Byron Day's and more!

I am surprising my self... Two blogs in one week, it is usually two blogs in one month!!

This past weekend was Byron Day's! On Saturday they started off with a parade, Lauren wasn't too sure about it at first but once she got the hang of things she thought it was pretty cool:)

Hillary and Marcus were here visiting so Lauren had a buddy at the parade :)

Lauren was having a good time picking up the candy, and she wasn't in the mood to give it up.. If she only knew that if I took the candy from here she could just get more. But she was satisfied with the handfulls she allready had!

Look at that handfull :)
Grandpa Steve was happy to set down on the side walk with the kiddos and help them get candy! Thanks Grandpa :)

It was a pretty fun parade.. Pretty short, but pretty fun!

It was a hot, hot day and Lauren had already drank her sippy, and grandpa re-assured me that this was caffine free diet pepsi!

Lauren is always happy to drink someone elses drink!

We went home after the parade and had some hambergers with Erik's parents and sister Hillary. Then after lunch it was time for the Volleyball Tourny. Erik was asked to be on a team, so I had to build my own. My team was Jake, Kandace, Lila, her friend Ashley, and Kale Marchant (we saw him at the park and recruted him!) We lost both of our matches, but we had fun and we all got a t-shirt out of it:) Now Erik's team on the otherhand wasn't so unfortunate as us.. they ended up winning the toury, yeah they won it! TURDS anyway! Haha just kidding! So my team will be coming back for more at the Cowely Day's volleyball tourny (and hopefully Erik's team won't, we want to have a chance!)

We ended off our day with the AWESOME Byron fireworks! We watched them from our yard becasue we live a block away from the park and I am glad we did because Lauren was a little scarred of them. So Lauren and I watched them through our livingroom window which worked out great.

The next thing that I am excited about is Lauren's little play area..

This is what it usually looks like.

And my handy father has now made it look like this..

I was telling my dad that I was wanted a book shelf for Lauren and kind of explained to him what I was thinking. Lauren LOVES books and her books have been taking over the toy tub, so that was why I wanted a shelf. Then he left and about 30 minutes later (not joking) he came up with this!! He is such a handy dad to have around!

Thanks Dad!

Happy Birthday Lauren!

I am taking everyone back with pictures to when Lauren was born, and bringing you up to the now! Sorry about the picture OVERLOAD, I wanted to choose every picture so this is what I ended up with!

July 2, 2008 our precous baby was born!

Lauren Frances Bassett

born at 6:07 am

7lbs. 14oz. 20 inches long

Learning to sit up with a laundry basket! She loved to play in it!

Can't forget the bald spot! It was so stylish :)

The laundry basket worked!! She is sitting up better now :)
She was so small :( I miss it so much..
Starting to push herself backwards.

Learned to pull herself up!

Crawling lady!




Getting ready to walk!
Our baby is ONE!

We didn't have her pary on the day of her birthday, but I couldn't let her go her whole birthday without some sort of treat.

So we treated ourselfs to a banana split from Minchows!

We celebrated Lauren's birthday Saturday July, 4 2009

Lots of people came to celebrate with us and we had such a great time!

The party was at our house, and we partied outside on the lawn (I was worried the weather was going to turn bad, but it was perfect)

The birthday girl and her very own cake!

This is the cake for everyone else. Grandma Debbie made it, and mom got to decorate it!

Lauren wasn't really into opening her presents. We opened a few together, then I finished for her! Lauren got a lot of cute stuff! Thanks Grandma Debbie for the new carseat!! And thanks to everyone else:)

Lauren was trying to eat Great Grandma Frans cake!

The kids had a GREAT time, with the personal swimming pool, Erik gave rides on the lawn mower, there dogs were a big hit, and there was food and cake!!

Happy Birthday Lady Lauren! I love you so much! I can't believe you are one already.

You love to dance when you hear music.

You LOVE to babble. something that you say all the time is "it's a boy" dad says that it sounds like "eat subway" but I think that it is "it's a boy" you don't know what it means but you say it all the time. Another phrase you say all the time is "who is that" or "whats that" agian you don't know what you are saying but you babble that quite a bit :) And in you constant babble you sometimes sound like you are speaking chinese! I love to hear you talk!

Words that your know are mom, dad, and hi!

You can sign "more" and "all done"

You love to be outside, and every time we open the door you head for it! You like to play in the dirt!

You like to play with my phone, and know that it goes by your ear. You turn your wrist funny so the back of the phone is to your ear! It is so funny :)

You like to push anything that you can make move. You are always rearanging the chairs in the Kitchen, and we have fun playing together.

I am sure there are many other things that I am forgeting but all I know is you are an amazing daughter and I wouldn't ask for anything else!

Love you sweets :)

Look who's walking!

Thats right my baby is not a baby anymore.. she is a toddler! A couple weeks ago I was outside weeding my flower garden and she started to bear crawl because she didn't like the feel of the grass or cement on her knee's and then all the sudden she stood up. She thought that was pretty neat, and kept on standing up on her own. The next day we were out side again on the lawn (because she LOVES to be outside, she is like a dog when you open the door she gets over there as fast as she can) she started to stand up again on her own and took her very first steps all by herself. She practiced and practiced all week long then on Tuesday (6/23/09) she walked half way across the living room and then Sunday(6/28/09) she was walking across the living room and back! She walks with her arms stretched out in front of her and a big smile on her face :)
In this next picture if you look closely there is a bird wing connected to a fishing pole line inbetween the puppy and Lauren. This is used to train puppies how to "point" when they see a pheasent or whatever. Erik got it out to show his dad how advanced he thinks his puppy is and come to find out, Lauren is just as advanced as the puppy! So this is a picture of Lauren and Ginger on Point!

Two Saturday's ago (6/20/09) Erik wanted to go fishing, so he took Lauren and I to Sunshine Resevoir (what a happy name!) in Meeteese. Lauren and I didn't do much fishing, but we still had a good time!

When we got their Lauren had to check the place out with her new walker (it's an early birthday present, I couldn't wait!)

She thought that was pretty fun, however was a little mad becasue the ground was not flat and was kind of hard to get over the bumps with the walker.

She did find one thing that she loved... playing in a bucket of water! She was really fasinated with that and would cry if I tried to take her away!

Erik couldn't help but to get Lauren a...

She had fun playing with it. We never tried it out, but she still had fun with it! Here she is checking everything out making sure it all works!

Then back to the water bucket but this time she was trying to lick the water off her hands (yuck) but I couldn't get her to stop and she was having a ball!

Then the first catch of the day came and Erik had to show Lauren.

she even got to touch it! She was in awe most of the time, but she didn't not like it and I think that made her dad proud!

Then it was time to pack up and go home because it started to rain. Lauren wasn't happy about leaving the bucket even though she spilled the whole bucket of water on her!

Lauren found out she loves to be in the drivers seat and knows how to turn on the windsheild wipers!

That is our last couple of weeks in a nutshell! Lauren's birthday is coming up on Thursday July 2nd! I have all the party plans ready and we will be celebrating it on the 4th! I am obiously more excited than her, but it is really fun to plan it for her! So hopefully I will post that a couple days after it happens and not a couple weeks!!