It's About Time

I suppose it's time to get my act together and do our holiday recap. This is everything I have. I have gotten so bad about taken pictures and realized I've taken about 8 total pictures since this.

We were so lucky and were able to go to Utah for Christmas for almost 2 weeks and spend all our time with our families there. We miss living so close to our parents and were happy to be around them for the time we could be-especially for miss Georgia's sake. She loves her grandparents and gets so excited every time we video-chat with them.

Since I have no brain right now, the pictures are all I have to remember what we did. I know we did tons of fun things with both families but I can't remember it all for the life of me, so enjoy the pictures.

We went to the arcades on Christmas Eve Day and had so much fun doing everything there was there. We got the most tickets playing Wheel of Fortune as a group and we left with some pretty good treasures with our ticket collection.

Georgia on Christmas Day. We went to sacrament meeting with Rob and Amy's family at 9 (or maybe it was 11), came home and had a great breakfast, and then had a relaxing afternoon. We went to Rob and Amy's that night for a great dinner.

We took a "magic" picture by the beautiful tree.

And another one for our lunch we had.

Georgia opening her puppet pig from Grandma

She sleeps with this thing every night and likes to play "peek-a-boo" with it while she's in her crib. It's cute because you hear her through the walls just saying quietly, "boo...boo...boo". Love this sweet girl.

Sitting with Grandma

She now loves puzzles. She can put all the pieces where they go in all 5 puzzles she has, and loves doing them in nursery every week.

For some reason, Georgia was a grump towards Andie and didn't care for her one bit. Andie was so friendly and just wanted to play with Georgia. Come to find out, it's not just Andie she doesn't care for. Georgia doesn't like any kids under the age of 4 or so. She's such a stinker...especially in nursery now. (She HATES going and will push her way backwards on the door jam when I try to bring her through the doors into the nursery room) Anyways, hopefully when we see Andie next, they will have a blast together.

This is the one picture I took while at my mom's house. They got Georgia a cute little baby doll for Christmas that she likes to drag with her around the house. She likes to make her eat food and do the same things she does. We went to the Bean museum and once again- did fun things that I can't think of right now.

We celebrated Nick's birthday at the end of January by eating carne asada and going to the science center. I made a chocolate bundt cake for his cake. I think he was happy with it.

My dad came at the end of January for his birthday. We all pitched in and got him a ticket and so he and Jen came for a long weekend. We wish it was longer though. One fun thing we did was go to the zoo. The kids loved going. We were able to have lots of good family time with almost everyone (except Andrea).

This was by far the best present we've ever gotten for Georgia. We found it at a second hand store for less than 20. She rides this thing daily. Most of the time with a friend (or 3). She rides it so fast she flips it forwards and backwards.

We have been doing great, and have just been making preparations for baby boy coming in just a couple weeks. I don't think Georgia will handle it well, but we'll all adjust. She's been monstrously clingy to me but I secretly like it. Especially when she's tired and just lays on me. I guess I miss that a TON. She'll be a great sister (with some practice). Nick is doing so good in school and it keeps him busy, along with his church calling as the ward clerk, and his new job he started doing research for Mesa Verde National Park. I'm looking forward to the summer when he's just doing his internship and that's the main thing he has to focus on. I'm so blessed to have a family like I do-a great husband and daughter, and from what I can tell, a little angel baby. I'll try to keep up more often on here.

Riding the Horse

Boring for most. Interesting for grandparents.

If only she could live outside

So "sweet"

We have a "sweets" girl on her hands. She'll take anything she can get...

Even if it means rummaging through the cupboards to find the white chocolate chips and dump as many as possible onto the floor before I take them away. (There were a ton more before I grabbed the camera)

She made sure to get every last one.

Luckily she enjoys her fruits, too. Even if the only way she enjoys them is sitting like this.

These cousins are so sweet to each other. Love them all! (Carsyn's baby blessing)

After all, she's got the sweetest little face!

Coming March 28th

We're so excited to meet you sweet thing!

Fun in a box

One Year

So, our little stinker turned a year on the 5th! I've already posted a few pictures but just want to talk about what she's up to! This girl is walking everywhere. There's no stopping her either, since she thinks she can run. She mostly spends her day walking from room to room to room to see how far she can go without taking a break to hold onto something to regain her balance.

She's so much fun to be around and can turn my day around if I'm not feeling my best. Georgia has a love for puppies. Not real ones of course since that would just be terrifying (mainly due to my sister Ashley's dog who is hyperactive). Any picture she sees of a puppy or dog she'll point and get so excited about. She also loves to see pictures of herself. She refers to herself as "mama" as she does most things. She knows that I am her mom and calls me that too, but it's one of the only words she says so that's what everything else is, too.

Our struggle area is now eating. She can be the biggest pain to get to eat food. Even food she loves. If she's done or doesn't want it, she'll throw it off her tray onto the ground. If we had tile in our dining room, I might not care as much. But it's carpet. It's very stained now so we have been trying to teach her that it's not okay. She'll get a little flick on her hand. If Nick does it, she's fine and stops most of the time. If I do it, she laughs and does it again and again and again. Oh boy. We are in for it! She has sass like you wouldn't believe. But she really is the sweetest girl, too. Nick might not say so though. (He knows she is) Since I started teaching night classes 4 nights a week, she's had a hard time adjusting and won't go to bed for Nick. We would always just put her down together, or I would alone if Nick was at class. I didn't realize this would be a problem since she always goes down well for bed. Hopefully she'll learn to adjust soon.

We both are into our jobs now and it's exhausting but good. We're lucky we are both able to work. I got a new calling in the ward as the Ward Music Chair. I'm coming up with our Christmas program, so it's a little nerve racking but overall it's an easy job.

Georgia had her 1 year check up a few weeks back and was 20.13 pounds (29%) 29 inches tall (48%) and has her head in the 84th percentile. She still has just 2 teeth but we're hoping her top two will poke through soon since they have been there for weeks just dying to come out.

Another first is she got her first haircut. These weren't from the same day, but you get the idea.

Oh, and I cut it myself so don't laugh if you think she looks bad.

Much better in my opinion. At least it's all even.

Her newest thing she loves is when we are waiting to pick up Nick from work or school and we get there a little early, I pull her out of her car seat and let her play in the front on my lap. Her face lights up when she touches the steering wheel.

Eating her birthday cupcake. She only ate all the frosting.

All in all, I'm so happy to have her as mine and I couldn't have asked for a better little girl. Can't believe she's not a baby anymore. But she's excited for her new baby coming at the end of March. We'll know boy or girl in just over 3 weeks! Little does she know her poor little world will be turned upside down just then. She'll learn to love being the oldest sooner or later though. I love you Gerogia!