We're celebrating Christmas this year with my WHOLE family (1 Papa, 1 Nana, 3 Brothers, 2 Sisters, 5 significant others and 4 cousins!) at my brother's house in Utah.  I love that we can all be together.  I love my family more than anything in the world (that includes Jared's family too).

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and remember what this holiday is about.  Which reminds me, I can't stand all this crap about having to have "holiday parties" and a "holiday tree."  It's a Christian Holiday celebrating the BIRTH OF CHRIST!  No one said all you haters have to celebrate!  But enough of that for now.

Merry Christmas!

Adelyn's First Bandaid

I can't believe she made it 1 year and 11 months before getting a semi-bad owie.  I guess that means I'm a really good parent :)

The picture of blood looks much worse than it is.  She just has a little cut on the top of her thumb, maybe 3 cm long, if that.  She found my cutting shears (for cutting hair)...and they are much sharper than normal scissors.  I have cut myself with them while cutting hair a few times, and they're so sharp you don't even feel yourself get cut until it starts bleeding.  By the way, they were up high and she climbed on a chair to find them.

My tough girl didn't even cry until later that night when she bumped it.  And really only then cause she hadn't had a good nap and was a bit grumpy.

My Fantasy Wish List

House

The Grand Foyer

Black Lab

Grand Caravan

(yes, it's a minivan. I've officially become that mom.

But it has awesome power sliding doors on both sides, and captain chairs,

and some other great stuff.)

Dyson Ball

Washer & Dryer

Diamond Eternity Band

and just one pair from Louis

After that, I swear I'll be happy :)

Now excuse me, I have to go look under the couch cushions for some spare change so that we might be able to afford Christmas presents!

1 down, 7 to go

Jared is done with his first semester of medical school.  We survived...

PS. It finally snowed this week too! (Probably to make getting to finals a bit more exciting!)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

This is mine and Jared's 5th Christmas together.  The 1st we were dating. The second christmas we were just barely married and too poor for Christmas decorations but we did have a tiny, 1 foot tall, fake ugly tree. Our third Christmas I was about ready to pop with Adelyn and we were still too poor for christmas things, plus who decorates when they're 9 months pregnant? Our fourth Christmas Adelyn was almost a year old, but we were moving to California over Christmas break so we didn't have decorations or a tree (let alone a house).  But this year (our fifth Christmas) we have eachother, Adelyn and JR and second most important: decorations and a beautiful tree! It really was so exciting putting up our very first Christmas tree.

Notice in the bottom left corner of the picture that our neighbors still have their lovely pumpkins out...in December.  If they're still there in a week I think I'm taking them to the dumpster myself.

Merry Christmas!!!

P.S. Still no snow here in Missouri!

Jared got his birthday present

He wants to know who wants to play paintball with him.  I already said not it.

OMG

This is exactly what happened when I canceled Jared's subscription to WoW.

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Only 2 More Years til 30!

Happy birthday to my sweet hunk of burnin love!  Jared and his twin sister Rebekah turned 28 today! 

Happy birthday also to my cousin Amber and my favorite niece, Reese, who is turning 2!  Adelyn wishes she could come to your birthday party.

Twilight Party

The girls got together tonight for a "Twilight Party."  We brought a ridiculous amount of yummy food and desserts (mainly desserts) and watched the first Twilight movie to refresh our memories and to prepare to see New Moon tomorrow at midnight! We're really excited.

L to R (top row): Brandi, Lindsay, Krista, Me, Lechelle and Ana

(bottom row): Anne, Amber, Ruth, Milli, Rachel and Trisha

The food table...awesome.

The lovely gigantic wet spot on my sweatshirt is not leakage (but that has happened to me too, possibly more that once, oh the joys of nursing) it would be from carrying my bean dip over to Brandi's house with only one hand and accidently putting my boob in the dip.

Ruth made the mushroom ravioli.  It's what Bella ordered for dinner on her and Edward's first date!

Blood.

It was a blast, can't wait till tomorrow night ladies!

P.S. Thanks go to Jared for letting me have 3 nights in a row of no kids (last night I helped the young women at the church with updo's, tonight was the party, and tomorrow night the movie!)  Major husband points.

Adelyn got arrested

This is her mug shot.