Oh Santa!

I wanted to take Jack to see Santa this year and get his picture taken. With the kids being sick and then me working all day everyday last week, we weren't able to make that happen while still in Utah. We took the kids to a mall yesterday in Albuquerque. We waited in line for two hours. Before we decided to wait we went and looked at the prices for the pictures and we saw that you can get a CD for 12.99. Not too bad of a deal, so we waited and waited. When we finally got to the front of the line, the worker lady told us the prices. I told her that I wanted the CD she told me it was $25 for one picture! Rip off! I explained that the sign says that it is 12.99. She said only if you purchase a package (in very tiny printing). The cheapest package was 22.99 for one picture. It was also terrible printing and not that great of a picture, so we decided no picture. Since we weren't going to buy a picture we asked if the kids could still sit on Santa's lap. They said yes. My sister was standing in the crowd with her camera and was going to try and snap a few. The Santa saw her and yelled "Hey no cameras" Then the worker ladies came to her and told her to leave and Meghan said what are you going to do punch me? They said no but we will get the police. Ha Ha, police! Please. Anyway since we weren't paying for pictures the Santa barely spoke with the kids and then pushed us away. The real kicker is that it took about 10 minutes in between picture taking because the ladies working were such retards, so they weren't even ready yet forthe next family. I was soooo mad. The other reason that the wait was so long was because they were letting people retake the picture to get the best one. It is a Santa picture people, the fun of it is to have the kids screaming. They shouldn't want to sit on a strange man's lap! So the Santa at the Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque is a total retard as well as the workers. Maybe we will try another mall and another Santa!

Highlights of my week

After the sick week of Thanksgiving and the week after not being any better, I would like to take this time to highlight some good things about this week, the week before Christmas.

1. No sick kids! Woohoo!!!
2. Snow, we are friends for now. (I will say it again, that I love snow before Jan. 1st after that I absolutely despise it)
3. Seeing Twilight (again, this time the whole way through) with just Aaron
4. Listening to Christmas music on Pandora
5. Did I mention no sick kids?!
6. Leaving Utah behind to go to Albuquerque!

I am so happy to be getting out of the valley!

Albuquerque here we come!

We hope that everyone has a very merry Christmas! Believe!

My mom has been upgraded!

My mom has had a pacemaker for the last few years or so. Recently her body has been performing how it did before she got the pacemaker. So with moving to New Mexico she had to find a new cardiologist. The new doc suggested that she get a new pacemaker that also has a defibrillator. I joked that it was like getting an upgrade! Anyway she went in for the surgery today to remove the old pacemaker and put in the "upgraded" one. My dad just called and said that the surgery went great. He was on his way to my mom's recovery room. I am so glad that everything went well. I was starting to get worried. Her surgery was supposed to be at 11am, and takes about 3-4 hours. My dad told me that the surgery got delayed and didn't start until 2pm. whew! That is a relief. I was letting my imagination run wild with thoughts of complications during my mom's surgery.

Happy 6 years Aaron (well two days ago)

It was a Friday the 13th at high noon six years ago when Aaron and I were sealed for time and all eternity in the Oakland Temple.






We spent the day shoveling snow and hanging with our friends Ben and Heather. Later that night we tried to go to a movie. We went to go and see Twilight, however just before we left Jack got a high fever and so we decided to take him with us, thinking that he would fall asleep. Ha Ha... His fever went down and he did not fall asleep. So we left about half way through and went to Wal-mart. Woohoo. It doesn't matter how we spend the day of our anniversary but how we spend the days in between. It has been a wonderful 6 years. I am looking forward to many more years. Maybe one day we will actually do something with just us on our anniversary.

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Silent Night (well afternoon)

While Paige was sleeping this afternoon, Jack and I got to spend some time just playing. I took a break to look up some Christmas gifts online. While I was chatting with Aaron I look down to see Jack fast asleep on the floor. I didn't think he would take a nap today since he woke up late this morning. But I guess playing together tired him out. So precious!

Paige is 9 months!!!

My little Paige is NINE months! I can't believe it.




She had her appointment yesterday and she weighed 15 pounds 7.5 ounces (the 5th percentile for weight) and she is 26 inches long (9th percentile for height). She is so teeny tiny. She was in the 75th percentile for weight at her 6 month appointment, I think that part of the weight decrease is from her being sick this past week. Even without being sick she is still so small. Her feet are about the same size Jack's were when he was 2-3 months.

Paige has such a wonderful little spirit she is very strong willed. Lately she has started dancing by bopping her head whenever she hears music of any kind. She is still not crawling, the doctor was a little concerned about that because she is not even army crawling. He said that she needs to be pulling herself up onto furniture and cruising around the furniture by the time she is one, so she may be on her own time schedule. Either way I would really appreciate it if she could start getting herself to where she wants to be on her own.

Paige still loves to play with Jack and likes to be included in all things family, even if she is just sitting nearby, as long as she feels included. (so much like me!) She is such a perfect addition to our family, I can't imagine our lives without her in it.

