Christmas in Cedar

Sense we are going to Delta for Christmas morning
we thought we would have our own little Christmas morning here in Cedar. That just meant that we needed to do it a little early. So Wednesday was our little family Christmas Day! Emery loved it. She loved all the paper, bags and boxes. Santa even knew to fill our stockings early too. How does he know? :) We each got a little present and a treat in our stockings. Tim got a sling shot and a Symphany bar. I got a movie and some truffles and Emery got a sippy cup and two jars a fruit (she has not tried fruit yet). I thought Emery's stocking was quite clever. :) We also opened a new pan, new dish rags (both badly needed and Tim's idea) and a Movie (Joe vs. the Vol canoe). We then used our new pan to make Christmas omelets and then watched our new movie. Later that day we made and delivered Christmas treats to friends. It was the perfect Christmas Day. We could have been on a movie or something! Hee, Hee.

Christmas with the Hills

Christmas parties are always the greatest. We spent last weekend with my side of the family. We had a true

blue white elephant gift exchange and I'll have to say that it was one of the funnest Christmas gift exchanges I have ever done. I don't know if I have laughed as hard as I did for a long time. There were some great gifts and we learned some great things as well. My parents had a full house (my favorite way to have it). It started off with a fantastic turkey dinner. We then let the kids open their gifts (while Erin, my sister, serenaded us with Christmas music) and then sent them downstairs while the adults did our white elephant gift exchange. We then finished off the night with hot cocoa and mint ice cream, the perfect ending for a perfect party. I ended up with a snowflake kit full of a table cloth, dish towels, soap dispenser, table runner and more, which I was quite pleased with (just goes to show that someones junk is someone elses treasure). Tim ended up with a box of 22 shells (he couldn't be happier). We were lucky to come out of it with great gifts. It was so wonderful to have my whole family there and we look forward to seeing more family in the next few days! Holidays Rock!

Standing up

Emery is growing up before my eyes. Lately she has been getting bored with sitting on the ground and playing with her toys. I can sense that she is ready to learn something new but she will have nothing to do with being on her stomach or crawling. All she wants to do is stand up all the time. I am such a crawling fan because I know how important it is for development and reading in the future, so I was a little worried. I decided that it will be all right because I guess they say swimming can do the same thing for them. I guess we will just have to take her swimming all the time. Once I realized that, I was not too concerned and decided she can stand up and walk all she wants. I even have been putting her in a walker, which I never thought I would do. It is funny all the things I do with a baby that I said, or thought, I would never do. I hear that is common though. :) The joys of being a parent. I love being a mom so much and would not change it for the world

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

As soon as we got home from our Thanksgiving break we started putting up our Christmas decorations. As you can see Emery sure enjoyed being involved. I'm not sure if I had more fun decorating the tree or decorating Emery/having her play with the decorations. :) I didn't realized that the holidays could be so neat having your own kid to enjoy it. Christmas is in the air and all around and I LOVE IT!!!

Not only are Christmas decorations going up everywhere, but it also snowed. Saturday morning we woke up to snow all over everyging. Tim had to sweep our drive-way for the first time, and I think he really enjoyed doing it too because he swept all the way down the sidewalks past our house. He sure is a good worker. We were also pretty lucky to see Brett and Jennie last night because they were cutting down their Christmas tree. What a great time of year!