Our fun saturday!

We had a great day on Saturday! Matt, Lily, and I left for charlottesville (with my friend Vicky in tow) in the morning around Lily's naptime so she would sleep in the car on the way there. First, we went to the Downtown Mall. It's this big outdoor historic looking shopping center. I got some new sunglasses I had been wanting and we went to this baby store to check out a car seat (will discuss that later) which they did not have! Lily got to take her first carousel ride with mommy! She loved it!!

Then we met up with Tara (my best friend from college) and her husband to have lunch at Chili's (one of our favorite restaurants!). They live in Waynesboro but came to meet us there since it wasn't too far away from them. After that we headed over to the Barracks Road Shopping Center and checked out a few stores there including Old Navy which we frequent at least once a week - haha. We're obsessed with Old Navy and Target. Then we went to Baskin Robbins and got some ice cream and just hung out for a little while longer.

Our final stop was to swing by Calie and Daniel's for a little bit to visit with them. We had a good time just talking with them for a little while. Pregnancy looks great on Calie! Daniel is going to be a pro at being a dad too - he jumped right in and Lily had fun playing with him! Lily also got to see her first cat; she just stared at Gypsy (their cat) for the longest time.

After that we headed for home. Lily slept most of the way back too and ended up staying up a bit later. Since she had a longer nap on the way home than normal, she didn't actually fall asleep after we put her to bed for probably like 45 minutes or so. I kept hearing her making noises, etc. in there. She did great though for the day!

Two side notes: We FINALLY decided on a car seat purchase (or more like I finally decided). For those out there who know about car seats... we were deciding between the evenflo triumph, britax roundabout, and britax marathon. Britax is like the top of the line for car seats and has great safety ratings. The Evenflo is actually pretty comparable for less money but Matt and I didn't really like the shape of it, the difficulty of the recline feature, and how you adjust the straps. There was a big sale on until yesterday on several internet sites for the Britax models. So we decided since they were a cheaper price to spend the money and get the Britax Marathon in Onyx since we plan to get a lot of use out of it with other children in the future as well. We got it for $209 instead of the normal $279 - so a great deal! We opted for the larger Marathon instead of the Roundabout since it has a heigher height and weight limit. Wouldn't want to spend that amount of money and then have her grow out of it too soon. I'm happy with our purchase so far and can't wait for it to get here to see what it's like in person. I can hardly believe our little baby girl is graduating from her infant seat!

And the other note... my sister is having her babies (twins) TOMORROW!!!!!!!! I can hardly believe that the time is already here. It feels like just yesterday I was having Lily and Dawn was only a little pregnant. If you think about it, I know that she and I would both appreciate your prayers for her and the babies. Pray for a safe delivery, quick recovery for Dawn, and that this big adjustment to having 3 children now instead of 1 will go well for all of them.

And finally a cute picture of Lily sucking her thumb, watching baby einstein, sitting on her daddy's transformers sheet (what more could she ask for!):