 9am and she is still sleeping :)

Jilli at Therapy on Monday. She was having a rough time but she loved the swing

She is just too cool!

We had zoo class on Wednesday. It was all about Elephants!

Jilli the elephant!

her tail was almost as big as her :)

We got to go in the elephant cage (while the elephants were outside) and the zoo keeper talked to us about what they feed the elephant. I was just glad this part lasted less then 5min because it is stinky in there!

Then we went outside and the zoo keeper talked to us about the elephants and gave them treats

the one elephant was trying to figure out how she could get more treats

Jilli decided she needed to vacuum the other night... why can't these toy vacuums really vacuum?

She decided after the bug was in her bed that the sheets needed to come off and get washed.

She decided she needed to "clean" her puzzle before she put it away (we got a couple new floor puzzles this week at Learning Express in Brookfield... they are buy one get one free right now!)

I walked into the kitchen Saturday morning and was reminded of how thankful I am for my hubby. We were both lamenting the other day about how I keep the livingroom clean and with a 3 year old it feels like that is a multiple time a day task and he keeps all of her medical supplies clean and with the amount of stuff that needs to be washed and reused there are always Jillian dishes to be done and I am grateful that he takes care of them.

She was being goofy!

Working on those legs! We are working on getting her to do full peddles instead of half

She put her jammies on all by herself! She also decided she needed a crown to go with it!

All dressed up for church!

Playing with her bike at Jaime and Jason's

Doing a puzzle! Shortly after this pic her extention fell out of her tube causing green bile to flow out onto her clothes. I am very grateful that her tube is getting changed out this week because the extentions are not staying in and the valve to keep stuff from flowing out has broken so this has caused a big mess multiple times this week!

Jaime and I and our kiddos!

Jilli, Brent and Jason playing. Jillian loves both of those men so much and looks up to them. My parents always told me that it takes a village to raise a child and I am grateful for the village that was around to help shape me into me and I am grateful for the village that has surrounded Jillian.

At the park!

Tired legs= a ride on bumpa!

the line at Adrian's! This was shorter then it had been!