YAY!

I am so excited, I am about to burst!  We have planned a trip down to Sacramento to see Andy's mom and step sisters, then head over to Salt Lake to see more of his family.  It will be a super long road trip, but Andy pretty much just gave me the best present ever!  I get a 10 hour mentoring session with Andee from Crave Photography!!!!!! She will teach me how to take better photos, pose people, and spend a lot of time showing me her tricks to the amazing editing she does in photoshop.  I feel like I go to her website every day and when he said I could mentor with her when we visit Utah, I couldn't be happier!  She has very edited looking pictures, which is just how I like it.  Take a look around her site, i could spend hours on there (and i have at work when we are slow lol) and especially look at the category: Photoshop Fridays!  It is crazy how she can transform pictures, especially that sunset one!  Maybe in the long run I can make that money back if people will hire me to take their pictures :)  It is such a fun hobby, and I am excited to get some "personal" help.

Also making me happy today: Andy's iphone got a bit faster by taking it to the Apple store

Also: I finally got to shop at the enormous Forever 21 and buy a few shirts (it is SO cheap and cute there!) like my sweater dress was only $10!

Also: since we were in the area of the Tacoma Mall, we got to eat at Tacos Guaymas which you are missing out if you have never been.  It is in like a fast food place and has a drive through but they will bring authentic mexican food to you and it is on real plates.  It is seriously the most delicious thing EVER.  Get the steak enchiladas!

Also: The 4th season of big love is on demand now! We got rid of our netflix so i was wondering if we would ever catch up. :)

Also: I got off work half day today :)

Also: I have not yet mentioned the awesome gift Andy's mom sent us: matching "The Office" shirts that say Dunder-Mifflin on them :)

Update: we still havent heard if we can move to Bonney Lake yet.  We are waiting on my cousins gf to make the decision if she wants to move there, but she might want to move to Kirkland so we get it if she decides not to- cutting our rent in half! We have our fingers crossed! My aunt and uncle are closing on the condo the beginning of January, so she will have to decide either way by then.

Do you like my hat?

There was a book when we were little that Erik liked and they asked "Do you like my hat?" I can't remember if it was Dr. Seuss or what, but we used to always ask "Do you like my hat?" if we had funny things on our head.  Today I took Sawyer's 6 month pics in the little romper that isnt going to fit any longer, and decided since i had the camera out i would put him in his new hat I got from the consignment store and take a few pics.  Here he is, do you like his hat?

babylegs

I finally got some babylegs, so sawyer got to wear them today.  It is so much easier changing him in those things than to wear pants, and he can wear them with all the summer rompers that cooper gave him (Coop was this age in the summer) plus they will fit him until he is like 4 (not that they'll last that long).  He spends a lot of time in front of the toy my parents got him. Luckily he learned to sit before he got it.  Here he is with his new toy and babylegs.  I am sure they look like girl tights from the picture, but they have skulls on them in real life FYI lol. I think i am going to buy more online in solid colors.

i love the look on his face

mama's pants are almost as fun as the toy

I also sent the pictures of Avery to my cousin.  I hope they like them, she is so new i dont think they had any of her.

First Christmas (long)

This is going to be super long, and I am sorry for that in advance, but I am using this blog to look back in the future, so it is all going in!  Here is the story for us 3 peas in a pod.

We have a tradition (not sure when it started, I think when my grandparents decided not to do Xmas at their house anymore) that my dad makes spaghetti on Xmas Eve. (Don't get offended, the X stands for the greek letter chi which is what christ starts with, so dont flip out on me quite yet for leaving out Jesus, even though xmas is really a pagan winter solstice holiday that christians changed when they started taking over europe to celebrate Jesus's April birthday to make the pagans want to convert more because they wouldnt lose their holidays *phew*) ANYWAY, we went over to my parents' house to eat after I got off work.  Andy had to work pretty late that day (both of us getting triple pay, YAY).  My parents gave Erik his present when we first got there because it was a Kinect and they wanted us to all play.  My 80-year-old grandpa even played which was awesome :) This is how much fun we had:

Me n Grandpa

Destiny n Andy

Sawyer on my mom's rocking horse

Erik n Dad

Andy n me

Erik n Grandpa

Mom n Dad

We had spaghetti, and then Sawyer got his present from his Grandma and Grandpa.  He was so good at unwrapping it! We just gave it to him, and he started peeling it off! He also got clothes and a dino from Aunt Destiny and Uncle Erik

Check out his sweet sweater i found at the V.V.

Present from g-ma and g-pa

i LOVE it!

Love this too

Here I go!

Christmas morning Sawyer woke up at 7, and I woke up to a text from him asking to open his presents.  He got a pile of DVD's since we dont have any kid DVD's (besides High School Musical and possibly Shrek).  He also gave us the present of sitting like a pro!  He could sit by himself, but then he would get excited after a bit and tip over or push himself back.  He now can correct himself and sit forever.  Which is nice because he can sit at his new toy from g-ma and g-pa forever and play. Here he is with the DVD's:

We showered and headed over to my parents for our usual Christmas breakfast.  I about died there was so much good things.  Cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, deviled eggs, quiche, hash browns, bacon wrapped shrimp, steak, and scallops, lil smokies in crescent rolls...mmmm.

My cousins came too, my cousin Jenny (who is Cooper's real mom) and her brother Josh and his GF Ryan who just had a baby 3 days before.  Baby Avery is so cute and little!  My grandpa got Sawyer this stuffed dog that you plug into the computer and download your baby's name so he can talk to you and teach the baby how to spell his own name.  You can also program a certain amount of minutes of bedtime songs so they can fall asleep to them- its awesome!  Here are a few other pics from the morning:

Cooper on the horse

Avery 

Coolest toy ever

Grandpa and Sawyer

Josh w/ Avery, Destiny w/ Cooper, and Me w/ Sawyer

Avery again

We then went down to my Aunt Kandi and Uncle Dennis's house in Sumner for their annual open house.  They had like every kind of food you can think of, and we all ate too many desserts.  It was basically just family and friends dropping in all day. So many people come that they make name tags explaining who you are.  My dad ended up with a few too many by the end of the day, along with an award for finally mounting his TV up on the wall.

Name tags for ex: Andy's says "Dennis's niece Amy's Husband"

My food...best salmon ever

We went back to my parents house late that night and made Xbox avatars so it can show us when we play kinect, and then we watched despicable me.

Mom

Dad

Destiny

Me (they dont have long hair ones)

Andy

Erik

Sawyer's last pair of christmas clothes.  he didnt even get to wear 2 outfits.

Today we went to SugarBabies and got Sawyer a couple pairs of Babylegs and a hat.  I was looking for some cute ones for his pictures we are getting done, but most of the hats are for a little bit older.  That place is great for little girls though!  We went to Babies R Us and found 2 button-up shirts and a sweatervest that will fit him for the pics though that were on a good sale- like half off.  I can't wait to get the pictures done!  I also discovered that there is a HUGE Forever 21 in the tacoma mall now with many floors that i cannot wait to go to so i can have a new outfit for the pics as well!

Overall, good first christmas for Sawyer i think, not that he had the slightest clue what went on, and fun for the rest of us.