Christmas #2

So I got a message this morning on the answering machine... (guess I had that music turned up a little too loud) Anyway it was from my next door neighbor asking if I wanted to buy 1/2 a pig!! We had already talked to him about 1/2 a cow which will come in a couple more weeks but his other guy bailed on him so he called me! He is headed down to the farm right now to pick it up and I am so excited!! Pork, sausage, ham, bacon... 80 lbs of meat at a fraction of the price. Fresh! Oh my goodness its like Christmas all over again. Jumping up and down over here! YEAH!!!!!

Merry (belated) Christmas

So I'm a few days late. I'm enjoying my vacation - alright?? Christmas was great. As you can see we have a white Christmas. It was just the 4 of us and I enjoyed every minute of it. The boys loved their toys and are playing with them even as I sit here typing. Eli got a remote control car from us, a dinosaur and sticky hands from Santa, and a scooter (similar to a Razor) from Grandma. He is in heaven. And Mom and Matt - yes those are the same Superman pajamas he got last year from you guys. He still wears them ALL the time.

Nathan got this ball twirling thing that is actually kind of cute and some magnet blocks. He didn't get into the whole tearing the wrapping paper, but once the toys were out of the box, he was having a great time. I guess he had fun pounding on the boxes too which was what he was doing in this picture.

And I got a wheat grinder!!! I'm so excited, but I'll admit I'm a little scared. Now I have no excuse not to make my own bread. I want to talk to some girls in my ward before I get too carried away and maybe have them come over and do it with me. I need a little hand holding... I also got my Veronica Mars seasons 1&2. YEAH!!! Here is our little mess when we were through with presents. I'd say we made out pretty good!

The rest of the day was made up of me cooking spinach triangles, pie, ham and sweet potatoes... etc while Chris and Eli were making this snowman. Unfortunately it started to snow the next day and the face got covered up. Oh well. I have to laugh, the mouth is a green bean from dinner...


Anyway, overall we had a great time. Merry Christmas everyone and I hope you had as good a holiday as we did. (and Kyle, yes those bacon mints were BY FAR the worst part of my holiday) ...thanks...

6 days and counting!!

I can't wait for Christmas!! The holidays always make me happy and it'll be especially nice this year because my sister will be here and it'll definitely be a WHITE Christmas. I don't mind it when its not, but when it is it just feels right. you know? I think I finally got my shopping done and now I need to wrap. I SERIOUSLY need to wrap. Actually I take that back. Shopping for presents is done. I still need to grocery shop for Christmas dinner and a few other essentials while Erin is in town. I guess grocery shopping doesn't really count, but I swear to you those stores seem to be more crowded than Walmart at this time of year. Understandable, but it makes me dread going. Maybe I'll go tonight to avoid the Saturday rush...

Things with us are good. We are all happy and healthy and doing well. Eli has been obsessed with counting the days till Christmas and asks over and over and over when it'll be here. He is going to be bored to tears though because school is out for the next 2 weeks. Guess I'll actually have to entertain him... hmm... Nathan is doing good as well. I've found his aversion to milk was merely a temperature thing (thanks to a conversation with Erin) so I think we have a way to finally get him off formula when he is ready. yeah!! He isn't walking yet, but he can balance when he stands up by himself. I'm not ready for him to walk. It almost makes me sad. He is still such a baby to me. I'm not ready!!! I actually meant to do this back when Nathan turned one, but I never did. I was going to compare my two boys at the same age. Well this is both of them at (or around give or take a month) a year old.

Eli


Nathan
Hmmm.... are they brothers?? I love that. I'm just looking through some of Elis old pictures and its not that they look exactly alike or anything, but looking at the pictures of Eli remind me of Nathan. I don't know. I'll have to take some of Nathan wearing Elis old Christmas outfit and compare those two pictures. :) I actually forgot I had his old Christmas outfit. Good thing I found it so I could take the one I bought this year back. Is it sad that Nathan is going to wear the same outfit Eli did while Eli was only 6 months old and Nathan is 14 months? I'm sure it won't fit exactly the same, but nevertheless... I'm almost positive it'll fit. Whatever am I going to do with him... My 22 lb chunker baby who is painfully short. I just love him. :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! We love you and we hope you enjoy your holiday.

Giggle monster

When people ask me if I'm liking being a stay at home mom, I always answer yes. Its true. My life has changed since I've gotten to spend this extra time with my kids. My house still isn't where I would like it to be, but they have been so much fun to be with. Little moments like yesterday (in this video) are the main reason for my answer in the affirmative. Nathan was supposed to be eating his lunch, but I guess he was done because he started throwing food over the side for the dog to eat. Usually I try to tell him to stop, but he was laughing so hard I figured a video would be better. ;) Unfortunately about 4 hours later he had a temp of 102° and was feeling a little less happy.

First blog in weeks! nothing to report...

Well I wish I had an excuse for my lack of blogging. Usually its because you're crazy busy but to be honest, in the last couple weeks its the opposite. We haven't been doing anything and that has just included blogging. We had a great Thanksgiving, we went and saw Santa Claus (at the mall), my sister came out here and we went to see Twilight again (better the 2nd time), we had some friends over for Family Home Evening and now we're headed straight for the Christmas season. Its snowing outside pretty good today... first snow since I think around Halloween! I think I'd rather have it in the 50's like its been though. We've been able to enjoy the outdoors much longer than normal. A few of the girls in my ward and I were out with our strollers and the older kids were riding their bikes. We all laughed saying we were the stroller parade - and in December no less. Here are the kids when we took them to the mall. Unfortunately the camera wasn't picking up the light so all the pictures were dark but this one... and its blurry. Oh well, better luck next year.


Eli is already begging to go ride his sled down the hill at the park. Mind you there is only 1/4" of white stuff on the ground so far and my guess is that it'll be gone by this time tomorrow... This is going to be a seriously long winter. But I'm excited for Christmas at least. Erin is going to be out here and... Erin, Eli is already asking when you're going to get here. :) I feel like there is still so much to do!! I have to send some things - I really better get a move on and I have Christmas cards to mail (if you've moved - let me know). Eli is usually my easy one to buy for, but this year I just don't know what to get him! We got him some pajamas and a dinosaur, but I'm at a loss as to what else. I guess thats probably all he needs. I would like to shift it so that Santa brings only one toy so he doesn't expect a ton of things every year. He is young enough its probably a good time to start. Mommy and Daddy got Guitar Hero World Tour for Christmas... which we opened like 6 weeks ago. ;) Excuse our messy family room (and me in my pajamas). This is the family band - ok, so Eli is usually replaced with Chris but someone had to take a picture.

Eli playin' the drums

Nathan playing the drums too.