Time Flies When You're Having Fun

Everyone at the Santa stop during the BLORA Christmas lights

Lily Marie is just as cute as ever!

Daddy entertaining Lily

The crazy cousins! Kinsie, Lily, Kylie and Mark!

I'm about to embark on a treacherous journey through MUSICAL AUDITIONS! Yep, tomorrow I'm holding auditions for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" that I'll direct. We perform at the end of March but it's going to be crazy busy until then. And I just hope I don't have a ton of parents angry that their kid didn't make it into the musical. :-(

But last Friday night we went to BLORA where they have an amazing series of lights you can drive through. It may not seem super fantastic until you actually drive through it. We went with Craig's Mom and Stepdad (Bill) and Kylie and Kinsie (my nieces). We had a blast stopping at their little shopping craft center. They have Santa there and you can get your picture with him, but the line was so long, we just opted to eat hot cocoa and play with the toys we bought instead.

I just finished making our family calendar that so many people enjoyed last year. I hope they enjoy it this year too!

Lily Marie

After a long recovery from a C-section, I'm finally well enough to post pictures about Lily Marie Hobbs. She's an amazingly good baby who doesn't fuss much. She likes to be in the middle of the action and cries when left alone in the room. But other than that, she's a very happy baby, much like Mark. He always seemed happy to just be alive. And Lily's biggest buddy is her big brother Mark and Lily seemed to love each other from the first time they met at the hospital (seen to the left).

And they're still buddies, as you can see in the photo I used that for the baby announcements where they're looking at each other. I'm just grateful for two fabulous kids.

A New Blog

Happy birthday Craig and happy birthday Mark! We celebrated both birthdays on Saturday, August the 8th, and I decided it was the best way to start my new Hobbs Family Blog.

You can see the cake I made for Mark's birthday from scratch, which is my favorite cake ever! It's from my Aunt Heidi, and it's a chocolate cake with cool whip and strawberries for the filling and a delicious chocolate ganache for icing. It was absolutely fabulous, if you like chocolate. It was gone before the end of the day.


And I'm still pregnant. It looks like we've scheduled the C-section for Tuesday, September 1st. We'll see if that ends up being the actual birthday. I'd like for it to be in August so the little girl doesn't have to wait a whole year to start school. But we've decided her name will be either Lillie Marie Hobbs or Lily Marie Hobbs. The jury is still out on the spelling.

While waiting for our new baby girl, I had fun planning Mark and Craig's combined birthday party Saturday. Lots of food, fun and presents, of course. My brother Paul helped take pictures while I played hostess, but here are a few pictures that I like the best.

First, here's the video from Mark's day care at Ms. Barbara's house (I hope it works):

And here's some pictures from our birthday party Saturday, August 8th:

Mark, Craig and cousin Kayla on Mark's new bike (Kayla loved it)

Our mess of toys: Mark's new Thomas the train set with Cranky (his favorite) and Kayla falling off Mark's new bike.

Mark playing with Cranky while I light up the candles on Craig's birthday cake.

And finally my dad looking at his birthday card since it was his actual birthday on Saturday!

And here's the video of Craig blowing out his candles (again, I hope it works). I'm the fat one on the left. :-)