So Christmas was pretty fun this year. We went to Barstow for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. All of Warren's family came and it was really great because they haven't seen Eleanor since like August so it was fun to show her off.
We drove back to Las Vegas on Christmas Day and spent the afternoon with my family. I didn't feel like taking photos so we don't have a lot of my family. Waren drove back to Barstow the day after christmas so he could go 4 wheeling with his sister Laurel. I was boring and stayed in Vegas and Hung out with my family.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Christmas 2009
Well this was definitely a fun Christmas. I think because it was Eleanor's first Christmas, it felt more like Christmas . I feel like the past couple times haven't felt very Christmasy so it was nice to get into the spirit of the season this year.
We started off by going to our Ward Christmas party which was a breakfast on Saturday the 19th.
We started off by going to our Ward Christmas party which was a breakfast on Saturday the 19th.
Travis did a great job as Santa Claus, the funny thing was Ella had a hold of some of the hair in his beard and was ready to yank it off.
For Christmas Eve we traveled to Barstow CA to hang out with Warren's family. This is Warren's brother in law Dan and his son Derrick. Dan is married to Sandy, Warren's sister. It was alot of fun hanging out with their family. Derrick really liked Eleanor and he says her name so cute, he uses an h instead of an l so it sounds like ehenor. We also got to see Warren's siblings, Laurel, Shaunna and her husband Richard, Steven, and his parents. Steven was really nice and let us take over his room while we stayed. I was suprised at how well Ella did with all the niose. Our house is pretty quiet.
Sandy, Derrick showing off his Christmas stockings, Dan, and Linda.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Some photos to illustrate this week.
So this is my arm two days after I got the h1n1 shot. Warren was worried but online it says that swelling is a usual side affect.
This is a hat I crocheted for my friend Heidi's daughter, Ellie. I am mailing it tomorrow and I am super excited with how well it turned out. I added a little loop so she can clip on flower barrettes. You love my model? :)
Eleanor turned 6 months on Friday and she is doing great at sitting up, she can hold it for a pretty good amount of time before she tips over.
Here is our decorated tree that we chopped down ourselves. My sister gave me a ton of decorations last year along with wrapping paper so everything is color coordinated. Ooooh it looks so fancy.
Oh, I figured out that Eleanor needed to go to bed a little earlier, she was getting too tired and that was why she wouldn't go to sleep :) Every day is a new day and a new challenge.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
This week
It has been an eventful week.
On Monday Eleanor went in for her 6 month checkup and shots. They had the h1n1 vaccine so I decided to get it. The first time we got shots Ella slept like all afternoon but not anymore, she just gets cranky. So monday night she didn't sleep well and neither did I of course. Tuesday she was cranky allll day. I think she wanted to sleep but she was fighting the urge. So we just stayed home and cleaned the house.
Tuesday night she slept great but I woke up around 2am and then I couldn't sleep after that. All my joints ached and I felt hot but I didn't have a fever. Where they injected me it got all swollen and red, its like "great lets have all kinds of fun side affects and then I probably wont get sick anyway because I'm at home all the time." Wednesday I made ham for dinner cause I had a hankerin for some ham! I got all my christmas cards mailed out and I finished crocheting and knitting a bunch of my christmas gifts, Yay! I can't tell you what they are in case someone reads this that I am giving them too.
I also made peanut brittle on wednesday and that came out awesome as well. I made it so Warren could give it to his coworkers. It came out great, nice and crunchy but not like hard crunchy were it hurts your teeth.
Today I went to my exercise class in the morning. One of the women in my ward, Maranda, does an exercise class at our church and so we can bring our kids and they can hang out while we work out. She seriously wooped our buttes today, it felt good.
My house feels like a big mess again, it seems to be a continual thing, so annoying. It is also frustrating that everyone's kid is different so even if you ask for advice it doesn't really work because your kid is different from their kid. Like, I am having trouble getting Eleanor into a regular routine because she likes to take little 45 minute naps but then if we are out and about driving in the afternoon she will take a long nap, but if we are at home it is just a little 45 minute nap. So I don't know. She has a sound machine in her room so there is background noise. Then for the past 3 days she doesn't want to go to bed at her usual time of 9pm instead she'll stay up till 9:30-10:00 but I can tell that she is super tired, she just won't fall asleep.
So I don't know.
On Monday Eleanor went in for her 6 month checkup and shots. They had the h1n1 vaccine so I decided to get it. The first time we got shots Ella slept like all afternoon but not anymore, she just gets cranky. So monday night she didn't sleep well and neither did I of course. Tuesday she was cranky allll day. I think she wanted to sleep but she was fighting the urge. So we just stayed home and cleaned the house.
Tuesday night she slept great but I woke up around 2am and then I couldn't sleep after that. All my joints ached and I felt hot but I didn't have a fever. Where they injected me it got all swollen and red, its like "great lets have all kinds of fun side affects and then I probably wont get sick anyway because I'm at home all the time." Wednesday I made ham for dinner cause I had a hankerin for some ham! I got all my christmas cards mailed out and I finished crocheting and knitting a bunch of my christmas gifts, Yay! I can't tell you what they are in case someone reads this that I am giving them too.
I also made peanut brittle on wednesday and that came out awesome as well. I made it so Warren could give it to his coworkers. It came out great, nice and crunchy but not like hard crunchy were it hurts your teeth.
Today I went to my exercise class in the morning. One of the women in my ward, Maranda, does an exercise class at our church and so we can bring our kids and they can hang out while we work out. She seriously wooped our buttes today, it felt good.
My house feels like a big mess again, it seems to be a continual thing, so annoying. It is also frustrating that everyone's kid is different so even if you ask for advice it doesn't really work because your kid is different from their kid. Like, I am having trouble getting Eleanor into a regular routine because she likes to take little 45 minute naps but then if we are out and about driving in the afternoon she will take a long nap, but if we are at home it is just a little 45 minute nap. So I don't know. She has a sound machine in her room so there is background noise. Then for the past 3 days she doesn't want to go to bed at her usual time of 9pm instead she'll stay up till 9:30-10:00 but I can tell that she is super tired, she just won't fall asleep.
So I don't know.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Eleanor's room
This is a mobile of glass drops. My grandmother had these hanging in her kitchen and I loved to look at them when we came to visit her, so I was fortunate to get them when she passed away. Ella loves to look at them too.
She shares a room with my craft stuff, we will see what happens when we have another kid.
tree hunting
We went with
my sister Kathy and her husband Karl, tree hunting up by Caliente. Karl's family does it every year for the past 25 years. It was alot of fun and kind of cold so we had to bundle up really well. It was fun hunting our tree down. Then they had lunch of chili and cornbread. The second photo is us in front of our tree. I will post one of our tree all decorated.
Friends and Family at Thanksgiving
We were able to visit with my Aunt Carlene and Uncle Ray. My Aunt just had shoulder surgery so we were lucky to see her.
Then we got to hang out with our awesome friends, Heidi, Mike and their daughters Ellie and the newest addition Alyse. Sadly Alyse had just woken up from a nap and wasn't very happy about it.
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