Summer and her froggy friend.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Two Months Old
Sunday, September 13, 2009
A Saturday I'll Never Froget
After Molly's party, I planned to take the girls to my parents' so we could have dinner. Bill had to work yesterday, and was just going to go to church as usual when he got off. I was getting ready to leave the party when I picked up my phone and saw three missed calls...not normal. I didn't recognize the number so I called back and it was our friend Jimmy from church. A friend of his, who had met Bill a couple times, called Jimmy and told him that he saw Bill's jeep out on Sooner Rd stranded. Now why this guy did not stop at that point to see if Bill was still there and needed help, I have NO idea, but....whatever. Anyway, Jimmy and our other friend Sam, were trying to determine if Bill was with me, or needed help. So, I very quickly loaded up the girls and asked Sam to go look for Bill and I would get that way as fast as I could. Seeing as this was just before 6:00pm and Bill gets off at 4:30, he had probably been stranded for a good hour by now, and if he wasn't in the jeep, that meant he was walking in the rain. Now, this is why sharing a cell phone can be a problem...I had our only cell phone!!
As I got closer and closer to the jeep's location, and it got later and later, I got more and more panicky! I was doing lots of "talking" to Bill, asking where he was, and probably a bit of crying too. At one point, Brooke said, "Mommy, you like a blankie?" and offered me hers. Well, that just made me laugh and cry more for how sweet and intuitive she is. I know it's silly to be so hysterical, but I'm a sleep deprived, post-partum hormonal, women...what do you expect. I just couldn't understand why Bill hadn't gotten to a phone after so much time. Then I'd worry that instead of a nice normal person stopping to help, he'd get a crazed ax-murderer person instead. After what seemed like forever, and several phone calls back and forth to the others who were looking for him, Bill called me and said he was at Sam's house. I thought it was strange that Sam would've taken Bill to his house, instead of to church, but I didn't care as long as I knew where he was. So, I headed over there to pick him up. Bill was sitting on their front porch so I asked, "Did Sam just go back to church?" "Sam was never here," he said.
So here is Bill's side of the story. He stopped to get gas after work, and the jeep wouldn't start back up. He had this problem last week too. After a few tries he got it started again, but only made it to Franklin and Sooner (don't ask me where that is, except the middle of nowhere). He walked to the closest station he knew of, at Franklin and Porter, but they said they didn't have a phone he could use....ugh!
So, the next closest place he new he could eventually get help was Sam and Elisabeth's house, so he started walking that way. Somebody did eventually stop and give him a ride to Sam's and he was able to borrow a phone to call me.
He was wet up to his knees and really cold (thank goodness he had a jacket with him), but other than that he was unharmed,,,praise Jesus!!
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Week In Pictures
Summer, stripped down, trying to wake her up. She's laying on her "Grammy quilt." I'd been meaning to post a picture of this anyway. This is the quilt my mom made her. She makes one for every grandchild and we lovingly call them "Grammy quilts" thanks to cousin Dylan.
Wednesday night was dinner with Jesika and Hannah.
Brooke and Hannah enjoyed popsicles after dinner.
And then a session of nail shop
"You want, I do you fingers too? Only five dolla mo."
Loves from Daddy!
A Day In McAlester
Summer with her great-grandma Aguilar
Grandpa and Grandma Aguilar...Brooke took this picture...it may be one of the ONLY pics I have where Grandpa is looking at the camera. All the times we've taken pictures of him with the girls, he looks at them instead of the camera.
Like this
This is cousin Jerry. He has been in town visiting his parents so he came to meet Brooke and Summer.
And then, I flaked...no more pictures:(
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sweet Sayings
Friday, September 4, 2009
Don't Wake the Baby
Thursday, September 3, 2009
All About Brooke
So that's what I have in my head now about our not so little, Brooke!