Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all and to all a goodnight...I'm SO tired!

Christmas

Christmas was really great! It was so wonderful to be able to stay home together and no have to rush every which way. We woke up at about 7:15am and went in the living room to open presents. Claire saw her kitchen and starting playing. I told Kev the night before that once she saw the kitchen she wouldn't want to open anything else. I was wrong though. She LOVED to open all her presents! From Kev and I she got a kitchen, soccer ball, soccer goal, a couple books, and Cinderella. Danita got Claire a Tickle me Elmo. She loves it! She tickles him all the time. She treats him like a baby too. She tries to put a diaper on him, but then he won't work.

Kev likes all his presents also. I'm very proud of myself. He's so hard to buy for, but I did really good. I made him believe he wasn't getting speaker, but he did. He also got a drill bit set, an Outback Steakhouse gift card, an electric razor, a wii game, and a little coupon book I made him that has stuff like free diaper duty for 2 days in it. He also got a dart board. There's a cute story behind it. Claire and I were in Wal-Mart shopping when she saw the dart board and said, "Get that for Daddy for Christmas." I brought her down the isle that has the Christmas gifts for like $5-$20 and showed her all the different presents. She stuck with the dart board.

I got a lot of jewelry. I love jewelry. I got a set of white pearls, pink pearls, and a set of fresh water pearls (black ones). I also got 2 pretty bracelets, a nice watch and a workout watch, some new head phones for my mp3 player, and 2009 calendar.

Mom got Claire a drum and a baby doll set. It has a high chair, stroller, carrier, and a diaper bag in it. Mom gave Kev and I a gift card. She was too generous with that. I told her not to give us much. We appreciate it though. With Kev's money he got a stationary workout bike. I got a pretty jewelry armoire.

So after gifts we got to cooking. My mom, brother, and two sisters came for Christmas Dinner. My dad had to work. :( We had a lot of fun chilling with family, and having a relaxing day. My brother, his wife, and their son were going to come also but Claire had a wet cough and a runny nose. With Ashlei's low white count due to her cancer she doesn't have much of an immune system. They weren't able to come. We missed them.

Mom's Birthday

My mom's birthday was on the 21st. It was also my brother in law's and my sister in law's dad's birthday. It was a lot of fun. Emelie and I are the ones that pretty much planned it. I few months ago I ordered Mom a Mother's Ring. She has wanted one for a long time. It's so pretty! Sunday Kev and I left here about 9am and drove to mom's house. We decorated her house and drove to Woodville for church to surprise her. I think she was surprised with all the decorations that we did. She loved her ring, and I'm so glad! It was a great day! Heber, Ashlei, and Jace also surprised her by showing up. It was really cool to see Jace and Claire interact and play together. They enjoyed each other.


Mom's Ring

Our Christmas Tree

Baby Anna

I finally remembered to ask Misty for permission to put Baby Anna's pictures on here. I've been watching her since mid August when she was about 6 weeks old. I can't believe she's already 5 1/2 months. She's so sweet, such a good baby!! Her name is Gianna, but when Claire saw her she started calling her Baby Anna. After that it sorta stuck. That's what everyone calls her now I think.

You know when kids are little they have to have 2 pieces of food, one for each hand. Well, Claire has to have 4; one for Daddy, one for Mommy, one for Claire, and one for Baby Anna. It's too cute!

SNOW!

Kev had to leave before Claire and I got to play in the snow so I wrote him a message on my car. :) Kev woke me up at 6am when he was leaving for work to see the snow. I love snow. I'm super excited! So, I went and woke Claire, bundled her up, and brought her outside to see the snow. When we got outside Claire asked where Frosty the Snowman was. LOL She didn't like the snow at first. She said it was too cold outside and that she wanted to go in the house. It was just because it was so early. I brought her outside an hour later and she LOVED it! She played around in the snow and had a lot of fun. She loves it! Yes, I'm like a kid... Now that's an UGLY snowman. My hands It's so beautiful! Yay! I'm so happy that Claire was able to experience this, and that I have a camera to capture it. It definitely makes our "first" Christmas better!

I know. I brought her right back in to put a jacket on her!

What a Busy Month!

-December 9-Ward Christmas Party
-December 10-Candle Party at Stacey's
-December 12-Williamson Christmas Musical W/families
-December 14-Church w/ first ward at 10:30am because of the Williamson Christmas Musical for the public
-The contractor that is fixing our house should be here the week of the 15th to work
-December 19-Flowserve Office Christmas Party
-December 20-Kim's graduation & Christmas w/ Fruge's
-December 21-Go to Spurger for Mom's birthday & Tristan Hargraves' Open House
-December 24-Dinner at Darrellyn's
-December 25 Christmas!!

Christmas Plans

For Christmas we have decided to stay home!! I'm so excited. We don't care if people come to our house, but we will be going NOWHERE!! I'm excited and nervous about cooking Christmas dinner. I have never had to cook a dinner for a holiday. I'm looking forward to doing it though. I like to cook. I think we're going to have Ham, Dressing, Green Bean Casserole, Rolls, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Veggies and Dip, and for dessert I'm not sure. All I know is that we are having Cherry Cobbler. It's awesome!!

I'm mainly excited about Claire experiencing Christmas. This is the first year that she knows who Santa is. Kev and I bought her the Christmas Classics on DVD. It has Frosty the Snowman and Frosty Returns, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, and a bunch more. This is also our first Christmas. Well, it's our 4th Christmas, but this is the first year that we have been able to actually buy for one another. It feels awesome to be able to buy Kev and Claire things. It actually feels like Christmas in our house. These past years it hasn't because there hasn't been presents under the tree Christmas morning.

Thanksgiving

It's been awhile since I have posted, hasn't it? Thanksgiving went well. Kev and I both had a head cold. We decided to go to my family's because last year we went to the Frugé's. I don't spend enough time with my family anyways. Plus, I NEEDED my dad's dressing. It's the best in the world, and nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can top it. It just sux that I only get it once a year. Oh well, it's worth it! We had fun talking and playing. At about 5-6pm Kev said he had a bad headache so we left.

That morning, before he headed to Spurger, during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade we put up the tree. It was awesome to do that as a family. Even Claire was helping. I would take the ornaments out of the box and put a hanger thing on them, and then Claire was bring them to Kev to put on the tree. I'll post a pic soon.