ALL ABOUT MY BABY GIRL

My baby is two. Wow can you believe it. Of course she is so precious, but she sure does fall into the category of the terrible twos, well she was in that category about six months ago though. She is so sweet and loving, but she sure has some lungs when she doesn’t get what she wants or if Tanner is bugging her. She does her share of teasing though. She has started hitting and has her share of timeout now too. She loves babies, she sees a baby car seat or even a child her own age and points and says “Baby!” She is obsessed with babies. We gave her the fun stroller, car seat baby combo set for her birthday along with twin babies and Aunt Marci also got her a baby. Marci mentioned you can return it and get her something else, but oh no, once she has her eye on it you don’t take it from her if it has to do with a baby. She likes to wrap her babies up, and if she has three blankets all the blankets need to be wrapped around the baby. No worries for those babies to get cold I guess. She throws a fit if you try to take them away from her. She loves her blankets too and will bring her blanket up to us and say “I howd you mama, gaka bye mama!” Translation: I hold you mama, rocka bye. She loves to sing to her babies too she bounces up and down and starts singing gaka bye, goka bye. The other day I handed her blanket to her and she started bouncing up and down with her blanket she didn’t even have a doll in her hand. I am so glad that she loves babies. I was worried she would not like them and I would not be able to buy a doll for her every year or so. A girl can’t have enough dolls right!! She is so precious!! If Tanner is in trouble then she gets a very conserned look on her face and says “Broder, u ok broder” She does love her brother and when he isn’t around she asks for him. I am glad they love each other, at least now until they are teenagers and fighting, although it is amazing the do at times already, but it gets worked out pretty quick. She can even make Tanner cry, although when I get knocked in the face with a hard baby head I would cry too. She is a pouter too, she gets a pouting look on her face and will run to her room or the other room when we get after her. Yep that is how I was too I was very sensitive like she is.

Because she loves babies so much, I had to make a baby cake. I think it turned out pretty cute. I guess my Cake decorating lessons helped out a little.

So here are the last few years so you can see how she has grown so much.

A Very Merry Christmas & Hopes for a Good 2009

It was a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!! It has been quite a year and we are glad for it to be over and to have another year to try to be better hopefully then the last and continue with the things that we have conquered and done better at. We talked about goals the other day, so we will see how long we do what we have written them down and hope to do better and not quit as soon as we did last year. hee hee Tanner decided for himself that he would wake up happier in the mornings that he has daycare, he even came up with it himself, we talked about a couple of things and examples of things we each could do and then let him decide and so I was glad he put some thought to it. I am horrible at goals, so I hope I can be better. I am so thankful and happy to have a home, and healthy children and not only things that I need in life, but some of the pleasures and wants of life as well. Jason did a good job this year at getting me some things, and of course I got a few things for myself as back up as well. hee hee. I finally have an alarm clock again, this one plugs in, as the last one I had about 8 months ago didn't and the only thing we can figure out is that Brylee threw in the garbage and it is long gone in the landfill. He got me a couple of books I wanted and a couple of cute outfits. He will be excited to use his backpacking gear for his next trip with the guys this summer somewhere in the Colorado Mountians. They have to go in August because it will probably still have snow even in August. I am glad he enjoys to spend time with my brothers and since he wouldn't buy them for himself I bought him a real backpacking backpack and a walking stick. We also found on steepandcheap also a good sleeping bag and tent, so he will be all set, well just about, just a few more little things. Look at the picture he was so cute just as big of a smile as Tanner and when he openned his gift. I am glad he liked it.