Jack's Snowman

Since we finally got some snow this morning, Jack was very excited to play in it and the first thing he wanted to do was make a snowman. There wasn't much snow but we made a little snowman with a celery nose and chocolate chip eyes and buttons. Once his hands got too cold to play anymore we came in for some hot chocolate. I told Jack that hot chocolate would warm him up. He must not have believed me because after he drank some he said "I feel so much better Mom!" with some surprise in his voice. Don't worry kid I've got your back.

Its funny but I really hate the snow anytime after the New Year but I am glad that we got some today, it is beginning to feel like Christmas.

I'll give you mine if you give me yours!

I may get flooded with emails, but it is worth it. I would like to send out Christmas/New Years cards (I say New Years because that is probably when we will end up getting them out) but I need your addresses. So please email me. Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Trimming the Tree

We were able to get a fake tree this year from a family in our ward (thank you again). I miss having a real tree, but we thought that Paige would be crawling and we didn't want to worry about her getting pine needles in her mouth. So we put the tree up awhile ago, like a week or so before Thanksgiving. I was going to get the lights on and everything Thanksgiving weekend but that didn't happen.

We did it today. Jack was big help putting the ornaments on the tree. As you can see by the picture below. He just piled them all on top of each other. I have also found a nutcracker hanging upside down. I need to do some rearranging. He is super excited about Christmas this year, which is fun. I don't think he really knows what to expect but he knows it is going to be good.

Car Seat Story Continued....

Sunday our car seats were stolen. We talked to the owner and our boss about it. When he came in Monday he reviewed the security camera tapes from the time frame we thought the theft happened. He noticed a white pick-up enter without anything in the bed of the truck and then noticed the same truck leaving with stuff in the bed of the truck. To him it looked like car seats. Aaron also looked at the tape and confirmed that those were our car seats, Paige's pink blanket and all. They looked up the person's information in the computer and saw that it was someone that has a unit not too far from where the car seats were stored. So with permission from the owner Aaron took down the address and we drove to their house. Scary! Aaron was very nice and talked to the person who opened the door and explained that maybe whoever took the car seats may have thought that they were abandoned. (Aaron was trying to be nice by giving them the benefit of doubt) He also told the guy who opened the door that if we didn't get the car seats back in three hours we would call the police and hand the security tape over to them. The guy said that the person was not there but he knew how to get a hold of her and that as far as he knew the car seats were not there. So we drove away and about 7 minutes later Aaron got a call on his cell phone from the person who had our seats. He told her to take them back to Armor Storage and leave them in the front office. Aaron was very stern with his voice and he said that the woman sounded worried.

We finished running our errands and went back home. Sure enough our car seats were waiting for us in the office. I guess when she dropped them off she told the girl working, "I am supposed to drop these off." Um... ya because you stole them. Anyway we got everything back, blankets, toys and the pad thingys. They all smelled like smoke, but that is easy to fix. The car seats needed a washing anyway.

I am so glad that we got the seats back. It is such a huge relief to have them back and not to have to shop for new car seats. We are so grateful for our friends who let us borrow car seats for a day. It was so nice of you. We are also grateful for a boss who cares enough to help us to some research to get them back. We are also grateful for family who was willing to send us some money to buy new ones. I was going to post last night, but Jack has gotten Paige and I sick. So I am finally feeling a tiny bit better, mostly because I know that Jack is going to a friend's house tomorrow, and I won't have to worry about him. (btw: he is so excited to play with Bentley he had a hard time falling asleep... I should have waited to tell him in the morning!)

Thank you car seat thief for returning our car seats, we are so happy.

Extra Coupons

On the brighter side, I got tons of extra Micheals coupons in my Sunday papers yesterday. If anyone wants some I have lots of extras, about 8. Just let me know.

Seriously?!

Dear Car Seat Thief,

We are so very sad that you took our car seats. Without our car seats we cannot go to the store with mom and dad. We also can't go to the zoo or to go see family this Christmas. Without car seats we can't go for any ride in the car. We are so very sad. Please give them back to us.

Sincerely,
Jack and Paige

That is right you read correctly someone stole the kids car seats!!! They un-strapped them off of the van seats and took everything off the van seats, including a blanket and the cool Eddie Bauer pad things we had to protect the seats. At first we were really mad, but then we realized that it wasn't the end of the world, just a real bummer. (at least the cute kids that the car seats are for are still here and ok) I really hope that the person that stole them needs them more than us. But considering we really do need them, they must be in desparate need.

Thanks to our friend who is lending us a car seat for Paige until we can afford to buy one for her. We really appreciate it. You Rock! So I guess today, one of us will be going out and getting a car seat for Jack. (we all can't go because the kids can't ride in the car without car seats and someone needs to stay home with them!)

I mean seriously kids car seats? Nothing like stealing from kids to bring in the Christmas Spirit.