Thanksgiving in California!

For Thanksgiving this year we decided to take a little trip to California to spend the holidays with Matt's family and we had a blast! We drove to San Jose (12 hours, yikes!) and though it was one the longest drives I've been on (not to mention driving with a baby which of course you have to add a couple more hours) Abby did a really good job and I couldn't be more proud of her! She only fussed a couple of times, such a trooper!




We arrived at Matt's sister Allison and her hubbie Tim's house in San Jose on Wednesday, November 23rd around 9pm. We went right to bed and waited for the rest of the family to arrive the next day.

On Thursday, November 24th (Thanksgiving Day woot, woot!!) all the family made it out and it was so nice seeing everyone. Some of the siblings we haven't seen in over two years (WAY TOO LONG!) so it was just so good catching up! Abby loved playing with her cousins Luke, Leona, and Emma-Lee, I just wished we all lived closer.












After many, many hours of cooking (THANKS Tim and Alli, the food was AMAZING!) we enjoyed our delicious Thanksgiving dinner! I loved every single part of it!!







After Thanksgiving we enjoyed a little relaxation! I loved just kicking back, catching up with everyone and not having a worry in the world! Gotta love holidays!!

This is so cute, lol! Abby LOVED hugging her littel cousin Emma who is only a month younger then her but about 8lbs lighter. We had to tell Abby "be soft" just a couple times, lol. Love this video!

On Friday, November 25th we took some family pics (to be posted soon) and just spent the rest of the day relaxing and spending time together. We also did a Christmas gift exchange since everyone was there and not everyone (including us) will be there for Christmas day. Matt's brother Thom and Sarah drew our name and got us the cutest monkey pj's! I was so excited to get them cause Matt and I still needed to get Christmas pj's and these are going to work out perfectly!

On Saturday, November 26th we headed home. Abby was a little more fussy with the drive home but after sitting in the same car for over 12 hours you can't really blame her, lol. We made it home safe and sound and ready to not take step in another car for a week! We had so much fun visiting our family and spending so much time together, gotta love holidays!!

Abby Walks!

Abby has been taking small steps for a couple of weeks, but just within the last couple of days she has been walking more and more! I decided it was high-time to take a video of my little Abster walking, what a cutie!

Miss Janet's Flowered Headbands!

My mom is selling the cutest hand-made flowered headbands, for only $5 each! They come in black, off-white, bright pink, mustard, green, blue, light pink, gray, tan, light purple, dark purple, and red. Sizes range from large, medium, small, and baby. They are seriously the cutest accessories not to mention great Christmas gifts! If you would like to place an order just let me know (via leave a comment, call me @801-369-0729, or send me a message on facebook!) THANKS!!!!

10 Months Old!

Abby Ruth 10 months old! It's kind of mind blowing to me that in just two months she will be a year old! She is growing so fast, I know any day she will be walking and talking...oh wait she already does that! She can take about 4-5 steps now without falling down and if she has something to hold she can walk around forever. She is talking up a storm with words like "ma-ma, da-da, ba-ba, and kitty" well she might not say kitty as clear as you or me but you can tell its what she means. She has eight teeth now and loves eating everything in sight. And yes she LOVES bath-time, by far her favorite activity of the day!

Abby's first snow fall!

This morning we woke up to a couple of inches of snow. We decided to see how Abby would like it and after being a little confused at first, she loved it!





We had this big comfy sleeper that we knew would keep her warm, our pseudo-snow suit of sorts, lol. She probably would have played in it all day if we would have let her. I can't wait until she is big enough to really play in the snow!

Happy Halloween...just a little late!

Took us a couple of days but we got our Halloween photos posted! This year for Halloween Matt and I decided so something extra fun and have our costume's themed. For all of those that watch the TV show "Bones" you might recognize us, for those that don't we still look pretty cute!

Matt dressed up as "Seeley Booth", I dressed up as "Bones aka Temperance Brennan", and of course Abby is our little skeleton baby. We had a lot of fun getting the costume's put together, not to mention dying mine and Matt's hair (don't worry mine was just a brunette hair spray though Matt was less fortunate and reddish-brown locks are permanent, at least until he cuts it again). I think Abby's little skeleton-pajamas's are my favorite, oh and of course the cute beanie!






On Halloween day we enjoyed taking Abby to my work for some "trick-or-treating" and then that night we went "trick-or-treating" to some family and friends and later enjoyed some pizza and yummy sugar cookies! It's become a family tradition for us to eat pizza and sugar cookies each year and I love it! We had a wonderful Halloween, had so much dressing up and starting some of our own new traditions with Abby.