Well just a cute story on Christmas morning and I mean morning Tanner must have been excited he woke up at 2:30 yes 2:30 am, he didn't even go out to the family room, he came in and woke me up and said "Mom can we go see if Santa came?" I looked at the clock and told him "Tanner it is way too early we can't wake Brylee up this early." He started to cry, and ok so he doesn't completely understand the consept of time yet, so I took him out and we saw that yes indeed Santa had come and eaten the cookies and drank the milk, but forgot to take the note. Oops. Everything wasn't wrapped thank goodness, so we openned two of the boxes and let him play with them and told him to go back to bed. He then said "Mom, Santa did good!" 10 minutes later he came into our bedroom with his two toys and said "Mom can I put my toys by your dresser and lay by you?" Of course I let him and he layed by the side of our bed and thankfully slept until 7am. It was so much fun watching them and seeing Tanner go through the presents finding which belonged to whom and of course he unwrapped his lots faster then Brylee, so he started helping her and would say after every one, "Oh Brylee that will be so fun to share, huh!" I said "Tanner so are you going to share all your things you openned too with her?" He of course will he is a good brother, it is so cute they do love each other as you can see above in the pictures. They are love to pose for the camera and see how cute it is afterwards. We were off to the Rays for Breakfast and then to my parents for a late lunch early dinner with the whole Shurtleff Family!!

We did a family picture with my family as all of us were lucky enough to be together for a few days, it was so much fun and I just wish all my family lived closer, but it sure is fun and good to see them when they come into town. It was cold so this is the best we could do, but I think it turned out pretty cute!!! Pretty good for me being the photographer huh!! Ok I didn't take the ones I was in, but I did take the rest. hee hee

We did Christmas Eve dinner at our house with the Rays, it was a lot of fun we had lots of good food to eat and good company, we even were able to play a game of Catch Phrase with the adults for a bit while the kids played. It was fun to have Ty in town and Tanner was his little buddy every time we got together. It was awesome to see Ty and spend time with him and hear and see pictures about his fun adventure to Africa, Uganda to do dental work. Wow after hearing and seeing what they don't have makes me appreciate all that I do have. We missed Jarom & his family this year, but they were definately in our thoughts. We will be saving to make a visit!

Merry Christmas

Every year we take a picture in front of the Christmas Tree, and I print it and put it in a small frame on the Christmas Tree. Those are my favorite ornaments to hang the following year to see how the kids have grown. These are a few pictures we took and Tanner got his new church pants and shirt for the occasion as well. I told him he looked GQ and he said "what does that mean?" I told him it means he looks good, and he smiled big. Brylee is talking and making us laught every day with the new things she is saying. If someone burps, or even if their stomach growls she is sure to say "Cuse yu." She is so much fun and I can't believe she will soon be two.

Family Traditions?!?

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy this entire blog post and paste into your blog post. Change all the answers so that they apply to you.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial
3. When do you put up the tree? The last week in November
4. When do you take the tree down? The first week in January
5. Do you like eggnog? Kindof, only about 1 cup at a time on occasion is all.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Dolls of course, so glad Brylee loves her babies.
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes favorite decoration.
8. Hardest person to buy for? Jason
9. Easiest person to buy for? My kiddo's
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I am a slacker, I don't maybe I will email one tis year.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? can't think of anything, I am grateful for whatever has been given.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Polar Express, hope I don't get sick of it Tanner loves to watch it daily.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? October or all year when I find something on sale & the kids don't get it for their birthday.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I plead the 5th!!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate Covered Pretzels
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear
17. Favorite Christmas song? Mary did you know
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Jason's parents in the morning, My Parents in the afternoon if you call that travelling, one year it would be nice to hang out at home all day and not go anywere, but love hangin out with family, so that won't happen.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Of Course, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Ruldolph.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? open 1 on Christmas Eve and all the others Christmas morning.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? We do a picture in front of the tree every year and I put it in a little frame and we hang it on the tree, so we have 6 this year and will be adding our 7th when we get it done. Otherwise just misc stuff. I like angels, berries, & stars.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Breakfast casserole & pancakes at Jason's parents in the morning & Turkey dinner at my parents with all the trimmings and also more desserts then you can imagine.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? The Book "If the Savior Stood Beside Me." That is the one thing I can think of right now, I would say a fence, but that will come in the spring I hope!!

MY LIFE 2008

October 2008

I love October through December, busy, but lots of fun family time activities!!