Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving here in Salt Lake with Rob's family. All his siblings were in town, so we decided to take some family photos.

Sara was quite tired after all the photo taking...

so she took a much needed nap on the dining room floor.

Eating her first Thanksgiving meal.

Yummy sweet potatoes!


Indian feathers.

Playing with the cousins

Thirsty?

Playing Pat-a-cake


And finally, this is how we all felt after stuffing ourselves full of delicious Thanksgiving food...

Hope you all had a great holiday!

Sad Face

Sara recently started making a funny face when she is sad or when she wants something. So dramatic! Hmmm, I wonder where she gets it. Certainly not from her mother.



If you stick it out and watch the whole video, you'll also see some "bye-bye" in there.

Don't you just want to smooch her little face?!

Repurposing

<-- I'll be purchasing this tomorrow (used. $6.00. Score!)
















because the babes has been using this -->
as if it were one.







It's time to get the real deal.

reading material

It's hard to get mad at the baby for pulling all the magazines out of the basket when I'm the one who keeps the basket on the floor, well within her reach, just sitting there, taunting her. But where else am I supposed to put them?!

I should open a flower shop

I like to arrange flowers. It's fun. And arranged flowers always look better than bouquet stuck in a vase flowers.

get ready to rock

I did this. And by that I mean Rob's Mom did it and I helped. Kind of. I think I may have hindered more than I actually helped. BUT look what we did!


Sara is 10 months old and we just got a rocking chair. Why didn't we get it sooner? Who knows. But Sara likes to be held/rocked to sleep (spoiled!) and the lack of a rocking chair was getting more and more difficult. SO we finally broke down and bought one. We wanted to get something "stylish", but didn't want to spend a ton of money, so we compromised and bought a second-hand basic glider but recovered the cushions in a fun print. It looks SO much better than the original fabric. I was too excited about recovering it that I forgot to take a "before" photo before we ripped the old fabric off, but here's a shot of the fabric sans chair.

BEFORE

AFTER!

Quite the improvement, don't you think?!

Sara seems to like it.

I think I'll move to Arizona

I've decided I don't like Daylight Savings Time, 'cause I don't care if it's totally dark at 5:00 AM, but when I can't see my own hand in front of my face at 5:00 PM, I've got a problem with that. SO to whoever made the rules regarding your so-called "Daylight Savings" -- what do you have against saving the daylight for the evenings? 'Cause seriously, nobody will miss it from the mornings. Gimme back my sunshine please.

Oh.

Ok, so I just did a little research, and it turns out that Daylight Savings Time is during the Summer, which means right now we are in regular "Standard" time. Good ol' Wikipedia says, "Daylight savings time is the practice of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn." So I think I owe an apology to Daylight Savings Time. I DO like it after all! It is Standard Time I have the problem with! I say, why do we need to "Fall Back"? Let's just change to Daylight Savings all year round, because when we switch back to Standard Time in the Fall (like right now) it just gets too dang dark too dang early.

Ok. Sorry again DST. Hugs and kisses.