Happy Birthday

I wanted to send out a very happy birthday wish to my dear friend Leslie. I hope that you had a wonderful day Sweetie and that your family was wonderful to you. I would hope that you got some good gifts as well, but not sure how they would be able to top your Christmas gift! LOL. In all seriousness though, love ya girl and Happy Birthday to You!

Jury Duty

IS DONE! Woohoo. I made it through my month of on call status with only having to go once. Yay! So relieved knowing that I don't have to make that dreaded call anymore. Well at least for three years or until we move to another County. LOL.

Chayleigh and hotel entertainment

She was totally facinated with the automatic door.


And the fish (I think there were 6 or so, but this was the best fish picture):


She refused to eat before she said hi and bye to them.

More hotel

Shots with the lobby Christmas tree:

Hotel

We went to Portland for Christmas to spend with my dad and Grandpa. We stayed here. It was absolutely gorgeous!

The lobby:


The Elevators:


View looking down from our room:

Snow Day

It snowed right before Christmas and DH took pictures of Chayleigh to show me since I was at work. She sure had a good time, but we didn't get a chance to go out and make a snowman cause we had too much Christmas stuff to do.

Cookie Decorating

We decorated cookies tonight. Chayleigh went crazy with the sprinkles.

Strange Child

Chayleigh got a baby bottle of candies today. My MIL decided that Chayleigh's baby needed a bottle, so she brought one filled with candy. She refuses to eat the yellow. Hey Leslie, do you think that Riley will want to be Chayleigh's friend? Since she doesn't like yellow, Riley won't have to fight her!

Great Desert

I made the desert that Leslie posted about. It turned out great and it was super easy to make. I stopped by Dollar Tree and got the cups and bags and made up 6 of them last night. Oh make that 7 cause I had to eat one too. LOL!


The card that I made up with how to make the cake. It was too big to attach, so I just fold it in half and stick it in the cup.

Scrapbooking

Well I decided that next year I am going to learn to scrapbook. I asked for scrapbooking stuff from my parents and my in-laws, so I am pretty excited. We did Christmas with the in-laws last night and I got a huge haul, so I am ready to go. Now if only I knew where to go to start. Anyone have any good websites I can check out to learn how to do it? I am excited, yet lazy at the same time. Now I have the books and the supplies, it is time to get started!

Christmas Card Etiquette

If you receive a card from someone that you don't speak to anymore and took off your Christmas list because of it, do you send them one back or do you just ignore it and do nothing?

Santa

We took Chayleigh to see Santa this weekend. She refused to go near him without Daddy. So, we got a picture of Santa, Chayleigh and Daddy. Oh well. At least we got a super big grin out of the deal.

Bragging Rights

Today I went to pick Chayleigh up from daycare and she didn't see me at first. Then all of a sudden she looked up and was surprised, so she said, "Oh Hi Mommy". It was so cute. She went and grabbed her coat and pulled the hood off and said, "Oh no, I ruined it". I about died laughing. Not sure why she thought she ruined it, but I had her help me fix it and we went to get her milk from the fridge. She said, "Oh thanks Mama" when I handed her the milk and we started to leave. As we were leaving, the dc lady said, "Bye Beautiful" and she responded, "Bye Bootefal". Her vocabulary is just exploding. I was so impressed today I had to brag a bit.

Christmas Dress

Here is a full view of Chayleigh's Christmas Dress. Oh and Sharyn after looking at it closer, I would agree that it is more burgundy than purple. LOL!

Craft Project

We tried the craft project that Allison suggested. Here are our results. I think that Chayleigh did just as well as I did as I couldn't tell the difference at the end. She had a hard time not eating them as she was making them though. LOL!

Angel Tree

Every year we pick names off of the Angel tree at DH's work. It is like the Toys for Tots ones, but these kids pick toys and clothing items. This year DH picked out two 8 year old girls. Oh let me tell you, I had NO idea what to get them, but I think I ended up doing good.

The first girl asked for and got:
PJ's three pairs (yay for sales)
a clock radio that plays cd's
a watch

The other girl asked for and got:
a coat with gloves and a hat
some dolls
barbies and a playset.

Then for stocking stuffers I did the same for both girls:
chapstick (girly package of them)
a USA puzzle
a backpack (mini) full of cool erasers
some card games
and a package of rings/bracelets.

All in all I spent a little over $100 for both girls. Thought I did pretty good! Yay for the dollar store, which is where I got the stocking stuffers. LOL!

New Blogger

I converted another one. Welcome to Bloggerland Sharyn!

Weird

So, my mother in law called me on Tuesday to ask if they could babysit on Friday. Then wanted to know what we wanted for Christmas. So they are coming to visit with Chayleigh on Friday. Guess that it is true, speak of the Devil and it will call. Bwahahumbug (Just for you Allie).

Nevermind, she just called and cancelled. I am not allowing them to babysit anymore cause now I look like an idiot and beg my daycare to take her tomorrow even though I already told them to cancel it.

Chayleigh's Christmas Pictures

We had Chayleigh's pictures taken on Saturday. The lady came to us and was awesome. Chayleigh doesn't like smiling for the camera, but the pictures still turned out great I thought! Best of all, for all 15 pictures she gave us (on a disk) she only charged us $40. Hell, I would have spent at least twice that if I would have known how awesome they were going to turn out!

Here are a few of my favorites:

The cutest thing

Today Chayleigh burped and said, "Scuse Me Mama". And then did it again. It was great. We haven't really worked on excuse me, so I was impressed. She is good at saying please, thank you and you're welcome, but doesn't always do it right. She will say please right, but when it comes to thanks she says, "Thanks Mama, You're welcome" all at once. It is pretty cute.

When we went trick or treating, she would tell them "thanks, oh you're welcome" instead of trick or treat. Most people loved it and gave her extra for her good manners. LOL!