Thankful

There are so many things that I am thankful for this year. I am thankful for:

a wonderful husband who takes care of me and loves me even when I am grumpy...

a sweet beautiful baby girl who brings me so much joy everyday....

family that loves us and supports us....

friends who I can call family....

wonderful co-workers and job....

a clean house thanks to my husband (see above)....

the knowledge and truth the gospel brings me....

delicious food that I will be chowing down on tomorrow...

and lots more!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

All Is (becoming) Calm, All is Bright

Time is flying by so fast around here. I can't believe next week is THANKSGIVING!!! WHAT!! That means that Christmas is not too far away. In fact, this year Christmas is exactly one month after thanksgiving. Exactly.

I always wait till after Thanksgiving to put up the tree, and decorate for Christmas. I don't have a lot of my own Christmas traditions yet. But one that I do have is sending out Christmas cards usually (hopefully) at the beginning of December. Which is like oh... I don't know... 2 WEEKS AWAY.

This year, with a new baby, I am sooo looking forward to sending out picture Christmas cards. We have never done it before and now I am so excited to finally send one out with our cute little Eliza showing off her cute self. I love getting other peoples cards with pictures, and I hope they will love getting one from us too!

I have heard about Shutterfly from a lot of people and they have the CUTEST christmas cards. I am so excited to pick out which one we will use. I can't decide if I want to do one with the whole family or just the baby or maybe even a picture of both!

There are several cards that I really like. Like this one:

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/perfect-paisley-christmas-card?sortType=1&fa=2&storeNode=93476


And this one:

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/most-wonderful-time-christmas-card-5x7-flat?sortType=1&fa=4&storeNode=93476

And who could resist this one if they have a little santa of their very own:

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/oh-ho-ho-christmas-card-5x7-flat?sortType=1&fa=4&storeNode=93476

PLUS while I was shopping around I found that you can make calendars. They have some cute calendar themes and I think they would make good gifts for say.... yourself, or family. I kind of want to make one just for me to have at my desk at work.

Calendars are here: http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/wall-calendars

Anyways. If you want to pick out your very own Christmas cards go here: http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards

I can't wait to get a cute picture taken and get our cards sent out. I always scrapbook other peoples picture cards and I love to see how the kids grow over the years. So cute.

Check them out and send me a Christmas card this year!!!


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5 Months

Eliza turned 5 months old on Saturday.

I can't believe it! Time is FLYING by!!!

We had our own little photo shoot with daddy there to make smiles.

Eliza At 5 Months Old:

- Gives us really huge smiles, but giggles are not so plentiful yet.

- LOVES to eat her toes.

- Loves to snuggle and sleep with us but she sleeps in her crib.

- She is sleeping through the night... most of the time.

- She loves to put everything in her mouth and drool on everything.

- She loves the dog and wants to pet her, talk to her, and smile at her.

- She squeals now and has a new high pitched scream reserved for late night diaper changes.

- She gives you huge open mouth kisses all over your face. Especially in the morning. It's nice because then you don't have to wet your face to wash it because it's already wet from drool.

- She loves to hold hands and have her face touched as she falls asleep.

- She still hates tummy time and rarely rolls over.

............AND....

She now has 2 teeth!!! Her bottom 2 center teeth just popped through last thursday. I haven't been able to get a picture of them yet because they are still really tiny and she won't be still. Those teeth are going to make those open mouth kisses of hers a little more tricky. My little baby is growing up.

We love her so much and can't wait to see what she does next!

Visiting

Last Tuesday my brother John and his wife Leah came to visit. We went out to dinner and Eliza got to spend some time with them.

She takes after her aunt Leah in that they both look good in pink....

and she takes after uncle John in that they both have similar hairstyles.

We had a great time visiting with them. Come visit again soon!!!!

10.10.10

On October 10th, we had the pleasure of attending some of our friends lovely wedding. It was victorian themed. The bride even made the wedding dress! We had a really nice time and it was a very sweet and special day.

Our dear friend Holly was sister of the groom and got to wear a super awesome dress with a super awesome bustle:

We had so much fun.

Rolling Over and QUESTION!!

This will mostly be boring to everyone but grandparents. It may even be boring to them too. BUT if you are a parent or know anything about babies, at least skip to the last picture because I need your advice.

About a month ago, (October 11th to be exact) Eliza rolled over for the first time. She did it several times in a row and I haven't been able to get her to do it again. I caught one of the times with the camera.

YAY!!!! She did it!She HATES tummy time. She just cries and screams until you pick her up.

Maybe one day she will decide to roll over again. That would be nice. Just saying. No pressure or anything.

Eliza has a "pose" that she does when she is tired. It looks like this:

Right arm bent, left arm stretched out behind her, legs crossed. Not sure why she does that other than being tired and upset. Any one know anything about this?

Ghosts, Bats, Witches, Pumpkins, and Sharks

For Eliza's first Halloween, she had a lot of cute clothes to wear. Her uncle John and aunt Leah L-O-V-E halloween. So they bought her sever super cute onesies which I L-O-V-E-D dressing her in. We prepared for Halloween by wearing these several times....


There is a super cute witch on this one: She also had special P.J.'s just for the occasion. They had bat feet:
We went to our church's trunk-or-treat. So fun. Eliza was the only shark there. I was a scuba diver and Kase was a life-guard. Our car played the Jaws music. You know. The duh duh. duh duh. duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh music:

All that sharking around wore her out: For actual Halloween, Kase was on a boy's trip with his dad and brother. My parents and sister came to visit for the weekend. Eliza loved her Mummy....

And her aunt Melissa.... And her Memaw.....

And her Gran-Pop......

My parent's and sister packed up and left before halloween evening. But Eliza and I loaded up and went to visit Grandma SuperDeb. She made us yummy chicken and dumplings and we relaxed and visited for the evening. I wanted to get pictures of Eliza with SuperDeb, but she (Eliza not SuperDeb) was WAY too grumpy. She was probably mad because she can't eat candy. ha ha. We had a wonderful 1st Halloween together and were so glad when Kase returned home later that night.

I am excited for future halloweens!