Christmas Day 2008

What a wonderful day! Christmas Eve night was pretty stormy and we had all gone to bed pretty late, so we got up kind of late on Christmas Day. We fed Adalyn, waited for Jessie to get out of bed and then we marched into the front room to open presents. Adalyn by far was the star of the show! Most every present under that tree had her name on it! Santa brought her a hand made wooden push walker that she pushed all over the house and a stand up and play activity toy. I think she was overwhelmed, but still a fun and happy baby! It was really neat watching Addy experience her first Christmas and explore all the new books, toys, and teddy bears. Trevor and I got an amazing gift that my mom won at work! A Nikon D60 DSLR which has been put to great use in the few days we have had it. You guys are going to have far too many pictures to look at :-) Trevor surprised the socks off me and got me a KitchenAide Stand up Mixer which I have been asking for since I love to bake. Of course, I opened it...looked at him and asked where it was the 2 days I spent baking before Christmas! He just laughed. I got him a nice shaver and lots of pictures of Adalyn! It was a magical day spent with family and still in our PJ's :-)

Christmas Eve 2008

What a crazy few days we had leading up to Christmas Eve. Adalyn and I were super sick, but able to somewhat recover before the Holiday. We spent 2 full days baking goodies, wrapping presents, playing, snuggling, and waiting for snow! The temp here got so low during the big rains here that the snow level fell to 1500 ft and the hills behind our house got a nice dusting of snow.

Christmas Eve was spent at my parent's house surrounded by family. My mom bought Addy an adorable Christmas outfit that she played with most of the night because it made noises when she scrunched it together. It looked super cute on her, but her dress shoes didn't fit her fat feet so she had to wear the socks that look like shoes :-)

Adalyn's god-parent's and their little girls came over for the evening too and it was great to spend quality time with them all. Throughout the night I did feel as though something was missing and it didn't dawn on me until most everyone had gone home for the night that the one thing missing was Grandpa. This is one of the only Holidays ever spent without Grandpa. Growing up, early Christmas morning Jess and I were not allowed to go into the living room until Daddy got back from picking Grandpa back up so they could check to make sure Santa had been there. We would whine, complain, and call Daddy like a million times to urge him to drive faster. We always had the greatest time spending the day with Grandpa watching sports, movies, chatting, and playing games. He was so missed this year as I know he will be missed every year.

Overall, Christmas Eve was wonderful and we were so lucky to also spend the evening with our friend Alex who was home from the Fire Academy down south for a few days. He came over to spend Christmas Eve with us too. Long after all the guests had left, and Addy had been put to bed...we all rocked out to Rock Band! What a wonderful night!

Addy Learns to Hi-5!

9 Month Check Up

We went to Adalyn's 9 month Doctor's appointment a few days ago. The poor thing got 2 shots! She is now slightly over 21 lbs and still has her cankles and thunder thighs :-) While we were at the doctor's Adalyn fussed a bit so I put her on the ground. When her Doctor walked in, Adalyn was pushing a wooden stool around the linoleum and walking behind it. Dr. Yam couldn't believe Addy could already stand by herself! We have a feeling that our crazy girl will be walking fairly soon. My sister walked at 9 months, I walked at 10 months(my first Christmas none-the-less), and we're not sure about Trev :-) Addy says "Dada", waves, makes kissy faces, and gives Hi-5's! The other day I had Trevor on speaker phone when I was playing with Addy, she crawled over to me and pulled herself into a standing position. She looked at me kind of funny and said "Dada" and then started waving her hand. It was super cute! She has almost 6 teeth and stands without holding onto anything for 30 seconds or more. We are looking forward to Adalyn's first Christmas and spending lots of time with her over our 4 day weekends!

Jessie Graduates!

My sister is amazing, no really...AMAZING! Not only did she graduate from High School early, she has graduated from Berkeley early! We made the trek to CAL for her big day this past Sunday. We dressed Addy up in her CAL cheerleader outfit from Halloween and surprised my sister. We had random strangers coming up to us and asking for a picture with Addy...we should have charged some $! Adalyn did really well through the long service and only lost it at the very end when some guy behind us screamed and whistled. We are all so proud of Jess!

