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.

A Day at the Temple

Kari & Matt were sealed Saturday at 8am. Since the sealing was so early we decided to get a hotel for Friday night. We invited my mom to go to be Claire's Nanny while we were in the temple. It was great to spend that time with her. I don't spend enough time with my family. Friday we got to the hotel at about 4pm. At 7pm we went to dinner with with the McCallon's and Frugé's at Fuddruckers. Claire had a blast playing with the games.

Claire was super excited about seeing the temple. We show her pictures all the time. That whole week we were telling her that on Saturday she would get to see the temple. She talked about it constantly. Saturday was really good. The sealing was great. It was really cold though. Add that with my having a head cold, and it wasn't good. I tried to keep a smile on my face. The good thing about having the sealing so early was that I think we stopped at only 4 lights on all of FM 1960. We have never done that good!

The sealing and reception was awesome. Kari looked gorgeous, and Matt was very handsome. I hope it was a perfect day for them.

3 Years Down... an Eternity to Go

On November 19 Kevin and I were married for 3 years. It's been great! It hasn't been perfect, but I wouldn't change anything.