By Special Request: Silly Lily Turns 1 !

OK, all you impatient Silly Lily Club Members - here are my photos from The Big Day.

It was a very fun event - Lily was a trooper, as always, smiling and humoring us endlessly.

Anne probably has better shots, so please check her blog, too.

A Hoppy Easter it was

It was a Hoppy Easter, or "Wii-ster" as Bobby, Brandon and Lynn would call it, for us all!

The Hassan family celebrated Easter for the first time --- with us! I had fond flashbacks all day long of their very first American celebration: the Fourth of July at our house. I'm hoping that they don't think all Americans are INSANE, based on Jim Kelly a.k.a. "The D I GUY," bringing 1,000 presents out and then the resulting inevitable chaos and frenzy that that many crazy gifts brings. Also, Jake skipping around the yard dressed up in a giant white bunny costume added to the sur-reality of it all.

Kate and Neil joined us, too, which made the whole weekend very festive.

LOng Live the Kelly family and its love and insanity!!!

The Month of Lily

The administrators of this blog hereby declare April to be renamed "The Month of Lily." It is fitting, of course, because it will henceforth and forever be known as the month of Lily's birth.

This is Lily in her custom hot tub at the Kelly compound in early January 2009 (a.k.a. The Kitchen Sink).

I will be representing the Happy Valley Kelly klan at THE event of the year: Lily's first birthday celebration in Erie, PA the weekend of April 15th.

Aren't you jealous????