It's Beginning to Feel a lot Like Christmas!

We participated in our annual tree cutting this past Saturday with Uncle Jose and Terri. It was a gorgeous and super clear day which started out with a hot cup of Starbucks coffee and bagels. We took the short drive up Highway 17 and found our "spot". Adalyn loved the sunshine and dirt, not to mention the bumpy truck ride where she "sang" to us. We found a tree fairly quickly and we forced Jose to get a cute little Charlie Brown tree on the 4x4 only trail. Trevor has NEVER been that into Christmas decorations, but something drastically changed. We lost our Christmas light hanger uppers so we went over to ACE Hardware to grab some new ones. We walk right into a Christmas wonderland and Trevor's face lit up and he went nuts. We left with a deer, more lights, and a string of snowflake lights. Once we got home and finished decorating, Trevor decided it wasn't enough. He made us go back to ACE and get MORE lights so we could put more outside and some inside. Our house is completely lit up, but it did make me smile when I drove home the other night :-)

So much to be Thankful for!

Trevor and I have so much to be thankful for this year so we'd like to list some things that make our world go 'round...

Adalyn and the love she brings into our home

Family, we have the best one around!

Friends, they have been with us through so much

Our home, it provides us warmth and safety

Love, because it means so much

Health

Happiness

This Thanksgiving was spent with my parents at their home. We had such a great time playing pool, playing Wii, and eating way too much!

Auburn to Tahoe...

Right before Thanksgiving we took Adalyn on her first long car trip to help Trevor's mom move somethings to her new house. Addy was such a trooper as we got stuck in some major traffic and it took us longer than we thought to get to Auburn. We stayed at Pat's new house for dinner and then we decided to drive the rest of the way to her other home at North Star. We spent the next few days hiking with Adalyn in her BOB stoller (which is soooooo awesome!), walking the golf course at North Star, playing with Pat's dog Eddie, looking for golf balls, and then driving back down to Auburn for dinner before coming home. While we were on a hike at Emerald Bay, we were sitting down on the beach having lunch and letting Addy play in the sand, when we heard a loud engine. We were trying to figure out where this sound was coming from when this small passenger plane came over a crest to fly around the "tea castle". We watched it go lower and lower around the circle until it was barely skimming the water. We thought for sure it was going to crash and we were going to have to dive into the water to save the passengers, but alas up and away it went. Amazing to watch, but totally illegal!

Long Over-Due!

Okay, this is the last excuse I'll be making for awhile...but we have still been having the computer issue which has thankfully been solved for the past 2 days!

Geez, where to start? I feel like it's been forever since I have posted anything new so I guess I will start with Halloween.

My sister Jessie goes to Berkeley and she is constantly trying to get me to put Adalyn in Tye-Dye outfits (I HATE tye-dye!). She jokes about sneaking Addy into an outfit when I'm not looking. We finally came to a truce when I told her what Adalyn was going to be for Halloween...A Berkeley Cheerleader. She laid off the Tye-Dye comments after that one! Target actually had an entire cheerleader outfit so I HAD to get it for her! She looked so cute in the CAL colors with her huge cankles and rolls hanging out the bottom of the pleated skirt. Of course she had no idea what was going on when we were walking from house to house trick-or-treating. We only went around my parent's street because 1. It was late 2. Everyone on the block wanted to see Adalyn 3. She doesn't understand Halloween yet and 4. She doesn't eat the candy, we do :-) We had our friend's Geoff and Tabitha with us and their baby girl Shelby who was a bumble bee. Here are some pix...

October 2008-Addy at 7 months

Visiting Kenny, Michelle and their girl's Kelly and Katie in Santa Cruz. We got to spend a beautiful day in Capitola!








Visiting the Pumpkin Patch in Half Moon Bay! I've been doing this yearly since I was a little girl.